Monsignor Pope OSV column Ping.
Not true at all...Where did this crazy idea come from...It's certainly not biblical...If fact, it is anti-biblical
Jesus is now sitting on the throne of Grace...When the veil was ripped open, we all have access to that throne of Grace...
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
What is clear from this discourse is the complete failure of the author to understand what it actually means to be a Christian...He doesn't understand the mystery of the church...
Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Apparently this is another allegory to your religion...
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
This is the mystery that was revealed to the church...
We do not have to go to heaven (although we have a presence there) to be at the throne of Grace...We do not have to go into a building to find Jesus and be in his presence...We don't need a priest (or Mary or a Saint) to pass on a message to Jesus for us...WE ARE ALREADY THERE...
We are at the throne of Grace, beyond the ripped veil every minute of every day regardless of where we are at...HE is right inside of us...
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
If God is not within you as Paul taught to the church, you do not belong to Jesus...
Is this a catholic caucus thread?
I went to pray at a Planned Parenthood center (I won’t call them clinics since that implies health care) this morning. There were about 100 people saying the rosary and holding signs and one man with a megaphone verbally abusing anyone driving by accusing the customers and employees of the center of various sins and accusing those of us praying the rosary of idolatry. He was a troll and reminded me of Fred Phelps. But in other words, pretty much everyone there was a Catholic except this person and he was being pretty evil. Made me happy to be Catholic. I don’t know why some people think that if he/she yells loud enough and abusively enough, I might change my mind.
Wrong. They are not the only ones who have a calling from the LORD. Protestant ministers have the calling from the LORD also. Not just the pope and catholic priests.