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To: metmom
The Holy spirit is God, not the servant boy of the priest.

Well, they do have some "saints" on steroids:

The supreme power of the priestly office is the power of consecrating...Indeed, it is equal to that of Jesus Christ...When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man...Indeed it is greater even than the power of the Virgin Mary [who is said to be all but almighty herself]...The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest's command .

Of what sublime dignity is the office of the Christian priest who is thus privileged to act as the ambassador and the vice-gerent of Christ on earth! He continues the essential ministry of Christ: he teaches the faithful with the authority of Christ, he pardons the penitent sinner with the power of Christ, he offers up again the same sacrifice of adoration and atonement which Christ offered on Calvary. No wonder that the name which spiritual writers are especially fond of applying to the priest is that of alter Christus. For the priest is and should be another Christ. (John A. O'Brien, Ph.D., LL.D., The Faith of Millions, 255-256, O'Brien. Nihtt obstat: Rev. Lawrence Gollner, Censor Librorum Imprimatur: Leo A. Pursley, Bishop of Fort Wayne,-South Bend, March 16, 1974;

223 posted on 03/31/2019 11:17:41 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Gag.

And it’s not even phrased as, “God keeps his promises” but “God obeys the priest.”


226 posted on 03/31/2019 11:22:00 AM PDT by Luircin
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To: daniel1212

Even the homo ones?


230 posted on 03/31/2019 11:53:08 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: daniel1212

Nitice the priest offers up again the same sacrifice. Christ was sacrificed once for all and is now seated at the right hand of God in glory. There is no ongoing sacrifice. Everything about their doctrine whether the ongoing sacrifice of the mass or works righteousness diminishes the one great act of salvation that is sufficient for all for all time.

Christ said it is finished from the cross not it’s sort of finished if you attend mass regularly and try to be really good and avoid mortal sin and don’t get divorced and remarried and..... either His act of salvation was sufficient and given the stamp of approval by the Father at the Resurrectiion or it wasn’t. If you don’t believe the cross and the cross alone was sufficient you are preaching another Christ and are no longer Christian.


232 posted on 03/31/2019 12:28:46 PM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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