Posted on 02/23/2020 8:06:48 AM PST by fatima
Ven. Carlo Acutis is the ideal candidate for the patron saint of the internet. He created a database of Eucharistic miracles on a website so people could find out about them all while he was still a teenager. If you’ve seen a traveling exhibit with displays on different Eucharistic miracles, this is based right off his site.
On Friday, Pope Francis approved a miracle in his case and this allows beatification to be scheduled. As he is the first saint to have extensively used the internet and the first saint who is most known for something he did online, I want to propose him as the patron saint of the Internet. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughcatholiclenses/2020/02/patron-saint-of-the-internet-carlo-acutis-to-be-beatified/
(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...
And till now, Al Gore thought it would be him.
:) Forgot about him.
1. If he wasn’t a saint while alive, he won’t become one now
2. No miracles are required to be a saint - only saving faith in Christ
3. No “patron saints” exist in Scripture.
Video
Carlo Acutis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u1xEpZxyyc
The Eucharist and the Virgin Mary... Carlo Acutis: Homily by Canon Tim Madeley. A Day With Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHW7xPsTOCo&t=26s
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Tedious.
Agree. It would be far, far better, if Rome actually didn't add to Scripture, nor deny the plain teaching.
It may be “tedious”, yet it is accurate.
Canonization doesn’t “make” someone a saint, it declares that that person WAS a saint. The miracle provides PROOF that they were a saint.
“ The miracle provides PROOF that they were a saint.
Except it does not.
The Apostle Paul addressed all believers as saints.
No miracle ever necessary.
#addedbyrome
From GOOGLE:
"Saint" ("Sanctus" or "Sancta"; abbreviated "St." or "S."):
To be canonized as a saint, ordinarily at least two miracles must have been performed through the intercession of the Blessed after their death, but for beati confessors, i. e., beati who were not declared martyrs, only one miracle is required, ordinarily ... Canonization, in its most exact historical sense, refers to a papal declaration that the Catholic faithful may venerate a particular deceased member of the church. Popes began making such decrees in the tenth century. Up to that point, the local bishops governed the veneration of holy men and women within their own dioceses; and there may have been, for any particular saint, no formal decree at all. In subsequent centuries, the procedures became increasingly regularized and the popes began restricting to themselves the right to declare someone a Catholic saint. In contemporary usage, the term is understood to refer to the act by which any Christian church declares that a person who has died is a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the list of recognized saints, called the "canon."[1]
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+miracles+required+for+sainthood%3F&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS876US876&oq=are+miracles+required+for+sainthood%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.9148j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Your NUMBER TWO is incorrect.
I suppose that you believe that FAITH is all that's necessary to be saved...no ACTS of FAITH are needed. So a person may live the life of a 100% sinner but since he still believes in the saving faith in Christ, he IS saved by his faith alone.
The true mark of a Protestant belief.
Funny, Paul didn't require the "proof" that Roman Catholicism does when he called people saints.
You’re gonna wipe out a great number of Roman Catholics if you’re requiring a miracle to be a requirement of a “saint”.
Your post relies on non-biblical definitions.
Your post is inconsistent with the teaching of Scripture.
FReegards
If miracles are proof someone was a saint, then a whole lot of us are in big trouble.
However, it’s not for us to judge who is and who is not a *saint*.
God tells us that ALL believers in Him are saints, as is found in the beginning most of Paul’s epistles, because the churches he wrote to were not filled with dead people nor was he addressing his letters to dead people.
Yes.
Because, really, who doesn't sin daily?
Or are you going to try to tell us that there are people who don't?
Not just belief. Not just faith.
I said "saving faith."
Saving faith results in the Holy Spirit residing in us and a new life of Christ.
That doesn't mean believers do not sin.
I John 1:9 was written because believers sin.
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