Posted on 05/17/2021 5:37:20 PM PDT by ebb tide
FRANKFURT, Germany — Protestant and Catholic worshippers in Germany defied Church teaching on Sunday by taking part in each other’s celebration of the Lord’s Supper at an Ecumenical Convention in Frankfurt.
In four services in the city, Catholics were invited to take part in an Evangelical Supper with Protestants and similarly invited to celebrate the Catholic Eucharist, with the decision to receive Holy Communion at Mass or bread at a Protestant service left to an individual’s conscience.
At an evening Mass in Frankfurt’s Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew, the convention’s Protestant president, Bettina Limperg, received Holy Communion while her Catholic counterpart, Thomas Sternberg, took part in a Protestant Lord’s Supper service in the German city. Although the ecumenical convention has attracted hundreds of thousands of people in the past, it was not as well attended this year due to COVID restrictions.
“We live an ecumenical hospitality,” Sternberg told reporters at the end of the event called Ökumenischen Kirchentag. “The whole thing touched me very, very deeply.”
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had earlier described the invitation as a provocation.
“Anyone who contradicts Catholic teaching and its binding interpretation by the Roman teaching office is no longer Catholic,” the cardinal told the German press agency DPA.
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Francischism Ping
Just what Bergoglio wanted.
Prayers up.
Heresy
Is the pope Catholic?
Trick question. Bergoglio is not Catholic, and therefore there is no pope.
You just can’t murder 62,000,000 babies without angering God, which is not a smart thing—or a good thing—to do.
Actually should read: Two Protestant groups share communion.
what next?
Married priests, womyn deacons, and finally womyn priests, in that order
And Catholics want to keep these German bishops in the Church because .... ???
Becasue the German bishops have an apostate pope who protects and supports their schism.
I am not a muslim. I refuse to wear a face covering.
We are now in the catacombs.
Hi. Well, along the those lines then —a new “pope Joan?”
I sympathize, as well as having to be part of a church which (among other errors) professes,
"the Moslems, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind." (Lumen Gentium 16)
"Upon the Moslems, too, the Church looks with esteem. They adore one God, living and enduring, merciful and all-powerful, Maker of heaven and earth and Speaker to men.., They strive to submit wholeheartedly even to His inscrutable decrees, just as did Abraham, with whom the Islamic faith is pleased to associate itself." (Nostra Aetate's §3)
"Meanwhile, I try to find a Church where I can go to Mass and receive Our Lord on my tongue without a mask."
However, you do not receive the Lord Jesus by consuming anything physical, much less a non-existent piece inanimate object which does not conform to what the manifestly physical incarnated Lord materially was. for the redeemed are those who come to God as sinners knowing their desperate need of salvation, not as a souls saved by their works or church affiliation, but as destitute of any means or merit whereby they may find salvation, and with a humble and penitent heart believe on the crucified risen Lord Jesus who alone can save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood and righteousness. And thus are baptized and follow Him. .
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