“You masons worship a deity that is not the Holy Trinity. You’re no more than pagans.”
I wondered when it was going to come to this. You know nothing about the faith of masons. They include almost every religion on earth and only those that profess a diety. And that includes your diety as there are catholics in our numbers. We will not accept men or women into our fraturnity that do not act in a manner consistent with Christianity as if you’ll remember our saying, “We take good men and make them better.” And our sisters in the Order of Eastern Star are the same.
On the alter in the center of some of our lodges and chapters sits the King James version. The King James Bible for Catholics is a near replica of the 1611 edition of the King James Bible (Authorized Version) which has been updated to reflect the order of books and text found in the Catholic Bible. Welcome home. If you’re a good man or woman, we would love to have you in our participation. And even though you bad mouth us saying things about us that are just not true, I’ll bet you don’t even know what we do.
Let me help you out. We operate 22 children’s hospitals in 3 countries and donate around $3.6 billion dollars a day to them and other charities like working dogs, children’s dyslexia centers, The Red Cross, youth scholorships, vision related groups, and many more. Ever heard of the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo brothers were masons.
Many of our founders were masons like Washington, Franklyn, Revere, and his riding partner William Dawes...lots of them. Hitler hated the masons so bad he had over 50K of us slaughtered because we supported people who believed in a diety, the Jews.
You know so little about us, yet you hate us for what we are? You don’t know what we are. I would suggest before you start to tells us what we are like in the original thread, you find out. We don’t bad mouth you and we know about the same about you as you do us. But we have your bible on some of our alters that we pray to just like in any catholic church. Only difference is that we respect people’s right to choice of their religious beliefs. We don’t feel any church is a one size fits all. And my peers, in 51 Grand Lodges (one in each state and the District of Columbia) which together have a total membership of around 2 million in north America, all cherish these freedoms. And we love God, too...just like you and in many cases using your volume to do so.
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I did know that; and that is why it's impossiple for y'all to solely worship the One, True, God: the Holy Trinity.
An interesting little story that comes from Catholic Family News.
“Never be ashamed of Christ or of His doctrine. It is time to fight with open face.” – Padre Pio
by Fr. Pascal P. Parente
A well-know attorney of Genoa, Comm. Cesare Festa, a first cousin of Dr. G. Festa of Rome, former mayor of Arenzano and one of the most prominent Freemasons of Genoa, was one of the first conquests of Padre Pio’s kindness and zeal. Dr. G. Festa had often exhorted his cousin to abandon Freemasonry and to return to the Church, but to no avail. When he became acquainted with Padre Pio, he spoke about the Padre to his cousin Cesare. One day, out of curiosity, Cesare left Genoa and traveled all the way south to San Giovanni Rotondo.
“What, you here? You, who are a Freemason?” exclaimed Padre Pio the moment he laid eyes on the newcomer.
“Yes, Father,” said Cesare.
“And what is your intention as a Freemason?” “To fight against the Church from a political point of view.”
Padre Pio smiled, took his visitor’s hand and with extreme kindness began to tell him the story of the Prodigal Son. That same day Cesare went down on his knees before Padre Pio and made his confession, the first in twenty-five years. The next morning he received Holy Communion.
For a few days he remained with the Padre to strengthen his soul for the ordeal that lay ahead. Padre Pio advised him to wait before announcing his official break with the Freemasons. After a few months he returned again to see the Padre, and this time he stopped in Rome to tell his cousin, Dr. Festa, of his conversion and change of heart.
When an Italian pilgrimage to Lourdes was organized under the leadership of Archbishop Achille Ratti of Milan (Later Pope Pius XI), Cesare decided to offer his services to the invalid pilgrims, both on the train and later at the hotel.
This fact soon became known, and the Socialist paper Avanti and similar sheets let loose a violent attack under a big headline: “A Freemason at Lourdes!”
Cesare was immediately requested to explain his actions. His answer was brief and to the point. At Lourdes, he said, he had admired not so much the restoration of bodily health as the miracles of faith. A new storm followed, because, officially, he was still a member of the brotherhood. As he was preparing to go to the last meeting of the Lodge to break all ties with Freemasonry, he received a most encouraging letter from Padre Pio.
“Never be ashamed of Christ or of His doctrine. It is time to fight with open face. May the Giver of all blessings grant you the needed strength!”
These words, coming at such a critical moment, gave Cesare the necessary courage. He went to the Lodge and there, with great fervor of spirit, spoke openly of Christ, the Saviour of the world, of His doctrine, His Church, and of his own supreme happiness in returning to them. Then he officially presented his resignation from office and broke all ties with the sect.
All this took place during November, 1921. The following Christmas Cesare was in Rome with his cousin, Dr. Festa. There the former Freemason was to be seen in the garb of a Franciscan Tertiary, walking in the procession of the Bambino in the church of Ara Coeli, a lighted candle in his hand.