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To: trebb

Wouldn’t hurt you to reflect on your post and say a few Hail Marys, would it?


82 posted on 05/29/2016 5:23:44 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Night Hides Not
Wouldn’t hurt you to reflect on your post and say a few Hail Marys, would it?

I have no illusions about my personal sinfulness. Dropped the Catholic Church many years ago because there was so much "extraneous" crap that it got in the way of the simple message of the New Covenant.

Jesus opened the door for a direct route to God through Him and I don't pray to saints or other dead mortals no matter their stature in history. He washed away our sins and God proclaimed that, under the New Covenant, He would forgive our wickedness and recognize our sins no more. I believe Him and i do repent and find myself in the "poor in spirit" category every day. It's all He requires of us as saved Christians.

The two reigning commandments under the New Covenant are to love God with every fiber of our being and to love our neighbors as ourselves - because where there is love there is no harm and that in itself fulfills the intent of the previous Commandments -which a stiff-necked people demanded of God and which He responded with a "If you insist" so that sin would multiply and we would see the errors of our ways and be prepared for the advent of Emmanuel....in Human form so we could see a path to developing the personal relationship He craves.

When the apostles asked Him to teach them to pray, He didn't start, "Hail Mary, full of grace...", He started, "Our Father, who art in heaven...." How can one top or improve upon His guidance?

95 posted on 05/29/2016 7:25:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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