Posted on 01/21/2009 8:54:24 AM PST by NYer
The greatest gift my parents gave me was my Catholic faith!
Thanks Nyer, great article. I’m protestant, but I see how the Catholic church gets slammed unfairly quite a bit, sometimes by protestants. I know firsthand some of the good and wonderful work the Catholic church does, you never hear about any of that. If there were more people like the devout catholics I know, the world would be a much better place. Just some thoughts - God Bless You and Yours - JM
However, the Latin-Rite Church largely turned its back on its very best asset when it replaced the Tridentine Mass with a protestant-pleasing vernacular alternative.
Great list. Printing it off!
Thanks for this post!
Yeah when my wife and I convert almost 12 years ago now, it wasn’t for all the support I got.
My family disowned me, my conservative friends thought I was crazy. My liberal friends thought I was crazier.
But after I arrived at the conclusion that Jesus actually founded a Church to guide us, there was no other organization that fit the bill.
Protestant here. I enjoy reading many of these threads. But this one starts out on the way wrong foot. I would hope that God, His Son, His Spirit, and His plan would be considered somewhat higher on the 'glorious' scale. Unless I was to 'assume' all of these...
Did Christ ever adorn Himself with such a head piece? Christ is the standard and He and He alone saves.
Great read but I have minor problems with the following: Do we believe in reclaiming the world for Christ and His Church, or don’t we?
Firstly the Crusades were started at least as a defensive measure against attacks on 1. Pilgrims and 2. Christian Cities by the Moors. In ‘normal times’ our offensive is supposed to be spiritual not material or war like so i think this is poorly written and not in the true Catholic spirit remember Jesus said His Kingdom is not of this world.
Mel
Yes!
God bless this man. What a great article.
Regarding liturgical vestments, from the article:
Catholicism has always surrounded itself with beauty, regarding it as the splendor of truth. In the words of the German priest, professor, and theologian Karl Adam, "Art is native to Catholicism, since reverence for the body and for nature is native to it." The Puritan influence is foreign to Catholicism -- just as the idea that smashing altars, defacing Madonnas, and breaking stained glass as a religious act is foreign, and indeed heretical, to Catholics. The Catholic Church leaves such Talibanism to the Protestants and iconoclastic heresies. The Catholic Church, instead, offers a celebration of beauty; and beauty, in our world of pierced faces, body tattoos, gangsta rap, and concrete tower blocks, is something we could use much more of.
From the Gospel
11 ... the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment. 12 And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? But he was silent. 13 Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen. (Matthew 22)
I was always told by my Baptist bretheren that Catholics aren’t going to heaven. Of course Baptists think that only Baptists can go to heaven.
Of course it is. Your self-described propaganda is laughable.
#11. All those funny hats.
That thief hanging beside Christ upon the Cross was 'saved' without ever entering a church.
Matthew 27:50 Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the spirit.
51 And, behold, the *VEIL* of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent:
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the *SAINTS* which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
At death Christ became anybody everybody who would intercessor directly to the Heavenly Father.... HE is the path to salvation and it was to be the churches job to teach this gospel NOT make them self that claimed vehicle to salvation.
I knew that the Catholic faith was the right one. I felt the presence of God there.
Many deny there is even a thing called the Roman Catholic Church.. that the roman church IS THE church(that all other(churchs) are NOT.. You must be/could be.. one of "those"..
What is laughable are those that think there is no difference between "the church" and "A church".. and try (by propaganda) to hide(occlude) the issue.. You know.. to hide the issue from lurkers.. or some that could care less either way.. The roman catholic church is a denomination as any eastern orthodox(various types) will testify.. However the eastern orthodoxy(s) are denominations also..
I have no problem with the RCC being a denomination.. but the roman denomination is not the universal church, or body of christ.. or the bride of christ.. merely a sheep pen as any other denomination(John ch 10).. Limiting the body of christ to any denomination IS HERESY... and part of the spirit of anti-christ..
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