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To: NYer

Did Christ ever adorn Himself with such a head piece? Christ is the standard and He and He alone saves.


11 posted on 01/21/2009 10:08:46 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
You want salvation, come to the Church Christ founded for that purpose.

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)

14 posted on 01/21/2009 10:18:19 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: Just mythoughts
Did Christ ever adorn Himself with such a head piece?

That is a mitre, first mentioned in Exodus 28. As for Christ, as Scripture tells us, there is much He said and did which we do not know.

"But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written." John 21:25

48 posted on 01/21/2009 6:50:02 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Just mythoughts
Did Christ ever adorn Himself with such a head piece?

Did Christ ever tell us to do only what He does, and not what He did not?

Did Christ ever wear blue jeans? Drive a car? Use a computer? Have you?

57 posted on 01/22/2009 10:52:26 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Just mythoughts
Christ is the standard and He and He alone saves.

Yes, He is, and that is why we should follow Him by participating in the Church He founded. The Catholic Church does not say to follow the Church instead of Christ! On the contrary, it says to follow the Church because it is Christ's. And this is Biblical, my friend. I would be happy to show you in your own Bible.
75 posted on 01/23/2009 9:43:42 AM PST by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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