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To: Always Right; Petronski
Seriously? You mean the Catholic church does not demand you attend mass every week

Seriously? You don't worship God on Sunday? Attendance at Mass on Sundays is one of the precepts of the Catholic Church. The Precepts of the Catholic Church are a description of the absolute minimum actions required of Catholics regarding the Church.

The Church uses these precepts to remind us that Christian life requires a commitment to prayer and active participation in the liturgy and sacraments. If we fall below this bare-minimum level, we can't rightly consider ourselves to be in full communion with the Catholic Church.

Each of these precepts of the Catholic Church is a requirement. Together with the Ten Commandments, they represent the minimum level of moral living. Intentional violation of the precepts or the Commandments is a grave matter, meaning a mortal sin. The Catechism of the Catholic Church clarifies the reason for Sunday worship, as follows:

PART THREE
LIFE IN CHRIST

SECTION TWO
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

CHAPTER ONE
"YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND"

ARTICLE 3
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work.90

The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.91

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It's pretty sad for anyone to suggest that worshipping God is a demand.

demand that you believe the pope is infallible,

What is your understanding of infallibility?

or that you must believe that Mary is the Mother of God

Here you are joking, right? Jesus is God; Mary is His mother; that makes Mary the Mother of God.

a thousand other things that have nothing to do with Jesus.

So far you have failed to provide a clear example of a demand made by the Catholic Church. Can you come up with some of those other "thousands of things" to cite as an example?

172 posted on 10/25/2009 11:53:06 AM PDT by NYer ( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer
Here you are joking, right? Jesus is God; Mary is His mother; that makes Mary the Mother of God.

I wonder if we will soon be paid a visit from Nestorius!

173 posted on 10/25/2009 11:54:26 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: NYer

Perhaps what was meant was that Mary IS the Mother of God, but that has nothing to do with Jesus because Jesus is not God.

There are certainly enough anti-Trinitarians running around here these days, lecturing to the Church founded by Christ.


175 posted on 10/25/2009 11:55:53 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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