Posted on 01/05/2010 9:46:47 PM PST by the_conscience
I just witnessed a couple of Orthodox posters get kicked off a "Catholic Caucus" thread. I thought, despite their differences, they had a mutual understanding that each sect was considered "Catholic". Are not the Orthodox considered Catholic? Why do the Romanists get to monopolize the term "Catholic"?
I consider myself to be Catholic being a part of the universal church of Christ. Why should one sect be able to use a universal concept to identify themselves in a caucus thread while other Christian denominations need to use specific qualifiers to identify themselves in a caucus thread?
“Well I have never seen “a pastor praying over it”.
Interesting. At almost every communion (or Eucharist) I’ve been at, the pastor reads a passage, either from the Gospel or 1 Corinthians. Then he prays, and then the bread is distributed. Likewise with the (cringe) grape juice.
That isn’t praying over it in the Catholic sense - no one is claiming the bread isn’t bread, or the grape juice isn’t wine...I mean, grape juice...but a prayer is offered prior to distributing. That was what I was referring to. Sorry if I created confusion by my choice of words.
Hate makes waste.
Nope, in that post I used quotation marks to denote deliberately fabricated falsehoods (a method I've seen used on multiple occasions by anti-Catholics).
They never have for the anti-Catholics.
Genesis 9:27
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant
Japheth, being the father of the Greeks, was given the prophecy that his people would share spiritual blessings with the Jews.
Alexander the Great was used by God to spread the Greek influence far and wide, making the soil "good" if you will. Then Christianity, the next step in Judaism, found a fertile garden waiting for the seed of the gospel to be spread
The Lord's Supper is not a "celebration." It is a "Communion" between believers and God, not between believers and each other.
You're confusing worship with the sacrament. Just like Rome.
Christians do not worship God by partaking of Communion. They enjoy Him and are strengthened by Him through the Supper of our Lord, as He intended. The Lord's Supper is from God to us, not the other way around.
Perhaps others belonging to churches which use the altar call would also like to give some description.
That's not your determination to make: who is or is not Christian.
You just don't get to have that kind of power.
I thought it just displayed a failure to understand how courtesy over trifles makes conversation over important things possible. Also pusillanimity
I have no problem with language translations, but if latin were the most precise language then God would have seen to it that the writers of the NT used latin.. (which I am sure Paul knew)
Why are you dancing around the legitimate source of the meaning, the Catechism of the Catholic Church? Are you afraid of accidentially stepping on the truth? I'll save you any embarrassing cookies and post directly from the Catechim:
1323 - "At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.'
What are your thoughts on Hebrew?
Amen , Amen !
I’ve given mine.
You’ve given yours.
Some clueless folks rant about “spiritual altars” . . .
I guess they have trouble imagining while they are praying . . . offering something up on an altar in their mind, to the Lord.
Perhaps that’s why some . . . groups . . . have such an extensive stinking pile of tangible dogma and ritual . . . a genetic paucity of imagination.
"This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again"
This makes my point well
Christ died once for all ... He is no longer on the cross..HE HAS RISEN
Congratulations! You agree with the Catholic Church.
Well, that's what "communion" is.
Hebrew was Gods choice for the OT because the Jews were to be the oracles of the OT, and the language of record to Gods people.
Greek and Latin existed at the same time in the new church, God chose greek
Wat do you know about the spread of Latin over the eastern Med? One criticism of Gibson’s movie was that the soldiers should have been speaking Greek.
Then why is he still hanging on the cross in the Catholic church?
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