Posted on 06/13/2010 12:16:24 PM PDT by markomalley
.- Thousands of pilgrims and faithful gathered at noon Sunday in St. Peter’s Square to pray the Angelus with the Holy Father. Before the prayer, he said that the fruits of the recently ended Year for Priests could never be measured, but are already visible and will continue to be ever more so.
“The priest is a gift from the heart of Christ, a gift for the Church and for the world. From the heart of the Son of God, overflowing with love, all the goods of the Church spring forth,” proclaimed Pope Benedict XVI. “One of those goods is the vocations of those men who, conquered by the Lord Jesus, leave everything behind to dedicate themselves completely to the Christian community, following the example of the Good Shepherd.”
The Holy Father described the priest as having been formed by “the same charity of Christ, that love which compelled him to give his life for his friends and to forgive his enemies.”
“Therefore,” he continued, “priests are the primary builders of the civilization of love.”
Benedict XVI exhorted priests to always seek the intercession of St. John Marie Vianney, whose prayer, the “Act of Love,” was prayed frequently during the Year for Priests, and “continues to fuel our dialogue with God.”
The pontiff also spoke about the close of the Year for Priests, which took place this past week and culminated with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He emphasized “the unforgettable days in the presence of more than 15,000 priests from around the world.”
The feast of the Sacred Heart is traditionally a “day of priestly holiness,” but this time it was especially so, Benedict XVI remarked.
Pope Benedict concluded his comments by noting that, in contemplating history, “one observes so many pages of authentic social and spiritual renewal which have been written by the decisive contribution of Catholic priests.” These were inspired “only by their passion for the Gospel and for mankind, for his true civil and religious freedom.”
“So many initiatives that promote the entire human being have begun with the intuition of a priestly heart,” he exclaimed.
The Pope then prayed the Angelus, greeted those present in various languages, and imparted his apostolic blessing.
Believers are believers and salvation is salvation. Two different things. By the way, you don’t understand what purgatory is if you think that it contains anyone but people of their way to salvation — as 1 Cor 3:15 makes clear. Read the Scripture with love and attention and you will leave the Protestant rubbish behind and be on your way to salvation in the Holy Catholic Church, too.
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Sex between husband and wife — or between anyone and anyone for that matter — is carnal relations as it involves their flesh (carnalis, “in the flesh”).
It is not sinful to engage in sex between a husband and a wife provided no contraception is used and the sex is not degrading to any side.
I am not interested in dispensationalism or any other Protestant heresy, thank you.
“the verse you quote describe the coming of Christ in glory at the end of days but does not negate the completeness of His presence in the Eucharist.”
The verses I quoted speak to His present status: (1 Tim.6:15-16), “who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.”
He will not become but already is: (Eph. 1:20-22, “Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,”
John says we don’t know Him completely now: (1 John 3:2), “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
The bread the cup served in communion are “actualized” memorials of a person and an event.
What it IS NOT is 1 Cor. 3:15. Read the Scripture with the Spirit that indwells each believer, Who "searches all things,yea, the deep things of God" (1 Cor.2:10), and awaken from your slumber.
Dear me, where do you hear some of this stuff...other than legends and your own opinion?
Sorry, it's just that your comments have become irrelevant.
But Cheers anyway!
iknow...Dispensationalism will only confuse you, leading you to THE TRUTH, and releasing you from the chains of oppression that IS the Catholic Church. It’s much more comfortable to live with others telling you what to do, not to do, think, say and pray. It relieves you of your responsibility before God. You think.
He will not become but already is: (Eph. 1:20-22, “Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,”
AMEN! He has risen and it is all true. His work if FINISHED. Christ has saved His sheep whom God has given Him and He will see them safely home.
What is Christianity, if not that complete assurance?
This is like the seal the king would make as he sent his messages to others. The melting candle making drops of candle wax unto the rolled end of the message. And the king placing his ring into the wax. It could only be opened by the recipient. If another tried to open it, of course the seal would be broken, and their would be no guarantee that the words held within were the king's or another's. We are SEALED. NO ONE can break the seal until Christ does at our redemption. We can't, no other man can, only Christ. He is the KING.
The melting candle making drops of candle wax unto the rolled end of the message. And the king placing his ring into the wax. It could only be opened by the recipient. If another tried to open it, of course the seal would be broken, and their would be no guarantee that the words held within were the king's or another's. We are SEALED.
AMEN!
"In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts." -- Haggai 2:23
No, but they still had names known to someone. To us the Good Thief is known as Dismas. Legends don't grow from nothing, so the reasonable way to name the man -- he is, after all, a saint and therefore a legitimate source of Christian names today -- is to follow the tradition. I recognize the possibility that he did in fact go by some other name that we will never know this side of heaven. There is a similar possibility that St. George did not use the princess's garter to tame the dragon, or that the Balaam's donkey did not talk. Still, the reasonable assumption is with the tradition, doctrinal or not, or in the donkey's case, with the Holy Scripture.
Where do you get that [St. Luke interviewing Mary] from?
From reason. He describes a lot of things in his first chapter that he could not know from anyone but Mary herself, and surely as a chronicler of the events in the life of the Church his primary source aside from Jesus Himself would be His Blessed Mother -- and she was available to the Early Church (Acts 1:14).
Now to the main topic, the hellenism of "paradise". I gave it some more thought and I now think that while the two hypotheses I advanced earlier: (1) that it is an inadvertent hellenism by St. Luke and (2) that Jesus used Greek and used the common word because Dismas was Greek, -- are valid as hypotheses, there is a much simpler explanation that does not involve any imprecision in speech. Here it is.
St. Dismas was not Jesus' disciple; he was not even, most likely, an educated man. His wordlview clerly contained some understanding of sin, -- since he spoke of it, -- but not much more. Since he lived in Jewish lands, let us make a simple assumption that he knew a little bit of the story of the Fall. Unlike the assumption (2) that he only understood Greek, that is a natural assumption to make, as the story of the Fall only requires a rudimentary knowledge of the Jewish faith. Well, now Jesus has a difficult under the circumstance task, to convey to the dying man that his sin has been forgiven and that he gained everlasting life for his just completed work of charity and faith. Ordinarily, it took Jesus parabolic discourses to speak of the Heavenly Kingdom. This was not an option at the time. So instead, Christ reduced the promise of heaven to the simple thing the Thief did know: you will be with me in a state of supernatural happiness, like your parents Adam and Eve prior to the Fall. for that, there is a word. The word is "Paradise". So Jesus, the master teacher, taught as he always does, with precision: Today you will be with me in Paradise.
So have yours, way back.
Self-contradictory. You say you periodically receive what you already have at all times.
At its heart, Romanism is not only anti-Scriptural, it is inconsistent and illogical.
Proddys understand . . .
only passionate addictions to
Vatican heresies are acceptable!
LOL.
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Of course it would, you are correct. I took the question to mean: what other dogmas are built on this one, and none is, but of course the perpetual virginity itself is a doctrine that is to be believed by all who desire salvation. I am sorry if it seemed otherwise. It is not an optional belief.
While the thrust of that passage, Hebrew 11, is prasing faith of the Old Testament righteous, note that nowhere does St. Paul say that faith alone saved them. Quite the opposite — and that is the point I am making, — whenever he mentions faith he also mentions the righteous work that accompanied that faith. So it is you is wrong. Both faith and righteous works save a man. Faith without works is dead.
Some traditions change but the Holy Tradition from which the Holy Scripture itself came, does not change. It is simply the deposit of faith delivered to the Church that did not make it into canonized writing.
Of course God is not done with Israel. We, the Holy Catholic Church ARE Israel and we are doing just fine.
They begin with the fallacies of sole fide and sola scriptura. Not all Protestants subscribe to TULIP.
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