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.
100% of the revealed word of God is contained in pre-Reformation scripture as well...And in pre-Catholic scripture to boot...
The problem isn’t with my memory, its that you and your posts are so forgettable.
I won't debate that...
That religion not only claims it is the Body of Christ, but it IS Christ...And that comes when we claim the scriptures says God provides salvation, not their religion...That is their justification for claiming (and yes it has been claimed many time on FR) Salvation comes ONLY thru their religion...
I was doing a bit of mocking since they would have to accept that Jesus is not only their religion, but then Jesus had to pay out billions for His own perverseness, taking it to it's logical conclusion...
Sometimes what's funny to me isn't funny to anyone else...Oh, all right; often what's funny to me isn't funny to anyone at all...
You have fostered some pondering . . .
The more I think about this
purported
'WORKS-WITH-THE-RIGHT-WHITE-HANKY-WHITE-WASHED-MOTIVE = PART OF SALVATION'
HERESY,
The more disturbed I feel at the absolute insult it is to Christ's Blood.
In addition, it is
THE SAME ARROGANCE satan foisted on man in the Garden.
He convinced Eve that
BY HER OWN EFFORTS, SHE COULD BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE LIKE GOD.
WHAT ARROGANCE!
Wasn't it Isaiah who said . . . I saw THE LORD, HIGH AND LIFTED UP AND HIS TRAIN FILLED THE TEMPLE!
Woe is me, a man of unclean lips and fingers and everything else.
IT IS SOME VARIATION AND TYPE OF ARROGANCE-TO-THE-MAX
TO PRESUME
THAT ANY WHITE-WASHED-WHITE-HANKYED-MOTIVATIONS could RENDER ANY OF OUR WORKS MORE THAN used ___tex--as Scripture says.
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
[apologies to Mr RM if that's over the standard line].
The Catholic's Peter may have been...
Amen...
AMEN! AMEN!
I don’t suppose, Alex,
that you bother in all your record keeping and statistics
to keep track of
those who seem to be compulsively addicted to probably more comments about individual FREEPERS than the issues on the thread???
INDEED . . . perhaps in between tears.
Course you do...You just don't have a clue as to what it says...
You know it means something but it's all an allegory and you don't know what it means...
But thank your church fathers because they figured out a little bit of it...And they told you what they think it means...Any you're required to believe them...
Uh, you get your forks from the 'other' guy...
We don't repent for righteous works.
You have no righteous works...
Unless God is a liar...
Sure, and the Holy Spirit retired and is living in a condo if Florida...LOL
The Catholic's Peter may have been...
Now THAT'S FUNNY!
Who said this? I've missed this somewhere. Step up, poster. Don't get your rosary in a bunch, just step up and own this.
See the beginning of the teaching
Mat 24:1 ¶ And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to [him] for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Mat 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
This is the beginning of the teaching which spans 2 chapters.. it was to His men.
It is describing the work of the SHEEP.
The Sheep were not ever GOATS. the Goats never behaved like sheep This text is a teaching on the judgment of rewards , not salvation .
Mat 16:27"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works."
Luke 14:14"For thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."
(Rev 22:12)"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."
1Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."
The Goats are condemned , not because they did not work, but because they had never repented and believed
Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
They were not sheep because they did the work that God had ordained for them, they did the work because they were the sheep.
Gal. 2:16: "[T]hat we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified
Here Jesus teaching on salvation by works
Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Mat 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Know WHO ? The elect ..
A good tree brings forth good fruit , that is fruit that is attached to the vine.
If it is not attached to the vine it bears no good fruit and it is thrown into the fire.
But you say, isn't feeding the hungry and clothing the naked good work?
Jesus qualified that answer here is what HE said
A corrupt tree ( not attached to the vine can not do work that is pleasing to him, even if done in HIS name)
A good tree ( a sheep, a saved man) can not bring forth bad fruit.
He says the sheep were ministering to HIM as they ministered. The goats did not.
So the sheep did God pleasing work not to be saved, but because they were already His sheep ( saved) .
What an ironical statement! On first read it would sound like you agree that a person is saved by grace through faith apart from works since you state that work done out of obligation...is not salvific. Yet I know quite well from past posts that you adhere to your religious doctrine that faith and works are necessary for salvation. What, then, do you mean by "obligation"?
We "Protestants" have been saying all along that the good works God has prepared for us to do are because we are saved and not in order to be saved. When we are genuinely "born from above", we are new creatures, there is a new nature that desires to please God, that yearns to obey him out of love and gratitude and NOT obligation. The Reformation happened for many reasons but one of the chief ones was the Church had forsaken the primal doctrine of "saved by grace through faith alone".
I highly doubt this has just been a case of mistaken semantical misunderstanding all these centuries!
For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.
INDEED. THX THX
Any work done believing that it is necessary to save you or that works are a part of your salvation is done for a self serving ulterior motive, saving yourself..
The bible tells us we can do NO WORK that is pleasing to God except that work HE, Himself ordains and works through us
So God sees all the "good deeds" done with an eye to please Him to reinforce our salvation as a used kotex and good only for the trash .
Amen
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