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.
Well, if you can’t enjoy yourself here, what’s the good? We don’t take ourselves too seriously and tomorrow is another day.
Cheers!
I agree, God always reveals Himself to the elect.. Abraham was the son of an Idol maker ..If God ordains that you be saved, you will hear the gospel from a radio or a missionary or a christian friend or a book ..God is faithful.
So often men think self righteous works are righteous
To the vile person who posted this foolish and totally lost comment:
You are living in the Dispensation of the Grace of God. You do NOT get to choose which dispensation you prefer. you will find everything needed to become a member of the Church the Body of Christ in Paul's Epistles. They are located only in the Pauline Epistles. you do NOT get to choose your method of salvation. It is located in Paul's Epistles. soooo, if I were you, I would think a little higher of Paul. And a little lower of yourself.
Do you read scripture at all??? If you did, you'd have to be embarrassed to post such tripe...
Is the word of God meaningless to you??? You guys claim you believe every word that was written in the scripture...Appears as tho you are telling a lie...
Joh 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
Eternal life...Salvation...RIGHT NOW...Does that verse need a translation for you???
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Shall not come into condemnation...Does that mean anything to you??? It says we have everlasting life, RIGHT NOW...
Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
My beloved...Who are my beloved??? They are the people that HAVE eternal life, RIGHT NOW...
The verse says 'your own salvation'...These people already HAVE salvation...
Paul says they obeyed the Gospel while he was with them but now that he's not there to guide, continue on with what he taught...
Heb 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Those people received salvation by faith...Do not get that faith doctrine mixed up with the doctrines of men which is faith plus works...
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Note that while God is "working in us" we have to "work out" our salvation, which therefore is in the future.
Again, if we have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, we are not condemned but have everlasting life...Now if you can't reconcile that with vs. 2:13, YOU have a problem...The problem is not with the scripture...
One cannot "fear and tremble" over things already accomplished.
If you believe what Paul was teaching, you're on the fast track to heaven...If you accept Jesus but want to add to His words and help Him out and claim there is something you could possibly do to gain salvation, you most certainly better fear and tremble and work out your own salvation...
Joh 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
INDEED.
This needed to be posted! Maranatha!
AMEN! AMEN!
INDEED! INDEED!
AMEN! AMEN!
INDEED! INDEED!
AND POSTED AND REPOSTED.
THX THX.
Truly, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: - John 10:27
Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to [him], and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. - Acts 8:26-35
The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. – Psalms 12:6-7
And for that reason, I am also confident of God's mercy towards aborted children and others who died very young, to the blind and deaf, to the mentally and physically handicapped, and also to the culturally handicapped. I cannot say how God's will is accomplished for these, but I'm sure it is done.
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.
Thank you for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
THX for your kind reply.
Amen amen!
“Yes. I did not like the part in the begining which seemed to say that God rather than the primary Mover, is in need of external motivation, — but I trust it is just vagueness of expression common among Protestants,”
There is nothing in the post that remotely hints that God is moved by anything outside of Himself. He is the prime mover in dispensing grace based on His own sovereign choices. That man would reject Christ is evidence that saving grace was not offered as it is irresistible by derfinition: “Grace created our choice.”
“but I trust it is just vagueness of expression common among Protestants”.
Gratuitous “ad hominems” are not appreciated nor are they warranted.
Amen
The simplicity is beautiful, the depth is more-so.
It seems right to natural man to do good works, be a good person, and always strive to do the right thing. But as we know, good works saves no one and leads to death. This is another witness to "good works" meaning nothing toward God. I came across this today and just stopped. It is SO fitting to this thread. Maranatha!
“The craziest thing to me is the presumption that the voices in their heads telling them how to personally interpret Scripture is the Holy Spirit.”
INDEED.
LOL
“When you accept the Deuterocanonicals because they are in the Septuagint, which is the same basis that you would have me accept the Greek translation for Shavuot because it is in the Septuagint, then we may have some basis for further conversation.”
ABSOLUTELY INDEED...
Expect some real personal attacks now lol.
All the verses that you posted are in complete agreement with Catholic soteriology as I summarized it 713. Even your comments are not by and large far off the mark.
Why do you need < dir > tags at all? It is true that most tags get reset by a paragraph break. I don’t know specifically about < dir >.
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