Bumping this thread. I believe we need to do some additional praying for the Religion Forum. Some of the threads are degenerating into word-wars.
Amen. thanks, a good prayer under any circumstance.
Thanks for the ping! I just copied the Greek prayer from the 1280s to my journal. It can be a poster for Lent! Unnngh, that “idle curiousity” ...
"But Jesus prayed that we'd be one ... so for the sake of God's own Son ......"
I Corithians 12 ... As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.
And the gospel from Luke 4 ...
Jesus returned to Galilee ... went into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah ...
He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
He said to them,
“Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
This was said to Jesus' Jewish community in the synagogue. Not to any of us Gentiles. But our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ fulfilled the Father's plan to present His promise of salvation to the entire world.
Since we were not God's original Chosen People, and perhaps somewhat similar to ceasing the requirement of non-Jews to be circumcised, far be it from us to place restrictions on our Christian brethen who are not Catholic too? Is that not the task of the Holy Spirit?