To: Natural Law
I seriously doubt that you have EVER attended a single Catholic service, let alone mass or you would know that every service has a reading from the OT, the Epistles and the Gospels accompanied by a homily.As I've said, I've attended many RC Sunday services. My in-laws are RC. Many of my friends in college were RC. Again, your observations are false.
And I've never doubted the RC Sunday service recites a line here and there from the Bible. However, there is no solid preaching from the Scriptures. There is no sermon where the word of God is taught and appreciated.
What passes for a sermon in the RCC is a weak-wristed "homily" which usually consists of discussing weekday events in the church and the latest scandal to beset its priestcraft.
There is only superstition and adoration of fallible human beings and the duplicity of "another Christ," all of which obscures the truth that there is only one Christ and one mediator between God and men, Christ Jesus.
3,542 posted on
07/29/2010 6:08:53 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
"As I've said, I've attended many RC Sunday services. My in-laws are RC. Many of my friends in college were RC. Again, your observations are false." Since you have been less than truthful on so many occasions and so many subjects and have gone to such extreme lenghts to construct an argument through confabulations and falsehoods I have absolutely no reason to believe you.
If you showed the same disrespect and contempt for the Catholics in your life that you show towards those on FR I can certainly understand why you appear so lonely and bitter.
3,544 posted on
07/29/2010 6:15:26 PM PDT by
Natural Law
(Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; wagglebee; MarkBsnr; NYer
...the RC Sunday service recites a line here and there from the Bible. However, there is no solid preaching from the Scriptures. There is no sermon where the word of God is taught and appreciated.
One-hundred percent WRONG! There is a 3-year cycle of Sunday readings from the Old Testament and the epistles and Gospels. Three readings at each Sunday Mass, and they are not a "line or two", but substantial readings, each consisting of several paragraphs.
The priest is also expected to focus his homily on the readings, and most priests do. I don't know what church you attended Mass at, and if the priest is not discussing the Word, that's not right. The priests I'm familiar with all give excellent, in-depth sermons on the Scripture readings and relate them to the Christian life.
adoration of fallible human beings
Catholics don't adore anyone but God. We do not adore Mary, and you know that.
3,751 posted on
07/29/2010 11:29:57 PM PDT by
Deo volente
(God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Natural Law; NYer; Salvation; Pyro7480; Coleus; narses; annalex; Campion; ...
As I've said, I've attended many RC Sunday services. My in-laws are RC. Many of my friends in college were RC. I've got a question for you, what do you think the result would be if you were to print all of your FR posts from any given month over the past couple of years and give them to your Catholic friends and relatives and tell them that they describe what you think of Catholics and the Catholic Church?
There is only superstition and adoration of fallible human beings and the duplicity of "another Christ,"
Was Saint Paul lying?:
And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ. (2 Corinthians 2:10)
3,795 posted on
07/30/2010 5:29:13 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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