Posted on 10/07/2010 5:51:01 PM PDT by Salvation
**Our Lady of Victory be invoked at my funeral Mass.**
Wonderful invocation!
Iranian sources on some of them. Go figure!
It's not hard to see why. Islam is out to destroy anyone that isn't in their cult. They do not recognize God and Jesus is just an ordinary man. Christianity has NOTHING in common with Islam. There was a reason Pope Benedict XIV chose the quote he did.
What is the point of posting a 9 year old article unless it is to incite more hostility?
**Islam is out to destroy anyone that isn’t in their cult. **
That’s the whole point. Say the Rosary without ceasing. It is our only hope.
There are certain situations of spiritual bondage and patterns of sin that, by a mysterious disposition of God’s providence, are broken only by perseverance in the humble prayer of the Rosary.
Rosary and “ecumenical”?
DEAR RM,
I just noticed after posting #27 that this is an Ecumenical thread.
I don’t recall what the parameters are for that category.
If this post is amiss on such a thread, by all means, please, delete it and I’ll post it elsewhere.
Actually, rereading the Original Post,
I’m skeptical that the Ecumenical category is fitting.
There’s plenty of antagonistic assertions in the original post to disallow it, imho.
At least provocative to the max.
There is one line you might have a point on: “The Islamic belief in the virginity of Mary puts to shame the heretical beliefs of those who call themselves Christian, while denying the perpetual virginity of Mary.” But the guidelines seem to permit it.
The RM’s opinion will be fine with me, either way.
Thanks, Alex.
Mind bogglingly incredible.
How can anyone, much less a vast INSTITUTION FULL of people expect sane out-group folks to believe such unmitigated nonsense. Sometimes they sound as loopy and demonized as the Muslims.
Oh, right—OUT-GROUP means those not in the INSTITUTION & thereby not in the IN-GROUP are beyond the pale in RC’s eyes.
I’ll take my chances with JESUS AND THE TRUTH out here any day.
Your post 27 was removed as antagonistic.
Sorry for the bother and my not noting the category of the thread before responding.
Thx.
This could also be part of the great delusion. Just let God do it. If that is what God wants it will be full conversion in Jesus who became Man from Divinity. Which will be proclaimed by true believers( 1 John 4). Not wishful thinking.
Remember in the book of Revelation believers are martyred by beheadings. Only Muslim countries still do this awful practice. It fits for the end time prophecies. Beware! Heaven help us!
Please note post 33 above. Thank you.
It is interesting that the "crescent" is also the symbol for Islam and that America's Shrine to Our Lady has an Islamic name.
While America doesn't have a shrine to the lady of Guadalupe, certain American religions may have a shrine...
And while this lady may be a religious bond that exists between the Catholic religion and the muzlim religion, Jesus Christ is the bond between Christians and muzlims...
Many muzlims thru out the world have and do come to Jesus Christ and become Christians, forsaking the muzlim religion, the Koran and any notion that the fatima story has any validity at all...Praise God...
That's not a Catholic news agency saying it, that's a Catholic news agency pointing out that a bunch of Shia Muslim moonbats said it.
Please make a note of it, so you don't make this ridiculous mistake again.
ISLAM CO-OPTING FATIMAThis would seem to be pretty straightforward, especially since it says quite clearly what Catholics believe. Claiming without qualification that a Catholic news agency says O.L. of Fatima is Mad Mo's daughter is a bit like claiming that the Bible says, "There is no God".
Iranian TV: Our Lady of Fatima is Really Fatima, Daughter of the Prophet MohammedVATICAN CITY, MAY 13 (ZENIT) - On October 23, 1995, Iranian television began running stories that the apparitions in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 were religious phenomena of Muslim origin.
Growing Muslim interest in the holy site is sparked by the Portuguese town's name: Fatima, which is Arabic. Portugal and Spain were both once under Islamic rule, and are the only such countries to ever break free from such a government.
According to historical accounts, in 1156 a battle was fought between Christian and Muslim forces in the locality. A Christian knight saved a young girl named Fatma (Fatima) from the dangers of the pitched battle. Later she converted to Christianity and married the knight, only to die shortly afterwards. In grief, the knight became a monk and the town was renamed Fatima in her honor.
According to Iranian Television, the woman who appeared to the three shepherd children in 1917 was not the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, but Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam. Her message was reported to be "I am Fatima, daughter of the Prophet of Islam." This television report has helped launch the growing waves of Muslim pilgrims who have been visiting this Christian site in Portugal in recent years.
Catholics, on the other hand, say that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the three shepherd children. She told them to pray, especially encouraging the prayer of the Rosary. Lucía, the only surviving recipient of the vision, was entrusted with three "secrets," of which the third has never been made public. She recently assured that the third secret was never intended for general proclamation. Pope John Paul II has had a strong devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, especially since the failed assassination attempt of Ali Agca, which occurred precisely on May 13, 1991, the anniversary of the first vision at Fatima (May 13, 1917). ZA980513-3
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