Posted on 10/25/2014 9:19:13 AM PDT by millegan
I’ll call him Fr. John. He was a charismatic Anglo Catholic priest.
A friend of my brother Daryl’s we’ll call Henry died suddenly in a plane crash and he was upset because although Henry was a believer he was away from God when he died.
So Fr. John said, “We have to have a requiem Mass for Henry.”
They went into church and locked the door for privacy’s sake. Another priest we’ll call Fr. George celebrated the Mass.
Henry was about twenty years old. He was just over five foot tall with a shock of blonde hair and a wide face with freckles.
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So, you condemn...AND judge.
Well, good for you. Is that your own personal brand of Christianity?
By the way, how do YOU know to whom God spoke and didn't speak? Are YOU daring to say that? Shame on you for having the temerity to KNOW to whom God spoke and did NOT speak.
This is true. Years ago my husband and I were at our friends home playing cards way too late. It was a beautiful late summer night and we were driving home on the two lane highway leading to our home about two in the morning. At a curve, on the right side gravel berm, there was a funnel of what looked like thousands and thousands of mini stars, very effervescent, almost like a cloud, twinkling and spinning within the funnel. It was about eight feet high, and at the wide top it was about four feet and narrowed to the bottom point. It was off the ground about two feet. We both saw it and it was the strangest thing we have ever seen, it was unworldly to be honest. My husband asked if we should go back and we both agreed, NO WAY. The next day, we were talking to neighbors and they asked if we had heard about the car accident down the road last night. A local teenager on his way home had been killed at that curve around 9 pm, just hours before we saw whatever we saw. After several weeks, I wanted to call his parents but I had no idea how they would take it, or really what to say without sounding like a nut, so we both agreed to keep it to ourselves.
Yes, they did. Now, I suppose someone could say that Elijah was not dead, but Moses clearly was because we are told he was dead. Apparently, some here want to pretend their appearance on Mount Tabor never happened.
We know Satan disputed with Michael over possession of Moses corpse but God “took it away.”
I wonder if it’s within God’s ability to “raise the dead.” If God were to take Moses’ body and “raise Moses from the dead” than Moses may have appeared before Peter, James and John.
But hey, I’m just grasping at straws. You guys ought to go get a Ouija board and party on. Be sure to bring in a bunch of “relics” when you play. Moldy skulls and dried, severed limbs are a fine Catholic “tradition.” I bet you guys could even get something to appear to you looking like an Angel of Light!
Is the Bible the ONLY/SOLE authority? You must not believe in traditions, oral or Apostolic.
There’s always my collection of talking potatos. You don’t doubt the authority of my talking potatos, do you?
“You’ve got a point.”
I always do.
“Don’t listen to us.”
Done.
“Get yourself a Ouija Board “game” and knock yourself out.”
So, in your little world, not listening to YOU means someone uses a ouija board?
“Hey, have a marathon session and sleep with it under your pillow.”
Again, in your little world, not listening to YOU means someone uses a ouija board?
“While you’re at it, borrow a few dessicated skulls and shriveled body parts from your nearest shrines.”
Why don’t you just say something stupid and nonsensical? Oh, wait...
“Protestants say you shouldn’t mess with such things but what do we know!”
Not much.
“But hey, I’m just grasping at straws.”
I agree with you.
I learned much later that those boards are forbidden by the Catholic Church. I can see why. SOME people might get “messages” from Satan. They give me the CREEPS anyway.
I grew up in a Catholic household. We, and most of the Catholic families I knew, had one. I drifted away from the church and eventually became a Baptist. Now I won’t have any part of detestable practices.
Hebrews 1:1-2 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Jesus is the ONLY way to God.
Jesus said......
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
And Peter said......
Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
It doesn't matter how *nice* someone is or how sincere their beliefs are.
God did not speak to mohammed. The muslim God is NOT the same God as the Rather. Mohammed heard from a demonic apparition.
Hmmmm. Excommunicated and defrocked Father Martin Luther had a lot to account for. However, I doubt that he ever intended to bring about NON-Catholicism.
There are 30,000 - 40,000 different Protestant denominations (by Protestant count on Google). Do you think that's what Jesus intended?
I have spoken to many Protestants about their beliefs and they all DO seem to have different versions of what their faith entails. They are good people, in my opinion, so I DON'T judge them.
“There are 30,000 - 40,000 different Protestant denominations (by Protestant count on Google). Do you think that’s what Jesus intended?”
Oh, no! Now you’ve done it! They hate it when your bring up how their sects multiply like rabbits.
What was the “proof” ?
About 80 which makes it 40% alcohol by volume.
My godmother’s kids had one.
And at the time, they were very devout Catholics.
And my Catholic cousins did as well, now that I think of it.
Both of them tried to get me and my siblings to try it but it creeped us out so we declined.
I see that God was protecting me at an early age.
You don't contact Mary or those so called saints?
Yep, there you go again. Your entire posting history is littered with pro-Muslim garbage.
Do you have any idea-—any idea at all-—how often Scripture tells us TO judge, and HOW to judge?
Why would a Christian NOT condemn a savage blood cult that denies the divinity of Christ and teaches that Jesus will serve Mohammed?
God can’t contradict His own word. Why on earth would you think He spoke false doctrine to Mohammed-—doctrine which would make Him, the Lord, a liar?
THINK.
Oh, dear lord.
Do you folks ever give it a rest. You realize you are not going to convince anyone to change.
You look silly arguing about this stuff every day.
Bring what up?
“You don’t contact Mary or those so called saints?”
Saints are alive in Christ.
Want to see my St. Gerard relic - with a tiny piece of bone sitting on a murrey-colored bit of silk? I found it in my mother’s house this week. My grandmother would use it when I had a pain. I treasure it.
So if Catholics pray to someone other than God (Mary and the “saints”), use scrying devices (Ouija Boards) and handle pieces of dead bodies in the effort to gain some kind of beneficial result can we call this Paganism?
The boards were ALREADY condemned by the Catholic Church LONG before I ever saw one. The oiuja board only came into being in the 1890's as a parlor game anyway.
NONE of my large, extended multi-country family ever had one. I never, ever met a Catholic family that did have one. I don't even know who the owner was of that one board at the Halloween party. It did happen 50 years ago...
I do remember that Halloween when I went dressed up as a PIRATE, a female pirate. Cheap costume, as we didn't have much $.
I am glad that you found a faith that you like.
No more Sunday Masses,
no more Lenten fasts,
no more meatless Fridays
no more confessions
no more penances
no more Holy Communion by an ordained Catholic priest
no more signs of the Cross
no more rosaries
no more novenas
no more holy days
no more Hail Marys
no more "Glory be"s
no more Acts of Contrition
no more Benedictions
no more "Angelus"
no more Gregorian chants
no more Vatican and Pope
no more blessings by a priest
no more sung-in-Latin Masses, ever, anywhere
no more nuns, priests, brothers or friars
no more All Saints Day or other holy days-- ****You shouldn't even be celebrating HALLOWEEN since it's the EVE of ALL SAINTS DAY, a CATHOLIC holy day.
You go to Church when you want to. If you don't, no problem. No sin there. You can NEVER go to Church again, no problem, no sin.
If you hurt someone, get drunk or commit ANY sin, you just say "Sorry, Lord" and your sins are forgiven. No punishment incurred. Just say "sorry."
There isn't even an assumption that you won't repeat that sin. Easy.
If you curse, you just say "Sorry, Lord." And you are forgiven. No confession, no penance. Just: "Sorry, Lord."
EASY. How comfortable and easy it is to be a non-Catholic. God bless you and yours AND Happy Halloween, the eve of ALL SAINTS DAY.
P.S. My old, wonderful Texas friend was a Baptist, born and bred, but she and her husband moved to an area where there weren't Baptist churches. It was a job-related move. So she became a Presbyterian.
Unfortunately they had to move again and where they moved to there ISN'T a Presbyterian or Baptist Church close by, so she doesn't go to Church anymore.
Her SON became a Catholic as an adult. That didn't change the dynamics of their family.
LOL. MAYBE they are proud of it.
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