Posted on 12/14/2014 7:25:42 PM PST by Salvation
thanks
Salvation
I really like Justin Martyrs Apology of 155AD laying out the Mass just like it was today.
AMDG
Amazing reading, isn’t it?
** Saint Paul understood this most clearly, and manifested it in his letters. In 1 Cor. 7 he speaks of his own celibacy, and encourages as many men and women as possible to embrace this state in life, in order to be more concerned with the Lord’s affairs (cf. 1 Cor. 7:32-35). Though some think that he was originally addressing only Jewish Christians and their marital concerns in this text, the early Church always understood his words in a broader way, referring to the gift of celibacy and its power to free a man or woman for spreading Christ’s kingdom, as Paul himself had done so assiduously. **
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Jesus healed Peter's MOTHER-IN-LAW.
There is NO clear evidence of this. This mere biased conjecture.
So, if all Catholic men, deserted their wives, everybody would be cool with that?
Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have? And Jesus said to them: Amen, I say to you, that you, who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name' s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting. (Matthew 19:27-29)
No question, Peter had been married prior to uttering the above words. No one asserted otherwise. The article is about people receiving the gift of celibacy; some of them are married and others are not.
It is generally a good idea to read the article you are making comments about.
That’s not what the article is saying. Please read it before you make a statement.
Celibacy is unnatural. Humans are meant to have a partner of the opposite sex.
There are four vocations in life:
Priesthood
Marriage
Consecrated Religious Life
Singleness
Celibacy can be very natural....not all people are tied into the modernistic sex world.
“So, if all Catholic men, deserted their wives, everybody would be cool with that?”
‘Bipolar’Bob indeed.
“Celibacy is unnatural. Humans are meant to have a partner of the opposite sex.”
Were Jesus and St. Paul unnatural?
You mean Paul was a woman?
Widows are women.
widower?
save sex for your 201st birthday
“Jesus was supernatural”
Jesus was a man in every way but sin.
“... and Paul had been married but was not anymore (likely a widow).”
Actually the Bible never says whether Paul was married or not. Although some think that he was once married based on 1 Cor 9:5. To some Paul’s use of agamos implies he was once married, but that is not certain. Even the fact that Paul refers to himself as a Pharisee does not automatically mean he was indeed once married. And in any case, the fact that he was unmarried when he wrote his letters shows that your idea, “Celibacy is unnatural” makes no sense unless you think St. Paul was unnatural - and Jesus too.
Very informative read.
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