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To: Mrs. Don-o
In all due respect to you and Mr. Don-o (I respect you both immensely)...Jesus was not a Roman Catholic. He was a Jew.

He calls us to Jehovah...the Jewish God (who is the Creator of the Universe).

148 posted on 04/25/2015 3:18:35 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: RoosterRedux

The apostles would attend the synagogue on Saturdays and then on Sundays meet for an agape meal and the Eucharist in a home church. You can see this in the book of Acts where they all lived in one community.


149 posted on 04/25/2015 3:24:56 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: RoosterRedux
Certaily Jesus was a Jew: on His mother's side.

So were his 12 apostles, his 72 disciples, and in fact all of the early Church.

As He is the founder of the Church, He can be said to be a "member" of it, in the sense that He is the Head of His Body, the Church. Which was, at the time, the Jewish Christians: as Our Lord told the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well, "Salvation is from the Jews."

To say "Roman Catholic" is something of an anachronism. The Church was "Catholic," tout court. It was only after the 16th Century that the term "Roman Catholic" gained any currency: there was a party of Anglicans who liked to call themselves "Anglo-Catholics," and they launched the correlative term, "Roman Catholics."--- to pin on the Catholics, who called themselves Catholic.

The Anglicans in England also called the Catholics "The Italian Mission." These terms were meant to be put-downs. That's not necessarily true now, but it was then.

153 posted on 04/25/2015 3:33:02 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The Holy Catholic Church: the more Holy she is, the more Catholic she is.")
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To: RoosterRedux

Thank you, by the way, for a good contribution to the discussion.


155 posted on 04/25/2015 3:33:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The Holy Catholic Church: the more Holy she is, the more Catholic she is.")
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