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To: Mrs. Don-o

What your posts show is that you are ignoring the real issue....that what is being professed in the Vatican contradicts traditional Catholic teaching.


62 posted on 12/17/2015 1:47:43 PM PST by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: piusv
I very much appreciate the fact that the traditional Church officially canonizes but does not officially demonize. We sometimes (by miraculous divine intervention) know that a person is in heaven, but we do not know whether a person is in hell. This has not been revealed to us.

This is why we can pray in all sincerity, along with the Guardian Angel of Portugal (Fatima 1916):

O my Jesus,
Forgive us our sins,
Save us from the fires of Hell.
Lead all souls to heaven,
Especially those in most need of Thy mercy.

Why do I say this? Because Salvation is still a mystery in the hands of God, like the unbaptized, ostensibly nonChristian poor Jew Lazarus at rest--- as Christ said --- in the bosom of Abraham.

Which is what the document you object to, said: "That the Jews are participants in God's salvation is theologically unquestionable, but how that can be possible without confessing Christ explicitly, is and remains an unfathomable divine mystery."

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63 posted on 12/17/2015 2:02:37 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (He was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. - John 1:9)
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