For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?
Posted on 06/23/2018 7:48:28 AM PDT by Salvation
Bowing at the mention of Jesus’ name is an old practice that has since fallen into wide disuse
Msgr. Charles Pope June 10, 2018
Question: I was taught to nod my head when the name of Jesus was spoken. I see some priests and congregants do it, but not most. What is the current practice? — Diane Garrett, via email
Answer: Liturgically it is not required. This is a pious custom that, while less common today, is still observed by many. This is not only in the liturgy, but at any time the name of Jesus is uttered, and also, quite commonly, the name of Mary. In the traditional Latin Mass, where clergy wear birettas (a kind of square hat with a pom), there is the additional tipping (lifting off) of the biretta at the names of Jesus, Mary and the saint of the day. This external and very visible action also helped the faithful remember to bow their heads.
This laudable custom has sadly declined. Some clergy and others still observe it, and, while it is not required, it is worthy of being encouraged. Other customs too should not be forgotten, such as making the Sign of the Cross when passing a Catholic Church, praying the Angelus at noon and 6 p.m., and so forth. The generations raised in the 1960s and ’70s largely abandoned such practices. However, many of their children have rediscovered some of these lost customs like a precious heirloom brought down from the attic. Thus, while being careful not to harshly judge those who do not follow this non-required custom, many can joyfully take it up again and encourage others to do so.
You are correct sir. The only thing I would say, for the benefit of people in other religions, is that you probably need to accurately, and in great detail, define what true faith is.
The verse that says devils believe, and tremble, does not qualify as true faith. 😁
It doesn’t surprise me either bro. 👎 I would venture to guess, however, that there is probably a huge difference, between your opinion of who believes, and my opinion of who believes. 😇
I believe ALL of Scripture, unlike what your arguments suggest about you.
Of course, last time I tried to tell you what I believed, you refused to listen and continue to accuse me of antinomianism.
This is why people call the FRomans hateful, because you continue to repeat the same accusations over and over even after being corrected.
Hey bro, I won’t have to do time in Purgatory. I have already been there. It’s a ski resort in Colorado. 😁
By the way, when I was a catholic, we were told there is another place we can go after death. It was Limbo. My mom and dad thought they were going to limbo, but I haven’t heard anyone on these threads talk about it. Maybe someone willed it out of existence. I just want to know where did Limbo go? Maybe Limbo went here. 🤣
Dead bodies, Els, not dead souls and spirits. One who possesses eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ and His Shed Blood never does. When my souls and spirit become separated from my physical body, that is the physical death spoken of. To be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD (2 Cor. 5:6,8). Whom my body suffers that temporary phase of death, I will have gone on to the reward of life in Heaven, sentient, and with the Hope of Glory. Eventually my new bloodless body will catch up with the rest of me.
Even now, while my body is sleeping, my mind is alive. Anyone can tell you that (Job 33:15-18).
Absolutely not derived. The correct word is "revived," for in Latinized hands, it had turned dead.
It was Desiderius Erasmus who brought the true Greek back to the public'sattention and put it in print, from which another Catholic priest saw the error of his ways, and was saved by faith alone in the Christ of the Bible alone through the Grace of The God alone, for His Glory alone, and which Faith alone was preached for the salvation of great crowds of those thirsting for it, and a holy life, who were lost and dying under Roman rule.
The truly translated Bible into the vernacular, placed in every home that could afford one, brought a good part of Europe into the true churches of Western civilization, from which it has been carried to the ends of the earth, as prophesied.
Now, stll clinging as vultures to the tree of death, that other gospel different than Paul's is still preached by Romanizers, dangling the possibility, not the certainty, of a life after physical death, but failing in the promise of eternal life beginning now, and lasting forever.
They keep the attention of pretentious humans of the Cain persuasion, who are too proud to admit their inborn utter depravity, and think that by human effort they can pave their way to heaven with good deeds.
Correct. One does not become saved or spiritual as a consequence of holding to the moral law, for if that were possible, the gift of God of His Son and His Cross-death would be only an easement, not a necessity.
One cannot be saved by holding uniformly to the moral law, for that is not one's nature as a child of the god of this world.
One acknowledges the moral law, and holds to it not to be saved, but to please Our Savior and His Father because of salvation and justification being complete, for His Nature is the nature of the new man, the one born from above, the godly nature that is putting the old man to death.
Call no man father.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
Call no man father.
No; but of us here can see the hypocrisy of "Christ's Church".
For the sake of confused LURKERS!!
Post the Scripture that shows how this assertion works!!
Leaving the lessons of Logic 101, we now move onto 102...
Mary is Our Life
There are two primary reasons why Mary is our life, according to saint Alphonsus Liguori:
(1) Mary is our life, because she Obtains for us Pardon of our Sins. (Saint Alphonsus Liguori, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1982, p.49.)
(2) Mary is also our Life, because she Obtains for us Perseverance. ( Ibid., p.56.)
From there the following reasonings are presented as support:
To understand why the holy Church makes us call Mary our life we must know, that as the soul gives life to the body so does divine grace give life to the soul; for a soul without grace has the name of being alive, but is in truth dead, as it was said of one in the Apocalypse, "Thou hast the name of being alive, and thou art dead." Mary, then, in obtaining this grace for sinners by her intercession, thus restores them to life. (Ibid., p.49.)
See how the Church makes her speak, applying to her the following words of Proverbs: "They that in the morning early watch for me shall find me." ... A little further on she says, "He that shall find me shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord." "Listen," exclaims St. Bonaventure on these words, "listen, all you who desire the kingdom of God; honor the most blessed Virgin Mary and you will find life and eternal salvation." (Ibid., pp. 49,50. Catholicism actually attributes Proverbs 8:17-35 to Mary.
Genesis 3:1
I know that Rome says, "...except Mary."
When they have run out of arguments and think that dropping the mike is going to settle the issue.
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