Wow....is Roman Catholicism ever ate up with such non-BIBLICAL rituals.
LOL ... like evangelicals don’t have manmade rules, customs, and practices — by the ton!
"Go ye, therefore, into the whole world, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
Well, Jesus said He would be with us all days, even until the consummation of the world (Matt 28:20). When we make the Sign of the Cross when passing a Catholic or Orthodox church, we are acknowledging His True Presence in the Blessed Sacrament. We have God in a box. The presence of God in the Holy of Holies in the Old Testament was only a shadow of what we have now. We do not bless ourselves when passing protestant churches, for they are empty.
The Angelus was instituted by the Church to counteract the muslim prayers three times a day by a confession of belief in the Incarnation. This was during a time in the history of Europe where it was not certain if Christianity would survive he muslim onslaught. It was a prayer against that devil sect. Here are the words:
P: “The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary”
R: “And she conceived of the Holy Ghost”,
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee....
P: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord”.
R: “Be it done unto me according to the Word”.
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee...
P: “And the Word was made flesh”.
R: “And dwelt among us”.
Hail Mary...
P: “Pray for us O Holy Mother of God”
R: “That we will be made worthy of the promises of Christ”
Let us pray:
Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.
These are blessed customs, based upon events in the Gospel, that bring our hearts to meditate upon Our Lord Jesus Christ, our Creator and our Redeemer.
You still have not answered this one. Maybe perhaps you don’t really have an answer??
For example, you made the outlandish claim that Jesus does not have any blood in His resurrected body. That implies He does not have a heart either, for the purpose of a heart is to pump blood. He would also not have any need for veins or arteries. He would also not need lungs to oxygenate His blood. So ultimately I am using human reason to show that your statement about Jesus not having any blood is in its own peculiar way a denial of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, body and soul. It implies that Jesus is now not human in any way, He is a pure spirit only. But by Faith I know that He resurrected under His own power from the dead. Dead as in dead as a door nail, He bled so much that there was nothing left when Longinus pierced His side. I also believe that His resurrection gives me hope that I will also be resurrected, body and soul from the dead. That is an example of how the gift of Faith can show that a concept such as Jesus-not-having-blood is absurd and does not belong to the sacred deposit of Faith left to us by Jesus Christ through His Apostles.