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To: ADSUM
Are you familiar with Acts?

I've heard of it.

26 posted on 01/16/2019 7:31:58 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1

Well I am glad that you have heard of Acts, but it seems that some hear but do not fully understand the meaning.

While you seem to reject the “Catholic” Church because it is not specifically named in the New Testament as such, perhaps one ignores the fact that Jesus founded His Church and delegated to Peter as the leader of the Apostles to go and “ Preach and Baptize” to all nations. The lack of the”Catholic” name seems to be a minor point when Christ’s Church needed to distinguish itself from the false churches that were not following the teaching of Jesus.

As Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke about Jesus, he also wrote Acts about Peter and Paul as they followed the path of Christ.Acts documented the Catholic Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick, the Appointment (ordination) of Bishops and Deacons.These Sacraments established by Christ and followed by the early Catholic Church members.

As St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict taught, we are not a “religion of the book.” We need to worship at the Holy Mass, and hear and not only read the sacred words, so that the Savior can reach our hearts through his action in his Mystical Body: through gestures, through song, through signs of peace, through sacred images, through sights and sounds and even odors. The written word is great; media resources are great; but we must go beyond them to kneel down and worship the Savior along with other citizens of the true Israel, the Church he founded.

Jesus said of His Church: “Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.” Luke 10:16


31 posted on 01/17/2019 6:19:59 AM PST by ADSUM
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