Posted on 04/19/2023 9:23:40 AM PDT by ebb tide
Ping
I’m wondering if they are pieces of the actual Cross which Jesus Christ was crucified on, and if so, I’m amazed they were able to preserve them.
WHAT???? He has NO RIGHT to give something so SACRED to ANYONE especially not a leader of another Church!
I think I might have given Chuck a Douay-Rheims Bible and the Catechism of the Council of Trent.
That’s probably why I’ll never be Pope.
Matthew 7:6 springs to mind.
True. Except Francis is himself such a “dog” and sees Charles as globalist kin of the same breed.
Isn’t the King of England considered the Supreme Head of the Church of England and has been since Henry the VIII
Not really a religious leader but at least something
He’s supposed to be a religious leader. Ol’ Hank took it seriously. Some of his successors also have, others not so much.
The true cross, as discovered by St. Helena.
Since parted out into lots of relics ... and unfortunately, mostly lost.
Many so called relics were searched for and preserved by St Helena, mother of Constantine. More were dug up by the Knights Templar over the centuries. The authenticity of any of these is highly debated
If the cross was so sacred that it shouldn’t be parceled out to anyone, then Jesus should have taken it with him.
No.
I’m not in the business of telling Jesus what he “should have done”.
It’s not a course of action I would recommend to others.
Emporer Constantine the Great’s mother, Helena, who was a devout Christian made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326 - and supposedly found the “True Cross” (as well as those belonging to the two theives)
She commission a church built around them (The Church of the Holy Sepulchre) and there were, fragments of the True Cross distributed to various churches and kings around europe.
The True Cross was supposedly lost when Muslims burned the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 11th century
Those things don’t even matter. There isn’t a spot in the Bible telling Christians to seek out artifacts or to hold them to any esteem at all.
LOL
And did Charles reciprocate by giving Popey a lucky rabbits foot?
Point is, it doesn’t matter. Belief matters. Trinkets are just that.
“I’m not in the business of telling Jesus what he “should have done”.”
Neither am I. I think Jesus can appreciate the sarcasm in my comment even if some humans can’t.
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