mwdegutis,
Still the Anti-Cathoic and Jewish, Moniker . . . We continually see . . . on the OPP forum.
At least your consistently wrong, . . . "Stand up and take a bow," regarding your personal Evangelical religious hubris . . .
Titivillus: The Devil Made me do it!
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Introductio/Titivillus.htmlAnd you really must read, what you write, in your post articles on the OPP forum . . .
There seem's to be a problem here Houston, . . . with your Evangelical thinking . . .
Your nothing but a zealot religious Evangelical hypocrite . . . nothing more and nothing less . . . What a coward . . .
Here are several example's Evangelical Anti-Cathoic and Jewish biases':
1. Catholic rituals, . . . Jewish rituals . . .
2. The Importance of Mary in Christianity, . . .
3. "Good Work's" found in this article and previously other article posting's . . .
Hmmm, Catholic rituals, . . . Jewish rituals. ? Just another error in your mindset and religious Evangelical thinking . . .
a. Hypothetically, Jesus's mother and Father were Jewish, so that makes Jesus Jewish. Am I right . . . ? The Answer is Yes . . .
The Gospels Scripture's states emphatically that Jesus adhered to the Jewish law, rituals, traditions and customs, as required in the Torah. . .?
Why do you think that Jesus Christ practiced and performed these symbolic Jewish religious rituals, because his religious nature was Jewish?
mwdegutis,, You just can't disavow Jesus's Jewishness to his Christian Church, and Pauline Jewishness to Christianity . . . Their "One and the Same . . .
Have you ever heard of the Christian High Mass, and the Christian Low Mass . . . ? . . . And what separates the two . . . ?
These Jewish religious rituals have been grafted into the Christian-Jewish church . . . Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, and a host of Protestant churches perform these religious rituals on a daily basis.
Here is an Example:
When we receive the "Body and the Blood" e.g. Bread and Wine, is this not a symbolic Jewish and Christian Ritual ? "The Last Supper."
And Prayers, incense and a host of other ritual's that we see consecrated at masses e.g. birth's deaths, marriages, healing of the sick, confession and the Sacraments etc. . . . These rituals all come from Jesus' Jewish traditional religious historical upbringing . . .
mwdegutis, You just can't say things arbitrarily, without knowing your Jewish religious tradition's and Christian Religious tradition and history.
To do this, . . . just makes you a laughing stock and to dam, religiously hypocritical . . .
Now your just playing the religious wing-nut fool . . .
2. As far as praying the "rosary", now you have crossed the line here. e.g "As if baptism will save you or saying a Rosary has any power."
Them's are fighting words, you are nothing more than a bigoted religious coward.
The "Rosary" is a contemplative prayer, focusing on the life of Jesus . . . nothing more and nothing less . . . and yes their is "Power" in words.
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/BVM/Rosarium.htmlAgain, anything Marian, . . . Evangelicals go nuts, . . . Mary in the bible, is profoundly humble . . . and her importance . . .
Therefore, like the archangel Gabriel, we say, Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Like St. Elizabeth, we say, Who am I, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Like Mary herself, we say she is blessed among women. And like St. John the apostle, we recognize Mary as the Mother of God (Theotokos), highly exalted in heaven as a magnificent queen, clothed with the sun, the moon at her feet and a garland of twelve stars around her head.
a. Read the "Magnificat Prayer," She glorifies the Lord, (Luke 1:46-55)
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Cantici/Magnificat.htmlhttps://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/IVP-NT/Luke/Marys-Hymn-Praise-MagnificatMy soul magnifies the Lord
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
Because He has regarded the lowliness of His handmaid;
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed;
Because He who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is His name;
And His mercy is from generation to generation
on those who fear Him.
He has shown might with His arm,
He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and has exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich He has sent away empty.
He has given help to Israel, his servant, mindful of His mercy
Even as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity forever.
b. "The Canticle of Simeon Prayer,"
NOW dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, *
in peace, according to Thy word:
For mine own eyes hath seen *
Thy salvation, Which Thou hast prepared *
in the sight of all the peoples,
A light to reveal Thee to the nations *
and the glory of Thy people Israel.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant,
the oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,
through the tender mercy of our God, when the day shall dawn upon us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness
c. The Benedictus "The Canticle of Zachary Prayer. Latin, meaning "Now you dismiss." (Luke 2:29-31). This canticle has been used daily at Compline since the 4th century.
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Cantici/Benedictus.htmlNOW dismiss Thy servant, O Lord,
in peace, according to Thy word:
For mine own eyes hath seen
Thy salvation, Which Thou hast prepared
in the sight of all the peoples,
A light to reveal Thee to the nations
and the glory of Thy people Israel.
d. Mary the New Ark of the Covenant:
In the Book of Revelation, the Ark of the Covenant is described in connection with a highly exalted woman who gave birth to a great King:
Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail. Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. . . . And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. âRev. 11:19â12:5
As King David himself had prophesied in Psalm 2, the Messiah is the great King who comes to rule all nations with a rod of iron. He was born of a virgin, crucified, resurrected, and in the Ascension, he was caught up to God and His throne. In Revelation 12, this male child is Jesus.
And Mary is his mother. She is this great woman, clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. And ever since the very early days of the Church, Christians have recognized Mary as the fulfillment of the Ark of the Covenant. St. Hippolytus in the second century, and St. Gregory Thaumaturgus in the third, are among the many saints who have identified Mary with the Ark.
e. At Pentecost, Mary was among the 120 in the upper room, and she participated in the first massive outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Church. As she aged, she lived in Ephesus with John the apostle. When she died, Jesus received her soul directly into heaven. And three days after her death, she followed her Son in resurrection, and was assumed bodily into heaven. Mary is the first Christian to experience the fullness of salvation including resurrection and glorification. This is a belief that has been passed down in the Church from generation to generation, throughout the ages.
And while Scripture does not record the time of her assumption into heaven, it does record a glorious vision of her in heaven after her assumption had already taken place. The apostle John had stood with Mary at the foot of the cross, he had taken Mary to live in his own house, and then in the final book he wrote, St. John tells us of Mary, exalted in the heavens.
When St. John and Mary stood at the foot of the cross, Jesus told Mary that John was now her son, and that Mary was now John's mother. In Revelation 12:17, the apostle John talks about the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christâ (Rev. 12:17), letting us know that Mary is our mother, too.
All found revelations found in the Old and in the New Testament Bible . . .
And "Who" said that Mary the Mother of God, was not profoundly important . . . in Christianity ?
a. From the Jewish attempts to keep the Law to Catholic rituals, works don't equal faith and only faith in Christ will save.
b. Some people try to be good enough through works while others put their hope in rituals.
Salvation is not found in rituals or works of any kind.
c. Many who claim to be Christians believe that the finished work of Christ on the cross is insufficient for salvation.
Many try to add individual works to Christâs shed blood, as if baptism will save you or saying a Rosary has any power.
My guess is that you don't read, . . . what you preach . . . and is quite contradictory, hypercritical Evangelical dogma and religious Hypocrisy . . .
a. Some will, but if even one person can come to salvation through Jesus because they see what He has done in you then your works will have paid off.
b. Jesus said Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16
Good works should be a result of the love we have for Jesus and thankfulness for what He did for us. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? James 2:20
Something politicly laughable, . . .
Hillary Clinton leaves flowers for Our Lady of Guadalupe, After asking "who painted the famous image." it?’
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hillary_clinton_leaves_flowers_for_our_lady_of_guadalupe_asks_who_painted_itThe image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531. The image has numerous unexplainable phenomena, such as the appearance on Mary’s eyes of those present in the room when the tilma was opened and the image’s lack of decay.
Mrs. Clinton asked “who painted it?” to which Msgr. Monroy responded.
“God!”
December 9, 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe had this to say to Juan Diego:
""Know for certain, least of my sons, that I am the perfect and perpetual Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God through whom everything lives, the Lord of all things near and far, the Master of heaven and earth.
It is my earnest wish that a temple be built here to my honor. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people.
I am your merciful mother, the merciful mother of all of you who live united in this land, and of all mankind, of all those who love me, of those who cry to me, of those who seek me, of those who have confidence in me.
Here I will hear their weeping, their sorrow, and will remedy and alleviate all their multiple sufferings, necessities and misfortunes."
The Miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=456As usual i'm expecting a slew of Evangelical semantics and verses to prove me wrong . . . "Sola Scriptura" (The Bible Only)