Friday, 30 August 2013

THE HOLY WATER

Ex. 29:4; Lev. 8:6 - Aaron and his sons were washed inholy water in their consecration to the priesthood. Thus, we see theuse of holy water during the beginning of salvation history.
Ex. 30:18-19 - the Lord requires Aaron and his sons to wash their hands and feet in holy water before they offered sacrifices to Him. TheChurch uses holy water for various purposes, and holy water fonts are generally located at the entrance of Catholic churches to be used before the sacrifice of Christ is offered to the Father.
Num. 5:17 - here again, the priest uses holy water. God uses natural matter to convey the supernatural, just as God who is Spirit became flesh in Christ Jesus.
Num. 8:7 - the Lord says to"sprinkle them with the waterof remission." The Lord uses water, a physical property, to convey His supernatural property of grace.
1 Kings 7:38-39 - in King Solomon's temple, there wereten large basins of holy water. Holy water has alwaysbeen used in the context of worship.
John 9:6-7 – Jesus uses clayand spittle to heal the blind man’s eyes, and ordered himto wash in the pool of Siloam to effect the cure. Jesus did not need to use spittle, clay and water, but He does to demonstrate that God uses the material things He created to give graces and heal us.
John 13:4-10 - the Lord useswater to wash the apostles' feet to prepare them for theirsacramental priesthood.
John 19:34 - water and bloodflowed from Jesus' pierced side on the Cross. The Church uses holy water as a symbol of our Lord's life giving water that flowed fromHis sacred Heart, and as the property which brings about the power of Jesus Christ Himself, in baptism, the Eucharist, and other sacred rites of the Church.

THE HOLY ROSARY A VAIN AND CHILDISH REPETITIOUS PRAYER?


"But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking": Matt 6:7 (KJV).

The Rosary? God hates that! Go read Matt 6:7 ! Where is it in the Bible? I'm sure everyone of us devout Catholics reading this have encountered these sort of creatures who reek deep hatred of anything about the Virgin Mary and Catholic ..both in person or online especially in debate groups, but how can we reason to them that in our Church tradition the Holy Rosary was given by Our Lady to Saint Dominic? Where their mind set is, they don't believe in the Virgin Mary and Saint Dominic in the first place? for them the Virgin Mary is dead and she can't hear our prayers anymore..dead as a dead dog..period..and the only acceptable answers for them must be verses in their heavily mutilated 66 books Protestant Bible (Catholic Bible have 73 books)..BUT HOW CAN I REASONS WITH THE ANTI CATHOLICS? THEY SEEM TO BE SO GOOD AND WELL ADEPT WITH BIBLE! lets check:

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking (KJV).

And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard (Douay).

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking (WEB).

In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words (NAB).

And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words (NASB).

In your prayers do not babble as the gentiles do, for they think that by using many words they will make themselves heard (NJB).

In fairness, both the Revised Standard Version and the New International Version avoid the word “repetition”; many Catholics use a Catholic edition of RSV. In general, though, if it says “vain/meaningless repetition”, it’s a Protestant Bible.

The Greek word beneath this conflict is battalogeō, “to stammer”. Supposedly derived from the name of a Cyrenean king who stuttered, or from the name of a bad poet, battalogeō can indicate repetition. It can also indicate babbling, the endless blathering of the crashing bore that’s cornered you at a cocktail party or the presentation at work you just can’t get out of except by faking major trauma.

Babbling and repetition — not quite the same thing, even if described by the same word. Fortunately, though, there’s another word in the verse that helps us decide the issue: polylogia. Created from the stem polys (many) and logos (word), it’s often translated as “much speaking”, a clumsily imported construct; a better single word to capture the idea is “verbosity”. In speaking of this verse, St. Augustine of Hippo wrote, “And in reality, every kind of much speaking comes from the Gentiles, who make it their endeavour to exercise the tongue rather than to cleanse the heart” (On the Sermon on the Mount 2:3:12).

St. John Chrysostom points us to the parable of the widow and the unjust judge (Lk 18:1-8), which like the simile of the importunate friend (Lk 11:5-8) emphasizes the need for persistence in prayer (Homilies on Matthew 19:5). We are not merely to ask, seek or knock, but to keep asking, keep seeking and keep knocking (Mt 7:7; Lk 11:9). Common sense should tell you that, if you’re to ask for something not just once but continually, you’ll repeat yourself in essence even if you manage to say your prayer a different way each time.

Moreover, Jesus follows this injunction with the instruction, “Pray like this” … and gives us the Our Father (Mt 6:9-13), not only for its own sake but also as a model for other prayers. As a model, its unique feature is its brevity, giving praise to God and asking for our needfuls in just over fifty words. Not quite what we Catholics call an aspiration (a traditional prayer that can be said in one breath), but definitely stripped down to essentials.

Given the context and the rest of Jesus’ teachings about prayer, babble translates battalogeō in this verse much more effectively and reasonably, capturing the emptiness and futility of the prophets of Baal crying to their god as they cut themselves (1 Kgs 18:25-29). It also captures the annoying quality of the Christian who makes a complete hash out of the simple act of saying grace at a large gathering by gassing on about all the things the assembled should be grateful for while the gravy congeals and the butter melts.

JUST REMEMBER THESE (JESUS AND THE BIBLE ITSELF SUPPORT REPETITIOUS PRAYERS)

Jesus gave us the "Our Father" prayer which most Protestant Christians pray with no qualms about praying "in vain." The same command in Luke 11:2 reads: "And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father..." -- "when you pray, say..."

That Christ Himself prayed in repetitions. Matthew 26:44: "And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words". Mark 14:39 reads: "And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words."

That the angels pray repetitiously. Revelation 4:8: "...and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come."

That God commanded Moses to tell the Israelites: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." (Deuteronomy 6:4-7)

That the Psalms are nothing but a collection of prayers and litanies which were prayed formally in the pre-Christian synagogues and early Christian churches, are still prayed in synagogues and Catholic churches today -- and were even prayed by Christ from the Cross.

for example: the endless repetition of PRAISING THE LORD!

Psalm 136:1-26
Praise the LORD, who is so good;
God's love endures forever;
Praise the God of gods;
God's love endures forever;
. . . Praise the God of heaven,
God's love endures forever.

That the liturgy of the synagogue was (and is) filled with repetition and formalized prayer. Christ said "use not vain repetitions, as the heathens do". Were the Jews heathens? They prayed (and still pray) the sh'ma twice a day and, in their liturgy, the Shemoneh Esrei, the Kaddish, the morning blessings, the Aleinu, etc. Check out a Jewish siddur (missal) sometime; does it look more typically Protestant or Catholic?

That hymns are prayers. Is it "vain" to sing "Amazing Grace" or "The Old Rugged Cross" more than once?

In addition, the earliest Christians (being Catholics) understood Christ's words as do modern Catholics. The 1st century Didache (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) says:

Do not pray like the hypocrites, but rather as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, like this:

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debt as we also forgive our debtors. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one; for Thine is the power and the glory for ever..

Pray this three times each day.

THE HAIL MARY WHERE IS THAT IN THE BIBLE?

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.

Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."

The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being "highly favored," thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity.

Blessed art thou among women

Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women..."

Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."

Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of all women, greater than Ruth, greater than Sarah, greater than EVE! Since Eve was created immaculate (without original sin), Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve. Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world.

Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus

Luke 1:42b "and blessed is the fruit of your womb."

Jesus is Mary's fruit. Good fruit does not come from anything but a good tree (Mt. 7:17-18)! The all-holy Son of God could not be the fruit of any other tree than the Immaculate Virgin.

Holy Mary, Mother of God

Luke 1:43 "And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Kyrios is the Greek word used by the Jews in the Septuagint Bible (Greek translation) for Yhwh, the Divine Name of God. In her greeting of Mary, Elizabeth is saying: "How is it that the mother of my God should come to me." Against the heresies of the 4th and 5th centuries which tried to split the Person of Jesus into two, divine and human, denying one or the other, the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD proclaimed Mary Theotokos (God-bearer, i.e. mother of God). Jesus is a single Person, a Divine Person, the 2nd Person of the Most Holy Trinity. To be mother of the Person Jesus is to be mother of a Person who is God. Mary's title protects this truth against errors which emphasize or deny, either the divinity or humanity of the Lord.

Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Luke 2:35 "...and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

John 2:5 "His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."

Mary sees a need and appeals to Her Son to satisfy it. He does. We turn to Mary to ask her to intercede with her Son in our daily spiritual and material needs, but especially at the hour of our death. At that moment our salvation hangs in the balance as the devil makes his final foray to deter us from the path to God (Rev. 2:10). It is not surprising, therefore, that both the Hail Mary and the Our Father conclude with an appeal to be delivered from the evil one.

THE HOLY ROSARY AS A POWERFUL INTERCESSORY PRAYER

The Power of Intercessory Prayer in the Bible:

Intercessory prayer proceeds from faith in God that holy men and women who have died are as alive today as they were on earth (Luke 20:38). If the prayer of the just man avails much, how much more the prayer of the one made perfect (Rev. 21:27) and living with God in heaven (the patriarchs, apostles and other holy men and women).

James 5:16b "the fervent prayer of a righteous man is very powerful."

Rev. 5:8 "When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.

The angels, too, mediate our prayers. This is taught explicitly in the Jewish book of Tobit (Tob. 12:12), accepted by Christians as inspired until Luther on his own authority rejected it. It remains part of the Catholic Bible.

Tobit 12:12 I can now tell you that when you, Tobit, and Sarah prayed, it was I who presented and read the record of your prayer before the Glory of the Lord; and I did the same thing when you used to bury the dead.

Rev. 8:3 "Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne."


source:tonylane/kingjamesonline.org/fisheaters.com/EWTN Library


Photo:Virgin of the Rosary of Guápulo, Peruvian (Cuzco), ca. 1680


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ABORTION AND THE BIBLE

It is sinful to perform or even to support abortion:
Exodus 1:15-17; 2Kings 8:12;2Kings 15:16; Psalm 5:6; Psalm 10:2-11; Psalm 94:20-21; Proverbs 1:10-11;Proverbs 6:16-19; Proverbs 29:10; Isaiah 13:18; Isaiah 57:4-5; Isaiah 59:7; Hosea 4:2; Amos 1:13; Wisdom 1:12-14; Wisdom 14:22-26; Sirach 8:7; 1John 3:15; Revelation 9:21; Revelation 21:8.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

THE POPES OF THE CHURCH


The Catholic Church was founded 33AD by Our Lord Jesus Christ upon Peter this year's pentecost sunday 2013 makes it 1980 years old, and during this period here are our Popes read what that 4th Pope, Clement, wrote about apostolic succession here). St. Peter (32-67) St. Linus (67-76) St. Anacletus (76-88) St. Clement I (88-97) St. Evaristus (97-105) St. Alexander I (105-115) St. Sixtus I(115-125) St. Telesphorus (125-136)St. Hyginus (136-140) St. Pius I (140-155) St. Anicetus (155-166) St. Soter (166-175) St. Eleutherius (175-189) St. Victor I (189-199) St. Zephyrinus (199-217) St. Callistus I (217-22) St. Urban I (222-30) St. Pontain (230-35) St. Anterus (235-36) St. Fabian (236-50) St. Cornelius (251-53) St. Lucius I (253-54) St. Stephen I (254-257) St. Sixtus II (257-258) St. Dionysius (260-268) St. Felix I (269-274) St. Eutychian (275-283) St. Caius (283-296) St. Marcellinus (296-304) St. Marcellus I (308-309) St. Eusebius(309 or 310) St. Miltiades (311-14) St. Sylvester I (314-35) St. Marcus (336) St. Julius I (337-52) Liberius (352-66) St. Damasus I (366-83) St.Siricius (384-99) St. Anastasius I (399-401)St. Innocent I (401-17)St. Zosimus (417-18) St. Boniface I (418-22)St. Celestine I (422-32)St. Sixtus III (432-40) St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61) St. Hilarius (461-68) St. Simplicius (468-83) St. Felix III (II) (483-92) St. Gelasius I (492-96) Anastasius II (496-98) St. Symmachus (498-514) St. Hormisdas (514-23) St.John I (523-26) St. Felix IV (III) (526-30) Boniface II (530-32) John II (533-35) St. Agapetus I (535-36) St. Silverius (536-37) Vigilius (537-55) Pelagius I (556-61) John III (561-74) Benedict I (575-79) Pelagius II (579-90) St.Gregory I (590-604) Sabinian (604-606) Boniface III (607) St. Boniface IV (608-15) St. Deusdedit (615-18)Boniface V (619-25) Honorius I (625-38) Severinus (640) John IV (640-42) Theodore I(642-49) St. Martin I (649-55) St. Eugene I (655-57) St. Vitalian (657-72) Adeodatus (II) (672-76) Donus (676-78) St. Agatho (678-81) St. Leo II (682-83) St. Benedict II(684-85) John V (685-86) Conon (686-87) St. Sergius I (687-701) John VI (701-05) John VII (705-07) Sisinnius (708) Constantine (708-15) St. Gregory II(715-31) St. Gregory III(731-41) St. Zachary (741-52) Stephen II (752) 3 Stephen III (752-57) St. Paul I (757-67) Stephen IV (767-72) Adrian I (772-95) St. Leo III (795-816) Stephen V (816-17) St. Paschal I (817-24) Eugene II (824-27) Valentine (827) Gregory IV (827-44) Sergius II (844-47) St. Leo IV (847-55) Benedict III (855-58) St. Nicholas I (858-67) Adrian II (867-72) John VIII (872-82) Marinus I (882-84) St. Adrian III (884-85) Stephen VI (885-91) Formosus (891-96) Boniface VI (896) Stephen VII (896-97) Romanus (897) Theodore II (897)John IX (898-900) Benedict IV (900-03) Leo V (903) Sergius III (904-11) Anastasius III(911-13) Lando (913-14) John X (914-28) Leo VI (928) Stephen VIII (929-31) John XI (931-35) Leo VII (936-39) Stephen IX(939-42) Marinus II (942-46) Agapetus II (946-55) John XII (955-63) Leo VIII (963-64) Benedict V (964) John XIII (965-72) Benedict VI (973-74) Benedict VII (974-83) John XIV (983-84) John XV (985-96) Gregory V (996-99) Sylvester II (999-1003) John XVII (1003) John XVIII (1003-09) Sergius IV (1009-12) Benedict VIII(1012-24) John XIX (1024-32) Benedict IX (1032-45) Sylvester III(1045) Benedict IX (1045) Gregory VI (1045-46) Clement II (1046-47) Benedict IX (1047-48) Damasus II (1048) St. Leo IX (1049-54) Victor II (1055-57) Stephen X (1057-58) Nicholas II (1058-61) Alexander II(1061-73) St. Gregory VII (1073-85) Blessed Victor III (1086-87) Blessed Urban II (1088-99) Paschal II (1099-1118) Gelasius II(1118-19) Callistus II (1119-24) Honorius II (1124-30) Innocent II (1130-43) Celestine II (1143-44) Lucius II (1144-45) Bl. Eugene III (1145-53) Anastasius IV (1153-54) Adrian IV (1154-59) Alexander III(1159-81) Lucius III (1181-85) Urban III (1185-87) Gregory VIII (1187) Clement III (1187-91) Celestine III (1191-98) Innocent III (1198-1216) Honorius III (1216-27) Gregory IX (1227-41) Celestine IV (1241) Innocent IV (1243-54) Alexander IV (1254-61) Urban IV (1261-64) Clement IV (1265-68) Blessed Gregory X (1271-76) Blessed Innocent V (1276) Adrian V (1276)John XXI (1276-77) Nicholas III (1277-80) Martin IV (1281-85) Honorius IV (1285-87) Nicholas IV (1288-92) St. Celestine V (1294) Boniface VIII (1294-1303) Bl. Benedict XI (1303-04) Clement V (1305-14) John XXII (1316-34) Benedict XII (1334-42) Clement VI (1342-52) Innocent VI (1352-62) Blessed Urban V (1362-70) Gregory XI (1370-78) Urban VI (1378-89) Boniface IX (1389-1404) Innocent VII (1406-06) Gregory XII (1406-15) Martin V (1417-31) Eugene IV (1431-47) Nicholas V (1447-55) Callistus III (1455-58) Pius II (1458-64) Paul II (1464-71) Sixtus IV (1471-84) Innocent VIII(1484-92) Alexander VI (1492-1503) Pius III (1503) Julius II (1503-13) Leo X (1513-21) Adrian VI (1522-23) Clement VII (1523-34) Paul III (1534-49) Julius III (1550-55) Marcellus II (1555) Paul IV (1555-59) Pius IV (1559-65) St. Pius V (1566-72) Gregory XIII (1572-85) Sixtus V (1585-90) Urban VII (1590) Gregory XIV (1590-91) Innocent IX (1591) Clement VIII (1592-1605) Leo XI (1605) Paul V (1605-21) Gregory XV (1621-23) Urban VIII (1623-44) Innocent X (1644-55) Alexander VII (1655-67) Clement IX (1667-69) Clement X(1670-76) Bl. Innocent XI (1676-89) Alexander VIII (1689-91) Innocent XII (1691-1700) Clement XI (1700-21) Innocent XIII (1721-24) BenedictXIII (1724-30) Clement XII (1730-40) Benedict XIV (1740-58) Clement XIII (1758-69) Clement XIV (1769-74) Pius VI (1775-99) Pius VII (1800-23) Leo XII (1823-29) Pius VIII (1829-30) Gregory XVI (1831-46) Blessed PiusIX (1846-78) Leo XIII (1878-1903) St. Pius X (1903-14) Benedict XV (1914-22) Pius XI (1922-39) Pius XII (1939-58) Blessed John XXIII (1958-63) Paul VI (1963-78) JohnPaul I (1978) John Paul II (1978—2005) Benedict XVI (2005-2013) Francis I (2013-?) St. Peter was martyred in Rome in A.D. 67 by crucifixion, asking to be crucified upside-down 2 because he felt unworthy to be crucified in the same way as our Lord. His body was buried on Vatican Hill, at the present site of St. Peter's Basilica. You can read about his (and Paul's) martyrdom in Rome in Book II, Chapter 25 of"Church History" written by the above- mentioned Eusebius of Caesaria . The evidence of post-New Testament Church history is just as convincing. Read what the early Eastern Church fathers wrote about Peter and his successors...

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

THE MASS

Welcome to a brief explanation of
the "Mass" (or the "Eucharist" ). This
is a short but in depth look at the
largely unknown treasure of the
Roman Catholic Mass. The Mass is
described as the most powerful prayer on earth. That is because it is
the Prayer and Sacrifice of Jesus
Christ the "Lamb of God" on Mount
Calvary nearly two thousand years
ago. His sacrifice is made present on
the altar under the appearance of "Bread and Wine". At the end of
Mass we can receive Jesus raised
from the dead into
our souls.the Lamb of God on the 21
st of August 1879 with St Joseph,
Our Lady, St John the Evangelist and a multitude of Angels. The Mass our
Treasure and the Lamb's Sacrifice
and Supper Adam and Eve Eve stole
God's fruit from the tree and gave it
to Adam to eat and so helped cause
the "Fall" of mankind,. But in the "Redemption" the New Adam Jesus
sacrifices ( offers back to the
Father ) the Divine Fruit ( Himself )
on the Tree of the Cross at Calvary
and in the Mass Jesus the New Adam
and the Divine Fruit gives Himself to the Church which is the New Eve for
her to Eat. At His Last Supper Jesus
first gave Himself to the Church and
on the following morning He was
put on the Tree of the Cross. At the
foot of the Tree of the Cross Mary the human New Eve offered the
Sacrifice of Jesus the New Adam to
God for the sins of mankind. Jesus in
the Mass gave His one Sacrifice to
the Church the Mystical New Eve for
her to offer back to the Father through time until the End of time.
Beneath the Tree of the Cross Mary
offered the sacrifice of Jesus to God
and the Church also offers His
sacrifice on Calvary to God in the
Sacrifice of the Mass. The most powerful prayer for Mercy
on earth and in Heaven. Mass is the
most powerful prayer we can make.
We can pray to God at any time and
anywhere but at Mass we
can pray to God, with God and in God dying on the cross at Calvary
nearly 2,000 years ago. At the
"consecration"
of Mass God makes Good Friday
present on the altar. At Mass we can
offer the sufferings and Sacrifice of Jesus who is the "Lamb Of God" to
God the Father in atonement for the
Sins of the World. Later on then in
the Mass we can also receive Jesus
risen from the dead really present
in the Sacrament of Holy Communion. ("Sacrifices go up,
Sacraments come down" Fr Joseph
Moran) At "Mass" we enter Heaven
with Jesus in the presence of all the
Angels and Saints as He offered
Himself to the Father on Good Friday 2,000 years ago. Briefly let us
look at the main stages of the Mass.
Repentance We first repent of our
sins. At the start of Mass we repent
of all our sins by praying the
Confiteor, "I confess" or similar prayers. (Mortal or Grave sins
(These are very serious deadly sins.)
need the "Sacrament of Confession"
and the lesser "venial" sins are
forgiven by sincere prayer.) Word
of God Then we hear the "Word of God" in the Scripture Readings
which nourishes us and the priest
explains them in his Homily. Jesus is
really present speaking to us in His
word. Offertory Soon after this
follows the Offertory where we can offer ourselves and all mankind (the
living, the dying and the souls in
Purgatory) in union with the bread
and wine being offered by the priest
to God. The drop of water the priest
adds to the chalice is a symbol of our offering of ourselves and all
Mankind. The Holy Spirit will soon at
the "Consecration" change the bread
and wine into the real Body and
Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus
Christ the victim of Calvary. Consecration After the "Offertory"
follows the Consecration which
means: to make Holy. So at the
"Offertory" we offered ourselves to
God and now we can unite our self-
offering to the self- offering of Jesus at Calvary on Good Friday. We pray
that the Holy Spirit will change our
hearts and the hearts of all those we
are offering into better members of
the Mystical Body of Christ.
Jesus through the words of the priest sends the Holy Spirit down to
make the bread and wine into His
Sacrifice of Himself. At the Last
Supper Jesus totally
offered Himself and His passion to
the Father and now the Consecration makes His Self-offering
present. (St Faustina in her diary
(No 684) recounts how she saw
Jesus at the Last Supper at the
moment He cosecrated the bread
and wine and she could see His total offering of Himself). Usually the
Altar Server rings the bell to help us
to focus on this Great Miracle and
usually all present kneel down. The
Body and Blood of Jesus are now in
the two separate vessels (Ciborioum and Chalice) on the Altar signifying
for us the way that the Blood of
Jesus separated from his Flesh as He
bled and died on the cross. The Holy
Spirit can help change our hearts
and everyone that we offer at this time. This can be a time of great
mercy for the world. We can unite
our daily good deeds and sufferings
now with Jesus on the cross to give
them more value and power before
the throne of God. Elijah's great miracle on Mount Carmel (See 1
Kings 18;17-38) where the Fire from
Heaven consumed the offering was
a symbol of this part of the Mass.
Our Father After we say what is
called the great "Amen" in reply to the Priest's "Through Him, With Him
and in Him" prayer we then say the
"Our Father" to sum up all our
petitions. We should try to
remember that we are saying it in
the presence of Heaven. At the Last Supper Jesus probably said the "Our
Father" with His Apostles. Jesus by
His Passion, Death and Resurrection
Lived and fulfilled each of the seven
petitions of the "Our Father". He
obtained for us this privilege of calling God "Our Father". The
Passion of Jesus was the Greatest
Prayer He taught His followers. In
His Passion Jesus "Hallowed" the
Name of His Father. In His Passion
He started the coming of the Father's "Kingdom" (which is also
His Church). He showed us how to
do the "will" of God as it is done in
Heaven. Through His Passion, death
and Ressurection Jesus who is
Himself the "Bread of Life" made Himself present in "Holy
Communion" as the "daily Bread" of
His followers. By His Passion He
obtained "Forgiveness for our
Tresspasses" and the graces we
need to be freed from "Temptation" and "Delivered from evil". At the
Mass we are present as Jesus
perfectly fulfilled the "Our Father"
for us. The Sign of Peace The Priest
may now ask us to offer the "Sign of
Peace" to those near us but more especially we should offer it in our
heart to anyone in our lives we
have not forgiven or do not like.
"Take and Eat" The first Adam was
told not to take and eat God's fruit
from the tree but now Jesus the God-Man as the New Adam gives
mankind Himself because He is
Divine Fruit from the Cross. The first
Adam must have told Eve not to eat
the fruit from the tree ( She was not
created when God told Adam not to eat from the tree ) but now the New
Adam tells the Church which is the
New Eve to "Take and Eat"
the New Fruit which we call Holy
Commuinion. The Resurrection Then
after we say the "Lamb of God" prayers the Priest adds a fragment
of the "Host" (Christ's Body) to the
chalice of His Precious Blood. This
action signifies the Resurrection of
Jesus and shows us that Jesus is
present "risen" from the dead in the Host and the Chalice. We can now
receive Jesus "risen from the dead"
into our hearts in Holy Communion.
St Paul in 1 Cor11: 27-29 seems to
have believed in this real presence
of Jesus in Holy Communion because he said "the person who eats and
drinks without recognising the Body
is eating and drinking his own
condemnation." Mission At the end
of Mass we are sent on a mission "to
love and serve the Lord". One of the best ways to do this is to love and
serve the Lord in our neighbours.
We can imitate Mary who after she
had received Jesus at the
"Annunciation" brought Him to visit
her cousin Elizabeth. The word "Mass" comes from the Latin word
"Missa" which means sent as we are
now "sent" on mission at the end of
Mass. It is good to spend some time
thanking the Holy Trinity for their
goodness to us. Prayers we can say during the
Consecration. Jesus taught these
prayers to St Faustina for the Divine
Mercy Chaplet which is said on
Rosary Beads. "Eternal Father we
offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of your dearly Beloved
Son our Lord Jesus Christ in
atonement for our sins and those of
the whole world." "For the sake of
His sorrowful passion, have mercy
on us and on the whole world."

THE MASS IS NOT AN ENTERTAINMENT GROUND NEITHER FOR EUPHORIA

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Q: What books are not found in Protestant Bible? By CHARLES MARC-ANTHONY.

A: They are Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, ­ Baruch and the two Books of Machabees, together with fragments of Esther (x.4; xvi, 24), and Daniel (iii, 24-90; xii., xiv). These books were contained in the Alexandrian list or Canon of Books which was used by Greek- speaking Jews of Alexandria, Asia Minor, Greece and Italy. © Edited and compiled by the owner of www.archlegend.tk |CHARLES MARC-ANTHONY |

NINE WAYS TO PARTAKE IN SOMEONE'S SIN. By CHARLES MARC-ANTHONY

1. By counsel 2. By command 3. By consent 4. By provocation 5. By praise or flattery 6. By concealment 7. By partaking 8. By silence 9. By defense of the illdone When you meditate on the above it will give you insight how imperfect we are in life and how the church has brought it out to assist us in gaining perfection. One that baffle is partaking, I want to know if a politician steals and donates to the church does this also mean we are partaker. If someone steals from the harvest and you do not report it both partaking and concealing. We see women who are promiscuously dressed and the next thing is you look good,where did you buy this dress, see how nice your shoes are (high heels that help to exhibit your immorality when you walk), oh where did you buy this hair itis made perfectly for you. Meanwhile you will not put on any of these dress but you have partaken in them by flattering. . We must all be careful the way we keep silent especially when things are going wrong as for me I will always speak out. It is different if you are not aware but if you have the knowledge and allow all to go astray it will be dangerous Giving consent to our children to cheat in exam both in school and catechism. How many of us are leading women astray, how many of us are leading the youth astray, how many of us are defending our children when they wrong? We flatter our wives and conceal the truth of the church because we cannot meet up with it. You still suffer it in future because what you sow you will reap. Twist the Bible to suit our ego and counsel wrongly. My dear this is scarely. All these 9 ways are what you see preached for in many churches because truth will drive the congregation and therefore there will be no money. And the result is anti Christ taking over the society. Look at the 9 ways critically they all have multiple meanings, print it in your heart/on the wall of your house and allow these to be your guiding principles. This is the church nine ways and I agree perfectly with them and it is inspired. Beautiful church, beautiful gift from God only when you follow the truth you will enjoy it. © Edited and compiled by the owner of www.archlegend.tk |CHARLES MARC-ANTHONY |