tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41357305189760047022024-03-06T07:49:33.729+08:00Catechism + Apologetics = TRUTH"et cognoscetis veritatem et veritas liberabit vos..."(Jn.VIII:XXXII)
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Et ego dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificabo Ecclesiam meam, et portæ inferi non prævalebunt adversus eam. 19 Et tibi dabo claves regni cælorum. Et quodcumque ligaveris super terram, erit ligatum et in cælis : et quodcumque solveris super terram, erit solutum et in cælis.(Mat.XVI:XVIII-XIX)FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-68201484208134095452015-10-30T11:50:00.001+08:002015-10-30T11:50:25.320+08:00BAKIT TINATAWAG NA ‘MORNING STAR’ O TALA SA UMAGA ANG BIRHENG MARIA SA LITANY<div class="post-content" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Didact Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 23.04px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hi Fr, tanong ko lang po, bakit po sa Litany of Blessed Virgin Mary, meron pong “Morning Star”? Diba po sa Panginoon lang yon?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JESUS IS MORNING STAR OR IN OTHER TRANSLATION: “DAY STAR” “THE SUN” OF OUR LIFE. HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. KASI GOD SIYA:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Peter 1:19</span> [KJV] <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE DAY STAR</span> arise in your hearts”</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THAT PROPHECY IS FULFILLED IN THE LORD JESUS WHO IS GOD AND HEALED THE SINFULNESS AS WELL AS THE INFIRMITIES OF THE PEOPLE.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SI MAMA MARY AY HINDI DIOS. TAO LANG SI MAMA MARY. BAKIT SIYA TINATAWAG NA MORNING STAR? SI MAMA MARY AY “MORNING STAR” KASI ANG MORNING STAR NAGBABADYA O NAGBIBIGAY HUDYAT NA MALAPIT NANG MAG BUKANG LIWAYWAY O MAG UMAGA. DARATING NA ANG SUN, THE MOST POWERFUL LIGHT. IBIG SABIHIN SI MAMA MARY AY HINDI DIOS. HINDI SIYA ANG SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. SIYA AY ORDINARIONG TAO NA GINAMIT NG DIOS UPANG IPABATID SA BUONG MUNDO NA MALAPIT NA ANG PAGDATING NG DAKILANG LIWANAG NA WALANG IBA KUNDI ANG PANGINOONG JESUCRISTO.</strong></span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2015/10/30/bakit-tinatawag-na-morning-star-o-tala-sa-umaga-ang-birheng-maria-sa-litany/">BAKIT TINATAWAG NA ‘MORNING STAR’ O TALA SA UMAGA ANG BIRHENG MARIA SA LITANY</a></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PAANO UNAWAIN ANG EXODO 20 : 3-5?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Malimit tayong mga katoliko ay pinupona ng ating mga kaibigan na nasa ibang bakuran ng pananampalataya, sa kadahilanang mali ang kanilang perception sa pagkakaroon natin ng mga imahen/rebulto sa loob ng ating simbahan o sa atin mang tahanan. Dahil diumano labag ito sa Biblia, gamit ang maraming talata para sabihin na tayong mga katoliko ay lumabag sa utos ng Dios.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 “Huwag kang sasamba sa ibang diyos, maliban sa akin 4 “Huwag kang gagawa ng imahen o rebulto ng anumang nilalang na nasa langit, nasa lupa, o nasa tubig upang sambahin. 5 Huwag mo silang yuyukuran ni sasambahin sapagkat akong si Yahweh na iyong Diyos ay mapanibughuing Diyos. Ang kasalanan ng mga magulang ay sinisingil ko sa kanilang mga anak hanggang sa ikatlo at ikaapat na salinlahi.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21 Mga anak, lumayo kayo sa mga diyus-diyosan.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 Subalit malagim ang kasasapitan ng mga duwag, ng mga taksil, ng mga nagpapasasa sa kasuklam-suklam na kahalayan, ng mga mamamatay-tao, ng mga nakikiapid, ng mga mangkukulam, ng mga sumasamba sa diyus-diyosan, at lahat ng mga sinungaling. Ang magiging bahagi nila’y sa lawa ng nagliliyab na asupre. Ito ang pangalawang kamatayan.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nota: ito’y ilan lamang sa napakaraming talata na kanilang ginagamit upang paratangan tayo na sumasamba sa diyus-diyosan. Kahit pa basahin natin lahat ang mga talatng kanilang ginagamit ito’y nauuwi lamang sa iisang talata ang Ex. 20-3-5</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bilang isang pangkaraniwang katoliko, minabuti kong ibahagi sa inyo ang munti kong nalalaman sa biblia, dahil biblia ang gamit nila sa pagbatikos hinggil dito, biblia rin ang ating gagamitin sa pagsagot.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sa verse 3 <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Huwag kang sasamba sa ibang diyos, maliban sa akin,”</span> Tayo bang mga katoliko ay may sinasambang ibang dios maliban sa tunay na Dios na nasa langit? Wala po! Katunayan, sa tuwing nagsisimba tayo paglinggo sa mesa sinasambit natin ang ganito: sumasampalataya ako sa Dios na makapangyarihan sa lahat na may gawa ng langit at ng lupa. Sino daw po ang Dios natin? Yong makapangyarihan sa lahat…. Hindi natin sinasabi na si Maria, Jose, Pedro, Pablo etc… o yong mga rebulto na nasa ding ding,,, at kung aawit ng papuri sa Dios ang mga katoliko ay kanyang sasambitin ang ganito: Papuri papuri papuri sa Dios sa kaitas-an at sa lupa ay kapayapaan sa mga taong kinalulogdan niya. Kaya alam namin kung sino ang aming Dios, dito pa lang ay masasabi na nating sablay na ang kanilang paratang.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ikalawa:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sa verse 4 <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Huwag kang gagawa ng imahen o rebulto ng anumang nilalang na nasa langit, nasa lupa, o nasa tubig upang sambahin.”</span> (Nota) sa pagbabasa natin ng biblia kinalailangan na lapatan natin ito ng tamang unawa….anong uri ng imahen/rebulto ang pinagbabawal? Mga imahen ng mga nilalang na iyong sasambahin bilang diyos o diyus-diyosan, ano itong diyus-diyosan? Sa tawag pa lang alam na natin na ito’y peke o huwad na diyos…. Iba ito sa tunay, yong makapangyarihan sa lahat. Ang susunod na tanong tayo bang mga katoliko ay may huwad o pekeng dios???????? Wala po! Kung ganon, si Birheng Maria, San Pedro, Pablo Jose etc..ay hindi diyus-diyosan sapagkat kaylan man hindi natin sila pinaniniwalaan na mga diyos, kaya ang kanilang mga larawan ay hindi rin puwedeng tawaging larawan ng diyus-diyosan. Maliwanag po ba?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sabi nila…..Eh bakit kinalailangan pa na gawan sila ng mga larawan gayung ang sabi ay huwag kang gagawa ng imahen o rebulto ng anuman? Yan po ang pilit nilang sasabihin.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ang salitang anuman ay hindi absolutong nangangahulogan na lahat na ng uri ng mga larawan ang ipinagbabawal gawin, kasi po kung susundan po natin ang ganitong unawa, lalabas na sinalungat ng Dios ang kanyang sariling utos….Narito sa talatang Ex. 20:3-5 ay bawal, pagkatapos sa Ex. 25:17-22 ay pinag-uutos gawin, ano yan??? Nakalimotan ba ng Dios na ipinagbabawal niya yon?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 “Gumawa ka ng Luklukan ng Awa na yari sa purong ginto. Ang haba nito’y 1.1 metro, at 0.7 metro naman ang luwang. 18 Lalagyan mo ng dalawang kerubing ginto ang dalawang dulo nito, 19 tig-isa sa magkabilang dulo. Ihihinang ang mga kerubin upang ito at ang Luklukan ng Awa ay maging iisang piraso. 20 Gawin mong magkaharap ang dalawang kerubin na parehong nakatungo, at nakabuka ang mga pakpak na nilulukuban ang Luklukan ng Awa. 21 Ilalagay mo ito sa ibabaw ng kaban na kinalalagyan ng dalawang tapyas na bato ng kautusang ibibigay ko sa iyo. 22 Doon tayo magtatagpo sa Luklukan ng Awa, sa pagitan ng dalawang kerubin; doon ko ibibigay sa iyo ang kautusan ko sa mga Israelita.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ano ba ang tinatawag na kerubin? Ang mga kerubin ay mga anghel ng Dios, eh kung sinasabi sa talata na “ 18 Lalagyan mo ng dalawang kerubing ginto ang dalawang dulo nito” eh kung ginto yan eh di larawan nga yan….Kaya kung gagamitan natin ng tinatawag na sentido kumon, hindi lahat ng larawan ang pinagbabawal, Eh ano ang bawal? At ano naman ang hindi bawal? Ang bawal ay yaong larawan ng diyus-diyosan tulad ni astarot, baal, dagon etc.. at ang hindi naman bawal gawin ay yaong larawan ng mga lingkod ng Dios tulad ng kerubin…..Maliwanag na po ba?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sabi nila…..Eh kerubin lang ang inutos na gawin at si moises ang inutosan hindi naman kasama ang mga katoliko sa inutosan? At tsaka sa katoliko iba’t ibang uri ng mga larawan nila di tulad ng pinag-uutos na keribin lang at di naman niluluhoran yon…..</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ang masasabi ko ay palusot na lang yan kasi napatunayan na natin na sablay ang bintang nila.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Larawan ng kerubin nga lamang ba ang ginawa at maaring gawin ayon sa palusot nila? Mali po! Ito kasing mga kaibigan natin na nasa kabilang bakoran ng pananampalataya, kung magbasa ng biblia yong gusto o pabor lang sa aral nila ang laging binabasa para gamitin pambatikos sa atin, hindi dapat ganon ang asal ng mga tinatawag na preacher, kasi po, kung laging pabor lang sa aral nila ang babasahin pagkatapos gamitin para tayo’y batikosin,,,,,, hindi po preacher ang dapat tawag sa kanila kondi batikista (pambabatikos)…… hindi din po mangangaral kondi mang-aasar yan dapat ang tawag sa kanila. Ganon pa man, hayaan n’yo po na sagotin natin ng buong husay ang batikos nila. Ang susunod na talata na ating babasahin ay para pabulaanan na kerubin lang ang ginawa at maaring gawin.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ang Loob ng Templo</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23 Sa loob ng Dakong Kabanal-banalan, nagpalagay siya ng dalawang kerubin, imaheng nililok sa kahoy na olibo. Apat at kalahating metro ang taas ng bawat isa. 24 Kulang na dalawa’t kalahating metro ang haba ng bawat pakpak, kaya’t apat at kalahating metro ang sukat ng mga pakpak buhat sa magkabilang dulo. 25 Apat at kalahating metro rin ang sukat ng pangalawang kerubin, iisa ang sukat at hugis ng dalawa. 26 Apat at kalahating metro rin ang taas ng bawat kerubin. 27 Inilagay niya ang mga kerubin sa gitna ng Dakong Kabanal-banalan. Nakabuka ang kanilang mga pakpak, at sa gawing labas ay abot sa dingding ng silid ang tig-isa nilang pakpak. Sa gawing loob naman, ang mga dulo ng tig-isa nilang pakpak ay nagtagpo sa gitna ng silid. 28 Balot din ng gintong lantay ang dalawang kerubin.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">29 Ang buong dingding ng Templo, maging sa Dakong Kabanal-banalan at sa Dakong Banal ay may ukit na mga kerubin, punong palma at mga bulaklak.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27 Gumawa pa siya ng sampung patungang tanso para sa mga hugasan. Bawat isa’y dalawang metro ang haba at lapad; isa’t kalahating metro naman ang taas. 28 Ang mga ito ay ginawang parisukat na dingding na nakahinang sa mga balangkas. 29 Ang bawat dingding ay may mga nakaukit na larawan ng leon, baka, at kerubin. Ang mga gilid naman ng balangkas sa itaas at ibaba ng leon at baka ay may mga nakaukit na palamuting bulaklak na hugis korona. 30 Ang bawat patungan ay may apat na gulong na tanso at mga eheng tanso. Sa apat na sulok ng patungan ay may apat na tukod na tanso na siyang patungan ng hugasan.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bakit ngayon meron ng baka, leon, bulaklak at punong palma? Di ba inukit lahat yon, eh di larawan na naman yon….</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saang talata sa biblia na letra por letrang inutos ng Dios kay Solomon na gawin ang larawan ng baka, leon, bulaklak at puno ng palma?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At saang talata sa biblia na sinasabing kerubin lamang ang maaring gawin, tulad ng sinasabi nila?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At paano naman yong larawan ng ahas na tanso na inilagay sa tikin? Masasabi pa rin ba nila na kerubin lang ang pinagawa?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bilang 21:8</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 at ganito ang sagot sa kanya ni Yahweh: “Gumawa ka ng isang ahas na tanso. Ilagay mo iyon sa dulo ng isang mahabang kahoy. Sinumang natuklaw ng ahas at tumingin doon ay hindi mamamatay.” 9 Ganoon nga ang ginawa ni Moises. Kaya lahat ng natuklaw ng ahas ay tumitingin sa ahas na tanso at hindi nga namamatay.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sentido kumon na naman mga kapatid ang dapat pairalin sa pagbabasa sa biblia. Kung si Solomon nagpagawa ng mga baka, leon atbp.. at ito’y inilagay sa loob ng templo ng Dios kahit na hindi tuwirang inutos ng Dios ang mga iyon, tsaka hindi din naman tumotol ang Dios,,, sa makatuwid puwede gumawa provided na hindi ito diyus-diyosan tulad nila astarot, baal, diana, dagon atbp…na para sa mga pagano na di pa nakakikilala sa tunay na Dios , si astarot, baal, dagon ay mga diyos. Ngunit kaming mga katoliko ay alam naming kung sino ang tunay na Dios at kung ano sina Maria, Jose, Pedro…..sila’y mga taong buong pusong naglingkod sa Dios na dapat nating tularan, kaya nga tulad ng bayaneng si Rizal na may rebulto kung saan saan para siya’y maalala nating mga Pilipino, gayon din naman inalala naming mga katoliko ang mga tunay na lingkod ng Dios sa pamamagitan din ng pagawa ng kanilang mga larawan.</strong></span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2015/09/16/papano-uunawain-ang-exodo-203-5-by-reyden-ligtas-virtudazo/">PAPANO UUNAWAIN ANG EXODO 20:3-5?</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“A church which is not one in its doctrine and faith can never be the True Church … Hence, because truth must be one, of all the different churches … only one can be the true one …</span> </strong><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and out of that Church there is no salvation.</b></span> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, in order to determine which is this one true Church … it is necessary to examine which is the Church first founded by Jesus Christ, for, when this is ascertained, it must be confessed that this one alone is the true Church which, having once been the true Church must always have been the true Church and must forever be the true Church. For to this first Church has been made the promise of the Savior that the gates of Hell would never be able to overturn it</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Matthew 16:18)</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> … In the entire history of religion, we find that the Roman Catholic Church alone was the first Church, and that the other false and heretical churches afterwards departed and separated from her. This is the Church which was propagated by the Apostles and afterwards governed by pastors whom the Apostles themselves appointed to rule over her … This character can be found only in the Roman Church, whose pastors descend securely by an uninterrupted and legitimate succession from the Apostles of the world </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Matthew 28:20)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #003300;">“The innovators themselves do not deny that the Roman Church was the first which Jesus Christ founded … however, they say … that it was the true Church until the fifth century, or until … it fell away, because it had been corrupted by the Catholics … But how could that Church fall which St. Paul calls the “pillar and ground of truth” </span><span style="color: blue;">(I Timothy 3:15</span><span style="color: #003300;">)? … No. The Church has not failed … The truth is … that all the false churches which have separated from the Roman Church have fallen away and erred … To convince all heretical sects of their error, there is no way more certain and safe than to show that our Catholic Church has been the first one founded by Jesus Christ; for, this being established, it is proved beyond all doubt that ours is</span></strong></span> <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the only true Church</b></span> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and that all the others which have left it and separated are certainly in error … But, pressed by this argument, the innovators have invented an answer: they say that the visible Church has failed, but not the invisible Church … But these doctrines are diametrically opposed to the Gospel.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The innovators have been challenged several times to produce a text of Sacred Scripture which would prove the existence of the invisible church they invented, and we are unable to obtain any such text from them. How could they adduce such a text when, addressing His Apostles whom He left as the propagators of His Church, Jesus said: “You cannot be hidden” </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Matthew 5:14)</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">? … Thus He has declared that the Church cannot help but be visible to everyone … The Church has been at all times, and will forever be, necessarily visible, so that each person may always be able to learn from his pastor the true doctrine regarding the dogmas of faith … to receive the Sacraments, to be directed in the way of salvation, and to be enlightened and corrected should he ever fall into error. For, were the Church in any time hidden and invisible, to whom would men have recourse in order to learn what they are to believe and to do? … It was necessary that the Church and her pastors be obvious and visible, principally in order that there might be an infallible judge … to resolve all doubts, and to whose decision everyone should necessarily submit. Otherwise, there would be no sure rule of faith by which Christians could know the true dogmas of faith and the true precepts of morality, and among the faithful there would be endless disputes and controversies … “And Christ gave some apostles, and others pastors and doctors, that henceforth we be no more children tossed to-and-fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine” (<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eph. 4:11-14</span>)</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? … How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A</span></strong> <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">single contradiction</b></span> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. “He cannot deny Himself” </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(II Timothy 2:13)</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice … Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? … I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From the website <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="_553k" href="http://www.controversyextraordinary.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: red; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">WWW.CONTROVERSYEXTRAORDINARY.COM</a></span>, Bro Eli Soriano of Members of Church of GOD International had this teaching:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Prophet mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:18, being Jesus Christ in reality, will speak the Father’s own words (my words in his mouth). When Christ said, “Upon this rock I will build my church”, it is the “church of GOD” and not his own church- not the church of Christ that others perceived to be. It must be understood that the Father will be the one to build and NOT THE SON! The main reason is that Christ is part of the church being its foundation!”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bro Eli: The Prophet mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:18, being Jesus Christ in reality, will speak the Father’s own words (my words in his mouth).</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawrence: The Deuteronomy 18:18 speaks about the prophet to be send by GOD to speak his words. Well, no question for that since Christ testifies to the father because Jesus and the Father are connected to each other. Jesus speaks since he was tasked to proclaimed the kingdom of GOD, to save us through his crucifixion on the cross, and preach the word of GOD through his mouth about the salvation. Just like for example, the secretary will speak in the name/behalf of the president and the secretary will relay to the members the essence of the message of the president for them. This situation is also the same with Jesus since he speaks the truth and follow the will of GOD and proclaimed it to the people.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John 10:30</span> – My Father and I are one.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John 5:19</span> – So Jesus answered them, ” I TELL YOU THE TRUTH: THE SON CAN DO NOTHING ON HIS OWN; HE DOES ONLY WHAT HE SEES HIS FATHER DOING. WHAT THE FATHER DOES, THE SON ALSO DOES.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These are the reasons why in Deuteronomy 18:18 said ” I will put my words in his mouth” since he speaks to GOD and not his own but also the Son has the authority which came from the Father.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Connecting the <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deuteronomy 18:18</span> to <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew 16:18</span> as said by Bro. Eli ” that the Father and not the Son is the builder of the Church” can’t be applied since Deuteronomy 18:18 does not directly speaks the building and the builder of the church, rather the choosing the prophet to speak the words of GOD.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deuteronomy 18:18 can be connected only if it talks about the church and its founder but it does not. Therefore, Deuteronomy 18:18 speaks about the prophet chosen by GOD while Matthew 16:18 speaks about the confirmation on the establishment of the church. Take note these verses have different topics being discussed.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bro Eli: When Christ said, “Upon this rock I will build my church” it is the “Church of GOD” and not his own church- not the church of Christ that others perceived to be.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawrence: <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew 16:18</span> <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">– And I SAY also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I WILL BUILD UP MY CHURCH; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Very clearly seen in this verse that It was Christ who built the church because he said “I WILL BUILD UP MY CHURCH”.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ didn’t say ” My Father said that: I will build up my church” or ” He will build up his church”. Christ used the terms “I” and “MY” because he was the founder. It is grammatically, logically, and theologically wrong if you say “I will build up my church” but you are not the founder. If its true that Christ was not the founder, why he used the terms “I” and “MY”? See, you can’t say “I” and “MY” if you don’t claim that such thing or etc. is yours.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, the persons involved in that dialogue of Matthew 16:18 were Jesus and Peter. It was only both of them who had the conversation. Take note that there were only 2 persons involved on that conversation.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, Jesus was the founder of the church since he told Peter to take care his sheep.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John 21:17</span> – Jesus said to him “Take care of my sheep”.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See, it was Christ who founded because if he was not the founder, then no reason for him to say “Take care of my sheep” and give the keys to Peter as stated in Matthew 16:18-19 and John 21:17. The founder of course has the authority to give powers to his disciples.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bro. Eli insisted that it was the father who founded since he connected Deuteronomy 18:18 to Matthew 16:18 plus, the statement mentioned in Matthew 16:16-17.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew 16:16-17 – Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living GOD”. “Good for you, Simon son of John!” answered Jesus. “For this truth did not come to you from any human being, but it was given to you directly by my Father in heaven.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We have to remember that the truth about the proclamation of Peter on Jesus came from GOD since it was revealed by GOD and not based on the idea of Peter in his self. The proclamation was all about Christ being Messiah and Son of GOD.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was also revealed about Jesus as “Messiah and Son of GOD” by the Father since this gives us a guarantee that the Son has the authority and that authority was already stated in Matthew 16:18-19.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bro. Eli: It must be understood that the father will be the one to build and NOT THE SON!. The main reason is that Christ is part of the church being its foundation!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawrence: Here are the other verses that supports Christ was the founder:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colossians 1:18</span> – HE IS THE HEAD IF HIS BODY, THE CHURCH; he is the source of the body’s life.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romans 7:4</span> – That is how it is with you, my friends. As far as the law is concerned, you also have died because YOU ARE PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST; and now you belong to him who was raised from death in order that we might be useful in the service of GOD.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romans 12:4-5 – We have many parts in ONE BODY, and all these parts have different functions. in the same way, though we are many, WE ARE ONE BODY IN UNION WITH CHRIST, AND WE ARE ALL JOINED TO EACH OTHER AS DIFFERENT PARTS OF ONE BODY.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colossians 1:18</span>, it is said he (Christ) is the “HEAD OF HIS BODY, THE CHURCH. ” That’s why he is the founder and owner for he is the head of his church which is his body which he owned. it is not written ” Christ is part of the Father’s body, the church”. CHRIST IS THE FOUNDER AND OWNER FOR HE OWNED HIS BODY, THE CHURCH.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember a founder owned his group that he founded. It is never happened that a founder didn’t own the association that he founded.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romans 7:4</span>, it is said “YOU ARE PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST”. Meaning, IT IS US who are part of the body of Christ, not Christ is part of the church being its foundation as said by Bro. Eli Soriano. The body of Christ is the church which Christ is the head, owner and the founder (<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Col 1:18</span>).</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romans 16:16</span>, it is said ” CHURCHES OF CHRIST”, so the owner and founder of the Church is Christ. Bro. Eli will be correct if it is said “Churches of GOD in Christ Jesus”. See, Bro. Eli committed heresies.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, the term “Church of GOD” used in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Acts 20:28</span> and <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Timothy 3:15</span> is just the same with the term “CHURCHES OF CHRIST” since the term “Church of GOD” really gives us an assurance that the church founded by Christ is of GOD and pleases GOD, not founded by man or any false prophets.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The term “Church of GOD” is not even all capitalized because it is not the exact name of the church, rather, a description of the church which that church is the ground of pillar of truth. Bro. Soriano will be correct if it was written “Church of GOD in Christ Jesus” but it was not written.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore, the founder of the church mentioned in the new testament is Christ and that is why the bible uses the terms “HE IS THE HEAD IF HIS BODY, THE CHURCH”, or “YOU ARE PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST”, or “WE ARE ONE BODY IN UNION WITH CHRIST” or ” CHURCHES OF CHRIST” to strongly emphasize that Christ is the founder.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ can build the church for he was given an authority by the Father as said in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John 5:19-29</span>.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, you are pleased in the eyes of the Father when you enter to his Son’s church foe GOD the Father is pleased with Christ (<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark 1:11</span>).</strong></span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2015/06/30/refuting-eli-soriano-in-his-claim-that-the-father-built-the-church-and-not-the-son-by-lawrence-luna/">REFUTING ELI SORIANO IN HIS CLAIM THAT THE FATHER BUILT THE CHURCH AND NOT THE SON By Lawrence Luna</a>FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-79328977364399518572015-06-05T11:27:00.002+08:002015-06-05T11:27:49.615+08:00Blessed Trinity (By: Bro Duane)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are my answers to your questions.</div>
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<b>Answer to Question 1</b> (Can you explain the truth about the Trinity? If you can illustrate the logical and scientific explanation that would be great, How can one God be three persons? )</div>
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If you study neuroscience, you will know that our brain has limited capacity.</div>
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These examples are not completely comparable to the Trinity.</div>
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First, H2O defines the nature of a substance. H2O can be seen as a liquid (water) a solid (ice) or a gas (vapor or steam), yet in spite of which form H2O takes, it remains H2O. What we are talking about is Divine nature. No matter which form God takes (Father, Son or Spirit), each remains Divine in nature. That Divinity never changes - just the form. Take an ice cube and put it over heat. As it melts and begins to evaporate, all 3 forms are present at once - but all remain H20.</div>
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Second, the entire physical universe consists of three and only three aspects…space, time, and matter.</div>
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A.) Time consists of past, present, and future—three in one. If you were to take away any of these aspects, you would no longer have time.</div>
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B.) Space consists of length, width, and height—three in one. If you were to take away any of these dimensions, you would no longer have space.</div>
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C.) Matter consists of energy in motion producing phenomena—three in one. If there were no energy there could be no motion or phenomena. If there were no motion, there would be no energy or phenomena. If there were no phenomena, it would be because there was no energy or motion.</div>
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<b>Answer to Question 2</b> (The words "trinity", "holy trinity, or "blessed trinity" doesn't appear in the Bible)</div>
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Atoms, Molecules and Microbiology are words not found in the Bible either, scripture also does not deny these things.</div>
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<i>A.) Atoms and Molecules</i></div>
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When Scripture does talk about things like the human body, or the universe, it uses Hebrew or Greek words which mean things like woven together, enmeshed, joined together, etc. or terms like held together, consists, and terms which mean invisible, unseen. It doesn’t phrase things the way the pagans or Greek philosophers did. It never mentions humors, ethers, or tempers; nor does it deny that there are things the human eye cannot see (invisible can just as easily mean microscopic, as well as unseen).</div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">See: </span><span style="color: blue;">Ephesians 4:16</span><span style="color: #141823;">, </span><span style="color: blue;">Colossians 2:19</span><span style="color: #141823;">, </span><span style="color: blue;">Colossians 1:16-17</span></div>
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<i>B.) Microbiology</i></div>
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There are plenty of indirect ones, such as the Kosher diet given to Israel. God who knows all knew to keep His people from eating blood, or pork or shellfish that all carry pathogens unless cooked to high internal temperatures. Prior to the invention of ovens, meat thermometers, crock pots and microwaves, cooking meat was an uneven and imperfect science at best. The chances of eating undercooked meat was much more likely back then. As to why quadrupedal, cud-chewing animals were determined by God to be the "clean" ones that were to be sacrificed and eaten, we are not specifically told in Scripture; but it may indeed have two principles behind it. Livestock are considered brute beasts, but are typically coachable, trainable by their master and are dependent on him for their well-being. They are also "kosher" and later once God opened up animals to be eaten, He wanted to keep His people healthy and safe. Beef, lamb, mutton and goat are much safer to eat, especially before there were more modern health and safety procedures for cooking. One can eat rare lamb and almost never get sick, but eating rare pork can be fatal.</div>
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Ironically, many historians place a lot of emphasis on Europeans unknowingly spreading plagues (and this is true), yet had they actually read and followed the Bible, which they had (or at least the wealthier and literate did), they would have read that they were to either wash or burn garments which belonged to plague-infected peoples, as in the verses below:</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Leviticus 13:52-54</span><span style="color: #141823;"> "He shall therefore burn that garment in which is the plague, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, for it is an active leprosy; the garment shall be burned in the fire. "But if the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, "then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the plague; and he shall isolate it another seven days.</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Answer to Question 3 </b><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">(The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity teaches us that the Son is equal to the father, Jesus said that His Father is GREATER THAN Him - <span style="color: blue;">John 14:28</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">Christ is the one speaking in </span><span style="color: blue;">John 14:28</span><span style="color: #141823;">.</span></div>
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You should understand why the Lord Jesus said that.</div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">First, because he took away his being God and became humble </span><span style="color: blue;">(Philippians 2:5-8)</span><span style="color: #141823;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">"You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross."</span><span style="color: blue;">(Philippians 2:5-8)</span></div>
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Second, He came here not to give glory to Himself but to the Father.</div>
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He is not like many people who give glory only to themselves.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="color: purple;">"Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God."</span><span style="color: blue;">(John 8:54)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">- is the unbloody sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ. </span><span style="color: blue;"><i>(Baltimore Catechism no.917)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">- is "the source and summit of the Christian life." </span><i><span style="color: blue;">(Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324)</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #141823;"><b>Why does the Holy Mass called Sacrifice?</b></span></div>
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- it is called sacrifice because it has the same effect of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. It is an offering to a Supreme Being who is God. It is an act of propitiation.<br />
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<b>What is the "matter" of the Holy Mass?</b></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">- they are the </span><b><span style="color: blue;">Bread and Wine</span></b><span style="color: #141823;">.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #141823;">What is the "form" of the Holy Mass?</b></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">- the form of the Mass are the </span><b><span style="color: blue;">words or the order of the Mass</span></b><span style="color: #141823;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823;"><b>Who instituted the Holy Mass?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">- Christ himself who instituted the Mass at the upper room. It was during the Last Supper with his Apostles. </span><i><span style="color: red;">(Mat.26:26-28, Mk.14:22-24, Lk.22:19-20)</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #141823;"><b>Why Christ instituted the Holy Mass?</b></span></div>
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- it is because the holy sacrifice forgives sins and he commanded it as his remembrance. As He said: <i><b>"do this in remembrance of me"</b></i>, <i><b>"which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."</b></i><br />
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<b>Exposition:</b></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">Eucharist is derived from the Greek word </span><i><span style="color: blue;">"eucharistein"</span></i><span style="color: #141823;"> which freely translated as thanksgiving.</span></div>
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The Holy Mass is known in many other terms: Holy Eucharist, Breaking of the Bread and Holy Sacrifice. They are not many but ONLY ONE, TRUE and HOLY SACRIFICE.</div>
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The objects (matter) of this sacrifice are the Bread and the Wine which after the words of consecration the SUBSTANCE of the bread and wine will transform into the SUBSTANCE of Christ - Body and Blood WITHOUT changing the appearance of the Bread and Wine.</div>
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The effect of the Holy Eucharist has the same effect of the Sacrifice of Christ at the Calvary. Christ's act on the cross is once and for all. Only Christ can do such sacrificial act. And Christ never commanded his Apostles to be crucified in order to forgive sins. Rather, Christ commanded to do in his REMEMBRANCE what he did during the Last Supper.</div>
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The Last supper was the moment of its INSTITUTION of the Holy Mass and the INSTITUTION of Holy Orders (priesthood). Christ ordained his Apostles in order for them to CELEBRATE VALIDLY the Holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist. Only VALID PRIEST can CELEBRATE a VALID MASS.<br />
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<b>Holy Mass in Relation to the other Sacraments:</b></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">The Seven Sacraments of the Church are categorized into three (3) namely:</span><i><span style="color: blue;"> <b>Sacrament of Inintiation,</b></span></i><b> </b><i><span style="color: purple;"><b>Sacrament of Reconciliation</b></span></i><span style="color: #141823;"> and </span><i><span style="color: red;"><b>Sacrament of Mission (Vocation)</b></span></i><span style="color: #141823;">.</span></div>
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The sacrament of initiation comprises the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist. Confession and Annointing of the Sick belongs to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. While the remaining two (2) sacraments Holy Orders and Matirmony belong to the Sacrament of Mission (Vocation).</div>
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As we have observed in every celebration of the Seven Sacraments there's always a Communion (Holy Eucharist). For example: in annointing of the sick Communion is given to the sick, in Ordination, Matrimony, Confirmation (if inside the Mass). This means that we are sharing one Bread who is Christ. He draws us to himself so that we might live.</div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to <b>PERPETUATE</b> the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.'" </span></i><span style="color: red;"><i>(Catechism of the Catholic Church 1323)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823;">Deus benedicat vos fratres!</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">"<a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-1.htm">1</a>Si
Nabucodonosor na hari ay gumawa ng isang larawang ginto na ang taas ay anim na
pung siko, at ang luwang niyao'y anim na siko: kaniyang itinayo sa kapatagan ng
Dura, sa lalawigan ng Babilonia. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-2.htm">2</a>Nang magkagayo'y nagsugo si
Nabucodonosor na hari upang pisanin ang mga satrapa, ang mga kinatawan, at ang
mga gobernador, ang mga hukom, ang mga tagaingat-yaman, ang mga kasangguni, ang
mga pinuno, at ang lahat na pinuno sa mga lalawigan upang magsiparoon sa
pagtatalaga ng larawan na itinayo ni Nabucodonosor na hari. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-3.htm">3</a>Nang magkagayo'y ang mga
satrapa, ang mga kinatawan, at ang mga gobernador, ang mga hukom, ang mga
tagaingat-yaman, ang mga kasangguni, ang mga pinuno at lahat ng pinuno sa mga
lalawigan, ay nagpisan sa pagtatalaga ng larawan na itinayo ni Nabucodonosor na
hari; at sila'y nagsitayo sa harap ng larawan na itinayo ni Nabucodonosor.<a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-4.htm">4</a>Nang magkagayo'y ang
tagapagtanyag ay sumigaw ng malakas, Sa inyo'y iniuutos, Oh mga bayan, mga
bansa, at mga wika, <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-5.htm">5</a>Na
sa anomang oras na inyong marinig ang tunog ng korneta, ng plauta, ng alpa, ng
sambuko, ng salterio, ng gaita, at ng lahat na sarisaring panugtog, kayo'y
mangagpatirapa at magsisamba sa larawang ginto na itinayo ni Nabucodonosor na
hari; <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-6.htm">6</a>At sinoman na
hindi magpatirapa at sumamba sa oras na yaon ay ihahagis sa gitna ng mabangis
na hurnong nagniningas. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-7.htm">7</a>Kaya't
sa oras na yaon, pagkarinig ng buong bayan ng tunog ng korneta, ng plauta, ng
alpa, ng sambuko, ng salterio, at ng lahat na sarisaring panugtog, lahat na
bayan, mga bansa, at mga wika, ay nangagpatirapa at nagsisamba sa larawang
ginto na itinayo ni Nabucodonosor na hari.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-8.htm">8</a>Dahil
dito sa oras na yaon ay nagsilapit ang ilang taga Caldea, at nagsumbong laban
sa mga Judio. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-9.htm">9</a>Sila'y
nagsisagot, at nangagsabi kay Nabucodonosor na hari, Oh hari, mabuhay ka
magpakailan man. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-10.htm">10</a>Ikaw,
Oh hari, nagpasiya, na bawa't tao na makarinig ng tunog ng korneta, ng plauta,
ng alpa, ng sambuko, ng salterio, ng gaita, at ng lahat na sarisaring panugtog,
ay magpapatirapa, at sasamba sa larawang ginto. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-11.htm">11</a>At sinomang hindi
magpatirapa at sumamba, ihahagis sa gitna ng mabangis na hurnong nagniningas. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-12.htm">12</a>May ilang Judio na iyong
inihalal sa mga gawain sa lalawigan ng Babilonia na si Sadrach, si Mesach, at
si Abed-nego; ang mga lalaking ito, Oh hari, ay hindi ka pinakundanganan:
sila'y hindi nangaglilingkod sa iyong mga dios, ni nagsisisamba man sa larawang
ginto na iyong itinayo.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-13.htm">13</a>Nang
magkagayo'y sa poot at pusok ni Nabucodonosor, ay nagutos na dalhin si Sadrach,
si Mesach, at si Abed-nego. Kanila ngang dinala ang mga lalaking ito sa harap
ng hari. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-14.htm">14</a>Si
Nabucodonosor ay sumagot, at nagsabi sa kanila, Sinasadya nga ba ninyo, Oh
Sadrach, Mesach, at Abed-nego, na kayo'y hindi mangaglilingkod sa aking dios,
ni magsisisamba man sa larawang ginto na aking itinayo? <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-15.htm">15</a>Kung kayo nga'y
magsihanda sa panahong inyong marinig ang tunog ng korneta, ng plauta, ng alpa,
ng sambuko, ng salterio, ng gaita, at ng lahat na sarisaring panugtog, na
mangagpatirapa at magsisamba sa larawan na aking ginawa, mabuti: nguni't kung
kayo'y hindi magsisamba, kayo'y ihahagis sa oras ding yaon sa gitna ng mabangis
na hurnong nagniningas; at sinong dios ang magliligtas sa inyo sa aking kamay?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-16.htm">16</a>Si
Sadrach, si Mesach, at si Abed-nego, ay nagsisagot, at nangagsabi sa hari, Oh
Nabucodonosor, kami ay walang kailangan na magsisagot sa iyo sa bagay na ito. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-17.htm">17</a>Narito, ang aming Dios na
aming pinaglilingkuran ay makapagliligtas sa amin sa mabangis na hurnong
nagniningas; at ililigtas niya kami sa iyong kamay, Oh hari. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-18.htm">18</a>Nguni't kung hindi,
talastasin mo, Oh hari, na hindi kami mangaglilingkod sa iyong mga dios, ni
magsisisamba man sa larawang ginto na iyong itinayo.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-19.htm">19</a>Nang
magkagayo'y napuspos ng kapusukan si Nabucodonosor, at ang anyo ng kaniyang
mukha ay nagbago laban kay Sadrach, kay Mesach, at kay Abed-nego: kaya't siya'y
nagsalita, at nagutos na kanilang paiinitin ang hurno ng makapito na higit kay
sa dating pagiinit. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-20.htm">20</a>At
kaniyang inutusan ang ilang malakas na lalake na nangasa kaniyang hukbo na
gapusin si Sadrach, si Mesach, at si Abed-nego, at sila'y ihagis sa mabangis na
hurnong nagniningas. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-21.htm">21</a>Nang
magkagayo'y ang mga lalaking ito'y tinalian na may mga suot, may tunika, at may
balabal, at may kanilang ibang mga kasuutan, at sila'y inihagis sa gitna ng
mabangis na hurnong nagniningas. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-22.htm">22</a>Sapagka't ang utos ng
hari ay madalian, at ang hurno ay totoong mainit, napatay ng liyab ng apoy ang
mga lalaking yaon na nagsibuhat kay Sadrach, kay Mesach, at kay Abed-nego. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-23.htm">23</a>At ang tatlong lalaking
ito, si Sadrach, si Mesach, at si Abed-nego, ay nagsibagsak na nagagapos sa
gitna ng mabangis na hurnong nagniningas.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-24.htm">24</a>Nang
magkagayo'y si Nabucodonosor na hari ay nagtaka, at tumindig na madali: siya'y
nagsalita at nagsabi sa kaniyang mga kasangguni, Di baga ang ating inihagis ay
tatlong gapos na lalake sa gitna ng apoy? Sila'y nagsisagot, at nangagsabi sa
hari, Totoo, Oh hari. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-25.htm">25</a>Siya'y
sumagot, at nagsabi, Narito, aking nakikita ay apat na lalake na hindi
gapos na nagsisilakad sa gitna ng apoy, at sila'y walang paso; at ang anyo ng
ikaapat ay kawangis ng isang anak ng mga dios. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-26.htm">26</a>Nang magkagayo'y lumapit
si Nabucodonosor sa bunganga ng mabangis na hurnong nagniningas: siya'y
nagsalita, at nagsabi, Sadrach, Mesach, at Abed-nego, kayong mga lingkod ng
Kataastaasang Dios, kayo'y magsilabas at magsiparito. Nang magkagayo'y si
Sadrach, si Mesach, at si Abed-nego, ay nagsilabas mula sa gitna ng apoy. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-27.htm">27</a>At ang mga satrapa, ang
mga kinatawan, at ang mga gobernador, at ang mga kasangguni ng hari na
nangagkakapisan ay nakakita sa mga lalaking ito, na ang apoy ay hindi tumalab
sa kanilang mga katawan, ni ang mga buhok man ng kanilang mga ulo ay nasunog,
ni ang kanila mang mga suot ay nabago, ni nagamoy apoy man sila.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-28.htm">28</a>Si
Nabucodonosor ay nagsalita at nagsabi, Purihin ang Dios ni Sadrach, ni Mesach,
at ni Abed-nego, na nagsugo ng kaniyang anghel, at nagligtas sa kaniyang mga
lingkod na nagsitiwala sa kaniya, at binago ang salita ng hari, at ibinigay ang
kanilang mga katawan, upang sila'y hindi maglingkod ni sumamba sa kanino mang
dios, liban sa kanilang sariling Dios. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-29.htm">29</a>Kaya't nagpapasiya ako,
na bawa't bayan, bansa, at wika, na magsalita ng anomang kapulaan laban sa Dios
ni Sadrach, ni Mesach, at ni Abed-nego, pagpuputolputulin, at ang kanilang mga
bahay ay gagawing dumihan: sapagka't walang ibang dios na makapagliligtas ng
ganitong paraan. <a href="http://scripturetext.com/daniel/3-30.htm">30</a>Nang
magkagayo'y pinaginhawa ng hari si Sadrach, si Mesach, at si Abed-nego, sa
lalawigan ng Babilonia."</span></i></div>
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Ang kwento tungkol sa talatang 3:1-30 ng
Daniel ukol sa pagsamba sa mga larawan ay hindi na saklaw ng doktrina ng
Iglesia Katolika. Ang kwento kasi na ito ng hari na nagpatayo ng
sarili niyang rebulto para sambahin ay hayagan nang kumokontra sa utos ng
Diyos. Kailanman ay di sinamba ng mga Katoliko ang mga larawan, bagkus ay kung
sino ang nagrerepresenta sa larawan (e.g. Jesus Christ) at pagbibigay-galang
sa mga pinapaging-banal ng simbahan (e.g. Mary and the other Saints)<br />
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Muli sa ikalawang pagkakataon ay aking sasabihin na WALANG MGA DOKUMENTO
AT DOKTRINA ANG SIMBAHANG KATOLIKA NA SUMASAMBA ANG MGAKATOLIKO SA REBULTO.
WALANG-WALA. Ang ating ginagawa ay Veneration o pagbibigay-galang lamang.<br />
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<b>MGA KATANUNGAN:</b></div>
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Porke lumuhod lang ba sa rebulto sumamba na? </div>
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SAGOT: Hindi. Mayroong mga talata sa Bibliya na kapag
lumuhod/nagpatirapa saisang rebulto o kaban ay pagbibigay-galang.
<span style="color: red;">(Joshua 7:6, Daniel 2:46-48 atbp.)</span><br />
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Eto pa:</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Genesis 19:1</span>- Lot bowed own in the ground to venerate the
two angels in Sodom.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Genesis 42:6</span>- Joseph's brothers bow before Joseph with their
faces on the ground.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Psalm 138:2</span>- David bows down before God's holy temple.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Judith 14:7</span>- Achior the Ammonite kneels before Judith,
venerating her and praising God.</div>
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Ang salitang <span style="color: blue;"><b>"pagsamba"</b></span> ba ay pwede ring gamitin
sa <span style="color: blue;"><b>"pagbibigay-galang"</b></span>?</div>
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SAGOT: Oo. Ayon na rin sa <b>Catholic Encyclopedia</b>, ang
depinisyon ng salitang <span style="color: blue;"><b>"worship"</b></span> ay: </div>
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<i>“The word worship (Saxon weorthscipe,
<b>“honour”</b>; from worth, meaning <b>“value”</b>, <b>“dignity”</b>, <b>“price”</b>, and the
termination, ship; <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09019a.htm">Latin</a> cultus) in its
most general sense is homage paid to a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> or a thing.
In this sense we may speak of hero-worship, worship of the emperor,
of demons, of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm">angels</a>,
even of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12734a.htm">relics</a>,
and especially of the Cross. This article will deal
with Christian worship according to the following definition: homage
paid to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>,
to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Jesus Christ</a>,
to His <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm">saints</a>, to
the beings or even to the objects which have a special relation to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>.</i></div>
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<i><b>There are several degrees of this worship:</b></i></div>
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<i>if it is addressed directly to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, it is superior,
absolute, supreme worship, or worship of adoration, or,
according to the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04276a.htm">consecrated</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14580x.htm">theological</a> term,
a worship of latria. This sovereign worship is due
to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> alone;
addressed to a creature it would become <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07636a.htm">idolatry</a>.</i></div>
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<i>When worship is addressed only indirectly to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, that is, when its
object is the veneration of<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09736b.htm">martyrs</a>, of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm">angels</a>, or of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm">saints</a>, it is a
subordinate worship dependent on the first, and relative, in so far
as it honours the creatures of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> for their
peculiar relations with Him; it is designated by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14580a.htm">theologians</a> as
the worship of dulia, a term denoting servitude, and implying,
when used to signify our worship of distinguished servants
of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, that
their service to Him is their title to our veneration (cf. Chollet, loc.
cit., col. 2407, and <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02715b.htm">Bouquillon</a>, Tractatus
de virtute religionis, I,<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03005a.htm">Bruges</a>,
1880, 22 sq.).</i></div>
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<i>As the Blessed Virgin has a separate and
absolutely supereminent rank among the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm">saints</a>, the
worship paid to her is called hyperdulia (for the meaning
and history of these terms see Suicer,Thesaurus
ecclesiasticus, 1728).</i></div>
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<i>In accordance with these principles it will readily be
understood that a certain worship may be offered even to
inanimate objects, such as the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12734a.htm">relics</a> of a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09736b.htm">martyr</a>,
the Cross of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Christ</a>,
the Crown of Thorns, or even the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13641b.htm">statue</a> or picture of
a saint. There is here no confusion or danger of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07636a.htm">idolatry</a>, for
this worship is subordinate or dependent. The <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12734a.htm">relic</a> of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm">saint</a> is <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05188b.htm">venerated</a> because of
the link which unites it with the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> who
is adored or <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05188b.htm">venerated</a>; while
the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13641b.htm">statue</a> or
picture is regarded as having a conventional relation to a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> who has
a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13055c.htm">right</a> to
our homage — as being a symbol which reminds us of that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a>…”</i></div>
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<b>Ano naman ang basehan ng paggamit ng salitang
"worship" sa "veneration"?</b></div>
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"At sinabi ni David sa buong kapisanan, Ngayo'y purihin
ninyo ang Panginoon ninyong Dios. At ang buong kapisanan ay pumuri sa
Panginoon, sa Dios ng kanilang mga magulang, at iniyukod ang kanilang mga ulo,
atsumamba sa Panginoon, at sa hari."-<span style="color: red;">(1 Cronica 29:20)</span></div>
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"Nang magkagayo'y ang haring Nabucodonosor ay
nagpatirapa, at sumamba kay Daniel, at nagutos na sila'y maghandog ng alay at
ng may masarap na amoy sa kaniya." <span style="color: red;">(Daniel 2:46 ADB)</span></div>
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Ngayon, nung nagsiluhod ba ang mga tao at si Daniel ay ibig sabihin
sumamba na sila sa Diyos? Hindi. Sapagkat sila ay nagbigay-galang lamang.<br />
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MABUHAY ANG SIMBAHANG KATOLIKA!</div>
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Source: <a href="http://defendingthecatholictruth.blogspot.com/2012/07/sumasamba-ba-ang-mga-katoliko-sa-mga.html">SUMASAMBA BA ANG MGA KATOLIKO SA MGA IMAHEN?</a>
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<span style="color: red;">Myth 1:</span> <b>The <i>misas de aguinaldo</i> were established in the 16th century in Mexico.</b><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Fact:</span> <b>The <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were imported in the 16th century to Mexico.</b><br />
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On 5 August 1586, Pope Sixtus V issued the bull <i>Licet is </i>from the Basilica of Saint Mark the Evangelist on the Capitoline Hill. We mention the place because some authors have claimed that the incipit of the bull was <i>Apud Sanctum Marcum. </i>In the standard composition of papal documents, the preposition apud usually appears towards the end of the document to mark the place where the bull was given. You may check <i>Summorum Pontificum </i>and you will see <i>apud Sanctum Petrum </i>towards the end.<br />
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The bull is not even about the <i>misas de aguinaldo</i>! It is about the missionary activity of the Augustinians, at this time organised as the Order of the Hermit Friars of Saint Augustine. In order to promote church attendance, Pope Sixtus V granted a partial indulgence of twenty years and twenty quarantines (approximately 22 years) in perpetuity to the natives who (1) visited the churches of the Augustinians on the feasts of the Blessed Virgin, or of Saint Augustine, or of other saints of the Order, or of Saint Lazarus, or of Saint Michael the Archangel; or (2) attended the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>in honour of the virginity of the Blessed Virgin. To gain the indulgence, the natives must pray (1) for the exaltation of Holy Mother Church, (2) for the propagation of the Catholic faith, and (3) for the constancy of those newly converted to the faith in the aforesaid faith.<br />
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This indult was granted through the efforts of Fray Diego de Soria, at one time, procurator of the Augustinian provinces of Mexico, who is also credited to have introduced the custom of the <i>posadas </i>in Mexico.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Myth 2:</span> <b>We cannot establish why the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were named thus.</b><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Fact: </span><b>We can establish that the <i>misas de aguinaldo</i> were named thus after that ancient custom of feeding the poor after the Masses celebrated in honour of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin for a period of nine days prior to Christmas.</b><br />
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It is important to set forth that the elements <i>misa </i>and <i>aguinaldo </i>developed separately, and sometime in the Middle Ages, they became linked.<br />
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We owe the element misa to the feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin. In 656 A.D., the Tenth Council of Toledo decreed that the feast of the Annunciation be transferred from 25 March to 18 December. This was the time of the Old Hispanic Rite. With the introduction of the Roman Rite in Spain, the transferred Annunciation began to be distinguished from the original feast, until the feast was retained as belonging to the Expectation by Pope Gregory XIII on 30 December 1573 with the bull <i>Pastoralis Officii cura.</i><br />
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That the feast of the Expectation was celebrated for nine continuous days before Christmas, we know from the rescript of the Sacred Congregation of Rites on 22 November 1687. On behalf of the Regular Theatine Clergy of the Sainte-Anne-la-Royale in Paris, Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri obtained permission from the Congregation for the same Order to recite each year the Office of the Expectation “beginning on the first day of the novena of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, as it is recited, by the authority of the Sacred Congregation, in other parts of the world.”<br />
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We owe the second element <i>aguinaldo </i>to the Mozarabs. Etymologists disagree in the origin of the word. Those who search in the Latin horizon propose <i>hoc in anno, </i>alluding to the monetary compensation given at the end of the year, but in order to arrive at aguinaldo, we are led to a labyrinth of morphophonemic changes. Those who favour an Arabic origin, as this author, simply take out <i>ganaya, </i>which both alludes to wealth and to song. Placing the Arabic article to the derivative <i>guinayto, </i>we easily arrive at <i>alguinaytu, </i>and the rest is just dissimilation and metathesis. The Mozarabic pathway actually explains the semantic duplicity of aguinaldo as both a Christmas gift and a Christmas carol.<br />
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That <i>aguinaldos </i>were given in the Middle Ages during December, we ascertain from a record of a grant or reward made by the <i>ayuntamiento </i>of Murcia to Alfonso Torres, warden, and his wife Bertomeva Fernández de Leyenda on 16 December 1469. This, however, is a civil example of the <i>aguinaldo, </i>which demonstrates the separate development of both elements.<br />
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We can never probably answer <i>when </i>the <i>misas </i>became linked to the <i>aguinaldos, </i>but we can answer <i>how </i>they became linked. Our answer comes from the <i>vita </i>of Saint Simon de Roxas, who was declared servant of God on 25 March 1753 by Pope Clement XII, beatified on 19 March 1766 by Pope Clement XIII, and canonised on 3 July 1988 by Pope Saint John Paul II. Saint Simon, who founded the Congregation of the Slaves of the Most Sweet Name of Mary on 14 April 1612, commanded that after Mass on every third Sunday of each month, and on the feast of the Expectation and the remaining days until Christmas, seventy-two poor people are to be fed in memory of the seventy-two years of our Lady. This corporal work of mercy is the <i>aguinaldo </i>that eventually became inseparable to the misas of the Expectation. In fact, the author of the <i>vita </i>calls it the <i>aguinaldo de Nuestra Señora. </i>It would not be surprising that these <i>misas </i>celebrated before the <i>aguinaldos de Nuestra Señora </i>would eventually be called <i>misas de aguinaldo.</i><br />
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It is a farfetched supposition, but do you not wonder why we Filipinos eat <i>bibingka </i>and <i>puto bumbong </i>after the <i>misas de aguinaldo</i>? That is probably how the original feeding of the hungry instituted by Saint Simon de Roxas survived.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Myth 3:</span> <b>The Third Provincial Council of Mexico ordered that the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>be celebrated at dawn.</b><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Fact:</span> <b>The Third Provincial Council of Mexico actually forbade Masses to be celebrated after sunset and before sunrise.</b><br />
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The bishops of Mexico convened the Third Provincial Council of Mexico in 1585. Its acts and decrees were confirmed by Pope Sixtus V on 28 October 1589, and authorised by the Spanish King, Felipe III, in a royal decree dated 18 September 1591. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>[Note: </b>Under the royal patronage, no bull from Rome will be accepted in the Spanish Realms without the decree of the Crown.<b>]</b></span> The pertinent decree reads:<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Let nobody celebrate Mass before dawn, and neither after noon (unless due to a privilege conceded to it for the purpose), and certainly, let the Masses, which in Spanish are called <i>misas de aguinaldo, </i>be not celebrated before the day will have begun to dawn.</span></blockquote>
The prohibition to celebrate Masses before sunrise is a consequence of another decree in the same Council that orders the sealing of all ecclesiastic edifices when the Angelus bell is given at sunset, in order to preserve them from desecration and theft. They can only be opened at night on Christmas Eve and during the Easter Triduum.<br />
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To replace the <i>misas de aguinaldo, </i>which, on account of its hour of celebration, had been forbidden by the Third Provincial Council of Mexico, Fray Diego Soria introduced the<i>posadas.</i><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Myth 4:</span> <b>The <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were celebrated at dawn to allow farmers to attend Mass before tending their fields.</b><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Fact:</span> <b>The custom of celebrating the <i>misas de aguinaldo, </i>as well as the feast of the Expectation, at dawn was independent of the agricultural dispositions of the people.</b><br />
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The custom itself of celebrating Liturgies at the earliest hours goes back to 380 A.D. Later, the hour of celebrating Mass depended on the canonical hours. Feasts were normally celebrated after the hour of terce, or in certain cases, after the hour of none. These hours are not pre-dawn hours, because the reckoning of canonical hours depended on the position of the sun in the sky, not on absolute time. Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, in his diary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus, writes on 18 December 1492 that “at dawn, he [Columbus] commanded that the ship and the caravel be bedecked with arms and banners for the feast which was on this day that of Saint Mary of the O, or the commemoration of the Annunciation.”<br />
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Much later, in the 16th century, we read from a description of the customs of the see of Toledo that “the traditional day of the <i>aguinaldo </i>is the feast of the Nativity,” on which, “Mass after prime finished, the canons met in the Chapter’s Hall, according to use and custom, to greet one another and distribute the <i>aguinaldo </i>to the officials and the servers.” Prime is the first hour of the day, corresponding to sunrise. It is preceded by matins at midnight, and lauds between midnight and daybreak.<br />
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The only example we have of agriculture being linked to the misas de aguinaldo is the rescript of the Sacred Congregation of Rites on 24 January 1682. The dubium asked whether it is lawful to omit the <i>Gloria </i>and the <i>Credo </i>in the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>from the second to the ninth day, if ancient and immemorial devotion might have applied the Masses for the recently sown fields and for the health of all people. The Sacred Congregation responded in the negative.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Myth 5:</span> <b>Fray Felipe Pardo, archbishop of Manila, complained to the Sacred Congregation of Rites about the behaviour of the people in the <i>misas de aguinaldo, </i>which provoked the dicastery to authorise the suppression of the custom.</b><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Fact: </span><b>Fray Felipe Pardo simply implemented the rescript of the Sacred Congregation of Rites concerning abuses committed in the <i>misas de aguinaldo.</i></b><br />
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The complaint was submitted to the Sacred Congregation of Rites by the master of ceremonies of the cathedral of Seville, Don Diego Díaz de Escobar. He pointed out that the<i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were celebrated with <i>Gloria </i>and <i>Credo </i>and with only one collect, adding that laypeople joined with the choir in singing carols that provoked laughter. On 16 January 1677, the Congregation ordered that the abuses “are repugnant to the rubrics and to the opinions of those to whom these were related,” and “ought to be destroyed altogether.”<br />
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These laughter-provoking carols probably survive to this day. Examples we can mention are the carols <i>Rín, rín </i>(which mentions gypsies stealing the swaddling clothes of the Divine Infant) and <i>Los peces en el río </i>(which mentions the Blessed Virgin taking a bath with a spent bar of soap).<br />
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The rescript arrived in the Philippines in 1680 and Fray Felipe immediately suppressed the<i>misas de aguinaldo. </i>The custom only returned when he died on 1689.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>[Note: </b>The practice alleged as an abuse by Don Diego concerning the <i>Gloria </i>and the <i>Credo</i>was actually sanctioned by the Sacred Congregation of Rites thirty years earlier. In a rescript to the diocese of Angra, dated 2 September 1658, the Congregation noted that the Masses can be solemnly sung according to custom at the established canonical hour. Nevertheless, the rescript of 24 January 1682 categorically forbids the omission of the <i>Gloria </i>and the <i>Credo.</i><b>]</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Myth 6:</span> <b>The <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were celebrated continuously after 1682 until the present in all churches of the Philippines.</b><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Fact:</span> <b>There are certain circumstances in the ecclesiastic history of the Philippines which indicate that the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>died in some churches in the archipelago.</b><br />
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First, the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were celebrated as Sung Masses. The rubric in the 1913<i>Directorium Manilense </i>uses the word <i>cantantur </i>in describing the action made with the<i>misas de aguinaldo. </i>In the rubrical language of the Church, the verb <i>canto </i>is strictly reserved for sung portions of the liturgy, whereas <i>dico </i>can be applied to both spoken and sung portions. We would like to think that all our churches during the Spanish era had choirs, but that was not always the case. In the provinces, only the principal church, besides the cathedral, would have been able to support a choir.<br />
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Second, the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were celebrated in candlelight. To navigate their way to the church during the novena, our ancestors invented the <i>parol, </i>taken directly from the Spanish<i>farol, </i>which means <i>lantern. </i>The cost of celebrating the <i>misas de aguinaldo, </i>considering that a parish had an entire church to partially light with candles for nine days, would have been overwhelming to that parish if it were of small means and meagre income. The price alone of the beeswax that was used in candles would have been constricting. Beeswax was not cheap, and it still is not. To get a picture of how expensive beeswax candles are, consider a standard altar candle, two feet in length and one inch in diameter. If you get a complete set of these candles, all six of them, in partial beeswax (with admixtures of other materials) nowadays, you will be confronted by a figure followed by four zeroes. And those zeroes are before the decimal. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>[Note: </b>The <i>ilustrados </i>railed against the friars for imposing an exorbitant <i>arancel </i>on candles, conveniently forgetting to mention that the material used for candles during their time was expensive in the first place. This was the time when the Church did not tolerate adulterated matter in the candles used in Her liturgies.<b>]</b></span><br />
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Third, when the suppression of the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>was lifted, the Franciscans of the Philippines persisted in their proscription of the custom. In their statutes published after the provincial chapter they celebrated in Manila in 1867, the Franciscans reiterated their firm proscriptions to the <i>misas de aguinaldo.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The aforesaid Guardians (of the Province) shall not permit in our churches that the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>be sung, or motets, or Christmas carols during Mass.</span></blockquote>
This proscription of the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>was unique and peculiar to the Franciscans of the Philippines, who came from the Alcantarine family of the Order. It appears that the prohibition is quite ancient, having been set forth in 1655. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>[Note: </b>Among the peculiarities of the Province of Saint Gregory the Great, one would find the prohibition of the use of the dalmatic and the tunicle pursuant to the ancient custom of the Alcantarines. The friars were only allowed to use these vestments in funerals for laypeople whose survivors strongly demanded the highest honours for their beloved.<b>]</b></span><br />
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Fourth, and this is, at the moment, anecdotal, the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>were virtually already forgotten in many parishes in the archipelago at the crepuscule of Spanish rule that the new religious congregations that took over the churches attendant to the coming of the Americans had to actually revive the custom in their parishes and missions, and this effort of reviving the <i>misas de aguinaldo </i>was initially coldly received by their parishioners, who had long been accustomed to not waking up early for said Masses.<br />
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We have a tendency to look at our ecclesiastic patrimony as something consistent in terms of exercise. And, when it comes to a tradition that we Filipinos have owned as a distinguishing mark of our faith, our pride overtakes our better judgment, propped by a casual blindness of our own history, both civil and ecclesiastic, owing to the fact that most of the primary sources available are written in languages no longer spoken by both the literate and the illiterate majority.<br />
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<i>Ut in omnibus laudetur Dominus.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Allerite, Jesson. <i>The history of the </i>misa de aguinaldo:<i> from Spain to the Philippine Islands.</i> 2013. TS. Author’s private collection.</span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I once asked a Baptist lady if she can trace the history of her sect back to the first century but her answer was as expected. “Our Church follows the KJV Bible and we align our beliefs to what the Bible says….” She dodged my question immediately! This is some how the same answer given by Cultists like Soriano and his followers, Iglesia Ni Manalo, and some Evangelicals who claim that their sects and cults date back to Early Christians but when you ask them to prove any Early Christian who proscribed to their sects, they fail to provide evidence! This is because they simply do not know. How many of these actually study Early Christianity and the Ancient Church? Very few. In fact, I boldly say that the average Protestant “Born Again” Christian or a follower of these self-proclaimed false prophets like Soriano has no clue about Church history after the death of the last apostle in about AD 100. Their most common understanding of Church history goes something like this…</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“First you had the story of Jesus in the gospels. Then the apostles went out and preached the Word to the Gentiles in the Book of Acts. Then the apostles got old, and Christians started to get persecuted. Then the Jewish Temple was destroyed in AD 70. Then the last apostle, John, died in about AD 100. After that came the “dark ages” that lasted 1,500 years. First Christians were persecuted by the Roman Empire, then by the Catholic Church, and then finally, the “dark ages” ended with the Protestant Reformation in about the 16th century. The End.”</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only a small handful of learnt Protestant scholars, meaning those who read a lot of history books, know about Church History. Ask a Baptist, ADD or Iglesia Ni Manalo member, you will find out. Before and beyond that, they know nothing. Baptists try to connect their origin to Apostles but a big gap between the 16<sup style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup>century back to 1<sup style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">st</sup> Century debunks their claim. They can’t trace their roots back to Apostles.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do a little test if you don’t believe me. Go to an Evangelical church and do a little survey as people are walking out to after their prayers. Ask the people attending if they can name a single significant event in Church history between AD 500 and 1500. Go ahead. Give it a try and see what you come up with. Then ask them if they can tell you when the Bible was compiled into a single book. See if they can narrow it down to within a century. They will tell you that the Bible existed a long time ago with no evidence for their claim! Ask them who brought Christianity to the Philippines? Ask them who brought Christianity to England? Ask them who brought Christianity to South America? Ask them who brought Christianity to Africa? Etc…</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The truth is, and I dare you to try it and see for yourself, most Protestants and Cultists will just look at you with a blank stare. They won’t know the answer to any of these questions. Finally, ask them what the Early Christians believed, and what the teaching and practice was of the Ancient Church. Then they’ll go into trivial issues of all kinds of things that look surprisingly similar to their churches they just walked out of. So the question must be raised; if these people have no clue about Christian history between AD 100 to 1500, then what makes you believe they know what they’re talking about when it comes to Christian history prior to AD 400? The truth is, the AVERAGE Protestant/Evangelical/Cultist doesn’t know. They can’t honestly tell you what the Early Christians believed, because they don’t know. They can’t honestly tell you what the Ancient Church practiced, because they don’t know. I do hope this article will go a little way toward correcting that problem.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The truth is that early Christians were Catholics. There is no need for guess work. It’s all laid out for us in black and white, provided of course that somebody is willing to read it. Many scholars have, and of course, these writings have been translated into English so that anyone interested may browse through them. Below I will cite the writings of ancient Christians on some key topics that will give us a true glimpse of what the Early Christians actually believed and prove that they were Catholics.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE CATHOLIC PAUL</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here i will just use the example of the Apostle Paul to prove that Apostles were Catholics. From the Bible, we can plainly see that Paul submitted himself to Papal Authority. First, St. Paul did get his commission directly from Jesus Christ, on the way to Damascus. St. Paul didn’t just stand up on his own one day and decide to become a preacher. St. Paul even says in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romans 10:15</span> that no one can preach unless he is SENT. In recognition of this, after Paul had spent 3 years in Arabia following his conversion, he went and submitted himself to the chair of Peter, in<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Galatians 1:18</span>. But being sent by Christ to preach to the Gentiles and being submissive to Peter were not the only Catholic things that Paul did. Paul was very keen on oral tradition, something that Catholics today say is just as important as sacred scripture. In <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Thessalonians 2:15</span>, Paul says to “<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: magenta; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hold fast to the traditions we taught you, either written or by WORD OF MOUTH</span>. Most Protestants today disagree with Paul, saying that all tradition is somehow evil while Catholics totally agree with Paul.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul was also very outspoken on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. In <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Corinthians 10:16-21</span>, St. Paul says that the cup of blessing is a participation in the blood of Christ (not “symbolic”), and the breaking of the bread is a participation in the body of Christ (not “symbolic”). He then goes on to compare the Eucharistic sacrifice of Christ with the Jewish sacrifice on the altar, as well as with the pagan sacrifices on the altar. Now either Paul doesn’t know how to write properly and is using false comparisons with other altar sacrifices, OR the Eucharist is indeed a true sacrifice on an altar. Why else would Paul compare the Eucharist to other altar sacrifices? As if to emphasize his belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, Paul continues talking about it in the very next chapter, 1 Corinthians 11:23-30, where he says that whoever eats and drinks the Eucharist in an unworthy manner is guilty of profaning THE BODY AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS (if it’s just a symbol, then this would be impossible.)</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St.Paul believed in Sacrament of Confession. Yes he did, in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Corinthians 5:18-21</span>. Paul says that the ministry of reconciliation (forgiveness of our sins) was given to him by Christ. On behalf of Christ, Paul urges us all to be reconciled with God. Many protestants believe that they can confess their sins directly to God, and not go through a minister, but this philosophy is only to be found in the Old Testament, not the New Testament. For instance, we have St. John the Baptist hearing the people’s sins prior to baptism in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark 1:5</span>, and in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John 20:21-23</span>, Jesus gives his priests the power to forgive sins. In <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James 5:16</span>, he says to confess your sins to one another. And in<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Acts 19:18</span>, many people came forward confessing their sins and evil practices. Confessing one’s sins to a minister of reconciliation is very New Testament. Confessing your sins to God directly is the Old Testament way, and is no longer in force.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul also believed in personal mortification, like Catholics do during Lent. In<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colossians 1:24,</span> Paul says that he rejoices in his personal sufferings, and completes WHAT IS LACKING IN THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST, for the sake of the Church. By suffering, we come to know Christ as He came to know us – in bodily suffering. Paul also says in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Corinthians 9:27</span> that he mortifies his flesh, so that after preaching to us, he himself will not be disqualified. This not only reinforces the self-mortification aspect of Paul’s teaching, it also refutes the heretical “once saved, always saved’ teaching of protestants.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And speaking of the false “once saved, always saved” theory, Paul directly refutes it in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hebrews 10: 26-29,</span> when he says that if you deliberately sin after being sanctified by grace, then you can expect nothing less than an ordeal of fire, because you have profaned the blood of the covenant (the Holy Eucharist) by which you were sanctified, and outraged the Holy Spirit. That certainly doesn’t sound like once saved, always saved, and in fact, backs up St. Peter in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Peter 2:20-22.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St. Paul also believes in praying for the dead. He prayed for the dead Onesiphorus in 2 Timothy 1:16-18, asking not only blessings for his household, but for Onesiphorus to receive mercy at the final judgment.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St. Paul also didn’t preach that the bible alone is his philosophy. Rather, in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Timothy 3:15,</span> St. Paul says that the Church is the pillar and bulwark of truth, rather than sacred scripture, which many protestants hold up to be the pillar and bulwark of truth. Catholics agree completely with St. Paul here.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And St. Paul was not only celibate, he recommended celibacy. Many protestants mistakenly believe that celibacy leads to child abuse, which is crazy, because Jesus, St. John the Baptist, and St. Paul were all celibate. St. Paul says in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Corinthians 7:8-22,</span> <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that marriage is ok, but IT IS BETTER TO REMAIN UNMARRIED, because then you are trying to please the Lord, not your wife.</em></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are other Catholic beliefs Paul embraced like good works being a necessary component of our Salvation-as fruits of our faith for example in<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colossians 1:10</span> – “We should live a life pleasing to God, bearing fruit in every good work.” Paul does condemn the useless works of the law like circumcision, in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romans 3:28</span>. Luther mistranslated this “works of the law” into “good works,” which does not agree with other scriptures like <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James 2:24,</span> where God says that we are justified by works, and not by faith alone. It’s sad how so many people today still believe Luther and not James.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EARLY CHRISTIANS CALLED THEMSELVES CATHOLICS</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Christ Jesus does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles. Do ye also reverence the deacons, as those that carry out through their office the appointment of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is administered either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude[of the people] also be; by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude[of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ignatius of Antioch,Epistle to the Smyrneans, 8:2 (written A.D. 110)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“All the people wondered that there should be such a difference between the unbelievers and the elect, of whom this most admirable Polycarp was one, having in our own times been an apostolic and prophetic teacher, and bishop of the Catholic Church which is in Smyrna. For every word that went out of his mouth either has been or shall yet be accomplished.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Martyrdom of Polycarp,16:2 (written A.D. 155)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Nor does it consist in this, that he should again falsely imagine, as being above this [fancied being], a Pleroma at one time supposed to contain thirty, and at another time an innumerable tribe of Aeons, as these teachers who are destitute of truly divine wisdom maintain; while the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world, as we have already said.” —<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irenaeus,Against Heresies,1:10,3 (written in A.D. 180)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For the blessed apostle Paul himself,following the rule of his predecessor John, writes only by name to seven Churches in the following order–to the Corinthians a first…there is a second to the Corinthians and to the Thessalonians, yet one Church is recognised as being spread over the entire world…Howbeit to Philemon one, to Titus one, and to Timothy two were put in writing…to be in honour however with the Catholic Church for the ordering of ecclesiastical discipline…one to the Laodicenes, another to the Alexandrians, both forged in Paul’s name to suit the heresy of Marcion, and several others, which cannot be received into the Catholic Church; for it is not fitting that gall be mixed with honey. The Epistle of Jude no doubt, and the couple bearing the name of John, are accepted by the Catholic Church…But of Arsinous,called also Valentinus,or of Militiades we receive nothing at all.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fragment of Muratori (written in A.D. 177)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In his Catechetical lectures (348-386 AD), St. Cyril of Jerusalem who was a successor of St.James the Apostle in the See of Jerusalem taught;</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“22. . . . Now then let me finish what still remains to be said for the Article, “In one Holy Catholic Church,” on which, though one might say many things, we will speak but briefly.”</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“23. It is called Catholic then because it extends over all the world, from one end of the earth to the other; and because it teaches universally and completely one and all the doctrines which ought to come to men’s knowledge, concerning things both visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly ; and because it brings into subjection to godliness the whole race of mankind, governors and governed, learned and unlearned; and because it universally treats and heals the whole class of sins, which are committed by soul or body, and possesses in itself every form of virtue which is named, both in deeds and words, and in every kind of spiritual gifts.”</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“24. And it is rightly named Church [Ecclesia/Assembly] because it calls forth and assembles together all men; according as the Lord says in Leviticus, And make an assembly for all the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness. And it is to be noted, that the word assemble, is used for the first time in the Scriptures here, at the time when the Lord puts Aaron into the High-priesthood…..”</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“And in one Holy Catholic Church;” that thou mayest avoid their wretched meetings, and ever abide with the Holy Church Catholic in which thou wast regenerated. And if ever thou art sojourning in cities, inquire not simply where the Lord’s House is (for the other sects of the profane also attempt to call their own dens houses of the Lord), nor merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the peculiar name of this Holy Church, the mother of us all, which is the spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son of God”</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“28. In this Holy Catholic Church receiving instruction and behaving ourselves virtuously, we shall attain the kingdom of heaven, and inherit Eternal Life; for which also we endure all toils, that we may be made partakers thereof from the Lord. For ours is no trifling aim, but our endeavour is for eternal life.”</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EARLY CHRISTIANS WERE TRINITARIAN</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Our teacher of these things is Jesus Christ, who also was born for this purpose, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judaea, in the times of Tiberius Caesar; and that we reasonably worship Him, having learnt that He is the Son of the true God Himself, and holding Him in the second place, and the prophetic Spirit in the third, we will prove.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Justin Martyr, First Apology,13 (written in A.D. 155)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For God did not stand in need of these [beings], in order to the accomplishing of what He had Himself determined with Himself beforehand should be done, as if He did not possess His own hands. For with Him were always present the Word and Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit, by whom and in whom, freely and spontaneously, He made all things, to whom also He speaks, saying, ‘Let Us make man after Our image and likeness;’ He taking from Himself the substance of the creatures [formed], and the pattern of things made, and the type of all the adornments in the world.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irenaeus, Against Heresies,4,20:1 (written in A.D. 180)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The statements made regarding Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are to be understood as transcending all time, all ages, and all eternity. For it is the Trinity alone which exceeds the comprehension not only of temporal but even of eternal intelligence; while other things which are not included in it are to be measured by times and ages.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Origen, First Principles,4:28 (written in A.D. 230)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For the kingdom of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is one, even as their substance is one and their dominion one. Whence also, with one and the same adoration, we worship the one Deity in three Persons, subsisting without beginning, uncreated, without end, and to which there is no successor. For neither will the Father ever cease to be the Father, nor again the Son to be the Son and King, nor the Holy Ghost to be what in substance and personality He is.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Methodius, Oration on the Palms,4 (written in A.D. 305)</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE EARLY CHRISTIANS BAPTISED THEIR CHILDREN AND INFANTS</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For He came to save all through means of Himself–all, I say, who through Him are born again to God–infants, and children, and boys, and youths, and old men.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 2,22:4 (written in A.D. 180)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“And they shall baptise the little children first. And if they can answer for themselves, let them answer. But if they cannot, let their parents answer or someone from their family.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hippolytus of Rome, Apostolic Tradition,21 (written in A.D. 215)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For this reason, moreover, the Church received from the apostles the tradition of baptising infants too.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Origen, Homily on Romans, V:9 (written in A.D. 244)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Baptism is given for the remission of sins; and according to the usage of the Church, Baptism is given even to infants. And indeed if there were nothing in infants which required a remission of sins and nothing in them pertinent to forgiveness, the grace of baptism would seem superfluous.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Origen, Homily on Leviticus,8:3 (written in A.D. 244)</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EARLY CHRISTIANS BELIEVED THE VIRGIN MARY WAS IMMACULATE (WITHOUT SIN)</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This Virgin Mother of the Only-begotten of God, is called Mary, worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, one of the one.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Origen, Homily 1 (written in A.D. 244)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Thou alone and thy Mother are in all things fair, there is no flaw in thee and no stain in thy Mother.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ephraem, Nisibene Hymns,27:8 (written in A.D. 370)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It helps us to understand the terms ‘first-born’ and ‘only-begotten’ when the Evangelist tells that Mary remained a virgin ‘until she brought forth her first-born son’ [Matt. 1:25]; for neither did Mary, who is to be honored and praised above all others, marry anyone else, nor did she ever become the Mother of anyone else, but even after childbirth she remained always and forever an immaculate virgin”</span> </strong>—-<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Didymus the Blind,<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Trinity </em>3:4 (A.D. 386).</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Mary, a Virgin not only undefiled but a Virgin whom grace has made inviolate, free of every stain of sin.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ambrose,Sermon 22:30 (written in A.D. 388)</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE EARLY CHRISTIANS PRAYED TO THE VIRGIN MARY</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For as Eve was seduced by the word of an angel to flee from God, having rebelled against His Word, so Mary by the word of an angel received the glad tidings that she would bear God by obeying his Word. The former was seduced to disobey God, but the latter was persuaded to obey God, so that the Virgin Mary might become the advocate of the virgin Eve. As the human race was subjected to death through [the act of] a virgin, so it was saved by a virgin.” —<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irenaeus, Against Heresies, V:19,1 (written in A.D. 180)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“O noble Virgin, truly you are greater than any other greatness. For who is your equal in greatness, O dwelling place of God the Word? To whom among all creatures shall I compare you, O Virgin? You are greater than them all O Covenant, clothed with purity instead of gold! You are the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna, that is, the flesh in which divinity resides.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Athanasius, Homily of the Papyrus of Turin, 71:216 (written in AD 373)</span> <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">***NOTE THAT ST.ATHANASIUS IS THE ONE WHO COMPOSED THE CANON OF THE BIBLE.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Recalling these and other circumstances and imploring the Virgin Mary to bring assistance, since she, too, was a virgin and had been in danger, she entrusted herself to the remedy of fasting and sleeping on the ground.” —<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gregory of Nazianzen, Oration 24:11 (written in A.D. 379)</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EARLY CHRISTIANS CELEBRATED COMMUNION REGULARY AND BELIEVED IN REAL PRESENCE OF JESUS CHRIST</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Consider how contrary to the mind of God are the heterodox in regard to the grace of God which has come to us. They have no regard for charity, none for the widow, the orphan, the oppressed, none for the man in prison, the hungry or the thirsty. They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 6. (written in 110 A.D.)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This food we call the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake except one who believes that the things we teach are true, and has received the washing for forgiveness of sins and for rebirth, and who lives as Christ handed down to us. For we do not receive these things as common bread or common drink; but as Jesus Christ our Savior being incarnate by God’s Word took flesh and blood for our salvation, so also we have been taught that the food consecrated by the Word of prayer which comes from him, from which our flesh and blood are nourished by transformation, is the flesh and blood of that incarnate Jesus.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Justin Martyr, First Apology,66, (written in A.D. 148)</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE EARLY CHRISTIANS FOLLOWED THE BISHOP OF ROME(POPE) AS THE SUCCESSOR OF ST.PETER AND THE LEADER THE CHURCH FOUNDED BY CHRIST</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which has obtained mercy, through the majesty of the Mast High God the Father, and of Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son; the Church which is sanctified and enlightened by the will of God, who farmed all things that are according to the faith and love of Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour; the Church which presides in the place of the region of the Romans, and which is worthy of God, worthy of honour, worthy of the highest happiness, worthy of praise, worthy of credit, worthy of being deemed holy, and which presides over love…” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Romans, Prologue (written in A.D. 110)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion, assemble in unauthorised meetings; [we do this, I say,] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organised at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its pre-eminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolic tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3:3:2 (written in A.D. 180)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“And he says to him again after the resurrection, ‘Feed my sheep.’ It is on him that he builds the Church, and to him that he entrusts the sheep to feed. And although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single Chair, thus establishing by his own authority the source and hallmark of the (Church’s) oneness. No doubt the others were all that Peter was, but a primacy is given to Peter, and it is (thus) made clear that there is but one flock which is to be fed by all the apostles in common accord. If a man does not hold fast to this oneness of Peter, does he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he deserts the Chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, has he still confidence that he is in the Church? This unity firmly should we hold and maintain, especially we bishops, presiding in the Church, in order that we may approve the episcopate itself to be the one and undivided.” — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cyprian, On Church Unity, 4-5 (written in A.D. 251)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These are some of the writings of Early Christians, who were the disciples or students of the 12 apostles. They were the Christian leaders who took charge of the Church following the death of the 12 apostles. They were not only taught by the 12 apostles, they were also first-hand witnesses to the creation of the Church worldwide. Most of them were martyred by being crucified and beheaded. They gave their lives professing the Trinitarian God, of whom the Second Person of this Trinity gives his literal body and blood to us in Holy Communion. They gave their lives because they baptised their infant children in this faith. They gave their lives professing that the Virgin Marry was Immaculate (without sin) and they prayed to her, asking for her intercession to God. They gave their lives professing to be “Catholic,” which means “whole and complete,” and professing their allegiance to the Bishop of Rome (Pope). These were the Early Christians, in their own words, in their own writings, written by their own hands.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They were the ones empowered by the Holy Spirit (<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John 16:13 and 1 John 4:6</span>), and who personally handed on the oral teaching of Jesus Christ, before the New Testament canon was created by the Catholic Church in the late 4th century, at the councils of Rome, Hippo, and Carthage. One of the great early ones, St. Clement, is actually mentioned in the bible in <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Philippians 4:3</span>. None of these early Church Fathers just stood up and started preaching on his own. They followed the Biblical model in Acts of “being sent” (<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romans 10:15</span>). Who sent them? Jesus sent the 12 apostles (“<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">as the Father sent me, so I send you”</span></em>). The 12 apostles then laid hands on others and sent them (<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Acts 6:6</span>). This apostolic tradition has been followed for 2000 years by the Catholic Church, who continuously lays hands on new disciples in every generation since Jesus walked the earth, and then sends them to the four corners of the earth to preach the good news of Jesus Christ, to forgive sins in His Name, and to bring Jesus to all.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These people were not Protestants neither did they subscribe to the Protestants denominations, sects and cults. Protestants often have some fanciful ideas as to who they were and what they believed, but they can never produce a single document, written by an Early Church Father that backs such fanciful ideas.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Protestants and cultists can turn a blind eye with their rubrid arguments that “</span><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">those things are not in the Bible</em><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">”. But they read the writings of Martin Luther,Charles Russel, Eli Soriano, Felix Manalo and others, even though those aren’t in the Bible either! They can deny it all they like, but history testifies, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that the Early Christians were CATHOLIC, and the Ancient Church was CATHOLIC. The evidence is plain and clear to see, and there is no alternative. I challenge anyone to try to produce an alternative version of history using the writings of the people who lived during that time. I tell you, it cannot be done and they will fail badly.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For Catholics, do not let yourself get trapped in Protestant philosophies and cult psychologies of “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">it is not in the Bible, so it is not true</em>”. It does not follow that if something is not in the Bible, then it is false as there are many things that are essential to the Christian faith which are not spelled out by the Bible. If that were truly the case, then none of Martin Luther’s writings can be seen as true, because they aren’t in the Bible either! Take the time to read Church History, in order to point out what Early Christians actually believed and practiced. There were no Baptists, Lutherans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Elisorians,Manalos in the Early Church. These are traditions of men which started in the 15</span><sup style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Century based on what people thought Jesus’ Church was all about, rather than on what it actually was. </span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“WHEN SHE IS PREACHING SHE PRETEND TO BE MODEST. THEN OUTSIDE SHE IS LIKE A FEMALE DOG IN SEASON OF HEAT ATTRACTING MEN TO LUSTFULY WAYS. SHE IS AFFECTED BY HER VISIT IN HELL. SHE BECAME A LIAR AND TURNED INTO A WOMAN OF THE WORLD.” HA HA HA… LOOK AT HER, SHE IS A PERFECT MODEL FOR THE WHORE OF BABYLON. HA HA HA…</strong></span></div>
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Source: <a ang-sinungaling-na-born-again-pastora-angelica-zambrano-nagwawala-na="" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4135730518976004702" http:="" www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph="">ANG SINUNGALING NA BORN AGAIN PASTORA ANGELICA ZAMBRANO NAGWAWALA NA!</a>FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-76771900520793443032014-06-30T16:49:00.001+08:002015-09-16T13:46:17.760+08:00Why Do Catholics Celebrate Festivals?<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_16016" style="background: url(http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/wp-content/themes/risen/styles/light/images/texture-overlay.png) rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); color: #444444; font-family: 'Didact Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.03999900817871px; margin: 2px auto 0px; max-width: 97%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 374px;">
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993300; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pista ng Nayon</strong></em></span></div>
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<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Didact Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.03999900817871px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anywhere here in the Philippines, Catholics prepare every time there is a feast as gratitude for the graces given by the Lord to us.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just like Abraham serving the Lord God, we are also serving this festivity.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“When Isaac grew up and was about to be weaned, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Abraham prepared a huge feast to celebrate the occasion</span>.”(Genesis 21:8)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part of the festival is dining and drinking.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“So Isaac prepared a covenant <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">feast to celebrate</span> the treaty, and<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">they ate and drank together</span>.”(Genesis 26:30)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All of us Catholics are glad whenever we celebrate the festival in our area.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">You shall rejoice in your feast</span>, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.”(Deuteronomy 16:14)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did God order us to celebrate the feast?</span></h3>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As early as the first period, God allowed people to celebrate the festival because of his loving-kindness unto thousands of them.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Keep your feasts</span>, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.”(Nahum 1:15)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is there a Holy Mass in every feast?</span></h3>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because we want to thank God for all his blessings, we want to this occasion to be solemn.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">He gave splendor to feasts</span> and even greater magnificence to the more solemn occasions, exalting the holy Name of the Lord and having the sanctuary ring with his praises from early morning.”(Sirach 47:10)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before he celebrated, King Solomon offered the offering and celebrated a feast for the people.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">and made a feast for all his servants</span>.”(1 Kings 3:15)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For Catholics, the holy mass is the highest prayer. Before we have fun and eat to celebrate the feast, we need to pray for many things including the blessings we have received.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer</span>.”(1 Timothy 4:4-5)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anti-Catholics say that only Pagans celebrate this feast</span></h3>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not all feasts belong to Pagans. There are many verses in the Bible which prove that the feast is celebrated the feast of the Glory of God.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, Levi then gives a feast in his own house to celebrate his call.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">And Levi made him a great feast in his house</span>, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them.”(Luke 5:27-29)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feeding the poor during the feast is not a Pagan practice but something that will follow Christ.</span></strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,”(Luke 14:13)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why are there too many complaints and comments of the INC 1914? The Ang Dating Daan and other anti-Catholics also complain against Catholics during the celebrations?</span></h3>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Levi celebrated the feast for the Lord Jesus, the Scribes and Pharisees also complained.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with such scum?”(Luke 5:30)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We hear complaints and comments from anti-Catholics whenever we celebrate the feasts, like the feast of the Black Nazarene, Feast of Sto. Niño, and other feasts to devote to the Lord.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is because they feel so jealous of the festival like the feast of the Sto. Niño as we Catholics are bad in their eyes.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.”(Proverbs 15:15)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why are there Feast of the Saints? <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is this not false worship because it is only the feast of God and not the feast of the saints that we should celebrate?</b></span></h3>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are celebrating the feast to thank God for the gift of holiness through that saint, to honor that saint for his life of heroic holiness and to present him to our people as model of faith.</strong></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Didact Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.03999900817871px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just like the people of God, they celebrate the festivities because of the victory that they achieved. We recall the saints as models of humility and committing good acts because the grace of God was bestowed to them. The people of God celebrate the feast as the people of God because of the victory they committed.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This was on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the next day, the fourteenth, there was no more killing, and they made it a joyful day of feasting. The Jews of Susa, however, made the fifteenth a holiday, since they had slaughtered their enemies on the thirteenth and fourteenth and then stopped on the fifteenth. This is why Jews who live in small towns observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a joyous holiday,<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> a time for feasting and giving gifts of food to one another</span>.”(Esther 9:17-19)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We also need to celebrate the victory achieved by the people which served as good examples for their humility. We need to follow them to be holy.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do we use the images of saints and offer flowers when we celebrate feast days?</span></h3>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">King Solomon made an offering before the Ark of the Covenant Then he held a feast for all his servants.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.”(1 Kings 3:15)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The cherub is an indication wherein God will meet with the leaders of Israel.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.”(Exodus 25:22)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In short, the cherubs remind us about God.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The images and statues of Saints are used to remind us of the saints so that they can follow their examples in loving God.</strong></span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2014/06/28/why-do-catholics-celebrate-the-festival/">Why Do Catholics Celebrate Festivals?</a></div>
FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-4593262014933010992014-05-24T11:57:00.002+08:002014-05-24T11:57:44.686+08:00IC XC NIKA<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">
In case you don’t know what that title means, IC XC are abbreviations (in both Greek and Slavonic) for the name Jesus Christ. NIKA is a Greek verb that means “conquers” (perhaps “is victorious” is better, though not as grammatically accurate).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why am I giving you a lesson in Greek words and abbreviations? First of all, it will help you understand a few things you may see in the Eastern Christian tradition. On icons of Christ, you will always find somewhere the IC XC. If you look carefully when a Byzantine Catholic or Orthodox priest gives a blessing, you’ll see (if they’re doing it correctly) that they form the fingers of their right hand into the letters IC XC. So we always bless with the sign of the Cross and in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The victory that we celebrate is<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3369/1126/1600/IC%20XC%20NIKA.jpg" style="color: #223344;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3369/1126/200/IC%20XC%20NIKA.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; padding: 4px;" /></a> that of Jesus Christ over the world, the flesh, and the devil, over sin and death. For Him to conquer evil was essential to his mission, so much so that <st1:city>St John </st1:city>could even say: “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil” (1John 3:8). But what Christ conquers is evil as such, and the evil spirits, not evil human beings, for whom there is still hope for repentance and salvation. For He came to call sinners to repentance (Luke <st1:time hour="17" minute="32">5:32</st1:time>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Conqueror of evil comes to us as a Merciful Savior and the Lover of Mankind. That is because He conquers through the Cross. He allowed Himself to be apparently vanquished so that He could thereby vanquish evil. The devil thought that <i>he</i> was the conqueror when the Son of God died, but he received a sudden and rude shock when he discovered the truth. Our liturgical texts for Vespers on Holy Saturday evening personify death and the realm of death, and we sing: “Today hell groans and cries aloud: ‘It would have been better for me if I had not accepted Mary’s Son, for He has come to me and destroyed my power… I accepted a mortal man as one of the dead; yet I cannot keep Him prisoner, and with Him I shall lose those over whom I ruled… the Shepherd has been crucified and has gone in search of Adam, to raise him… death has no more strength.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The mystery of Jesus Christ’s victory is that of his death and resurrection. The Church celebrates this mystery daily in the Holy Sacrifice, the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist. Take a guess, then, what is stamped into every prosphoron (loaf of altar bread) that is transformed into the slain and risen Body of Christ. You’re right: IC XC NIKA. As we receive the Holy Eucharist, we are invited to share in his victory, we receive the victory itself into our bodies and souls, and we become victors, conquerors, insofar as we do the will of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. Do you not believe that you too are a conqueror? <st1:city>St Paul</st1:city> takes us even further: “We are <i>more than conquerors</i> through Him who loved us” (Romans <st1:time hour="8" minute="37">8:37</st1:time>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, go ahead, put your own abbreviated name in there. I’ll start: AB JS NIKA. In Christ, and <i>only</i> in Him—far be it from me to think I can conquer anything on my own—I shall be victorious. And you shall, too, if you faithfully follow Him who came to destroy the works of the devil. “With God we shall do bravely, and He will trample down our foes… I am sure now that the Lord will give the victory…with the strength of his victorious right hand” (Psalms 59/60:14 and 19/20:7).</div>
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Source: <a href="http://wordincarnate.blogspot.com/2005/10/ic-xc-nika.html">IC XC NIKA</a>FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-22528227434769052302013-12-12T14:57:00.000+08:002013-12-12T14:57:43.153+08:00Meron Bang Mababasa sa Bibliya na may taong nangumpisal sa pari dahil nagkasala siya sa Diyos? <b style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="color: red;">Article Contributed by Lay Person Scripturist</span> </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #003366;">Nang nagkasala ang Faraon sa Diyos ay humingi siya ng tawad kina Moises at Aaron.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b><i>“Dali-daling
ipinatawag ng Faraon sina Moises at Aaron. Sinabi niya, “Nagkasala ako
sa Panginoon na inyong Diyos, gayundin sa inyo. Patawarin ninyo ako at
ipinapakiusap kong ipanalangin ninyo sa Panginoon na alisin na sa akin
ang nakamamatay na parusang ito.”(Exodo 10:16-17)</i></b></span></div>
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<b>T<span style="color: #003366;">ulad
ng sinasabi ng ating mga kapatid na mga protestante ay dapat daw na ang
tamang pangungumpisal ay ang direktang pananalangin sa Diyos at hindi
na kailangan pang ikumpisal ito sa mga pari kagaya ng ginagawa nating
mga katoliko.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Sa
kasunod na talata ay maliwanag na mababasa natin kung ano ang ginawa ni
Moises matapos na humingi ng tawad ang Faraon sa kanyang mga kasalanan
at kung mali nga ang ginawa ng Faraon ay sana itinuwid na ito ni
Moises, pero iba ang ginawa ni Moise para sa Faraon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Ganito ang mababasa natin sa kasunod na mga talata…</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b><i>“Iniwan
ni Moises ang Faraon at siya’y nanalangin. Binago naman ng Panginoon
ang takbo ng hangin. Pinaihip niya ang malakas na hangin mula sa
kanluran at tinangay nito ang lahat ng balang papunta sa Dagat na Pula; a
isa ma’y walang natira sa Egipto.”(Exodo 10:18-19)</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">At
kung mali naman ang ginawa ni Moises na nalangin siya para sa Faraon ay
hindi rin sana ito pinakinggan ng Diyos, pero maliwanag na pinakinggan
ng Diyos ang panalangin ni Moises para sa Faraon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Sa
tuwing nangungumpisal tayo sa pari ay nanalangin sila para sa atin para
patawarin tayo ng Diyos dahil sa awtoridad na ibinigay sa kanila ni
Cristo <span style="text-decoration: underline;">(Juan 20:22-23)</span>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Dapat
kasing maunawaan ng mga kapatid nating mga protestante na hindi lahat
ng klase ng kasalanan ay dapat ipanalangin ng direkta sa Diyos kaya nga
may tinatawag tayong “Mortal Sin” at “Venial Sin”.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Nang
nagkasala si Elifaz at kanyang mga kaibigan sa Diyos ay dapat
idinirekta na sanang ihiningi ni Elifaz ng tawad ang kanyang mga
kasalanan sa Diyos dahil nakaharap ang Dios sa kanya, pero ano ang
nangyari?</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b><i>“Pagkasabi
nito kay Job, si Elifaz na Temaneo naman ang hinarap ng Panginoon
Sinabi niya, “Matindi ang galit ko sa iyo at sa dalawa mong kaibigan
sapagkat hindi ninyo sinabi ang katotohanan tungkol sa akin tulad nang
ginawa ni Job. Kaya ngayon, kumuha kayo ng pitong toro at pitong tupa.
Dalhin ninyo ito kay Job at sunugin bilang handog. Ipapanalangin kayo ni
Job. Siya lamang ang papakinggan ko para hindi na kayo pagbayarin sa
inyong kahangalan, dahil sa hindi ninyo paglalahad ng buong katotohanan
tulad nang ginagawa niya.”(Job 42:7-8)</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>At bakit matindi ang galit ng Diyos kay Elifaz na Temaneo at sa dalawa niyang kaibigan?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Sapagkat
hindi nila sinabi ang katotohanan at ang katumbas nga niyan ay ang
pagsisinungaling . Para sa ating mga katoliko ang pagsisinungaling o ang
hindi pagsabi ng katotohanan ay isang “Mortal Sin” na dapat ikumpisal
sa pari.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Sa bibliya kasi ay merong dalawang uri ng kasalanan at ito ay <span style="text-decoration: underline;">may kasalanang di hahantong sa kamatayan</span> at <span style="text-decoration: underline;">may kasalanang hahantong sa kamatayan</span>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b><i>“Kung
makita ninuman na ang kanyang kapatid ay gumagawa ng kasalanang di
hahantong sa kamatayan, ipanalangin niya ang kapatid na iyon sa Diyos na
magbibigay sa kanya ng bagong buhay. Ito’y para sa mga kapatid na ang
kasalanan ay hindi humahantong sa kamatayan. May kasalanang hahantong sa
kamatayan, at hindi ko sinasabing idalangin ninyo ang sinumang gumagawa
nito.”(1 Juan 5:16)</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Ang
salitang “mortal” ay nanggaling po sa salitang latin na “mors” na
nangangahulugan ng “death” at ang salitang “venial” naman ay nanggaling
sa salitang latin na “venialis” na nangangahulugan ng “easy pardonable”.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Sa
sitwasyon ng Faraon ay nakagawa siya ng malaking kasalanan sa Diyos
ganun din si Elifaz at kanyang mga kaibigan kaya kailangan nila ang
panalangin ng mga pari ng Diyos upang makamit nila ang pagpapatawad.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Si Moises at Aaron ay mga pari ng Diyos, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>“Si
Moises at si Aaron, na mga pari niya;at si Samuel nama’y lingkod na sa
kanya ay sumamba;nang si Yahweh’y dalanginan, dininig naman sila.”(Awit
99:6)</i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Dapat
din maunawaan ng mga kapatid natin na ang pangungumpisal sa pari lalong
lalo na ng mga kapatid nating nagkasala ng mortal ay may malaking
pakinabang.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">1. Sa tuwing may nangungumpisal sa pari ay pinapatawad ng Diyos ang anumang pagkakasala nito mortal man o venial <span style="text-decoration: underline;">(Juan 20:22-23)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">2.
Naiintindihan ng mga pari ang kahinaan ng mga nangungumpisal sa kanila
dahil dito ay mabibigyan ng mga pari ng kaukulang payo ang mga
nangungumpisal sa kanila</span></b><b><span style="color: #003366;">, </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><i><b>“Ang
bawat pinakapunong pari ay pinili mula sa mga tao at inilagay sa ganoong
tungkulin upang maglingkod sa Diyos para sa mga tao. Siya ang nag-aalay
ng mga kaloob at mga handog para mapatawad ang mga kasalanan. Nadarama
niya ang kahinaan ng mga mangmang at ng mga naliligaw ng landas sapagkat
siya’y mahina ring tulad nila.”(Hebreo 5:1-2)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>3.
Binibigyan ng mga pari ng magandang payo ang mga nangungumpisal lalong
lalo na ang pagsisisi at pagtalikod sa mga ginagawang mortal na
kasalanan.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Si Apostol Pablo ay isang pari (Roma 15:16) at isa sa kanyang mga mensahe para sa mga tao ay ang pagsisisi,</span></b> <span style="color: maroon;"><b>“Ipinangaral
kong dapat silang magsisi’t tumalikod sa kanilang mga kasalanan,
lumapit sa Diyos, at ipakita ang kanilang pagsisisi sa pamamagitan ng
mga gawa.”(Gawa 26:20)</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Kaya
kung napapansin natin, bago pa man ginagawa ng pari ang absolusyon o
pagpapawalang-sala sa mga nangungumpisal ay sinasabihan muna ito ng pari
na dapat niya pagsisihan ang kanyang mga nagawang kasalanan.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Ang
pagsisi po kasi ay malaking bagay at daan po patungo sa ating kaligtasan
at ang taong walang pagsisi at hindi ito ipinapakita sa pamamagitan ng
mga gawa ay mapapahamak.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003366;">Kaya
nga ginagamit ng Diyos ang mga pari para maging kasangkapan niya sa
pagsunod sa kanyang kalooban at dapat sa kanila sumangguni ang mga tao.<a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Confession.jpg"><img alt="Confession" class="alignleft wp-image-11161" height="388" src="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Confession.jpg" width="448" /></a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>“Tungkulin
ng mga pari na ituro ang tunay na kaalaman tungkol sa Diyos. Sila ang
dapat sangguniin ng mga tao tungkol sa aking kalooban, sapagkat sila ang
mga sugo ng Panginoon na Makapangyarihan sa lahat.”(Malaquias 2:7)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Kung
napapansin din po natin ay marami sa mga nangungumpisal ay ang mga
nagsasama na hindi pa ikinakasal sa simbahan at ito po ay isang mortal
na kasalanan, sa pamamagitan ng pangungumpisal sa pari ay mabibigyan din
sila ng payo na dapat magpakasal upang makatanggap ng basbas ng Diyos.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Katulad
ni Apostol Pablo na isang pari ng Diyos ay binigyan niya ng payo ang
mga taong gustong mag-asawa na dapat magpakasal sa banal na paraan.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>“Kalooban
ng Diyos na kayo’y magpakabanal at lumayo sa lahat ng uri ng kahalayan.
Dapat maging banal at marangal ang pakikitungo ng bawat isa sa kanyang
asawa”(1 Tesalonica 4:3-4)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Kalooban
po kasi ng Diyos na magpakasal ang mga mag-asawa sa banal na paraan at
tungkulin po ito ng mga pari at sila ang dapat sangguniin ng mga tao
tungkol sa mga bagay na ito.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Mahalaga po kasi ang pagsunod sa kalooban ng Diyos.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>“Hindi
lahat ng tumatawag sa akin, ‘Panginoon, Panginoon,’ ay papasok sa
kaharian ng langit, kundi ang mga tao lamang na sumusunod sa kalooban ng
aking Ama na nasa langit.”(Mateo 7:21)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Kaya
malaking bagay po ang pangungumpisal ng ating mga kasalanan sa pari at
sa tuwing nangungumpisal po tayo ay natatamo natin ang pagpapatawad ng
Diyos, binibigyan po tayo ng gabay sa pagsisisi at sinusunod po natin
ang kalooban ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng pagsangguni natin sa mga pari
dahil ito ay utos ng Diyos.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;"><b>Kung ang mga kapatid nating mga protestante ay hindi gumagawa nito ay naiintindihan po natin kung bakit.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>“Wala
pong makakaalam ng iyong kalooban malibang bigyan mo siya ng iyong
Karunungan, at lukuban ng iyong banal na espiritung mula sa kaitaasan.
Sa ganitong paraan po lamang naaakay mo ang mga tao sa matuwid na
landas. Natututunan po namin kung ano ang kalugud-lugod sa iyo, at
naliligtas kami sa pamamagitan ng iyong Karunungan.”(Karunungan 9:17-18)</b></span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4135730518976004702" http:="" meron-bang-mababasa-sa-bibliya-na-may-taong-nangumpisal-sa-pari-dahil-nagkasala-siya-sa-diyos="" www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph="">Meron Bang Mababasa sa Bibliya na may taong nangumpisal sa pari dahil nagkasala siya sa Diyos? </a>FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-10143716090709445782013-12-06T16:28:00.002+08:002013-12-06T16:28:50.458+08:00MERON BANG MABABASA SA BIBLIA NA ANG UNIVERSAL AY CATHOLIC? By Fr. Abe Arganiosa <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>meron bang mabasa sa biblia na ang universal ay ang catholic? meron o wala</b></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><b>MERON.
ITO GALING PA IYAN SA ORIGINAL GREEK NEW TESTAMENT. KUNG HINDI KA TANGA
SA BIBLIA DAPAT ALAM MO NA GREEK ANG TUNAY NA NEW TESTAMENT AT HINDI
TAGALOG. HA HA HA:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: #ff6600;">LUKE 4:14</span> ”.. Ho Galalaia kai pheme exerchatomai KATH’OLES”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: #ff6600;">LUKE 8:39</span> “Apelthen KATH’OLES ten polin…”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: #ff6600;">LUKE 23:5</span> “Anaseis ton laos didasko KATH’OLES”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: #ff6600;">ACTS 9:42</span> “Gnostov de egeneto KATH’OLES”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: #ff6600;">ACTS 10:37</span> “Hemeis oidate ho genomenon rhema KATH’OLES tes Ioudaias”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: #ff6600;">ACTS 4:18</span> “Kai kelasantes autos pareggeilan to KATH’OLOU…”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>and the most significant is,</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><b><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">ACTS 9:31</span> “He men oun EKKLESIA KATH’OLES …” – the Church is called “CHURCH THROUGH OUT”</span> in greek, “EKKLESIA KATH’OLES”</b></span></div>
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FOUNDER FELIX 666-RAPIST MANALO? CHAPTER AND VERSE PLEASE.</b></span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2013/12/05/meron-bang-mababasa-sa-biblia-na-ang-universal-ay-catholic-by-fr-abe-arganiosa/">MERON BANG MABABASA SA BIBLIA NA ANG UNIVERSAL AY CATHOLIC? By Fr. Abe Arganiosa </a></div>
FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-4521953246706813032013-08-15T00:58:00.005+08:002013-08-15T00:59:16.237+08:00PEKENG PARI NAUTO NG MGA MANALO! MGA MANALOLISTA NALOKO NG PEKENG PARI! (Video uploaded by Catholic Apologist) by Mar Domingo<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Didact Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.03125px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Source: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2013/02/28/pekeng-pari-nauto-ng-mga-manalo-from-cfd-calasag/">PEKENG PARI NAUTO NG MGA MANALO! MGA MANALOLISTA NALOKO NG PEKENG PARI! (Video uploaded by Catholic Apologist) by Mar Domingo</a></div>
FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-89364540976221262722013-05-30T00:00:00.002+08:002013-05-30T00:12:28.803+08:00Nasa Bible Din Ba Ang Mga Anti-Catholic, Pati na ang kanilang mga Founders? By: Lay Person Scripturist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Sagot: Yes! 100 percent!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>1.) Eli Soriano at Ang Dating Daan - </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ang yayabang kung makapagdebate at makatuligsa sa ating mga katoliko.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">“Sakit na niya ang manuligsa at makipagdebate tungkol sa mga salita, mga bagay na humahantong sa inggitan, alitan, kutyaan, at pagbibintang. Mahilig din siyang makipagdebate sa mga taong baluktot ang pag-iisip at di kumikilala sa katotohanan.”(1 Timoteo 6:4-5)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>2.) Felix Manalo at ang Iglesya Niya </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Panay ang deny sa pagka-DIyos ng Panginoong Jesus na nagligtas sa kanila. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">“Noong una, may mga huwad na propetang lumitaw sa Israel. Gayundin naman, may darating sa gitna ninyo na mga huwad na guro. Lihim silang magtuturo ng mga maling aral na ang dulot ay kapahamakan. Pati ang Panginoong nagligtas sa kanila ay kanilang itatakwil, kaya't di magtatagal at sila'y mapapahamak.”(2 Pedro 2:1)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>3.) Ellen G. White at ang Sabadista </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Kilala bilang nagbabawal ng maraming pagkain. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Huwag kayong patangay sa mga sari-sari at kakaibang katuruan. Mas mabuti para sa atin ang mapanatag ang ating kalooban sa pamamagitan ng kagandahang-loob ng Diyos kaysa sa pamamagitan ng pagsunod sa mga utos tungkol sa pagkain. Ang mga sumusunod sa mga utos na iyan ay wala namang natamong pakinabang."(Hebreo 13:9)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>4.) Charles Taze Russel at Ang Saksi ni Jehovah</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Maraming miyembro ang pinabayaang mamatay dahil hindi puweding salinan ng dugo. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Ang tapat na saksi ay nagliligtas ng buhay,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>5.) Apollo Quiboloy </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Nagpapakilalang Apointed Son of GOD</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Sapagkat may lilitaw na mga huwad na mesiyas at mga huwad na propeta."(Mateo 24:24)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>6.) Arsenio Ferriols at Pentecostal 4th Watch</b> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Kilala natin na umaakyat sa mga bus at nanghihingi, pati na sa palengke </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Sapagka't hindi kami gaya ng karamihan na kinakalakal ang salita ng Dios: kundi sa pagtatapat, at gaya ng mula sa Dios, sa harapan ng Dios ay nagsasalita kami para kay Cristo."(2 Corinto 2:17)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>7.) Martin Luther</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Umalis sa pagka-katoliko.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Kahit na sila'y mga dati nating kasamahan, ang mga taong iyon ay hindi natin tunay na kasama. Sapagkat kung sila'y tunay na atin, nanatili sana silang kasama natin. Ngunit umalis sila, kaya't maliwanag na silang lahat ay hindi tunay na atin."(1 Juan 2:19)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>8.) Islam </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Palaging Tinitira ang mga Sulat ni Apostol Pablo</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Kaya lang, ang ilang bahagi sa kanyang mga sulat ay mahirap unawain, at binibigyan ng maling kahulugan ng mga mangmang at magugulo ang pag-iisip. Ganyan din ang kanilang ginagawa sa ibang mga Kasulatan, kaya nga't ipinapahamak nila ang kanilang sarili."(2 Pedro 3:16)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ang problema sa mga taong ito sa itaas, nangaral sila pero hindi sila tinawag para gawin ito!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Tulad ng mga batong buhay, maging bahagi kayo ng isang templong espirituwal. Bilang mga paring itinalaga para sa Diyos (Isa na si Fr. Abe Dito), mag-alay kayo sa Diyos ng mga handog na espirituwal na kalugud-lugod sa kanya alang-alang kay Jesu-Cristo."(1 Pedro 2:5)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Tungkulin ng mga pari na ituro ang tunay na kaalaman tungkol sa Diyos. Sila (Kasama dyan si Fr. Abe) ang dapat sangguniin ng mga tao tungkol sa aking kalooban, sapagkat sila ang mga sugo ng Panginoon na Makapangyarihan sa lahat."(Malachi 2:7)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Eh yung mga taga splendor at mga cfd, nasa bibliya din ba?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"In those days I will pour my Spirit on my servants, on both men and women. They will speak what God has revealed."(Acts 2:18)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Sila din yung mga hinirang ng Diyos, na natira na hindi sumuporta sa RH Bill.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Ganoon din sa kasalukuyan; mayroon pang nalalabing mga hinirang ng Diyos dahil sa kanyang kagandahang-loob."(Roma 11:5)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/207791465900439/permalink/613090495370532/">Nasa Bible Din Ba Ang Mga Anti-Catholic, Pati na ang kanilang mga Founders? By: Lay Person Scripturist</a>FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-53975041929891014172013-03-15T22:48:00.004+08:002013-03-15T22:48:45.697+08:00The Canon of the Bible<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Biblia Sacra: Hebrew, Chaldean, Greek and Latin</span></td></tr>
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All Christians realize that if God has revealed Himself by communicating His will to man, man must be able to know with assurance where that revelation lies. Hence the need for a list (i.e. canon) of books of the Bible. In other words, man needs to know without error (i.e. infallibly) what the books of the Bible are. There must be an authority which will make that decision.<br />
The canon of the Bible refers to the definitive list of the books which are considered to be divine revelation and included therein. A canon distinguishes what is revealed and divine from what is not revealed and human. "Canon" (Greek <i>kanon</i>) means a reed; a straight rod or bar; a measuring stick; something serving to determine, rule, or measure. Because God did not explicitly reveal what books are the inspired books of the Bible, title by title, to anyone, we must look to His guidance in discovering the canon of the Bible.<br />
Jesus has told us that he has not revealed all truths to us.<br />
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<dt><span style="color: red;">Jn 16:12-13</span></dt>
<dd><span style="color: red;">I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.</span></dd></dl>
Jesus then told us how he was planning to assist us in knowing other truths.<br />
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<dt><span style="color: #a64d79;">Jn 14:16-17</span></dt>
<dd><span style="color: #a64d79;">And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.</span></dd>
<dt><span style="color: #990000;">Jn 15:26</span></dt>
<dd><span style="color: #990000;">When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.</span></dd></dl>
The New Testament writers sensed how they handled truth-bearing under the influence of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth.<br />
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<dt><span style="color: purple;">1 Cor 15:3-4</span></dt>
<dd><span style="color: purple;">For I handed on (<i>paredoka</i>) to you as of first importance what I also received ...</span></dd>
<dt><span style="color: #0c343d;">2 Tim 2:2</span></dt>
<dd><span style="color: #0c343d;">And what you heard from me through many witnesses entrust (<i>parathou</i>) to faithful people who will have the ability to teach others as well.</span></dd></dl>
<b>There was a constant history of faithful people from Paul's time through the Apostolic and Post Apostolic Church.</b><br />
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<dd><b><span style="color: #660000;">Melito, bishop of Sardis, an ancient city of Asia Minor</span> (see <span style="color: purple;">Rev 3</span>), </b><span style="color: #660000;"><b>c. 170 AD</b> </span>produced the first known Christian attempt at an Old Testament canon. His list maintains the Septuagint order of books but contains only the Old Testament protocanonicals minus the Book of Esther.</dd>
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<dd><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>The Council of Laodicea, c. 360</b>,</span> produced a list of books similar to today's canon. This was one of the Church's earliest decisions on a canon.</dd>
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<dd><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Pope Damasus, 366-384</b>,</span> in his Decree, listed the books of today's canon.</dd>
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<dd><span style="color: #660000;">The Council of Rome, 382,</span> was the forum which prompted Pope Damasus' Decree.</dd>
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<dd><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">Bishop Exuperius of Toulouse wrote to Pope Innocent I in 405</span> </b>requesting a list of canonical books. Pope Innocent listed the present canon.</dd>
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<dd>The <span style="color: red;"><b>Council of Hippo</b></span>, a local north Africa council of bishops created the list of the Old and New Testament books in 393 which is the same as the Roman Catholic list today.</dd>
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<dd>The<span style="color: #274e13;"><b> Council of Carthage</b></span>, a local north Africa council of bishops created the same list of canonical books in 397. This is the council which many Protestant and Evangelical Christians take as the authority for the New Testament canon of books. The Old Testament canon from the same council is identical to Roman Catholic canon today. Another Council of Carthage in 419 offered the same list of canonical books.</dd>
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<dd>Since the Roman Catholic Church does not define truths unless errors abound on the matter, Roman Catholic Christians look to the Council of Florence, an ecumenical council in 1441 for the first definitive list of canonical books.</dd>
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<dd>The final infallible definition of canonical books for Roman Catholic Christians came from the Council of Trent in 1556 in the face of the errors of the Reformers who rejected seven Old Testament books from the canon of scripture to that time.</dd></dl>
<b>There was no canon of scripture in the early Church; there was no Bible. </b>The Bible is the book of the Church; she is not the Church of the Bible. It was the Church--her leadership, faithful people--guided by the authority of the Spirit of Truth which discovered the books inspired by God in their writing. The Church did not <i>create</i> the canon; she <i>discerned</i> the canon. Fixed canons of the Old and New Testaments, hence the Bible, were not known much before the end of the 2nd and early 3rd century.<br />
Catholic Christians together with Protestant and Evangelical Christians hold the same <i>canon of the New Testament, 27 books</i>, all having been originally written in the Greek language.<br />
Catholic Christians accept <i>the longer Old Testament canon, 46 books</i>, from the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Alexandrian Canon.<br />
Protestant and Evangelical Christians, from the Reformers onward, accept <i>the shorter Old Testament canon, 39 books</i>, from the Hebrew Palestinian Canon. Jews have the same canon as Protestants.<br />
Canonical books are those books which have been acknowledged as belonging to the list of books the Church considers to be inspired and to contain a rule of faith and morals. Some criteria used to determine canonicity were<br />
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<li>special relation to God, i.e., inspiration;</li>
<li>apostolic origin;</li>
<li>used in Church services, i.e., used by the community of believers guided by the Holy Spirit.</li>
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Other terms for canonical books should be distinguished: the protocanonical books, deuterocanonical books, and the apocryphal books.<br />
The<b><span style="color: blue;"> <i>protocanonical</i></span></b> (from the Greek <i>proto </i>meaning first) books are those books of the Bible that were admitted into the canon of the Bible with little or no debate (e.g., the Pentateuch of the Old Testament and the Gospels)<br />
The <i><b><span style="color: purple;">deuterocanonical</span></b></i> (from the Greek <i>deutero</i> meaning second) books are those books of the Bible that were under discussion for a while until doubts about their canonicity were resolved (e.g. Sirach and Baruch of the Old Testament, and the Johannine epistles of the New Testament).<br />
The <i>apocryphal</i> (from the Greek <i>apokryphos</i> meaning hidden) books have multiple meanings:<br />
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<li>complimentary meaning - that the sacred books were too exalted for the general public;</li>
<li>pejorative meaning - that the orthodoxy of the books were questioned;</li>
<li>heretical meaning - that the books were forbidden to be read; and lastly</li>
<li>neutral meaning - simply noncanonical books, the meaning the word has today.</li>
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Another word, <i>pseudepigrapha</i> (from the Greek meaning false writing) is used for works clearly considered to be false.<br />
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Source:<a href="http://www.catholicapologetics.org/ap030700.htm">The Canon of the Bible</a>FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-7278777220007363962013-03-15T21:41:00.000+08:002013-03-15T21:41:59.786+08:00PURGATORY IN THE BIBLE by Atty. Marwil Llasos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The Souls in Purgatory after their purgation they are led to heaven</span></td></tr>
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<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38745" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermediate state: Purgatory. No second chances – the souls there are saved, but through fire (1 Corinthians 3:15)</strong></div>
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<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38756" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There is a purgatory, and the souls there detained are assisted by the suffrages of the faithful, but especially by the most acceptable sacrifice of the altar” (Council of Trent).</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This dogmatic definition contains 3 points of faith that all Catholics are required to believe:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38759" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. There is a purgatory</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38762" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. After death, souls suffer there for their sins</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38765" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. The living can extend assistance to such souls</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38768" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a purgatory</strong></span></div>
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<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38770" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Forgiveness of sin in the next – Matthew 12:32</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38772" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Under the earth” – Revelations 5:2-3; Philippians 2:10</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38774" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After death, souls suffer there for their sins</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38776" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You will not come out of it till you pay the last penny” – Matthew 5:26</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38778" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Matthean Parallel” (See: Matthew 18:23-35)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38780" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Lazarusian Incident” (See: Luke 16:19-31)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38783" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spirits in prison – 1 Peter 3:18-20; 4:6</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38787" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Restrain not grace from the dead – Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 7:37</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See: Ruth 1:8</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38797" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Maccabees 12:38-36</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38793" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection” (2 Maccabees 12:43, Douay-Rheims Bible).</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prayer for the dead</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Maccabees 12:44-46</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins” (2 Maccabees 12:46, Douay-Rheims Bible).</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See: Nehemiah 1:4-6, cf. Nehemiah 2:5</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #993300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Understanding Purgatory:</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Understanding the doctrine of purgatory demands knowing the nature/attributes of God:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God is Holy (Habakkuk 1:13; Isaiah 6:3; Revelations 4:8; Leviticus 11:44</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God is Just (1 John 1:9; Revelations 15:3)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God is Merciful (Psalm 116, Lamentations 3:22, Psalm 103:8)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See: Ruth 2:20</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38822" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God is Love (1 John 4:8, 16)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38820" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Understanding the doctrine of purgatory demands a proper understanding of the concept of sin:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_38818" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mortal Sin vs. Venial Sin (1 John 5:16-17, NRSV)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nuestra Señora de Salvacion, ruega por nosotros! Marwil</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2013/03/06/purgatory-in-the-bible-by-atty-marwil-llasos/">PURGATORY IN THE BIBLE by Atty. Marwil Llasos</a></strong></span></div>
FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-13398927392057783132013-03-15T21:13:00.001+08:002013-03-15T21:13:30.705+08:00VIRGINITAS IN PARTU [The Virginity of Mary During the Birth of Jesus] by Atty. Marwil Llasos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_41719" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This article is originally published in Atty. Marwil Llasos apologetic blog dedicated to the defense of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Here is the link to the original site:</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I opened my email only yesterday (11 January 2009 – Sunday). It is quite unfortunate that I missed the action – so to speak.</strong></div>
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<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_41734" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So much ink has been spilled by my post on the issue of Virginitas in Partu. I am grateful to Fr. Abe for calling my post “brilliant.” However, it did not seem to be so to at least a single soul named “Fuschia” (not his real name, to protect his identity. Hereafter, I will rerfer to him as “F” for brevity).</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_41740" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I learned lately that F had already been expelled from this group. I am sad that this had to happen. This extreme disciplinary measure had to be done, after much prayer and discernment, to protect the faith of the other members of the group who may have been scandalized by the clearly heterodox views of F.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_41743" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While F’s heretical views may be refuted (as have been done by some members of this group, including Fr. A), what I find appalling is his disrespect, if not contempt, to an ordained minister of God. I am referring to F’s unwarranted attacks on Fr. A This we cannot allow.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_41750" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have been monitoring F’s post in the past. While I credited him with the benefit of the doubt, I must confess that I was concerned with the novelty – nay, heresy – of his positions. For instance, he claimed that man is “ontologically” equal to God. Well, I may not be a philosopher but I know fully well that such claim is absurd and dead wrong. The claim that man can be equal to God, ontological or otherwise, is nothing but satanic presumption. The view that man can be equal to God was first expressed by the infernal serpent in the Garden of Eden. The tempter hissed: “You shall be like God” (Gen. 3:4). When man believed that canard, look what happened! Indeed, to say that man is equal to God, albeit ontologically, still blurs the distinction between the creature and the Creator. That is simply unacceptable. We cannot repackage the diabolical lie by merely coating it with high-sounding philosophical terminology.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_41756" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">F’s heresies are alarming. First, he denied Mary’s title of Mother of God. That made him a Nestorian heretic. Instead of immediately recanting his Nestorian belief, he tarried until the opposition was already overwhelming. He went at great lengths justifying his proffered formula that Mary should best be called “Mother of Jesus our God” instead of what the Council Fathers decreed at Ephesus : Theotokos. Fortunately, F recanted – grudgingly.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1362324014475_41759" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And – ooops, he did again! This time he questioned the in partu virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. What disgusted me most was the way in which he justified his denial of this aspect of the dogma of perpetual virginity. As Fr. A ably demonstrated, F went to the extent of falsifying or misrepresenting Ludwig Ott just to lend credence to his clearly erroneous view. For questioning Mary’s perpetual virginity, specifically Mary’s virginity in partu, F is clearly in league with the heresiarch Helvidius.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The decision to expel F from the group is in accord with St. Paul ’s admonition: “He who is a heretic, after a first or second admonition, reject!” (Titus 3:10). F had all the opportunity to retract his errors and retrace his steps, but his pride, I believe, stood in the way. It is not yet too late for him to repent, though. And I ask God to flood F with His grace. I offer my prayers to the Blessed Virgin in reparation for F’s blasphemous remarks against Our Blessed Mother, </strong><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Virgo Castissima.</strong></em></span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since I was the one who posted an article on Mary’s virginitas in partu, and in effect triggered the maelstrom that followed, I am impelled by what I perceive to be my duty to end the controversy. Allow me to add my two cents worth in this issue.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prefatorily, I must commend applaud for Fr. A for his spirited and vigorous, yet charitable defense of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He led the defense through completion, almost single-handedly. I wish I was with him. As I said, I missed the action because I just opened my email yesterday. Since I have always considered myself the Knight of Mary, I deem it imperative to answer some of F’s claims since he addresses his post specifically to me and Fr. A However, I will not repeat what Fr. A had already stated.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As F would have it, the Mary’s virginitas ante partum, in partu and post partum should be treated as three separate dogmas. So how many Marian dogma’s would there be? 4 + 3 = 7? If F would count the Marian dogmas, it would appear –</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, that doesn’t make sense. You and I know that there is such a thing as the proposed Fifth Marian Dogma – Mary as Mediatrix, Co-redemptrix and Advocate of the People of God. If Fuschia is right, then the proposed dogma would be the Eighth.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Levity aside, there are just Four Marian dogmas. Virginitas ante partum, in partu and post partum, while each of which are de fide, are mere components or facets of the dogma of Mary’s perpetual virginity. Marian scholar, Msgr. Arthur Burton Calkins states: “It is the Catholic Church’s perennial belief in the three facets of this mystery which immediately touch upon the role of Our Lady that is the specific object fact that she was a virgin before (ante partum), during (in partu) and after the birth of Christ (post partum)” [Msgr. Arthur Burton Calkins, Our Lady’s Perpetual Virginity, in Mariology: A guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and Consecrated Persons, Mark I. Miravalle, ed. (Goleta: CA, Queenship Publishing, 2007) p. 277]</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When theological reflection becomes a moment of doxology and latria, the mystery of Mary’s virginity is disclosed, allowing one to catch a glimpse of other aspects and other depths</em>” [AAS 85 (1993) 664, quoted in Msgr. Arthur Burton Calkins, Our Lady’s Perpetual Virginity, in Mariology: A guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and Consecrated Persons, Mark I. Miravalle, ed. (Goleta: CA, Queenship Publishing, 2007) p. 282].</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I also cited John 1:13 using the alternative rendering footnoted in the New Jerusalem Bible in relation to Mary’s virginity in partu. “Who was born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God Himself.” Exegete and Marian scholar Ignace de la Potterie, S.J., rendered it –</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[See Ignace de la Potterie, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary in the Mystery of the Covenant</em> (Staten Island, NY: St. Paul’s, 1992) p. 136].</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">De la Potterie, following the doctoral thesis of Peter Horftrichter, sees a scriptural indication for John 1:13 (above) for the virginitas in partu, the virginity of the birthing of Jesus. De la Potterie proved his rendering of John 1:13 by pointing out that “all the texts from the second century witnessing to our passage have the singular. An in addition, it is interesting to notice that all these witnesses, when they are localized geographically, are not concentrated in one area, but are diffused over the Mediterranean basin: in Asia Minor, most likely in Palestine (Justin), at Rome (Hippolytus), in Gaul (Irenaeus), in Northern Africa (Tertullian), and at Alexandria in Egypt. That is a very important fact because it demonstrates that it demonstrates that in the second century, during a time in which rapid means of communication did not yet exist, this text was universally read only in the singular. And this within one century of the composition of the Fourth Gospel!” [Ignace de la Potterie, Mary in the Mystery of the Covenant (Staten Island, NY: St. Paul’s, 1992) p. 137].</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">De la Potterie, following the doctoral thesis of, Peter Horftrichter argues that “in several Old Testament texts and later in Jewish tradition, the word “blood” also used in the plural for the loss of blood which is linked with a woman’s period; that is with menstruation and childbirth, hence of a birth.” Thus, “in the context for the laws of purification it signifies that Jesus, in being born, did not cause an effusion of blood in his mother; in other words, at the birth of Jesus there would not have taken place any shedding of blood. There would then be here a scriptural indication for what the theologians have in mind when they speak of the “virginitas in partu,” the virginity of the birthing of Jesus” [Ignace de la Potterie, Mary in the Mystery of the Covenant (Staten Island, NY: St. Paul’s, 1992) p. 148-149].</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish to end by pointing to the lot of A. Mitterer, the theologian quoted by F with gusto. Dr. Albert Mitterer’s 1952 study Dogma und Biologie which questioned Our Lady’s physical integrity and the absence of pain resulted in a monitum issued by the Holy Office (now the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) stating that “theological works are being published in which the delicate question of Mary’s virginity in partu is treated with a deplorable crudeness of expression and, what is more serious, in flagrant contradiction to the doctrinal tradition of the Church and to the sense of respect the faithful have” and thus prohibiting the publication of such dissertation in the future. Mitterer’s work is condemned!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fuschia can opt to stay on the side of Helvidius, or of Mitterer and his favorite theologians. We at apologia should stay on the side of Our Holy Mother the Church. As defenders of the faith, we can do no less. We should be part of the solution, not the problem.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Church understands Mary’s virginity during the birth of Christ as an absence of any physical injury or violation to Mary’s virginal seal through a special divine action of the all-powerful God. This divine act would safeguard Mary’s physical virginity which is both a symbol and part of her perfect, overall virginity; a virginity both internal and external, of soul and of body.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fathers of the Church overwhelmingly taught the “miraculous birth” of Jesus that resulted in no injury to the Blessed Virgin Mary’s physical integrity. St. Augustine stated that “it is not right that He who came to heal corruption should by His advent violate integrity” (Sermo 189, No. 2; PL 38, 1005).</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To Eve it was said: “in pain you shall bring forth children” (Gen/ 3:16). Mary was exempt from this law, for preserving her virginal integrity inviolate, she brought forth Jesus the Son of God, without experiencing, as we have already said, any sense of pain</em>.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Viva Señor San Jose!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: navy; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: </strong><a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2013/03/06/virginitas-in-partu-the-virginity-of-mary-during-the-birth-of-jesus-by-atty-marwil-llasos/">VIRGINITAS IN PARTU [The Virginity of Mary During the Birth of Jesus] by Atty. Marwil Llasos</a></span></div>
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</header>FiX mEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024995341824543360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135730518976004702.post-69607355245451977092013-03-15T20:37:00.005+08:002013-03-15T20:37:50.596+08:00RH REFLECTION | In Thailand, teen pregnancies rise despite wide access to contraceptives by Mar Domingo<div style="text-align: center;">
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File photo of pregnant teens in the Philippines. Erik de Castro, Reuters
BANGKOK – As the Philippines clears the way for the implementation of a hardfought Reproductive Health Law, it may find that reaping all the benefits for which the law is intended will continue to demand holistic, complicated interventions. On the battlefront against teen pregnancies, for one, experience in Thailand suggests that greater access to contraceptives will not necessarily or immediately bring down alarming figures.<br />
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When Mallika, a young Thai woman, told her parents she was pregnant at 17, they pulled her out of school and ordered her to marry the baby’s father. But the marriage didn’t happen and the one-time aspiring singer now cares for her baby girl alone.<br />
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“I love her, but at the time I hid in shame,” said Mallika, now 23 and a vendor of cheap, made-in-China clothing at a weekend market in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok.<br />
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“The boy’s family wanted to pay me to shut up and stay away from them. We were both children ourselves,” she added, sitting in her dilapidated apartment overlooking a highway on the outskirts of Bangkok.<br />
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Mallika’s situation is, sadly, far from unusual. Thailand’s teenage pregnancy rate is the highest in Southeast Asia after neighbouring Laos, according to the Bureau of Reproductive Health at the Thai Public Health Ministry.<br />
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This, despite the fact that unlike the predominantly Catholic Philippines, Thailand had long ago allowed easy access to contraception and birth control pills, with condoms and most other contraceptives readily available and sold over the counter.<br />
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In fact, even though the overall birthrate is dropping, teen births are on the rise. Out of every 1,000 live births, 54 are from teen mothers aged 15-19 – higher than in the United States and ten times higher than Singapore’s teen pregnancy rate.<br />
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What’s more, it’s rising fast. The number of live births by Thai teenage mothers aged 15-18 increased 43 percent between 2000 and 2011, a Thai annual public health report shows.<br />
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Though there are many factors responsible, health experts put weight on cultural mores that make frank discussion of the issue difficult, whether in an official context or a personal one. This is complicated by gender issues.<br />
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“Women are told to protect their virginity but Thai men who have multiple sexual encounters are seen as cool,” said Visa Benjamano, a commissioner at the Thai National Human Rights Council (NHRC).<br />
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“If men sleep around, their image is not at stake whereas a woman’s image is. Women are generally more afraid to discuss their sexual health needs in public.”<br />
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Although sexual education is part of the national school curriculum, teaching is clearly insufficient. The Education Ministry limits instruction on the subject to eight hours a year despite changing attitudes towards sex among the young.<br />
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“Teachers are prudish and out of touch with Thai kids today and they approach the topic like a biology class rather than talking about the emotional issues involved,” said Visa.<br />
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The consequences of unplanned pregnancy are often left out of classroom teaching too, despite a lack of legal options.<br />
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A 2011 report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Thailand’s National and Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) shows the number of women hospitalised in connection with abortions increased by over 16 percent between 1994 and 2009, hitting 60,000 in 2009.<br />
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Yet abortion is illegal in Thailand except in cases of rape or incest, to save a woman’s life or preserve her physical or mental health, and if the woman is under 15 years of age.<br />
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Under Thai law the penalty for performing illegal abortions is up to five years in prison or a fine of up to 10,000 baht ($340). Despite this, illegal clinics and back street abortions abound.<br />
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In 2010, Thai police found 2,000 foetuses on the grounds of a Bangkok Buddhist temple.They were believed to have been sent there from illegal abortion clinics.<br />
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The discovery left the Thai public grappling with the reality of a highly charged religious and social issue. Abortion is recognised as a “sin” in the Theravada Buddhism practiced by up to 95 percent of the population.<br />
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But when it comes to teenage girls getting them, social stigma gets in the way.<br />
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Kanya Musiket was 15 when she started a physical relationship with a boy in her neighbourhood. But when she ventured to a local shop to buy condoms, shopkeepers would look at her “disapprovingly,” making her feel ashamed.<br />
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Looking elsewhere<br />
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In a bid to find solutions, a Thai delegation visited Britain in November 2012, looking to emulate programmes there.<br />
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The number of babies born to teen mothers in England dropped by 27 percent between 2000 and 2010 and overall conception by teens fell by 25 percent between 1999 and 2010. Some areas, like Hackney in East London, showed reductions of over 40 percent.<br />
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This was due largely to a 1999 government plan aiming to halve England’s under 18 conception rate by 2010. The plan used local grants and guidelines, government funds to improve access to contraceptives and media campaigns to raise awareness.<br />
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By contrast, Thailand issued a population strategy plan in 2012 that focuses on reducing teen births but does not include either target reduction goals or concrete ways to do so.<br />
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There are university-led sexual health awareness programs, and the UNFPA is trying to raise awareness through both civil and private networks. Yet the most fundamental measure is the hardest to achieve: changing attitudes.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">“This is about trusting the moral standards of those young people whom we have invested years of education and nurturing – our children,” said Caspar Peek, UNFPA Representative for Thailand and Country Director for Malaysia. </span></b><br />
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<b>“We need everyone … to see this as a challenge to development and not just something bad that happens to teenagers because they do ‘bad’ things.”</b><br />
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Sources: <a href="http://www.splendorofthechurch.com.ph/2013/03/11/rh-reflection-in-thailand-teen-pregnancies-rise-despite-wide-access-to-contraceptives/">RH REFLECTION | In Thailand, teen pregnancies rise despite wide access to contraceptives by Mar Domingo</a>
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<a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/56760/rh-reflection--in-thailand-teen-pregnancies-rise-despite-wide-access-to-contraceptives">RH REFLECTION | In Thailand, teen pregnancies rise despite wide access to contraceptives</a></div>
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<span style="color: red;">The Miraculous Image of Sto.Niño de Cebu</span></div>
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A BANCA ride in the 2001 fluvial procession of the
Sto. Niño set the Seville family on a one-year journey to embracing the Catholic
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Rasty Seville, 62, and his wife Lilibeth, 52 ,
said <strong>they were Protestants when they attended their first Sto. Niño fluvial
procession in 2001.</strong></div>
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A friend invited them to join them in a banca ride
with 20 people on board in barangay Pasil, Cebu City. </div>
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Out of curiousity, they went along. The overloaded
banca wasn't even registered for the fluvial procession.</div>
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Still, Rasty said it encouraged him to hire a
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Cebu Daily News found the Seville family, all
dressed in red, set to join last Saturday's fluvial procession at the Ouano
wharf in Mandaue City, their 11th trip.</div>
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Rasty's wife, Lilibeth , recalls how she ended up
owning her first Sto. Niño figurine.</div>
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In a visit to a Catholic store in a mall, the
store keeper called her attention to a Sto. Niño image similar to the one at the
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The tenant whispered to her that the Sto. Niño
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<strong>Lilibeth said she hesitated because as
Protestants, they didn’t approve of what they viewed as the worship of images.</strong>
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The storekeeper said she would regret not getting
it. Lillibeth left the store, bothered by the statement.</div>
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She met her husband Rasty who went to a bank and
withdrew P3,000 to buy a table fountain. </div>
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Lilibeth told him about the encounter in the store
and described the Sto Niño icon displayed near the glass window.</div>
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They instead returned to the store and bought the
icon for P2,800. </div>
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<strong>Lilibeth admitted that she felt awkward holding
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She said the Sto. Niño appeared to her in dreams
calling her "Mommy Beth.”</div>
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"I asked him, why of all people did you choose me?
I was surprised when he answered. He told me in my dreams that he chose me
because I have a pure heart," she told CDN.. </div>
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<strong>A year later the couple decided to convert to the
Catholic faith.</strong> </div>
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<strong>Lilibeth said their new faith has bonded their
family closer together.</strong> </div>
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The Sto. Niño has become a part of their family
and is considered their "baby.” </div>
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A sanctuary in their home is dedicated for the
Sto. Niño where they offer flowers and fruits every Thursday and Sunday. </div>
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The icon, dressed in red velvet pants and upper
clothes, has become the family’s 'guide', whom they credit for many
blessings.</div>
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Lilibeth said their daughter Sunshine passed the
nursing board exam as well as her interview for a job in the United States.</div>
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Their Gisangag Express and construction business
are doing well while their son Kris Jordan won the Sinulog Idol tilt. </div>
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Now residing in a two-storey house in barangay
Cansojong in Talisay City, southern Cebu, the Seville couple and their children
joined the 2013 Sto. Niño fluvial procession. The showed up in red shirts and
dresses. </div>
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They rented a bigger boat this time and brought
their “Baby Niño” for the fluvial procession, their 11th time in a row. /Carmel
Loise Matus, Correspondent</div>
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My friend <a href="http://phatcatholic.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;">Nick Hardesty</a> has made a great biblical argument for holy water, in debate with an anti-Catholic. Some of the input initially came from myself, as he asked my advice on some ways to go about arguing it (particularly from my <a href="http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2006/12/sacramentalism.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;">paper on sacramentalism</a>), but the lion's share is his work, from his <a href="http://turretindebate.blogspot.com/2007/12/phatcatholic-opening-statement.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;">opening statement</a> in the debate. Any further words below (apart from Scripture and very minor editing for this version) are his own (Bible verses: RSV).<br />
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<strong style="color: #cc33cc;">God Uses Created Things In Order to Produce Supernatural Effects In Our Lives</strong></div>
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There are many examples in Scripture where Jesus and the apostles use created things to produce supernatural effects in the lives of human beings. Jesus’ garment healed the woman with the hemorrhage:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew 9:20-22</span> And behold, a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment; for she said to herself, "If I only touch his garment, I shall be made well." Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.</blockquote>
His saliva mixed with dirt (along with water from the pool of Siloam) gave sight to the blind man:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">John 9:6-7 </span>As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man's eyes with the clay, saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Silo'am" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.</blockquote>
Many were healed by being anointed with oil:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark 6:13 </span>And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">James 5:14-15</span> Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Revelation 3:18 </span>Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.</blockquote>
Paul’s handkerchiefs cured disease and expelled evil spirits:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Acts 19:11-12 </span>And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.</blockquote>
Elijah’s mantle parted the Jordan:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Kings 2:8,14 </span>Then Eli'jah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground. . . . Then he took the mantle of Eli'jah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, saying, "Where is the LORD, the God of Eli'jah?" And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other; and Eli'sha went over.</blockquote>
The bones of his apprentice, Elisha, brought a man back to life:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Kings 13:21 </span>And as a man was being buried, lo, a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Eli'sha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Eli'sha, he revived, and stood on his feet.</blockquote>
Of course, the Lord wrought innumerable miracles through the rods of Moses (cf. <a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Exo+4%3A2-4%3B+9%3A23%3B+10%3A13%3B+14%3A16%3B+17%3A9-11%3B+Num+20%3A11&section=0&version=rsv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Exo 4:2-4; 9:23; 10:13; 14:16; 17:9-11; Num 20:11</a>) and Aaron (cf. <a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Exo+7%3A10-12%2C20%3B+8%3A5-6%2C17%3B+Num+17%3A8&section=0&version=rsv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Exo 7:10-12,20; 8:5-6,17; Num 17:8</a>) as well.<br />
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<strong style="color: #cc33cc;">In Scripture, Water is Used to Cleanse, Purify, and Heal Human Beings</strong><br />
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Believe it or not, there are examples of holy water in Scripture:</div>
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1) Water that has been blessed:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Exodus 23:25 </span>You shall serve the LORD your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.</blockquote>
2) Priest using “holy water”:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Numbers 5:17</span> and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.</blockquote>
3) The unclean remain so until the “water for impurity” is sprinkled upon them:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Numbers 19:9,13-20 </span>And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin. . . . Whoever touches a dead person, the body of any man who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him. "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one who comes into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is unclean.<br />
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Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel; then a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the furnishings, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave; and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean. "But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; because the water for impurity has not been thrown upon him, he is unclean.</blockquote>
4) Elisha makes the water “healed” (KJV) or “purified” (NASB) or "wholesome" (RSV):<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Kings 2:19-22 </span>(KJV) And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren. And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.</blockquote>
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So, the idea of “holy water” and its use is not foreign to Scripture. Notice from the third passage that a person remained unclean until water was sprinkled upon him. This points to an important 3-fold purpose for water in Scripture:</div>
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<strong>Cleansing:</strong> cf. <a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Lev+14%3A8-9%2C50-52%3B+15%3A5-27%3B+17%3A15%3B+Num+8%3A7%3B+19%3A12%2C18-19%3B+2+Ki+5%3A12%3B+Psa+51%3A7%3B+Ezek+16%3A4%3B+36%3A25%3B+Eph+5%3A26%3B+Heb+10%3A22&section=0&version=rsv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Lev 14:8-9,50-52; 15:5-27; 17:15; Num 8:7; 19:12,18-19; 2 Ki 5:12; Psa 51:7; Ezek 16:4; 36:25; Eph 5:26; Heb 10:22</a><br />
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<strong></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Purifying:</span> cf. <a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Exo+29%3A4%3B+40%3A12%2C30-32%3B+Lev+11%3A32%3B+16%3A4%2C24%2C26%2C28%3B+22%3A6%3B+Num+19%3A7-8%3B+31%3A23%3B+Deut+23%3A10-11%3B+1+Ki+18%3A33-34%3B+Jn+2%3A6%3B+Heb+9%3A19&section=0&version=rsv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Exo 29:4; 40:12,30-32; Lev 11:32; 16:4,24,26,28; 22:6; Num 19:7-8; 31:23; Deut 23:10-11; 1 Ki 18:33-34; Jn 2:6; Heb 9:19</a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Healing:</span> cf. <a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=2+Ki+5%3A14%3B+Isa+35%3A5-7&section=0&version=rsv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">2 Ki 5:14; Isa 35:5-7</a>; <a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Jn+5%3A4&section=0&version=kjv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Jn 5:4</a> (KJV); <a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Jn+9%3A6-7&section=0&version=rsv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: #9a3a07; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">9:6-7</a>.</blockquote>
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This is very significant, considering that demons were considered “unclean spirits” (cf.<a href="http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Mt+10%3A1%3B+12%3A43%3B+Mk+1%3A23%2C26-27%3B+3%3A11%2C30%3B+5%3A2%2C8%2C13%3B+6%3A7%3B+7%3A25%3B+9%3A25%3B+Lk+4%3A33%2C36%3B+6%3A18%3B+8%3A29%3B+9%3A42%3B+11%3A24%3B+Acts+5%3A16%3B+8%3A7&section=0&version=rsv&language=en" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Mt 10:1; 12:43; Mk 1:23,26-27; 3:11,30; 5:2,8,13; 6:7; 7:25; 9:25; Lk 4:33,36; 6:18; 8:29; 9:42; 11:24; Acts 5:16; 8:7</a>) and any person was unclean if possessed by one. It only makes sense that something that cleanses, purifies, and heals can be put to good use against something as unclean as a demon.</div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The origin of the
Christmas Carol tradition is obviously the re-enactment of the Angelic
Jubilation on the Birth of the Messiah found in </span></b><b><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke chapter 2</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. That is the reason why both Catholic and
Protestant authors composed music of excellent quality proclaiming the Glorious
Birth of the Savior and King combined with the joyous singing of the Choir of
Angels. Examples of these are: O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL, JOY TO THE WORLD, HARK
THE HERALD ANGELS SING and many others. Obviously this Biblical Chapter is the
origin of such a holy custom:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke 2:8-20</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Shepherds and the Angels</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8And there were shepherds living out in the
fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9An angel of the Lord
appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were
terrified. 10But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good
news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11Today in the town of David
a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ[</span></b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202:4-20&version=31#fen-NIV-24977afen-NIV-24977a" target="_blank" title="See footnote a"><b><span style="color: purple;">a</span></b></a><b>]
the Lord. 12This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths
and lying in a manger.”</b></span><b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
[<i>The Angel prophesied that the Birth of the Messiah will bring great joy for
all the people. Well, this is true first and foremost among Catholics who
celebrates the Birth of Jesus with great celebrations and festivity. Others do
not celebrate it at all – like the pagans… THOSE WHO ARE CLAIMING TO BE
CHRISTIANS AND YET DO NOT CELEBRATE THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD JESUS WITH
REJOICING ARE ACTUALLY PAGAN-LIKE in their belief and position.</i>]</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13Suddenly a great
company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14″Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor
rests.”</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> [In Latin Vulgate: “<i>Gloria
in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis…</i>” See, the
Latin inscription in the Belen is literally derived from the Bible.]</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15When the angels had
left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to
Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us
about.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16So they hurried off
and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17When
they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them
about this child, 18and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said
to them. 19But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her
heart. 20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things
they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.</span></b></div>
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The Gospel Book</div>
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The Bacculo of H.E. Ricardo J. Card. Vidal for the Nat'l Thanksgiving Mass</div>
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The shepherd looks familiar? Yup! It is the shepherd in your Catechism of the Catholic Cover Page</div>
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On the bacculo the Palm is engraved with the map of Cebu and below is the Coat of Arms of the Archdiocese of Cebu.</div>
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The Function Hall of the Newly renovated Commission on Worship office</div>
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This cross set on the staff was bought from Europe during the Canonization Rites</div>
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The new office of the Archdiocesan Liturgist</div>
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