Council of Florence Session 11 (Bull Cantate Domino): "With regard to children, since the danger of death is often present and the only remedy available to them is the sacrament of baptism by which they are snatched away from the dominion of the devil and adopted as children of God, it admonishes that sacred baptism is not to be deferred for forty or eighty days or any other period of time..."
Maybe so.But any business undertaking ,small or large requires income and to be able to sell religion successfully at any level, requires astute marketing of the product.
The Church councils. That is the bishops in union with the Pope, definitively declaring what has been the continual teaching of the Church.The Pope can also do the same, but usually does so through the councils.
Jesus made that promise to one Church. He lit a lamp and set it upon a lamp stand so to speak. That is like saying couldn't a king give anyone the ability to speak on his behalf? Well yes, but why would he? He has people to do that on his behalf. And the people can know that those ministers speak on his behalf because they are part of the official system that has been established.The Davidic kingdom was a prefigurement of the kingdom of Christ. In the Davidic kingdom the king had ministers to work and speak on his behalf. Additionally, there was a steward (like a prime minister) who had all the authority of the king himself, save the crown. As this was the system of the Davidic kingdom, this is the system of the Catholic Chruch.
Yes He does. However, Jesus also left us a Church with His authority to teach the truth and provide the sacraments.
you cant pretend that the teaching is that the "only"... florence's words... way to save an infant is to baptize it, and then still hold out hope that they can still be saved without baptism. that's illogical. the only way it could make sense is to jump through a bunch of hoops that no one who isn't catholic should be expected to jump through.
Have you ever disagreed with any of the Catholic church's doctrines? Do you allow yourself to honestly disagree?I don't agree with everything I hear the pastor say over the pulpit. Every once in awhile, they will say something I don't agree with
I think the Catholic church overlooks the individual guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Most of the denominations have a unique divine history. We can kind of get a clue as to their roots just from their names (Baptist, Methodist,Pentecostal, Presbyterian, etc.). They had genuine revelations meant to be shared with the Body of Christ as a whole. Unfortunately, this often didn't happen. So in one sense denominations are negative when they attempt to isolate themselves from the rest of the Body. Denominations can be a positive when they agree to get together and learn/benefit from one another.
Are you familiar with Pentecostal Catholics?
According to the epistle of James, faith without works is dead. Works like, having access to the scriptures to read them for one's self, not to be read to. You read to children. Adults should have the capacity to read for themselves, but did not for hundreds, indeed a thousand years. I've given you the reference to that fact.
Why do Catholics pray to Mary?
Why do archbishops, cardinals, and the pope carry the Lituus?
Why is Easter celebrated on Sunday when Jesus is said to have died on Friday, and resurrected after three days and three nights?
Why is there a statue of the roman god Jupiter in the Vatican?
Why do Catholics celebrate Christmas at the winter solstice knowing full well that according to scripture, farmers were out in the field when the three wise men visited the manger?
Why does the Roman Catholic Church have a persistent issue--one may argue institutionalized--with their priests and pederasty?
People would petition the queen to ask the king for favours on their behalf.
Meanwhile, He expects that we do not purposefully keep people ignorant, as your Damasus did
Why would the Holy Church absorb a worldly custom of petition to the King's mother [a Queen] to intercede for us with the King, when the King, himself, [Christ] declared himself to be our Advocate with and to the Father? That would imply the Lord's Prayer to not be an effective mode of prayer, ["after this manner, pray ye"] by praying directly to the Father, in the name of Christ, for our gratitude and supplication?
Who created the University system - The Catholic Church.
Are you going to tell me that every Bible produced since the printing press is a perfect translation without error? If not your argument is self invalidating.
Nope. "The first institution that was more fully documented was the Platonic Academy (Figure 1), founded in 387 BCE, with Aristotle's Peripatetic school founded in 335 BCE having derived from Plato's Academy. These schools generally had a select few pupils and were not institutions for mass education.[2] Perhaps one of the first truly international institutions of higher education was the Musaeum, an institutions that brought knowledge to it from around the known world. The Library of Alexandria was part of this institution and it served as a repository for knowledge not just from the Hellenistic world but also accumulated knowledge from Babylonia and Persia that had preceded Greek scholarship. The Musaeum largely functioned like an international university, where students would come to be educated by the best teachers. The Ptolemaic state was tolerant to scholarship and allowed individuals from many regions to come to Alexandria to be involved in this institution.[3]".https://dailyhistory.org/How_did_universities_develop%3F
Show me how Pope Damasus kept people ignorant.
Beyond that, I depend on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to guide.
Such as why I do not pray to Mary, or worship her, for that matter.
Sure I have, but I change my opinion to conform to what the Church teaches. Do I like the idea of an eternal hell? No. Do I wish that there was some way for those who go to hell to be saved? Definitely. However, that is not for me to choose. The Church has been tasked with the salvation of souls and only in her can I be sure of the Truth. If I choose what is the truth, then I make myself Pope.
Now that doesn't mean I agree with everything my priest, bishop, or even the current Pontiff say (I disagree with him more than I ever thought it possible to disagree with a Pope). When they teach the faith I listen and attempt to modify my life. When they teach their own opinions, I am not obliged to follow what they say, but I give it consideration given who it is coming from.
Not at all. This is central to Catholicism. We are all about the need for grace to keep our feet on the path. It is through unity with the Church and her sacraments that the graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit are poured out upon the body of the Church.
We can agree that all Christian should be united. Just as The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are one, all should be one in the Body of Christ. I will say that the only true unity is through the unity that Jesus established - his Church with Peter as the cornerstone. Everything else is ultimately disunity and error.
Not at all.
It would seem to me that the Bible is teaching that you need someone to guide you in understanding the Bible -
Because this is the last command Jesus gave us - Behold thy mother.
First I think there is one major distinction to make. Protestants don't understand that there is a difference between prayer and worship. Since Protestants lack the Mass, they cannot understand the difference.So Jesus is a king in the line of David. In the Davidic kingdom the king's mother was the queen. People would petition the queen to ask the king for favours on their behalf. When Jesus told John, here is your mother he made Mary the mother of all mankind - she is the new Eve as Jesus is the new Adam.So we petition Mary to pray for us and to help us be like her in loving her son.
Why would the Holy Church absorb a worldly custom of petition to the King's mother [a Queen] to intercede for us with the King, when the King, himself, [Christ] declared himself to be our Advocate with and to the Father? That would imply the Lord's Prayer to not be an effective mode of prayer, ["after this manner, pray ye"] by praying directly to the Father, in the name of Christ, for our gratitude and supplication?
That is a pretty specific question - and rather biased in presentation. The origin of the Crosier is unknown.Some writers trace an affinity with the lituus, or rod used by the Roman augurs in their divinations, while others again trace in the crosier an adaptation of the ordinary walking-sticks which were used for support on journeys and in churches before the introduction of seats (Catalani, Pont. Rom., Proleg., xx). At all events, it came at a very early date to be one of the principal insignia of the episcopal office. Just how soon is not easily determined, since in the early passages of the Fathers in which the word occurs it cannot be ascertained whether it is to be taken literally or metaphorically (see 1 Corinthians 4:21) or whether it designates an ecclesiastical ornament at all. In liturgical usage it probably goes back to the fifth century (Kirchenlex., s.v. Hirtenstab). Mention of it is made in a letter of Pope Celestine I (d. 432) to the Bishops of Vienne and Narbonne. Staffs have indeed been found in the catacombs that date from the fourth century but their ceremonial character has not been established. The first unequivocal reference to the crosier as a liturgical instrument occurs in the twenty-seventh canon of the Council of Toledo (633). At present it is employed by bishops whenever they perform solemn pontifical functions, by right in their own dioceses and by privilege outside, and by inferior prelates whenever they are privileged to exercise pontifical functions.You might as well ask why did Moses carry the Lituus. Popes don't currently use the Crosier.
The lituus staff a.k.a. the crossier are a direct descendant of "the crook" or crooked wand which was carried by Pharaoh Manes and Pharaoh Narmur/Narmer (a.k.a. Cush and Nimrod) and their pontifs. They had spread their teachings of the Kemetic mysteries to the Asyrians and Lydians who were located in Asia Minor. They were also known as the "Luds" or "Ludines." They were competent mariners who would later settle in Central Italy (which later became "Saturnia") and become known as the Estruscans. The Estruscans would later develop the Latin Church, where they practiced augury--disemboweling animals and telling fortunes based on the arrangement--and become incorporated by Constanine in his Holy Roman empire. Constantine was a pagan. Constantine was an adherent to the Babylonian and Kemetic mysteries. Before the battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine claimed to have looked at the Sun and seen a cross of a light. This is not a reference to the Cross at Calvary, but the Ankh which represents the cross of Heru a.k.a Tammuz, especially considering that he looked at "the Sun."
It has to do with how the Jews counted time. Any part of the day counted as the whole "day & night."
Because it is Biblical.We know that Elizabeth is in her 6th month of pregnancy when Jesus is conceived.And behold, yourkinswoman Elizabeth in her old agehas also conceived a son; and this isthe sixth month with her who wascalled barren. For with God nothingwill be impossible.So if we can establish when John the Baptist was born we can establish when Jesus was born.Saint Luke reports that Zacharias served inthe “course of Abias” (Lk 1:5) which Scripturerecords as the eighth course among the twenty four priestly courses (Neh 12:17). Each shift ofpriests served one week in the temple for twotimes each year. The course of Abias servedduring the eighth week and the thirty-secondweek in the annual cycle. However, when didthe cycle of courses begin?In our calendar, the Day ofAtonement would land anywhere fromSeptember 22 to October 8.Zacharias and Elizabeth conceived John theBaptist immediately after Zacharias served his course. (See Luke 1:5-24) This entails that Saint John the Baptistwould have been conceived somewhere aroundthe end of September, placing John’s birth at theend of June.Add six months to the end of June and you get the end of December for the birth of Jesus - hence December 25. For a fuller description:
This was the eighth of the priestly courses of ministration inthe Temple (I Chron. 24:10), and occurred, as did the others, twice inthe year.The "Courses" were changed every week, beginning each with a Sabbath. The reckoning commenced on the 22nd day of Tisri or Ethanim (Ap. 51. 5).This was the eighth and last day of the Feast of Tabernacles = the "GreatDay of the Feast" (John 7:37), and was a Sabbath (Lev. 23:39)The first course fell by lot to Jehoiarib, and the eighth to Abia orAbijah (1Chron. 24:10).Bearing in mind that all the courses served together at the threeGreat Feasts, the dates for the two yearly "ministrations" of Abiah willbe seen to fall as follows:The first (*1) ministration was from 12 - 18Chisleu = December 6 - 12.The second ministration was from 12 -18 Sivan= June 13 - 19.The announcement therefore to Zacharias in the Temple as to the conceptionof John the Baptist took place between 12 - 18 SIVAN (June 13 -19), inthe year 5 B.C. After finishing his "ministration", the aged priest"departed to his own house" (Luke 1:23) which was in a city (*2) in "thehill country" of Juda (verse 39).The day following the end of the "Course of Abia" being a Sabbath (Sivan19), he would not be able to leave Jerusalem before the 20th.The thirty miles journey would probably occupy, for an old man, a coupleof days at least. He would therefore arrive at his house on the 21stor 22nd. This leaves ample time for the miraculous "conception" ofElizabeth to take place on or about the 23rd of Sivan (*3) - which wouldcorrespond to June 23 -24 of that year. The fact of the conceptionand its date would necessarily be known at the time and afterwards,and hence the 23rd of SIVAN would henceforth be associated with the conceptionof John the Baptist as the 1st of TEBETH would be with that of our Lord.But the same influences that speedily obscured and presently obliteratedthe real dates of our Lord's "Begetting" and Birth, were also at work withregard to those of the Forerunner, and with the same results. Assoon as the true Birth day of Christ had been shifted from its properdate, viz. the 15th of Tisri (September 29), and a Festival Day from thePagan Calendars substituted for it (viz. December 25), then everythingelse had to be altered too.
One doesn't become a saint as soon as they put on a collar. There are many things I could discuss like the infiltration of the Catholic Church by communists in the 30, and their letting gays into the priesthood.
It is not a problem only for Catholic clergy:
It was meant to be symbolic of the crushing of Satan's head as noted in Genesis. I personally think the whole thing is ugly. Many poor things have been done artistically since Vatican II. Bad art is bad art, yet it doesn't invalidate any teachings. Artistic interpretation is not protected by the Holy Spirit.
