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Showing posts with label Sacraments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacraments. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Roman Catholic Women Ordinations




Habemus Papam! Axia! Digna Est!


How could the Orthodox even resist such a tempting offer !?
After all, wasn't it their great writer, Dostoyevsky, who said that "Beauty will save the world" ?

Clearly, only their mindlessly-rebellious and enviously-schismatic spirit could have blinded them
to such irresistible beauty, and to the discreet charm of the papacy !

Thursday, August 25, 2011

On Gay Marriage




( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).

Monday, August 22, 2011

Why Women Should NEVER Be Ordained to the Priesthood




( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).

Monday, August 8, 2011

On the Holy Liturgy




( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).

Sunday, July 31, 2011

A Sacramental World-View: On the Sanctity of Marriage




( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Protestant Liturgical Piety Circa 1960




On one hand, the traditional Mass is still in place; on the other hand, we can already witness the phenomenon of empty Churches and -later on in the movie- the infiltration of skepticism and religious indifference into people's hearts.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Calvinism 101


Take, eat: this is My spirit.

Drink ye all of this: this is a mere figure of My blood.

Do this in remembrance of Me. [ emphasis in the original Greek ]


So much for Sola Scriptura...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Priesthood of All Believers


1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

Revelation 1:5 Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 5:9 Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with using the above verses as proofs that the New Testament supposedly abolished the notion or idea of there being a special class of priests, the so-called sacerdotal priesthood? Anyone? Anyone?


Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Exodus 23:22 (LXX) If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.

Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Why We Baptize Infants Of Believing Parents


Because God is a Trinity, not a Monad.


1. Man and woman are one:

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.


2. Father and Son are one:

John 10:30 I and my Father are one.


3. Mankind is in God's image, the family being the icon of the Trinity:

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them.


4. Hence why, in conclusion (since children are one flesh with their parents, and wives one flesh with their husbands) the members of a family or household are received communally, and not individually, into the Church:

(See: Acts 16:15; Acts 16:31-34; Acts 18:8; 1 Corinthians 1:16; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20).


When parents entered into covenant with God, they brought their children with them. This was a law in the Hebrew Church. When a proselyte was received into membership, he could not enter without bringing his children with him. -- Easton's Bible Dictionary.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Apostolic Succession 101



Friday, June 11, 2010