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Forums / Saints' & Spiritual Life General Discussion / Re: Saint of the day and Feast days - Part 2
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on: July 31, 2013, 03:05:46 AM
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St Pantaleon; St. Pantaleon, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, was a physician, who practiced without payment, and who was martyred under Diocletian. His cultus is primarily connected with Bithynia, where Emperor Justinian rebuilt his church at Nicomedia. Churches are dedicated to him in Constantinople and Rome. In the East he is known as the Great Martyr and Wonder Worker. A reputed relic of Pantaleon's blood kept at Ravello in southern Italy displays the phenomenon of liquefaction on his feast day, similar to that of Saint Januarius.
There is astory I heard about St Pantaleon. Before his conversion when the priest, Hermalaos explained Christianity to Pantaleon. Pantaleon wanted to try out what he had heard. So one day when a blind man came to his home begging for alms, Pantaleon raised his hand and said, "In the name of Jesus, be healed." the man was able to see from then on and Pantaleon was converted.
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Forums / Saints' & Spiritual Life General Discussion / Re: Saint of the day and Feast days - Part 2
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on: July 27, 2013, 06:08:43 AM
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St Pantaleon; St. Pantaleon, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, was a physician, who practiced without payment, and who was martyred under Diocletian. His cultus is primarily connected with Bithynia, where Emperor Justinian rebuilt his church at Nicomedia. Churches are dedicated to him in Constantinople and Rome. In the East he is known as the Great Martyr and Wonder Worker. A reputed relic of Pantaleon's blood kept at Ravello in southern Italy displays the phenomenon of liquefaction on his feast day, similar to that of Saint Januarius.
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Forums / Catholic General Discussion / Re: Would this bother you?
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on: July 22, 2013, 06:19:57 AM
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It would definitely bother me . I tried to find out if there is anything official on the issue but drew a blank. Here is an excerpt from an article I found on line. It is from " World on Campus", the article entitled "Animal lovers push to bring dogs to church", was written on February 8, 2012 by a Meghan Gilmore. Here is what she writes. Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, in Mission, Tex., recently made national news when it was featured in a USA Today article about its priest's support for dogs in mass. Father Roy Snipes told the paper that the presence of dogs eliminates the "rigid and frigid" feelings that are sometimes associated with a first-time visit to church. Snipes, who first brought his dogs to mass in 1985 scoffed at suggestions that including animals in worship was a "new age" phenomenon. When Jesus was born in a stable, animals gathered all around the manger, Snipes said. I wonder what his bishop said?
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Forums / Catholic General Discussion / Re: Any Rosary Makers here?
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on: July 22, 2013, 05:53:28 AM
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You must be very happy to do such work. St. Joseph, St. Michael, the Seven Sorrows, these are all so good.
Do you make chain rosaries poche? Twine rosaries?
What kind of material do you make them from?
I make chain rosaries. I use glass or plastic beads that I get from a variety of stores. I also search for old jewelry or whatever I can get.
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Forums / Catholic General Discussion / Re: Roman Catholic v/s Coptic orthodox
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on: July 22, 2013, 05:51:00 AM
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'Discipline' is such a transitory word, it is not really only discipline. And too the word discipline does not adequately address how deeply important and the many reasons the Church has celibacy. Even the word tradition, does not reflect how important it is before God, and how unchangeably from the beginning continence is required.
Perhaps Cardinal Stickler's writings on the subject might help a little with this. But what is truly helpful too is to read what St. Bridget's Revelations have on the subject.
So too the issue of the filoque appears semantic but it may be more than this I fear.
Some Eastern Catholic churches will ordain their priests if they are married with the proviso that if the wife dies the priest is not permited to remmary. When the people decide that they want to be Catholic, the filioque issue will go away.
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Forums / Saints' & Spiritual Life General Discussion / Re: Saint of the day and Feast days - Part 2
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on: July 22, 2013, 04:10:23 AM
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St Mary Magdalene;
The feast of St. Mary Magdalene is considered one of the most mystical of feasts, and it is said that of all the songs of the saints, that of Mary Magdalene is the sweetest and strongest because her love was so great. That love was praised by Jesus Himself who said that because much was forgiven her, she loved much. Where she is buried, no one knows. Legend has her dying in Provence, France, in a cavern where she spent her last days, and her body resting in the chapel of St. Maximin in the Maritime Alps. Another has her buried in Ephesus where she went with St. John after the Resurrection. This latter view is more likely, and St. Willibald, the English pilgrim to the Holy Land in the eighth century, was shown her tomb there.
She was the first witness to the resurrection of Jesus, His most ardent and loving follower. She had stood with Mary at the foot of the Cross on that brutal Good Friday afternoon and had been by the side of Mary during these difficult hours. On Easter morning, she went with the other women to the tomb and it was there, in the garden near the tomb, that Jesus appeared to her. It was she who brought the news of the Resurrection to the Apostles, and Peter and John raced to the tomb to see what had happened.
She was from Magadala, a small fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, between Capernaum and Tiberias. She was known to be a "great sinner," a woman of the streets who heard Jesus speak of the mercy and forgiveness of God and changed her life completely. Her matter-of-fact witness to the Resurrection moved Peter and John to go and see for themselves: "I have seen the Lord and these things he said to me." Jesus had chosen her to bring the news to them and she simply told them what had happened.
She has always been the example of great love and great forgiveness, one of those close to Jesus who grasped the truth of God's love for human beings and spent her life bearing witness to that love.
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Forums / Catholic General Discussion / Re: Roman Catholic v/s Coptic orthodox
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on: July 22, 2013, 02:45:20 AM
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I have Egyptian neighbors who are Coptic orthodox and outwardly seem similar to Catholics except when I did some research on them. They have a different Pope, their priests are not celibate, their creed has a major flaw wherein they recite '"We believe in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father" . For Catholics this is an error since we say "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified," They do not believe in the Immaculate Conception. Their reasoning is that since Mary says " "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior" she couldn't be immaculately conceived since she admitted she needs a saviour. I am stuck here. Can someone explain this to me. I believe there is a valid Catholic explanation to this since I believe Our Lady is the Immaculate Conception. Anyone with the answer to this?? Celibacy for priests is adisciplinary issue. The issue of filioque is a semantic issue that will be resolved when they want to resolve it. When the angel greeted the Blessed Virgin he said, "Hail Mary, full of grace." the angel saying "full of grace" is areference to her immaculate conception. She would not be full of grace if she were not concieved immaculatly.
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