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At Mass, all the common priesthood participates, with the priest as the primary celebrant. We are not spectators. You are welcome to attend, but cannot partake out of respect for our rules. Protestants have rules too. You must be in full communion with the CC to partake. You can't partake...

Name one. Although some people think that the Catholic Church is equivalent to the Latin or Roman rite, this is a misconception. The Roman rite is by far the largest and most widely diffused in the world, but the Catholic Church is composed of 23 distinct Churches or rites. According to the...

Yes, yes, yes and yes. The rigid Calvinistic approach to "it is finished" is not supported by the numerous proof texts provided in post #417.

Yes, but the former is not to the exclusion of the latter.

That's whole point of purification. Nothing unclean can get into heaven. If you haven't got that verse memorized by now, it could be due to a mental deficiency. I avoid the theological term "Purga**** because it always entails false presuppositions. Where in scripture does "unclean" mean hell...

This is not for baby Christians. If for some reason you can't access this video, tell me and I'll find some text that explains it.

This is a standard false dichotomy prevalent in Protestantism. We Catholics know we are saved by moral certitude, AND if we persevere to the end, as Paul repeatedly says. But we can be infallibly certain if we are saved until after we are dead. NOT BEFORE. Common sense says that temporal sins...

Ray Steadman is wrong. There is no suffering in heaven. So do I. Jesus died once in temporal time. I've said that three times now. Lambert Dolphin doesn't understand how the sacrifice of consecrated Bread and Wine is one and the same sacrifice as His death on Calvary. Neither do most...

It's the same word but not used in the same context of the Old Testament, which you ignored. The word “anamnesis” (remembrance) also refers to a sacrifice which is really or actually made present in time by the power of God, as it reminds God of the actual event (see, e.g., Heb. 10:3; Num...

The only reason the inaccurate abbreviation "RCC" is used, after it has been explained 1000 times in this forum why it is inaccurate, is because they know it annoys us. No other reason. Folks, please use "CC". It's less typing.

You have it backwards. The memorial IS the sacrifice. In order to uphold your private "translation", you are forced to change the meaning of "remembrance". Luke 22:19; 1 Cor. 11:24-25 – the translation of Jesus’ words of consecration is “touto poieite tan eman anamnasin.” Jesus literally said...

Good post, John. What I find interesting are the many agreements you have with the encyclical Dei Verbum. I don't think I am "correcting" or "contradicting" you in any way. "12. However, since God speaks in Sacred Scripture through men in human fashion, (6) the interpreter of Sacred Scripture...

A 66 book canon in the 4th century is contrary to everything known about Bible origins. I challenge you to find a Protestant Ph.D. historian writing in the last 50 years that agrees with your Baptist mythology. That eliminates the post enlightenment era (18th century) Modernist crap that...

The canon was established for 12 centuries until Luther adulterated it. You can't provide any historical evidence that a 66 book canon was used as a Bible before the 14th century because it didn't exist. Oh, how "Catholic" of you! :) Then provide the context. But you won't, because that would...

It means he holds to an earthly physical Body with no head.

Matt. 16:19 – whatever Peter binds or looses on earth is bound or loosed in heaven / when the Prime Minister to the King opens, no one shuts. This “binding and loosing” authority allows the keeper of the keys to establish “halakah,” or rules of conduct for the members of the kingdom he serves...

Principle 1: Sin Results in Guilt and Punishment When a person sins, he acquires certain liabilities: the liability of guilt and the liability of punishment. Scripture speaks of the former when it pictures guilt as clinging to our souls, making them discolored and unclean before God: “Though...

You're hilarious! You assert against a supposed red herring, and commit one in the same sentence!