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Only dead in body. The scond death ash no power over them so they aren't really dead even though their time in this realm is over. Unless you think people don't have souls and jsut die and that it.

When I asked st George to intercede for me I wasn't communciating with the dead but simply talking to a fellow Christian who is alive in the church triamphna twhile I still belong to the church militant. St George like all the others is very much alive in the body of Chrsit. St George used to...

Anastacia Yoius ay you used to be a Catholic, what are you now? I mean what denomination?

Anastacia! I don't care at all if it is a Pagan slogan and it really makes no difference wether it is or not. Christians need to be able to live and let live so that they forget the differences between denominations in favour of what all christians have in common. You can say I'm big on...

Anastacia! Why such hostility to the Catholic church and its teachings? Can't you jsut lvie and let live? The idea of this trhead is to help debunk the myths people have about he RCC, to set the record straight so to speak but you seem to be using it as a chance to belittle the bcherished...

The one I went to was Antiochan, ther Diocese was the Diocese of Western Europe and the Deanary was for Great britain adn Ireland. The Antiochan Orthodox church has a cathedral in London dedicated to St Sarkis. Selene Now when I wasked the Athenasian creed I was wondering if you've ever been...

Selene, I know. Many Orthodox churches are national chruches like the Church of England or Luthernan churches in Scandinavia, (well a little bit anwyay, since they hae an archbishop who is the head as opposed to a king or queen like we have) Are you familiar with the Maronites? I'm going to...

mcorba, We never stopped being part of the universal Catholic church, which is why we still state, "one holy Catholic and Apostollic church," in the Nicene Creed and we also mention it in the Apostles Creed; "we believe in: The Hly cathlic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of...

I'm very glad to see you believ ethat. we in teh CE did break from Rome because Henry VIII wanted a divorce but we never stopped being part of the Universal Ctholic chruch. Infact we still say in the creed that we "believe in one holy catholic and Apostollic church," so whilst being...

Do you think it is only respectful to dig up a loved one and put them in a glass box to pray to them? I would be immensely proud to have a saint in the family, so no I woudln't mind, but since it takes years and years to get people canonised I can't see it happenning plus unl;ess you are Roman...

Kissing feet is a sign of respect, obediance and love as well as penitance. It doesn't mean you worship the person who's feet you kiss. It is beautifull gesture, what is wrong with it? Peter was the Pricne of the Apostales and it makes sense he should be shown the proper respect and the Pope...

There is a big difference between veneration and worship. We worship God and we serve him as do the saints. They don't want to be worshipped because theya re not God or Gods and the Catholic chruch does not pretend they are but the saints do have the ear of God better than we do they are...

I think I've killed the thread.

I can explain this, in fact I did earlier on in the thread but I can't find it now as this has got so big. Basically the saints are the people who have made through to the Church triumphant and they are in ehaven now, so they are pat of the first ressurrection and the second death has no power...

Asking asaint to pray for you is like asking a friend to pray for you because the saints are already in heaven, so they are alive in the body of Christ, which consists of three realms; The church millitant This is us. CHristians who are still alive on earth. The church Expectant Those who...

He raised the ead? How long had they ben dead?

Whenever I try to explain transubsubstanciation, I always mention that if the consecrate bread and wine were taken to a lab and analyzed they would indeed be shown as bread and wine because this is part of what Thomas Aquinas called the "accidents," it looks like bread, tastes like bread...

Foreginer, Jesus said, "take eat this is my body." He said the bread was his body, not it is like his body. I can't explain how the bread and wine become Jesus' body and blood because it is a mystery but Aquinas tells us that the substances of the bread and wine become CHrist's actual body and...

Oh we do Aspen! We've got Benedictines, Franciscans and Dominicans. A cou0le of years ago I visited a local monastry called the, "community of the resurrection." Though not Benedictine in name they floowed the rules of St Benedict. I was shown around by one of te brothers, I attenended mid...

Aspen! I sw this thread for the first time today. It's very interesting and I hope it is of use to people debunking some of the misconceptions people ahve about Catholics. What do you do as an oblate? I presume you are not cloistered.