Are you catholic?

  • Welcome to Christian Forums, a Christian Forum that recognizes that all Christians are a work in progress.

    You will need to register to be able to join in fellowship with Christians all over the world.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Helen

Well-Known Member
Oct 22, 2011
15,476
21,159
113
Faith
Christian
Country
Canada
Catholic sites are boring. All Catholic like to talk about is the liturgy and the church seasons. Anyway, I’ve been here about 9 years longer than you :)

Hey Aspen..good for you...put him in his place. :)

I am very glad that you are BOTH here!! Yay!! :)
 

Nancy

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Apr 30, 2018
16,848
25,528
113
Buffalo, Ny
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
the term "dead" comes to mind, wadr
can't recall you ever referring to anything but Scripture tho Aspen, and you are unoffendable as well. i tried :D
my meaning was more like 'if (you) are here to insist that the Catholic interp is the only legit interp, then why are you really here.'

"and you are unoffendable as well." Yes, he sure is...and yet, able to get his point across as well
 
  • Like
Reactions: aspen and Helen

Reggie Belafonte

Well-Known Member
Mar 16, 2018
5,915
2,944
113
63
Brisbane
Faith
Christian
Country
Australia
ah; and the Acts bunch, that little Jerusalem hippie commune scenario we read about, what about them
Jesus was no hippie I can assure you of that.

Hippies were lead by Satanic nonsense and high on drugs and filth and nothing but a bunch of bludgers and drop kicks sponging off others, now the dogs are controlling the university's, I went to a Deans house to do some work once and I walked out in disgust at just how filthy it was, it was like a pigs sty, what dirty dogs they were, they did not know what clean meant. then later I seen that they could not even control there great wages, maxed out on credit card debt, how f ing stupid can one be ! had to be on drugs for sure.
Also we have dip sticks like that who are in control of our Defence Force, that total morons are put in the highest positions and totally off with the pixies some don't even know if they are male or female sadly it's true. it's like a rats nest when you start looking into it all, fruit loops everywhere that should not be in charge of licking postage stamps as far as I am concerned.
 

Taken

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Encounter Team
Feb 6, 2018
24,655
13,035
113
United States
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
Oh sorry, did you miss the apolgy tour Trump took to Finland? Apparently, you are unfamiliar with diplomacy if you think secret meetings, praising the turning over of US diplomats to Russia, and kissing the a$$ of our enemy.

Yep, missed it. Do tell....

What exactly did Trump apologize to Putin FOR?

How is a meeting Secret, IF you are aware of the Meeting?

Precisely WHAT US Diplomats are NOW in Russia's POSSESSION?

And do you have a PHOTO SHOT of Trump KISSING our enemy's Behind?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Reggie Belafonte

aspen

“"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few
Apr 25, 2012
14,111
4,778
113
53
West Coast
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
Yep, missed it. Do tell....

What exactly did Trump apologize to Putin FOR?

How is a meeting Secret, IF you are aware of the Meeting?

Precisely WHAT US Diplomats are NOW in Russia's POSSESSION?

And do you have a PHOTO SHOT of Trump KISSING our enemy's Behind?

Um...

“Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!”

It is a secret meeting because we have no idea what was discussed in the meeting - not even Congress knows.

Yes, after 5 days of thinking it over, Trump decided it would be to his political disadvantage to deliver our diplomats into the hands of our enemies.

Yes, I submit to you the entire taped press confrence after the secret meeting
 

Taken

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Encounter Team
Feb 6, 2018
24,655
13,035
113
United States
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
Yeah, you do need some education. Democrat socialist has nothing to do with Russia, which is an autocratic state that used to masqurade as communist. Neither have anything in common with Nazism which also has the word socialist in its title

Perhaps you should investigate the terms synonymious with SOCIALISM....
Like Progressiveism ... Like Communism..!

They are NOT words that were highlighted in the FOUNDERS establishment of the US.

And precisely WHY a Methodology of trickery is used to Corrupt what the Founders Established FOR America.

And putting an HONORABLE "pen" in the hands of the CORRUPT, has been quite a successful methodology of CORRUPTING what the Founders Established.

Of course IF YOU are on the RECEIVING END of the government MAKING LAWS to TAKE FROM WEALTHY earners, and DOLE out "THEIR WEALTH" to the LUMPS who ARE capable but Choose TO NOT EARN... well...
Well...of course you would FAVOR and DEFEND and PROMOTE "a SOCIALIST" agenda.

Personally, I favor the Lords WAY...that those who Earn and Gain Wealth, THEMSELVES, elect to ASSIST others THEY Choose...AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN!

And for your interest...
1 Tim 5:8
2 Thes 3:10

How does the Lords Word fit into your favoring of a Socialist Govt ?
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Reggie Belafonte

Taken

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Encounter Team
Feb 6, 2018
24,655
13,035
113
United States
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
Homilies have never been given in Latin. Please educate yourself before you try to be clever -its embarrassing

Pay attention, and avoid the embarrassment. I said NOTHING about homilies.
 

epostle1

Well-Known Member
Sep 24, 2012
3,326
507
113
72
Essex
Faith
Christian
Country
Canada
"Sola Scriptura" is LATIN for "Bible Alone". The reformers chose LATIN so the common people wouldn't understand it.

:rolleyes:
 
  • Like
Reactions: aspen

aspen

“"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few
Apr 25, 2012
14,111
4,778
113
53
West Coast
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
Pay attention, and avoid the embarrassment. I said NOTHING about homilies.

You really are dense

The word homily is used in the Catholic Church in place of Sermon - you implied that sermons were given in a ‘foreign language’ in the Catholic Church - the truth is that the homily/sermon has always been given in the venacular
 

Taken

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Encounter Team
Feb 6, 2018
24,655
13,035
113
United States
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
Um...

“Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity
"NEVER"..really? "COLD WAR" escapes your memory....or were you socially educated in public schools and that glossed over?

and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!”

Where have you been, that you appear to be Completely out of touch of what POLITICING METHODS are TAUGHT in political science and designed to do?

It is: IF you can NOT succeed on your own merits.....DIG, DIG, DIG up as much real or fabricated hearsay DIRT on your Opponent...

And stuff it down the throats of the Public at Large, over and over and over .... until the Public at Large is WILLING to ignore the merits, search for the Truth themselves and simply CHOOSE "the lesser of what has been repeatedly pounded into their head as the "lesser" of two EVILS."

"Your WITCH-HUNT" is simply POLITICING at Work....and neither Political Foe is without participation.

It is a secret meeting because we have no idea what was discussed in the meeting - not even Congress knows.

And? Validate that YOU or ANYONE NOT invited to a PRIVATE meeting HAS the RIGHT TO BE "included"?

Yes, after 5 days of thinking it over, Trump decided it would be to his political disadvantage to deliver our diplomats into the hands of our enemies.

So you are admitting your CLAIM was FALSE, as you said "HE DID".

Yes, I submit to you the entire taped press confrence after the secret meeting

The Founders held NUMEROUS "secret" meetings NOT OPEN to the PUBLIC, and then revealed to the PUBLIC the outcome of their "secret" meetings....

What is your REAL complaint? Because it sounds AS IF, YOU NOT being seated in the Highest Office and Required to Conduct Business with FOREIGN nations and Leaders..is something YOU Believe SHOULD be something YOU should be required to do and Participate in.

Is that it? If not, what is it?
 

aspen

“"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few
Apr 25, 2012
14,111
4,778
113
53
West Coast
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
Perhaps you should investigate the terms synonymious with SOCIALISM....
Like Progressiveism ... Like Communism..!

They are NOT words that were highlighted in the FOUNDERS establishment of the US.

And precisely WHY a Methodology of trickery is used to Corrupt what the Founders Established FOR America.

And putting and HONORABLE "pen" in the hands of the CORRUPT, has been quite a successful methodology of CORRUPTING what the Founders Established.

Of course IF YOU are on the RECEIVING END of the government MAKING LAWS to TAKE FROM WEALTHY earners, and DOLE out "THEIR WEALTH" to the LUMPS who ARE capable but Choose TO NOT EARN... well...
Well...of course you would FAVOR and DEFEND and PROMOTE "a SOCIALIST" agenda.

Personally, I favor the Lords WAY...that those who Earn and Gain Wealth, THEMSELVES, elect to ASSIST others THEY Choose...AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN!

And for your interest...
1 Tim 5:8
2 Thes 3:10

How does the Lords Word fit into your favoring of a Socialist Govt ?

Sigh

Jesus and his disciples, the early church, and monasteries are the only form of communism that have been carried out. I think you really should be criticizing Trump for proping up farmers after implementing his disastrous tariffs rather than misrepresenting democratic socialism.
 
  • Like
Reactions: bbyrd009

Taken

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Encounter Team
Feb 6, 2018
24,655
13,035
113
United States
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
You really are dense

I don't pretend to be educated in all the little weird things individual Chruches have adopted and promote.

The word homily is used in the Catholic Church in place of Sermon -

Awesome testimony of what the Catholic Church DOES, IN PLACE of Scripture Doctrine being the Sermon...and INSTEAD elects to conduct their Sermons based on a discourse the Priest elects to speak about.

you implied that sermons were given in a ‘foreign language’ in the Catholic Church
If the clergy is Speaking, they are giving a Sermon.
If the Sermon is Quoting Passages out of Scripture...it's a Doctrinal Sermon.
If the the Sermon is via a man Speaking their own words, in the Catholic world, it's a Homily.

And the TRUTH IS, during a Catholic Mass, and conducting of the Sermon ....LATIN and English was regularly Spoken by the clergy...IN the US....IN Catholic Churches...WHILE Few English speakers, and occupants IN the Pews UNDERSTOOD Latin.
And that IS what I was clearly speaking of.
And speaking of the Testimony of Catholics themselves who attended such Churches, and they themselves saying LATIN was regularly part of the Sermon, and they understood not a lick of Latin.

THAT began to CHANGE, after a meeting was held in 1964....(apparently you were not included in the secret meeting attended by Catholic clergy, nor privy to it's outcome)......and it's effect being accomplished nearing 1969.

- the truth is that the homily/sermon has always been given in the venacular

The Truth is..there is a difference between a Doctrinal quoting of Scripture and a Homily that is simply words of the Priest that are not quoting Scripture. And Latin WAS regularly INCLUDED as Spoken during a Sermon, when the Congregets DID NOT understand Latin.
And ^ THAT was the purpose for the meeting to take place in 1964 that a solution might be put in place.
 

Reggie Belafonte

Well-Known Member
Mar 16, 2018
5,915
2,944
113
63
Brisbane
Faith
Christian
Country
Australia
"Sola Scriptura" is LATIN for "Bible Alone". The reformers chose LATIN so the common people wouldn't understand it.

:rolleyes:
Latin is the best way to get a message across clearly and English can be miss understood far to easy.
Doctors surgeons chemist etc do not use English as it's crap in such a field, so as such it does not describe.
If one says in Latin what type of tree something is, you can not mistake what it is, but in English we can have many names for the same thing.

When we read an English Bible it's just a translation that can miss the mark and be mistaken easy if you do not have some understanding of Latin and Hebrew, because English is trying to make the best out of the translation that it can and one has to mindful of that. So some idiot will point to something in the Bible and make fun of it, thinking that it's nonsense, but the fact is that the ignorant has not got a clue and is just barking up the wrong tree, thinking he is smarter than everyone.
 

Reggie Belafonte

Well-Known Member
Mar 16, 2018
5,915
2,944
113
63
Brisbane
Faith
Christian
Country
Australia
Sigh

Jesus and his disciples, the early church, and monasteries are the only form of communism that have been carried out. I think you really should be criticizing Trump for proping up farmers after implementing his disastrous tariffs rather than misrepresenting democratic socialism.
It's not communism at all, it's communal.
 

aspen

“"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few
Apr 25, 2012
14,111
4,778
113
53
West Coast
Faith
Christian
Country
United States
I don't pretend to be educated in all the little weird things individual Chruches have adopted and promote.



Awesome testimony of what the Catholic Church DOES, IN PLACE of Scripture Doctrine being the Sermon...and INSTEAD elects to conduct their Sermons based on a discourse the Priest elects to speak about.

Yammering....

The Mass was in Latin before 1965....it was the same Latin words spoken every week.....if the parishoner didnt understand the words they grabbed their missal in front of them and read the English translation.

The homily/sermon was in English in America - it was not based on the whim of the priest - it was based on the scripture of the week - see, unlike Protestant pastors who picked their favorite scriptures from the Bible, priests preached every verse of the Bible (excluding the begat verses) on a three year cycle - they still do today