Thanks for posting this. I’m going to put it into practice.
Well to be honest when i first read the story of the egyptian i was suprised but i think what we should look at is the message that we should pray for others and for ourselves not to fall into sins as well as mortal sins … and if mortal sins offend God the most then it is true that when you prevent it from happening you gain immeasurable merits ( sounds Logic to me ).
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Thank you
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
“traditional church” means the church more or less as it was before Vatican II. Especially with regard to the Mass and other sacraments.
thank you fred, i have a general understanding of vatican II. is this a split with rome?
No it is not a split but simply the church moving on to adjust to changes of the times. One way of performing the sacraments is no better than another way in itself. But people being what they are, it is hard for people to accept changes. So some prefer the old to the new which is now in effect for the most part.
You have spoken of the Church “moving on”. This implies some fault with the Church or that something has fundamentally changed. We know this is not true. A new approach is being tried in presenting the faith to the world but doctrine and dogma have not changed one iota and the Council reaffirms the doctrine and dogmas of the eternal Church.
That is not true. Say a priest celebrated Mass and decided that we didn’t really need the Liturgy of the Word since it just distracts people, so instead he decides to give a talk on how the Council of Trent was wrong about the Real Presence, and then invited some old people from the pews up to “concelebrate” with him in an extraordinarily butchered Eucharistic Prayer II? Would that in itself be an equal and good celebration of the Sacrament of the Eucharist and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
Please do not insinuate that those of us that choose to worship at the Extraordinary Form of the Mass are somehow “stubborn”, nostalgic, or unable to conform ourselves to change. I am twenty-two years old. I grew up in the Ordinary Form. Today I choose to worship at the Extraordinary Form. Not for any of the reasons you insinuate.
I totally agree and i wouldn’t give a link that contradicts the teachings of the church. And we all know how important is to offer the Precious Blood of Jesus through our Virgin Mary for many intentions so it isn’t something non catholic teaching but i thought some people didn’t know that they can offer It to prevent mortal sins from happening too.
It is one of the practises highly recommended by Father Faber in his work All for Jesus (which was a favourite book of Good Pope John who kept it on his night stand and read from it every evening). He gives a fuller treatment of the devotion in that book which I highly recommend to all.