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catholicboy123
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Are there catholic temples?If so, what are they used for? All answers and thoughts appreciated!Thanks!
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Dakota_Roberts
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Yes there are, they are called churches or cathedrals…Are there catholic temples?If so, what are they used for? All answers and thoughts appreciated!Thanks!
temple: a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence.
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Crumpy
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To expand on the previous post, they are places of worship, which characteristically involves a sacrifice – in the theology of Catholicism, the Mass is the renewal and presentation of the Sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, the new covenant.
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Apollos
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Yes, they are called Basilicas, and they have special privileges over and above other church buildings: newadvent.org/cathen/02325a.htm
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RebeccaJ
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593 Jesus venerated the Temple by going up to it for the Jewish feasts of pilgrimage, and with a jealous love he loved this dwelling of God among men. The Temple prefigures his own mystery. When he announces its destruction, it is as a manifestation of his own execution and of the entry into a new age in the history of salvation, when his Body would be the definitive Temple.
797 “What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church.” "To this Spirit of Christ, as an invisible principle, is to be ascribed the fact that all the parts of the body are joined one with the other and with their exalted head; for the whole Spirit of Christ is in the head, the whole Spirit is in the body, and the whole Spirit is in each of the members.“The Holy Spirit makes the Church "the temple of the living God”
1197 Christ is the true temple of God, “the place where his glory dwells”; by the grace of God, Christians also become the temples of the Holy Spirit, living stones out of which the Church is built.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Index
Temple
Christ as the true temple of God, 1197
the Church as the holy, 756
the Church as the temple of the Holy Spirit, 797-98, 809
as God’s presence among men, 593
of Jerusalem, 2580
Jesus and, 576, 583-86, 593
man as the temple of the Holy Spirit, 364, 1197, 1265, 1695, 2684
797 “What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church.” "To this Spirit of Christ, as an invisible principle, is to be ascribed the fact that all the parts of the body are joined one with the other and with their exalted head; for the whole Spirit of Christ is in the head, the whole Spirit is in the body, and the whole Spirit is in each of the members.“The Holy Spirit makes the Church "the temple of the living God”
1197 Christ is the true temple of God, “the place where his glory dwells”; by the grace of God, Christians also become the temples of the Holy Spirit, living stones out of which the Church is built.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Index
Temple
Christ as the true temple of God, 1197
the Church as the holy, 756
the Church as the temple of the Holy Spirit, 797-98, 809
as God’s presence among men, 593
of Jerusalem, 2580
Jesus and, 576, 583-86, 593
man as the temple of the Holy Spirit, 364, 1197, 1265, 1695, 2684
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laszlo
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The Jewish Temple was by definition God’s dwelling place. Each Catholic Church with tabernacle is God’s dwelling place.
The Latin templum was space marked out for observation of auguries, and later used for Chuches. The Hungarian used the word templom for the church building
(the Church as organization/community is Egyhaz = One house)
The Latin templum was space marked out for observation of auguries, and later used for Chuches. The Hungarian used the word templom for the church building
(the Church as organization/community is Egyhaz = One house)
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Vince1022
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No, Catholics have Churches, not Temples.Are there catholic temples?If so, what are they used for? All answers and thoughts appreciated!Thanks!
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