Nothing to offer here. This is just downright interesting. And I keep thinking nothing can surprise me anymore. I will sit back and await some thoughts and comments from some Catholics with a bit more Canon Law experience under their belts. One of our appolgists perhaps? Thanks for the new and fresh topic! I’m sure we will all gain some education here.
I personally think that it’s down right beautiful. If i were a wagering person, I would bet a great deal that this makes our awesome God very pleased. The two have their differences yes, but to worship together is a wonderous thing. Many folks could learn from this.
This is quite harsh. Not just Roman Catholics have the Eucharist at the center of their worship. I understand what you are talking about in the sacrifice of the mass, but you should let these folks have a chance to see what they bring to the table instead of assulting with RC doctrine right from the get.
They’re not entirely compatible, but they’re pretty close. The basic piety is similar enough to make this kind of devotional exercise quite reasonable.I read over sections of the webpage. My favorite is how the Lutherans and Catholics gather together again at the end for, among other things, sacramental preparation–as if Lutheran and Catholic sacramental theology were compatible.
But no one has given an argument for why this is the case. They are not sharing communion, which is the one thing the Catholic Church forbids. It seems to me that this is exactly the kind of thing explicitly encouraged by Vatican II, the Catechism, and Pope Benedict, and objections to it are grounded either in an unthinking prejudice against ecumenism or (more reasonably) in an objection to some of the liberal cliches apparently used by the group.
Christ did not say that the greatest thing we can do is to hang all our beliefs on the authority and the doctrines of the Catholic Church. He gave us the greatest commandments.
No, but he gave the Catholic Church the authority.
By trying to bring them back into Christian unity, not by affirming the defects of their religion. Wanting what’s best for the beloved is true love.
Actually sounds pretty good to me. I can’t imagine God being displeased.One more sign of the inner corruption & lack of principle of so much Christianity today
Since God is not pleased with objectively false worship, I really doubt it-especially in a situation in which Catholics are participating in it to some degree that lends any sort of credibility to it.
How is singing hymns to the Blessed Trinity objectively false? How is the reading of Sacred Scripture objectively false? How is celebrating the saving work of Christ objectively false? You need to be able to point to something specific that is objectively false, rather than assuming that because Lutherans are heretics on some points therefore they are wrong on all, which is patently not the case.
How does this square with the explicit calls for common worship/prayer on the part of Vatican II and recent Popes?
Denying that Christians can worship Christ together even if they differ on certain points is not calling a spade a spade. It’s calling a pitchfork a spade out of zeal for spadeliness.
Or exaggerate them.
What you like is really not the point. What is true is the point. That being said, I know that we Protestants are material heretics to you. That does not offend me in the slightest (such a reaction would be utterly silly). However, that does not mean that you should rejoice that some Protestants think you are a material heretic. Since you are not a material heretic, you should not be happy that confessional Protestants believe one more false thing in addition to all the others the rest of us believe. You should hope and pray that we see the error of our ways, and if the first error we see is our belief that you are heretical, why should you object to that? It may make things more confusing, but that is not necessarily bad.
This is purely unadulterated hatred for anything outside of the Catholic church. i can’t believe that anyone could be so close minded that they would have to sit silently during a worship service of any kind. No wonder Catholics are the very worst Evangelizers in the Christian world known to God.
Well, that’s what I did when I attended my first Catholic Mass. Admittedly, the Mass was in Hungarian, but I refrained from kneeling or even standing for fear of participating in something idolatrous or heretical.