Heavens Princes and Princess'?

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My friend recently made the comment that we all are heavens princes and princess’. Just wondering what everyones opinions on this statement is. My opinion was more that we are not quite at that level but more of a work in progress, and that claiming we are already prince and princess’ kinda misses the point to living a holy life? What do you think???
 
Sounds like a fairly meaningless platitude of the sort people say to boost each other’s self-esteem. Your view on it is definitely the correct one.
 
thanks for the reply 🙂

i agree with you to with the self-confidence boost, my real concern was because this person is outside if the Catholic Church and starting to get involved with their faith, but has rejected a few of the churches teachings on gay marriage and things like that. I was thinking if they get the attitude that we are perfect the way we are. could lead into rejecting the sacraments etc
 
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My friend recently made the comment that we all are heavens princes and princess’. Just wondering what everyones opinions on this statement is. My opinion was more that we are not quite at that level but more of a work in progress, and that claiming we are already prince and princess’ kinda misses the point to living a holy life? What do you think???
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It might possibly be said that your friend left out two thirds of the equation since, every baptized Christian participates in Christ’s threefold office of prophet, priest and king (CCC 1241) .

That can become complicated when exegetes begin to expound upon it.

Personally,I like your idea of a *“work in progress”. *Chronologically it makes sense. Even though she was sinless and in her Magnificat, Our Blessed Mother said, “From this day all generations shall call me blessed. The Almighty has done great things for me and holy is His name” , it is not until the completion of her earthly life that we celebrate the coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and earth, Queen of all things, Queen of Peace… the concluding decade of the Holy Rosary.
 
To echo NeedImprovement, per scripture we are all priests, prophets and kings.
Maybe your friend is trying to get at the fact that, as daughters and sons of the King, we are royalty, too? Not sure.
Ask your friend what they mean exactly by that phrase. I mean, what’s the difference between between a heavenly prince and not being a heavenly prince? I’m not quite sure.
I think we should strive to be, as Mary said, the handmaid of the Lord. I dunno, that seemed to work out pretty well for her!🤷
 
yeah i’ll have to double check

it just sounds like she has the idea that the works already done, and we’ve already made it
 
That would be cause for some concern, according to St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians 2:12]

“So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”
 
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thanks for the reply 🙂

i agree with you to with the self-confidence boost, my real concern was because this person is outside if the Catholic Church and starting to get involved with their faith, but has rejected a few of the churches teachings on gay marriage and things like that. I was thinking if they get the attitude that we are perfect the way we are. could lead into rejecting the sacraments etc
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Ah, that makes sense. Of course you can’t be sure of precisely what your friend meant (if anything – often there’s no deep theology at all behind a platitude) without asking, but that sort of language is definitely typical of certain strains of evangelical Protestantism and the like.
 
If we’re all princes and princesses, who’re going to be the serfs?

Humility is the chief virtue, I’ve read.
 
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