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BernadetteM
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Last week I was watching a show on the History channel. The name of it was "The House of LIfe: The Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague.
Since Jesus was a Jew and followed the Jewish customs and traditions I would think that He also followed what the Orthodox Jews still do today. In Catholic bibles which are complete it talks about how the Jews prayed for the dead to help them on their journey to Heaven. I cannot find anything that says that Jesus denied these prayers or the customs and traditions of the ordinary Jewish faith.
The show said that even today Jews go to the above cemetery and to a certain gravesite of a Rabbi who died in the 16th century. They leave notes on his grave asking him to intercede on their behalf from Heaven.
There are also carved (like statues) figures of humans and animals on the grave stones that they believe protect the decendents of Abraham.
I have seen many times where the Orthodox Jews (who are truer to original Jewish faith than the reformed or conservative Jews) go to the Wailing Wall and place pieces of paper in the cracks.
The Christian Church came out of the Jewish faith and that is why many of our traditions seem to stem from their traditions. They have a liturgical style of worship. It sounds strange that being Jews the first Christians would not continue to use liturgical worship as the form of worshiping God.
To me this is one of the proofs that the Catholic Church is correct in asking the saints in Heaven to pray/intercede for us. Also praying for the souls of those who died and are now alive in Heaven or Purgatory.
It is too bad that protestants decline and reject this wonderful source of comfort for our departed loved ones and the saints. Since it appears the practice of praying for and to the dead goes back to Christ’s time, I am sure if it was not an orthodox teaching He would have mentioned it when he was teaching and preaching. From posts from protestants it appears that many think when we die we are just dead. I wonder where they think our souls are. But the Bible says we are still alive in Christ.
I really found it an interesting show and just confirmed what our Church teaches. Of course protestants will counteract this with some verse taken out of context or their own beliefs. To me it is their loss and we as Catholics seem to have such a rich faith within our traditions that they have lost.
I understand that some Anglicans and the Orthodox also have these traditions.
Yours in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Bernadette
Last week I was watching a show on the History channel. The name of it was "The House of LIfe: The Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague.
Since Jesus was a Jew and followed the Jewish customs and traditions I would think that He also followed what the Orthodox Jews still do today. In Catholic bibles which are complete it talks about how the Jews prayed for the dead to help them on their journey to Heaven. I cannot find anything that says that Jesus denied these prayers or the customs and traditions of the ordinary Jewish faith.
The show said that even today Jews go to the above cemetery and to a certain gravesite of a Rabbi who died in the 16th century. They leave notes on his grave asking him to intercede on their behalf from Heaven.
There are also carved (like statues) figures of humans and animals on the grave stones that they believe protect the decendents of Abraham.
I have seen many times where the Orthodox Jews (who are truer to original Jewish faith than the reformed or conservative Jews) go to the Wailing Wall and place pieces of paper in the cracks.
The Christian Church came out of the Jewish faith and that is why many of our traditions seem to stem from their traditions. They have a liturgical style of worship. It sounds strange that being Jews the first Christians would not continue to use liturgical worship as the form of worshiping God.
To me this is one of the proofs that the Catholic Church is correct in asking the saints in Heaven to pray/intercede for us. Also praying for the souls of those who died and are now alive in Heaven or Purgatory.
It is too bad that protestants decline and reject this wonderful source of comfort for our departed loved ones and the saints. Since it appears the practice of praying for and to the dead goes back to Christ’s time, I am sure if it was not an orthodox teaching He would have mentioned it when he was teaching and preaching. From posts from protestants it appears that many think when we die we are just dead. I wonder where they think our souls are. But the Bible says we are still alive in Christ.
I really found it an interesting show and just confirmed what our Church teaches. Of course protestants will counteract this with some verse taken out of context or their own beliefs. To me it is their loss and we as Catholics seem to have such a rich faith within our traditions that they have lost.
I understand that some Anglicans and the Orthodox also have these traditions.
Yours in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Bernadette