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You know i was thinking about attending the local Melkite Catholic Church but i heard that they were praying with non-Catholics. Now many Popes in the past have said that 'if you pray with heretics then you are a heretic". It just doesn't seem right to me and i won't attend now unless i have to. If Catholics really want to attract more souls to God then we have to start acting like we have the Truth. How are we going to bring souls to God if we act like and say that heretics, schismatics, and heathens can keep doing what they're doing and still please God.
how soon we forget the first and greatest commandment: thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole being-he who loves anyone more than Me is not worthy of Me!
God please give us a Pope like St. Pius X, help Pope Benedict XVI and give him more grace to do Thy Will and bring back Tradition. Sts. Peter, Pius V, Puis X and all the Popes in heaven please pray for the Pope. Thrice Blessed Theotokos and Immaculate Conception help the Pope and as Mediatrix of all Graces give him the special graces to consecrate Russia to thy Immaculate Heart with all the bishops of Holy Church!
Kyrie eleison
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Dositheos:
With all due respect, this forum just closed a similar thread that you can find on page 2 of this particular section of the forum. The word you use is inflammatory and not something we use here.
With further due respect, your profile says you are considering a religious vocation. If this opening thread is any indication, please reconsider. The age of polemics among Christians was officially over with Pope John XXIII of blessed memory and the Vatican Council that he called some 40+ years ago. That's at least the case for those of us who are Catholics.
For my own part, I am here to listen to my brothers and sisters who are of Eastern Christian background, with emphasis on LISTEN. The call for Catholic Christians in the post Vatican II era is to learn to see through the eyes of these, our brethren, so as to understand them as they are--not as we would like them to be.
In Christ,
BOB
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Originally posted by theophan:
Dositheos:
With all due respect, this forum just closed a similar thread that you can find on page 2 of this particular section of the forum. The word you use is inflammatory and not something we use here.
With further due respect, your profile says you are considering a religious vocation. If this opening thread is any indication, please reconsider. The age of polemics among Christians was officially over with Pope John XXIII of blessed memory and the Vatican Council that he called some 40+ years ago. That's at least the case for those of us who are Catholics.
For my own part, I am here to listen to my brothers and sisters who are of Eastern Christian background, with emphasis on LISTEN. The call for Catholic Christians in the post Vatican II era is to learn to see through the eyes of these, our brethren, so as to understand them as they are--not as we would like them to be.
In Christ,
BOB I might well have been rather more forthright Anhelyna
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Dositheos,
As a Melkite, as a Catholic, and as a moderator for this forum I find you post highly offensive and contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Yes, there was a discipline in the past about praying with non-Catholics. That discipline is no longer in force.
Please watch the tone of your posts on this forum. I'm leaving this one open in the hope that you will apologize and reconsider your statements.
Fr. Deacon Edward,
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