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To: Morgana

Pelosi should be very publicly excommunicated. Her Bishop should break out the old bell, book and candle ritual where the bishop rings a bell to evoke a death toll, closes a holy book to symbolize the ex-communicant’s separation from the church, and snuffs out a candle knocking it to the floor to represent the target’s soul being extinguished and removed from the light of God.


16 posted on 06/20/2013 4:20:54 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ
Pelosi should be very publicly excommunicated. Her Bishop should break out the old bell, book and candle ritual where the bishop rings a bell to evoke a death toll, closes a holy book to symbolize the ex-communicant’s separation from the church, and snuffs out a candle knocking it to the floor to represent the target’s soul being extinguished and removed from the light of God

Yeah, the contemporary form of excommunication, or lack thereof, really doesn't hold a candle (pun intended) to the older manner of excommunication. The old rite of excommunication really underscores the seriousness of the spiritual plight which the sinner is in when the bishop publicly declares before the altar:

"Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and of all the saints, in virtue of the power which has been given us of binding and loosing in Heaven and on earth, we deprive N-- himself and all his accomplices and all his abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, we separate him from the society of all Christians, we exclude him from the bosom of our Holy Mother the Church in Heaven and on earth, we declare him excommunicated and anathematized and we judge him condemned to eternal fire with Satan and his angels and all the reprobate, so long as he will not burst the fetters of the demon, do penance and satisfy the Church; we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the day of judgment."

34 posted on 06/21/2013 5:56:06 PM PDT by old republic
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