Posted on 10/04/2014 10:54:02 AM PDT by ADSUM
A beatification Mass for Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, who died in 1927 at age 26, will be led Saturday by Cardinal Angelo Amato at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. It is the third in a four-step process toward sainthood.
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If you would like to get in the business of selling bridges, there are plenty of buyers out there, providing you are the Saintly sort.
Most Catholics I know, can take a joke, here on FR, not so much.
I’m puzzled. With all the existing saints, why would someone pray to someone who isn’t yet a saint?
Giving credit to dead nuns when praises should go to God.
I was named for her. She is my patron saint. I went to the mass this morning. 2.5 hours!!
However, she has passed/is passing through the first two steps on the way to sainthood.
Servant of God (holiness declared)
Venerable
Beatified
Bl.Miriam Teresa Demjanovich
That’s kind of like saying: I never eat anything I haven’t tried before.
Have you ever had an original thought?
It’s strange, unbiblical practices like this that prevent me from ever becoming Catholic. Strange is an understatement.
Do you not ask your friends to pray for you when you are sick?
Catholics pray and venerate the saints who have a special place in the Body of Christ. Through Christ we remain in communion with the saints in Heaven and the dead in Purgatory.
We ask for the help of the saints in heaven to intercede on our behalf with Christ. We venerate and imitate the lives of the saints so that we too may join them in Heaven with Christ. This leads us to follow God’s will and our love of God.
Why do you consider this strange or unbiblical?
Do you not ask your friends to pray for you?
You may like to read the following about Catholic saints.
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/mary-and-the-saints/index.cfm
It is at Catholic Mass that a Catholic can receive the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ. That is a wonderful closeness to God.
That is wonderful!
Have a Blessed Day!
Protestantism is unbiblical, Sola Scriptura is unbiblical, sectarianism is unbiblical.
It is a shame the headline and the article are poorly written.
If we ever needed proof that Catholics believe they earn their way to heaven.
So a non descript nun dies and they cut her hair off...Is that standard procedure for dead nuns??? And someone saved it for decades...Where can I buy me some nun hair??? And why would someone pray to a non descript nun who died anyway???
No doubt a hoax...
Are you named after her based on this story???
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