Posted on 03/12/2003 11:58:16 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
CHECK IT OUT! RICK SANTORUM IS LAYING IT ON THE LINE!
I don't frighten easily, and I'm a pretty well grounded, practical person. When I saw her on TV in the Lazio-Clinton debate, something in her eyes gave me chills and goosebumps, and I found myself reciting the Lord's Prayer in my head. It was different from the non-human emptiness you generally see in the 9-11 terrorists eyes, for example.
You ask fellow Christians to pray for you and to help you. Catholics also ask for the prayers and help of the angels, members of the Church Triumphant in Heaven. There's no reason to exclude them. Of course, we recognize that God is the ultimate source of their power, as you recognize that God is the ultimate source of the power behind the prayers of other Christians.
Communion of SaintsThe communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head, and in a constant interchange of supernatural offices. The participants in that solidarity are called saints by reason of their destination and of their partaking of the fruits of the Redemption (I Cor., i, 2-Greek Text). The damned are thus excluded from the communion of saints. The living, even if they do not belong to the body of the true Church, share in it according to the measure of their union with Christ and with the soul of the Church. St. Thomas teaches (III:8:4) that the angels, though not redeemed, enter the communion of saints because they come under Christ's power and receive of His gratia capitis. The solidarity itself implies a variety of inter-relations: within the Church Militant, not only the participation in the same faith, sacraments, and government, but also a mutual exchange of examples, prayers, merits, and satisfactions; between the Church on earth on the one hand, and purgatory and heaven on the other, suffrages, invocation, intercession, veneration. These connotations belong here only in so far as they integrate the transcendent idea of spiritual solidarity between all the children of God.
We request the help of St. Michael the Archangel in battle against the devil in particular because his singular role in demonic warfare in Scripture:
(1) Daniel 10:13 sqq., Gabriel says to Daniel, when he asks God to permit the Jews to return to Jerusalem: "The Angel [D.V. prince] of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me . . . and, behold Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me . . . and none is my helper in all these things, but Michael your prince";(2) Daniel 12, the Angel speaking of the end of the world and the Antichrist says: "At that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people."
(3) In the Catholic Epistle of St. Jude: "When Michael the Archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses", etc. St. Jude alludes to an ancient Jewish tradition of a dispute between Michael and Satan over the body of Moses, an account of which is also found in the apocryphal book on the assumption of Moses (Origen, "De principiis", III, 2, 2). St. Michael concealed the tomb of Moses; Satan, however, by disclosing it, tried to seduce the Jewish people to the sin of hero-worship. St. Michael also guards the body of Eve, according to the "Revelation of Moses" ("Apocryphal Gospels", etc., ed. A. Walker, Edinburgh, p. 647).
(4) Apocalypse 12:7, "And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon." St. John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the battle in heaven at the beginning of time. According to the Fathers there is often question of St. Michael in Scripture where his name is not mentioned. They say he was the cherub who stood at the gate of paradise, "to keep the way of the tree of life" (Gen., iii, 24), the angel through whom God published the Decalogue to his chosen people, the angel who stood in the way against Balaam (Numbers 22:22 sqq.), the angel who routed the army of Sennacherib (IV Kings 19:35).
You mean cottage cheese?
I disagree. On most issues you are right, but killing babies is a matter of religion for the radical left she leads. They will lead themselves down the road to political oblivion in order to continue to slaughter.
What the HELL does she mean by that?
My senator (Brownback) is up now. Ther is one of the most polite men you will ever meet.
This is code for "Clinton: Good, Bush: Bad"
The devil actually has a glimmer of hitlery in his eye. she is doing his work. she is truly a heinous bitch.
Wasn't it Santorum that was asking Boxer if a baby is still considered a fetus and can be killed if only the toe was still in the birth canal and Boxer just had no answer for that question? She absolutely refused to go on record with a yes or no answer.
This was about 4-5 years ago...anybody remember that?
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