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To: T Minus Four

I have a feeling something else puzzles you and you won’t ask that, but instead ask about “misslette”. The word is “missal”, or sometimes “missalette”; it is a book that contains the prayers, Bible readings, and the order of the Mass (hence “missal”) every day. It is often combined with a hymnal. The Church is a place where the Holy Scripture is proclaimed, heard, and explained to/by the gathered community of faithful; it is perfectly fine to bring a Bible to Church but the Mass is not really the time to read the Bible to oneself. If your remark is meant to point out that the Catholics do not know the Bible in the same way as the Protestants do, or as well as some Protestants do, yes, that is indeed so.

It would never occur to me to hold anything other than a baby or a Rosary as I approach to receive the Eucharist.

I never said Protestants are pagans. I think that Protestantism contains certain defects of faith that lead overtime to weakening of faith and eventually paganism, and that is what I implied. I believe I made that point more explicitly earlier on this thread, at 88.

There is but one valid baptism, into the Catholic Church; it places an indelible mark on one’s soul. So in that sense anyone who has been validly baptized is Catholic, but one certainly can become a fallen away Catholic.


201 posted on 06/18/2009 3:36:04 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex; All

I KNOW what it is, I used one every Sunday for many, many years. Sorry I misspelled it :-)

Sigh. Guess I’ll bow out now. It’s fruitless.


204 posted on 06/18/2009 4:17:04 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Matthew 15:8 - 9)
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