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To: getarope

>> I left because I believe we can pray to God directly without any intermediary. <<

That’s a pretty amazing statement, since there is no appeal to the Saints, or the Blessed Virgin Mary in the entire Roman liturgy, apart from appeals to the entire church:

“And I ask the Blessed Virgin, all the angels and Saints, and you, my Brothers and sisters to pray for me...”

“We pray with [litany of the Saints]...”

This is a great departure from older, Eastern rites.

>> Saints are decided by God, not a panel of Cardinals or the Pope. <<

And how would we know who is decided by God to be a Saint? A tiny, select few of the saints are chosen by God, for whatever His purpose may be, to be made known to us on Earth. And so God permits miracles to be performed through appeals to such saints, to confirm that they are before the throne of grace. There is no panel of Cardinals involved. The role of the Pope is to affirm a commission that such miracles are genuine, and divine in origin, as opposed to diabolical.

>> Mary was a chosen servant of God, NOT a spiritual equal to be idolized. <<

You never heard the contrary uttered in a Catholic church! Some cult in Quebec uttered such nonsense and was excommunicated before their candles burned down. Carl Jung (who first proposed such nonsense) was not Catholic.

>> The choice of music was the least of my reasons why I left. <<

The shocking lack of catechesis you described in comorbid with banal lyrics. As I noted, once the liturgical music does infantile, so too do the homilies and prayers of the faithful.


29 posted on 05/29/2011 7:16:26 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

The Church of God as a mother is opened to everyone and I think everyone has a place in the Church. I agree that in the Church must be both traditional choirs and guitar groups. All of us are praising God by using different methods. Even in a Psalm (which I don’t remember) is mentioned to praise the Lord with musical instruments! So why the Church is making difference between intstruments?


30 posted on 06/05/2011 1:33:27 AM PDT by Antoine 74
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