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To: MHGinTN

As you have indicated that you do not accept all of the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church, I accept His teachings.

Just as Judas was replaced by another apostle, Matthias.

“Then they gave lots to them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.” Acts1

The Church continued through the successors to the Apostles who were ordained and continued the mission of Jesus to Preach and Baptize all nations.

During his public life Jesus not only forgave sins, but also made plain the effect of this forgiveness: he reintegrated forgiven sinners into the community of the People of God from which sin had alienated or even excluded them. A remarkable sign of this is the fact that Jesus receives sinners at his table, a gesture that expresses in an astonishing way both God’s forgiveness and the return to the bosom of the People of God. (CCC 1443)
In imparting to his apostles his own power to forgive sins, the Lord also gives them the authority to reconcile sinners with the Church. This ecclesial dimension of their task is expressed most notably in Christ’s solemn words to Simon Peter: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” The office of binding and loosing which was given to Peter was also assigned to the college of the apostles united to its head. (CCC 1444)
The words bind and loose mean: Whomever you exclude from your communion, will be excluded from communion with God; whomever you receive anew into your communion, God will welcome back into his. Reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God. (CCC 1445)


161 posted on 04/28/2016 11:05:31 AM PDT by ADSUM
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To: ADSUM
The words bind and loose mean:

Thanks for telling what Rome has decided.

207 posted on 04/28/2016 12:58:15 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ADSUM
Reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God.

BLASPHEMY!


208 posted on 04/28/2016 12:58:57 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ADSUM
Reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God. (CCC 1445)
 
 
The tale of two homepages...
 
 
“(w)hoever lives in peace with God, whoever lets himself be reconciled with Him, finds also peace with himself, with his neighbor and the creation that surrounds him. Faith helps (a person) to live, faith gives joy, faith is a great gift: this is the deepest conviction of Pope Benedict,”
 
 
 
 
 
 
2 Corinthians 5:17-20
17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
18. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19. that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

 

 

Church is not mentioned in either!

209 posted on 04/28/2016 1:02:36 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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