Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: sinkspur
In its externals, no, unless you can find in the Gospels where Jesus wore gold.

We progress. You reject as UNCHRISTIAN the EXTERNALS of the Pre-V2 Catholic Church?

Perhaps you have forgotten the following:


[1] Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead,
 whom Jesus raised to life.
[2] And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that were at table 
with him.
[3] Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed 
the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
[4] Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:
[5] Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
[6] Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; 
but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.
[7] Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.
[8] For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.


141 posted on 08/01/2003 7:39:19 PM PDT by narses ("The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace" Francis Carindal Arinze of Nigeria)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 134 | View Replies ]


To: narses
You reject as UNCHRISTIAN the EXTERNALS of the Pre-V2 Catholic Church?

No. I reject some of the externals as not in keeping with the life of Him who had nowhere to lay His Head.

They are, for the most part, now gone. Things like gloves for bishops, lace vestments for priests, gold mitres and jeweled rings.

You still find these things in the SSPX, if you miss them.

150 posted on 08/01/2003 7:45:18 PM PDT by sinkspur ("Boy, watch that knife!'" Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton in "The Searchers")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 141 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson