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To: neverevergiveup
Second, in my opinion, there is a reason Christ taught with parables. Parables allow for communication of a fundamental truth, without the constraint of details.

Actually, Christ explained why he taught in parables. It was so those who had the gift of faith would understand what He was saying, while those parables would be meaningless to those who did not.

This moron has no business being a Catholic priest. In fact, one of the sobering realities of today is that the entire Catholic Church is filled with priests, bishops and cardinals who aren't even Catholic.

11 posted on 01/11/2018 11:17:25 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Alberta's Child

“It was so those who had the gift of faith would understand what He was saying, while those parables would be meaningless to those who did not.”

Faith is a possibility for all of us, and often comes at different points in life. Christ’s voice calls to all, and doesn’t just speak to those who understand in the first moment they hear it.


13 posted on 01/11/2018 11:32:14 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Alberta's Child

<< “ In fact, one of the sobering realities of today is that the entire Catholic Church is filled with priests, bishops and cardinals who aren’t even Catholic. “ >>

Particularly in the West, who all together rather led the way into broad decadence, leaving Pope Leo to collapse before the Altar, and recover to reportedly to privately declare to a few, that “the smoke of Satan has entered the Church”.


14 posted on 01/11/2018 11:34:01 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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