Posted on 08/21/2023 7:23:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
By Deborah Castellano Lubov
Pope Francis has called upon fellow Christians to bear witness to the Gospel together.
He did so in a telegram sent on his behalf, by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to the Synod of the Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches, taking place this week in northern Italy.
The telegram began by expressing the Pope's delight to greet the synod members, and conveying his hope that the "meeting may be, for each one, an occasion of a profound experience of Christ who welcomes, guides and leads to the fullness of communion with Him and with the brethren."
Pope Francis raised a prayer of praise to God the Father "for the gifts bestowed through ecumenical dialogue," as well as for the "harmonious collaboration" between Christian confessions.
He also expressed his desire "to remain spiritually present at this important event, so that we may grow in mutual knowledge in order to bear witness together to the Gospel of Jesus."
The Holy Father concluded by offering his best wishes for the work of this synodal assembly, and invoking the Lord's blessing.
The Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches is an Italian united church founded in 1975, which brings together the Waldensian Evangelical Church and the Evangelical Methodist Church in Italy.
The Union has some 50,000 members, of which 45,000 are Waldensians, mostly in Italy but also in Argentina and Uruguay. Methodists number some 5,000.
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This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ. Shall We suffer, what would indeed be iniquitous, the truth, and a truth divinely revealed, to be made a subject for compromise?
Ping
Deceptive.. as this pope has no respect for the bible.
Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel! (I Corinthians 9:16)
Unfortunately, to preach the Gospel is to preach against essentially everything Francis stands for—not because he is a Catholic, but because he is a heretic.
One of his aides took him aside and said,,Frankie,baby,you have to at least pretend to like the Catholic Church....
The Pope preaches a gospel of man whereas true Christian churches preach the gospel of the Bible. One will get you into heaven and the other will get you a spot in the lake of fire. I hope you know which does what.
PROT/CATH ALERT ⚠️
Not just a heretic, but a minion of Satan.
I don’t mean it that way. I am not Catholic, but I recognize the Gospel when I hear it, whether from Rome or Athens or Wittenberg. JPII preached it. Benedict XVI preached it. Francis doesn’t, nor do his chosen cardinals, nor do his chosen bishops.
I wish the communist pope would just stop talking. I am not listening.
Saved by faith through grace in the substitutionary atonement of the cross.
10 For we are his workmanship,
CREATED in Christ Jesus for GOOD WORKS,
WHICH GOD prepared beforehand,
that WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM.
Just me being me.
Grace compared to
Grape juice and magic cookies!
‘For by One Offering He has Perfected Forever Those Who are being Sanctified.’
Hebrews 10:14
Amen Brudda!
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