start here
alvin glombowski got his on the job teraining with maureen barledge--
she got by in life by shaking her tit's and smiling--
maureen barledge was raised to be a "Gold digger" by her father-- just find some guy to pay the bills
and she got alvin glombowski to mary her-- at 45 years old-- now she had a retire-ment plan
Monday, November 19, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Homer about triangles catholic confession of sin-- How to advoid being a heretic with patrick j miron
hey ck out this heresy
for supporting Copernicus's thesis that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa.>
your sin's are only forgiven in the Catholic church--
"While being baptized, the forgiveness we received was so full and complete that there remained in us absolutely nothing left to efface, nor any penalty to suffer for sin. Yet we are not delivered from nature's weakness. On the contrary, we still must combat the movements of concupiscence." (Roman Catechism)
By the sacrament of Penance, the baptized are reconciled with God and the Church. "This sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation for those who have fallen after Baptism, just as Baptism is necessary for salvation for those who have not yet been reborn" (Council of Trent).
The Church wants the faithful to believe fully in the Church's power to forgive sins through the ministry of priests. "His lowly servants accomplish in his name all that he did when he was on earth" (St. Ambrose). "God above confirms what priests do here below" (St. John Chrysostom). "Were there no forgiveness of sins in the Church, there would be no hope of life to come" (St. Augustine).
Definition of HERETIC
1
: a dissenter from established religious dogma; especially : a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church who disavows a revealed truth
2
: one who dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine : nonconformist
Examples of HERETIC
- The church regards them as heretics.
heretic
your sin's are only forgiven in the Catholic church--
[QUOTE] I have a problem going to Confession. It is just so embarrassing, do I really have to go?”[/QUOTE]
The reply from a “fallen away catholic.”
“You are not alone. There are millions of modern day Catholics having the same problem, that's why the church parking lot is usually empty on Saturdays. At a parish that I belonged to during late the late 1970's we had communal Confessions, and the parking lot was usually full.
There seems to be a sense of safety when we confess our sins, one to another, and then the priest gets up at the end of the service and forgives everyone.
[Not validly pjm] Patrick j Miron
I would check around to see if a nearby parish offers Communal Confessions on Saturdays?
Suggested reading: James Chapter 5, Verse 16,Richard [/QUOTE]
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the doctrine is that only the catholic church has the keys
Fourteenth session, canons concerning the most holy sacrament of penance:
· “If anyone says that in the Catholic Church penance is not truly and properly a sacrament instituted by Christ the Lord for reconciling the faithful of God as often as they fall into sin after baptism, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA” (Canons Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of Penance, Canon 1).
· “If anyone denies that sacramental confession was instituted by divine law or is necessary to salvation; or says that the manner of confessing secretly to a priest alone, which the Catholic Church has always observed from the beginning and still observes, is at variance with the institution and command of Christ and is a human contrivance, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA” (Canons Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of Penance, Canon 7).
· “If anyone says that the confession of all sins as it is observed in the Church is impossible and is a human tradition to be abolished by pious people; or that each and all of the faithful of Christ or either sex are not bound thereto once a year in accordance with the constitution of the great Lateran Council, and that for this reason the faithful of Christ are to be persuaded not to confess during Lent, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA” (Canons Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of Penance, Canon 8).
· “If anyone says that God always pardons the whole penalty together with the guilt and that the satisfaction of penitents is nothing else than the faith by which they perceive that Christ has satisfied for them, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA” (Canons Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of Penance, Canon 8).Forgiveness of Sins
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Simplified
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The forgiveness of sins is associated with the Holy Spirit, the Church, and the Communion of Saints. Jesus said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven, if you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (Jn 20:22-23).Through Baptism (977-978)
Jesus joined forgiveness of sins to faith and Baptism when he said that if anyone believed and was baptized they would be saved (Mk. 16:15-16). Baptism is the first sacrament of forgiveness."While being baptized, the forgiveness we received was so full and complete that there remained in us absolutely nothing left to efface, nor any penalty to suffer for sin. Yet we are not delivered from nature's weakness. On the contrary, we still must combat the movements of concupiscence." (Roman Catechism)
Forgiveness after Baptism (979-980)
Who of us can escape every wound of sin? "If the Church has the power to forgive sins, then Baptism cannot be her only means. The Church must be able to forgive all penitents their offenses, even if they should sin until the last moment of their lives" (Roman Catechism).By the sacrament of Penance, the baptized are reconciled with God and the Church. "This sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation for those who have fallen after Baptism, just as Baptism is necessary for salvation for those who have not yet been reborn" (Council of Trent).
The Keys of Forgiveness (981)
The apostles and their successors communicated forgiveness in Baptism and reconciled men to God by the power of the keys. "The Church has received the keys of the kingdom so that sins may be forgiven through Christ's blood and the Holy Spirit's actions" (St. Augustine).Power over All Sins (982-983)
No sin is so serious that the Church cannot forgive it. "There is no one so wicked who cannot hope for forgiveness if his repentance is honest" (Roman Catechism). Christ always wants the Church's gates of forgiveness to be open for those turning from sin.The Church wants the faithful to believe fully in the Church's power to forgive sins through the ministry of priests. "His lowly servants accomplish in his name all that he did when he was on earth" (St. Ambrose). "God above confirms what priests do here below" (St. John Chrysostom). "Were there no forgiveness of sins in the Church, there would be no hope of life to come" (St. Augustine).
First let address the comment of "millions of modern day catholics
[please note the small "c" who for reasons of convenience, unbelief, ignorance, laziness or whatever
choose to no longer avail themselves of God's Sacrament of KNOWN FORGIVENESS.
In fact slightly less than 10% of "professed catholics" to their GREAT spiritual loss, [perhaps damnation!?] advantage the sacrament of Confession, even once a year
[a Catholics Easter Duty!]
CCC # 1484 "Individual, integral confession and absolution remain the only ordinary way for the faithful to reconcile themselves with God and the Church, unless physical or moral impossibility excuses from this kind of confession."
There are profound reasons for this.
Christ is at work in each of the sacraments.
He personally addresses every sinner:
"My son, your sins are forgiven."
He is the physician tending each one of the sick who need him to cure them. He raises them up and reintegrates them into fraternal communion.
Personal confession is thus the form most expressive of reconciliation with God and with the Church.”
CCC # 1497 Individual and integral confession of grave sins followed by absolution remains the only ordinary means of reconciliation with God and with the Church.
CCC # 1483 In case of grave necessity recourse may be had to a communal celebration of reconciliation with general confession and general absolution.
Grave necessity of this sort can arise when there is imminent danger of death without sufficient time for the priest or priests to hear each penitent's confession.
Grave necessity can also exist when, given the number of penitents, there are not enough confessors to hear individual confessions properly in a reasonable time, so that the penitents through no fault of their own would be deprived of sacramental grace or Holy Communion for a long time.
In this case, for the absolution to be valid the faithful must have the intention of individually confessing their grave sins in the time required.
The diocesan bishop is the judge of whether or not the conditions required for general absolution exist. A large gathering of the faithful on the occasion of major feasts or pilgrimages does not constitute a case of grave necessity.
In other words, your sins have not been forgiven! They still need to be confesses. One can pretend [including you’re priest who is GRAVE ERROR!,] but truth is TRUTH! We MUST personally confess our sins. PERIOD!
James 3:16 “Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.”
Haydocks Catholic Commentary: “Ver. 16. Confess, therefore, your sins, &c. Divers interpreters expound this of sacramental confession, though, as the authors of the annotations on the Rheims Testament observe, this is not certain.
The words one to another, may signify that it is not enough to confess to God, but that we must also confess to men, and not to every man, but to those whom God appointed, and to whom he hath given the power of remitting sins in his name. “
1 Jn. 5: 16 “If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God * will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin, which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but their is sin which is not mortal.” Thus if there is sin that is NOT Mortal, their that is Mortal, serious enough to send one to hell.
Jn. 20: 21”Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
HAYDOCKS: “Ver. 23. Whose sins you shall forgive,
[2] &c. These words clearly express the power of forgiving sins, which, as God, he gave to his apostles, and to their successors, bishops and priests, to forgive sins in his name, as his ministers, and instruments, even though they are sinners themselves. For in this, they act not by their own power, nor in their own name, but in the name of God, who as the principal cause, always remitteth sins. Whose sins you shall retain, they are retained: by which we see, that to priests is given a power to be exercised, not only by forgiving, but also by retaining; not only by absolving and loosing, but also by binding, by refusing, or deferring absolution, according to the dispositions that are found in sinners, when they accuse themselves of their sins. From hence must needs follow an obligation on the sinner's part, to declare, and confess their sins in particular, to the ministers of God, who are appointed the spiritual judges, and physicians of their souls”
Mt. 16:19 “I will give you [Peter and the priest and bishops of My Catholic Church] 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."
Get to Confession often!
Love and prayers,
Pat
Confession Quotes
Eph. 4: 17 “Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds; 18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart; 19 they have become callous and have given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness. 20 You did not so learn Christ! 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.”
John 20: 21”Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
1: John 5: 16 If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal. [Mortal sin is so grievous that it completely separates us from a personal relationship with God until we BOTH repent and Confess! Pjm]
Luke 8: 11”Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. 13 And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. 14 And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. 15 And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
James 4: 7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.”
Romans 1: 24 ”Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.”
Romans 2: 13 “For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. “
Matthew 11: 25 ”At that time Jesus declared, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will. All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”
training with john tenbrink and thermotron- field service training--- 'Stewie Shoots Hooker'
when john tenbrink was working at thermotron -- he was teaching john sherman that it was ok to be an adult er and a fornicator..
and just adjust your time on the job to you liking-- it's ok-- because Bod wiley the national service manager-- told the "inner" circle that it was ok to lie to him a little bit -- so long as you didn't get him in trouble
and just adjust your time on the job to you liking-- it's ok-- because Bod wiley the national service manager-- told the "inner" circle that it was ok to lie to him a little bit -- so long as you didn't get him in trouble
Monday, July 30, 2012
Are you a pedophile ? (Family Guy) boysville of michigan
yes you can get special training at boysville of michigan- but it won't lead you to a good paying job.
the holy cross brothers-- learning to look the other way
the holy cross brothers-- learning to look the other way
Friday, July 27, 2012
boysville of michigan education- Some Things Are Better Waiting for HD
yes i got my education at boysville of michigan- thomas more high school-- with a thrill the brothers of holy cross were
Friday, July 20, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Forbidden Book - History of The English Bible and the poor education at boysville of michigan
thomas more would be proud of how poorly the education is transmitted at boysville of michigan. you can count on the Brothers of the holy cross to teach you fables and opinions of the bible.
Spiritual life and religious life is totally lacking. but you can't be educated by a dummy , that's why they are called a DUMMY
Spiritual life and religious life is totally lacking. but you can't be educated by a dummy , that's why they are called a DUMMY
Monday, June 4, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
That is not what Jesus meant when he promised the keys of the kingdom to Peter
hello i have never heard of this version of the keys to the kingdom, do u have any other scripture interperation of this.
also what is your version of the roman catholic idea that peter was the 1st pope? .. acwasn't he the vicker after jesus ??
thanks .. for the answers..
paul
Keys of the Kingdom
by John Clark Sr.
"Jesus said unto [Peter]. . . 'I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.' " Mt.16:19
Christian artists through the centuries have drawn many pictures of Peter standing at a gate in heaven, holding a set of huge keys, and allowing the righteous to enter while turning sinners away.
That is not what Jesus meant when he promised the keys of the kingdom to Peter. Such pictures indicate that where understanding is lacking, imagination will fill the void.
The kingdom of God, according to Paul, is "righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Ghost" (Rom.14:17). Then, when one receives the holy Ghost, when his soul is washed by the spirit of God, he has entered into God's kingdom. The "keys" which Jesus gave to Peter was actually a special anointing to be the first to introduce this kingdom of heaven - the first to minister the holy Ghost baptism - to the three kinds of people on earth in his time. This is an essential point. Every apostle was anointed with power, of course, but none of them could minister the baptism of the Spirit until Peter had unlocked that "door" to the three kinds of people on the earth.
on, whose surname is Peter. He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side. He shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do."
Meanwhile, in Joppa, God was dealing with Peter's heart so that he would be willing to enter a Gentiles' house. By means of a remarkable vision, God compelled Peter to accept Cornelius's invitation, and, having arrived in Caesarea, Peter began to proclaim the gospel to Cornelius, and to his family and friends who had gathered in the house. Unlike Philip with the Samaritans, Peter did not have to wait until someone from Jerusalem came to pray for these people to receive the holy Ghost; he had the keys to the kingdom with him! And "while Peter spake these words, the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision [Jews] which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God."
Peter's work with the keys was now complete. All three doors to God's kingdom had been opened. First to the Jews, then to the Samaritans, and finally to the Gentiles. Since that time, "whosoever will" has been allowed to drink of the Spirit of life freely. While the door of God's kingdom is still open, my friend, strive to enter in. Be wise. "Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE
After his resurrection, Jesus remained with his disciples forty days, "speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3). The disciples, filled more with zeal than with knowledge, believed that Jesus's plan was to overthrow the Romans and restore Israel's past military and political glory. When they excitedly asked, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?", Jesus responded, "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in His own power. But you shall receive power, after that the holy Ghost is come upon you. And ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:7-8). After saying this, Jesus was taken up into heaven. But note the three all-encompassing groups of people to whom Jesus said the apostles would be sent:
(1) JEWS ("Jerusalem and Judea")
(2) SAMARITANS ("Samaria")
(3) GENTILES ("uttermost part of the earth")
In time, each group was given the opportunity to enter God's kingdom. And each, in turn, had its door opened by the man whom God had anointed to do so - Peter. According to the wise plan of God, the Jews would be the first to hear the gospel (Acts 13:45-46). With a powerful sermon on the day of Pentecost, Peter opened the door to his fellow Jews: "Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them [the Jews], Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words. . . ." As a result of Peter's anointed preaching, many Jews that day believed in Jesus, repented of their sins, and entered into the kingdom of God. On that day, for the first time, Peter used one of his keys to the kingdom of God, the key for the Jews, and many Jews entered the open door to receive the righteousness, peace, and joy of the holy Ghost. Of course, after Peter opened the Jews' door, other anointed men could lead other Jews into the kingdom; but Peter had to be the first to do so because he had the keys. Samaritans and Gentiles, too, would be given the opportunity to repent and receive the Spirit, but Jews had to be first (Acts 13:46; Rom.1:16).
Next in line to receive the holy Ghost, or to enter into the kingdom of God, were the Samaritans, who were a bridge between Jews and Gentiles. The first preaching to the Samaritans was done by the Apostle Philip. He performed mighty miracles, cast out demons, healed the sick, told them about Jesus, and baptized in water those who believed the gospel, "and there was great joy in that city" (Acts 8:5-8). But none of the Samaritans received the holy Ghost yet! Philip was anointed with power from God, but he could not yet lead the Samaritans into the kingdom because the Samaritans' door had not yet been opened. The Samaritans believed the word of God that Philip preached, but that's as far as they could go. They could only stand at the door of the kingdom until Peter came from Jerusalem with his anointing, his spiritual key to open their door to the kingdom.
In Jerusalem, upon hearing of the wonderful results of Philip's preaching in Samaria, the assembly of apostles "sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the holy Ghost" (Acts 8:14-16). The Samaritan door was now open. As in the case of the Jews, now that Peter had opened the Samaritan door, other Samaritans could receive the holy Ghost by hearing other men preach the gospel. Their door was open; whosoever among the Samaritans who desired the waters of life could freely drink. Peter did not have to be present for every Samaritan or Jewish conversion. He merely had to open their doors.
Peter's last key was one which God had to coerce him to use, for Peter did not even think that such a key existed. No one in the church knew that there was a door through which even Gentiles could enter into God's kingdom. The opening of the Gentiles' door (Acts 10) is an incredible story of faith and obedience, beginning with "a certain [Gentile] in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the [Jewish] people, and prayed to God always." As this man Cornelius prayed, an angel appeared to him, speaking a few words of encouragement and giving him a directive from God. "Send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter
He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side. He shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do."
Meanwhile, in Joppa, God was dealing with Peter's heart so that he would be willing to enter a Gentiles' house. By means of a remarkable vision, God compelled Peter to accept Cornelius's invitation, and, having arrived in Caesarea, Peter began to proclaim the gospel to Cornelius, and to his family and friends who had gathered in the house. Unlike Philip with the Samaritans, Peter did not have to wait until someone from Jerusalem came to pray for these people to receive the holy Ghost; he had the keys to the kingdom with him! And "while Peter spake these words, the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision [Jews] which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God."
Peter's work with the keys was now complete. All three doors to God's kingdom had been opened. First to the Jews, then to the Samaritans, and finally to the Gentiles. Since that time, "whosoever will" has been allowed to drink of the Spirit of life freely. While the door of God's kingdom is still open, my friend, strive to enter in. Be wise. "Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
also what is your version of the roman catholic idea that peter was the 1st pope? .. acwasn't he the vicker after jesus ??
thanks .. for the answers..
paul
Keys of the Kingdom
by John Clark Sr.
"Jesus said unto [Peter]. . . 'I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.' " Mt.16:19
Christian artists through the centuries have drawn many pictures of Peter standing at a gate in heaven, holding a set of huge keys, and allowing the righteous to enter while turning sinners away.
That is not what Jesus meant when he promised the keys of the kingdom to Peter. Such pictures indicate that where understanding is lacking, imagination will fill the void.
The kingdom of God, according to Paul, is "righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Ghost" (Rom.14:17). Then, when one receives the holy Ghost, when his soul is washed by the spirit of God, he has entered into God's kingdom. The "keys" which Jesus gave to Peter was actually a special anointing to be the first to introduce this kingdom of heaven - the first to minister the holy Ghost baptism - to the three kinds of people on earth in his time. This is an essential point. Every apostle was anointed with power, of course, but none of them could minister the baptism of the Spirit until Peter had unlocked that "door" to the three kinds of people on the earth.
on, whose surname is Peter. He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side. He shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do."
Meanwhile, in Joppa, God was dealing with Peter's heart so that he would be willing to enter a Gentiles' house. By means of a remarkable vision, God compelled Peter to accept Cornelius's invitation, and, having arrived in Caesarea, Peter began to proclaim the gospel to Cornelius, and to his family and friends who had gathered in the house. Unlike Philip with the Samaritans, Peter did not have to wait until someone from Jerusalem came to pray for these people to receive the holy Ghost; he had the keys to the kingdom with him! And "while Peter spake these words, the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision [Jews] which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God."
Peter's work with the keys was now complete. All three doors to God's kingdom had been opened. First to the Jews, then to the Samaritans, and finally to the Gentiles. Since that time, "whosoever will" has been allowed to drink of the Spirit of life freely. While the door of God's kingdom is still open, my friend, strive to enter in. Be wise. "Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE
After his resurrection, Jesus remained with his disciples forty days, "speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3). The disciples, filled more with zeal than with knowledge, believed that Jesus's plan was to overthrow the Romans and restore Israel's past military and political glory. When they excitedly asked, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?", Jesus responded, "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in His own power. But you shall receive power, after that the holy Ghost is come upon you. And ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:7-8). After saying this, Jesus was taken up into heaven. But note the three all-encompassing groups of people to whom Jesus said the apostles would be sent:
(1) JEWS ("Jerusalem and Judea")
(2) SAMARITANS ("Samaria")
(3) GENTILES ("uttermost part of the earth")
In time, each group was given the opportunity to enter God's kingdom. And each, in turn, had its door opened by the man whom God had anointed to do so - Peter. According to the wise plan of God, the Jews would be the first to hear the gospel (Acts 13:45-46). With a powerful sermon on the day of Pentecost, Peter opened the door to his fellow Jews: "Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them [the Jews], Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words. . . ." As a result of Peter's anointed preaching, many Jews that day believed in Jesus, repented of their sins, and entered into the kingdom of God. On that day, for the first time, Peter used one of his keys to the kingdom of God, the key for the Jews, and many Jews entered the open door to receive the righteousness, peace, and joy of the holy Ghost. Of course, after Peter opened the Jews' door, other anointed men could lead other Jews into the kingdom; but Peter had to be the first to do so because he had the keys. Samaritans and Gentiles, too, would be given the opportunity to repent and receive the Spirit, but Jews had to be first (Acts 13:46; Rom.1:16).
Next in line to receive the holy Ghost, or to enter into the kingdom of God, were the Samaritans, who were a bridge between Jews and Gentiles. The first preaching to the Samaritans was done by the Apostle Philip. He performed mighty miracles, cast out demons, healed the sick, told them about Jesus, and baptized in water those who believed the gospel, "and there was great joy in that city" (Acts 8:5-8). But none of the Samaritans received the holy Ghost yet! Philip was anointed with power from God, but he could not yet lead the Samaritans into the kingdom because the Samaritans' door had not yet been opened. The Samaritans believed the word of God that Philip preached, but that's as far as they could go. They could only stand at the door of the kingdom until Peter came from Jerusalem with his anointing, his spiritual key to open their door to the kingdom.
In Jerusalem, upon hearing of the wonderful results of Philip's preaching in Samaria, the assembly of apostles "sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the holy Ghost" (Acts 8:14-16). The Samaritan door was now open. As in the case of the Jews, now that Peter had opened the Samaritan door, other Samaritans could receive the holy Ghost by hearing other men preach the gospel. Their door was open; whosoever among the Samaritans who desired the waters of life could freely drink. Peter did not have to be present for every Samaritan or Jewish conversion. He merely had to open their doors.
Peter's last key was one which God had to coerce him to use, for Peter did not even think that such a key existed. No one in the church knew that there was a door through which even Gentiles could enter into God's kingdom. The opening of the Gentiles' door (Acts 10) is an incredible story of faith and obedience, beginning with "a certain [Gentile] in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the [Jewish] people, and prayed to God always." As this man Cornelius prayed, an angel appeared to him, speaking a few words of encouragement and giving him a directive from God. "Send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter
He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side. He shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do."
Meanwhile, in Joppa, God was dealing with Peter's heart so that he would be willing to enter a Gentiles' house. By means of a remarkable vision, God compelled Peter to accept Cornelius's invitation, and, having arrived in Caesarea, Peter began to proclaim the gospel to Cornelius, and to his family and friends who had gathered in the house. Unlike Philip with the Samaritans, Peter did not have to wait until someone from Jerusalem came to pray for these people to receive the holy Ghost; he had the keys to the kingdom with him! And "while Peter spake these words, the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision [Jews] which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God."
Peter's work with the keys was now complete. All three doors to God's kingdom had been opened. First to the Jews, then to the Samaritans, and finally to the Gentiles. Since that time, "whosoever will" has been allowed to drink of the Spirit of life freely. While the door of God's kingdom is still open, my friend, strive to enter in. Be wise. "Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
YOU ARE GUILTY
hello, so do U know any one who can actually perceive , familiar spirits and the Holy Spirit .. ? as i have been able 2..
as i was talking to some one i went to school with at St.Joan of arc..
as i told her i was looking forward to the Confirmation ceremony in the 4th grade .. because i thought every one would get baptised in the Holy Ghost..
but alas... nothing happened to the other children.. i could still perceive the spirit..
and everyone was.. still spiritually dead..
just like in 1969.. when U , maureen, and myself.. went thru the class.."life in the spirit" ..
"Maureen Barledge what a good example of a dishonest gold digger snake in the grass"
liar back-stabbing slander, oh well .. this is to be expected..
any way.. the Roman Catholic "life in the spirit" group didn't really have it going for themselves.. because when
they lay ed hands on us.. and "nothing happened"..just another ceremony
O'boy... what a thrilling example of Roman Catholic teaching and training..
and 30+ years... later in detroit.. at ST Margrets of Scotland.. i assisted .. in the training.. there..
and i was the only one who knew the scripture basis and the anointing to demonstrate .. and illustrate how and why it works.. but that is because i had been praying in tongues for about 7 years for about 2 hours a day.. and could illustrate the applications..
years before this ,.. as i was explaining the scriptures.. 2 my mother in the back yard.. as the Holy Spirit manifested upon us..
i couldn't speak in English.. so i could demonstrate how tongs and interpretation worked..
(this also happened when i was at a 7th day Adventist church with bill geib)
interesting that alvin glombowski.. preaches and teaches,,. that it is "psyco-Babble"
BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Matthew 16:5-12;Mark 8:14-21 ...
6 And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the ...
12 Then understood they that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, ...
www.biblegateway.com/bible?language=english&version=ASV&passage=Matthew
(beware =of the leaven of Alvin Glombowski)
When i brought her to a CHRISTian church.. a church that believed in the spiritual manifestation.. it was "funny" because when she went up to the "prayer line"
the spiritual ANOINTING came upon her;
and she was "lay ed out for the rest of the service..
and i had to carry her to the car..
she kept saying .. wow .. i feel "drunk"
eventually she got the "clue" that she had been attending a DEAD church ..
Nothing happens at St. Joan of Arc , with Monsignor Bass,,, just another dead Homily, talking to dead church goers
and YAHWEH GOD .. really had given me instructions to .. get training and instruction at different bible training colleges across the land..
because people who don't know nothing .. can't teach you anything....
or as one of my teachers (New Life Bible College)
"norvel Hays " said..
EMPTY hands are lay ed on EMPTY heads.. and nothing happens..!
YouTube - Man of Destiny
Man of Destiny.
Hello,
6 And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, We took no bread.
8 And Jesus perceiving it said, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have no bread?
Jesus cautions against the doctrine of the Alvin Glombowski.
Christ speaks of spiritual things under a similitude, and the disciples misunderstand him of carnal things.
He took it ill that they should think him as thoughtful about bread as they were; that they should be so little acquainted with his way of preaching. Then understood they what he meant.
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word. (Mt 16:13-20)
On Fri, Jan 30, at 4:59 PM, Alvin Glombowski
Paul,
Received your email but was unable to download the pictures Glad to hear from you Hope you had success in finding the courses at Eternal Life If you decide to order I have explanation to the answers. You should have not problem reading the material and answering the questions. Now you know what I do. I was wondering how you got into my email because I have a spam blocker but it does not stop gmail I guess I am learning something new all the time.
God Bless Al
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just a circle of mobbing Catholics who act in the dark, who think even the slightest critical remark is disloyal and who denounce people who ask quest
The Prophetic Voices of our Church
When we first called for greater lay participation in the Church to address needed reforms, many lay people and some clergy welcomed the message and added their own voices. Most of the hierarchy ignored the call or actively opposed our efforts. But as evidence of systemic failures mounts month by month and country by country, we see more and more voices joining our calls for transparency, accountability and meaningful reform. These pages wjust a circle of mobbing Catholics who act in the dark, who think even the slightest critical remark is disloyal and who denounce people who ask questions...ill highlight some of those prophetic voices.
"The Catholic church is more than My big worry is that the hierarchy will listen to them... There are opportunitists in the hierarchy who say nothing when this vocifereous, self-rightous minoirty in the church speaks out... The church leadershiop immediately fears that it will no longer be in charge of the discussion. It is afraid of losing authority... We as a church must learn to look at our church in a new way. We must clear up why there is this silence and what leads to it. That is the decisive question and the question the victims are asking.
- From German Catholics are 'weary,' says Jesuit, by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt in National Catholic Reporter, quoting from Fr. Klaus Mertes interview in Der Spiegel after he stepped down in June 2011 from his post as headmaster of the prestigious Canisius College in Berlin. The Jesuit school was among many in Germany shocked by sexual abuse by teachers, a factor in the exodus of "weary" Catholics from the church in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since the abuse became public. Click here to read the entire NCR article.
"What about our Church right now? There are so many things happening that are not good. We’ve had this horrendous sex abuse scandal that is almost incredible, the extent and the way it’s been handled over the last 20 years or longer, but you know there are people, two groups that I know of.
"One is a group called Voice of the Faithful. These are people like ourselves, and they’re saying, 'This is a crisis within the Church. We have to come together and we have to listen to the Spirit and determine if we can what brought about this crisis? What do we need to change?'
"It’s like that first Church in Jerusalem. Come together; talk about it; listen to the Spirit. We have the tragedy in the Church that now our leadership will not even talk to these people who are ordinary Catholics like everyone gathered in this Church today."
- From Praying for the Spirit to Renew the Church in National Catholic Reporter, June 10, 2011. Click here to read the rest of Thomas Gumbleton's column.
"It should be understood first and foremost that, whenever an allegation is made against a priest and it is determined to be credible, he is removed from priestly ministry... The most important thing I can do as your Bishop is to take steps to ensure that we, as the Church here in the Diocese of St. Petersburg, do everything reasonably possible to protect our children and vulnerable adults."
- From Safe Environment Program Update May 2011, a open letter to the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, by its bishop, Most Rev. Robert N. Lynch, a bishop who apears to understand the clergy sexual abuse scandal. Click here to read his letter, which outlines what he has done to protect children.
Here is a perspective on how and why lay voices over the centuries have become so marginalized within the Church:
"Clericalism by definition is a form of elitism. This sense of elitism is cultivated and reinforced by the distinctive education and formation, dress and titles that priests and religious receive, as well as the reservation of particular offices and roles... Elitism can lead to a distorted sense of entitlement, the assumption that one is not bound by the rules that govern everyone else, and that other people (even the vulnerable) exist to serve one's own needs. It can lead to a whole range of abuses, including sexual abuse. Our church needs a strong and committed laity to push back against clericalism and demand higher degrees of accountability from priests and religious, especially those of us who are in positions of authority."
- From A Work of Mercy: Developing a Different Paradigm for Addressing the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, delivered by John Celichowski, OFM Cap., at Restorative Justice Initiative Conference, Marquette University, April 5, 2011
“… we recommend that Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia resign. His management of the archdiocese has been both ineffectual and incompetent on the matter of handling the sex abuse crisis. It appears he has intentionally designed a system where, according to the district attorney's report, 'the procedures implemented by the archdiocese to help victims are in fact designed to help the abusers, and the archdiocese itself.'
"This is a shameful record.
"On April 19, Rigali turns 76, which means he should have submitted his mandatory letter of resignation last year and his retirement is imminent anyway. His resignation now would be symbolic, but powerfully symbolic."
- Editorial, National Catholic Reporter, April 11, 2011. Full text of the editorial
"We want to be part of a church that puts survivors, the victims of abuse, first—ahead of self-interest, reputation, and institutional needs... On behalf of the Holy Father, I ask forgiveness, for the sexual abuse of children perpetrated by priests, and the past failures of the church's hierarchy, here and in Rome—the failure to respond apropriately to the problem of sexual abuse."
- Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, during the Feb. 20, 2011, "Liturgy of Lament & Repentance," St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. O'Malley was in Dublin at the request of Pope Benedict XVI to review the response to sexual abuse by the Archdiocese of Dublin. He was quoted in "Words of pain, contrition in O'Malley's Irish service" by Lisa Wangsness, Boston Globe.
"The heartbreak is that nobody in the Vatican seems to be in the dot-connecting business. No matter how many official reports or media exposés, no matter how many ad limina visits or episcopal memoirs, the bureaucracy just does not get it... A wide rmarried priesthood—one not restricted to a few disaffected Anglican clergy—would be a giant step toward regaining the confidence of the huge percentages of Catholics watching, waiting, hoping for some meaningful renewal of what is rapidly becoming a moribund church."
- Phyllis Zagano in her Just Catholic National Catholic Reporter column "Repairing the broken church." Zagano is a senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University and author of several books in Catholic studies. Her new book Women & Catholicism will be published later this year.
"With a heavy heart, I have recently made a difficult decision concerning the new English missal. I have decided to withdraw from all my upcoming speaking engagements on the Roman Missal in dioceses across the United States. After talking with my confessor and much prayer, I have concluded that I cannot promote the new missal translation with integrity. I'm sure bishops want a speaker who can put the new missal in a positive light, and that would require me to say things I do not believe."
- Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, in an open letter to U.S. bishops published in America magazine. Click here to read the entire letter. (Fr. Ruff, a professor of liturgy and Gregorian chant, was on the committee that prepared a draft document for the USCCB in 2007 on the use of music during worship services.)
“What happened there (at Vatican II) was a monumental conversion of consciousness among the worlds 2,500 Catholic bishops, and one key area of that was recognition of the role of the laity, by virtue of their baptism, in the Church’s mission of ministry and spreading the gospel in the world … [laity must] take responsibility for where the Church goes in the years to come.”
- Dolores R. Lecky (former head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat for Laity, Family, Women and Youth) at the “The Future of the Church: A Woodstock Forum on Sources of Hope,” December 2010 as reported byJerry Filteau, National Catholic Reporter, Jan. 6, 2011
"Many people, from victim/survivors to parishioners in the pews, have left the Church because of the priest sexual abuse crisis, and that is true scandal. Moreover, some of these people who are disconnected from the Church would like to be reconnected, but the absence of truthfulness and accountability stops them...
"A prevailing question is why is it so difficult for the Church to reveal the truth...
"The truth would complete the puzzle so that the picture can be seen clearly, both validating the stories of the victim/survivors while also clearing the names of the innocent."
- Reverend James Connell, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Open Letter excerpted from Commonweal Magazine blog dotCommonweal, December 6, 2010
"And then there is the sexual abuse crisis. This challenges our Catholic faith – and perhaps causes us to lose it. Many of us who are bishops, as leaders in the church, often have been blind, ignorant, and clearly wrong in this crisis. At times we have focused more on the perceived needs of the institutional church than on the needs of the victims. For this we apologize. "
"I pray that out of this crisis, the church will become better. The church is not the priests and the bishops. The church is the people. And most of all the church is Jesus Christ."
- Bishop Francis A. Quinn, bishop emeritus of Sacramento, US Catholic, August 2010
"What I am looking forward to is the church in Ireland seriously taking on that agenda [for reform], committing itself to a process that will develop us into a Church that is transparent, that is open and accountable."
-Bishop Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor, National Catholic Reporter, August 13, 2010
"One of the first things we might consider doing in terms of challenging the dysfunctions of the church is to try to make the commitment not to be an enabler....There's something about the structure of the Church that keeps adult men like ourselves less than adult."
-Fr. Donald Cozzens at the Australian Council of Priests conference, July 2010
“Most bishops would be in favour of bishops electing the cardinals…What happens at the moment is the pope appoints the cardinals who then elect the pope who then appoints more cardinals and on and on it goes…So it’s a vicious circle. And it is deliberately designed to ensure we do not have another Pope John XXIII.”
- Bishop Geoffrey Robinson at the Australian Council of Priests conference, July 2010
"No one can deny the scale of the problem and the urgent task. In the case of clerical abuse of the young, we are dealing with crime. And the church has struggled to find the point of convergence between sin and forgiveness on the one hand, and crime and punishment on the other."
"What’s clear is there will be no quick fix to this problem, the roots of which go deep and wide. We’re in for the long haul."
-Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Canberra and Goulburn during his pastoral address
"The abuse scandals have not only destroyed many innocent lives, they have also undermined the good work of so many church people at home and throughout the world. In this season of Christmas, we pray that this dark period will lead to a new birth for our church, so that its systems and structures and practices will always point towards - and never away from - Christ."
-Gerard Moloney, CSsR, editor of Reality Magazine, January 2010
"Somehow I have grown up but the church has not” ... [The sexual abuse scandals] horrified me. I find I belong to an organisation that seems caught in a time warp, run by old celibate men divorced from the realities of life, with a lonely priesthood struggling with the burden of celibacy where rules and regulations have more weight than the original message of community and love.”
-- Jennifer Sleeman, 80 years old, when calling for women in Ireland to boycott Mass on Sept. 26, as reported in the Irish TImes Aug. 11, 2010
[Excerpts from a speech to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)]
"... faithful Catholics who struggle with abuses in ecclesiastical authority on many fronts. They know well of certain bishops who chose the protection of abusing priests over the protection of victims. They see young clerics who emerge from the seminary more preoccupied with their own ontological uniqueness, clerical garb and proper title than with the genuine pastoral needs of God’s people. They suffer under an enforced Eucharistic fast necessitated by a decision to place the weight of longstanding practice above the sacramental needs of the people of God. ... we are now veering dangerously close to an instance of ecclesial dysfunction. ... The increasingly dysfunctional character of the current tensions,” he said, “appears more likely to be the result of a failure (by the bishops) to recognize the distinct and complementary role of professed religious life within the life of the church ..."
-- Richard Gaillardetz, Murray/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo, Aug. 12, 2010, as reported in National Catholic Reporter on Aug. 13.
"[Voice of the Faithful and National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management], still in their infancy, are valuable assets in the church. Both should be supported as ways of enabling the laity to fulfill the charge clearly given it by Vatican II practices” in management throughout the church in the United States, drawing on the expertise of the laity."
-- The Editors in Current Comment of America magazine, July 19, 2010
“In responding to sexual and other forms of abuse within the Church it is not enough to concentrate on the sinfulness and failure of those guilty of abuse. It is not just a question of individual repentance but a total systemic reform of Church structures which is needed.”
- Bishop Pat Power is an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Canberra-Goulburn. His remarks were first published in Canberra Times.
“The climate in the church, which allowed abusers to go unpunished, will only change once there is a renewal, a willingness to publicly accept responsibility for one’s actions and greater involvement by lay people in all areas of Church life.”
- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, as reported in the Irish Independent by John Cooney
"If the feminine had been given greater importance and a much larger voice, the church would not have seen anything like the same level of abuse and would most certainly have responded far better."
- Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, former auxiliary bishop of Sydney reported in The Australian
“The days of cover up are over. For a long while the Church’s principle of forgiveness was falsely interpreted and was in favour of those responsible and not the victims.”
- Cardinal Christoph Schonborn to Austrian Catholic news agency, Kathpress
“The greatest persecution of the church does not come from enemies on the outside, but is born from the sin within the church, the church therefore has a deep need to re-learn penance, to accept purification, to learn on one hand forgiveness but also the need for justice. Forgiveness is not a substitute for justice. In one word we have to re-learn these essentials: conversion, prayer, penance, and the theological virtues."
- Pope Benedict XVI to reporters aboard the papal plane
“After having taken a profession of holiness, anyone who destroys others through words or deed would have been better off if their misdeeds had caused them to die in secular dress, rather than, through their holy office, being imposed as an example for others in their sins. Without doubt, if they had fallen all by themselves, their suffering in Hell would be easier to bear.”
- Monsignor Charles J. Scicluna, the Vatican’s top sexual abuse prosecutor in Rome in a service at St. Peter’s Basilica
When we first called for greater lay participation in the Church to address needed reforms, many lay people and some clergy welcomed the message and added their own voices. Most of the hierarchy ignored the call or actively opposed our efforts. But as evidence of systemic failures mounts month by month and country by country, we see more and more voices joining our calls for transparency, accountability and meaningful reform. These pages wjust a circle of mobbing Catholics who act in the dark, who think even the slightest critical remark is disloyal and who denounce people who ask questions...ill highlight some of those prophetic voices.
"The Catholic church is more than My big worry is that the hierarchy will listen to them... There are opportunitists in the hierarchy who say nothing when this vocifereous, self-rightous minoirty in the church speaks out... The church leadershiop immediately fears that it will no longer be in charge of the discussion. It is afraid of losing authority... We as a church must learn to look at our church in a new way. We must clear up why there is this silence and what leads to it. That is the decisive question and the question the victims are asking.
- From German Catholics are 'weary,' says Jesuit, by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt in National Catholic Reporter, quoting from Fr. Klaus Mertes interview in Der Spiegel after he stepped down in June 2011 from his post as headmaster of the prestigious Canisius College in Berlin. The Jesuit school was among many in Germany shocked by sexual abuse by teachers, a factor in the exodus of "weary" Catholics from the church in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since the abuse became public. Click here to read the entire NCR article.
"What about our Church right now? There are so many things happening that are not good. We’ve had this horrendous sex abuse scandal that is almost incredible, the extent and the way it’s been handled over the last 20 years or longer, but you know there are people, two groups that I know of.
"One is a group called Voice of the Faithful. These are people like ourselves, and they’re saying, 'This is a crisis within the Church. We have to come together and we have to listen to the Spirit and determine if we can what brought about this crisis? What do we need to change?'
"It’s like that first Church in Jerusalem. Come together; talk about it; listen to the Spirit. We have the tragedy in the Church that now our leadership will not even talk to these people who are ordinary Catholics like everyone gathered in this Church today."
- From Praying for the Spirit to Renew the Church in National Catholic Reporter, June 10, 2011. Click here to read the rest of Thomas Gumbleton's column.
"It should be understood first and foremost that, whenever an allegation is made against a priest and it is determined to be credible, he is removed from priestly ministry... The most important thing I can do as your Bishop is to take steps to ensure that we, as the Church here in the Diocese of St. Petersburg, do everything reasonably possible to protect our children and vulnerable adults."
- From Safe Environment Program Update May 2011, a open letter to the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, by its bishop, Most Rev. Robert N. Lynch, a bishop who apears to understand the clergy sexual abuse scandal. Click here to read his letter, which outlines what he has done to protect children.
Here is a perspective on how and why lay voices over the centuries have become so marginalized within the Church:
"Clericalism by definition is a form of elitism. This sense of elitism is cultivated and reinforced by the distinctive education and formation, dress and titles that priests and religious receive, as well as the reservation of particular offices and roles... Elitism can lead to a distorted sense of entitlement, the assumption that one is not bound by the rules that govern everyone else, and that other people (even the vulnerable) exist to serve one's own needs. It can lead to a whole range of abuses, including sexual abuse. Our church needs a strong and committed laity to push back against clericalism and demand higher degrees of accountability from priests and religious, especially those of us who are in positions of authority."
- From A Work of Mercy: Developing a Different Paradigm for Addressing the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, delivered by John Celichowski, OFM Cap., at Restorative Justice Initiative Conference, Marquette University, April 5, 2011
“… we recommend that Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia resign. His management of the archdiocese has been both ineffectual and incompetent on the matter of handling the sex abuse crisis. It appears he has intentionally designed a system where, according to the district attorney's report, 'the procedures implemented by the archdiocese to help victims are in fact designed to help the abusers, and the archdiocese itself.'
"This is a shameful record.
"On April 19, Rigali turns 76, which means he should have submitted his mandatory letter of resignation last year and his retirement is imminent anyway. His resignation now would be symbolic, but powerfully symbolic."
- Editorial, National Catholic Reporter, April 11, 2011. Full text of the editorial
"We want to be part of a church that puts survivors, the victims of abuse, first—ahead of self-interest, reputation, and institutional needs... On behalf of the Holy Father, I ask forgiveness, for the sexual abuse of children perpetrated by priests, and the past failures of the church's hierarchy, here and in Rome—the failure to respond apropriately to the problem of sexual abuse."
- Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, during the Feb. 20, 2011, "Liturgy of Lament & Repentance," St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. O'Malley was in Dublin at the request of Pope Benedict XVI to review the response to sexual abuse by the Archdiocese of Dublin. He was quoted in "Words of pain, contrition in O'Malley's Irish service" by Lisa Wangsness, Boston Globe.
"The heartbreak is that nobody in the Vatican seems to be in the dot-connecting business. No matter how many official reports or media exposés, no matter how many ad limina visits or episcopal memoirs, the bureaucracy just does not get it... A wide rmarried priesthood—one not restricted to a few disaffected Anglican clergy—would be a giant step toward regaining the confidence of the huge percentages of Catholics watching, waiting, hoping for some meaningful renewal of what is rapidly becoming a moribund church."
- Phyllis Zagano in her Just Catholic National Catholic Reporter column "Repairing the broken church." Zagano is a senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University and author of several books in Catholic studies. Her new book Women & Catholicism will be published later this year.
"With a heavy heart, I have recently made a difficult decision concerning the new English missal. I have decided to withdraw from all my upcoming speaking engagements on the Roman Missal in dioceses across the United States. After talking with my confessor and much prayer, I have concluded that I cannot promote the new missal translation with integrity. I'm sure bishops want a speaker who can put the new missal in a positive light, and that would require me to say things I do not believe."
- Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, in an open letter to U.S. bishops published in America magazine. Click here to read the entire letter. (Fr. Ruff, a professor of liturgy and Gregorian chant, was on the committee that prepared a draft document for the USCCB in 2007 on the use of music during worship services.)
“What happened there (at Vatican II) was a monumental conversion of consciousness among the worlds 2,500 Catholic bishops, and one key area of that was recognition of the role of the laity, by virtue of their baptism, in the Church’s mission of ministry and spreading the gospel in the world … [laity must] take responsibility for where the Church goes in the years to come.”
- Dolores R. Lecky (former head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat for Laity, Family, Women and Youth) at the “The Future of the Church: A Woodstock Forum on Sources of Hope,” December 2010 as reported byJerry Filteau, National Catholic Reporter, Jan. 6, 2011
"Many people, from victim/survivors to parishioners in the pews, have left the Church because of the priest sexual abuse crisis, and that is true scandal. Moreover, some of these people who are disconnected from the Church would like to be reconnected, but the absence of truthfulness and accountability stops them...
"A prevailing question is why is it so difficult for the Church to reveal the truth...
"The truth would complete the puzzle so that the picture can be seen clearly, both validating the stories of the victim/survivors while also clearing the names of the innocent."
- Reverend James Connell, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Open Letter excerpted from Commonweal Magazine blog dotCommonweal, December 6, 2010
"And then there is the sexual abuse crisis. This challenges our Catholic faith – and perhaps causes us to lose it. Many of us who are bishops, as leaders in the church, often have been blind, ignorant, and clearly wrong in this crisis. At times we have focused more on the perceived needs of the institutional church than on the needs of the victims. For this we apologize. "
"I pray that out of this crisis, the church will become better. The church is not the priests and the bishops. The church is the people. And most of all the church is Jesus Christ."
- Bishop Francis A. Quinn, bishop emeritus of Sacramento, US Catholic, August 2010
"What I am looking forward to is the church in Ireland seriously taking on that agenda [for reform], committing itself to a process that will develop us into a Church that is transparent, that is open and accountable."
-Bishop Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor, National Catholic Reporter, August 13, 2010
"One of the first things we might consider doing in terms of challenging the dysfunctions of the church is to try to make the commitment not to be an enabler....There's something about the structure of the Church that keeps adult men like ourselves less than adult."
-Fr. Donald Cozzens at the Australian Council of Priests conference, July 2010
“Most bishops would be in favour of bishops electing the cardinals…What happens at the moment is the pope appoints the cardinals who then elect the pope who then appoints more cardinals and on and on it goes…So it’s a vicious circle. And it is deliberately designed to ensure we do not have another Pope John XXIII.”
- Bishop Geoffrey Robinson at the Australian Council of Priests conference, July 2010
"No one can deny the scale of the problem and the urgent task. In the case of clerical abuse of the young, we are dealing with crime. And the church has struggled to find the point of convergence between sin and forgiveness on the one hand, and crime and punishment on the other."
"What’s clear is there will be no quick fix to this problem, the roots of which go deep and wide. We’re in for the long haul."
-Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Canberra and Goulburn during his pastoral address
"The abuse scandals have not only destroyed many innocent lives, they have also undermined the good work of so many church people at home and throughout the world. In this season of Christmas, we pray that this dark period will lead to a new birth for our church, so that its systems and structures and practices will always point towards - and never away from - Christ."
-Gerard Moloney, CSsR, editor of Reality Magazine, January 2010
"Somehow I have grown up but the church has not” ... [The sexual abuse scandals] horrified me. I find I belong to an organisation that seems caught in a time warp, run by old celibate men divorced from the realities of life, with a lonely priesthood struggling with the burden of celibacy where rules and regulations have more weight than the original message of community and love.”
-- Jennifer Sleeman, 80 years old, when calling for women in Ireland to boycott Mass on Sept. 26, as reported in the Irish TImes Aug. 11, 2010
[Excerpts from a speech to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)]
"... faithful Catholics who struggle with abuses in ecclesiastical authority on many fronts. They know well of certain bishops who chose the protection of abusing priests over the protection of victims. They see young clerics who emerge from the seminary more preoccupied with their own ontological uniqueness, clerical garb and proper title than with the genuine pastoral needs of God’s people. They suffer under an enforced Eucharistic fast necessitated by a decision to place the weight of longstanding practice above the sacramental needs of the people of God. ... we are now veering dangerously close to an instance of ecclesial dysfunction. ... The increasingly dysfunctional character of the current tensions,” he said, “appears more likely to be the result of a failure (by the bishops) to recognize the distinct and complementary role of professed religious life within the life of the church ..."
-- Richard Gaillardetz, Murray/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo, Aug. 12, 2010, as reported in National Catholic Reporter on Aug. 13.
"[Voice of the Faithful and National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management], still in their infancy, are valuable assets in the church. Both should be supported as ways of enabling the laity to fulfill the charge clearly given it by Vatican II practices” in management throughout the church in the United States, drawing on the expertise of the laity."
-- The Editors in Current Comment of America magazine, July 19, 2010
“In responding to sexual and other forms of abuse within the Church it is not enough to concentrate on the sinfulness and failure of those guilty of abuse. It is not just a question of individual repentance but a total systemic reform of Church structures which is needed.”
- Bishop Pat Power is an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Canberra-Goulburn. His remarks were first published in Canberra Times.
“The climate in the church, which allowed abusers to go unpunished, will only change once there is a renewal, a willingness to publicly accept responsibility for one’s actions and greater involvement by lay people in all areas of Church life.”
- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, as reported in the Irish Independent by John Cooney
"If the feminine had been given greater importance and a much larger voice, the church would not have seen anything like the same level of abuse and would most certainly have responded far better."
- Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, former auxiliary bishop of Sydney reported in The Australian
“The days of cover up are over. For a long while the Church’s principle of forgiveness was falsely interpreted and was in favour of those responsible and not the victims.”
- Cardinal Christoph Schonborn to Austrian Catholic news agency, Kathpress
“The greatest persecution of the church does not come from enemies on the outside, but is born from the sin within the church, the church therefore has a deep need to re-learn penance, to accept purification, to learn on one hand forgiveness but also the need for justice. Forgiveness is not a substitute for justice. In one word we have to re-learn these essentials: conversion, prayer, penance, and the theological virtues."
- Pope Benedict XVI to reporters aboard the papal plane
“After having taken a profession of holiness, anyone who destroys others through words or deed would have been better off if their misdeeds had caused them to die in secular dress, rather than, through their holy office, being imposed as an example for others in their sins. Without doubt, if they had fallen all by themselves, their suffering in Hell would be easier to bear.”
- Monsignor Charles J. Scicluna, the Vatican’s top sexual abuse prosecutor in Rome in a service at St. Peter’s Basilica
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Alvin Glombowski ---YOU MARRIED HER
Alvin Glombowski married Moreen Barledge, a divorced and UN-Annllment
Maureen Barledge wanted a divorce from "RutTer" (the father of her son) because he her ex-husben wanted to have sex --too-= often!
so the Catholic Church wouldn't give her an annulment..
This didn't "faze" Alvin Glombowski, he married the "Gold-digger" any way, actually the whole family is nuts, her brother was a cock-sucking fag, thief lier, and her son a social-path.
Alvin Glombowski defined her "character" as she does the "right-thing's 4 the wrong reasons, and every-thing she does, has "strings" attached!
to ma·nip·u·late
[muh-nip-yuh-leyt] Show IPA
verb (used with object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing.
1.
to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings. and control
Just a Typical Roman Catholic Family.. gee but we go to church!
Maureen Barledge did teach and live with dishonestly, disceite, and deception, and she got her way by , shaking her tits, and a pretty smile.
Gee don't you want her as your House-Keeper !
Q. What are the grounds for annulment in the Catholic Church?
Most annulments are based on canon 1095, psychological reasons. These include a wide range of factors. Some of them may be misrepresentation or fraud (concealing the truth about capacity or desire to have children for example, or about an preexisting marriage, drug addiction, felony convictions, sexual preference or having reached the age of consent)
Refusal or inability to consummate the marriage (inability or refusal to have sex)
Bigamy, incest (being married to someone else, or close relatives)
Duress (being forced or coerced into marriage against one's will or serious external pressure, for example a pregnancy)
Mental incapacity (considered unable to understand the nature and expectations of marriage)
Lack of knowledge or understanding of the full implications of marriage as a life-long commitment in faithfulness and love, with priority to spouse and children.
Psychological inability to live the marriage commitment as described above.
Illegal "Form of Marriage" (ceremony was not performed according to Catholic canon law)
One/both partners was under the influence of drugs, or addicted to a chemical substance.
Jesse Duplantis- Never Fight an Enemy That's Already Defeated
Alvin glombowski and patrick miron think they know more than God because they are rome-en-catholic, and any spirit or person that dosen't agree with them are the enemy
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