Happy New Year, everyone. I hope your Christmas was holy, and today, the Epiphany, I wish you all a blessed New Year.
I’ve been quiet lately, as usually off fighting the wars with anti-Catholics. I’ve heard so many statements…most recently, an Anglican told me that the Blessed Virgin was buried in Spain. Of course I asked for references…He also states that the Church of England is still part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church…of course, lots of people/groups say they’re part of something without really being part of it. Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden (and Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity) claim to be Catholic, yet dissent from official Church teaching.
At any rate, I only have a short time to write each day, and I’ve been out defending the Church, so haven’t been here. Plus, it’s Christmas season…
So anyway, it has occurred to me that Protestants are in such denial-they’re the ones that add things and subtract things form the Christian faith. Baptism by immersion, but it doesn’t really do anything; everything’s a symbol-Jesus gave the people a symbol in the bread and wine (grape juice); there’s no such thing in the Bible as a pope, or the Assumption, or Mary’s perpetual virginity, or her immaculate conception…
It’s like “Put it all in a blender and see what happens” Christianity.
Catholics know that the sacraments effect what they signify-that baptism washes away our original sin, that confession wipes out our daily sin, that confirmation enlists us as soldiers of Christ, that anointing heals us, that laying on hands consecrates our priests to Christ, that marriage bonds two people permanently, and Eucharist, which doesn’t effect what it signifies, it signifies what it effect, is the body and blood, soul and divinity of Christ. We know Peter was the first head of Christ’s Church because Christ said so. We know that Mary didn’t have other children, and that Christ had brothers, and that this statement does not contradict itself.
I will continue to be a soldier for Christ, regardless of where (here, elsewhere on the net or live in person), and I never tire of this mission…
God bless you.
Let us pray for our Christian brothers and sisters.
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