Catholics, please answer me? Confession:

Q: Catholics, please answer me?

I’m female. Long time ago I had a sexual relationship with another woman.

Should I go to confess it to a priest?  My life has changed this time I want to be a good christian a good catholic?

Please don’t judge me.

                      

A: It’s always a good idea to confess every serious sin, no matter how long ago it might have been committed.

Voluntary confession, accompanied by a firm intention to repent, means that God does not have to find you guilty of your sins, and it generally eliminates any need for divine judgment.

The sacrament of reconciliation also effectively replaces any grace that might have been lost, as a result of that sin.

Properly and consistently done, that’s as close to a “free ticket to heaven” as anyone is ever likely to get … courtesy of Jesus Christ, and the only Church he ever founded, for the purpose of our salvation … the Catholic Church.

Is it the same God?

Q: Is it the same God?

Would you say Christians worship the same God as Jews, and Muslims?
If no, why?
I think it’s all the same God, just different ways to worship.
This is not a question of who is right or wrong.

A: From the official Catechism of the Catholic Church:

The Church and non-Christians

839 “Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways.”325

The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People. When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 “the first to hear the Word of God.”327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God’s revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews “belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ”,328 “for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.”329

840 And when one considers the future, God’s People of the Old Covenant and the new People of God tend towards similar goals: expectation of the coming (or the return) of the Messiah. But one awaits the return of the Messiah who died and rose from the dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God; the other awaits the coming of a Messiah, whose features remain hidden till the end of time; and the latter waiting is accompanied by the drama of not knowing or of misunderstanding Christ Jesus.

841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”330

842 The Church’s bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common origin and end of the human race:

All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . .331

The bible said to honor thy father and thy mother, but why did Jesus address his mother only as “woman”?

Q: The bible said to honor thy father and thy mother, but why did Jesus address his mother only as “woman”?

A: God said “women” at the Wedding of Cana, and He said “woman” while dying on the cross. The beginning and the end of his of His earthly ministry.

God said “woman” in Genesis 3:15, and He said “woman” in Rev. 12: >> The only two places in scripture where you have a woman and a serpent in the same verse. Genesis and Revelation, the beginning and the end of the Bible.

“Woman” is a two fold title. Culturally, it was an honorary term at that time, not a derogatory one as in 21st white Anglo-Saxon American culture.

There are other biblical references that uses “woman” as they refer to Mary.

Rev 12:15 The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the **woman**, to sweep her away with the flood. 16 But the earth came to the help of the **woman**, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth.
17 Then the dragon was angry with the **woman**, and went off to make war ON THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea..

Who could these OFFSPRING be? Ever commentator worth his salt will tell you that these offspring are the Church. How did the Blessed Virgin Mom become the Mother of the Church?

John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, **Woman**, behold thy son! 27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

The experiences of the “Beloved Disciple” (BD) were the focus of John’s Gospel. He is an ‘everyman’ character. St. John’s Gospel is told in such a way that the reader can identify himself with the BD and is meant to see the story of Jesus from the BD’s perspective. Whatever is addressed to the BD is addressed to the reader.

So we have established that:
1) Mary is the Mother of Jesus
2) Whose children are the Church that keeps the commandments AND honors her Son
3) Who himself explicitly designated her as the Mother of his disciples.

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Question for Christians: What did Jesus mean by this?

Q: Question for Christians: What did Jesus mean by this?

Luke 17:20 The Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would come. He answered them, “People can’t observe the coming of the kingdom of God.
Luke 17:21 They can’t say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ You see, the kingdom of God is within you.”

If you are a Christian and are waiting for Jesus to suddenly appear in the clouds why so if he stated clearly that the Kingdom would not come in such a way to be seen?

More importantly what do you think he means that the Kingdom of God is within us?

                 

A: The Kingdom of God exists anytime and anywhere the Holy Spirit accepts an invitation to indwell a human soul.

When Jesus returns, the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God will merge, for eternity … and then God will be all in all.

Christians: Jesus did WHAT exactly to OT law?

Q: Christians: Jesus did WHAT exactly to OT law?

I am going to cite a couple specific verses of the OT, just to give the question some directions.

In the OT, God commands that people who work on the Sabbath be put to death (Ex. 35:2), and that people with skin diseases be exiled (Lev. 13:46).

What does Jesus do to these two specific commands?

Please, explain in a way my feeble atheistic mind can comprehend. I haven’t been able to follow the “fulfill, not override, generally make nicer” arguments I’ve read so far.

A: Jesus fulfilled and set aside ALL of the old laws, ordinances, and statutes … which never had the power to save a soul.

Then, on Pentecost, he sent the Holy Spirit to officially replace the old law with the Church … which is most certainly salvific.

Grace … not law … is now the order of the day.

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Anyone know a website where one could look up guidelines for the Roman Catholic Church?

Q: Anyone know a website where one could look up guidelines for the Roman Catholic Church?

As in the view on things like abortion, death penatly, and other issues like that?

A: Here are the main official Catholic websites:

• The Vatican: http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm
• The US Conference of Catholic Bishops: http://www.usccb.org/index.shtml
• Catholic Bible: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/
• Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/inde…
• Code of Canon Law: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_I…
• Documents of Vatican II: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_counc…

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Will many Christians ever get past salvation and into understanding the kingdom of God?

Q: Will many Christians ever get past salvation and into understanding the kingdom of God?

A: Catholics “got past” mere salvation around 1600 years ago.

That’s probably why so many protestants seem to have such a hard time figuring what Catholics believe … and why.

The simple fact is, once baptized, works DO matter, since the foundation of the Kingdom of God is not built on good intentions, but on the heroic works of Jesus Christ, and all those who, according to his grace, choose to know, love, and faithfully follow him.

Was Christ’s physical body resurrected from the dead or did He rise an immaterial spirit?

Q: Was Christ’s physical body resurrected from the dead or did He rise an immaterial spirit?

A: The resurrection was the supernatural transformation of Jesus’ physical body into a higher form of physical body that was compatible with both heaven and earth, and that could exist in the near presence of God.

Gnostics believe in a purely spiritual resurrection, not understanding that such a thing would be no resurrection at all.

Here’s what St. Augustine had to say about it:

“Christ demonstrated justice by His death, He promised power by His resurrection. What could be more just than to go as far as the death of the cross, for the sake of justice?

What greater act of power than to rise from the dead, and ascend to heaven with the very flesh in which He was slain?”

“First, justice conquered the devil, then power; justice, because Christ had no sin and was most unjustly put to death by the devil; power, because He lived again after death, never to die thereafter.”

 

If it is impossible for God to allow sin into heaven, how will we get there?

Q: If it is impossible for God to allow sin into heaven, how will we get there?

A: By the transforming power of the grace that Jesus obtained for us on the cross, at Calvary.

Alliance for Life Challenges Muslims to Join the Pro Life Movement

Alliance for Life Challenges Muslims to Join the Pro-Life Movement

May 5, 2008

Alliance for Life, a pro-life organization that was recently founded to help coordinate all of the various pro life “assets” available to the movement, today issued a challenge to faithful Muslims in the United States to join with other like-minded pro life citizens, standing shoulder to shoulder in peaceful solidarity with them, picketing local abortuaries around the country, as equal partners in one of the most important human rights struggles the world has ever known.

Whether one knows God as Father, Yahweh, Jesus, or Allah, makes little difference when the innocent blood of defenseless infants is being routinely shed on a daily basis, across the United States, and around the world.

A series of speaking engagements is currently being scheduled at Churches and Mosques throughout the midwest.

For more information on this new pro life, pro family, interfaith initiative, or to schedule a speaking appearance, please contact Doug Lawrence.

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