Catholic Tradition vs. Protestant Reformed Churches

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CATHOLIC TRADITION	PROTESTANT REFORMED CHURCHES
In the BC Era, probably about 20 BC, somewhere in Jerusalem, Anne the wife of Joachim conceived in her womb, by the will of God, a baby girl without sin—Immaculate Conception. For nothing is impossible with God. (Mark 10:27). The baby girl was named Mary, Miriam in Jewish, and at her prime age, about 14-16, she was betrothed to Joseph of the lineage of David. xxAnd the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and spoke to her the word of God the Father: “HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb….” Then by the will of God the Father, God the Holy Spirit conceived in Mary’s womb the God the Son, the Lord Jesus on his Annunciation to the world. (Matthew 1:16). Before the birth of Jesus, three Magi (middle Eastern kings: Gaspar, Melchior and Baltazar)—who felt compelled by God and a new star in the sky to go to Jerusalem and bring gifts to the Son of God who was to be born, according to the Bible. (Matthew 2:1-12). The gifts they brought to the Son of God were gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Thus, Jesus in her womb is without sin. (Luke 1:26-38) Jesus grew up with his mother Mary and father Joseph under the Mosaic Jewish law and followed the Jewish tradition. All these by the will of God that his only begotten Son, Jesus, goes through the woman Mary of the Jewish lineage on earth to redeem the people and be reunited with God. That’s how important the role of Mary is in the redemption of the people back to God. The Catholic Tradition began in their belief of God the Creator of heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). The Roman Catholic Church—AD 30 at Pentecost About AD 30: “The Lord Jesus said to Simon, one of his disciples/Apostles: “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-19). At Pentecost in AD 30 the CT adherents started the CT Church in Rome, that became the Roman Catholic Church: The Head—the Lord Jesus Christ and his Mystical Body— the Church, the Roman Catholic (universal) Church—in heaven and on earth—constantly growing and evolving, as guided by the righteous elements of the Sacred Tradition (CT) and the Sacred Scripture through God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Among the events in the life of Jesus on earth were his Annunciation, finding in the temple, wedding at Cana, feeding the thousands with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, woman touching his cloak, healing the deaf-mute and of people with various sicknesses and illnesses. Jesus said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6). Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33). (Catholic hymn) 1 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; And all these things shall be added unto you, Alleluia, alleluia. 2 Ask and it shall be given unto to you; seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto to you, Alleluia, alleluia. 3 You do not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, Alleluia, alleluia. The Light of Christ (John 1:1-9). (Catholic hymn) Refrain… The Light of Christ has come into the world, The Light of Christ has come into the world. 1 We must all be born again to see the kingdom of God; the water and the Spirit bring new life in God’s love. Refrain… 2 God gave up his only Son out of love for the world, so that all who believe in him will live forever. Refrain… 3 The light of God has come to us, so that we might have salvation; from the darkness of our sins we walk into glory with Christ Jesus. The consecrated Catholic priests and bishops through Apostolic succession, received from the Lord Jesus, the authority and power, to forgive sins after repentance and to turn sacramental bread and wine to the Body and the Blood of Jesus for the CT faithful to eat and drink as spiritual food on their journey here on earth onto heaven. (John 6:32-58). The Head of the Mystical Body is the Word in Scripture of the Holy Bible—in the New Testament (NT). Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: On August 15^th the Assumption of the Virgin Mary celebrates her being assumed – taken up body and soul – into heaven at the end of her earthly life. It began as a feast day in the Eastern Church after the Council of Ephesus in AD 431 that proclaimed Mary the Mother of God. By the 6^th century AD the feast celebrated Mary’s Dormition, her ‘falling asleep’ meaning her death; there are several ancient icons of the Dormition. The Western Church began to celebrate this feast around AD 650. Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. (Luke 1:38). HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. The Blessed Virgin Mary Plays An Important Role In The Salvation History. God the Father made Mary as the way for his only beloved Son of God into the world to be among the people. Mary, the mother of God the Son—Jesus Christ (the Messiah), is said to be the conduit, i.e., the neck, between the Mystical Body— the Church, and the Head—the Lord Jesus Christ. She intercedes in prayers from the Mystical Body—The Church—to the Head—the Lord Jesus Christ. (John 2:1-11). The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mary is Queen of the holy angels and the holy saints in heaven and the CT adherents on earth for her role as mother of the Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, her son, for his divine redemption of man to be reunited back with God. August 22—The Queenship of Mary: The memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Mary was instituted in AD 1954 by Pope Pius XII. The Blessed Virgin Mary—The Queen of queens to the holy angels and holy saints in heaven and the CT adherents on earth. O God, who made the mother of your Son to be our Mother and our Queen, graciously grant that, sustained by her intercession—the Roman Catholic Church celebrates a memorial in honor of the Queenship of Mary. This memorial is placed an octave, that is, eight days after celebrating Mary's Assumption into Heaven. The Queenship can be considered a prolongation of the celebration of the Assumption. The Lord Jesus Christ the King of kings and the Lord of lords: “They will fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called, chosen, and faithful.” (Revelation 17:14). “He has a name written on his cloak and on his thigh, ‘King of kings and Lord of lords.” (Revelation 19:16). “God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9–11). “But you, man of God, avoid all this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:11-16). It may be true that the Catholic Tradition is not found in the Scripture. That is because there was no Scripture, yet, before the Catholic Tradition. Catholic Tradition came about when God the Son, by the will of God the Father, came into being (human) on earth before the end of the BC Era—Before Christ. Then the Year of the Lord—Anno Domini—AD. The Catholic Tradition began to profess their beliefs by the Apostolic Creed before mid AD 2 and revised by the Nicene Creed in AD 325, beginning in their belief of God the creator of heaven and earth (Gen 1:1). The Church, founded by God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), is His Mystical Body. He is the Head of the Catholic Church—Roman Catholic (universal) Church. As Christ is king of the world and saves the people from their sins, Mary is queen over the earth because of her role in the story of divine redemption, as the mother to bring the Savior to earth. The 7 Sacraments of the Catholic Church: The Sacraments are outward signs of God for salvation and celebrations of the continued journey and relationship with God. Emmanuel or Immanuel—God is present in all the Sacraments. I Sacrament of Initiation (Type) 1 Baptism The first sacrament where you become united with Christ and the Church—no other sacrament can be received without it. Baptism primarily cleanses the person of the Original Sin through water and the word—in the name of God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. This is the first step in the relationship of the baptized with God and Christ. A priest performs this rite. A minor exorcism prayer is performed. A deacon can also perform this rite. Usually this takes place when the candidate is a baby; however, it’s never too late and never too old to begin one’s journey with God. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19). 2 Confirmation The candidate receives the gift of the Holy Spirit and continues their journey with Christ. During Confirmation, the candidate is anointed on the forehead with chrism by a bishop. (Chrism is a mixture of oil and balsam, consecrated and used for anointing at baptism and in other rites of the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches.) “I command you. Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9) “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16). 3 Eucharist Eucharist means thanksgiving. Now the priest, through the words of consecration, blesses and administers the Holy Communion during every Holy Mass to remind the followers that they are one with Christ. At the Catholic Holy Mass, this is when Christ’s spirit is infused into the sacramental bread and wine and become His Body and His Blood by his word: “This is my body— eat” and “This is my blood—drink” (John 6:10, 16), at communion. Every time during Holy Mass, it is written that 9 holy angels walk with each communicant receiving the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ during the Last Supper broke bread, ate it, gave it to his disciples and told them to eat it. (Matthew 26:17–29; Mark 14:12–25; Luke 22:7–38; and I Corinthians 11:23–25). “For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.” (1 Corinthians 11:23-25). “Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:16-17). “While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My Body.” And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My Blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” (Matthew 26:26-28). Food and drink nourish our bodies— Christ’s Blood and Body nourishes us spiritually. The Real Presence remains in the consecrated host even if not consumed indefinitely by a communicant. There is no more Eucharist in heaven. II Sacrament of Healing (Type) 4 Penance One confesses their sins to God through a priest—En Persona Christe—who forgives their sins by God’s mercy, and orders them to live a more faithful life through absolution. Confession is essential to cultivating and fruitfully try to be. It feels so much better to confess some of those things you have done wrong and receive absolution. “Now, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:3). “But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die.” (Ezekiel 18:21). “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13). Forgiveness. This helps us have a stronger relationship with God. 5 Anointing of the Sick Only bestowed upon those who are seriously ill or suffering, which then unites the inflicted with Christ’s passion. Anointing the forehand and hands of the person with chrism while a priest administers a special blessing is how this sacrament is received. This special blessing is one way to make the ill feel strengthened and more connected with God in both mind and body. III The Sacraments of Service, (Type) 6 Matrimony A union between man and woman—husband and wife. - The devotion husband and wife have to each other, and to Christ, mirrors Christ’s love and service to the Church. Through marriage, a couple promises to help build each other up in faith, serve each other and the Church and be faithful to each other until death. 7 Holy Orders Ordained Catholic priest, bishop or deacon— able to perform sacred duties and serve the Church community. These are the basics that one is associated with in joining the CT Catholic Church. Figuratively, note, leaving the CT Church and life and living: “Why You Can’t Have Jesus Without The Church” (Church Pop). Check it out. https://www.churchpop.com/2017/02/25/why-you-cant-have-jesus-without-the-church/?fbclid=IwAR0rP1Eepn8iG-RwcLpVgreBjPKQ9NF1OtwsaJVmdIgz-0zCsE0gP91negk Why You Can’t Have Jesus Without the Church In the CT, Mary is without sin, for nothing is impossible with God, to prepare her at birth to be without sin—Immaculate Conception— sinless. Thus, Jesus in her womb is without sin. The Lord Jesus is referred as The Lord of lords and The King of kings. He must have come from the mother who is The Queen of queens. Yes, we could say, that the Blessed Mary is the Queen of queens to all the holy saints and holy angels in heaven. Among them is St. Mary’s earthly husband the foster father of Jesus, St. Joseph, the Terror of Demons and eternal protector of Mary. There is also the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. These names are in a sense oxymorons, since the word catholic means universal. By definition, there cannot be more than one universal church. In any case, the Roman Catholic Church traces its beginning back to the original Church which was established at Pentecost in AD 30. Christians started the Church in Rome almost certainly by AD 50. Paul visited the well-established Church in AD 63. The Roman Catholic Church can trace its roots all the way back to the original Christian Church in Rome. You cannot have Jesus without the Church. God sent his Son to redeem man so that we can be reunited back with God. God the Father could not redeem man to himself for what he pronounced on man because of the Original Sin. God the Son did this as the Redeemer. And Jesus became the Salvation—the Savior—of man. He forgives sins and became the Healer. That’s why when Jesus was on earth, physically, he forgave all the people who came to him with all sorts of diseases and sickness to cleanse them of their sins and be reunited back with God. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6). By AD 1576 there were members of the CT Church led by a Catholic monk Rev. Fr. Martin Luther in protest of certain CT practices that started the Protestant Reformed movement. A person leaving the CT Church rejects the founder, God the Son, The Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and the Mystical Body, the Church—in existence that time for over 1576 years. Those who left the Church is considered separated brethren that formed the Protestant Reformed churches. Their act of leaving the CT Roman Catholic Church signify that they did not believe the Church that God the Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah) founded. The Protestants founded their own church (by man). And so, any one who joined with those churches of the Protestant Reformed did not believe on the founder of the CT Church. “I have read and heard that the mother of Jesus on earth could be with sin because it is written in the Bible that every human is born with sin. So Mary, the mother of Jesus, must be with sin, as the Protestants claim or profess. If so, Jesus conceived in the womb of Mary of the Protestants is with sin. Could be just any woman from the Gentiles. This is not the Mary of the CT adherents. For those who believe that Mary is with sin, therefore the child in her womb is with sin. Thus, the Jesus is with sin. This means that their Jesus with sin is not the same Jesus without sin of the CT Church. Other so-called Christian denominations do communion, but use plain bread and juice, as symbol, for the body and blood of Christ. This is not in the Bible. Thus, up to this day, even the statues of Mary the mother of God the Son, Jesus Christ, are usually subject to mutilations or destruction. Whoever does that to a statue representing Mary the mother of God the Son, Jesus Christ (the Messiah) really hates Mary. And the one who really hates Mary up to this day is the Devil—the evil one. . CAULDRON OF LIFE There must be all sorts of prayers—worship, adoration, praises, thanksgiving, petitions, intersessions, supplications, etc. from the billions of people in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus that a host of holy angels are assigned to sort out the prayers that come in and the prayers answered by God. Before the Lord Jesus Christ left earth, he instituted the forgiveness of sins and healing to the consecrated priests and bishops of his Mystical Body, the Church. His Real Presence in the Eucharist (His Body), after consecration of the bread, and His Blood, after consecration of the wine, drink to wash our sins, for us to live with God. When Jesus was asked by his disciples how to pray, he included “give us this day our daily bread,” to pray to God. This has been taken by some CT faithful to mean the Eucharist, as the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, celebrate the Holy Mass every minute of the day all around the world. And our partaking of the Eucharist frequently at Holy Mass provides food for the journey of the CT faithful on their way to heaven as the Guardian Angel leads the CT faithful through heaven’s gate. Prayers originating from God and other prayers from the holy saints: From God the Father, through the Archangel Saint Gabriel, to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26-58): HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit in your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners till the hour of our death. Amen. From God the Son, Jesus Christ (The Messiah) to the disciples (Apostles) (Luke 11:2-4): OUR FATHER, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth and in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive our trespasses and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. (Luke 11:2-4, Matthew 6:9-13) Other Prayers: THE APOSTLES’ CREED: I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel: SAINT MICHAEL, the Archangel, defend us in battle, Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly body, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls, on earth. Amen. “Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolators nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor practising homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). PURGATORY – The Final Purification CCC1030 All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation, but after death they undergo purification so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. CCC1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Council of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain text of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire. As for certain lesser faults, we must believe before the Final Judgment there is a purification and atonement with forging fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come. CCC1032 This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: “Therefore, [Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.” From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God. The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead. Let us help and commemorate them. If Job’s sons were purified by their father’s sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help them who have died and to offer our prayers for them. “But nothing unclean shall enter [heaven].” (Rev. 21:27). Suggesting Purgatory: 2 Maccabees 12:39-42, 44-45, 1 Peter 3:19-20, 1 Corinthians 3:11-15, 1 Corinthians 15:29 ... “Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen.” (2 Maccabees 12:42). In it he also went to preach to the spirit in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, might in all, were saved through water. “For no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, the work of each will come to light, for the Day will disclose it. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire [itself] will test the quality of each one’s work. If the work stand that someone built upon the foundation, that person will receive a wage. But if someone’s work is burned up, that one will suffer loss, the person will be saved, but only as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:11-15). Otherwise, what will people accomplish by having themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they having themselves baptized for them? Moreover, why are we endangering ourselves all the time? Every day, I face death, I swear it by the pride in you [brothers] that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:29-31). No one comes out from purgatory until – a 24-carat soul comes out and lead to heaven. Why Purgatory Must Exist https://youtu.be/U6gjb634Zf4 The Parables of Jesus to Lead to Heaven: I Never Knew You…Depart from Me…. Parable of the Ten Virgins: Matthew 25:1-15 Ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom…was delayed to arrive…finally arrived …five foolish virgins ran out of oil for the lamps ….at past midnight there was a cry…. ’Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’…. the foolish virgins unable to meet the bridegroom…. Then the door was locked…. ’Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’…the reply, ‘I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour. Parable of the Dragnet: Matthew 13:47-50 The kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea…collects fish of every kind…full haul brought ashore…good into basket…bad thrown away. Thus, it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous, and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. Parable of the Wedding Feast: Matthew 22:1-14 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding for his son. Many guests were invited to the wedding feast but nobody came…. The king was enraged and have his servants to find from the streets who would come bad and good alike to fill the banquet hall. But when the king came to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’ Many are invited, but few are chosen. The True Disciple: Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name? Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me,’ you evildoers.’ HEAVEN AND HELL HEAVEN As place of God CCC1023-29 CCC1023 Those who die in God’s grace and friendship as new perfectly purified live forever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they “see him as he is,” face to face. CCC1024 The perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity – this communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the blessed – is called “heaven.” Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness. CCC1025 To live in heaven is “to be with Christ.” The elect live “in Christ,” but they retain, or rather find, their true identity, their own name. CCC1026 By his death and Resurrection, Jesus Christ has “opened” heaven to us. The life of the blessed consists in the full and perfect possession of the fruits of the redemption accomplished by Christ. He makes partners in his heavenly glorification those who have believed in him and remained faithful to his will. Heaven is the blessed community of all who are perfectly incorporated into Christ. CCC1027 This mystery of blessed communion with God and all who are in Christ is beyond all understanding and description. Scripture speaks of it in images: life, light, peace, wedding feast, wine of the kingdom, the Father’s house, the heavenly Jerusalem, paradise: “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor heart of man conceived, and God has prepared for those who love him.” Seen as of mortal sin: CCC1861 Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God. What Heaven Is Telling Us https://youtu.be/L_kF9FI2RT8	In the Catholic Tradition (CT) the Catholic church founded by God the Son—Jesus Christ—the Messiah, has remained a single religion for over 2000 years, i.e., AD 2022. In the CT, to prepare the conception of Mary in her mother’s womb—by the will of God, for nothing is impossible with God (Matthew 6:33)—she is without sin—Immaculate Conception. Then Mary at her prime 14-16, the Holy Spirit conceived in her womb—the Son of God, Jesus Christ—fully divine and fully human. She was already betrothed to Joseph of the lineage of David, a righteous man. Jesus grew up with his mother Mary and father Joseph under the Mosaic Jewish law and followed the Jewish tradition. All these by the will of God that his only begotten God the Son, Jesus Christ, goes through the woman Mary of the Jewish lineage on earth to redeem the people and be reunited with God. That’s how important the role of Mary is in the redemption of the people back to God. About AD 30: “The Lord Jesus said to Simon, one of his disciples/Apostles, “And so I say to you, you are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-19). Jesus of the CT faithful stays and remains with the CT Church—the Catholic Church; God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit—One God—inseparable—the Holy Trinity Jesus is the Head of His Mystical Body—the CT Church—the Roman Catholic Church. Then in AD 1576 a monk Rev. Fr. Martin Luther in the CT Church posted a protest of certain CT practices that led to the formation of the Protestant Reformed movement. His action to leave the CT Church also appeared to reject the CT Church founder—God the Son, Jesus Christ—the Messiah. After 1576 years of CT existence, the Protestant Reformed movement said that it is written in the Bible that every human being is with sin; so Mary who bore Jesus is with sin. She could be any woman from the Gentiles as this insinuation is over thousand of years already after Jesus, God the Son, incarnated to earth. Furthermore, as corollary, the Jesus in the woman’s womb of the Protestant Reformed is also with sin. The Jesus of the Protestants is with sin—cannot be the Son of God—cannot forgive sin—cannot save—cannot be the Savior—cannot be the Salvation—cannot be the Redeemer. He is fully human—not divine. As it is now, then, the Protestants have no means to enter heaven. The people who left the CT Church is considered separated brethren. This act of leaving the Roman Catholic Church signified that they do not believe on the founder of the CT Church—the Lord Jesus Christ. Who, then, is their “Jesus” of the churches of the separated brethren? Would the Jesus of the CT adherents be the gods of the man-made (founder) religions? Not likely. Not only that, furthermore, each of the Jesus of the Protestant churches will have different God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. Just think about it. What a mess! Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings (Jeremiah 17:5-8). The churches of the separated brethren do not have the CT Jesus with them; the Protestant churches have their various Jesus—God the Son, God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. The Protestant Reformed could not have the same Jesus in all their denominations and sects. Otherwise, why have these denominations and sects? Why not join them all together as one Protestant church? Who, then, is their “Jesus” of the churches of the separated brethren? Would the CT Jesus be the gods of the man-made (founder) religions? Not likely. Those who are not in the CT Church, descendants of those who left the CT living are separated brethren but are welcome to return. Many of the Protestant Reformed churches came into existence in the latter part of AD 1924 and early AD l925. They founded their own church (by man). And so, any one who joined with those churches of the Protestant Reformed did not (and do not) believe on the founder of the CT church—The Lord Jesus Christ. The NT Bible as their sole role of faith is a lame faith. The content of the NT Bible is only from contributors between AD 30 to AD 90. The Catholic Bible was first printed sometime in AD 1450 whereas the KJV came later about AD 1611 copied from the Catholic Bible. The KJV have not included 6 books from the CT Bible. The New Testament (NT) Bible was printed first in the early AD 1690s. However, few people could read. In many churches, The Word was only read and interpreted by the priests. The Protestant Reformed churches also do not have the other Sacraments, that the CT Church have, shown below: Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Matrimony, and Holy Orders. All these Sacraments have Emmanuel or Immanuel—the presence of God with us on the continuing journey leading to heaven. The Protestant Reformed adherents seem to stay away from the Sacraments primarily on their adult life, i.e., keeping their distance from Emmanuel. It seems that this is influenced by the Devil who cannot be involved or be near with Emmanuel. And this also reflects that their Jesus is not the Jesus, God the Son, of the Roman Catholic Church. They just have their Jesus—another man--but not the Jesus the Head of the Mystical Body—the Catholic Church. Likewise, the Protestant Reformed do not seem to get involved with the CT Church practices and beliefs, such as: Sacramentals: The sacramentals are certain blessed items that are spiritually beneficial to the faithful, for example, Holy Water, Medal, Rosary, Scapular, Blessed Salt, Crucifix, Blessed Candles, making the sign of the cross on your body, with your fingers, reminding of the baptism you received invoking in the name of the God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, etc. According to Sacrosanctum Concilium, the sacramentals are sacred signs which have a sacrament-like structures. Confession of sins to consecrated priest and receiving absolution for the sins confessed, En Persona Christe. Eucharistic Mass—Liturgy of the Word: OT and NT – Gospel always; Liturgy of the Eucharist: Holy Communion and thanksgiving. Holy Rosary—account various events of God the Son, Jesus Christ, here on earth such as the Annunciation, His birth on earth, His crucifixion and death, His miracles of healing and raising the dead, His resurrection, etc., Prayers are from God: Our Father and Hail Mary. Hear us, Lord, through Mary our Mother! Holy Angels—cited in various places in the Holy Bible—OT and NT; Holy Saints—all disciples and Apostles, except one, of the Lord Jesus, and those declared through the CT Church are in the thousands now. Still growing—increasing. Figuratively, leaving the CT Church and life: “Why You Can’t Have Jesus Without The Church” (Church Pop). Check it out, below: https://www.churchpop.com/2017/02/25/why-you-cant-have-jesus-without-the-church/?fbclid=IwAR0rP1Eepn8iG-RwcLpVgreBjPKQ9NF1OtwsaJVmdIgz-0zCsE0gP91negk Implications from the Title: You Cannot Have Jesus Without the Church Other so-called Christian denominations do communion but use plain bread and juice, as symbol, for the body and blood of Christ. This is not in the Bible. Come Back To Me (Hosea 14:1-9) (Gregory Norbet) (Catholic hymn) 1 Come back to me with all your heart. Don’t let fear keep us apart, Trees do bend though straight and tall; So must we to others call. Refrain… Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life. 2 The wilderness will lead you to your heart where I will speak, Integrity and justice with tenderness you shall know, Refrain… 3 You shall sleep secure with peace; faithfulness will be your joy, Refrain… Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33) (Catholic hymn) 1 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; And all these things shall be added unto you, Alleluia, alleluia. 2 Ask and it shall be given unto to you; seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto to you, Alleluia, alleluia. 3 You do not live by bread alone, but by every word That proceeds from the mouth of God, Alleluia, alleluia. “Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolators nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor practising homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). I have read and heard that the mother of Jesus on earth is with sin because it is written in the Bible that every human being is born with sin. That is so, after Adam and Eve, who committed the Original Sin. And God imposed that for the rest of humanity, thereafter, the stigma of the Original Sin, thereby, could not enter heaven. That’s when God the Father, by his will, sent God the Son, to redeem man and be reunited back with God in heaven. God the Son became the Savior—the Salvation—the Redeemer of humanity. But the Protestants say that Mary, the mother of God the Son, Jesus, is with sin, since the Bible purports to say that everybody sin. So the Jesus born from the Mary with sin is not the same Jesus as the Jesus of the CT Church—the Roman Catholic Church. In the Protestant denomination those who believe that the Mary is with sin, therefore, the child in her womb is with sin. That’s what the Protestant Reformed would like on Mary for being the bearer in her womb God the Son at his Annunciation to be born on earth. This means that their Jesus with sin is not the same Jesus without sin of the CT. This concept seems to originate from the Devil—the adversary of God. For those who believe that Mary is with sin, therefore the child in her womb is with sin. Thus, the Jesus for the Protestant is with sin. Thus, up to this day, even the statues of Mary the mother of God the Son Jesus Christ are usually subject to mutilations or destruction. Whoever does that to a statue representing Mary the mother of God the Son really hates Mary. And the one who really hates Mary up to this day is the Devil—the evil one. After the 1576 year, the Protestants are saying that it is written in the Bible that every human is with sin; so Mary is with sin. Then, the Jesus in her womb is also with sin. The Jesus of the Protestants—cannot be the Son of God—cannot forgive sin—cannot save—cannot be the Savior—cannot be the Salvation—cannot be the Redeemer. As it is now, then, the Protestants have no means to enter heaven. I have read and heard that the mother of Jesus on earth is with sin because it is written in the Bible that every human being is born with sin. That is so, after Adam and Eve, who committed the Original Sin. And God imposed that for the rest of humanity, thereafter, the stigma of the Original Sin, thereby, could not enter heaven. That’s when God the Father, by his will, sent God the Son, to redeem man and be reunited back with God in heaven. God the Son became the Savior—the Salvation—the Redeemer of humanity. In the CT, Mary is without sin, for nothing is impossible with God, to prepare her at birth to be without sin—Immaculate Conception— sinless. (Matthew 6:33). Thus, Jesus in her womb is sinless. The CT Church has lived with this profession of faith.
HERESY Heresy in the Catholic Church denotes the formal denial or obstinate doubt of a core doctrine (that is, an article of faith that must be believed with... Formal heresy is "the willful and persistent adherence to an error in matters of faith" on the part of a baptized person. As such it is a grave sin and involves ... In canon law heresy is the offense of one who, having been baptized and retaining the name of Christian, pertinaciously denies or doubts any of the truths that...	HERESY Heresy in the Catholic Church denotes the formal denial or obstinate doubt of a core doctrine (that is, an article of faith that must be believed with ... Formal heresy is "the willful and persistent adherence to an error in matters of faith" on the part of a baptized person. As such it is a grave sin and involves ... In canon law heresy is the offense of one who, having been baptized and retaining the name of Christian, pertinaciously denies or doubts any of the truths that ... After the 1576 year, the Protestants are saying that it is written in the Bible that every human is with sin; so Mary is with sin. Then, the Jesus in her womb is also with sin. So the Jesus of the Protestants—cannot be the Son of God—cannot forgive sin—cannot save—cannot be the Savior—cannot be the Salvation—cannot be the Redeemer. As it is now, then, the Protestants have no means to enter heaven. The Protestants say that Mary, the mother of God the Son, Jesus, is with sin, since the Bible purports to say that everybody sin. So the Jesus born from the Mary with sin is not the same Jesus as the Jesus of the CT Church—the Roman Catholic Church. Protestantism (16th Century) (Catholic Answers) Protestant groups display a wide variety of different doctrines. However, virtually all claim to believe in the teachings of sola scriptura (“by Scripture alone”—the idea that we must use only the Bible when forming our theology) and sola fide (“by faith alone”— the idea that we are justified by faith only). The great diversity of Protestant doctrines stems from the doctrine of private judgment, which denies the infallible authority of the Church and claims that each individual is to interpret Scripture for himself. This idea is rejected in 2 Peter 1:20, where we are told the first rule of Bible interpretation: “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.” A significant feature of this heresy is the attempt to pit the Church “against” the Bible, denying that the magisterium has any infallible authority to interpret Scripture. This doctrine of private judgment has resulted in thousands of different Christian denominations and quasi-Christian splinter groups throughout history. Protestant reformation, the religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century. The Protestant Reformed founded their own churches (by myriads of man-founder), after AD 1576, and resulted in the proliferation of 40,000+ Protestant churches and growing at the rate of 125 churches per year. And so, any one who joined with those churches of the Protestant Reformed did/do not believe on the founder—the Lord Jesus Christ. The Protestants can never have the Jesus of the CT Church. The churches of thousand denominations and sects will have their Jesus, but not the CT Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, the Protestant Reformed churches would have different Jesus for each different denomination—such as Jesus of the Lutherans—Jesus of the Presbyterians, Jesus of the Baptist, the Pentecostals, and so on of the other denominations and sects. Each denomination and sect will have different Jesus. Otherwise, why have all these denominations and sects? What they have now is a polytheistic Protestant Reformed churches.
HELL CCC1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves. ‘He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.’ Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.' To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called “hell.” CCC1034 Jesus often speaks of “Gehenna,” of “the unquenchable fire” reserved for those who to the end of their lives refused to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost. Jesus solemnly proclaims that he “will send his angels, and they will gather… all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,” and that he will pronounce the condemnation: “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!” As consequence —Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God. As location of the damned: CCC633 Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, “hell” – Sheol in Hebrews or Hades in Greek – because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the redeemer which does not mean that their lot is identical as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into ‘Abraham’s bosom.’ It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham’s bosom whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell. Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him. The Lord Jesus is referred as The Lord of lords and The King of kings. He must have come from the mother who is The Queen of queens. Yes, we could say, that the Blessed Mary is the Queen of queens to all the holy saints and holy angels in heaven. Among them is St. Mary’s earthly husband the foster father of Jesus, St. Joseph, the Terror of Demons and eternal protector of Mary. There is also the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. These names are in a sense oxymorons, since the word catholic means universal. By definition, there cannot be more than one universal church. In any case, the Roman Catholic Church traces its beginning back to the original church which was established at Pentecost in AD 30. Christians started the church in Rome almost certainly by AD 50. Paul visited the well-established church in AD 63. The Roman Catholic Church can trace its roots all the way back to the original Christian church in Rome. You cannot have Jesus without the Church. God sent his Son to redeem man so that we can be reunited back with God. God the Father could not redeem man to himself for what he pronounced on man because of the Original Sin. God the Son did this as the Redeemer. And Jesus became the Salvation—the Savior—of man. He forgives sins and became the Healer. That’s why when Jesus was on earth, physically, he forgave all the people who came to him with all sorts of diseases and sickness to cleanse them of their sins and be reunited back with God. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6). Those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous while they await the redeemer, which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into “Abraham’s bosom.” It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham’s bosom, God predestined no one to damnation: CCC1037 God predestine no one to go to hell; a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of the faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God who does not want “any to perish but all to come to repentance.” HELL As in the Scripture: CCC1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against our selves. “He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren. To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means separating from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called “hell.” In Jesus preaching: CCC1034 Jesus often speaks of “Gehenna,” of “the unquenchable fire” reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted where both soul and body can be lost. Jesus solemnly proclaims that he will send his angels, and they will gather “all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,” and that he will pronounce the condemnation: “Depart from me, you cursed into the eternal fire!” In the teaching of the Church: CCC1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell where they enter the punishments of hell, “eternal fire.” The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, incumbent who alone man can posses the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs. Teaching about hell as admonition: CCC1036 The affirmation of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are the same an urgent call to conversion: “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed, and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where “men will weep and gnash their teeth.”
APOSTASY CCC2089 Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. “Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him. CCC817 In fact, “in this one and only Church of God from its very beginning there arose certain gifts, which the Apostle strongly censures as damnable. But in subsequent centuries much more serious dissensions appeared and large communities became separated from full communion with the Catholic Church – for which, often enough, men of both sides were to blame. The ruptures that wound the unity of Christ’s Body – here we must distinguish heresy, apostasy and schism – do not occur without human sin. Where there are sins, there are also divisions, schisms, heresies, and disputes. Where there is virtue, however, there also are harmony and unity from which arise the one heart and one soul of all believers. The Catholic Bible was first printed sometime in AD 1450 whereas the KJV came later in AD 1576.
ABORTION CCC2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.	ABORTION CCC2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life. Probably pro-abortion comes more often within Protestant Reformed because their Mary who bore their supposed Jesus is with sin and don’t have Jesus—God the Son as their God. Abortion is mortal sin.
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CATHOLIC TRADITION

PROTESTANT REFORMED CHURCHES

In the BC Era, probably about 20 BC, somewhere in Jerusalem, Anne the wife of Joachim conceived in her womb, by the will of God, a baby girl without sin—Immaculate Conception. For nothing is impossible with God. (Mark 10:27). The baby girl was named Mary, Miriam in Jewish, and at her prime age, about 14-16, she was betrothed to Joseph of the lineage of David.

xxAnd the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and spoke to her the word of God the Father:

“HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb….”

Then by the will of God the Father, God the Holy Spirit conceived in Mary’s womb the God the Son, the Lord Jesus on his Annunciation to the world. (Matthew 1:16).

Before the birth of Jesus, three Magi (middle Eastern kings: Gaspar, Melchior and Baltazar)—who felt compelled by God and a new star in the sky to go to Jerusalem and bring gifts to the Son of God who was to be born, according to the Bible. (Matthew 2:1-12). The gifts they brought to the Son of God were gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Thus, Jesus in her womb is without sin. (Luke 1:26-38)

Jesus grew up with his mother Mary and father Joseph under the Mosaic Jewish law and followed the Jewish tradition. All these by the will of God that his only begotten Son, Jesus, goes through the woman Mary of the Jewish lineage on earth to redeem the people and be reunited with God. That’s how important the role of Mary is in the redemption of the people back to God.

The Catholic Tradition began in their belief of God the Creator of heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1).

The Roman Catholic Church—AD 30 at Pentecost

About AD 30:

“The Lord Jesus said to Simon, one of his disciples/Apostles:

“And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-19).

At Pentecost in AD 30 the CT adherents started the CT Church in Rome, that became the Roman Catholic Church: The Head—the Lord Jesus Christ and his Mystical Body—

the Church, the Roman Catholic (universal) Church—in heaven and on earth—constantly growing and evolving, as guided by the righteous elements of the Sacred Tradition (CT) and the Sacred Scripture through God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Among the events in the life of Jesus on earth were his Annunciation, finding in the temple, wedding at Cana, feeding the thousands with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, woman touching his cloak, healing the deaf-mute and of people with various sicknesses and illnesses.

Jesus said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6).

Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God

(Matthew 6:33). (Catholic hymn)

1 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness;

And all these things shall be added unto you,

Alleluia, alleluia.

2 Ask and it shall be given unto to you; seek and ye shall find;

Knock and it shall be opened unto to you,

Alleluia, alleluia.

3 You do not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,

Alleluia, alleluia.

The Light of Christ

(John 1:1-9). (Catholic hymn)

Refrain…

The Light of Christ has come into the world,

The Light of Christ has come into the world.

1 We must all be born again to see the kingdom of God; the water and the Spirit bring new life in God’s love.

Refrain…

2 God gave up his only Son out of love for the world, so that all who believe in him will live forever.

Refrain…

3 The light of God has come to us, so that we might have salvation; from the darkness of our sins we walk into glory with Christ Jesus.

The consecrated Catholic priests and bishops through Apostolic succession, received from the Lord Jesus, the authority and power, to forgive sins after repentance and to turn

sacramental bread and wine to the Body and the Blood of Jesus for the CT faithful to eat and drink as spiritual food on their journey here on earth onto heaven. (John 6:32-58).

The Head of the Mystical Body is the Word in Scripture of the Holy Bible—in the New Testament (NT).

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

On August 15^th the Assumption of the Virgin Mary celebrates her being assumed – taken up body and soul – into heaven at the end of her earthly life. It began as a feast day in the Eastern Church after the Council of Ephesus in AD 431 that proclaimed Mary the Mother of God. By the 6^th century AD the feast celebrated Mary’s Dormition, her ‘falling asleep’ meaning her death; there are several ancient icons of the Dormition. The Western Church began to celebrate this feast around AD 650.

Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. (Luke 1:38).

HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

The Blessed Virgin Mary Plays An Important Role In The Salvation History.

God the Father made Mary as the way for his only beloved Son of God into the world to be among the people.

Mary, the mother of God the Son—Jesus Christ (the Messiah), is said to be the conduit, i.e., the neck, between the Mystical Body—

the Church, and the Head—the Lord Jesus Christ. She intercedes in prayers from the Mystical Body—The Church—to the Head—the Lord Jesus Christ. (John 2:1-11).

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

Mary is Queen of the holy angels and the holy saints in heaven and the CT adherents on earth for her role as mother of the Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, her son, for his divine redemption of man to be reunited back with God.

August 22—The Queenship of Mary:

The memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Mary was instituted in AD 1954 by Pope Pius XII.

The Blessed Virgin Mary—The Queen of queens to the holy angels and holy saints in heaven and the CT adherents on earth.

O God, who made the mother of your Son to be our Mother and our Queen, graciously grant that, sustained by her intercession—the Roman Catholic Church celebrates a memorial in honor of the Queenship of Mary.

This memorial is placed an octave, that is, eight days after celebrating Mary's Assumption into Heaven. The Queenship can be considered a prolongation of the celebration of the Assumption.

The Lord Jesus Christ the King of kings and the Lord of lords:

“They will fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called, chosen, and faithful.” (Revelation 17:14).

“He has a name written on his cloak and on his thigh, ‘King of kings and Lord of lords.” (Revelation 19:16).

“God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9–11).

“But you, man of God, avoid all this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:11-16).

It may be true that the Catholic Tradition is not found in the Scripture. That is because there was no Scripture, yet, before the Catholic Tradition.

Catholic Tradition came about when God the Son, by the will of God the Father, came into being (human) on earth before the end of the BC Era—Before Christ.

Then the Year of the Lord—Anno Domini—AD.

The Catholic Tradition began to profess their beliefs by the Apostolic Creed before mid AD 2 and revised by the Nicene Creed in AD 325, beginning in their belief of God the creator of heaven and earth (Gen 1:1).

The Church, founded by God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), is His Mystical Body. He is the Head of the Catholic Church—Roman Catholic (universal) Church.

As Christ is king of the world and saves the people from their sins, Mary is queen over the earth because of her role in the story of divine redemption, as the mother to bring the Savior to earth.

The 7 Sacraments of the Catholic Church:

The Sacraments are outward signs of God for salvation and celebrations of the continued journey and relationship with God.

Emmanuel or Immanuel—God is present in all the Sacraments.

I Sacrament of Initiation (Type)

1 Baptism

The first sacrament where you become united with Christ and the Church—no other sacrament can be received without it.

Baptism primarily cleanses the person of the Original Sin through water and the word—in the name of God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

This is the first step in the relationship of the baptized with God and Christ.

A priest performs this rite. A minor exorcism prayer is performed. A deacon can also perform this rite.

Usually this takes place when the candidate is a baby; however, it’s never too late and never too old to begin one’s journey with God.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19).

2 Confirmation

The candidate receives the gift of the Holy Spirit and continues their journey with Christ.

During Confirmation, the candidate is anointed on the forehead with chrism by a bishop. (Chrism is a mixture of oil and balsam, consecrated and used for anointing at baptism and in other rites of the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches.)

“I command you. Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9)

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16).

3 Eucharist

Eucharist means thanksgiving.

Now the priest, through the words of consecration, blesses and administers the Holy Communion during every Holy Mass to remind the followers that they are one with Christ.

At the Catholic Holy Mass, this is when Christ’s spirit is infused into the sacramental bread and wine and become His Body and His Blood by his word: “This is my body—

eat” and “This is my blood—drink” (John 6:10, 16), at communion.

Every time during Holy Mass, it is written that 9 holy angels walk with each communicant receiving the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ during the Last Supper broke bread, ate it, gave it to his disciples and told them to eat it. (Matthew 26:17–29; Mark 14:12–25; Luke 22:7–38; and I Corinthians 11:23–25).

“For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.” (1 Corinthians 11:23-25).

“Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:16-17).

“While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My Body.” And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My Blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” (Matthew 26:26-28).

Food and drink nourish our bodies—

Christ’s Blood and Body nourishes us spiritually.

The Real Presence remains in the consecrated host even if not consumed indefinitely by a communicant.

There is no more Eucharist in heaven.

II Sacrament of Healing (Type)

4 Penance

One confesses their sins to God through a priest—En Persona Christe—who forgives their sins by God’s mercy, and orders them to live a more faithful life through absolution.

Confession is essential to cultivating and fruitfully try to be.

It feels so much better to confess some of those things you have done wrong and receive absolution. “Now, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:3).

“But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die.” (Ezekiel 18:21).

“Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13).

Forgiveness. This helps us have a stronger relationship with God.

5 Anointing of the Sick

Only bestowed upon those who are seriously ill or suffering, which then unites the inflicted with Christ’s passion.

Anointing the forehand and hands of the person with chrism while a priest administers a special blessing is how this sacrament is received. This special blessing is one way to make the ill feel strengthened and more connected with God in both mind and body.

III The Sacraments of Service, (Type)

6 Matrimony

A union between man and woman—husband and wife.

The devotion husband and wife have to each other, and to Christ, mirrors Christ’s love and service to the Church.

Through marriage, a couple promises to help build each other up in faith, serve each other and the Church and be faithful to each other until death.

7 Holy Orders

Ordained Catholic priest, bishop or deacon—

able to perform sacred duties and serve the Church community.

These are the basics that one is associated with in joining the CT Catholic Church.

Figuratively, note, leaving the CT Church and life and living:

“Why You Can’t Have Jesus Without The Church” (Church Pop). Check it out.

https://www.churchpop.com/2017/02/25/why-you-cant-have-jesus-without-the-church/?fbclid=IwAR0rP1Eepn8iG-RwcLpVgreBjPKQ9NF1OtwsaJVmdIgz-0zCsE0gP91negk

Why You Can’t Have Jesus Without the Church

In the CT, Mary is without sin, for nothing is impossible with God, to prepare her at birth to be without sin—Immaculate Conception—

sinless. Thus, Jesus in her womb is without sin.

The Lord Jesus is referred as The Lord of lords and The King of kings. He must have come from the mother who is The Queen of queens. Yes, we could say, that the Blessed Mary is the Queen of queens to all the holy saints and holy angels in heaven. Among them is St. Mary’s earthly husband the foster father of Jesus, St. Joseph, the Terror of Demons and eternal protector of Mary.

There is also the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. These names are in a sense oxymorons, since the word catholic means universal. By definition, there cannot be more than one universal church.

In any case, the Roman Catholic Church traces its beginning back to the original Church which was established at Pentecost in AD 30. Christians started the Church in Rome almost certainly by AD 50. Paul visited the well-established Church in AD 63. The Roman Catholic Church can trace its roots all the way back to the original Christian Church in Rome.

You cannot have Jesus without the Church.

God sent his Son to redeem man so that we can be reunited back with God. God the Father could not redeem man to himself for what he pronounced on man because of the Original Sin. God the Son did this as the Redeemer. And Jesus became the Salvation—the Savior—of man. He forgives sins and became the Healer. That’s why when Jesus was on earth, physically, he forgave all the people who came to him with all sorts of diseases and sickness to cleanse them of their sins and be reunited back with God.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6).

By AD 1576 there were members of the CT Church led by a Catholic monk Rev. Fr. Martin Luther in protest of certain CT practices that started the Protestant Reformed movement.

A person leaving the CT Church rejects the founder, God the Son, The Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and the Mystical Body, the Church—in existence that time for over 1576 years.

Those who left the Church is considered separated brethren that formed the Protestant Reformed churches. Their act of leaving the CT Roman Catholic Church signify that they did not believe the Church that God the Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah) founded.

The Protestants founded their own church (by man). And so, any one who joined with those churches of the Protestant Reformed did not believe on the founder of the CT Church.

“I have read and heard that the mother of Jesus on earth could be with sin because it is written in the Bible that every human is born with sin. So Mary, the mother of Jesus, must be with sin, as the Protestants claim or profess. If so, Jesus conceived in the womb of Mary of the Protestants is with sin. Could be just any woman from the Gentiles. This is not the Mary of the CT adherents.

For those who believe that Mary is with sin, therefore the child in her womb is with sin. Thus, the Jesus is with sin. This means that their Jesus with sin is not the same Jesus without sin of the CT Church.

Other so-called Christian denominations do communion, but use plain bread and juice, as symbol, for the body and blood of Christ. This is not in the Bible.

Thus, up to this day, even the statues of Mary the mother of God the Son, Jesus Christ, are usually subject to mutilations or destruction. Whoever does that to a statue representing Mary the mother of God the Son, Jesus Christ (the Messiah) really hates Mary. And the one who really hates Mary up to this day is the Devil—the evil one.

CAULDRON OF LIFE

There must be all sorts of prayers—worship, adoration, praises, thanksgiving, petitions, intersessions, supplications, etc. from the billions of people in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus that a host of holy angels are assigned to sort out the prayers that come in and the prayers answered by God.

Before the Lord Jesus Christ left earth, he instituted the forgiveness of sins and healing to the consecrated priests and bishops of his Mystical Body, the Church. His Real Presence in the Eucharist (His Body), after consecration of the bread, and His Blood, after consecration of the wine, drink to wash our sins, for us to live with God.

When Jesus was asked by his disciples how to pray, he included “give us this day our daily bread,” to pray to God. This has been taken by some CT faithful to mean the Eucharist, as the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, celebrate the Holy Mass every minute of the day all around the world. And our partaking of the Eucharist frequently at Holy Mass provides food for the journey of the CT faithful on their way to heaven as the Guardian Angel leads the CT faithful through heaven’s gate.

Prayers originating from God and other prayers from the holy saints:

From God the Father, through the Archangel Saint Gabriel, to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26-58):

HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit in your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners till the hour of our death. Amen.

From God the Son, Jesus Christ (The Messiah) to the disciples (Apostles) (Luke 11:2-4):

OUR FATHER, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth and in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive our trespasses and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. (Luke 11:2-4, Matthew 6:9-13)

Other Prayers:

THE APOSTLES’ CREED:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel:

SAINT MICHAEL, the Archangel, defend us in battle, Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,

and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly body, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls, on earth. Amen.

“Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolators nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor practising homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

(1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

PURGATORY – The Final Purification

CCC1030 All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation, but after death they undergo purification so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.

CCC1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Council of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain text of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire.

As for certain lesser faults, we must believe before the Final Judgment there is a purification and atonement with forging fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.

CCC1032 This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: “Therefore, [Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.” From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God. The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead.

Let us help and commemorate them. If Job’s sons were purified by their father’s sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help them who have died and to offer our prayers for them.

“But nothing unclean shall enter [heaven].” (Rev. 21:27).

Suggesting Purgatory: 2 Maccabees 12:39-42, 44-45, 1 Peter 3:19-20, 1 Corinthians 3:11-15, 1 Corinthians 15:29 ...

“Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen.” (2 Maccabees 12:42).

In it he also went to preach to the spirit in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, might in all, were saved through water.

“For no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, the work of each will come to light, for the Day will disclose it. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire [itself] will test the quality of each one’s work. If the work stand that someone built upon the foundation, that person will receive a wage. But if someone’s work is burned up, that one will suffer loss, the person will be saved, but only as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:11-15).

Otherwise, what will people accomplish by having themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they having themselves baptized for them?

Moreover, why are we endangering ourselves all the time? Every day, I face death, I swear it by the pride in you [brothers] that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:29-31).

No one comes out from purgatory until – a 24-carat soul comes out and lead to heaven.

Why Purgatory Must Exist

https://youtu.be/U6gjb634Zf4

The Parables of Jesus to Lead to Heaven: I Never Knew You…Depart from Me….

Parable of the Ten Virgins: Matthew 25:1-15

Ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom…was delayed to arrive…finally arrived …five foolish virgins ran out of oil for the lamps ….at past midnight there was a cry…. ’Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’…. the foolish virgins unable to meet the bridegroom…. Then the door was locked…. ’Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’…the reply, ‘I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Parable of the Dragnet: Matthew 13:47-50

The kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea…collects fish of every kind…full haul brought ashore…good into basket…bad thrown away. Thus, it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous, and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.

Parable of the Wedding Feast: Matthew 22:1-14

“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding for his son. Many guests were invited to the wedding feast but nobody came…. The king was enraged and have his servants to find from the streets who would come bad and good alike to fill the banquet hall. But when the king came to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’ Many are invited, but few are chosen.

The True Disciple: Matthew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name? Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me,’ you evildoers.’

HEAVEN AND HELL

HEAVEN

As place of God CCC1023-29

CCC1023 Those who die in God’s grace and friendship as new perfectly purified live forever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they “see him as he is,” face to face.

CCC1024 The perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity – this communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the blessed – is called “heaven.” Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.

CCC1025 To live in heaven is “to be with Christ.” The elect live “in Christ,” but they retain, or rather find, their true identity, their own name.

CCC1026 By his death and Resurrection, Jesus Christ has “opened” heaven to us. The life of the blessed consists in the full and perfect possession of the fruits of the redemption accomplished by Christ. He makes partners in his heavenly glorification those who have believed in him and remained faithful to his will. Heaven is the blessed community of all who are perfectly incorporated into Christ.

CCC1027 This mystery of blessed communion with God and all who are in Christ is beyond all understanding and description. Scripture speaks of it in images: life, light, peace, wedding feast, wine of the kingdom, the Father’s house, the heavenly Jerusalem, paradise: “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor heart of man conceived, and God has prepared for those who love him.”

Seen as of mortal sin:

CCC1861 Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.

What Heaven Is Telling Us

https://youtu.be/L_kF9FI2RT8

In the Catholic Tradition (CT) the Catholic church founded by God the Son—Jesus Christ—the Messiah, has remained a single religion for over 2000 years, i.e., AD 2022.

In the CT, to prepare the conception of Mary in her mother’s womb—by the will of God, for nothing is impossible with God (Matthew 6:33)—she is without sin—Immaculate Conception. Then Mary at her prime 14-16, the Holy Spirit conceived in her womb—the Son of God, Jesus Christ—fully divine and fully human. She was already betrothed to Joseph of the lineage of David, a righteous man.

Jesus grew up with his mother Mary and father Joseph under the Mosaic Jewish law and followed the Jewish tradition. All these by the will of God that his only begotten God the Son, Jesus Christ, goes through the woman Mary of the Jewish lineage on earth to redeem the people and be reunited with God. That’s how important the role of Mary is in the redemption of the people back to God.

About AD 30:

“The Lord Jesus said to Simon, one of his disciples/Apostles,

“And so I say to you, you are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-19).

Jesus of the CT faithful stays and remains with the CT Church—the Catholic Church;

God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit—One God—inseparable—the Holy Trinity

Jesus is the Head of His Mystical Body—the CT Church—the Roman Catholic Church.

Then in AD 1576 a monk Rev. Fr. Martin Luther in the CT Church posted a protest of certain CT practices that led to the formation of the Protestant Reformed movement. His action to leave the CT Church also appeared to reject the CT Church founder—God the Son, Jesus Christ—the Messiah.

After 1576 years of CT existence, the Protestant Reformed movement said that it is written in the Bible that every human being is with sin; so Mary who bore Jesus is with sin. She could be any woman from the Gentiles as this insinuation is over thousand of years already after Jesus, God the Son, incarnated to earth. Furthermore, as corollary, the Jesus in the woman’s womb of the Protestant Reformed is also with sin. The Jesus of the Protestants is with sin—cannot be the Son of God—cannot forgive sin—cannot save—cannot be the Savior—cannot be the Salvation—cannot be the Redeemer. He is fully human—not divine.

As it is now, then, the Protestants have no means to enter heaven.

The people who left the CT Church is considered separated brethren. This act of leaving the Roman Catholic Church signified that they do not believe on the founder of the CT Church—the Lord Jesus Christ.

Who, then, is their “Jesus” of the churches of the separated brethren?

Would the Jesus of the CT adherents be the gods of the man-made (founder) religions? Not likely.

Not only that, furthermore, each of the Jesus of the Protestant churches will have different God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. Just think about it. What a mess!

Thus says the Lord:

Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings (Jeremiah 17:5-8).

The churches of the separated brethren do not have the CT Jesus with them; the Protestant churches have their various Jesus—God the Son, God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

The Protestant Reformed could not have the same Jesus in all their denominations and sects. Otherwise, why have these denominations and sects? Why not join them all together as one Protestant church?

Who, then, is their “Jesus” of the churches of the separated brethren?

Would the CT Jesus be the gods of the man-made (founder) religions? Not likely.

Those who are not in the CT Church, descendants of those who left the CT living are separated brethren but are welcome to return.

Many of the Protestant Reformed churches came into existence in the latter part of AD 1924 and early AD l925.

They founded their own church (by man). And so, any one who joined with those churches of the Protestant Reformed did not (and do not) believe on the founder of the CT church—The Lord Jesus Christ.

The NT Bible as their sole role of faith is a lame faith.

The content of the NT Bible is only from contributors between AD 30 to AD 90.

The Catholic Bible was first printed sometime in AD 1450 whereas the KJV came later about AD 1611 copied from the Catholic Bible. The KJV have not included 6 books from the CT Bible.

The New Testament (NT) Bible was printed first in the early AD 1690s. However, few people could read. In many churches, The Word was only read and interpreted by the priests.

The Protestant Reformed churches also do not have the other Sacraments, that the CT Church have, shown below:

Eucharist,

Penance,

Anointing of the Sick,

Matrimony, and

Holy Orders.

All these Sacraments have Emmanuel or Immanuel—the presence of God with us on the continuing journey leading to heaven.

The Protestant Reformed adherents seem to stay away from the Sacraments primarily on their adult life, i.e., keeping their distance from Emmanuel. It seems that this is influenced by the Devil who cannot be involved or be near with Emmanuel.

And this also reflects that their Jesus is not the Jesus, God the Son, of the Roman Catholic Church. They just have their Jesus—another man--but not the Jesus the Head of the Mystical Body—the Catholic Church.

Likewise, the Protestant Reformed do not seem to get involved with the CT Church practices and beliefs, such as:

Sacramentals:

The sacramentals are certain blessed items that are spiritually beneficial to the faithful, for example, Holy Water, Medal, Rosary, Scapular, Blessed Salt, Crucifix, Blessed Candles, making the sign of the cross on your body, with your fingers, reminding of the baptism you received invoking in the name of the God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, etc. According to Sacrosanctum Concilium, the sacramentals are sacred signs which have a sacrament-like structures.

Confession of sins to consecrated priest and receiving absolution for the sins confessed,

En Persona Christe.

Eucharistic Mass—Liturgy of the Word: OT and NT – Gospel always; Liturgy of the Eucharist: Holy Communion and thanksgiving.

Holy Rosary—account various events of God the Son, Jesus Christ, here on earth such as the Annunciation, His birth on earth, His crucifixion and death, His miracles of healing and raising the dead, His resurrection, etc., Prayers are from God: Our Father and Hail Mary.

Hear us, Lord, through Mary our Mother!

Holy Angels—cited in various places in the Holy Bible—OT and NT;

Holy Saints—all disciples and Apostles, except one, of the Lord Jesus, and those declared through the CT Church are in the thousands now. Still growing—increasing.

Figuratively, leaving the CT Church and life:

“Why You Can’t Have Jesus Without The Church” (Church Pop). Check it out, below:

https://www.churchpop.com/2017/02/25/why-you-cant-have-jesus-without-the-church/?fbclid=IwAR0rP1Eepn8iG-RwcLpVgreBjPKQ9NF1OtwsaJVmdIgz-0zCsE0gP91negk

Implications from the Title: You Cannot Have Jesus Without the Church

Other so-called Christian denominations do communion but use plain bread and juice, as symbol, for the body and blood of Christ. This is not in the Bible.

Come Back To Me (Hosea 14:1-9)

(Gregory Norbet) (Catholic hymn)

1 Come back to me with all your heart.

Don’t let fear keep us apart,

Trees do bend though straight and tall;

So must we to others call.

Refrain…

Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.

2 The wilderness will lead you to your heart where I will speak,

Integrity and justice with tenderness you shall know,

Refrain…

3 You shall sleep secure with peace; faithfulness will be your joy,

Refrain…

Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33) (Catholic hymn)

1 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness;

And all these things shall be added unto you,

Alleluia, alleluia.

2 Ask and it shall be given unto to you; seek and ye shall find;

Knock and it shall be opened unto to you,

Alleluia, alleluia.

3 You do not live by bread alone, but by every word

That proceeds from the mouth of God,

Alleluia, alleluia.

I have read and heard that the mother of Jesus on earth is with sin because it is written in the Bible that every human being is born with sin. That is so, after Adam and Eve, who committed the Original Sin. And God imposed that for the rest of humanity, thereafter, the stigma of the Original Sin, thereby, could not enter heaven. That’s when God the Father, by his will, sent God the Son, to redeem man and be reunited back with God in heaven. God the Son became the Savior—the Salvation—the Redeemer of humanity.

But the Protestants say that Mary, the mother of God the Son, Jesus, is with sin, since the Bible purports to say that everybody sin. So the Jesus born from the Mary with sin is not the same Jesus as the Jesus of the CT Church—the Roman Catholic Church.

In the Protestant denomination those who believe that the Mary is with sin, therefore, the child in her womb is with sin. That’s what the Protestant Reformed would like on Mary for being the bearer in her womb God the Son at his Annunciation to be born on earth. This means that their Jesus with sin is not the same Jesus without sin of the CT. This concept seems to originate from the Devil—the adversary of God.

For those who believe that Mary is with sin, therefore the child in her womb is with sin. Thus, the Jesus for the Protestant is with sin.

Thus, up to this day, even the statues of Mary the mother of God the Son Jesus Christ are usually subject to mutilations or destruction. Whoever does that to a statue representing Mary the mother of God the Son really hates Mary. And the one who really hates Mary up to this day is the Devil—the evil one.

After the 1576 year, the Protestants are saying that it is written in the Bible that every human is with sin; so Mary is with sin. Then, the Jesus in her womb is also with sin. The Jesus of the Protestants—cannot be the Son of God—cannot forgive sin—cannot save—cannot be the Savior—cannot be the Salvation—cannot be the Redeemer. As it is now, then, the Protestants have no means to enter heaven.

In the CT, Mary is without sin, for nothing is impossible with God, to prepare her at birth to be without sin—Immaculate Conception—

sinless. (Matthew 6:33). Thus, Jesus in her womb is sinless. The CT Church has lived with this profession of faith.

HERESY

Heresy in the Catholic Church denotes the formal denial or obstinate doubt of a core doctrine (that is, an article of faith that must be believed with...

Formal heresy is "the willful and persistent adherence to an error in matters of faith" on the part of a baptized person. As such it is a grave sin and involves ...

In canon law heresy is the offense of one who, having been baptized and retaining the name of Christian, pertinaciously denies or doubts any of the truths that...

HERESY

Heresy in the Catholic Church denotes the formal denial or obstinate doubt of a core doctrine (that is, an article of faith that must be believed with ...

Formal heresy is "the willful and persistent adherence to an error in matters of faith" on the part of a baptized person. As such it is a grave sin and involves ...

In canon law heresy is the offense of one who, having been baptized and retaining the name of Christian, pertinaciously denies or doubts any of the truths that ...

After the 1576 year, the Protestants are saying that it is written in the Bible that every human is with sin; so Mary is with sin. Then, the Jesus in her womb is also with sin. So the Jesus of the Protestants—cannot be the Son of God—cannot forgive sin—cannot save—cannot be the Savior—cannot be the Salvation—cannot be the Redeemer. As it is now, then, the Protestants have no means to enter heaven.

The Protestants say that Mary, the mother of God the Son, Jesus, is with sin, since the Bible purports to say that everybody sin. So the Jesus born from the Mary with sin is not the same Jesus as the Jesus of the CT Church—the Roman Catholic Church.

Protestantism (16th Century) (Catholic Answers)

Protestant groups display a wide variety of different doctrines. However, virtually all claim to believe in the teachings of sola scriptura (“by Scripture alone”—the idea that we must use only the Bible when forming our theology) and sola fide (“by faith alone”— the idea that we are justified by faith only).

The great diversity of Protestant doctrines stems from the doctrine of private judgment, which denies the infallible authority of the Church and claims that each individual is to interpret Scripture for himself. This idea is rejected in 2 Peter 1:20, where we are told the first rule of Bible interpretation: “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.” A significant feature of this heresy is the attempt to pit the Church “against” the Bible, denying that the magisterium has any infallible authority to interpret Scripture.

This doctrine of private judgment has resulted in thousands of different Christian denominations and quasi-Christian splinter groups throughout history.

Protestant reformation, the religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century.

The Protestant Reformed founded their own churches (by myriads of man-founder), after AD 1576, and resulted in the proliferation of 40,000+ Protestant churches and growing at the rate of 125 churches per year. And so, any one who joined with those churches of the Protestant Reformed did/do not believe on the founder—the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Protestants can never have the Jesus of the CT Church.

The churches of thousand denominations and sects will have their Jesus, but not the CT Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church.

Furthermore, the Protestant Reformed churches would have different Jesus for each different denomination—such as Jesus of the Lutherans—Jesus of the Presbyterians, Jesus of the Baptist, the Pentecostals, and so on of the other denominations and sects. Each denomination and sect will have different Jesus. Otherwise, why have all these denominations and sects?

What they have now is a polytheistic Protestant Reformed churches.

HELL

CCC1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves. ‘He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.’ Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.' To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called “hell.”

CCC1034 Jesus often speaks of “Gehenna,” of “the unquenchable fire” reserved for those who to the end of their lives refused to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost. Jesus solemnly proclaims that he “will send his angels, and they will gather… all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,” and that he will pronounce the condemnation: “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!”

As consequence —Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.

As location of the damned:

CCC633 Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, “hell” – Sheol in Hebrews or Hades in Greek – because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the redeemer which does not mean that their lot is identical as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into ‘Abraham’s bosom.’ It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham’s bosom whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell. Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.

The Lord Jesus is referred as The Lord of lords and The King of kings. He must have

come from the mother who is The Queen of queens. Yes, we could say, that the Blessed Mary is the Queen of queens to all the holy saints and holy angels in heaven. Among them is St. Mary’s earthly husband the foster father of Jesus, St. Joseph, the Terror of Demons and eternal protector of Mary.

In any case, the Roman Catholic Church traces its beginning back to the original church which was established at Pentecost in AD 30. Christians started the church in Rome almost certainly by AD 50. Paul visited the well-established church in AD 63. The Roman Catholic Church can trace its roots all the way back to the original Christian church in Rome.

You cannot have Jesus without the Church.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6).

Those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous while they await the redeemer, which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into “Abraham’s bosom.” It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham’s bosom,

God predestined no one to damnation:

CCC1037 God predestine no one to go to hell; a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of the faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God who does not want “any to perish but all to come to repentance.”

HELL

As in the Scripture:

CCC1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against our selves. “He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren. To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means separating from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called “hell.”

In Jesus preaching:

CCC1034 Jesus often speaks of “Gehenna,” of “the unquenchable fire” reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted where both soul and body can be lost. Jesus solemnly proclaims that he will send his angels, and they will gather “all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,” and that he will pronounce the condemnation: “Depart from me, you cursed into the eternal fire!”

In the teaching of the Church:

CCC1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell where they enter the punishments of hell, “eternal fire.” The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, incumbent who alone man can posses the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.

Teaching about hell as admonition:

CCC1036 The affirmation of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are the same an urgent call to conversion: “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed, and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where “men will weep and gnash their teeth.”

APOSTASY

CCC2089 Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. “Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.

CCC817 In fact, “in this one and only Church of God from its very beginning there arose certain gifts, which the Apostle strongly censures as damnable. But in subsequent centuries much more serious dissensions appeared and large communities became separated from full communion with the Catholic Church – for which, often enough, men of both sides were to blame. The ruptures that wound the unity of Christ’s Body – here we must distinguish heresy, apostasy and schism – do not occur without human sin.

Where there are sins, there are also divisions, schisms, heresies, and disputes. Where there is virtue, however, there also are harmony and unity from which arise the one heart and one soul of all believers.

The Catholic Bible was first printed sometime in AD 1450 whereas the KJV came later in AD 1576.

ABORTION

CCC2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.

ABORTION

Probably pro-abortion comes more often within Protestant Reformed because their Mary who bore their supposed Jesus is with sin and don’t have Jesus—God the Son as their God.

Abortion is mortal sin.

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It is NOT What You Think!

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