all saints catholic church

Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.

Catholics and many other Christians believe in the Communion of Saints where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.

With love in Christ.

2006-06-05 18:54:31 by Keyser Soze

Yearly event held by the all saint#39;s catholic church in Amsterdam.

Also,what is the reason for confessing your sins to a priest?

+ All Saints Day +

All Saints Day is the day on which Catholics remember all the saints of the Church, whether officially canonized or not. It is celebrated on November 1.

Saints are people in heaven or on their way to heaven. All Christians dead and alive are saints.

The Catholic Church selects some of the most extraordinary examples, does in-depth research, and canonizes them.

"By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God's grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness within her and sustains the hope of believers by proposing the saints to them as models and intercessors."

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 828: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/p t1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#828

+ Reconciliation +

The Catholic Church believes that "Only God forgives sin."

When a penitent person asks God for forgiveness, his (or her) sins are immediately forgiven.

Catholics also believe that when someone sins they not only hurt their relationship with God, they also injure the entire church, the body of Christ.

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained." (John 20:21-23)

Several important things are happening here all at once and within the same context:
• "As the Father has sent me, so I send you." God the Father sent Christ to us for many reasons, one of which was to forgive our sins, so Christ sends the Apostles and their successors to, among other things, forgive our sins.
• Jesus, God the Son, "breathes" on the Apostles. The only other moment in Holy Scripture where God breathes on humanity is in Genesis 2:7, when the Lord "breathes" divine life into man. When God breathes on humans significant things happen.
• And then and only then Jesus says, "Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."

Jesus says this a bit differently in Matthew 16:19: "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."

Oral confessing of sins is recommended over and over in both the Old and New Testaments:
• James 5:16
• Acts 19:18
• Matthew 3:5-6
• Mark 1:5
• 1 Timothy 6:12
• 1 John 1:9
• Numbers 5:6-7
• Nehemiah 9:2
• Sirach 4:26

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation with a priest ordained in the name of Jesus Christ not only reconciles the sinner to God but with the entire church, including you and me.

Remember all sacraments are encounters with God. This sacrament is a healing encounter between God and the penitent.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 1422 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2s ect2chpt2.htm

With love in Christ.

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Seriously ... what happened to all the Statues and Saints in many of the newly built Catholic Churches. It seems as though that many parishes these days no longer have statues of the Saints and Mary anymore. Why?

Statues are not as important to Catholics as the iconoclastic Gnostic cults make them out to be. They are not objects of worship, they are objects of devotion that helps ascend the mind to God. It's almost impossible to explain the biblicity of religious statuary to a narrow minded brain washed bigot who did poorly in high school.

It may be that the liturgical designers of churches are still able to make the new churches in keeping with modern ascetics without losing the message that the people of God on earth are one with the people of God in heaven. Catholicism is not a broken home.

2009-11-08 18:38:26 by Christopher

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It would appease many a person if the Catholic Church would say that Mary wasn't greater than Peter, Paul, James, etc. And if they would use scripture from the bible to make prayers for them like a "Hail Paul", or a "Hail Peter".

So to appease the masses, why won't they say these things?

Because just as the angel said Mary found favor in the Lord, that same angel said that John was found great in the sight of the Lord. :)
there is a hierarchy according to the RCC. :)
but without John, Jesus couldn't come yet. Hence the reason Jesus said no one born of men is greater than John the Baptist. :)
well, they say since the angel said the "Hail Mary" we should to, or something along those lines. :)
the RCC said they were given the keys to heaven, so whatever they say down here, happens up there. :)
"Because Mary was born without Original Sin, something that not even Jesus was blessed with."

This statement makes NO sense.

This is a terrible question.... there is not a hierarchy in Heaven. Mary was a human.... she is not deity.
Where in the bible does it tell me to Hail Mary?
She is not greater, nor are those that you call saints greater than you or I. They were human.... they were sinners.
Dont believe me....Peter lied about knowing Jesus 3 times...
All liars will have their part in the lake of fire.

Who is the RCC to create a hierarchy in Gods heaven?
This is really the problem I have with Catholics. You swear/confirm or whatever you want to call it....to the Catholic church...not to God.

2008-07-24 06:08:28 by Lion of Judah Regular

a nun gave me a bible when I was in high school,I'm a catholic too but everytime i'm reading the bible,there is a part that said "lord don't want us to honor everything that is made by man like statues but why is it that catholic churches are full of it?

Do you have pictures of your loved ones?

Statues and pictures of people we love are not idols.

Statues and paintings of Jesus and the saints are just like pictures of the people we love and respect.

The King James Version of the Bible states in Exodus 20:4: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth"

Why were the Jews commanded not to make graven images? Graven images were the standard method of pagan worship. They were representations of false gods.

This is a very clear command.

However God commanded the Jews in Exodus 25:18 and 1 Chronicles 28:18–19, "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them"

And in 1 Kings chapter 7 Solomon made bulls and other images out of precious metals.

It seems obvious that the Jews did not worship the cherubims and Solomon did not worship the bulls he had made. These images did not violate the command of God. Therefore, an image not made for worship is acceptable.

In Numbers 21:8-9, "And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover." Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered."

And in John 3:14-15, Jesus says in correlation, "And just as Moses lifted up the [image of a] serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

How can a statue of our Lord Jesus Christ dead on the cross be considered an idol to a false god? A crucifix is the message of the Gospel without words held up for all to see, a visual reminder of the sacrifice of Jesus, no different from a painting, a play, or a movie.

Catholics do not worship statues but the almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

With love in Christ.

2006-10-20 05:29:12 by rona_glr