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Really, once you can make stuff go around and around, you can do all sorts of things.

234. Can we even imagine





Let’s embark with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and receive the fruits of the Spirit. Let’s welcome everything from the Trinity.

The person who doesn’t maintain the quality of their vehicle for a very long journey may discover that the destination might get longer and demand more time. The transmission chain of our life is the Holy Spirit and we need to make sure he’s constantly with us. May our hearts be in order to receive the Holy Spirit, to continue on the path of salvation and for the salvation of our neighbour.



Let’s not limit the Holy Spirit. We would take one reality and close ourselves to the other graces of the Holy Spirit? Let’s not do that. We cannot limit the Holy Spirit without limiting ourselves.



We have not finished discovering him and he will surprise us. Let’s dare to let the Holy Spirit ignite and illuminate us with all his fires.

Jesus proposes to evangelize:

“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” Matthew, chapter 28, verses 19 to 20a



Can we even imagine all the graces we receive to go on a mission, if we listen to him?



It is the Spirit of Jesus and the Father who guides his Church, who guides us in our journey, which is our guarantee of the presence of Jesus in us. We have the special grace of being in the Catholic Church with a marked dimension of the Holy Spirit. This is the Blessing for the Church. It’s a privilege for us.

The Holy Spirit is in perfect communion with the Father and the Son. When we pray to the Holy Spirit, it’s impossible to be removed from the Father and the Son. Mary is present too. All the saints are united with us.



In praying the Holy Spirit, we don’t exclude the Father or the Son. The three are eternally one. We don’t favour. We are in God when we walk with the Holy Spirit. We don’t further favour the Holy Spirit.

We know what the Holy Spirit of Jesus and the Father has done so far in our lives. We know what the Holy Spirit is doing in our lives right now. We will then discover what he will achieve by passing through our soul, our heart, our spirit, in the future. We would not believe the extent and possibilities if the Spirit told us all that he’s able to do in us and through us.



Let’s not block the Holy Spirit to one reality. May we not dictate to him what we want. But let him decide what he wants for every person in the Church, to give us strength, justice, temperance, prudence, theological virtues, charisms, gifts, fruits, etc.

Let’s keep the courage and the determination to want the Holy Spirit in our life and to walk together, despite our differences which are so many beauties for each other.



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Servus said:

It does. I'm smiling ear to ear over Kimmel going down in flames. And I can't want to see who's next. Burn woke burn, muhahaha.

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Honestly, I don't watch them; most are just names to me; and I don't care if they stay on the air nor not. What's piqued my interest is the affiliate revolt behind it.

Valletta said:

Jesus is very much in the know. While all who are baptized have been saved through Baptism, we continue to be saved. The Bible is clear on salvation:

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"Salvation" actually refers to two things.
i) Being saved from eternal death, hell and the final punishment for sin.
All Christians who accept Jesus are, and have been, saved for he, alone, gives eternal life. Peter and the Apostles urged people to be saved, Acts 4:12; Romans 10:9; Ephesians 2:8.
ii) The word "sozo" means wholeness - completely whole in body, mind and spirit. Obviously none of us will have this complete wholeness until we die. The Holy Spirit is still changing us into Jesus' image and likeness, 2 Corinthians 3:18.

As I see it, "working out your salvation" does not mean working out whether or not you are saved - it means applying your salvation, new beliefs and new life. Working out how we can glorify God in the situations in which we find ourselves.
God has also said that nothing can snatch us from his hand, John 10:29, nor separate us from his love, Romans 8:38-39.

keras said:

We have a nation in the holy Land now, who call themselves Jewish and their nation Israel.

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A nation born in a single day fulfilling Isaiah 66:8. And the reunification of the northern nation and southern nation back into one nation fulfilling Ezekiel 37. Jesus soon to return to be the King of Israel embraced by the Jews.

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Valletta said:

Jesus is very much in the know.

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There's a lot of things that Jesus knows that we don't. God, after all

Officially those with reasonable assurance is categorically not assurance only. Reasonable assurance includes mandatory doubt

Juvenal said:

Charlie Kirk justified his own murder. That's what really doesn't help.

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I don't know what that even means. Are you actually saying KIrk caused his own murder. Its actually Kirks fault and not the murderer.

MarkRohfrietsch said:

Maybe look at what you have posted so far, I only see a vitriol-laced desire to brow-beat those who believe differently; with no desire for any meaningful or positive discussion.

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I'm not brow beating anybody. I was stating facts.
It has already been said in this thread that Catholics, alone, preserve the truth. How can there be unity, then, when others are being excluded?
I have said that Catholics would be welcomed at our church and at the Lord's table. I was told that we do not believe the correct things about the body and blood and that, one person at least, would not want to share "bread and juice" with us.

How is it that I am showing vitriol towards others?
I was trying to point out that belief was not a factor when Jesus desired to share a final Passover meal with his friends. Yes, even though they were going to betray, deny, desert and didn't fully understand him, they were still his friends.
So ALL friends of Jesus should be welcome at his table in EVERY church.

BelieveItOarKnot said:

Other people (their congregants) are given only reasonable assurances that they are saved.

It seems kind of weird that none of them even really know if they are saved

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Surely not?

Strong in Him said:

Who wrote it down, and it's now in our Bible.
Neither they, nor Jesus, said that we had to believe the "correct" things about the Eucharistic bread and wine before we could receive it.

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Proof texts have already been shared with extensive discussion regarding "worthiness" of the manner of reception, and failing to "discern" the body and the blood.

Maybe look at what you have posted so far, I only see a vitriol-laced desire to brow-beat those who believe differently; with no desire for any meaningful or positive discussion.

Rather than desiring or even exploring where unity might be applied, your posting style (and that of some others) here are more akin to driving a wedge between fellow Christians.

Shameful actually.

Valletta said:

Jesus passed down HIS Sacred Tradition to us through the Apostles.

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Who's "us?"

In the RCC the only people in the know are the officials. Other people (their congregants) are given only reasonable assurances that they are saved.

It seems kind of weird that none of them even really know if they are saved

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@stevevw

It is getting rather monotonous with your continuous rambling about predynastic vases indicating signatures requiring a lathe for manufacturing when your very links contradict this idea.

The high cylindricity value of 0.326 mm indicates there was considerable wobbling of the rotation axis which is uncharacteristic of even non CNC lathes where over a 100mm length the cylindricity range is typically 0.020 - 0.050 mm.

Once again the question rears its ugly head of whether you understand your links or are trolling by ignoring your own (counter)evidence and carrying on regardless.

Valletta said:

Jesus passed down HIS Sacred Tradition to us through the Apostles.

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Who wrote it down, and it's now in our Bible.
Neither they, nor Jesus, said that we had to believe the "correct" things about the Eucharistic bread and wine before we could receive it.

Valletta said:

Those disciples of Jesus who did not believe His words of eating His true Body and drinking His true Blood walked away. They found His words too much of a "hard saying" to accept.

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I was talking about the Last Supper - the Passover meal that Jesus shared with his friends before he died.
How many of those at the table - including Judas - knew, and understood, what it was about?
Where, at that table, did Jesus demand they believe that the bread and wine literally became his body and blood?
How many were excluded from that meal because they did not "believe the correct things" about the bread and wine?

Hopefully only conservative commentators will be allowed to voice their opinions to lead to purity of thought in public discourse.