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…that I was unable to receive the sacrament since confessions are heard before mass at St. Leo’s (where I normally go for confession)
I guess that is both a good and a bad thing. It’s a shame that a couple of us couldn’t receive but it’s a healthy parish that has lines for Confession and absolution.
One of the things that I’ve criticized radical Islam for is their inability to take critique without threats.
Miss Attila in her youth was once a member of what appears to be a cult.
I don’t claim to be an expert on these guys, but I have enough common sense to know that if a church is harassing an individual who has left it 25 years ago then this Gospel passage doesn’t apply to them:
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. Matt 16:18
Forget the gates of hell, A church that can’t abide a single Catholic blogger’s critique is no true church. If they had faith or truth they would not need to sic lawyers on a blogger in a cute hat, as Stacy McCain puts it:
Why did Hymers III have his attorney contact LMA to tell her that she has been reported to the FBI? It’s intimidation, pure and simple. They want her to shut up.
Trying to silence critics — isn’t that what cults do?
Read the entire correspondence for yourself and make up your own mind.
For myself: I won’t claim to be even remotely unbiased here. Joy McCain is my friend and I pray for her and her husband daily. Anyone who is threatens them is a foe of mine and I promise this, any future post on the Robert Leslie Hymers cult from her will generate a link and a post here. Generally groups like this can’t stand the light, so we will hit them with the light of the multiplier of linky love.
They do have one thing going for them, as a foe of mine, I am required to pray for them.
You can’t go very far in this area without finding a church of one kind or another.
Big and small, wide and narrow, some based out of houses and others consisting of many buildings churches do the landscape with ministry after ministry of almost every protestant denomination that you can find.
It reaches a point after a while that you almost don’t notice but you can’t help but notice the New Birth Church.
New Birth Sign
Pentacost Sunday
There are two different very important things about Pentecost Sunday that I think people should think about.
The first was told to me by my pastor. Consider, Jesus is executed, the Jewish leaders are not big on the people who followed him and the Roman’s certainly are not friendly. Yet starting on Pentecost Sunday the apostles start to fearlessly preach Jesus. This is one of the great proofs of Christianity. Some dramatic thing happened between the day that Christ dies and the day of Pentecost. What is it?
It is actually two things, the appearance of Christ that they saw in person and the coming of the Holy Spirit.
The second is something that I was considering one week when I was debating some seventh day Adventists on the Bible. The first evangalists appear at the Pentecost. They are NOT the Apostles.
They are the crowd. Consider the passage in Acts:
We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.” Acts 2:9-11
These people were all visitors, they all heard the apostles in their own languages. They were all aware of it and they likely went home (as they were visitors) before Paul’s and the other Apostles journeys.
They were eyewitnesses to a miracle. They saw it and heard it and when they came home in those days before IPODS, TIVO and DVD’s told what they saw. When a person returned from travels it was a big event. How much bigger was the event when they described the improbable thing they saw and heard? How often was this spread by the people who heard her?
So the ground was prepared, yet when is this ever mentioned?
That is the second story of the Pentecost and it should not be forgotten.
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