Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Fw: [catholicACT] A lot of interesting materials on intercession of the Saints
From: Matthew Tan Yew Hock
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 2:55 AM
Subject: [catholicACT] A lot of interesting materials on intercession of the Saints
by the way, http://www.biblicalcatholic.com is found at the bottom of every email sent to catholicact.
From Dave Armstrong's blog site:
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Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Matthew Tan Yew Hock
Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Matthew Tan Yew Hock
----- Original Message -----From: Matthew Tan Yew HockSent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:30 AMSubject: Re: [catholicACT] More Queries...Hope u dun mind..Do visit this web site; most of the queries asked by Protestants are answered here; the author Dave Armstrong was a former Protestant, who converted to Catholicism after deep studies.For the topic on intercession of the (Mary and) Saints:one of the many articles listed here: http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/praying.htm~~~
Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Matthew Tan Yew Hock----- Original Message -----From: RoySent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:42 PMSubject: [catholicACT] More Queries...Hope u dun mind..
Hi everybody,
Just some doubts to clear..my brother who is a protestant and
also quite anti-catholic argue the fact that catholic is rather
a "artificial and man-made" religion. He told me there's nothing
stated in the bible that says intercecssion can be done through mary
and the saints. He said that faith is only thru the bible and
nothing else..Can anyone challenge this query?
Bret:
Over the years, as I got closer to the Catholic Church and began to understand its teachings and why it taught them better, my Protestant alarm bells about this changed to sighs of relief. To me, I more and more took the stance of "I don't know about anyone else, but I need all the help I can get." That was one reason why I became devoted to Mary over three years ago when I was still Anglican. When the light bulb went off in my head that the greatest of all the saints (indeed the Queeen of them) wants to intercede for us and wants us to come to her so she can help us, I positively flew to her. If Christ willingly gave His mother to us to help us on our bumpy and often messy journey to Home, I wanted that help. For me, knowing that Mary, the angels, and the saints pray for me is a great comfort and relief. I'm not handling everything alone.
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A lot of interesting materials on intercession of the Saints. Do read it in full here.
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2004_06_20_socrates58_archive.html#108794430774197871
Just a sample.
3. James Cardinal Gibbons
6. Nicholas Russo
7. Thomas Howard (P)
I had never heard the idea, taught in the Church for centuries, that in the act of Christian worship the scrim that hangs between earth and heaven is drawn back, and we in very truth join with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven . . . It is an awesome picture of things . . . Evangelicalism had instilled in me a robust supernaturalism . . . It was, rather, that no one had ever bothered to open up this vision . . . a notion that would be theoretically affirmed by evangelicalism but which is not often dwelt on and is certainly not vivified in public worship . . . The host of apostles, evangelists, fathers, martyrs, confessors, doctors . . . was not really very present to us . . .
Their roots in history have been pulled up, and they are left with nothing but the Bible and the modern world. They forget that the Faith has been borne on human shoulders and in human hearts for 2000 years . . . Evangelical doctrine is correct, but there are immense treasures that it seldom dips into for the sake of its people.
(Howard, 57-59)