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Filling Up What Is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions
OBJECTIVE & SUBJECTIVE REDEMPTION I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh, I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the…
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I Became Your Father
The Sacrament of Holy Orders And Michas said:Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a priest,and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver,and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals.Judges 17, 10 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ,you do not have many fathers, for in…
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Is Anyone Among You Sick?
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick And He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God,and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments,and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you whichI have put on the Egyptians;…
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Let Every One of You Be Baptized
Infant Baptism For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must becircumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money froma foreigner-those who are not your offspring.Genesis 17, 12 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,by putting off the body of the…
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God Saw that It Was Good
Predestination And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.Genesis 1, 31 The topic of divine sovereignty and the fall of Adam and Eve is a significant point of discussion among Christians. Most Christians, regardless of denomination, affirm that God…
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Not By Faith Alone
Justification by Faith & Works For what saith the Scripture that Abraham believed Godand it was counted unto him as righteousness (dikaiosunen).Romans 4, 3 Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified (dikaiousthai) by faithwithout the deeds of the law.Romans 3, 28 Was not Abraham our father justified (edikaiosthe) by workswhen he had offered his…
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One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
The Mystical Body of Christ There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were calledto the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith,one baptism, one God and Father of all,who is above all and through all and in all.Ephesians 4, 4-5 In Protestantism, it is believed that anyone who professes faith…
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Partaking of the Body of the Lord
The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion ofthe blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not thepartaking of the body of the Lord ?1 Corinthians 10, 16 The Holy Eucharist is a central aspect of Catholic faith, representing the body and…
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Put On the New Self
Justification & Sanctification Create a clean heart in me, O God:and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from thy face;and take not thy holy spirit from me.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.Psalm 50, 12-14 You should put away the old self of your former…
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The Church Is Catholic
Ecclesiology I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world,and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name,the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.John 17, 11 Since the time of the Apostles, the Church has viewed itself as…
Eternally Catholic 