Tag: Apostles
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Confess Your Sins
The Sacrament of Reconciliation And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the LORDwill raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore,confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may behealed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.…
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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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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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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…
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The Word of God
The Deposit of Faith And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God whichyou heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is,the word of God, which is at work in you believers.1 Thessalonians 2, 13 And you also…
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Upon this Rock
Papal Infallibility & Primacy of Authority He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to…
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The Word Is Near You
THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart:that is, the word of faith, which we preach.Romans 10, 8 The text from Romans 10:8 emphasizes the accessibility and immediacy of faith. It suggests that the “word”—understood as the message of faith or the gospel—isn’t distant or difficult…
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