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I have seen this many times before.

There are people that hardly show up at Mass or only occasionally and don’t support their parish or priest, and don’t really believe but expect their priest to show up at the drop of a hat when they need them.

If they were truly practicing their faith, they would not be making special demands of their favourite priest but be extremely happy to be ministered to by any priest.
If they truly believed, receiving sacraments would be the most important thing.

My Uncle unfortunately was in this situation before he died, not attending Mass or practicing for decades but expecting a priest he liked to drive 5 hours to attend him. Told no, the priest was old and sick himself, he and his family became angry and critical about it. Lots of huffing and puffing, especially by his family who none believed at all.
Finally he was convinced to see a more local priest, and received the sacraments.

People who have been faithless for years, shouldn’t expect much at all.

As hard as it sounds, there is a certain justice in people dying as they lived.

I do feel for your friend, it is usually family that is left to organise unreasonable expectations here, for people that give the last things only an afterthought with special conditions entitlement.

It should be important to her to attend mass and be faithful for years, not important to be attended by one particular priest. It smacks of sentimental poo rather than a true belief in the faith.

Many people are caught out like this and arrive before The Almighty unshriven.

If they can’t get “ their “ priest , they will see no priest.

It’s childish, shallow and foolhardy.

 

I remember the film, The Field with Richard Harris. Whose character recounts how he and his father brought in the hay harvest before a storm rather than get a priest for his dying mother.

Jon I think your friend should get any priest in the interim, if it is difficult get ahold of her priest, these situations aren’t to be mucked with.

 

Ignatius and Justin Martyr held the Catholic belief of the Eucharist and Catholic priesthood and they were killed by the Roman pagans for it.
So your assertion is nonsense.

This is historically false. The Edict of Milan ended the persecution of Christians by the pagans, and brought in toleration of all religions.

“When you see that this has been granted to [Christians] by us, your Worship will know that we have also conceded to other religions the right of open and free observance of their worship for the sake of the peace of our times, that each one may have the free opportunity to worship as he pleases; this regulation is made that we may not seem to detract from any dignity of any religion.” Edict of Milan.

Pagans could continue their religion so long as they did not force Christians to make sacrifices to pagan god’s as they had done in previous persecutions.

These communities were totally separate in religious practice, the pagans had been deadly persecutors of Christianity. They aren’t going to share religious practice.
This is the stupidest idea ever.

Further, the pagans had to give back all the property that had been taken from the Christians during the persecutions.

The Roman pagans did not use water like Catholics used Holy Water, this is prejudiced garbage assertion with no evidence.

 

You are sleeping deeply like the foolish virgins in the darkness of this current time, the turn from the sixth to the seventh Day, the Lord's Day-2Peter 3:7-9, take a look, or seventh and last millennium, it is midnight on GOD's clock, understand?

Genesis 19--> Has you here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, thy daughters, and whatsoever you has,
BRING THEM OUT OF THIS PLACE, spiritually speaking,
FULL OF DEMONIC RELIGIONS AND CHURCHES INFESTED OF IDOLATRY AND WITCHICRAFT, FALSE DOCTRINES, DOCTRINES OF DEMONS.
Up, get you out of this demonic spiritual environment, for the Lord will destroy the satanic NATIONS around the world, world of Devil-Revelation 11:18-,
Haste thee, escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay you in all the plain(in your human and demonic perspective); escape to the mountain-Micah 4:1-3-, lest thou be CONSUMED.

Come out my people, that ye be not partakers of the sins of the wicked NATIIONS, and that ye receive not of their PLAGUES. For their sins have reached unto heaven(heaven?Ephesians 1:3-8) where even the dragon is sowing his tares with his messengers(Matthew 4:8-10 combined with Revelation 12:3-4), but GOD has now remembered of their iniquities.

We, the true and wise believers, like Daniel, who made known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, that the King of Babylon, now the King of darkness, the dragon, has decreed to slay the wise men, yeah, we know that our GOD reveales the deep and secret things of the Evil (Daniel 3:10-20, take a look), there is a GOD in heaven(heaven? Ephesians 1:3-8) that reveals secrets.

Remember, we speak the wisdom of GOD in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which GOD ordained before the world unto glory of the true believers, which none of the preachers of demonic religions of this current demonic world knew.

That said, now, even now, from now on, the saints shall Judge this demonic world-Matthew 12:36-37 combined with 1Corinthians 6:2-3-, and Daniel 7:26-27, and mainly Daniel 2:44-45, as follow:
44 And in the days of these kings shall the GOD of heaven(Ephesians 1:3-8) set up a Kingdom-Revelation 11:15-18-, which shall never be destroyed: and the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these(CURRENT NATIONS) kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain WITHOUT HANDS, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great GOD hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Be careful and get ready for the battle, be attentive to the demonic sounds that come out of the MOUTH of the MAN Beast of the sea and his messengers, and from the MOUTH of the dragon, the MAN of sin, who will FIRST manifest himself as messiah SOON(in the 1st half of the last week) and then, in the 2nd half of the last week, as Master of Torah, as False Prophet, and his messengers with him (John 5:43-47 and Revelation 13:11 and 16:13-15). Get ready

Blessed be the name of GOD for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are His, and He changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings-Revelation 5:10- , take a look, He gives wisdom unto the wise-Daniel 12:3and 10, take a look, and knowledge to them that know understanding-Matthew 24:15:

We true believers thank Thee, and praise Thee, O GOD, father of our Lord JESUS Christ, who has given us wisdom and might, and has made known unto us now what we desired of Thee.

Even the King Nebuchadnezar said: Daniel 3:29- > Therefore I make a decree, That every people, NATION, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the GOD of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other GOD that can deliver after this sort.

Be sure, the Almight GOD, which is, and which was, and which is to come, will FULFILL LITERALLY what is written above, and the wicked NATIONS will be destroyed-Revelation 11:18 among many other biblical references. AMEN

 

Nothing at all like what God had Israel doing. But definitely like the other blasphemous pictures.

 

Justifying blasphemy. Not Unexpected by members of the rc sect.

 

Wow. Absolutely no fear of God. Only the rc sect of misunderstanding (on purpose?!?) God's Word reveals this blasphemy.

 

False and prejudiced assertion without evidence.

These are Catholic Fathers that believed the Eucharist is the flesh and blood of Christ, their writings only come to us through the Catholic Church.

“They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.” Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to Smyrnaeans, 7,1 (c. A.D. 110).

“For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.” Justin Martyr, First Apology, 66 (c. A.D. 110-165).

Proven false again.

False. Prejudiced assertion without evidence.

So the pagans blessed the water in the Name of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit did they.

So what. Where is your evidence by the way or are you just asserting again.

Fact is, holy water is Scriptural, you said it wasn’t, which is false.

“See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Christ Jesus does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles. Do ye also reverence the deacons, as those that carry out the appointment of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.” Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrneans, 8:2 (c. A.D. 110).

“I have, as to love, beheld all of you. May I always have joy of you, if indeed I be worthy of it. It is therefore befitting that you should in every way glorify Jesus Christ, who hath glorified you, that by a unanimous obedience "ye may be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment, and may all speak the same thing concerning the same thing” and that, being subject to the bishop and the presbytery, ye may in all respects be sanctified.” Ignatius to the Ephesians.

 

The Truth has arms, the lie has teeth.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone should hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.”

When a man receives the Truth it becomes part of himself and builds him up.

 

People can read the Fathers in their own words, and they don’t have your spin on them.

You are in ignorance here. It was not dirt, it was dust and the dust was salt.

"And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt."

All offerings were made with salt, salt was sprinkled over offerings before they were burned and the floor of the Tabernacle was covered in it. It was not something that could be swept away by the morning cleaner, no one could just enter there as the holiest place. So this salt was trampled under foot and became dust, which gives reference to another scripture, which I won’t go into the depths of here.

Catholic priests mix salt with holy water as I have already pointed out.

As Justin points out, the Gentiles were prophecied to be the sacrificial priesthood, with the Eucharistic sacrifice.

“Hence God speaks by the mouth of Malachi, one of the twelve [prophets], as I said before, about the sacrifices at that time presented by you: 'I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord; and I will not accept your sacrifices at your hands: for, from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, My name has been glorified among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure offering: for My name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord: but you profane it.' Malachi 1:10-12 [So] He then speaks of those Gentiles, namely us, who in every place offer sacrifices to Him, i.e., the bread of the Eucharist, and also the cup of the Eucharist, affirming both that we glorify His name, and that you profane [it]. ” Justin Martyr.

So the Eucharist is the sacrifice foretold of in Malachi made by the Gentiles.

So it’s a continuation of God’s sacrificial priesthood in the new Covenant, not pagan as you falsely assert without evidence.

 

I presented evidence. The Fathers in their own words.

I quoted the Edict of Milan which shows your assertions are false.

You quoted nothing contemporary to these times to back your assertions.

Catholics were persecuted and killed by pagan Romans, there was no blending of the two religions.
Pagans were not going to synchronise with Christians beliefs, they were actively killing them. And Christians certainly were not adopting pagan rituals in their worship, the people that were killing them for being Christian.

This is the most nonsensical and ignorant assertion you make.