Originally posted by trying2understand:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by John3v36:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Johnv:
"In all liturgical celebrations, candles are required to express reverence and to indicate various degrees of solemnity" (GENERAL INSTRUCTION ON ROMAN MISSAL, Vatican II,3/70).
Where is the above teaching found the the Bible?
Boy, talk about taking something out of context. This is an excerpt from a missal, or guidebook for conducting a Catholic mass. The RCC requires that candles are present at the site of a Catholic mass as a symbol of reverence. It has nothing to do with salvation.
Its your church teaching!!! Put it back into context and tell me where you find it in the Bible.</font>[/QUOTE]Does your church require you to wear shoes to Sunday service? But that's not in the Bible!
Would your church forbid eating a sandwich during the Sunday service? But that's not found in the Bible!
I could go on, but hopefully you get the point.</font>[/QUOTE]I'm Sure you could go on.
We don't make you wear shoes, we let you drink coffee and donuts and we supply them for you at our church. And if we did it is not "required to express reverence and to indicate various degrees of solemnity".
we Look to the Bible for passages Like:
1 Timothy 2
9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
and
Deut 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
For a dress code.
beyond what the Bible says we do not add to what is "required to express reverence and to indicate various degrees of solemnity"
SO! I ASK AGAIN WHERE IS THE BELOW FOUND IN THE BIBLE?
"In all liturgical celebrations, candles are required to express reverence and to indicate various degrees of solemnity" (GENERAL INSTRUCTION ON ROMAN MISSAL, Vatican II,3/70).
Saint John
[ September 17, 2002, 12:21 PM: Message edited by: John3v36 ]