Pope Francis gathered with the faithful of the diocese of Rome and with representatives of the different Pentecostal Churches and Ecclesial Communities in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls to celebrate the conclusion of the week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Pope Francis prayed that the Lord would help all Christians to grow in unity, he also asked Pentecostal churches and other Christian Churches for forgiveness for their past persecution at the hands of Catholics.
“As bishop of Rome and pastor of the Catholic Church, I want to beg for mercy and forgiveness for un-Gospel-like behavior on the part of Catholics against Christians of other churches. We ask most of all for forgiveness for the sin of our divisions, which are an open wound on the body of Christ,” Pope Francis said.
“At the same time, I ask all my Catholic brothers and sisters to forgive if, today or in the past, they were hurt by other Christians,” he said. “We cannot erase what happened, but we do not want to allow the burden of past faults to continue to poison our relationships.”
The Pope concluded the yearly Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on Monday, the feast of the Conversion of St Paul. Theme for the 2016 week of prayer is : “Called to proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord”
According to the tradition, Pope Francis led the service at Rome’s Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, the burial site of the apostle Paul. Orthodox Metropolitan Gennadios, representing the ecumenical patriarch, and Anglican Archbishop David Moxon, representing the archbishop of Canterbury, united with the pope in prayer at St Paul’s tomb at the beginning of the service.
During his homily,the Holy Father told the faithful gathered in the Basilica that St Paul and countless Christian martyrs throughout the centuries gave their lives for their faith in Christ and now enjoy “full communion in the presence of God the father,” he also prayed the martyrs would intercede on behalf of today’s Christians to God so that they would be able to follow their footsteps.
Still speaking to the gathering he said, “Beyond the differences that still separate us, “we recognize with joy that at the origin of the Christian life there is always a call whose author is God himself.”
The path to Christian unity, he said, is not simply about drawing closer to one another, but has more to do with each person drawing closer to Christ and finding each other there.
“When all Christians of different churches listen to the word of God and try to put it into practice,” the Pope said, “they truly take important steps toward unity.”
Concluding his Catechesis he said, “It is not only the call that unites us. We are joined by the same mission: to proclaim to all the mighty acts of the Lord. Walking together and working together, we will become aware that we are already united in the name of the Lord. Unity is made by walking.
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Patrick, the answer to your questions is that Vatican 2 and all it’s leaders are not Catholic.
There has been no pope since 1958, and no visible hierarchy since 1965.
We are in the end times, and God allowed the infiltration of masonic enemies into the church who got their man (Roncalli) into the papal shoes, and who then called a council, which was of course not protected by the Holy Ghost from error and was not a Catholic council at all, and taught antichrist doctrines of a union of all religions theme – which comes under the heading of the condemned heresies of false ecumenism and religious indifferentism.
God allowed this as a supreme chastisement on a wicked world, and on Catholics who had become self serving, worldly, indifferent and horribly ungrateful to God for the immense and precious gifts which they had at their disposal in the true faith – amidst the darkness of so many errors and false sects. SO God in His justice, as foretold in many prophecies, allowed the enemies to break in while the ministers were asleep, and ruin everything.
The Vatican 2 sect is a counterfeit Catholic Church – the great harlot of Babylon of the end times, of chapter 17+18 of Apocalypse.
It apes the true church while leading people toward the dogma-less and humanist church of the antichrist. It has been, since 1965, becoming more and more this church, and if you look at what Bergoglio the current antipope says and does, you see that it is nearly one with the world – it has nearly reached it’s goal.
This is the work of Luciferian secret societies who want to establish a NWO in which Lucifer is worshiped as a “god of light.”
They control the media, governments around the world, education, the global economy, and basically have global power. Any and all news stories are unreliable. Some things may be true, but it’s hard or impossible to tell. You can do your own research as best you can, but as I say it is hard. So a story like Zika may be completely false and I believe it is. They use actors, fabricate images, have scientists to say false things for them, news services, government officials, and so on, so they can make up many stories.
Some stories are part true, some are completely false. Some things are engineered – ie real, others are fabricated, others are just controlled or guided in the way they want them to go.
I’m just saying – don’t believe the news, that will help you extricate yourself from deception.
You questions about hell show that you don’t understand what the Church teaches about Divine justice. Just as in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction to every action, so with God the same happens – if we sin, we move away from God; God withdraws His grace. The life of Catholics is basically a process whereby we are seeking grace and merit through the saving death of Christ, in order to be reconciled with God, and win from Him more and more grace to first pay our debt to His justice for our sins, and then, hopefully, to have payed it all, and grow in holiness by corresponding with His grace and avoiding sin. Not to say you can’t grow in holiness while you still have a debt to Divine justice, you can, but paying that debt is to be purified of the darkness in the soul which is the effect of sin.
Knowledge is only secondary to this. Knowledge may or may not play a part in the good or bad acts of the will. Knowledge helps to guide our acts, but there is always something good or bad a person can do whatever their level of knowledge.
Muslims live in darkness and evil. Yes the knowledge is an important factor, but more important is that they choose to believe that a truly evil and depraved man (muhammed), could be a prophet. If they were honest they would know that God would never approve of the horrible immorality which muhammed practiced, and which they imitate. It is the acts of the will which are very grave and very substantial, whereas knowledge and the processes of the mind are infinitely less.”
A child is the product of a wilful act of the parent. The conditions – the need to convert, to stop believing evil, to stop practicing evil things and all the rest, that exist with muslims, carry over to the next generation.
It may seem too horrible that so many go to hell, but in the experience of a man, only one person goes to hell – himself. So you can say that as far as the human race is concerned, only one person is damned, that is the individual. The only person who actually does suffer more for the great number of lost souls, is Christ. He took on that crushing weight during His passion.
Each person is a creation, each one is their own world. Their fate they will live with forever as being the result of their own choices. They may have been born into a calmer world, or a worse one, but whatever it is, God is just and gives the necessary grace to all to be saved.
Also, this age is very evil, but it is not the end of the story.
The world is about to change and will change greatly in the years ahead.
God is sending a destroyer planet – a planet-comet, to come to the inner solar system. It is the instrument of chastisement. It will cause universal devastation on a scale never before seen.
Later this year, in I believe early November, the world will experience the first major asteroid bombardment which this object causes. I believe that before then there may be a huge earthquake also, as the object is hitting the earth with extra radiation and causing global disruptions like sinkholes, animal die offs, heating up of the earth on the inside, increased earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, freak weather events, meteors, changed weather patterns, and more.
The object is usually called Nibiru or planet X, and was foretold in Catholic prophecy, called the great comet.
The Vatican 2 sect is full of heresy, sodomy, child abuse, corruption of Catholic teaching and customs, and scandals.
The true Church exists in a remnant but will rise again. It has taught nothing false nor accepted none of the modern falsehoods like evolution. The changes to the sacraments made by antipope Paul VI invalidated those sacraments in their new form – ie their new form is an empty ritual. So the Vatican 2 sect’s bishops are just laymen – Bergoglio is a layman, not even a priest or bishop. The Vatican 2 sect has nothing, can do nothing, except advance humanism and make people lose their faith.
I urge you to pray the Rosary of the Virgin Mary and ask her to bring you to her Son who loves us all and wants to save us if we will cooperate.
Sin is evil and a disfigurement of who we are and our purpose in life. It offends God, and will be punished. In this life, God receives us with infinite mercy, in the next, justice holds sway.
WE MUST ALL CRY TOGETHER and ask for mercy and forgiveness from Jesus The Lord for CRUCIFYING HIM throughout the centuries down to our own present times. Some Jews did it but ONCE. BUT WE? Lord have MERCY, for we are great SINNERS.
I believe the infallibility is in terms of dogma not tradition. Tradition can change any time any day
Wrong! Wrong!! Wrong!!! Only God can forgive sin. The Roman Catholic Church (RCC) Never teachers that only Priest can forgive sin.
No it is not the same thing. When you go for confession, the priest remit you from your sins. But the guilt is still there. the extra sacrifice you make (e.g. charity) for you sin you committed is what wipe you clean if accepted by God. The bible verse below show you how the Roman Catholic Church got the power to hear confession
John 20:19-23
19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
NKJV
RCC is the first Church with St Peter (The first Pope) as the head. The man Jesus gave the key to the kingdom of heave and earth.