Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith.
Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
And the Catholic Faith is this,
that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity.
Neither confounding the Persons,
nor dividing the Substance.
For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost.
But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is all One, the Glory Equal, the Majesty Co-Eternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost.
The Father Uncreate, the Son Uncreate, and the Holy Ghost Uncreate.
The Father Incomprehensible, the Son Incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost Incomprehensible.
The Father Eternal, the Son Eternal, and the Holy Ghost Eternal and yet they are not Three Eternals but One Eternal. As also there are not Three Uncreated, nor Three Incomprehensibles, but One Uncreated, and One Uncomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not Three Almighties but One Almighty.
So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not Three Gods, but One God.
So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not Three Lords but One Lord. For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father, and of the Son neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
So there is One Father, not Three Fathers; one Son, not Three Sons; One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore or after Other, None is greater or less than Another, but the whole Three Persons are Co-eternal together, and Co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity is Trinity, and the Trinity is Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting Salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man.
God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of His mother, born into the world. Perfect God and Perfect Man, of a reasonable Soul and human Flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood. Who, although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but One Christ. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into Flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by Unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one Man, so God and Man is one Christ. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into Hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into Heaven, He sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history
from http://www.karamazov.co.uk/atheism_religion.htm
The problem with this critique is that it exaggerates the crimes attributed to religion, while ignoring the greater crimes of secular fanaticism. The best example of religious persecution in America is the Salem witch trials. How many people were killed in those trials?
Thousands? Hundreds? Actually, fewer than 25. Yet the event still haunts the liberal imagination.
It is strange to witness the passion with which some secular figures rail against the misdeeds of the Crusaders and Inquisitors more than 500 years ago. The number of people sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition — which was active over a period of 350 years — is estimated at 5,000.
This figure is tragic, and of course population levels were much lower at the time. But even so, it is minuscule compared with the death tolls produced by the atheist despotisms of the 20th century. In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong produced the kind of mass slaughter that no Inquisitor could possibly match. Collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people.
Monday, 20 October 2008
This Christianity stuff better be true!
I just finished reading a post at the Conversion Diary. Jennifer and her husband got married 5 years ago. She recounts the story here - http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/10/you-first.html
quoted from the Conversion Diary blog.
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/10/you-first.html
quoted from the Conversion Diary blog.
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/10/you-first.html
Monday, 29 September 2008
O Jesus, lover of the young,
O Jesus, lover of the young,
the dearest Friend I have,
in all confidence I open my heart to You
to beg Your light and assistance
in the important task of planning my future.
Give me the light of Your grace,
that I may decide wisely concerning the person
who is to be my partner through life.
Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your Divine wisdom
You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage.
May her character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart.
May she be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble,
so that with united efforts
and with pure and unselfish love
we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body,
as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care.
Bless our friendship before marriage,
that sin may have no part in it.
May our mutual love bind us so closely,
that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.
O Mary Immaculate,
sweet Mother of the young,
to your special care I entrust the decision I am to make
as to my future wife.
You are my guiding Star!
Direct me to the person with whom I can best cooperate in doing God's Holy Will,
with whom I can live in peace,
love and harmony in this life,
and attain to eternal joys in the next.
Amen.
the dearest Friend I have,
in all confidence I open my heart to You
to beg Your light and assistance
in the important task of planning my future.
Give me the light of Your grace,
that I may decide wisely concerning the person
who is to be my partner through life.
Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your Divine wisdom
You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage.
May her character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart.
May she be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble,
so that with united efforts
and with pure and unselfish love
we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body,
as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care.
Bless our friendship before marriage,
that sin may have no part in it.
May our mutual love bind us so closely,
that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.
O Mary Immaculate,
sweet Mother of the young,
to your special care I entrust the decision I am to make
as to my future wife.
You are my guiding Star!
Direct me to the person with whom I can best cooperate in doing God's Holy Will,
with whom I can live in peace,
love and harmony in this life,
and attain to eternal joys in the next.
Amen.
Friday, 5 September 2008
A Distance from Beauty
From some comments on the Conversion Diary site by someone named sibyl. Commenting about what she would take away from her christianity if she left it...
"What I'd take away from my desertion? That sinking horrible feeling that cowardice and fear always leaves with me. A knowledge that I'd departed from reality. A sense of distance from the world and from beauty."
Wow. A sense of distance from the world and from beauty. Wow.
Conversion Diary - A lovely little site
"How we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other" Ray Bradbuy, Something Wicked this way comes.
We mould each other, I my friends and they me. Which is why I want friends that are good. That I can look up to and learn from and be motivated to be more like.
Possibly one such person writes the site www.conversiondiary.com
I was caught especially by the beauty of these lines, the bolding emphasis is mine.
"But then, a funny thing happened on the way to becoming a Christian: ever so slowly, I stopped being so irritated with the people around me. In fact, I started to feel love for them. As I wrote about here, I never intended for this to happen."
I love that she never intended to love, but she does. ( As an aside - I don't write that I love that she never intended to love, but it just happened, because it doesn't just happen, you must work at other things first. )
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Snoring and Large Families?
"Being hospitalised for a respiratory infection before the age of two years, suffering from recurrent ear infections as a child, growing up in a large family and being exposed to a dog at home as a newborn were all independently related to snoring in later life. The authors speculate "These factors may enhance inflammatory processes and thereby alter upper airway anatomy early in life, causing an increased susceptibility for adult snoring".
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Limit Internet Browsing with firefox Leechblock
This progam allows you to limit your internet browsing to say 10 minutes per hour. Great stuff!
Thursday, 31 July 2008
4 RC Churches in Inner London
 Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane http://www.maidenlane.org.uk/index_files/Page345.htm | |
The West End Churches
- Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory (Warwick St W1F – Tube: Piccadilly Circus)
- Corpus Christi (Maiden Lane WC2E Tube: Covent Garden)
- Notre Dame de France (French Church, Leicester Place WC2H Tube: Leicester Square) www.notredamechurch.co.uk
- St Patrick's (Soho Square W1D Tube: Tottenham Court Road)www.stpatricksoho.org
Not bad - German advertisment about children and family
You drive us crazy,
You scream all night
You wet the bed
You start teething
and then you get the chicken pox.
First, you hate nursery school,
then school,
then, at the age of 15, us.
Yes, you drive us crazy -
with happiness.
Having you doesn't cost a thing.
Then things start getting expensive.
You need time and space.
You cost us the new shoes,
the bigger TV,
and the beach holiday.
You are no luxury -
you are priceless.
There are many good reasons not to have children,
And the best reason for it:you!
You can't speak,
but you explain the whole world to us.
You can't walk,
but you help us move forwards.
You learn so much every day,
And teach us all the more.
You show us that there was never a wrong time to have you.
Only a right one.
You have a mother and father -
but need the whole country for a happy childhood.
You are not alone: you are our most important charge.
You turn two people into a family,
the tiniest flat into an adventure playground,
and pasta with tomato sauce into a banquet fit for a king.
We need more people like you,
Because without you the present isn't fun any more.
And the future is already gone.
You scream all night
You wet the bed
You start teething
and then you get the chicken pox.
First, you hate nursery school,
then school,
then, at the age of 15, us.
Yes, you drive us crazy -
with happiness.
Having you doesn't cost a thing.
Then things start getting expensive.
You need time and space.
You cost us the new shoes,
the bigger TV,
and the beach holiday.
You are no luxury -
you are priceless.
There are many good reasons not to have children,
And the best reason for it:you!
You can't speak,
but you explain the whole world to us.
You can't walk,
but you help us move forwards.
You learn so much every day,
And teach us all the more.
You show us that there was never a wrong time to have you.
Only a right one.
You have a mother and father -
but need the whole country for a happy childhood.
You are not alone: you are our most important charge.
You turn two people into a family,
the tiniest flat into an adventure playground,
and pasta with tomato sauce into a banquet fit for a king.
We need more people like you,
Because without you the present isn't fun any more.
And the future is already gone.
Crime Down During WYD Sydney
July 23 2008 > Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says that Sydney's crime rate during the World Youth Day week was the lowest it has been in a long time.
Zenit reports Mr Scipione attributed the drop to the presence of the
pilgrims and a general "sense of spirituality" in the air. He told Sky
News that extra police forces on hand seemed almost unnecessary, since the pilgrims were well-mannered and well-behaved.
Zenit also quotes Sydney Cardinal Pell as saying that the standing of the Catholic Church has been raised as a result of the success of World Youth Day. Cardinal Pell told reporters the public will be more ready to realise "that we Catholics have something to say on (life) subjects and will potentially give us a respectful hearing."
"This World Youth Day has demonstrated that the great majority of
Australians are quite open to what we have to say," he said.
The Art of Manliness
Are you looking for some understanding of manliness in this moisturizer for men and peter pan peopled world? Look no further than:
To Every Man a Manswer - http://gotmanswers.blogspot.com/
Run by a few christian men
and
The art of Manliness - http://artofmanliness.com/
"It isn't manly to sit on the couch and play video games all day, because men were created to find and love wives, start and provide for families, and cultivate the next generation of the faithful."
To be manly, at least as the Bible would describe it, is to accept your responsibilities as a man and live a life of God-honoring virtue. Selflessness, respectfulness, courage, charity, faithfulness, humility, repentance...traits like these are the stuff of which biblical men are made.
To Every Man a Manswer - http://gotmanswers.blogspot.com/
Run by a few christian men
and
The art of Manliness - http://artofmanliness.com/
"It isn't manly to sit on the couch and play video games all day, because men were created to find and love wives, start and provide for families, and cultivate the next generation of the faithful."
To be manly, at least as the Bible would describe it, is to accept your responsibilities as a man and live a life of God-honoring virtue. Selflessness, respectfulness, courage, charity, faithfulness, humility, repentance...traits like these are the stuff of which biblical men are made.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Fireproof, movie to watch out for
As recommended by Catholic Exchange
Directed by someone with the same surname as me...
Alex Kendrick, also written by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Directed by someone with the same surname as me...
Alex Kendrick, also written by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Monday, 28 July 2008
Max Thurian, a manufacturer of the Novus Ordo
One of the manufacturers of the Novus Ordo, Max Thurian, lamented in his dying days the loss of something of great value: "Be sure to pass on this message to your parish priest and to your bishop: 'The great problem of contemporary liturgical life (apathy towards worship, boredom, lack of vitality and participation) stems from the fact that the celebration has sometimes lost its character as mystery, which fosters the spirit of adoration.'
Max Thurian was a Protestant observer at Vatican II and expressed general satisfaction with its outcome. Thurian thought that with its adoption, the new mass would allow Catholics and Protestants to share at the same Eucharistic table. This, of course, did not happen. Thurian then became a Catholic priest.
Max Thurian was a Protestant observer at Vatican II and expressed general satisfaction with its outcome. Thurian thought that with its adoption, the new mass would allow Catholics and Protestants to share at the same Eucharistic table. This, of course, did not happen. Thurian then became a Catholic priest.
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
July 23 2008 > Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says that Sydney's crime rate during the World Youth Day week was the lowest it has been in a long time.
Zenit reports Mr Scipione attributed the drop to the presence of the pilgrims and a general "sense of spirituality" in the air. He told Sky News that extra police forces on hand seemed almost unnecessary, since the pilgrims were well-mannered and well-behaved.
Zenit also quotes Sydney Cardinal Pell as saying that the standing of the Catholic Church has been raised as a result of the success of World Youth Day.Cardinal Pell told reporters the public will be more ready to realise
"that we Catholics have something to say on (life) subjects and will potentially give us a respectful hearing."
"This World Youth Day has demonstrated that the great majority of Australians are quite open to what we have to say," he said.
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says that Sydney's crime rate during the World Youth Day week was the lowest it has been in a long time.
Zenit reports Mr Scipione attributed the drop to the presence of the pilgrims and a general "sense of spirituality" in the air. He told Sky News that extra police forces on hand seemed almost unnecessary, since the pilgrims were well-mannered and well-behaved.
Zenit also quotes Sydney Cardinal Pell as saying that the standing of the Catholic Church has been raised as a result of the success of World Youth Day.Cardinal Pell told reporters the public will be more ready to realise
"that we Catholics have something to say on (life) subjects and will potentially give us a respectful hearing."
"This World Youth Day has demonstrated that the great majority of Australians are quite open to what we have to say," he said.
If Mr Scipione had done his research, he would have known that the local crime rates have fallen during every world youth day despite an influx of hundreds of thousands of the age-group most commonly involved in crime; and he would not have sent such huge superfluous numbers of police to the events. Some joined in the spirit but many just stood around looking glum, in spite of being constantly told for the first time in their careers, "Thank you, you're doing a great job."
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