@AnnieMack007@McBrideLawNYC You can’t blame Holy Mother Church. Unless you Don’t believe in the Eucharist, you should not walk away from the Mass… to many people use this excuse. Find a church and strong traditional priest.
@ewdrew1977@EricRSammons It’s about meditation. Our family frequently goes to the Shrine in LaCrosse, WI. There is nothing that comes close to the high mass, period.
I have two simple questions: Question 1: If the vaccine works, who is in danger? By corollary to question 1: Question 2: If the vaccine doesn't work, why do I have to take it? #onpoli
Une Fois Encore.
(1) The term “Ekklesia Kata Holos” first appears in Acts of the Apostles which was completed in approximately A.D. 63.
Acts 9:31 the church throughout all [Greek: ἐκκλησία,καθ’,ὅλης ,τῆς ] Judea and Galilee and Sama'ria..." = Kataholos Church.
ἐκκλησία = ekklésia = Church
καθ’ : kata = according to
ὅλης : holos = whole, complete
τῆς : ho, hé, to = the
Of course this Book documents the Church’s Council of Jerusalem between A.D. 48 and 50 so it’s likely the term was in use well before A.D. 63.
(2) Ignatius of Antioch explains, in his Letter to the Smyrnaeans (110 A.D. 110) that:
“See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution 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 [of the people] 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.”
(3) Additional Patristic Support For The Catholicity Of The Early Church
(A) Saint Polycarp of Smyrna
For, having through patience overcome the unjust governor, and thus acquired the crown of immortality, he now, with the apostles and all the righteous [in heaven], rejoicingly glorifies God, even the Father, and blesses our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of our souls, the Governor of our bodies, and the Shepherd of the Catholic Church throughout the world. (Martyrdom of Polycarp A.D. 156)
(B) Saint Justin Martyr
For the men of former generations, who instituted private and public rites in honor of such as were more powerful, caused forgetfulness of the Catholic Faith to take possession of their posterity… (On the Sole Government of God).
(C) Saint Iranaeus of Lyon
But [the superior skill spoken of] is not found in this, that any one should, beyond the Creator and Framer [of the world], conceive of the Enthymesis of an erring Æon, their mother and his, and should thus proceed to such a pitch of blasphemy; nor does it consist in this, that he should again falsely imagine, as being above this [fancied being], a Pleroma at one time supposed to contain thirty, and at another time an innumerable tribe of Æons, as these teachers who are destitute of truly divine wisdom maintain; while the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world, as we have already said. (Against Heresies A.D. 180).
(D) Saint Clement of Alexandria
Therefore in substance and idea, in origin, in pre-eminence, we say that the ancient and Catholic Church is alone, collecting as it does into the unity of the one faith—which results from the peculiar Testaments, or rather the one Testament in different times by the will of the one God, through one Lord—those already ordained, whom God predestinated, knowing before the foundation of the world that they would be righteous. (The Stromata).
(E) Caius the Presbyter
And John too, indeed, in the Apocalypse, although he writes only to seven churches, yet addresses all. He wrote, besides these, one to Philemon, and one to Titus, and two to Timothy, in simple personal affection and love indeed; but yet these are hallowed in the esteem of the Catholic Church, and in the regulation of ecclesiastical discipline. There are also in circulation one to the Laodiceans, and another to the Alexandrians, forged under the name of Paul, and addressed against the heresy of Marcion; and there are also several others which cannot be received into the Catholic Church, for it is not suitable for gall to be mingled with honey. (Fragments).