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Monday, September 25, 2017

I NEVER STOP BEING AMAZED AT THE MIRACLES OF GOD! PRAYTELL LIKES INCENSE AND PROVIDES AN OUTSTANDING CATECHESIS ABOUT IT VIA YOUTUBE!

In Pray Tell’s first installment of Do It Rite, Johan Van Parys talks about the use of incense in the Catholic Church.


6 comments:

ByzRus said...

Incense is such an integral part of eastern worship, where all senses are engaged, all things within the Temple necessary for Liturgy are honored, one cannot imagine its absence. While incense is reflective of our prayers rising up (Psalm 141), it is also reflective of the sweetness of God's love which surrounds us.

"May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice."

The attached also serves as a good reminder on why Christians use of incense as well as its many meanings.
http://bethebee.goarch.org/home/-/asset_publisher/gAnk4cdUihei/content/rise-like-incense?inheritRedirect=false

Anonymous said...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There is a mistake in Vatican Council II : two popes need to be shown that in principle hypothetical cases are not exceptions to EENS
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/09/there-is-mistake-in-vatican-council-ii.html

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Two popes need to correct the objective error in salvation theology which cannot be the teaching of the Holy Spirit and so is not magisterial
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/09/the-two-living-popes-need-to-correct.html

Mark Thomas said...

“The individuals behind the Filial Correction have “normalized” the position that Benedict XVI is still Pope, Francis is False Pope. Furthermore, and what is much, much worse is that the individuals behind the Filial Correction have “platformed” this position that Benedict XVI is still Pope, Francis is False Pope.”

I have reflected several times today upon the above declaration. I don't mean the following in nasty fashion...I don't mean the following in an uncharitable fashion...

...it is simply that the above declaration may be the most non-Catholic manner of thinking that I've encountered here.

It is mind-boggling to believe that 62 signatories to a supposed "correction" that doesn't have the slightest canonical standing within the Church have the power to "normalize" this or that opinion.

It is mind-boggling to believe that the 62 signatories in question are above the Catholic Church in that they, rather than the True Church's Cardinals who voted in the 2013 A.D. Conclave, have the authority to determine Papal elections.

But what is most mind-boggling of all is that the 62 signatories in question acknowledged that Pope Francis is Pope...and that they are his subjects.

Therefore, why did you insist that the "filial correction," which rejected schism, "normalize" the false claim that Pope Benedict XVI is Pope?

Again, the "correction" recognized that Pope Francis is Pope.
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By the way...suppose that 63 Catholics who reject the "filial correction" release a document that condemns/"corrects" the 62 "filial correction" folks.

Are the 62 "filial correction" folks compelled to accept the "correction" from the 63 Catholics in question?

Should 64 Catholics determine that even Pope Benedict XVI was a false Pope...would that "normalize" the belief that Pope Benedict XVI was a false Pope?

Should 65 Catholics issue a "correction" to all of the above Catholics...are the above Catholics compelled to accept the "correction" in question?

Should 66 Catholics "correct" all of the above Catholics...

:-)

The "filial correction" is quite the slippery slope.

That is why I will stick to the Vicar of Christ and his awesome authority, which comes from God.

"In the Apostolic See the Catholic religion has always been preserved immaculate."

God commands me to submit to and obey the Church of Rome.

Pax.

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas said...

Father McDonald. Sorry about my post at 7:40 P.M. I had meant to post that to a different thread.

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From the final few seconds of the video and use of incense:

"Should the Church stop smoking? I don't think so. This is the Catholic way."

Good.

Latin/Gregorian chant is the Catholic way. Prohibiting women access to the altar is the Catholic way. The covering of a woman's head during is the Catholic way.

The construction of beautiful churches is the Catholic way.

The midnight Eucharistic fast is the Catholic way.

Well, in regard to each of the above...was...was, for century upon century, the Catholic way.

But from the time that Pope Venerable Pius XII opened the door to radical liturgical reform to date, the "Catholic way" has been abandoned time and again.

Therefore, does the "Catholic way" argument carry much weight these days?

Pax.

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas said...

"Prohibiting women access to the altar is the Catholic way."

I meant access during Mass to the Sanctuary.

Pax.

Mark Thomas

Henry said...

One might suggest that a PrayTell video supporting incense is not so surprising, since those types are always blowing smoke.

But, more seriously, the OF liturgist Fr. Douglas Martis gives a more specifically Catholic explanation of incense in Catholic worship in his current Adoremus Bulletin article on the dedication of a church:

Then incense is burned on the altar. Perhaps in a brazier, but the rite also allows for the burning of incense directly on the surface of the altar, as if to suggest the inseparable connection between the offering of incense and the immolation of Sacred Victim. Incense carries a variety of meanings: this complete offering of the victim, our prayers rising to heaven, and also the veil that shrouds the ineffable mystery. The Rite itself teaches that “Incense is burned on the altar to signify that the Sacrifice of Christ, which is there perpetuated in mystery, ascends to God as an odor of sweetness; this is also a sign that the pleasing and acceptable prayers of the faithful rise up to the throne of God.”