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TABLE COMPARING CATHOLIC AND MUSLIM FAITH
You shared a table comparing Catholic and Muslim faiths. I wanted to share this table with my spouse and have done several web searches. But, am unable to find the table you used. Can you please share...Read more
CAN I PRAY THE ROARY WHEN I AM IN MORTAL SIN?
I remember the passage in the Bible, that if we are in mortal sin, God with not hear our prayer, so does this mean I should not pray the rosary while in mortal sin until I can get to...Read more
WHAT DOES INSTITUTIONAL ELEMENT MEAN?
Can you please explain what you mean by “institutional element”? Could that be from another church?
ANSWER! / COMMENT!An institutional possession would be for example when a person get possessed by being a...Read more
Daily Reflections with
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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NOTHING BETWEEN YOU AND GOD
Maybe you have often said, “I do not want an institution standing between God and me.” Well, that’s right. After all, you have a right to communicate with God. But the Church is not that kind of an institution, standing between you and God. Israel was not between the world and God. Think of the Church somewhat in the fashion of a body. Do you ever say, for example, I do not want your lips and eyes and hands and so forth standing between me and you? After all, how can I communicate anything to you, except by something visible and tangible and carnal? Anything visible that you see about me or will ever see about me is nothing but the sign of an invisible soul. The carnal is the token of the spiritual. So when our Blessed Lord came to this earth and took upon Himself a human body, you would not say, “I do not want this body of Christ standing between me and my love of Christ.” That is the only way of the Incarnation, to communicate the divine through the human. This human nature of our Blessed Lord, this body of His was the instrument of His divinity. When, therefore, our Lord came as priest, as prophet, and as king, everything He did was done through the power and the means of this human nature.