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Why worship saints / Mary / Angels?
When John falls down in his knees to worship the angel, the angel tells him immediately to stop because he is just a worshiper like him, so all the glory is for the Lord.
It is I, John, who heard ...
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What is the nature of the “Communion of the Saints”?
In the Episcopalian Prayers of the People, Rite I, we pray as follows:
In the communion of [__ and of all the] saints, let
us commend ourselves, and one another, and all our life, to
Christ ...
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Sponge in water vs water in sponge how to understand St. Teresa properly?
I've been reading on St. Teresa recently now she says:
as water penetrates and is drunk in by the sponge, so, it seemed to me, did the Divinity fill my soul
Does that mean that God is present ...
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Do those who pray to saints ascribe to them the quality of being able to hear many people at once?
I mean, there could be thousands of Orthodox Christians at this moment praying to, say, Saint Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg, and there could probably be even more of Catholic Christians praying ...
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Who is the oldest Blessed?
Just a question that ought to have a concrete answer and be a good example for how the process of canonization works for my Religious Ed. class:
Who has been declared blessed for the longest period ...
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Should the words to prayers said in private be changed to fit the company?
Why do we pray "Our Father who art in Heaven" and "Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death".
Should we instead pray My Father and "Pray for me, a sinner now and at the hour of my ...
