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Because Our Blessed Lord, while fully human, was also, and is also, fully God. From God's point of view, time has no real meaning, except insofar as our individual lives here on earth are lived in time. God does not live in time, He lives outside of time (He is eternal), so anything He does is done from His point of view, not ours. There was a time, from our point of view, when the Son of God was not fully human, and at became fully human at the incarnation. But from God's point of view, there is no time, so He IS fully human, outside of time. In the same fashion (again, beyond our limited understanding) when He offered Himself on the cross, and died, He took His blood into heaven and offered it to the Father for our salvation. From God's point of view, this is still happening, remember, He is eternal, outside of time. The Mass is the re-presentation of Christ's offering of His death on the cross for our salvation, presented to us FROM GOD'S POINT OF VIEW. Thus Christ is still on that cross (He is also risen, remember He is God and He does not do these things in time, in sequence). As it was His DEATH that obtained our redemption and for which we are eternally grateful, and it is His death which we must reproduce in our lives if we are to be saved, we have a crucifix to remind ourselves of what He has done for us.
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How long did the Roman Catholic Church last?
isn't that the Roman Catholic religion? i think they still practice it today
What replaces the cross on Holy Saturday?
Nothing, of course a cross is not normally used in the Catholic Church, it is a Crucifix, and it is still there on Holy Saturday.
What did the Catholic consider heresy?
The Catholic Church still considers heresy to be an adherence to a religious opinion contrary to Church dogma. It is denial of revealed truth by a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church. An example of heresy would be to proclaim that Christ is not God.
Why is methodist cross different from catholic cross?
Normally, a catholic cross will actually have Jesus' broken body on the cross. Christian crosses are normally just crosses. They both, however stand for the same thing. ___ Catholics are Christians by the way. You might mean what is the difference between a Protestant cross and a Catholic cross.
Why do catholics believe that only individuals baptized and confirmed in the catholic church are saved and all others damned?
Because Jesus Christ established the Catholic Church as necessary for salvation. If someone rejects the Catholic Church, they are rejecting the salvation that comes from Jesus Christ. However, if someone is invincibly ignorant of Christ and His Church as necessary for salvation, then they are not really rejecting the Catholic Church. Therefore, they could be (in one sense) "in" the Catholic Church without even knowing it. If people in this situation cooperate with whatever grace they have, it is possible that they could go to heaven without being formally in the Catholic Church. However, those who are saved in this manner are still saved by Jesus Christ through His Catholic Church, because they are "in" the Catholic Church by desire, having never rejected it and having tried to follow God to the best of their ability.
What are templars?
Templars were knights of the Catholic Church. Thier symbol is a red cross upon a shield. If they still exist, it is in secret.
Did people still believe in the Catholic Church in 1500?
Roman Catholic AnswerOf course people believed in the Church in 1500. The Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, and the means that He established for them to reach heaven, and He guaranteed that the Church would perdure. Martin Luther had not started preaching his heresy until 1517 leading people astray, and even then, most of the common people still believed in Christ's Church. It was the rulers looking for temporal power who used Luther as an excuse to free themselves from what they saw as the Vatican's oppression.
What did the western roman-catholic church believe was the head of the church?
Because the West is where the successor to St. Peter is, and Catholics believe that the Successor of Peter is the Vicar of Christ and supreme head of the whole church..Catholic AnswerBelieve it or not, there is no "western Roman-Catholic Church", It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. Nor is there a "western" Church, the Catholic Church is universal, and most of the Eastern Orthodox Churches are only composed of half of that rite, the rest are still Catholic. .Regardless, the head of the Church has always been Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ. He founded the Church before His Crucifixion as His Mystical Body on earth and appointed St. Peter and his successors as His Vicars on earth. So the visible head of the Church is the successor of St. Peter, the Pope in Rome.
What monarch wanted to keep everyone in Europe Catholic?
The monarch who wanted everyone to be Catholic (and still does) is the founder of the Catholic Church, Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, see St. Matthew 16:17-19 where He established HIS Church and puts St. Peter at its head as the first Pope.
Is St. Philomena still recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church?
Yes, St. Philomena is still recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
Why is the main religion in italy catholic?
Romans started the Roman Catholic church waaay back in the time of Jesus Christ. Many people still believe in it not only in Italy, but all over the world!
How did Christianity become orthodox or Catholic?
The Church of Christ was founded by the Holy Apostles on the First Pentecost. That Church was Orthodox (Right believing, Right worshipping) and Catholic (Universal). The Church of Christ-wherever people were converted to it, was Orthodox, until 1054, when the West (Western Europe) split from the Orthodox Church due to different issues, but mainly revolving around the novel claim of the Popes that they had more power than did all the other Bishops of the Church. As time went on, the church in the West became known as "the Roman Catholic Church," the True Church of Christ in the East as the "Orthodox Church," usually modified by the region of the Church being spoken of - "Greek Orthodox Church," "Russian Orthodox Church," etc. In light of the belief of the Orthodox Church that it is the True Church of Christ, and therefore, True Christianity, "Christianity" did not "become Orthodox or Catholic," but always was, and still is Orthodox; Roman Catholics are an organization that adopted incorrect beliefs about the Church and about Christ from the 9th century on; once being identical, by the 20th century, the gulf had widened greatly, with Roman Catholic belief becoming very far away, indeed, from the beliefs of Orthodox Christianitythe True Church of Christ, the only Genuine Christianity.
