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No, you just aren't understanding basic English grammar Explain. For instance, isn't the grammar of "You make all things holy" ambiguous in English between these two understandings: 1. You make all things that are holy & 2. You make all things be holy Could the Latin verb that was use...

What has been treated literally is the Latin. Prayer #3 is rendered today as, "you give life to all things and make them holy..." Before 2002 the exact same Latin was rendered this way: "... All life, all holiness comes from you ..." Whether the Latin itself is strange or not, I ...

Look, I am willing for Prayer #3 to be telling us profound things. For instance, that it is not just poetic license to say that all creation gives God praise (as if mountains were alive and conscious) since in the end in the new heavens and earth it will all be, and experienced to be, alive and holy...

My first question was basically: Are all things alive?
My second question was: Does God make everything holy, and if so what does holy mean anymore?

In the third Eucharistic Prayer something has always struck me as odd. Maybe someone here can interpret it in a way that will make more sense. (Is it even a translation problem?) Between the Sanctus (Holy, Holy, Holy Lord ...) and the Epiclesis (Therefore, O Lord ... by the same Spirit graciously ma...

Crossquad, your topic titles are often better than your links themselves.

Canon 989 says: "After having attained the age of discretion, each of the faithful is bound by an obligation faithfully to confess serious sins at least once a year." I believe I looked up the similar Canon in the 1917 Code and it did not distinguish the obligation as having to do with ser...

Article 1. Whether I am the Son of God? Objection 1. It would seem that you are not the Son of God. For you are not able to command these stones to become loaves of bread for your hunger. Or else you are unwilling to do so. Therefore you cannot be the Son of God. Objection 2. Further, as Son of God...

I would post this in Catholicism, but since I could be wrong, it is here. But I think I'm right. OK, you know that a one year old is in his second year of life, right? And that last century was not the 19th but the 20th, right? So when Canon Law says that on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday adults are ...

You want an example of the lengths the Church in Germany is willing to go for the money? German law requires that before a woman can get an abortion, she needs to undergo "counseling". Before John Paul II put a stop to it, it used to be possible to go to a priest for counseling, who would...

zeno wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 12:56 pm if you post and no one responds that is PREACHING not conversing and in no way will I give you space to do that.

I agree with your position on the post, but I'm not sure whether you want to press this particular objection. It seems like NormandT in The Pub does a lot of preaching with no replies.

Since Jesus used that "blessed" word nine times in a row, let's go with his more ancient tradition.

I say it's a 13 yr. old girl with the cat. So she better not be driving. And she's sitting in the passenger seat, so the image is reversed or in the UK.

His original name was Michael (King), a more angelic name than Martin Luther's. See Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lu ... .#Ministry

1Tim. II, 4 applies primarily to adults, because strictly speaking only adults can “come to the knowledge of the truth.” Without at all denying God's universal salvific will, I have always thought it odd that Paul put all being saved and all coming to know the truth, in that order. I think that in ...

Scripturally the strongest supports for the necessity of baptism for salvation might be Mark 16:16 (whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned) and John 3:3,5 (no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above ... no one can enter the kin...

Okay, let's go with your insane assumption that no one in the New Testament knew any language except Greek and every conversation in the New Testament was held entirely in Greek. What do you think "Blessed are you among women" meant? I think it may have meant, Out of all women, you are th...

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Mon Dec 08, 2025 10:56 pm An awfully thin thread on which to hang an argument.

And the argument that Elizabeth was calling Mary "most blessed" seems to be hanging on the expression's being an obvious Hebraism.

Well, to me it seems like a stretch -- that in writing a gospel for Greeks, the writer Luke, inspired by the Holy Spirit, to convey what the same Holy Spirit (through Elizabeth) meant, would retain phraseology from Hebrew that Greeks likely would not grasp. So your argument is that the Holy Spirir ...

Well, to me it seems like a stretch -- that in writing a gospel for Greeks, the writer Luke, inspired by the Holy Spirit, in order to convey what the same Holy Spirit (through Elizabeth) meant, would retain phraseology from Hebrew that Greeks likely would not grasp. Or is it these Bible scholars tha...