Today, I honour one of the very first saints who I turned to for help when I was struggling with my faith. When I decided to take the next step and renew my commitment to our Lord, St. Mary Magdalene was there for me, even when I kept on stumbling and falling down. She helped me to get up time and time again, and continues to do so up to this very day.
I always thought that once I surrendered my life to God, that I would have some kind of force field that would shield me from the evil one and that everything would be smooth sailing from thereon. However, over the past several months, I realised that this was not the case - far from it actually. As I continue to learn and walk in faith, I cannot express how much of a consolation it is to have a 'heavenly family' of angels and saints who care for each and every one of us in the world and who pray for us each day.
St. Mary Magdalene has inspired me, consoled me, prayed for me, lifted me up, smiled at me, and served as my model. Her life is a testimony that sin can indeed be overcome through the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the depth of her love for Jesus is something that we can all look up to, hoping and praying for the grace to one day have that same kind of love.
I have to admit that I never really believed in praying to saints before. I believed in the existence of angels and saints, but felt that with what little time we all have to pray, that it was just better to go straight to God. But hard as it is to understand, it is equally difficult to explain. My patron(ess) saints have helped me in so many ways, I do not know where my faith would be today without them - Perhaps I would have already been lost forever what with all the obstacles and spiritual harassments/warfare that were thrown at me when I first renewed.
St. Mary Magdalene has touched my heart so profoundly - I can't explain it, I just feel it. If not for anything else, she has instilled in me a desire to love Jesus in the same way that she did.
‘Thank you Lord for giving us your servant, St. Mary Magdalene.’
Catholicism is counterfeit Christianity and you are completely deceived, believing in "another jesus and another gospel" per 2 Cor 11:4, which will never save you. For example, Boniface VIII proclaimed (circa 1300) that it was, "altogether necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff".
ReplyDeleteFace it: THAT IS A LIE. You can jump up and down, stand on your head in Macy's window and scream to the moon until you're blue in the face trying to convince us, but it will never be true. Salvation is believing in the merits of Christ alone, period, end of story.
Indeed, Catholicism is a viperous theology that has bitten its members for far too long. Only the anti-venom of Scripture can cure her ills. But she refuses to take the antidote. We are flabbergasted that the laity refuse to wake up out of their spiritual coma and prefer to be lulled to sleep by all of the RCC's unbiblical doctrines! Let's take another example. The RCC has abrogated the original command to partake of BOTH bread and wine, and instead teach Jesus would be pleased we take either one!
WHAT?! NO WAY.
They even teach that the Savior never even OBLIGATED us to consume both elements. Listen to the madness of the Council of Trent: "This holy synod, taught by the Holy Spirit...declares that lay people...are not obliged by any divine command to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist under both kinds, and that it can in no way be doubted without injury to faith that Communion under either kind is sufficient to them for salvation. For although Christ the Lord at his last supper instituted this sacrament with the form of bread and wine...nevertheless that institution and tradition do not aim at this, that all believers in Christ are bound by the commandment of the Lord to receive both kinds. Neither is it rightly concluded [from the Last Supper or] from the discourse in John 6...that Communion under both kinds is commanded by the Lord” (“Concerning Communion Under Both Kinds”, ch 1).
To be sure, these are not the words of those under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but rather of MAD SCIENTISTS on the verge of an explosion in the laboratory. They have completely reversed and thrown under the bus our marching orders to partake of BOTH bread and wine, so it is inconceivable they have been divinely commissioned by Jesus Christ to break his own commandments! The Lord said the Scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:35), but the Council of Trent has indeed done just that! No reasons whatsoever, no matter how pious they may sound, can justify mutilating the Lord’s Supper down to the choice of either bread OR wine. Jesus did not give us that option! Consequently, since the magisterium is obviously of the devil, the belief that the Messiah was speaking LITERALLY in John 6 and the Last Supper (as it regards eating his flesh) cannot possibly be true. Instead, all the biblical evidence proves he was speaking metaphorically in those places, and oh....should you deny it, I dare you to invite me to debate the issue.