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If you believe - as many do - that God's purposes are set and settled according to both his public decree and his secret decree why do the faithful pray since it appears that prayer cannot and does not change anything?
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I will begin this day. I thank you, Lord, for having preserved me during the night. I will do my best to make all I do today pleasing to You and in accordance with Your will. My dear mother Mary, watch over me this day. My Guardian Angel, take care of me. St...
In the Roman Rite we say the sanctus at every mass (I think). It goes like this:
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
But I think an Anglican wrote a song that...
Matthew 10:5-42 [5] Jesus sent these twelve, instructing them, saying: "Do not travel by the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans, [6] but instead go to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel. [7] And going forth, preach, saying: "For the...
God's first recorded question is Where are you?.
So where are you?
God wasn't asking because he didn't know where Adam was. God knows everything that can be known. Adam's location certainly fits within the category of things that can be known. So what was God's question really about?
Many people voice the desire to live as long as possible and yet think that living forever with no way to die would be horrible, a cursed existence that goes on and on without relenting. What do you really want? To live as long as possible or to live forever?
Hosea 4:6 My people perish for want of knowledge. Since you yourself have rejected knowledge, so I shall reject you from my priesthood; since you have forgotten the teaching of your God, I in my turn shall forget your children.
Is this what is happening in your country and your denomination...