Starting a Catholic thread here as the other Christian forum is too generic and more towards Protestantism.

Welcome Catholics and whoever is interested in Catholic Christianity.

Since it is the penitential season of Lent, here's a video on the chant to Our Lady for compline during this season (simple tone):



Hope everyone have a holy and blessed Lent!

.... I think Jedi would love it

Happy Lent. Remember to abstain from meat on friday

Kyrie, eleison

Perhaps some introduction and which parish you belong to and which one you frequent. Belonging actually refers to the territorial parish (TP) which you are residing in, which might not be the same one you frequent for Mass (FL - frequent location).

I'll start with myself.

yeeck - TP: Our Lady of Guadalupe Puchong. FL: Sacred Heart, KL.
pkh - TP/FL : Saint Thomas More, SJ. Most likely can see me during weddings. Have assited over a hundred of them.
rayng18 - TP: Our Lady of Guadalupe Puchong. FL: Assumption, PJ.
khool - TP/FL : St. Ignatius Church, PJ. Occassionally Kristus Aman Chapel TTDI, Our Lady of Guadalupe Puchong.
acam2812 - TP : St. Joseph Sentul. FL: St Joseph Sentul, St. John Cathedral, St. Anthony, St. Ignatius, Holy Rosary, Divine Mercy Shah Alam.
solder_joint - TP : St Henry Batu Pahat. FL: St Henry Batu Pahat, Stella Maris Tg Aru, St Joseph Victoria St Singapore.
Jared Leto - FL: Church of the Assumption, PJ. Serving as a musician for every Sunday mass. (yet to be baptized)
sp6068 - TP/FL: Divine Mercy Shah Alam.
isildur88 - TP: Holy Trinity, Tawau. FL: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Puchong.
Marcus- TP/FL : St. Francis Xavier, PJ. For Silent Adoration, I often go to St. Thomas More, Subang Jaya.
mindslicer81- TP: Immaculate Conception, Pulau Tikus. FL: Immaculate Conception, Assumption, Holy Spirit (Penang)
roscha - TP/FL: Sacred Heart Cathedral, Kota Kinabalu

This post has been edited by yeeck: Jul 11 2016, 11:58 PM

Yeeck, good suggestion. Lemme add to the list.

pkh - TP/FL : Saint Thomas More. Most likely can see me during weddings. Have assited over a hundred of them.

Jedi? What Star Wars?

Why do Catholic abstain from eating meat on Friday?

Lol. I meant the nick Jedi. He used to frequent our thread. He was catholic.

Oh...

You mean he's not Catholic anymore?

Is Catholic the predominant denomination in Malaysia?

Sorry, I'm a noob.

Catholics is the first Christianity religion after Christ ascended to heaven, With Apostle Simon Peter as the first pope

while Protestantism is branched out from Catholics with totally different view from Catholics

Ohhh...But Catholics have extra chapters in their Bible.

Plus why do they pray to the dead and the Saints? I thought Canonized Saints are mostly man made appointment?

i am not sure you have to ask yeeck about it

And why do they pray to Mary?

yeeck mind to answer these questions please?

The so-called extra books (not chapters) are called the Deuterocanonical books that are used not only in the Catholic Church but also in the Eastern Churches. Too bad most Protestants reject it, because some of it contains or talks about things not believed by Protestants, such as praying for the repose of the dead and Purgatory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

We pray to the saints and Mary, because we believe they are spiritually alive and enjoying the beatific vision of God in Heaven, and can intercede for us to God, just like any other humans who prays for us, but even better because the saints are special friends of God Himself. Just to be certain, we do not worship Mary or the saints in the same manner as we worship God, for even worship have varying degrees expressed in the following Greek terms:

Latria - the supreme worship due only to God.
Dulia - veneration due to the other saints
Hyperdulia - veneration due to the Blessed Virgin Mary (thus the addition of hyper because Mary is the most perfect model of all the saints)

Hope this helps.

Can't resist in posting this beautiful image of Confession since it is the penitential season of Lent. Remember to make a good and sincere confession, yo!

Abstinence (besides fasting) is a form of penance in honor of the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross on the first Good Friday.

one question ? why do we have idols in catholic church ? just want to hear your view on this.

We have statues, and images of holy things, but that doesn't make it an idol. They help to remind us about the eternal things. Also to many it helps to focus our prayers. Catholics are not supposed to worship the statues as if the statues have any power in itself. Unlike idols which people of some religions say if broken, it means their god is broken (sic), if a Catholic accidentally breaks a holy statue or image, no big deal, just get another replacement. We don't believe things like bad luck if that happens, because that would be a sin of superstition, against the First Commandment.

Many articles have been written to refute this. One of it here: Do Catholics Worship Statues?

To many, out of sight is out of mind. Anyway, let the pictures do the talking to show my point:





This post has been edited by yeeck: Mar 5 2015, 12:41 AM

Thanks