What is your favorite Catholic Sacrament?
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The Eucharist, Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.  How could I choose another, when this one grants me the grace of having the Body and Blood of Christ fill me?  \n\n:-)
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The catholic church belives that in order to reach salvation you must not only have faith in god but also recive the sacraments. Its a requirement! so its really not a choice for them.  I on the other hand find it to be ridiculus and a major distraction from what jesus was all about.  They orginated much much later after the death of christ... you would of thought he would have mentioned them if they were that important.
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First of all, any sin can be forgiven, with the exception of final despair ( that would be, say, you are killing yourself and right up until your very last thought, you believe God doesn't love you and you have no regrets about what you are doing)\n\nWe Catholics have the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession)to bring our relationship with God back in line with where it should be when we have sinned. Don't let anyone fool you- it isn't easy. It is NOT ," Oh, Catholics think they can do ANYTHING, then go to Confession." WRONG. If you do it right, the point is it is really HARD to confess the things you do that disappoint God (we are not talking to the priest in Confession, we are talking to God- the priest speaks on His behalf). When you walk out of the Confessional, knowing your soul is as pure as on the day of your Baptism- THAT is the most AWESOME feeling!\n\nSo, again, almost any sin can be forgiven. You must be sorry for doing it and truly want to avoid that sin forever, take it to God in Confession...and He forgets it forever!\n\nMost people's moral faults are not known to the world, so rarely would that keep them from being able to be married in the Church. \n\nHaving said that, Matrimony is a Sarament for Catholics- that is why Catholic weddings are so ceremonius and include Mass whenever possible. If a couple enters into marriage while in a state of sin ( not having been to Confession as soon as possible prior to the wedding) they are not allowing themselves to be as open to the grace of the Sacrament as possible.\n\nDivorce is not a sin, but Jesus said marriage is permanent- so REMARRYING after divorce IS a sin. It is adultery. An annulment is a declaration after investigation that a marriage was not Sacramental in nature, therefore did not really 'take.' \n\nThe amount requested by the Diocese for an annulment is a FRACTION of the true cost, and no one is required to pay if they cannot afford it. It is emotionally difficult, but there is a reason. You are supposed to learn something from the process to help you keep your next marriage together. Were you too immature to choose a life mate? Did you fail to think of your spouse moe than yourself? What did you do right and what did you do wrong.  The reason family and friends are questiopned is because they watched your marriage fall apart- only they didn't say anything to you so you could try to keep it together. They offer third party insight and confirmation of what happened, just like in any court case.\n\nIf you want to learn more about the Catholic Church, I recommend 2 books:\n\nThe Catechism of the Catholic Church and Catholicism for Dummies.
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first choose what kind of religion you would like to be in then you have to go to that church and ask to be [baptised] which means to wellcome you to the church after you do that you can recieve something called communion then you just go and learn in mass every sunday                             i go to mass every sunday        goodluck
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my favorites are:\n\nO Come All Ye Faithful \nThe First Noel\nSilent Night
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Confession is one of the seven Sacraments.  It is a Sacrament of Mercy and of Love.  It is not magic, or mechanical.  What matters most is the true sorrow for having committed one's sins.  If one is truly repentant for one's sins, then that is the essence of Confession.  If one is not, but just goes to the priest to be "magically" absolved, then he will get nothing out of it.  Remember, God sees what is inside the human heart.  We can only truly be repentant of our sins if we have the firm desire not to commit them again.  Of course, this does not mean that we won't -- we may fall again into sin -- but at least there should be a firm desire, at the time of confession, to refrain from all future sin.\n\nIt is a Sacrament of Mercy.  God forgives us, even when man cannot sometimes forgive.  God's merciful Love is infinite.  But He wants us to co-operate with Him.  Our co-operation is our firm resolution to turn away from sin, and our sincere sorrow for having sinned.\n\nWe go to a priest not because a man can forgive sins.  Only God can do this.  But Christ (who is fully God) entrusted this Authority to forgive sins to His ministers through His Church.  The priest is absolving you IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST.  He becomes Christ for you in the confessional.  His personal holiness is not the issue here.  What matters is that he is absolving you in Christ's person.  He has that Authority.  It was given to him by his bishop, who in turn received it through apostolic succession (handed down from Christ to His apostles to their successors, the bishops).\n\nSo next time you go to Confession, remember that love is at the core of the sacrament:  the infinite love of Christ for you.  He is transmitting that love to you through His Church in the Sacrament of Confession.  That is why it is also called the Sacrament of Reconciliation:  it reconciles the sinner to Christ.
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Check out my sources and read up on all you want.  The only challenges are the ones Christ sends you.  Anyone who is baptised in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost has a chance, \nanyone who has undefeatable ignorance (such as someone who lives somewhere Christianity hasn't reached yet) has a chance,\nanyone who dies a martyr for Christ's one true Church has a chance.\n\nThe most important ritual?  When the priest consecrates a piece of bread so that Christ's body is truly present in it at Mass, and the wine turns into Christ's blood.  The priest is offering the same sacrifice Christ offered on Golgotha when He was up on the cross (the cross being His altar), when I say the same, I mean it's the SAME one, because the sacrafice exists outside the limits of time and space.\n\nHoly Communion.
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Like you the Gospel of Thomas would probably be at the top of the list.  I would add the Gospel of Mary and parts of the book of Epiphanius (specifically book 33 of The Medicine Chest).  I also skimmed the Malleus Maleficarum if that counts.\n\nInteresting Question, I hope you get some more answers.\n\nRegards,\nArmus
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If what you WANT is "communion with God", you can use anything you want or nothing at all.\nIf you want to receive Christian "Holy Communion" then you use bread and wine.\nIf you want to receive Holy Communion in the ancient Catholic traditions, you get a priest and use unleavened bread and watered wine made naturally from grapes.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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O' Holy Night seems to be a favorite.  My best friend's husband plays it every christmas eve at their church.
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Seriously, I had a friend who was in seminary school, and one day he was visiting with me and our buddies when we ordered out for some Pizza and beer.  It started as a joke, but being all Catholics at the time, we simulated Communion using the Pizza as the host and the beer as the blood.  Just as we started out, a weird feeling came over us all, and the joke stopped and we performed the communion together taking it very seriously.  \n\nI will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
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I'm Roman Catholic and when i got married in June i opted not to have the Holy Communion during the wedding, firstly because there we so many non catholics there and secondly because my fiancee was not catholic and the priest said that it would create the wrong feeling during a wedding to split up the bride and groom.\n\nAlso we had quite alot of children present so didn't want it to go on for too long.\n\nI think it would be lovely to have Holy Communion during the wedding especially if the Bride and Groom and most of the guests are catholic, even though it does lengthen the service a little, most people wouldn't mind.\n\nIt was important for me to have Holy Communion before the wedding so me and my mam went to the service at the church the day before the wedding.\n\nI think it's just personal choice though, talk to your priest though and find out what's best for you, theres no right and wrong.\n\nGood Luck, x
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White cats\nWhite horses\nfalling stars\nwhen yhou visit a church for the 1st time
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Actually the wine does not have to be red. I have seen white wine used for Eucharist as well.\n\nAt the Last Supper, Jesus said, “Take this bread. It is my body.” Then he said, “Take this and drink. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me.” \n\nCatholics believe this was the First Eucharist, that through some miracle the bread and wine actually became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.\n\nCatholics reenact the Last Supper during every Mass, where the priest, acting in place of Christ, changes the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.\n\nThis is a great sacrament of thanksgiving and unity of Catholics.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Definitely catholicism as it tends to have more "rituals".  There is a certain tangability to catholicism with all of the rituals.  It communicates better on a visual medium such as movies.  That is why we see a lot of it.  Ironically, it is that tangability that makes it popular in the world.  \n\nThe movie obviously offered this hope that no matter what sin we commit, there is the possibility of atonement.  You notice that despite his motives to make up for the ultimate sin, he wasn't exactly living his life like Jesus.  There is some human truth to that; we're not perfect.
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The most convincing Catholic miracle is the same miracle that Jesus performed at the Last Supper ... the transformation of ordinary bread and wine into the real and substantial body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ, on the altar, at every Mass.\n\nCan't top that!