Historically Catholics practiced praying to the departed - saints, Mary, etc... for their intercession. This practice dates to the earliest days of Christianity and is shared by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and other Eastern Christians and even some Anglicans.
Scripture indicates, those in...
We can use indulgences for the remission of our temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven....we can use these indulgences for ourselves as well as those in purgatory.
What are peoples thoughts on this.
Taking the Christ out of Christmas and replacing it with an X does not change the meaning of the holiday. The X in Xmas, represents the Greek letter 'x' (chi). It is pronounced with with an aspirated [kh], which is the first letter of Christ's name in Greek. However, because an uppercase x...
Just believing in Jesus is not enough for even the devil believes in Jesus. What we as Christians need to do is try to act as Jesus as best we can. We each have a gift and we need to use that gift to promote the message of Christ the best we can.