Jesus Spoke One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church into Being. It is “His Kingdom” on earth.
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Question 1: “What makes Catholic priests and religious so special to God?”
Answer: “The Prophet Isaiah introduced the world to God, Jesus, and those who would become Catholic priests and religious in Today’s Reading from Isaiah 61:1-3. Jesus repeated Isaiah’s introduction about His Coming to those in the Synagogue at Nazareth. Luke 4:16-21:
‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because he has anointed Me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to The Lord.'”
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Question 2: “Did the Disciples, The First Catholic Bishops, recognize that?”
Answer: “St. John was the ‘most beloved’ of The First Catholic Bishops. He recognized The Truth told by Isaiah and Jesus in Rev. 1:54-8: ‘Grace to you and peace from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him Who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His Blood, Who has made us into a Kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to Him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.’
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Question 3: “Is St. John telling us that The Catholic Church is an actual ‘Kingdom’ whose people are guided by ‘priests for His God and Father’?”
Answer: “St. John is clear: The Catholic Church is ‘God’s Kingdom’ on earth. His ‘Kingdom’ is ruled by those blessed to be Ordained as Living Links in the chain that connects subjects of ‘His Kingdom on Earth’ with our ‘God and Father’ in Heaven.”
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Question 4: “Does Jesus tell us that clergy in other denominations can be in His ‘Kingdom’?”
Answer: “Jesus answers in Mark 9:38-39. ‘Teacher,’ said John, ‘we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.’ Do not stop him,’ Jesus said. ‘For no one who does a miracle in My name can in the next moment say anything bad about Me.’“
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Question 5: “Can non-Catholic clergy who do say ‘bad things’ about Jesus by insulting The Church Jesus Spoke Into Being do ‘miracles’?”
Answer: “No one provides the greatest possible ‘miracles’ if they willfully choose to reject The Divine Perfection of Every Word of Jesus, including His Church-Creating Decree: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 6: “Are those who insult Jesus and His Church among those described by Jesus in Matthew 12:30: ‘Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters.’”
Answer: “Clergy in the denominations that are ‘scattered’ into 50,000 divisions risk being among those described by Jesus in Mt. 18:6. ‘If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in Me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.’”
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