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Yes, Ma'am ! 

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QuoteSo answer door-to-door missionaries with a proud affirmative--if you have been baptized, you already have been saved the Bible way and in the way the first Christians understood "born again."

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Most Catholics are thrown off by this question and answer hesitantly at best. This leads Fundamentalists to assume that Catholics haven't been born again.

But they are wrong. All baptized Catholics have been born again, so you can answer "yes." Discussion no doubt will follow.

A good way to start is to admit the importance of being born again. Jesus commands it (Jn 3:3,7). To be born again implies a radical change in a person, an event as life-altering as the "first birth" out of your mother's womb. When you are born again, the Holy Spirit makes a change in your soul, cleanses you from sin, and gives you a new nature, planting supernatural love in your heart. Just as you were once born into an earthly family, when you are born again you become part of a spiritual family, with God as the head and all his people, on earth and in heaven, as your brothers and sisters.

Once in agreement on what "born again" means, proceed to the point of disagreement: how we are born again. Probably the Fundamentalist will posit some kind of spiritual experience, a moment of commitment to Jesus, an acceptance of him as "personal Lord and Savior." But Catholics use the biblical means of being born again: baptism.

Jesus told Nicodemus, "No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit" (Jn 3:5). Paul spoke of God's gift of "the bath of rebirth and renewal of the Holy Spirit" (Ti 3:5). Paul told the Romans that "we who were baptize into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death . . . so that . . . we too might live in the newness of life" (Rom 6:3-4). Water baptism is the physical sign of and instrument for bringing about the spiritual rebirth. In baptism we are regenerated into new life in Christ.

So answer door-to-door missionaries with a proud affirmative--if you have been baptized, you already have been saved the Bible way and in the way the first Christians understood "born again."


Reference:
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/what-is-a-good-way-to-respond-to-door-to-door-evangelists-who-ask-if-i39ve-been-born-

What is a good way to respond to door-to-door evangelists who ask if I've been "born again"?

Quote"Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: ‘Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,’ allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism" (CCC 1261).

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The Catholic Church entrusts all children (from the moment of conception) who die without baptism to God’s mercy in hope of their salvation. There is no distinction between children already born and those still in the womb.

"Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: ‘Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,’ allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism" (CCC 1261).


Reference:
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/does-god-condemn-aborted-babies-since-they-are-not-baptized

Does God condemn aborted babies since they are not baptized?

QuoteAs Catholics, we believe that the process of salvation begins at baptism, continues by the way we live, and is complete only when we are judged at the end of our lives. We believe that it is through baptism that we become members of Christ.

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The invitation to accept Jesus as one’s personal Savior has a specific meaning in certain Protestant circles. For them, accepting Jesus as one’s personal Savior is how one becomes a Christian. It is being born again. At this juncture they consider themselves "saved," and this holds despite any future sins they may commit.

As Catholics, we believe that the process of salvation begins at baptism, continues by the way we live, and is complete only when we are judged at the end of our lives. We believe that it is through baptism that we become members of Christ.

While we don’t have an altar call, as they refer to it, the Mass is full of invitations. For example, just before the preface, the priest invites the people to "Lift up your hearts," adding, "Let us give thanks to the Lord our God." At one point he takes the host in his hands and he says: "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Happy are those who are called to his supper." Talk about invitations!

Communion itself is an invitation to receive the whole Christ, not just into our hearts but into our whole being, body and soul. There is nothing on the face of the earth that can equal this. Unfortunately, so many Catholics are ignorant of what they have.


Reference:
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/do-priests-ever-ask-their-parishioners-to-accept-christ-as-savior-as-protestant-minis

Do priests ever ask their parishioners to accept Christ as Savior, as Protestant ministers do?

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In Hebrew the name of God is spelled YHWH. Since ancient Hebrew had no written vowels, it is uncertain how the name was pronounced originally, but there are records of the name in Greek, which did have written vowels. These records indicate that in all likelihood the name should be pronounced "Yahweh."

Shortly before the first century A.D., it became common for Jews to avoid saying the divine name for fear of misusing it and breaking the second commandment ("You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain," Dt 5:11). Whenever they read Scripture aloud and encountered the divine name, they substituted another Hebrew word, "Adonai" (which means "Lord" or "my Lord"), in its place.

Eventually Hebrew developed written vowels, which appeared as small marks called vowel points and were placed above and below the consonants of a word. In the sixth or seventh century some Jews began to place the vowel points for "Adonai" over the consonants for "Yahweh" to remind the reader of Scripture to say "Adonai" whenever he read "Yahweh."

About the 13th century the term "Jehovah" appeared when Christian scholars took the consonants of "Yahweh" and pronounced it with the vowels of "Adonai." This resulted in the sound "Yahowah," which has a Latinized spelling of "Jehovah." The first recorded use of this spelling was made by a Spanish Dominican monk, Raymundus Martini, in 1270.

Interestingly, this fact is admitted in much Jehovah's Witness literature, such as their Aid to Bible Understanding (p. 885). This is surprising because Jehovah's Witnesses loathe the Catholic Church and have done everything in their power to strip their church of traces of Catholicism. Despite this, their group's very name contains a Catholic "invention," the name "Jehovah."

Jehovah's Witnesses blast orthodox Christendom for "hiding the name of God" by replacing "Jehovah" with "the Lord" whenever "Jehovah" appears in Scripture. They charge this is a Jewish "superstition" that dishonors God (which it does not). Yet their own organization has a name that was invented as a result of the same thinking that produced use of "the Lord."



Reference:
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/is-gods-name-yahweh-or-jehovah

Is God's name Yahweh or Jehovah?

The Philistines originally came from Crete, hence we can estimate their phenotype bears some semblance to modern day Cretans:


Cretan women


Cretan man

 The Philistines are referred to as the descendants of the Casluchim in Genesis 10:14 and Exodus 13:17. Known as a seafaring nation, the Philistines were a non-Semitic people who left Crete and arrived in Canaan at the beginning of the 12th century B.C.E. The Philistines inhabited the Mediterranean coast of Canaan during the period of the Book of Judges. They founded five principalities - Gaza, Asheklon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath.

Their highly-developed weapons brought a great threat to the Israelites. During the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelites purposely took a southern route to circumvent them. The Philistines often battled against the Israelites. The first King of Israel, Saul, temporarily weakened them. Later, a little-known shepherd by the name of David (later second King of Israel) defeated them after his battle with the large Philistine by the name of Goliath. The Philistines were reduced to mainly commercial ventures rather than military ventures. Throughout the Books of Kings, different Jewish leaders fought the nation until the Assyrians completely defeated them. The Philistines then assimilated into the surrounding cultures and ceased to exist as a separate nation.

The name Palestine originates from the Philistine inhabitance of the land of Judea. After the Romans conquered the region in the second century C.E., the Romans used the term Palestinia to refer to the region in an attempt to minimize Jewish attachment to the land. The Arabic use of the term Filastin is from this Latin root.



Reference:

Bridger, David. Ed. The New Jewish Encyclopedia. NY: Behrman House, Inc. 1976.

Schreiber, Mordecai (ed.). The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia. Shengold Books. 1998.

Telushkin, Joseph. Jewish Literacy. William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1991.

Who were the Philistines?

you're right. some things, i guess, never change.

its amazing to think that some 2 thousand years ago, the archangel gabriel, in his glorious appearance, appeared to the shepherds at night and encouraged them to visit newborn baby Jesus in nazareth.

i wonder how it was like to have seen an archangel appear in glorious and resplendent rays. were they scared and dropped to the ground like what tobias did when he found out that raphael was an angel?

i wonder how it was like to have seen the baby Jesus. the lord of the universe made incarnate. those shepherds, who witnessed those things, were graced to have seen Him.

we can only imagine or read about it in Scripture. i wonder how it was like to actually witness it in person.

tsk tsk. they should observe the health standards in how they prepare their meat. if the meat was not preserved properly, there might be taenia saelium inside those meats.

disgusting. 

You're welcome Mike. Caution lang if you decide to use racumen; please make sure that do not store it near the kitchen. Make sure that it is not blown by the electric fan where it can be accidentally inhaled. I hope you are able to solve the problem, I know what it is like be pestered by the sound of mice running around.

Good luck !

A Christian Arab in Nazareth, Israel.

St. John the Baptist, or the 12 apostles could have looked like him.

Nazarene shepherds. One can't help but wonder if the Lord Jesus looked like the boy and St. Joseph like the older man.

good point, Tita. Something tells me that Jesus probably looked like a modern day Galilean.

Quote from: islander on September 19, 2013, 11:35:44 AM
moral lesson: don't own leather briefcases.

and have a girlfriend who will sing to a mouse.  disney ain't disney without mickey.

bwahahaha. or minney.

i'll take your recommendation to heart. bwahaha!

as for my leather briefcases, yea, i put them on top of my closet now. before, i used to keep them under my bed.

i was sad because the ones that they chewed were a gift from my father. i still have it tho. i went to a tanner to have it fixed. sentimental value.

Quote from: islander on September 19, 2013, 11:35:12 AM
did they die sudden deaths in those traps?  did they squeak their last squeaks?  did you hear them?  the sound is primeval.  can't stand it.

using rat poison like racumin is worse.  it gives them internal hemorrhage.  they seek the light and die so slowly.  can't stand it.

no , i am in opposition to rat poison because those are cholinergic inhibitors, any accidental intake can be devastating to humans and can cause cholinomimetic symptoms. the mice traps that i purchased were the instant kill ones. their necks were broken and death was instant.

i did have 2 sticky mouse traps which caught live mice. i handed those over to animal control where they were euthanized properly in the most humane way.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on May 29, 2009, 09:13:33 PM
Dr. Hayden Kho, Jr., the controversial physician linked to the sex video scandal with sexy actress Katrina Halili was declared as persona non-grata in Bohol by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.

Prov'l Board Member Aster Piollo, chair of the committee on women and family affair of the provincial        

SP sponsored the resolution which was approved en masse by the provincial lawmakers during their regular session yesterday

The resolution expressed the Boholanos indignation for the immorality done by Kho in relation to the global exposure of the sex video with Katrina now in the U-tube worldwide. Copies of the SP resolution will be sent to the Malacañang, the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

Another resolution was passed addressed to the Senate and Congress on the need to regulate the use of the Internet which has become the highway of scandalous video presentations such as sex video. - The Bohol Chronicle

how disgraceful. his actions brings shame to our noble profession ! and he videotaped it pod multiple times? kuan man ni, symptomatic of deviant sexual behavior. typical of bipolar disorder patients experiencing episodes of mania.

Quote from: islander on September 19, 2013, 11:26:46 AM
if you must kill them, kill them with suddenness.  torture is unnecessary.  yeah, just keep them away with this gadget.  it is working for me...

yes, it was painless. promise.

i remember during my 2nd year of college, my gf at the time used to tease me about the mice.

she knew about the mice problem i had in my apartment. she used to sing "three blind mice" to get a reaction out of me.

then one night, when she stayed over my place, the mice did come out and ran around, boy did she scream so loud. lol.

haha. you're such an animal lover, Tita. i respect that.

but, as for the mice, i can't. they've tormented me many times in college with their rummaging around.

they even chewed my leather briefcases. that triggered my wrath and prompted me to buy the mice traps.

The beauty of Ms. Sophia Almarikh

Even King Solomon was engrossed with the women of Lebanon.

Mike,

When I was in college, i had a mouse in my apartment. I bought the sticky mouse traps and placed them on corners. Within a week, i found 4 mice on the mice traps.

I exterminated them accordingly afterwards.

Try the mice traps as well.

Who would think that a Royal Princess of Saudi Arabia would be so curvy. It is sad that many of the women have to hide their curvacious physique.

Princess Ameerah, pictured, in observable fashion:

Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel Bint Saud , of the House of Saud, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Beneath her hijab, is this beautiful face:

In fact, I do. I find Arabic women to be quite attractive. I've come to know many who do wear the traditional hijab, but when they take it off, I can't help but find myself staring at their beautiful faces. We have some female physicians and medical students who are of arabic origin, guapa bitaw ni sila. Honestly lang my opinion.

Do you find arabic people attractive?

As i type a doctoral paper right now, i'm playing this song. upbeat.

yallah yallah habibi !

Wana in arabic means = and me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Mka1FYKFI#

Quote from: islander on September 19, 2013, 09:46:41 AM
i hope that helps.  p.s. isn't that mouse in the picture cute?

nope. nope ! not cute at all.

he he he, nice color. i wonder if she has red lipstick on, too.

interesting book ! what about us who are not in the philippines? can we buy a copy via amazon prime ? or what have you?

danke !

Quote from: kiamoy on September 18, 2013, 12:14:14 AM
Da Vinci's beef pizza i slept ra most of the day

wowzers ! da vinci pizza? naa pod silay donatello pizza? or michelangelo pizza?

   

i had american for breakfast

i had thai for lunch

and for dinner, having chinese.

              

bitaw. asap gajod.

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 16, 2013, 01:20:10 PM

bwahahaha! from the look of it, the more they drink, the faster they'll be seeing the general internist or gastroenterologist for hepatic pain.



moral of the story: don't be afraid of the doctor, ladies. we don't bite. really.

oh man. his joke is very dry. that's not something i would say.

i agree, the best method is having a cat.

MNLF, you're dead meat...

US Army assists Philippine Army in rescuing hostages:

thanks for the update, nong. may God preserve the integrity and unity of the Republic of the Philippines.

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas ! God Bless the Philippine Fatherland...

Quote from: moneytree on September 18, 2013, 08:09:02 PM
it is always this way. basta gera, ang mga bata maoy mag antos. okey lang ang wanggits. they have lived their lives. but what of the children. who will take care of the orphans

what infuriates me is that the mother fakking corrupt politicians the likes of jinggoy estrada , enrile and lowlife scum like napoles have the gall to steal billions of pesos from the people. instead of putting money into their dirty mother fakking pockets, they should divert money for the proper funding of the armed forces. buy more fighter jets for the air force, more kevlar vests for our infantrymen, more ships for the navy. better training for paramilitary units to track down and exterminate terrorists and terrorist cells in the country.

but no. mother fakking politicians who don't know how to run the country continue to get re-elected and divert funds to their pockets.

the country must learn from this mistake.

this situation in zamboanga could have been prevented. the problem stems back to government's spineless policy in regards to dealing with separatists elements in the south. do not negotiate with terrorists period. pulverize and eradicate the milf, mnlf. enough of this armm, it is a failure anyways. these people do not use funds to build infrastructure in armm, but use funds to buy guns and maintain these mini armies. there can only be one army in the philippines; and that is the philippine army.

government must be firm. government must also be accountable.

i pray we can rise from this situation.

mabuhay ang pilipinas: isang bansa at isang diwa.

hahaha ! i hope mr. balong is doing good. 'yaw na mo pag awayaway.

eradicate the milf, mnlf, and the npa.

i support the Armed Forces of the Philippines to hunt down and exterminate these terrorists who dare challenge the government of the philippines.

punish not only these terrorists, but the corrupt officials within the congress. no tolerance to wanton corruption and destruction.

take home point:

yes, a blow job will feel good probably for 20-30 minutes, pero ang side effects if you contract std is pain and ulcers in your vagina or penis that will stay with you for an entire lifetime.

before you let someone kiss your peks or your bes, make sure you know they don't have any underlying stds.

the hard truth.

What did i do today? Hmmm..treating a lot of patients suffering from HSV2 (Herpes simplex virus type 2) otherwise known as genital herpes. Mao na, kamo tanan, be careful who you let kiss you sa kuan ninyo ! Mag protective sex gajod kai you don't know what that other person has.

Had a patient with a ruptured penile chancre , caused by haemophilus ducreyi. very large ulcer lesion on the shaft of his penis. we prescribed him with a nucleoside analog (acyclovir). the mechanism of action is to stop viral dna replication.

Ang mga bata diri sa united states are so very open sexually that these sexually transmitted diseases are like so common. young patients in their late teens and early 20's. my goodness !

i said to one patient, "what are you doing to get this?"

ingon pod siya, "i've been getting blow jobs from my girls, you know, getting some loving"

ka bu eng! ingon ko, "now look. you not only got some 'lovin', but he or she gave you herpes!"



Lord Almighty !

Right now, i'm in a sentimental mood...so i'll sing this song for you all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=413gtjyel_k#ws

'Do you remember' by Phil Collins

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 18, 2013, 02:13:44 PM

seeing this picture, i cannot help but cry. luoy pod intawon ang mga bata....

this song will be for balong and hubag:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CBVCk2vIgo#

hahahaha!

wow ! your 11 year old can sing that? never heard of this song till now.

freed victims.

if hubag, balong, you, fr. roel and i were in a room together, i'd love to hear all you guys sing.

maybe, just maybe, karaoke can melt da ays...

awww...

he he , i can't wait to meet you, tita. you can finally hear my voice when we meet. pohon.

and yes, i do have a very loud laugh. fr. roel can attest.

oh wouldn't it be great, too, to meet hubag.

and balong.

ha ha ha ha! am i asking for too much?

Its too late for negotiations now. These terrorists must be rooted out. And Misuari. That guy needs to go.

Hakog kaajo tawhana. Because of their greed, over 90,000 of our fellow pinoys are displaced. the entire city of zamboanga and province is affected because of this war.

it hurts me to see these pictures.

Quote from: islander on September 18, 2013, 01:55:22 PM
hehe, it looks like a dinner for 3 for catching up may turn out as a dinner for a ragtag army.

hahahaha!

oh i'd love to attend morning mass at fr. roel's church, st. genevieve parish church.

i'd love it if god allowed our paths to meet. pohon pohon.

oh i'd love that, indeed. i've been meaning to visit fr. roel. it would be so awesome to see him and you ! i'd love to get to know your husband, your sister and child. who knows, maybe fr. roel could teach us how to jet ski. bwahahaha!

awww, by no means am i a jet skier.

I hope and pray that the AFP will not stop, and crush these terrorists once and for all.

As for Misuari. He must be silenced.

hahaha ! wouldn't it be nice if all three of us one day got to have dinner and catch up?

Such a kind and good man. I'm glad to know him and call him a friend.

bata pa intawon. may god have mercy.

There is, indeed, resplendent beauty in the Traditional Catholic Mass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVu_PcFVg2Y#

The use of LATIN was a factor in the Roman tendency to shorten the prayers, leave out whatever seemed redundant in formulas, and abridge the whole service.

LATIN is naturally TERSE, compared with the rhetorical abundance of GREEK.

This difference is one of the most obvious distinctions between the Roman and the Eastern Rites.

The beginnings of the Roman Mass are found in the writings of St. Justin (150 AD) and St. Hippolytus (215 AD).

LATIN finally replaced GREEK as the official language of the Empire. By the year 250 AD, the Mass was being said in Latin throughout most of the Roman world.

The Church in the western empire adopted Latin for the Mass by 380 AD. The Latin Canon as we know it was finished by 399 AD. Latin ceased to be a vernacular language between the 7th and 9th centuries.

When the Church had spread to the Gentile world, about the year 100 AD it adopted the GREEK tongue for the liturgy because it was the common language of the Roman Empire.

Use of the Greek language continued throughout the second and into part of the third centuries.

The Kyrie eleison is a remnant of Greek which survives in the Latin Mass.

And the liturgical symbol IHS is a derivative of the Greek word for Jesus.

The Mass was originally said in ARAMAIC or HEBREW since these were the languages which Christ and the Apostles spoke.

The words AMEN, ALLELUIA, HOSANNA, and SABBAOTH are Aramaic words which were retained and are still found in the Latin Mass [Tridentine Rite] of today.

As Pope Pius XII explained, “The use of the LATIN language... is a manifest and beautiful SIGN OF UNITY, as well as an EFFECTIVE ANTIDOTE for any corruption of doctrinal truth”.

[MEDIATOR DEI: The Encyclical Of Pope Pius XII On The Sacred Liturgy; November 20, 1947]

The True [Authentic & Licit] Traditional Catholic Mass is offered in LATIN because LATIN is a “DEAD” language.

As it is no longer spoken as the vernacular language in any country today, so, LATIN words DO NOT CHANGE IN MEANING.

The English language we speak may be easier to understand, but because of slang, colloquialisms and various local influences, the words we use vary in their meanings from place to place and year to year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKRf8LbLcg0#

St. Francis de Sales (1567- 1622), a Doctor of the Church, gives us another example of the high regard which Heaven reserves for the priesthood.  He once saw a young seminarian being accompanied by his guardian angel.

After the young man's ordination, Saint Francis de Sales saw the angel  walking behind the priest, in respect and reverence for his priestly dignity.


(Carroll, 1999, pg. 45)