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Originally Posted by steveh53
During lent I like to go to the Stations of the Cross even though I am no longer a Catholic. I don't see anything wrong with it, but other Christians in my Church don't like the idea. I just make sure that I don't pray their prayers about one Catholic and Apostolic Church in the Apostles Creed. Outside of that, the service is a wonderful reminder of the events of Good friday through the Reusection. It is probably the only rite that I still hold dear from my youth, when I was an Altar Boy in the sixties. What do you people think?
Steve
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I would just add that there isn't a thing at all wrong with you saying the Apostle's Creed..... unfortunately the Roman Catholic Church has kinda hijacked the word "catholic".... and today whenever anyone hears the word "catholic" they think that what it really means is "Roman Catholic" but that just isn't true.... all it meant when the Creed was written was "universal", and as long as that is what you mean when you say it, you are fine...ie that it is not the Roman Catholic church that is being spoken of in the Creed, but just the church universal, and really, it can't have been the Roman Catholic church that was spoken of at the time of the writing of the Creed anyway, since the Roman Catholic Church we know today did not really exist then or even harden itself into the (heretical) theological positions it currently has in many areas until Trent, in the 1600's.... so, again, the church at that time the Creed was written was simply the catholic or universal church... the church of all believers....
as far as the stations of the Cross, having never been a Roman Catholic, I really can't say....
blessings
Ken
02-26-2007, 01:54 AM
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