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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Communion of Saints |
 | | The communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head, and in a constant interchange of supernatural offices. | | | XXV, decrees on purgatory; on the invocation, veneration, and relics of saints and of sacred images; on indulgences), is, nevertheless, dogma commonly taught and accepted in the Church. | | | Her praises were sung by the Saxon poets; hymns in her honour were chanted in the public service; churches and altars were placed under her patronage; miraculous cures were ascribed to her; and four annual feasts were observed commemorating the principal events of her mortal life: her nativity, the Annunciation, her purification, and assumption. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Beatification and Canonization |
| | In the earlier ages, therefore, this worship of the saints was entirely local and passed from one church to another with the permission of their bishops. | | | The worship of latria (latreia), or strict adoration, is given to God alone; the worship of dulia (douleia), or honour and humble reverence, is paid the saints; the worship of hyperdulia (hyperdouleia), a higher form of dulia, belongs, on account of her greater excellence, to the Blessed Virgin Mary. | | | It follows naturally that for the public veneration of the saints the ecclesiastical authority of the pastors and rulers of the Church was constantly required. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364b.htm
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| | Chapter. XXVI. |
| | Which communion, as God offereth opportunity, is to be extended unto all those who, in every place, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus. | | | Section III.–This communion which the saints have with Christ, doth not make them in any wise partakers of the substance of the Godhead, or to be equal with Christ in any respect: either of which to affirm, is impious and blasphemous. | | | Section II.–Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification; as also in relieving each other in outward things, according to their several abilities and necessities. |
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| | Communion of Saints |
| | The communion of saints is the completed unity of those that are of the household of faith and love. | | | There is no difference in the eyes of God between the church militant (saints here on earth) and the church triumphant (those gone on to be with the Lord in heaven.) All who have partaken of eternal live are of the same spirit, have defeated death and cannot spiritually die. | | | The communion we share is with "The saints of all ages" and of all those alive today, and so the many are one in Christ; it is not a communication between living and resurrected saints. |
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| | FT March 2003: The Communion of Saints |
| | Although our communion with God is impeded by sin, which repeatedly alienates us from Him, we are able to be reconciled through Jesus Christ who prayed to the Father, “For their sake I sanctify myself, that they may be sanctified in truth” (John 17:19). | | | While all Christians are properly called saints, the word “saint” soon became a title of honor referring to exemplary lives among the faithful, and most notably the lives of martyrs. | | | Living as we do in communion with those who have gone before us, we strive to realize in the pilgrim Church on earth a life together that more fully anticipates the communion of the Church in glory. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0303/articles/sect-saints.html
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| | Theology Today - Vol 44, No.1 - April 1987 - ARTICLE - May We Invoke The Saints? |
| | The practice of invoking the prayers of the saints, not commanded by Scripture, is a practice which developed in the course of the church's history as an expression of the truth that in Christ all believers are of significance for each other, even across the chasm of death. | | | When invocation of the saints occurs during the eucharistic liturgy, it is a concrete expression of the people of God as a community comprising members in heaven and on earth, all joined together in Jesus Christ. | | | It is typical, for example, that Vatican II affirmed both the sole mediatorship of Jesus Christ and the belief that communion with the saints in heaven in no way weakens but rather enriches the church's worship of the triune God, without thoroughly explaining the intelligibility of these affirmations vis-á-vis each other. |
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http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1987/v44-1-article3.htm
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| | Communion of Saints by James Philipps - Youth Update ©2000 |
| | The new Catechism of the Catholic Church expresses the idea simply: "The Communion of Saints is the Church" (#946). | | | Many such saints, such as St. Francis of Assisi or St. Catherine of Siena, are especially remembered on their designated feast days in the Church calendar. | | | In the end, the teaching (doctrine) of the Communion of Saints expresses the fundamental Christian belief that we are loved by the God who created us beyond our ability to imagine. |
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http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/YU/ay1000.asp
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| | Fredericksburg.com - Saints on parade All Saints' Day is fun alternative to Halloween |
| | While the holy day is rooted in a celebration of saints, the honoring of family comes from the Catholic belief in the communion of saints, which holds that the church's members on earth are united to its members in Heaven. | | | Pope Gregory IV established the Feast of All Saints for the entire church in 835, said the Rev. Paul de Ladurantaye, secretary for religious education and the sacred liturgy for the Catholic Diocese of Arlington. | | | All Saints' Day honors martyrs and others who have been canonized by the church, but it also celebrates those who have devoted their lives to God, de Ladurantaye said. |
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http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/112005/11052005/141144
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| | USCCB - The Living Light |
| | Third, saints on the universal calendar of saints are models of holiness for the Church, the entire people of God. | | | The saints and martyrs are often listed on the anniversary of their death, which the Church considers to be their birthday to eternal life. | | | Not only is the saint now declared to be in heaven, but a place in the general calendar of the Church is provided and the proper liturgical texts for the Liturgy of the Hours and the Mass are finalized. |
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http://www.usccb.org/education/catechetics/livlghtwint98.htm
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| | The Communion of Saints |
| | Finally, the saints already glorified in Heaven comprise the third portion of the Church, namely the Church Triumphant. | | | I know of no surer path to sanctity than their holy examples as they each lived the life of Christ in the life of a bricklayer, of a housewife, a child, a hermit, a priest, a pope, a mystic, a bridge-builder or whatever vocation God gave to each one, and to each of us. | | | As we can see from this early Scriptural martyrology, the holy example of the Saints is important indeed as an encouragement for all of us to follow their example. |
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| | Catholic Pages Directory: » SAINTS |
| | The Communion of Saints Catechism of the Catholic Church | | | Although in the early Church there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of saanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized. | | | The forty Martyrs are among the best known of the many Catholics who gave their lives in England and Wales during the 16th and 17th centuries owing to the fact that their religious convictions clashed with the laws of the State at that time. |
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| | The Communion of Saints |
| | The worship of images of the saints is condemned by the Catholic Church. | | | The Church calls the worship of God latria and distinguishes it from dulia, the reverence due the saints. | | | The idea dating back to beginnings of Christianity is that there is more to the Church than we see here on earth: all believers, living and dead, form one family. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/a/saints.html
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| | Cloud of Witnesses: A Biblical Primer on the Communion of Saints |
| | Saints in heaven are not just sitting on clouds playing harps, as our cultural mishmash religion would have it. | | | Like saints, they offer the "prayers of the saints" to God as intercessory intermediaries (Rev 8:3-4). | | | In Revelation 6:9-10, "the souls of them that were slain" pray for those on earth, using what is known as an "imprecatory prayer," as in Psalms 35:1, 59:1-17, 139:19, and Jer 12:20 against the wicked and on behalf of the righteous. |
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| | Domestic-Church.Com:Saint Profile |
| | Saint Joan of Arc Feast Day: May 30 | | | Saint Catherine of Sienna Feast Day: April 29. | | | Saint Isodore of Seville Feast Day: April 4. |
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http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/pages.dir/saints.htm
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| | Pray with the Saints |
| | the Church recognizes as saints, share in the living tradition of prayer by the example of their lives, the transmission of their writings, and their prayer today. | | | See Intercession of the Saints for statements by the Fathers of the Church on appealing to the saints for help. | | | She teaches that whatever happiness or glory or influence the saints possess, all comes from God. |
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http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/pray_with_saints.htm
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| | All Saints and All Souls Feast Days |
| | It seems that when Protestants talk about Communion of the Saints they mean fellowship among local church members and/or members of other churches or denominations. | | | Another is the triumphant church of saints already in Heaven. | | | Therefore, Communion of the Saints has a much broader meaning in the Catholic Church. |
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| | Newman Reader - Parochial & Plain Sermons 4 - Sermon 11 |
| | When we profess the Creed, it is no self-willed, arbitrary sense, but in the presence of those innumerable Saints who well remember what its words mean, and are witnesses of it before God, in spite of the heresy or indifference of this or that day. | | | At present, we who live are but one generation out of fifty, which since its formation have been new born into it, and endowed with spiritual life and the hope of glory. | | | And this I the rather do, because the Communion of Saints is an article of the Creed, and therefore is not a matter of secondary importance, of doubt or speculation. |
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| | PetersNet: Ann Ball, Keeping in Touch with the Saints |
| | Items such as rosaries and medals touched to a saint's relic and prayer cards containing a tiny piece of cloth that has been touched to a relic are often distributed to the faithful by promoters of a cause. | | | Saints Alive and the International Crusade for Holy Relics can be reached at P.O. Box 0471, Temple City, CA, 91780, or by sending e-mail to him at saintsalive@earthlink.net. | | | The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us: "The religious sense of the Christian people has always found expression in various forms of piety surrounding the Church's sacramental life such as the veneration of relics" (1674) and points out that these practices, when carefully clarified in the light of faith can enrich Christian life. |
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| | The Communion of Saints: Dead or Alive in Christ? by David Lamb |
| | The difference between Angels and glorified Saints is that the Saints in Heaven lived out their earthly lives through all the trials and tribulations, having their faith tested as gold is tested and purified by fire (1 Peter 1:6-9; 1 Cor 3:12-15). | | | When a Christian petitions in prayer for prayer and aid from a glorified heavenly saint he/she is communing with the saints which are still part of the body of Christ; this is no different then had they asked family and friends still here on earth to pray for them. | | | But the truth is that all Angels and Saints direct worship toward God and they themselves are servants of God. |
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| | djournal.com |
| | It became early in church history a celebration of the doctrine affirmed in scripture, in the Apostles&, and elsewhere as "the communion of the saints." | | | Getting right down to it, the celebration of All Saints' affirms supernaturalism entirely beyond the control of any person and perceptible only in faith but definitely affirmed in the intentional actions and thoughts of flesh-and-blood people. | | | The scripture lessons read on All Saints' Sunday frequently will include verses from the Letter to Hebrews in the New Testament. |
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http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=205654&pub=1&div=Opinion
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| | ECCLESIOLOGY - Communion of Saints - by John A. Hardon, S.J. - November/December 2000 - Catholic Faith |
| | The Mystical Body of Christ is composed of three “Churches”—the Church Militant, the Church Suffering and the Church Triumphant. | | | ECCLESIOLOGY - Communion of Saints - by John A. Hardon, S.J. - November/December 2000 - Catholic Faith | | | He explains that the Protestant bias against this practice arises form two fundamental errors in their theology: one a misunderstanding of Catholic doctrine, where they claim that we offer the Mass as an act of adoration to the Saints instead of to God; the other is an unwarranted limitation of membership in the Mystical Body. |
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| | What is a Saint? |
| | A saint is one who sees who the tramp is: Jesus. | | | A saint is so open that he can say, with Paul, “I have learned, in whatever situation I find myself, to be self-sufficient. | | | A saint is a seer, one who sees what’s there. |
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| | Communion of Saints |
| | Thus, the saints are simply the "called out, separated people of God." The Christians, the Church. | | | In this verse Paul seems to be suggesting that not only are the Church of God at Corinth saints but that "all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord" are saints too. | | | The problem is derived from a tradition in which we have used the word, Saint, as a title for certain particularly holy people. |
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| | Saints, Martyrs and Other Holy Persons - |
| | Like all the saints, she had an insatiable hunger for the spreading of Christ's kingdom. | | | Saint Thomas of Aquino: Europe’s Greatest Thinker, Timeline Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas | | | Desires for Holy Communion, Hymn 112 by St. Louis de Montfort |
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| | Augustinian Saints, Blesseds and More |
| | These heroes of the Christian Faith, made holy through the power of Jesus Christ, are recognized for their lives of virtue and for their service to God and the Church. | | | Honoring the Saints: What the Bible and the Church Say | | | Through the ages many followers of the Augustinian way of life have been declared Saint or Blessed by the Catholic Church. |
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| | The Communion of Saints |
| | Saints, living or dead, are indistinguishable before God. | | | Faithful people in the Post-Apostolic Church in the Apostles Creed defined the confessional response to faith in their creed: "We believe in the communion of saints." | | | Paul's letters clarify how the Apostolic Church under the influence of the Holy Spirit spoke of believers as "saints," whether living or dead. |
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| | Communion of Saints |
| | SANTERIA - an african religion that worships saints IS NOT CATHOLIC | | | Though Shall not have Other GODS before me! and Catholics obey it because the reverence of Angels and Saints is NOT worship, it is respect for God's Heroes! | | | You probably call your pastor Reverend, meaning you revere him or her for his or her position in the ministry of that church! |
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| | COMMUNION OF SAINTS |
| | As on the contrary, the sense of God's revenging wrath, horror of conscience, and a fearful expectation of judgment, are to the wicked the beginning of the torment which they shall endure after death. | | | You see in the gathering company of the saints, there is a shared understanding of the presence of Christ among us. | | | What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy in this life? |
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| | Communion of Saints |
| | All the members of the Church, in heaven, on earth, and in purgatory, are in the one body in Jesus Christ. | | | By helping them through prayer, fasting, indulgences, good works and having Mass said on their behalf. | | | What is meant by the Communion of Saints? |
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| | Anglicanism's Communion of Saints - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | At an emergency conference, given over largely to prayer and worship in the medieval crypt of the palace, they will be aware that both saints and villains of Christian history have occupied this historic Christian house in the center of London. | | | In their annual meetings the primates have underscored time and again the boundaries of diversity in the Anglican Communion, clearly setting out the teaching of the Bible as a non-negotiable. | | | Martyrs such as Thomas Beckett, William Laud, and even Saint Alphege, cudgeled to death by the ox bones of Viking warriors, are remembered here. |
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| | Catholic Bibles, Catholic Rosary, Catholic Gifts, Catholic Books, Miraculous Medals from Catholic Company |
| | But when Catholics profess the church's ancient belief in the communion of saints, they are often wrongly accused of un-Biblical blasphemy. | | | We have a complete selection of Catholic bibles, Bible Studies, Catholic books, Catechisms, rosaries, crucifixes, Saints, statues, Catholic jewelry, Catholic art, Catholic music, Catholic videos, church supplies, Catholic gifts and gifts for the holidays -- all at outstanding low prices! | | | Catholic Books :: Apologetics / Defending the Faith :: The Saints |
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| | Catholic Online |
| | Should pro-choice Catholic politicians be denied Holy Communion? | | | A Godmother on Giving and Receiving the Gift of Prayer | | | Reflection on All Saints Day and All Souls Day |
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| | U.S. Catholic Bishops - Office for the Catechism |
| | Besides giving birth to God, Mary is, in some way, mother to all the faithful. | | | Although the saints in heaven may intercede for us, the saints on earth are unable to intercede for those being purified. | | | The phrase, "the communion of saints," has an intrinsic connection to the Eucharist. |
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| | The Communion of Saints |
| | They and we and all redeemed men and women of whatever age or clime are included in the universal fellowship of Christ, and together compose 'a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people,' who enjoy a common but blessed communion of saints. | | | Augustine, for instance, would bring to us a sense of the overwhelming majesty of God that would go far to cure the flippancy of spirit found so widely among modern Christians. | | | How sad to limit our sympathies to those of our own day, when God in His providence has made it possible for us to enjoy the rich treasures of the minds and hearts of so many holy and gifted saints of other days. |
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| | Communion of Saints-White Powder Gold Cakes to the Star Penetrance of Menstrual Blood and Sperm |
| | And suppose YOU woke up one day, and discovered your birth had been a political machination planned for millenia? | | | With this in mind, how would we re-design the Christian rite of communion, knowing now that all sex rituals are not evil - but in fact may be recursive / life giving. | | | In truth, the only HOLY COMMUNION which waves EVER sustain, is in the perfect wave implosive zipper core of DNA (../superDNA). |
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| | Saints in General |
| | Council of Trent: On the Invocation, Veneration, and Relics of Saints, and on Sacred Images | | | List of Some African Saints, Blesseds and Venerables | | | Patron Saint Topics (806 Saints / 1051 Topics) |
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| | The Mary Page |
| | hat is the Communion of Saints, and Mary's place therein? | | | This page, maintained by The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio 45469-1390, and created by Kris Sommers was last modified Friday, 25-Oct-2002 15:51:51 EDT by Michael P. Duricy. |
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| | The Circle is Unbroken |
| | Q's 1925 Oxford Book of English Prose, which names Nickerson's school. | | | Ian Lee on the communion of saints and the association of ideas: |
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| | Communion of Saints |
| | Welcome to Communion of Saints, a website devoted to connecting you to information about Catholicism. | | | We hope that you will bookmark our page and return to visit often. |
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| | the Communion of Saints on Flickr - Photo Sharing! |
| | Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you're already a member). | | | the Communion of Saints on Flickr - Photo Sharing! | | | To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and |
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