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Went to reconciliation today. Turns out they don’t offer it during Holy Week. I’m so sad.







The early church was marked by simplicity in worship: no images, no ornate vestments, no elaborate ceremonial displays or processions. Those things belonged to the surrounding pagan world with which they were at war with. Eventually Christianity won out, and paganism was destroyed. In later centuries, the devil found a way to bring it back in, this time through the papists. Now we again find pomp, demi-gods, smells, & superstition; we see prayers directed to angels and saints; veneration of images; adoration of the host; and worship conducted with incense, vestments, spectacle, ritual display, etc. These were all practices that had been distinctly pagan. Thus, what began as the simple worship of God in spirit & truth took on forms of the religions that Christianity had once displaced. That's why today, Rome looks nothing like the early church, and very much like blatant old school paganism. (And EO isn't any better. Basically a mysticized version of the above, with the added practice of wood worship.)


🚨HISTÓRICO: A Igreja Católica ultrapassou pela primeira vez na história a marca de 1,422 BILHÃO de fiéis em todo o mundo. Crescimento muito forte nos Estados Unidos, África e Ásia.


Over 8500 people will become Catholic in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at this year’s Easter vigil Image: Sister Adriane Torrisi




The Orthodox as well.

















