God Doesn't Change: 12 Tribes, 12 Apostles...

[Circle_Master]

I think the protestants have lost the sense of mystery and the sacred when they thru all the smells and bells out. We relate to the world thru all our senses, and we Catholics are good at that.

You do have so really good preachers though.

Thanks :D. That was the last thing I expected to hear from you.

Our sacredness comes through 'Spiritual Disciplines' such as meditation, fasting, devotions, prayer. Things like that where it is 1 on 1 with God and our thoughts.

[M.SIGGA]

haha, and I love being protestant

seriously though - it is great to take symbolism like that from the OT into your services. I think it could really spice up some of the services in protestantism sometimes. But - none of it is necessary (the law part) since we are under the Spirit today. Sometimes I wonder if scrapping 'everything' from the Catholic Church was the best option - or if we should have kept some as the Lutherans did.

I personally think the baby was thrown out with the bathwater. If anything you all could have used it as an education tool. That's pretty much all it is in some churches that have kept the liturgy based on the Catholic Mass. The traditional Methodist Liturgy is based almost exactly on the mass and when they recite the Apostles Creed, there are like 20 asteriks behind every time "Catholic Church" is mentioned so they aren't confused with the "evil" Catholic Church :lol: