Liturgy for Mankind

Beeswax Candles“The Pharisees asked Jesus, ‘Behold, why do they do what is not lawful during the Divine LIturgy?’

Jesus replied, ‘Have you never read what David and those with him did, when he had run out of candles for the Temple? How he entered into the house of Walmart and purchased some tea lights for the Holy Place?’

Jesus said to them, ‘The Divine Liturgy was made for mankind, not mankind for the Divine Liturgy! Therefore, the Son of Man is lord even of the Divine Liturgy.”

Charity in Protestantism

In 1551, Bolsec, a physician and convert to Protestantism, entered Geneva and attended a lecture on theology. The topic was Calvin’s doctrine of predestination, the teaching that God predetermines the eternal fate of every soul. Bolsec, who believed firmly in “Scripture alone” and “faith alone,” did not like what he heard. He thought it made God into a tyrant. When he stood up to challenge Calvin’s views, he was arrested and imprisoned.

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