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YaHshua is Messiah
1. Words Perfect - the Proof
2. Passover
3. Holiday or Holy Day
4. 9/11-- unholy act by the devils own
5. Imminent Return?
6. Catholic Church bans Sacred Name
7. Amazing Facts Ministeries - answer to the Name
8. Blame Game - blaming everyone else
9. 9/11 in 2009 - Never forget
10. What is Missing from Remembering 9/11?
11. Islam, endtime religion?
12. Roman Church Moves toward Unity? 12/14/2009
13. Rapture - Switch on, Switch off
14. All For One Jesus
15. Christian Movements
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18. Pat Robert's Haiti comments
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20. Rapture Doctrine - Refined?
21. Scoffers -- Who Are they?
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23. Debt, Beinging in Debt - Lending to Others
24. Signs of the Times -- The End Days?
25. I Think -- You Think?
26. Did You Know?
27. Obama Care-- Mark of the Beast?
28. Federal Take Over?
29. Witness? Witnesses?
30. Jesus or Iesus?
31. Homosexuality
32. The Great Evacuation?
33. Pig's Flesh Made Clean
34. Satan's Children
35. Satan is Among Us
36. Mortals, Destined for Immortality?
37. Oil and Blood
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The article below was sent to me by a brother in the Messiah and is very interesting. Having just returned from a trip to Italy this article from the Catholic News Service is very interesting indeed. I had been traveling with a tour group of about 80 + Catholics on a tour of the various professed holy sites. Our last visit to the Orvieto Cathedral ended with mass being held in the Crypt of the Cathedral (I stood by as a guest and observer). This Cathedral is dedicated to Mary worship (the veneration of Mary) around 1290 AD but its origins, that is the original foundations are of pagan origin. This massive structure at one time (orginally) dedicated to the Roman goddess Minerva. The Roman Christians, when Italy moved toward Christianity as the government approved religion they began taking the pagan temple and rededicating these temples of devils and demons to Christian monuments and decorating them with art work and carvings of the Christian Faith. I was impressed with how many of the songs we sang contained the name of our Savior, YaHshua and of the God of Israel, YaHWeH. Several of the songs we sang (from songs perpared in our travel booklet, were to the God YHWH). The singing in this Crypt of the Cathedral ending with a chorus of "Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks". For those of you familiar with this term, "Alleluia" as a KJV of the American translation, HalleluYaH, you may see the significance in the article I copied and seen at the bottom of this page. Imagine, the Catholic Church membership number above a billion members, singing songs using the Holy name of the God of Israel, and even having songs that include the name of our Savior Yahshua. Imagine this knowledge growing among the Protestant Churches and among the Evangelicals and the resulting dialog. Can you see it? If this condition were allowed, the ever increasing knowledge, even the return to the use of the Sacred Name, coming together within all of the professing Christian groups, would be a whole new awaking, perhaps. Can you see it? Over a billion Catholics, singing songs to the Great Creator God by NAME? The rest of Christianity seeing this and understanding and coming into this knowledge, would they follow suit? How wonderful would that be, even the pagan Christan's calling on the true Name of our Creator? But, what is happening, what is really happening? Well, Satan cannot have that, so this must be stopped. It is my opinion the article clip presented below is a sign of an effort to silence the use of our Saviors birth name and that of our Heavenly Father. This report from "Catholic News Services" is reporting what the Roman Church is doing by stopping, or attempting to do helping to continue the pattern of the tradtions of the Jews and the Protestants in hidding tghe Holy Name of our Creator -- Who? -- By removing from their songs, and from the Mass any reference to the Sacred Name, by Papal authority. Read the article, you will see. Once again, it is up to the individual, you and me, to keep the truth alive, even if it comes down to one person calling on His Holy Name in prayer and request. This is the kind of thing we must keep in mind and when we read our Savior's words in Luke 18:8 "... when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?" That, my friends, is a serious question. *** *** HYMNS-YAHWEH Aug-12-2008 (840 words) xxxnNo 'Yahweh' in songs, prayers at Catholic Masses, Vatican rules By Nancy Frazier O'Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In the not-too-distant future, songs such as "You Are Near," "I Will Bless Yahweh" and "Rise, O Yahweh" will no longer be part of the Catholic worship experience in the United States. At the very least, the songs will be edited to remove the word "Yahweh" -- a name of God that the Vatican has ruled must not "be used or pronounced" in songs and prayers during Catholic Masses. Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, announced the new Vatican "directives on the use of 'the name of God' in the sacred liturgy" in an Aug. 8 letter to his fellow bishops. He said the directives would not "force any changes to official liturgical texts" or to the bishops' current missal translation project but would likely have "some impact on the use of particular pieces of liturgical music in our country as well as in the composition of variable texts such as the general intercessions for the celebration of the Mass and the other sacraments." John Limb, publisher of OCP in Portland, Ore., said the most popular hymn in the OCP repertoire that would be affected was Dan Schutte's "You Are Near," which begins, "Yahweh, I know you are near." He estimated that only "a handful" of other OCP hymns use the word "Yahweh," although a search of the OCP Web site turned up about a dozen examples of songs that included the word. OCP is a nonprofit publisher of liturgical music and worship resources. Limb said the company would be contacting composers to "ask them to try to come up with alternate language" for their hymns. But he said hymnals for 2009 had already been printed, so the affected hymns would not include the new wording for at least another year. Even when the new hymnals are out, "it may take time for people to get used to singing something different," he added in an Aug. 11 telephone interview with Catholic News Service. At Chicago-based GIA Publications, another major Catholic publisher of hymnals, no major revisions will be necessary, because of the company's longtime editorial policy against use of the word "Yahweh." Kelly Dobbs-Mickus, senior editor at GIA Publications, told CNS Aug. 11 that the policy, which dates to 1986, was based not on Vatican directives but on sensitivity to concerns among observant Jews about pronouncing the name of God. As an example, she cited Heinrich Schutz's "Thanks Be to Yahweh," which appears in a GIA hymnal under the title "Thanks Be to God." Bishop Serratelli said the Vatican decision also would provide "an opportunity to offer catechesis for the faithful as an encouragement to show reverence for the name of God in daily life, emphasizing the power of language as an act of devotion and worship." His letter to bishops came with a two-page letter from the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, dated June 29 and addressed to episcopal conferences around the world. "By directive of the Holy Father, in accord with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this congregation ... deems it convenient to communicate to the bishops' conferences ... as regards the translation and the pronunciation, in a liturgical setting, of the divine name signified in the sacred Tetragrammaton," said the letter signed by Cardinal Francis Arinze and Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, congregation prefect and secretary, respectively. The Tetragrammaton is YHWH, the four consonants of the ancient Hebrew name for God. "As an expression of the infinite greatness and majesty of God, it was held to be unpronounceable and hence was replaced during the reading of sacred Scripture by means of the use of an alternate name: 'Adonai,' which means 'Lord,'" the Vatican letter said. Similarly, Greek translations of the Bible used the word "Kyrios" and Latin scholars translated it to "Dominus"; both also mean Lord. "Avoiding pronouncing the Tetragrammaton of the name of God on the part of the church has therefore its own grounds," the letter said. "Apart from a motive of a purely philological order, there is also that of remaining faithful to the church's tradition, from the beginning, that the sacred Tetragrammaton was never pronounced in the Christian context nor translated into any of the languages into which the Bible was translated." The two Vatican officials noted that "Liturgiam Authenticam," the congregation's 2001 document on liturgical translations, stated that "the name of almighty God expressed by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton and rendered in Latin by the word 'Dominus,' is to be rendered into any given vernacular by a word equivalent in meaning." "Notwithstanding such a clear norm, in recent years the practice has crept in of pronouncing the God of Israel's proper name," the letter said. "The practice of vocalizing it is met with both in the reading of biblical texts taken from the Lectionary as well as in prayers and hymns, and it occurs in diverse written and spoken forms," including Yahweh, Jahweh and Yehovah. END Copyright (c) 2008 Catholic News Service/USCCB. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed. CNS · 3211 Fourth St NE · Washington DC 20017 · 202.541.3250 |