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- They are “our great cloud of witnesses,“ the saints in heaven, friends of God and friends of us left here on earth.
In “Catholic Central: Saints,“ Kai and Libby introduce some of the very human people the Church has acknowledged as saintly, because of how they lived their lives, and because of the miracles God does when people pray for their intercession. Everybody needs a friend!
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You two are my kind of people! Thanx!
You guys deserve so many more subscribers. Your videos are helping me with my conversion to Catholicism.
So glad we're here for you!
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Happy Feast of All Saints! I'll be using this in my 8th grade religion class this week. God bless you!
Sweet!
Same here!!
This is great! Using it with my confirmation class!
Yay! We're so glad!
My line....Saints are alive in heaven......
Learning made easy in our Christian Living Class! Thank you!
Thank you Angel, glad we could help!
Using your videos for homeschooling and Family Catechism group. You guys rock! Thanks for making such informative and entertaining videos!
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GOD BLESS U🙏. I PRAY FOR ALL CATHOLIC MISSIONS ONLINE. By Saba K
Thank you, Mary. Every prayer counts.
I love libby's acting!!
We do too! Both Libby and Kai are great - but we may be biased!
Beautiful!
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This helped my kids!
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You are so smart guys
Thank you.
I like your videos... I chuckled a lot on the Canonization part. please make more videos like this. God Bless you all.
Hi Orley, thank you and we are glad you like our videos. We are currently in the scripting process for new content and hope to have some new shows up in the near future.
When are you guys gonna post videos again????
I love your channel… it has helped me so much
Hi Luke, we get this question quite often and we never tire of hearing it because it means that there is a place for what we do! Due to Covid, we were unable to shoot for most of the last 18 months. We hope to have new content soon, though.
Ok thank you!
@@lukewalter5740 But, we have new episodes up now!
I know a person who lived a human life on earth. Someone who intercedes on my behalf and has lived in the world in which I live. His name is Jesus and by no other name can man be saved. So I’ll pray to Him alone. I see the idea behind praying to the saints, I understand what you’re saying. I’m genuinely curious where the idea that we could pray to other people in heaven came from though. Like where in the scripture could I find examples of that? I look at scripture and Christ tells me how to pray in the Lords Prayer. He prays to the father. He doesn’t tell the people to pray to Moses or Elijah on their behalf.
The idea of saintly intercession is one that goes back to the earliest days of Christianity and is firmly rooted in Scripture. For instance, Paul writes “I urge you, [brothers,] by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in the struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf” (ROM 15:30). Paul is asking the community to pray for him. But this is not the first instance of intercessory prayer. In the Old Testament, there are several instances of this style of prayer. In Genesis, Moses asks God to forgive the Israelites (NUM 19:14-20) and in Job, God tells Eliphaz that Job will pray for him (JOB 42:8). There is an established pattern in scripture of people who are alive praying for others.
When it comes to the saints interceding for us, this also finds its roots in Jewish tradition. As the idea of life after death started to take root, the Jews believed that the angels and those in Heaven (Abraham, for instance) were praying for us. When Luke refers to “a cloud of witnesses” he is referring to the saints. Jesus himself gives us the best evidence, though, when he relates the parable of “The Rich Man and Lazarus” in Luke, where the dead rich man is seen praying for his family.
"St. Kaiser of Hollywood" 🤣😂
I'm here against my will :(
We're sorry, did you at least learn something from the video?
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Hoping we could also have the true meaning of HALLOWEEN for Catholics.n
Hey, Len, that's a great idea for an episode. We'll look through our costumes and see if can scare something up!
@@CatholicCentralVideos Thanks! It's been our dream to encourage everyone not to celebrate Halloween but rather celebrate Hallow's Eve / All Saints Day Eve... 😊🙏
Hi Len, while popular culture has definitely emphasized a demonic spin of Halloween it is firmly rooted in a celebration of our dead. So long as we look to the positive aspects of the day, we think it is OK to celebrate. Halloween actually is the shortened form of “All Hallow’s Evening” - the evening before All Saints Day, or All Hallows, the older word for Holy that we know from the Lord's Prayer.
@@CatholicCentralVideos Oh yeah, let me rephrase... encouraging kids (and families) to celebrate Halloween in a Catholic way. We could do dress ups, not by wearing spooky costumes, but rather wear costumes of people from the bible or imitate saints. 😊❤
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What are Christian saints according to the Bible?
The word “saint” comes from the Greek word hagios, which means “consecrated to God, holy, sacred, pious." It is almost always used in the plural, “saints.” "…Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he did to Your saints at Jerusalem" (Acts 9:13). "Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda" (Acts 9:32). "And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons …“ (Acts 26:10). There is only one instance of the singular use, and that is "Greet every saint in Christ Jesus…" (Philippians 4:21). In Scripture there are 67 uses of the plural “saints” compared to only one use of the singular word “saint.” Even in that one instance, a plurality of saints is in view: “…every saint…” (Philippians 4:21).
The idea of the word “saints” is a group of people set apart for the Lord and His kingdom. There are three references referring to godly character of saints: "that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints …" (Romans 16:2). "For the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ" (Ephesians 4:12). "But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints" (Ephesians 5:3).
Therefore, scripturally speaking, the “saints” are the body of Christ, Christians, the church. All Christians are considered saints. All Christians are saints-and at the same time are called to be saints. First Corinthians 1:2 states it clearly: “To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy…” The words “sanctified” and “holy” come from the same Greek root as the word that is commonly translated “saints.” Christians are saints by virtue of their connection with Jesus Christ. Christians are called to be saints, to increasingly allow their daily life to more closely match their position in Christ. This is the biblical description and calling of the saints.
How does the Roman Catholic understanding of “saints” compare with the biblical teaching? Not very well. In Roman Catholic theology, the saints are in heaven. In the Bible, the saints are on earth. In Roman Catholic teaching, a person does not become a saint unless he/she is “beatified” or “canonized” by the Pope or prominent bishop. In the Bible, everyone who has received Jesus Christ by faith is a saint. In Roman Catholic practice, the saints are revered, prayed to, and in some instances, worshiped. In the Bible, saints are called to revere, worship, and pray to God alone.
Yes, MacMac, let us celebrate as saints all who live in Christ’s holiness! Maybe you’ve heard Catholics talk about being part of “the communion of saints”? They are referring to not only the faithful on earth but also those in purgatory and in heaven, all who have been formed by the Holy Spirit through baptism into one body, also called the “Mystical Body of Christ”. In other words, they use “saint” precisely as Paul describes which, as you point out, refers to all the Christian faithful (2 Cor 13:12, Eph 1:1).
What happened historically was that in the early Church (which, remember, came into being a good three centuries before the Church compiled the Bible), veneration of the original disciples of Jesus, as well as martyrs, gained traction. Along with other men and women who lived exemplary Christian lives, these people were declared “holy” or saints. After a couple centuries or so, the number of saints declared throughout the Christian world had multiplied so dramatically that the Church thought it both prudent and practical to formalize the process. This development in no way contradicted the celebration of each of us as “holy” or saints. Catholics pray with - not to - ALL the saints: this includes their personal loved ones both living and departed as well as the canonical saints whose heroic embodiment of various Christian virtues, actions and aspirations commend them as brothers and sisters in our “prayer chain.” We hasten to add that no saint is ever “created” by canonization. The Church is simply recognizing that she or he is in heaven. Contrary to popular misconception, the Catholic Church does not hold the keys to the pearly gates.
Finally, it is crucial to remember, as the episode emphasizes, that devotion to the souls who have departed - from Grandma to St Francis of Assisi - is always directed toward God. As Vatican II puts it: “For it is by its very nature every genuine testimony of love which we show to those in heaven tends toward and terminates in Christ, who is the ‘crown of all the saints.’ Through him it tends toward and terminates in God who is wonderful in his saints and magnified in them.” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 1964, n50).
Roman Catholic practice and the Bible at odds in their understanding of saints? Not for us. We say let's just keep marching on, together.
You guys sound like those people who worship Santa Muerte. Do not deceit people!!!
Want intercession?
1. Get saved by accept Christ death for your sins, buried and resurrection for your eternal life.
1 Cor. 15:1-4
Then you can ask Jesus to intercede for you for the Bible said: " For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" 1 Tim 2:15
Hi Xuyen. We would suggest you watch the episode again. We do not pray to the saints as deities or idols, but as friends who are in heaven. We ask them to pray for us and take these prayers to God. This point is made very clearly in the episode.