To all Catholics: Can you tell me where in the bile is purgtory mention.?
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Its not in the bible, neither is praying to Mary.
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pork in many religions is considered unclean
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Bile, it is a bi-product of the liver. Please seek MD assistance. Go to ER.
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just last saturday night...imbestigador featured a really big scare: filthy brown sugar!\n\ni would like to suggest that you investigate the following staples that have been repacked and sold in the common "palengke" or market place in the philippines these days and see whether or not these are clean or at least edible :-):\n1. all other brands of brown sugar\n2. soy sauce\n3. mayonaise\n4. margarine\n5. salt\n6. others\n\ngood luck...
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It could mean you have hepatitus or a liver disorder.\n\nYour fece colour comes from the gall pignment bilirubin, which goes through gall fluid and comes out of the intestines, which is where it's turned into sterkobilin - which gives the feces their colour. Without sterkobilin, the feces are white.  \n\nThis is a common symptom in patients with pancreas cancer where the tumour causes total obstruction of the bile ducts.\n\nYou should see your doctor about this, it could mean you have a disorder.
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Receiving the Eucharist is receiving the Body and Blood of Christ himself. Without it we shall perish.
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You need a catholic for this question.  Many people of Jesus' time had exactly the question you propose.  They said this is intolerable language and many stop following him.  It is a critical point, all Christians should take it seriously.  Without explanation, Jesus turned to his disciples and said; what about you, will you leave me too?   Peter spoke up and ask, where else shall we go, you have the words of everlasting life.  They did not pretend to understand what Jesus was saying.\n\nJesus is the new Passover meal, the new covenant.  Through his blood the cruse of death will pass over believers.  Jesus replaced the old sacrifices.  He was the priest, who offered the sacrifice and he was the lamb of sacrifice.  He presented this to his apostles at the last supper, when still the apostles did not understand and then he did it physically on the Cross, he gave up his body and poured out his blood.  As the Apostles reflected on the meaning of the Cross, and remembered the words of the last supper, it then made sense.  He gave them a new Passover meal where he was the lamb and  people were to eat his flesh under the appearance of bread and blood under the appearance of wine.\n\nNow we can see it was not cannibalism but a melding of the old form of sacrifice and the new and prefect sacrifice.  The Church as tried to explain this by saying through the power of the Holy Spirit, when the priest consecrates the bread and wine at Mass, they become Christ's body and blood, just as they did at the last supper - take this bread, this is my body, and the same with the wine.\n\nWhy do you need a catholic to answer this question, because the Protestant churches lost the priesthood in the Reformation.  So they claim these words are only metaphor or figure, when clearly, scripture tells us this was intended as real by Jesus: My flesh is real food..\n\nYour's, as I said, is a critical question, bible Christians should look at its implications very seriously.
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Theres a smell, not disgusting but slightly off, a bitterness hanging in the air.  Slimy, sad, but incredibly informative.  You get to see there reproductive organs, liver heart and pancreaus.  It's in a way really kind of cool.
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Matthew 12:32; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15; Hebrews 12:29; Revelation 21:27; 1 Peter 3:19; 2 Maccabees 12:44-46.\n\nAll who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.\n\nThe Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:\n\nMatthew 12:32 infers that there is a place, neither heaven or hell, wherein sins will be forgiven in the age to come.\n\n1 Corinthians 3:10-15 talks of the fire of judgment and how one's life will be judged based on the foundations laid by Christ, losing what is impure and keeping that which is pure.\n\nHebrews 12:29 again reaffirms that God's love consumes what is impure (Deuteronomy 4:24).\n\nRevelation 21:27 tells us that nothing impure shall enter heaven (which is the reason for the purifying fire of judgment). \n\n1 Peter 3:19 tells us of Jesus' preaching to the spirits in prison. What prison? The abode of the dead (Hebrew: sheol, Greek: hades, Latin: purgatio, English: purgatory). \n\nFinally, 2 Maccabees 12:44-46 gives a very clear example but, sadly, it is not in the Protestant Bible.\n\n1 Timothy 3:15 tells us that it is the Church, not the Bible, which gives us all the truth and provides the basis for determining truth or falsity (none of the Church teachings are in conflict with the Holy Scripture.) Matthew 18:17-19 AGAIN tells us that the Church is the final authority. \n\nSt. Paul reminds us to live in accordance with all the teachings which have been given to us. We are not to be distracted by those who would try to limit the teachings if the Church. (2 Thess 2:15; 3:6)\n\nWhen asked "Where in the Bible does it say that you are to ...?" perhaps we ought to counter "Where in the Bible does it say that we are not to...?"
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Here is a copy of one man's explanation from catholic answers....\n\n\nMy epiphany came, in of all places, before the eucharistic Christ, exposed in a monstrance at perpetual eucharistic adoration.\n\nOut of convenience, I had started attending the Catholic Church with my wife. In September 1994, Bishop Harry Flynn instituted perpetual eucharistic adoration at the parish. A lazy person, not fully realizing what eucharistic adoration is, I signed up for an hour each week. I figured that the practice would give me some discipline in my prayer life.\n\nThe first time I went to adoration, I don’t remember genuflecting or even kneeling, but Jesus was working on me slowly. It didn’t take long for me to ask, "Who is this that I’m praying before?" Once I realized the answer to that question, there was nothing that could hold me back from entering the Church.\n\nI liken that experience to the risen Christ’s appearance to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Like the two disciples, I thought I knew Christ because I was familiar with his word. Yet, in the story, when Jesus uses the Old Testament to reveal himself, the disciples still do not recognize him. It is not until they reach Emmaus and he breaks bread with them that he is revealed in his fullness. Once he is revealed, nothing can hold them back. They return to Jerusalem immediately, running to tell the others of their encounter with the risen Lord.\n\nOnce Christ was revealed to me—body, blood, soul and divinity—my conversion was imminent. I approached the priest at the Catholic church I had been attending.\n\n"I cannot wait until Easter to come into the Church," I told him. "I believe everything that the Catholic Church teaches and believes. To wait feels as if I am somehow denying Christ."\n\n"Then let’s pick a date," he told me.\n\nOn March 19, 1995, the feast of St. Joseph, I was received into the Catholic Church, and for the first time I accompanied my wife to the eucharistic table of our Lord. Even now, ten years later and in this year of the Eucharist, I continue to keep my weekly appointment with Christ through not only the Mass but also the means by which I first came to know him: his veiled presence in perpetual eucharistic adoration, the "breaking of the bread"\n\nFor me personally, it is a way to be in his presence without focusing on the outside world.
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Have to look that one up in my Catholic bible, can't find it anywhere else Here's a nice link, maybe they know.
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There are some Fundamentalists around here who hold up big signs on weekend nights in one of the bar districts, informing everybody that they're going to hell for sucking down a margarita. They've been doing it for years. Most people think they're serious nutjobs. I'm a Catholic, and I prefer my religion to be a bit more sutble than that. Let God sort out the sinners; it's not in my job description.
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HAHA!!!  I just posted a similar question!!  Sorry, not laughing at you!  I definitely have the same thing going on.  The frustrating part is I work in the healthcare field and I can't figure out what is going on.  There is a condition called Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction which is a spasm of the opening of the bile duct into the small intestine.  The problem with this is that doctors don't really believe there is such a condition and the testing for it (ERCP) can often times cause pancreatitis.  I was under treatment at The Cleveland Clinic for about 6 months, but I am relocating to another large city for a job and I may look there for a specialist.  I have been told this is Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but knowing a lot about medicine, I know it's not.  I will not stop looking until someone figures out what this pain is.  I encourgae you to do the same.  Don't give up.  We'll find an answer.  E-mail me if you want to talk about this issue more!!!  I wold love to get a little support group type thing going.  Let me know.
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Catholic. Every week and on holy days of obligation. I"m even planning on spending First Friday adoration there sometime (an hour of prayer before the eucharist that lasts all night. YOu sign up for your hour so the church knows to not lock the doors) and I used to be an active member of the League of Mary (a charitable prayer group)
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Ah, another excellent question.  \n\nI believe you are searching for the book of Effervescence, chapter 11 verse 4-6.\n\n"...and lo, the Charlatan of Azimuth looked upon the leavings of the feast of Thomas of Chutney, and, at last sated, engaged in the loosening of the holy belt of Equitatus, in His name.  \n\nAnd, belching mightily, the Lord extracted from the offal the forked bone of Thomas, and cast it amongst the heavenly host, that they might contest with it for His favor, saying 'Let he with the hunger everlasting, be sated in my presence.  Let the cranberries and candied yams be forthcoming, and let all who set stock in the setting of stock, let their soup pots o'er flow.  Suffer unto me the eggnog and pumpkin pies.\n\nThus the forked bone came unto the angel's Flatulancia and Incontonancia, who in turn grasped and grappled for it until, at the end of their contest, Flatulancia emerged the victor, and winning favor with the Lord, was in turn granted dominion over those lips which hath never spoken a lie..."
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When the infirmed are in the hospital, it is not exactly wise to ask them to help with the mopping and changing of sheets.\nHowever, do not look to your church to fill you. Look to the Lord. Ask Him to fill you to overflowing. If you church is not feeding you the Word of God, go someplace that teaches it properly. In the mean time, get yourself into a cyberstudy on your computer. Here is a good place to start...
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prep_girl_nessa  what you know about pagans wouldn't cover the tip of a rats wiener!..Where did you hear that pagans engage in cannibalism or drinking blood?.. You been watching too many HollyWIERD movies...lol\n \n  You guys are talking about communion..It is Figurative, symbolic! There is no flesh eating or blood drinking.. not by Christians OR Pagans.. yikes.. the ignorance and stupidity that goes on out here.. sheeees