Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts

11/14/2008

How to become a saint

It's called diocesan process step by which examines all the documents and testimony presented with the intention of turning into a holy person.

First, someone posits the candidate. Usually what makes a congregation, although the presentation to the Church authorities may also be in charge of an individual.

Then he finds out the truth of the virtues mentioned, while calling reports to Rome. Should any of the findings provide negative data, will start the diocesan process, which takes several steps:

• It appointed a committee that reviews and evaluates life and work of the candidate.

• is appointed by a court, with delegates from the archdiocese, a notary, a person of the applicant, and so on., Quoting the witnesses (if they are alive).

• When you find the virtues, the person becomes venerable to be (as the case of Ceferino Namuncurá).

• When there is a miracle reliably verified by the ecclesiastical authorities, we will appointed blessed and is considered a model for an entire congregation or group.

• When the second miracle occurs, the case is taken as a model for the universal church and then it is considered holy.

The condiiciones to become a saint are, essentially, be Roman Catholic and apostolic model have been living and virtue.

According to recent standards, to start the diocesan process (ie, all inquiries), it must wait five years have elapsed from the death of the person.

11/29/2007

She didnt Like it

A mother of three children got tired that the witness of Jehová played him unfailingly the door.
So he/she waited to the Sunday service of the group and it began to hit the door of the church offering gratuitous magazines. Jane White, thirty five years old, has been visited in the tranquility of its home by this persistent group during more than twelve years.
One day the drop surpassed the glass, so he/she left to the church “The entrance to the Kingdom”, in Peacehaven, East Sussex, Great Britain and it began to hit the door. It interrupted the religious service during more than one hour offering magazines free.
It was moved away by the police. Then, Jane commented: “I never made something like that, but the witness's visit the previous day the straw that left him the back to the camel was. They have played me the door for twelve years, when I moved to Peacehaven.
They are not their credos those that object, but the continuous and bothersome invasion to my privacy.
I planned my visit for ten in the morning because he/she knew that they would be in the means of a service.
Some members of the congregation took it with humor, other not. I tried to give them you have gratuitous, just as them they make it with me... but nobody wanted them...”