The One True Church (audio only)

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Notes of the One True Church

"when." says St. Cyprian, "the devil saw that the worship of idols was abolished, and the heathen temples emptied, he be thought him of a new poison, and led men into error under the cover of the Christian religion, the poison of the false doctrine and pride, through which more than two hundred churches have started up in opposition to the True Church founded by Christ." Now God has ordained that men should come to knowledge of truth; i.e., of the True Church as distinguished from all others by certain marks.

I. The True Church is that one which is most persecuted by the world and which has received God's seal in the form of miracles.
II. The True Church is that one in which the successor of St Peter is to be found.
III. The True Church is known by the following four marks: she is One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic.

By: Wendy Holland
One Sunday Morning Last June, through a sequence of spontaneous events, with no forethought,desire, or planning, I ended up at a Tridentine Mass. I didn't know what a Tridentine Mass (Traditional Latin Mass) was; I had never heard of such a thing. I was raised by a Protestant mother and Catholic father, neither particularly observant, and as a teen in my early seventies fell away from both religions.  The few times I have had occasion to go to a church service, whether Protestant of Catholic, I felt they were "empty".

And then, last June, the universe intervened and crash landed me in a Traditional Latin Mass. I felt so disoriented by the experience of the Mass. My mind couldn't grasp what was happening and what these people were doing.

By the second week I was attending traditional masses several times a week... and continuing. The Mass unambiguously, unapologetically and powerfully establishes the true relationship of God and man, that is, man is under God.  At first I felt embarrassed to kneel and say words like:  "We praise Thee. We bless Thee.  We adore Thee.  We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory, Lord God, heavenly King.", my egocentric mind rebelling at this direct acknowledgement of who's who. Now, however, these words are humbling and moving because of the truth I feel in them. This  is a real and serious attitude adjustment ! I'm not the boss of me. 

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