Blessed Mary MacKillop (Confirmation Research homework project)

[brokenscimitar]

I prayed for god to make me an atheist, and now I am! It’s a miracle!

[KiLLBoRNx]

What program did you usee. 

[darkgrb]

Media have been talking this event for obvious reasons. Mary McKillop happened to be recognized as saint, the first Australian saint. This process, clearly, could not be ignored by media, since millions of people are Catholic.

Once the canonization is over and fades away, the media will not talk about this event any more, and media will bring up other topics.

One can legitimately talk on religion, as well as *can legitimately talk on atheism*, on food, on football, etc. It's called liberalism.

[josenoscati]

i think your project deserves an A

[MRMILO57]

You people supporting this MacKillop religious cause, l am very offended by all this hype!

The Australian news media disgust me, how dare you people throw this in my face!

[daggyz1959]

@MRMILO57

Move your face out of the way. Seriously, Mckillop is not a biblical saint, she's a Catholic saint. But the fact you have got offended by it is of more concern!

[MRMILO57]

@daggyz1959 ...l am irriligious and have every right to be offended!

l can do without all this religious rubbish thrown in my face, when I turn on my tv!

[daggyz1959]

Saint is the NT word for what now refer to as “Christians”. Therefore 'sainthood' (decided by the church) is a Catholic idea, but has nothing to do with anything biblical as all who believe are 'saints' as referred to by Paul, Peter and others. There are 57 biblical references to the saints as ordinary believers. How do Catholics feel about this?

[kingvoyager]

@daggyz1959 Are you a saint? Are you performing miracles?

[daggyz1959]

@kingvoyager

Saints are ordinary believers. Miracle workers have special gifts and perform 'miracles' as in do mnay of them. And yes, I've prayed for healings and seen them but thats commonplace. The last miracle to occur in our church was a guy given three days to live and now is fully healed. We haven't given any special place to the one who prayed as this should be the norm for spirit filled believers.

[kingvoyager]

@daggyz1959 Stop believe in false Prophets! Matthew 7: 20 "So you will recognize them by their fruit. Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. On that Day, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord! Didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we expel demons in your name? Didn't we perform many miracles in your name?'Then I will tell them to their faces, 'I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!'

[kingvoyager]

@daggyz1959 Saints are Intercessors, Not Mediators The only Mediator between God & Humans is Jesus Christ. Do not confusing prayer with worship. True worship as opposed to (veneration or honor) does indeed belong to God alone, & we should never worship man or any other creature as we worship God. But while worship may take the form of prayer, We do not pray to the saints but with them, , we’re simply asking them to help us, by praying to God on our behalf. Do you ask other people pray for you?

[daggyz1959]

@kingvoyager

Just to reinforce. The Bible says a saint is an ordinary believer. My question is what does the Catholic church say about that? Not your opinion?

[kingvoyager]

@daggyz1959 According to the Catholic Church a Saint can be officially canonized or not. Saints are those who follow Jesus Christ & live their lives according to his teaching. The term refer especially to holy men & women who, through extraordinary lives of virtue, have already entered Heaven.

The Catholic Church has Canonized & Acclaimed Saints that already are in the heaven e.g: the Apostles, All Jesus’s Companions, this include the Early Martyrs, The Missionaries to the New World etc.

[daggyz1959]

@kingvoyager

According to the Catholic church but the Bible begs to differ. Believers are regarded in the NT as sons of God, as well as saints, while they live.

So the Catholic church just sees it differently then?

[kingvoyager]

@daggyz1959 The word "Saint" literally means "Holy" in the New Testament, "Saint" referred to all who believed in Jesus Christ & followed his teachings. St. Paul often addressed 2 saints see for instance, Ephesians 1:1 & 2 Corinthians 1:1 & the Acts of the Apostles talks about St. Peter going to visit the saints in Lydda (Acts 9:2) The assumption was that those who followed Christ had been so transformed that they were now different from other men and women & thus, should be considered holy.

[daggyz1959]

@kingvoyager

Thats what I was suggesting. The Catholic Church don't sem follow the Bible all the time and rewrite theology like Mary... Nowhere in the scriptures does it say to pray to Mary or any other human born of two human parents. They have idols in hier churches etc. And where's the assumption of being holy? It's a command, or at leats a goal.

[kingvoyager]

@daggyz1959 You should read all the Bible, but before pray to God for wisdom because you have difficulty to understand it. Mary is mentioned in the Bible many times e.g. Matthew 1, Luke 1, Luke 2, Mark 6,John 19.25, Revelation 12.17:Rev 12: 1-5, Revelation 12.17: etc. You must preaching the Gospel and not spend valuable time to preaching hate toward teachings of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church that was founded by Jesus Christ personally. Jesus say "Love one another! Not hate

[kingvoyager]

@daggyz1959 The Catholic Bible has been the same for nearly 2,000 years. We use the same set of Old Testament books as Jesus and the Apostles used. But Protestant reformers rejected some of those original books in the 1500s, creating a Protestant Bible. We can't change that historical fact just because some reformers rejected parts of the Bible during the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s.

[Achilles1389]

Do a search on you tube for:

" Should Christians support Israel "

It's a well researched and informative video by Dr David Duke!!!

[NATJIMTOT]

in 101 years she only performed 2 miracles whilst 1000s would of prayed to her for help.....RUBBISH...then why isn,t the catholic church the leaders in medicine??

a. there is no god!

b. there is no jesus

c. there is no holy ghost

d. there is no devil.

MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE.

[NATJIMTOT]

evil evil rubbish....catholic church is so evil its crazy...millions of innocent people murdered by the catholic church! millions of their followers starving whilst churches laiden with gold.

evil crap! brainwashing at its very best!

[truthjustice7878]

Mary MacKillop is NOT Australia's first Saint and NOT a Saint at all according to the Bible which teaches that all Born Again Believers are Saints (members of the Christian Church). MacKillop was a Catholic lady who tried to stop children from being molested by Catholic Priests. Today's Hitler Youth Pope (Ratzinger) has been caught protecting such Priests. The Pope has NO warrant in Scripture to "recognise" anyone as a Saint regardless of so called miracles or martyrdom.

[enzedgirl90]

ahahaha you didn't study anything...you've taken all this info, word for word, off wikipedia!!

[dramadoll95]

@enzedgirl90 Did I claim that I wrote it myself? No I didn't think so, it was a RESEARCH project, like it says in the title :)

[SHERIPERRI]

beautiful xx

[internezzo]

i couldn't goddamn fuckin read the text, and the muzac suxked shit big time.

[bluewren2]

Sorry don't like the music at all.

[clementine1000]

Freakystyley4000 sounds like you think YOU are God. Hmm, paranoid? Please, seek psychiatric help!

[clementine1000]

The Sisters (Brown Joeys) and those many others who also share the Mary MacKillop spirit continue the work which she began.Seen in big city schools, on dusty bush tracks, in modern hospitals, in caravans, working with the "little ones" of God - the homeless, the new migrant, the Aboriginal, the lonely and the unwanted, in direct care and in advocacy, in standing with and in speaking with. In their endeavours to reverence the human dignity of others and to change unjust structures.

[clementine1000]

Oops, that is Edward Peters book entitled Inquisition. Professor of Medieval History, U. of Pennsylvania. You are talking about the Black Legend and not history. Like the play "The Deputy" tried to demonize Pope Pius XII when Pinchas Lapide, a Jewish historian, theologian and Israeli ambassador, stated that the actions and policies of Pius XII saved as many as 860000 Jews.

[clementine1000]

1BustedMyth,

Copernicus was a monk. Catholics know at least how to spell his name.

Freakystyley4000,

You subscribe to the Myth of the Inquisition and not to the history of the middle ages which are a remarkable era of art, religion, and yes, law. 2000 people died in 4 centuries under the hands of European nations, not the Catholic Church. Check out Peterson's Inquisition on Amazon. Professor of Medieval History, University of Pennsylvania.

[kingazzaman]

What a crock of superstitious nonsense.

[1BustedMyth]

As a south australian I am ashamed.

There I was hoping we had grown up a little in the last 500 years

Mary is a saint and Capernicus was a sinner???

[gingermeggsau]

love this clip but just cant get it to play through

[freakystyley4000]

So she's to hold rank with notable torturers, inquisitors, murderers of the Dark Ages? Peachy, but don't give me this 'cured inoperable lung cancer bullshit'.

[gingermeggsau]

what a sad little individual u r, does it feel good having a soap box.

[freakystyley4000]

As an atheist I do in fact feel a lot more superior to any deist. And yes, youtube has been a great soap box and recruiting tool for us.

[Stumperx]

I'm guessing the Roman Catholic church have a policy of giving different countries their own saints to prop up declining worship. Its a tactic to keep the belief in an ancient superstition going. The gullible won't see it that way of course.

[freakystyley4000]

Of course not. It's only been a matter of years since the faithful were worshipping a fence post at Coogee Beach.

[GIGiulia]

That's great but don't like the song with it. Doesn't go together

[zzytrewq]

What a scam it is for a religion to declare miracles. Talk about Dracula in charge of the blood bank. Superstition to the extreme.

[iviliamu]

I'm happy with St Mary Mackillop as the 2nd Coming. She have similarities with Mary Magdelene as proclaim in Da Vinci Code the family line of Mary M and Jesus. I read&analyse from Matthew to Revelation. Who more mention, more closer, more love to Jesus is Mary Magdelene not Mary the Mother. Jesus 1st Message after resuccection is to Mary M to go tell the GoOD news so Mary M still ALIVE til the End. Mary M anointed Jesus to beloved KING and John1135 Jesus wept because Jesus loves Mary Mackillene.

[DreamsofCentaurs]

wow she really did give up all her time she couldnt have had time for anything else!

[vizini1]

Does anyone know the status of Mary MacKillop's cannonization process

[rmalavisi]

Thanks so much for your Confirmation Homework video - I enjoyed it very much. Being a Sister of St Joseph myself, I'm inspired when other young people also are moved by the life of Mary MacKillop. Good luck with the Confirmation - I'll be praying for you.

[dramadoll95]

Thank you very much :)

x

[holygranny]

Very Good video, nice choice of song.

Now I know which street Blessed Mary McKillop lived on....

I have one question? Why chose a weird australian? do you also koala bears....are maltesters from australia or something?

thanks Orla,

Good job,

Niamh

[dramadoll95]

Lol, she's really nice and she did loads of really good things, like educating poor children so tehy may be able to escape poverty.

I don't know actually, but I'm eating them right now :) X