Catholic Mass from a Protestant Perspective - Part 3 by Mike Cumbie

[onemarktwoyou]

It took me a little bit. But I am sure it is lifestyle that convinced him to become catholic.

[stang46281]

@onemarktwoyou no it was the TRUTH.

[onemarktwoyou]

@stang46281

What? Truth? Didn't his mannerism seem a little GAY to you?

[billyblues1888]

it shouldn't be about religion it should just be about GOD

[neverforgiving]

@RainBirdLori Yes that is correct. Brain fart, I said Easter when I should have said the Triduum. I did not know about the Altar of Repose though, but now that I looked at it it makes sense.

Sometimes Tabernacles are located in strange places, however. I have seen off to the side, but the weirdest location was in a room behind the altar (so a wall separating the two).

You are very knowledgeable about Tradition, perhaps you might also be an Apologetic?

[wardenphil]

At the end, when he says, "If the candle is lit.....", does a lit candle signifiy that the Tabernackle contains consecretated hosts?

[neverforgiving]

@wardenphil Yes it does. Sometimes the candle is not lit, but if the Tabernacle is close, it is an indication that there are Hosts present. The only time the Tabernacle is open and there are no Hosts is during Easter, at which time, a bow to the Altar is in place of genuflection.

[RainBirdLori]

@neverforgiving That's not quite right. The Tabernacle is empty during the Triduum - the three days preceding Easter. At this time the consecrated Body and Blood is kept in the "Altar of Repose" which is meant to represent the Tomb. The Tabernacle is otherwise "host" to the physical presence.

[RainBirdLori]

@RainBirdLori Oh... and the bow to the altar is in deference to the relics that are housed within. All proper altars have a reliquary inside them.

[Hugo725]

where's part 4? I wana watch the continuation of his talk.

[szqsk8]

Oops, we don't splash in the holy water as he acted out splashing water under his arms.

[RainBirdLori]

@szqsk8 Nah... we swat the flies away! It's a joke and meant to emphasize the point, we should not do this, but REMEMBER, which connotes slowing down and thinking.

[szqsk8]

He's wrong about bowing or kneeling at the pew. One also crosses themselves after genuflecting. It's because you are in the house of the Lord. I've never seen the red candle he's referring to and the Tabernacle holding The Host is not always off to the side. It's interesting to hear a convert's take on Catholicism but what's with the jokes?He just glossed over the holy water fonts at the doors. Didn't even explain what one dies with it. We 'splash' in it.

[monkeyman3895]

@szqsk8 Clearly you've never been to a proper Catholic Church then. The tabernacle by doctrine is to be kept in a place of honor near the front of the church... that is the reason we genuflect. I know this and I am a cradle Catholic, not a convert. We are kneeling before Christ our Lord as one would do before his throne.

[RainBirdLori]

@szqsk8 If you've never seen the Vigil Light (red candle) you aren't looking very hard. The Tabernacle is most often directly behind the altar, and the candle is usually (when you are looking from the pew section) to the upper left of the Tabernacle.

[dirtboy7777]

I'm Catholic and outside a few things maybe he should have said more detail about, I'd say he's on the right path..

[dhide14]

@dirtboy7777 shut the fuck up

[dirtboy7777]

@dhide14, your one of those people that must have got picked on in school and now have computer balls, its ok.

[IgaNinja91]

This person doesnt know Catholism or why catholics do what they do. The persession is from the days after christ when the romans would persicute a christian worshipping christ. Christians of the day had to worship christ in cave tombs wich explains why the catholic mass has a alter that resembles a tomb. This guy doesnt tell everything but makes everything a joke. When you bow or kneal at your pew this is respect in the house of the lord.

[279cute]

@IgaNinja91 This video is titled "from a protestant prospective"..Mike cumbie is a protestant pastor who converted to catholicism and explaining what really is the truth about catholicism versus how he previously perceived the catholic church. His audience are evangelicals as well as other converts and he is talking to their "evangelical protestant language" which somehow he was able to lead them home back to Rome.