Well said, Roland.........too many of us spend a lot of time in supplication to the saints with special prayers/ novenas and seem to lose sight of the Holy Trinity ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "roland.francis" <roland.fran...@ymail.com> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 12:01 PM Subject: [Goanet] St. Francis Xavier
> Personally, in the manner of Protestantism, I don't beleive in honoring > saints. Of the little time we allot to God, it is best not to dissipate any > with lesser beings. > > if one must spend precious prayers on saints, then it must be to respect the > memory of what they have done rather ask them for spiritual and temporal > favors. Why ask the nobles in a royal court when the king allows you to ask > him directly? > > The worst of all this is to worship the dead body of a long gone saint > however realtively well preserved. The problem with this is what has recently > happened. Someone claimed that the body of Francis Xavier is actually that of > a revered Buddhist. > > Not being in a position to verify whether the body is that of the Spaniard > priest or of a Ceylonese Buddhist, wouldn't the spirit of the saint be a > surer bet to pray to if I was so disposed, rather than his questionable body. > > Ah, the ways of organized religion. > > Roland. > > > Sent from Samsung Mobile
