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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
1. Your using her cross to pray prayers - good with that. But must they all be Catholic confessions?
2. And what "feels okay" about praying a Hail Mary?
3. How about a Hare Krishna? How about pray to Buddha next?
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1. The Paternoster is scriptural per
Matthew 6:9-13 and
Luke 11:2-4 and is not just Roman Catholic. Jesus gave us those models as index prayers but to use them word for word is, in my opinion, OK also. The Apostles' Creed is Christianity 101 and fulfills
Romans 10:9-13. The Glory Be may not be found in Scripture but I do not believe it is unscriptural.
2. The use of the Hail Mary may elicit differences of opinion among Christians. Some believe that the Church is made up of the Church Triumphant (those in Heaven) plus the Church Militant (those still on earth) and asking someone in the Church Triumphant to pray for you is not really different than asking for someone in the Church Militant to pray for you. Actually, much of the wording in the Hail Mary comes from
Luke 1:28,
Luke 1:42-43, and
Luke 1:48.
3. I don't know anything about Hare Krishna prayers and since Gautama Buddha died 4 to 6 hundred years BC and was just a man, I would not pray to him.
By the way, I did not pray the Hail Mary.
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