Saint Medal
Amulets and PendantsCharms are also known as amulets and pendants. They are as popular today as they have been all around recorded history. Ancient Egyptians wore bracelets with charms or amulets. They were applied to protect versus bad luck and evil forces. They begun with religious symbols and became a share of daily dressing. Charms/jewelry were made of closely any material of value to persons in their time. Many were made of precious metal. Others were made with gemstones inlaid in them or mounted with precious metals in the form of necklaces, crowns, staffs, and bracelets. Queen Victoria gets the credit for popularizing jewelry charms allround Europe by wearing lockets or charms on her royal bracelets America became enchante with Charms around the time frame of World War II. Soldiers returning from obligation station brought with them respective types of charms or pendants. Today usual charms are maded from Gold and Sterling silver. Other materials are still employed in the making of charms. Sterling Silver Charms today represent as a lot of things as there are interests and personalities. Some charms or pendants represent the religious leanings of the wearer. They also represent the interest of the wearer such a musical instrument for a music lover, a pair of sneakers for a jogger, or ballet slippers for a ballerina. Imagination is the only limit for what a charm may represent. Silver charms are likewise used to commerate life events such as births, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, or graduations. Silver is a soft metal and it is usage has been bestloved for centuries. It is employed to make charms often times affiliated to religious worship. Silver has been a symbol of comfortable living. Sterling silver is much more inviolable than pure silver which is harder to work with when making pendants or charms. Sterling silver is approximately ninety percent silver. The last ten percent or so may be any one of the following: copper, zinc, or nickel and is more lasting than pure silver but it still retains it is inherent beauty. Charms whether made of sterling silver or a good deal of other materials are oftentimes used to represent the person who wears or carries the charm. As has been brought up however, they often represent the interests and personality of the wearer. During war peculiar items are given to the soldiers who are going off to fight. When a young teen-aged couple 'goes steady' the young man in general gives the girl his ring or something of queer value to him. The girls might also do the same.
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Catholics: what are your saint medals or medallions employed for? I recognise that a heap of Catholics will wear a medal with, say, St. Christopher on it, and this is supposed to provide them with a great deal of sort of protection. I'm just curious. Do you believe the actual medal will fetch you protection, or that by wearing it, you are under the shelter of that Saint? I'm not a Catholic, so I don't actually get it. I'm not attempting to be disrespectful or anything. I'm just marveling what the deal is with the medals. And what is the divergence among them and a cross or crucifix? For that matter, what is the deal with the Saints anyway? And the Virgin Mary? I recognise you don't pray TO the Saints, but through them. How is that supposed to work? Once again, it is just something I've always wondered. Please don't give me galore website where I have to read a novel to get the answers. Just a brief overview of the subject will suffice. Thank you!! Medals were found in the Roman Catacombs from the Christians of the introductory 3 centuries. They are not worn for protection, the Church teaches versus such superstition. Saints to the Christian community are like gold medalists in the athletic community. Saints have evidenced Christ in their lives in an exemplary manner. Medals are worn as a reminder to pray, as well as to give due honour to them (not worship). Eph. 3:14-15- we are all one family ("Catholic") in heaven and on earth, unified together, as children of the Father, through Jesus Christ. Our brothers and sisters who have gone to heaven before us are not a dissimilar family. We are one and the same family. This is why, in the Apostles Creed, we profess a faith in the "communion of saints." There can not be a "communion" if there is no union. Loving beings, whether on world or in heaven, are concerned for other beings, and this concern is reflected spiritually through prayers for one another. Eph. 1:22-23; 5:23-32; Col. 1:18,24 - this family is in Jesus Christ, the head of the body, which is the Church. 1 Cor. 12:12,27; Rom. 12:5; Col. 3:15; Eph. 4:4 - we are the members of the one body of Christ, supernaturally linked together by our partaking of the Eucharist. Rom. 8:35-39 - therefore, death does not distinguished the family of God and the love of Christ. We are still merged with each other, even beyond death. Matt. 17:3; Mark 9:4; Luke 9:30 - Jesus converses with "deceased" Moses and Elijah. They are more alive than the saints on earth. Matt. 22:32; Mark 12:27; Luke 20:38 - God is the God of the living not the dead. The living on world and in heaven are one family. 1 Tim 2:1-2 - because Jesus Christ is the one mediator amongst God and man (1 Tim. 2:5), a good deal of Protestants deny the Catholic faith that the saints on world and in heaven may mediate on our behalf. But before Paul's instructing when it comes to Jesus as the "one mediator," Paul urges supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people. Paul is therefore likeable for mediation from others besides Christ, the one mediator. Why? 1 Tim 2:3 - because this subordinate mediation is good and satisfactory to God our Savior. Because God is our Father and we are His children, God invites us to participate in Christ's role as mediator. 1 Tim. 2:5 - therefore, though Jesus Christ is the sole mediator among God and man, there are a lot of intercessors (subordinate mediators). 1 Cor. 3:9 - God invites us to participate in Christ's work because we are God's "fellow workers" and one family in the body of Christ. God wants His children to participate. The phrase employed to describe "fellow workers" is "sunergoi," which in a literal sense means synergists, or cooperators with God in salvific matters. Does God need fellow workers? Of course not, but this shows how much He, as Father, loves His children. God wants us to work with Him. Mark 16:20 - this is another example of how the Lord "worked with them" ("sunergountos"). God cooperates with us. Out of His eternal love, He invites our participation. Rom. 8:28 - God "works for good with" (the Greek is "sunergei eis agathon") those who love Him. We work as subordinate mediators. 2 Cor. 6:1 - "working together" (the Greek is "sunergountes") with him, don't receive His grace in vain. God allows us to participate in His work, not because He needs our help, but because He loves us and wants to exalt us in His Son. It is like the father who lets his child join him in carrying the groceries in the house. The father does not need help, but he invites the child to support to raise up the child in dignity and love. Heb. 12:1 - the “cloud of witnesses” (nephos marturon) that we are surrounded by is a outstanding amphitheatre of witnesses to the earthly race, and they actively participate and cheer us (the runners) on, in our race to salvation. Best Video on Mary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aU18v-tl8I |
