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why didnt the catholic church do what Jesus said here?

" 13Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her."

The Catholic Church no where made a memorial for her, they didn't even know her name, not even by "tradition".

So why did the Roman Catholic Church disobey?

You didn't cite your source.. which makes me think you don't expect to get an answer. You are specifically pulling out an obscure reference and not citing it for a reason, I imagine.

This verse was most likely plucked conveniently from Mat 26:13 without reference or sighting the verses before or after it. Is THAT preaching the gospel in its fullness?? hmmm?

For those not fluent in Old-English the NIV renders the verse this way:

I'll start at verse 10:

"10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 13 I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

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Anyways...

The verses concern the charity and mercy of a women in preparing a Jesus for burial. - Whether she realized this or not.
Her act of kindness was to be remembered by the Apostles.

I FIRST want to start by Which church HAS done this?

Secondly, the words that Jesus spoke were to the Apostles. How do you know the Apostles did NOT remember her?
Furthermore, do we not know that the Catholic church has NOT remembered her either?

As one person pointed out. The event is in the Bible. Taht means an Apostle wrote it down.
WHO decided what to include or exclude in the bible? that's RIGHT.. the Catholic Church. BINGO! so the Catholic church remembers it as well.

The Catholic church is the world's largest Charitiable organization besides the US government.
It is the largest provider of Health care in the world. With over 5,000 hospitals and clinics in the world. MOST in poor parts of Africa and India.

The women was no doubt attending to the needs of the sick, and dying, to Jesus and this Leper in this case.
In ancient times and even today.. The Catholic church has always been involved in helping lepers around the world at many of its clinics.

In this way the church very much remembers this women and re-tells her story.
Compassion, mercy, and helping the needy is the single largest mission of the Catholic church besides spreading the Gospel.

What have YOU done to remember her?

I am a Catholic and very proud to be. I hope that was not enough to make you stop reading this article. Usually it only takes the fact that I am Catholic for those that are not Catholic to stop talking to me about religion. This is because we are all human and I have to admit that I do not have the deepest understanding of many different religions, but I would like to clear up a few of the myths about the Catholic religion.

First, Catholics do not worship statues. This is a myth and one of the most popular ones. Many protestants want you use this myth to say that Catholics worship idols, but this is just not true. Why do we have statues in the Catholic church? Simple, back when there was not the great printing press and bibles were more expensive than most men's wages for 3 years, the Catholics used statues to teach their children about the bible.

If you think about it for a minute and you picture the statues in the Catholic churches you will realize that they all have to do with one of the passages from the bible. This made it much easier to teach children about the bible. It is visual and a parent can tell the story that the statues or stained glass windows represent to their children.

Second, Catholics worship Mary and the Saints. This is so false that it almost makes me laugh. Anybody that says that Catholics worship Mary or Saints needs to study more about the Catholic religion before you start telling us what we believe. Sure we pray to the saints and to Mary, but why would we not. It only makes sense to ask those that are up in heaven to pray for you. We ask our family members to pray for us and our friends to pray for us, so why not the saints and Mary.

On another note about Mary. The forth commandment is to honor thy father and thy mother. So if we are all the brothers and the sisters of Jesus Christ, then Mary is our mother and we are supposed to honor her as well, right?

Last, the Catholic church thinks they are better than all other faiths and is above them. This is an attitude that comes from HUMAN BEINGS, not the Catholic church. The one thing I run into more than any other thing is that the Catholic church did something, like molest little boys. You have to understand that even Priests are HUMAN BEINGS, they sin. We are all humans and this means that the Catholic church is also not hypocritical because that is the HUMAN BEINGS in the church not the Catholic religion.

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