Want to Start an Argument (among Catholics)? Just Say “Yoga”

Catholic Stand ^ | January 19, 2014 | Patti Maguire Armstrong

[untwist]

And who is to decide what alters spirituality? Who is to make perfect judgment on what is ‘bad’? I go to church every Sunday, and I see families come to Mass in clothing we would’ve considered ‘bad’ when I was a child. St. Joan of Arc, the patron saint of my parish was considered bad for wearing men’s clothing while she was fighting and proclaiming the word of God.

My friend, you are no more Catholic than I. One thing I recognize from studying history and experiencing life is that we humans make an awful lot of mistakes when we presume to know the will of God. Jesus Christ made it very simple - we are first called to love. With love, fear always loses. To say that practicing yoga may separate us from the Holy Trinity and God’s love, is utter nonsense.

[untwist]

And who is to decide what alters spirituality? Who is to make perfect judgment on what is ‘bad’? I go to church every Sunday, and I see families come to Mass in clothing we would’ve considered ‘bad’ when I was a child. St. Joan of Arc, the patron saint of my parish was considered bad for wearing men’s clothing while she was fighting and proclaiming the word of God.

My friend, you are no more Catholic than I. One thing I recognize from studying history and experiencing life is that we humans make an awful lot of mistakes when we presume to know the will of God. Jesus Christ made it very simple - we are first called to love. With love, fear always loses. To say that practicing yoga may separate us from the Holy Trinity and God’s love, is utter nonsense.

[stanne]

Gregorian chants were devised by pope st Gregory

A saint

Inspired by the Holy Spirit

Some holy people, FR b groeschel, for one, have stated that the enemy hates latin

When you go to a church, during mass, with the Eucharist present and men are chanting gregorian, words of praise to God, and all who and that are holy, thousands of angels from heaven are present, including the guardian angel of everyone present, you can be certain that if evil or pagan gods are around, they are far from the incense,

You can think its about introspection and nothing necessarily to do with God, but that does not make it true

Yoga in a shopping center gym invites spirits which have nothing to do with those which Gregorian chant invites

Go to a local parish service which has them, and you will see

[stanne]

This post itself might just inform a lot of people who are asking in their prayers.

Some guy might be asking, ‘why is my marriage off?’

This is how it works

Joan of arc is recognized as a very holy woman, a saint. Don’t doubt it. To bring up how she was treated is silly

Go to Rouen if you doubt it

[metmom]

MB asks: “While it’s true that most yoga positions are designed to be positions of worship to Hindu gods, I find it hard to believe that there’s any danger in practicing them when it’s just being done as an exercise.” - See more at: http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=17011#sthash.ggtxRmmq.89BjEVzj.dpuf

My understanding of the yoga postures is that they are indeed prayer positions and that those positions indicate to the demon (Hindu god) that one is receptive to it.

IOW it invites the demonic being by indicating an openness to its presence.

[verga]

And how many times have we said that he Catholic Church is able to take previously "pagan" practices and give them a twist to make them fully Christian?There is nothing wrong with doing yoga as a stretching exercise, or as a meditation on the Rosary , Creed etc...

Putting on the asbestos clothing, for the flaming I am about to get.

[untwist]

You are missing my point. In Joan of Arc’s time, the informed view among the powers of the church was that she was a heretic, a nut. They were fearful of her and did not object to her being burned. We perhaps have been enlightened over 500 years and now don’t see things that way. It wasn’t that long ago that Catholics directly laid the blame for the crucifixion at the feet of the Jews and shunned and persecuted them. Who was our Pope just visiting and embracing a few weeks ago? Did God will us to have the hatred and rift, or the rapprochement and embrace?

Pope Francis is getting awfully close to blessing gay unions? What is God’s will on this? Our faith and growth in holy spirit is far, far more rich than some ideologue claiming that practicing yoga may separate us from the Holy Trinity. That’s so small and silly that in the big scheme of the challenges we face as a faith, it’s simply a laughable claim.

[Salvation]

From Father Amorth's article:

The devil speaks New Age. "Yoga is the work of the devil,” says Pauline priest Father Gabriele Amorth, founder and honorary president of the World Association of Exorcists. And Harry Potter, the literary and cinematic idol of so many children, is a testimony of magic; science is "not able to ’invent’ anything." At the seventh edition of "Peoples and Religions Umbria Film Fest," Father Amorth declared that "even seemingly innocuous Eastern practices like yoga are devious and dangerous."

[Rebelbase]

Thank-you for common sense.

[stanne]

Back up.

You are proving the point of the headline.

If you think we are enlightened, compared with those in former times, you might want to rethink your premises.

people think, now, that they are impervious to the enemy.

It’s never been more wrong a notion.

The Pope might be off on his advice in economics, and other things, but he will never be able to bring the Church to an acceptance of the practice of homosexuality.

Read the papal document on human sexuality

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/family/documents/rc_pc_family_doc_08121995_human-sexuality_en.html

[untwist]

Thank you for reassuring me that I am not the only one who thinks this way. Sometimes the things I see and read make me wonder.

[untwist]

Thanks. I don’t know how we can live in this complex world of ours and abide the judgments of some who are really out of touch with what faith and Holy Spirit are all about.

[untwist]

Thank you. Glad I am not alone in thinking this way.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— “ Father Amorth declared that “even seemingly innocuous Eastern practices like yoga are devious and dangerous.” -—

My understanding is that in Hinduism, the positions are a part of Hindu prayer/worship. The concern is that, as when innocent children play with a Ouija board, these practices may open a door to the demonic.

At the very least, yoga-for-stretching can serve to interest people in Eastern spirituality, i.e., Hinduism or New Age practices. New Age practices are particularly dangerous.

[Boogieman]

Sure, as soon as you stop making it a public issue by posting about it, I will.

[Talisker]

The problem is that yoga holds that all existence is one; there is no distinction between God and the universe. Through enlightenment a person becomes one with all of existence.

Versus what - that the universe is made of something other than God? Which would mean that God is not infinite, because there's something outside of God?

LOL, sorry, but no. It's all God. All of it. That's what the word "infinite" means.

[cva66snipe]

Yoga’s OK all he wants is a full picnic basket. Boo Boo needs to catch on and stop being a wimp. Two baskets is better than one. Ranger Smith needs to mellow out. Cindy? A tease Yoga needs to move on.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Thank you.