Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Ping for your interest
Among many other false notes, I find it amusing that a supposed former Dominican would describe the Dominicans as a monastic order when the entire point of the Dominicans in the first place is that they are not monastics.
Great article. Thanks for posting it.
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Romans 10:4). Amen.
“I find it amusing that a supposed former Dominican would describe the Dominicans as a monastic order when the entire point of the Dominicans in the first place is that they are not monastics.”
Although many evangelical Protestant churches today contain a multitude of ex Roman Catholics who left that church after studying the scriptures, I tend to agree with you that this story sounds a bit contrived. You are right in saying that the Dominican friars are not really monks, but preachers. I highly doubt, as well, that this man beat himself in the shower with a chain. That is the kind of anti Catholic fodder that people who have no idea about the history of religions love to consume.
The very fact that he doesn’t indent his paragraphs makes him highly suspicious.../s
Powerful story of what happens when a priest starts reading the Bible ...All Catholic priests do read the Bible, every day at Mass (and on their own as well).
Some midlife crisis!
Ever opened a breviary, TQC? (Go to a Catholic or well-stocked Christian bookstore. It's under the title "Christian Prayer" or "Liturgy of the Hours".)
It's about 90% Scripture. The two major hours, Lauds and Vespers, have 2 psalms, a canticle, a reading, a Gospel canticle, and the Lord's prayer -- all taken verbatim from Scripture. The only non-Biblical parts are a hymn, some intercessory petitions, and a brief closing prayer.
But I guess someone who thinks the Dominicans are monks probably doesn't know that the Breviary is full of Scripture either.
Richard Bennett is no "fake" I have known of him for 15 years
Then why does he get basic facts wrong?
The problem , just as it is with the scripture in the mass.. it is out of context ..unless one attends mass daily a catholic never gets the context , even then it is so separated by 24 hours it has little connection to yesterdays readings
Good job putting up this link. I did some additional web research and found that “saying the Breviary” is a common term, and, in a Catholic Encyclopedia article about Savanarola, Dominicans are referred to as monks.
I’m sure you’ve known him as long as you say you have. That doesn’t mean that his fake life story is believable. The whole bit about the Angelicum is particularly ridiculous.
Wikipedia calls them “monasteries” but you’ll see when you click through that they are actually friaries. A Catholic would know the difference, even if the Wikipedia editor does not.
The most difficult repentance for us dyed-in-the-wool Catholics is changing our mind from thoughts of "meriting," "earning," "being good enough," simply to accepting with empty hands the gift of righteousness in Christ Jesus.
I do not believe that any "former priest" wrote those false and phony words.
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