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To: SevenofNine

I probably convert too, or maybe just abandon organized religion altogether if all I had was the Vatican II nonsense.


14 posted on 11/19/2014 2:58:43 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86; SevenofNine
I probably convert too, or maybe just abandon organized religion altogether if all I had was the Vatican II nonsense.

Why do we go to church on Sunday? Is it to socialize with other parishioners? Is it to be entertained? Is it to commiserate about the priest assigned to the parish or the bishop who shepherds the diocese?

We go to church on Sunday to WORSHIP GOD!

Having grown up with the Latin Mass, survived the change to the Novus Ordo and visited several Eastern Catholic Churches, each week I remind myself of my purpose for attending mass on Sunday ... to worship God. Perhaps the NO liturgy is not to my liking or the priest / bishop is a progressivist, our purpose remains the same. Moreover, it is in the Catholic Church that we truly encounter God through the Eucharist. As bad as some of the liturgies I have attended over the decades, my focus has remained on Jesus Christ who comes to me each week in the Eucharist. Those who abandon the Catholic Church for an Evangelical one, abandon the living Christ. They may hear His words but they cannot receive Him, body, soul and divinity.

17 posted on 11/19/2014 3:29:46 PM PST by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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