Posted on 01/02/2015 3:46:20 AM PST by NYer
If you skip a Holy Day of Obligation, and die before you can get to confession, do you go to Hell? Or do you have to spend more time locked up in Purgatory, unless enough special masses (indulgences) are said to spring you loose earlier.
It’s one thing to theologically differ from Roman Catholicism. I do. I am one of those horrible Baptists.
It’s another thing to lay the worst damnation you can think of on the people whose theology you differ from.
Whatever that kind of attitude is, it doesn’t look a bit like Christianity.
The pagan Romans wore clothes!
Do YOU wear CLOTHES???
The pagan Romans ate meat!
Do YOU eat MEAT???
... they breathed air! do you breathe air? ... that the devil is the prince of the power of!!
Sometimes this sort of thing descends into the depths of silliness. Jesus has to be ruefully laughing at this folly.
Keeping my tree up until the 6th. The problem now is that everyone buys their tree the day after Thanksgiving and by the time January hits, the tree is a dried up prune. This year I bought my tree two weeks before the 25th and was stuck with a very small one - all the rest were sold out. It’s now a semi-fire hazard! But I’ll keep it up.
One thing I hate seeing is the tree being thrown out on December 26th.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Since it IS symbolic, nobody says it even needs to be real. An artificial tree could do quite well next Christmas, the good Lord permitting. For me I have never had one because I have cats! Cats and Christmas trees never get along well.
Yes, I’m thinking about an artificial one. Today, they are beautiful! When I was a kid, we only had the worst looking fake tree so when I had my own home I insisted on a real one. They’re a lot of trouble but so beautiful. And, yes, my cat has destroyed myriad ornaments over the years.
I also prefer a live tree, and I know what you mean. But the cats like live trees as well. :) They are making much better fake trees these days I must say. :)
Ahhh, 47, sweet common sense here. “Is it reasonable to believe no one ever thought of this point before?” is right on the mark.
We’re leaving ours up until June. :)
From Christmas Even through the Epiphany. Catholics keep thinking and doing Christmas things while the rest of the world has moved on.
I remember going to Church on the Circumcision.
Ours was awful. And then we’d put that cheapie tinsel all over it. Yikes!
I decorate the windows facing the street with old Christmas cards, especially the ones that depict the NATIVITY of Jesus.
I decorate the windows facing "not much" with Christmas cards that I LOVE the most and those cards face ME.
All the cards will come down January 7th, AFTER the THREE KINGS DAY, gifts of the Magi.
I had a friend who called it her Easter tree. It finally set the house on fire and that was the end of that!
Happy New Year to you.
I agree! What were they thinking? Just awful.
Now that makes sense.
By then there won't be a needle left on the tree and you can burn the bare stick left in your fireplace. After all, your wife probably vacuumed up all the fallen needles as they dropped off the tree.
Protestants disagree with Catholics as to the status of Mary, but that doesn't necessarily make them Catholic-haters.
Christmas BEGINS on the 25th of December- it ends on Kings Day, Jan 6th.Then it’s King Cake time-and Mardi Gras. My tree stays up until it looks ‘tired’. I enjoy looking at it-sometimes till March! Tried switching over to a Mardi Gras tree one year-uh, no...too weird.
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