Posted on 07/07/2005 7:58:28 AM PDT by NYer
If I had seen kids practicing the rules we were taught in Religion clases the I probably would have joined, I certainly took those classes to heart. I think that in my generation Catholic parents have really dropped the ball passing the faith on. I'm against interfaith marriages because I beleive that also dilutes passing on the faith.
I am still very surprised by the number of kids at my Catholic school who were born and raised in Catholic families and basically rationalize protestant interpretations of everything if they bother to justify their disbeleif at all.
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I'm in complete agreement with you regarding interfaith marriages.
I see.
Thanks.
Thanks.
You see, it's as clear as glass. Liturgical chr*stianity preaches Protestantism to the Jews and Judaism to the Protestants. Why would not anyone pass on in either direction to a more internally consistent position?
What a wonderful post about the Eucharist!
Thanks.
Now I realize I might not.
Why?
You may spend some time with your wife at this site:www.abort73.com. You'll find it worth your while.
Recently, I had a lot of self-reflection and see that all the good I do doesn't erase all the bad I did. If the abortion goes through, I am just as guilty.
>>She needs to stare the plain truth in the face before she makes a decision that will bring misery the rest of her life, to say nothing of ending a life. >>
I agree. But sometimes staring at the plain truth and believing are two different things. I attempt to get her to FEEL in her HEART that: 1) abortion is wrong and 2)love for the baby.
I don't know if she meant it but on the way home from the clinic yesterday she said I was cold and evil and if I want the baby so much she will give me this baby (in a threatening tone) I don't take this as a good sign but at least we live one more day.
Prayers are working. Thanks to everyone
You have our prayers, certainly, all three of you.
You ARE NOT responsible for someone else's action.
We all do bad (we ALL have a sin nature). Good works doesn't get us into heaven.
The blood of Jesus washed us clean from our sins - He is the spotless Lamb that took all our sins (past/present) on the cross and when we confess Jesus as Our Lord and Savior and follow Him we are assured of Heaven. We need to have a "personal relationship" w/Him. Once we follow Him, good works follow.
All you can do is pray pray pray for your wife. God knows your heart and you are no way responsible for her or anyone else's actions.
Both parents are responsible for a child's life. It is NOT the mother's decision alone, and both parents should fight for their child's life.
I feel that I would be responsible for not trying my best to stop the abortion.
What I did yesterday, I considered very mild (telling the docotr I intended to file a medical malpractice suit). I was very shocked that it worked so well in getting the doctor to refuse service (probably due to prayers).
Your prayers will give me more divine inspiration (intervention?) in preventing this abortion and more importantly help bring out her natural maternal instincts.
Thanks for your prayers
If you assume the flood was an ice age, or the result of one metling
No Ice Age
Genesis 6
The flood came because of a corrupt earth filled w/violence.
"And God said unto Noah. The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them from the earth".
Genesis 7
"For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth".
It is NOT the mother's decision alone, and both parents should fight for their child's life.
He is fighting - and she's fighting against him.
In this case it is the mother's decision and her decision - so far - is against his. DON'T put condemnation on him by saying he is responsible. He is/has done all he can and continues to pray. You do all you can while you pray and that is exactly what he is doing. NO matter how this turns out - God will bless this husband. He blesses those who follows Him and His commandments.
I support non-abortive contraception, divorce when all else fails - but by Our Lord no Catholic, or indeed any Christian or even moral minded atheists or agnostics can support the genocide that is abortion - IT IS PLAIN MURDER!!! (Nor can we support terrorism!!)
72. Various responses have insisted on the relationship between the Eucharist and the moral life, pointing to a significant awareness of the importance of the moral duty flowing from the reception of Holy Communion. Many refer to the fact that too many receive the Sacrament without having sufficiently reflected on their moral state in life. Some receive Communion while denying the teachings of the Church or publicly supporting immoral choices in life, such as abortion, without thinking that they are committing an act of grave personal dishonesty and causing scandal. Some Catholics do not understand why it might be a sin to support a political candidate who is openly in favour of abortion or other serious acts against life, justice and peace. Such attitudes lead to, among other things, a crisis in the meaning of belonging to the Church and in a clouding of the distinction between venial and mortal sin.
I recognize that many of you reject the authority of the Church to make those statements. However, when a politician identifies himself as a Catholic politician, it is incumbant on him, after making that identification, to live up to it, at least in his public and professional life.
The whole point of the Vatican's declaration about abortion rights is that it's not a multiple choice doctrine. It is opposed to the scriptural teachings of the church to take such a stance for yourself or to support those who do. We're back to the Catholic's who profess to be Catholic but reject the defining aspects f Catholisism.
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