Posted on 10/19/2019 10:24:02 AM PDT by Salman
Email?
Shouldn't you, of all people, be able to do it telepathically?
I have floated the idea in forum of John Cleese doing a better job.
“I’m the bloody Pope I am”. seems the appropriate follow up to “Whom am I to judge”
[After the stores, banks, and government refuse to take cash and checks. . .how is one to pay their taxes . . . .there goes the farm!]
Taxes (income, property), electric bill, water bill, trash service, phone, cell phone, internet bill, etc.
NO commerce will occur without the Mark. I’ll be surprised but maybe a few can hide out for 3 and a half years. I doubt many can.
Now, the Remnant Jews at Petra will be just fine.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Box-Secret-History-Confession/dp/0465039952
Confession is a crucial ritual of the Catholic Church, offering absolution of sin and spiritual guidance to the faithful. Yet this ancient sacrament has also been a source of controversy and oppression, culminating, as prize-winning historian John Cornwell reveals in The Dark Box, with the scandal of clerical child abuse.
Drawing on extensive historical sources, contemporary reports, and first-hand accounts, Cornwell takes a hard look at the long evolution of confession.
The papacy made annual, one-on-one confession obligatory for the first time in the 13th century. In the era that followed, confession was a source of spiritual consolation as well as sexual and mercenary scandal. During the 16th century, the Church introduced the confession box to prevent sexual solicitation of women, but this private space gave rise to new forms of temptation, both for penitents and confessors.
Yet no phase in the story of the sacrament has had such drastic consequences as a historic decree by Pope Pius X in 1910. In reaction to the spiritual perils of the new century, Pius sought to safeguard the Catholic faithful by lowering the age at which children made their first confession from their early teens to seven, while exhorting all Catholics to confess frequently instead of annually. This sweeping, inappropriately early imposition of the sacrament gave priests an unprecedented and privileged role in the lives of young boys and girls?a role that a significant number would exploit in the decades that followed.
A much-needed account of confession’s fraught history, The Dark Box explores the sources of the sacrament’s harm and shame, while recognizing its continuing power to offer consolation and reconciliation.
Years ago our church did lessons on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
One of mine was Prophecy. While I was surprised it made sense of all the black/white lines of behavior I embraced after becoming a Christian.
That said, when they asked per Gift those to please stand up, I was shocked to see I was the only female standing along with about a dozen and a half men. It spooked me.
My pastor said it made sense in line with the discussions we had over the years. LOL
My husband, though he has absolutely no (zero, zip, nada!) social skills can watch a person for 30 minutes and tell you their core. Only exception that we can find is when CNN was established; What’s his name (Jane Fonda’s ex) seemed to be a upright sane member interested in the spreading of news. I told my beloved the first time I saw him speak that man was poison.
Al Gore was one guy that scare the poop out of me. When I first saw him walking up the little walk way from the boat he was emerging from I saw a vision of a demon with a sword coming out of both sides of his face, as in a two faced demon. I admit my husband thought I was overreacting. LOL
Took years to convince people of what I saw and over the years his behavior has been exactly what I saw.
It’s amazing isn’t it, when the Lord speaks to His people?
I know prior to being a Christian I was in the mindset of intellectually knowing there was Good and Evil.
It was only as a Christian I *KNEW* there was Good and Evil and it makes such a big difference.
Mind you, it’s always a bit hard when the Lord reminds me to pull myself back lest I take a real big fall.
I remember when my grandparents were still alive and they owned I think a 57 Studebaker. Anyway, my grandmother never learned how to drive and whenever she was in the car, she always sat in the back seat with her rosary beads...........LOL!
This looks like a con.
(smile)
[It’s amazing isn’t it, when the Lord speaks to His people?]
I had it happen so many times there was no escaping it.
Of course, it happened less when my attitude was not the best. LOL, oops.
Still, amazing things happen. I was in a place I’m rarely at anymore, last night. Was asked by a guy about some Scripture so I looked some up on my cheap phone, wrote down the references for him, plus a few others. In the midst of that, I moved to another part of this place, and a few seconds after that, I hear my name called out.
It was a guy I’d been looking for, for at least a month (two months since I last saw him). I gave him some evangelical material because he gives it out to others. Completely unexpected. I’ve never seen this guy there before. Ever.
Had I not moved just 15 seconds before, this guy would have never seen me.
It’s been a week like that.
It’s called kneemail.
Seriously, lol, they have vibrators that can be controlled via the web.
These days, I am a carpenter.... I did some work for a local sex shop. (as an aside, I saw some folks who were surprised to see me! lol)
All structures need maintenance and repair.
So while you were nailing something you saw people getting nailed?
Cute story. :-)
And notice, she didn’t need an app to guide her through the Rosary.
He seeks to help us at all times and prepares us.
We usually don’t see the direction.
The Lord God is so wonderful!
Probably outsourced the dev work to some low-paid, low-skilled Indian developers.
When things go good for me, it’s unbelievable to those around me.
Same for the opposite end of the spectrum. LOL (not really)
Keep those prayers coming. I need them. God bless.
:)
"And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the pagans do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words."
Matthew 6:7
Certainly this should prove that Jesus was an Analog Guy.
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