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To: St.Chuck
I heard a sermon on obedience and humility today. It occurred to me that SSPX priests might have to gloss over those virtues.

Prediction time:  you'll hear about blind obedience... if the pope ordered us to become canabalists, Tridentine rite save by Lefebvre... yada, yada, yada ad nauseum.

OBEDIENCE is key to being faithful; it is found in the TRUTH written on our hearts.  It's written there because no one has to be a rocket scientist, theologian, pope, etc., to recognize it, or figure it out, imo.

Pax et bonum!
44 posted on 04/04/2004 11:43:15 AM PDT by GirlShortstop
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To: GirlShortstop
Pax et bonum!

Peace and joy to you as well.

Prediction time: you'll hear about blind obedience...

Ha, you are right, to which I will counter:

Mark 10:52 "Go," said Jesus, "your faith has healed you." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.

Luke 18:42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you."

2 Corinthians 5:7 We live by faith, not by sight.

Blind obedience is just the acknowlegment that we are living by faith and not necessarily sight. Many Catholics tend to use their sight and see the visible Church, and are repulsed, but it takes faith to see the invisible church that the catechism speaks of, and the result is awe and attraction.

45 posted on 04/04/2004 12:16:40 PM PDT by St.Chuck
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