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To: Campion
My unwillingness to grab a stranger's hand at the Our Father has nothing to do with "not liking them" or "not being a nice person"

Mine does. =D

Just kidding, someone had to say it. I'll hold your hand and pray the Our Father anytime...just not during mass (or if you have warts).

A concern for liturgical propriety doesn't really exist in tension with the authentic virtue of charity.

Exactly. Sentimentality does not equal charity.

46 posted on 05/19/2005 8:13:24 PM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: murphE

**Sentimentality does not equal charity.**

When you hold your husband's hand and say that last prayer togoether they are totally equal. Unless you have experienced it, no one can really judge. I speak from my own experience as I held my husband's hand and sang to ohim as he died.


60 posted on 05/19/2005 9:14:07 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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