Posted on 06/14/2008 1:01:32 PM PDT by markomalley
However, for some reason you've changed your mind and have labeled this an Ecumenic thread.
Open threads are productive and challenging and informative.
Ecumenic threads are not a place for challenges. Therefore, I don't care to reread the RCC catechism without being permitted to challenge its manifold errors.
Thanks all the same.
What the Ecumenic tread bars is antagonism. Challenges are fine.
On the other hand, this thread is not about the “RCC catechism,” but rather the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
I believe it is to avoid casting even a faint, tangentially-reflected ray of respect on the Catholic Church.
LOL. Very true.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped." -- Isaiah 35:3-5"Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Ah! I see, well I am a Roman Rite Catholic, but any Rite in a storm? :)
Technically, isn’t it “Latin Rite?”
Not to be antagonistic, though.
Yes, you are correct, what the H was I thinking? LOL, long day my friend.
I’m sure that you made this decision (to label it Ecumenic) based on the input you received.
I trust that it will prove worthwhile and free of antagonism.
Pax Christi
ROE
Thanks for the ping.
However, I gave up Ecumenic for Valentine’s Day, Lent, Resurrection Sunday, Spring, Mother’s Day; Flag Day; Father’s Day; 4th of July, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day; Thanksgiving; Christmas and new Year’s . . . and all the days in between.
My finger’s just can’t wrap their pinkiness around all that gladhanding. They are afraid of being crushed by so much overwhelming niceness.
Therefore, I don’t bother much about the Ecumenic Threads.
Thanks anyway.
Catholics who are poorly formed in their faith!
When I attended Catholic elementary school, the St. Joseph's Catechism was the method of catechesis. It is all based on questions and answers.
Q: Why did God make us?A: He made us to know, love and serve Him in this world and be happy with Him forever, in the next.
Many of the dioceses now resort to cutsy, new age teaching methods that simply don't work. It's time the Church restored the Catechism as the preferred method of catechesis.
“Open threads are productive and challenging and informative.”
Yes, they are. But it does waste time having to scroll past the verbiage and drivel repeated on thread after thread after thread by the same boring, error-ridden posters who, while they have opinions and interpretations, are just that, opinions and interpretations.
~Not to mention the crayola gabble of others.
It does tend to waste time.
“Q: Why did God make us?
A: He made us to know, love and serve Him in this world and be happy with Him forever, in the next.”
I remember that! I also remember being disappointed because the little materialist in my little self couldn’t understand it.
It’s only at this late age that I understand.
I have to check and see what they are teaching the young’uns at our parish. Maybe that is what we all must do. Ask questions. I never thought of finding out what they are teaching the little ones. I do know that they are called out of the Liturgy of the Word to have their own lesson on the Gospel and readings for the day.
But as far as the children preparing for FHC, I don’t know what their instruction is. Maybe the oldsters should ask more questions.
Another non-edifying post.
Yes - the St. Joseph Cathechism is the Baltimore Catechism.
Yes. "The Companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church" came out in 2002.
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