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To: stevio
Go to a Catholic church, we don’t jump up and down.

Yes, but you have monotone readers, limp-wristed "priests" who preface their cut and paste sermons with "my dear brothers and sisters." Don't get me started on the awful music.

Of course, you have the Tridentine masses, which are a little better, but require knowledge of Latin. I used to attend a Melkite Church when I was a believer, which I preferred to both Novus Ordum or Tridentine.

83 posted on 08/18/2008 10:20:36 PM PDT by Clemenza (No Comment)
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To: Clemenza
My dear Brother, Seriously, don't paint the Catholic Church with such a broad brush. Our priest is an extremely sincere and IMO Holy man. My wife went through RCIA and I got to know him pretty well. He's getting older and if he is replaced by a limp-wristed lib, we'll be gone. We're Christians first, Catholic second.

We have lay people doing the music so some is good and some.... not so good. But if it is done in praise, it's beautiful to God. Funny thing is, some Sundays I don't feel like going, but after I get there, I feel the Spirit within the church, it's a great thing. I thank God for the experience.

Digressing even more, when my wife went through RCIA I was her sponsor, the land the church was built on was farm land from another RCIA participant's grandparents. When he was a kid, his grandmother used to tell him that when she looked out over the land, she would she angels coming down from the sky and back up again. I love that story. It's never too late to come back, unless you die.

85 posted on 08/19/2008 6:56:50 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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