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Posted on 03/27/2009 1:53:10 PM PDT by NYer
Does a Catholic believe the Blood of Christ only gets you one foot in after you get called home?
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The Precious Blood makes it possible. Christ died to open the gates of Heaven. It's up to us to get through them and that's done partially through confessing sins and doing penance - and that includes time in Purgatory, if necessary.
I’m afraid I’d get into the booth and the priest would ask me for a date. :-)
Ask Martin Luther.
You don't believe in Hell, either?
It is true that the works are done in this life; they form the basis of our judgement “in the day of the Lord”, that is after we die (Compare Rm 2:6, Mt 25:31-46). Our works are not necessarily “made manifest” other than after we die. Further, following the trial of fire man is said to be saved, that means eternal salvation in the afterlife.
Yours is a very innatural reading of the passage; perhaps even “ridiculous”.
Someone MAKES them do so?
Are they held at gunpoint?
I think they allow authority where none should be.
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You don't believe in Hell, either?
Why would you say that?
The Blood of Christ forgives my sin, by faith in Him.
Christ shed his blood for all people, but not all people believe it.
God's a gentleman, he doesn't put a gun to your head and make you have faith in him.
His conscience was getting to him. He felt the need to confess, something he had not done since his Confirmation.
Since he didn't know who the soft touches were among the parish priests he relied on his good friends (me and my brother, good Irish Catholics both) to steer him toward the right confessional. Big mistake.
We had just acquired a priest who was the strictest old-world Mick for a couple of hundred miles in any direction and whose naturally sour temperment was worsened by almost daily attacks of colitis....it was like sending a lamb to the slaughter.
We all went to church to give Gino our support. The whole crew was there, including the Protestant and Jewish guys. Gino got on line, sweating bullets. We gave him our deepest heart-felt assurances that the priest would probably just chuckle, ask for a couple of details and let him off with a half dozen Hail Marys.
Gino parted the curtain and went in. Sixty seconds later the high-pitched "YOU DID WHAT!!!" shook the church to its timbers.
Gino erupted out of the confessional like out of a cannon, sprinted up the aisle and out the door...never to return.
He ended up marrying the other Fabiani sister.
That's because I read the entire chapter for the underlining theme and meaning with the Greek to get the full understanding.
But to each his own
Oh yes, your are an evil bastard.
But I FIRMLY believe that GOD has a sense of humor, that's why he keeps us Irish Catholics around.
HE loves the laughs.
I'm afraid that your feeble attempt at wit and humor fell far short on both counts. It only served to prove that horses asses out number horses.
A few years ago a particular actor who was trying to start a career as a director was committed to shooting the film. He had directed two previous films. A Canadian production company commited to financing the shoot outside Toronto.
There was one hitch. The actor had shot six episodes of a new, edgy series for TV. If the series took off then the actor/director was committed to nineteen more episodes. Nobody thought that America would embrace the show.
The wife and I watched the first episode with candles lit in petition that it would truly suck.
By the second commercial we were hooked, and so was America. Damn Jack Bauer.
Story telling is THE most human traits there is.
I believe it happened right after fire was discovered, I mean what else do you do at a campfire but BS.
Keep submitting.
I was not required to confess my sins to a priest in order to be confirmed, and at no time since I have been a full-fledged member of the Church has our priest gotten up and stated that we are required to do this. He does these communal penance services during Advent and Lent, and gives anyone who comes to this service a General Absolution. This is canonically valid according to him. I would be interested to hear what goes on in other parishes and dioceses.
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