Posted on 04/28/2010 2:38:54 PM PDT by Salvation
The dualism of the Albigenses was also the basis of their moral teaching. Man, they taught, is a living contradiction. Hence, the liberation of the soul from its captivity in the body is the true end of our being. To attain this, suicide is commendable; it was customary among them in the form of the endura (starvation). The extinction of bodily life on the largest scale consistent with human existence is also a perfect aim. As generation propagates the slavery of the soul to the body, perpetual chastity should be practiced. Matrimonial intercourse is unlawful; concubinage, being of a less permanent nature, is preferable to marriage. Abandonment of his wife by the husband, or vice versa, is desirable. Generation was abhorred by the Albigenses even in the animal kingdom. Consequently, abstention from all animal food, except fish, was enjoined. Their belief in metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls, the result of their logical rejection of purgatory, furnishes another explanation for the same abstinence. To this practice they added long and rigorous fasts. The necessity of absolute fidelity to the sect was strongly inculcated. War and capital punishment were absolutely condemned.
(NOt something I would want to agree with.)
Ok - I thought you were saying that he has been beatified. He is wonderful, no doubt. I join in your wishes for his sainthood. :-)
One cannot say enough good things about the rosary!
This whole concept is very mysterious to me. I can’t see why reciting these words over and over should have such a powerful effect, but they do. Why? Why? Why should Our Lady respond so strongly to this, rather than to the words of spontaneous prayer? Clearly she does, but I don’t understand why. Do we know why or do we just accept it as fact?
I will say that when I join other members of my congregation in reciting the Rosary after weekday mass, I have never felt such a sense of reverence, awe, and plain spiritual gratitude.
if during the course of your “daily, hectic life”, you are doing the duty required of you in your particular state in life, you are doing exactly what the Lord and his mother would want you to do.
It’s called the “sacrament of the moment”.
It’s sufficient to begin our days with the intention to glorify God in all that we do—and then go about doing it.
Mother of the Word Incarnate, pray for us.
That is good advice. One of the priests at my parish said something very similar to me once. He said to just try to make everything that we do, even the smallest thing (like folding laundry) an offering to the Lord. He said you have to work at it, and then eventually it comes more naturally.
“The most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary, to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.”
I have that quote printed out and hanging where I can see it when I am working. And as Padre Pio said “the Rosary is THE WEAPON”.
He was/is a good priest. :-)
Exactly what my priest says too. Make everything a prayer — do your best!
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