Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
“The words are Paul’s, not mine.”
The greater truth is that the words are God’s. And I think I do have you. Welcome to the unprofitable servant club. It is a wonderful place to be, and the end, eternal life.
“They who worship idols/UFOs become like them.”
This stuff tears my heart and brings me to tears. I can only imagine what pain this must have caused Our Blessed Lord on the Cross
I THINK YOU SPEAK FOR A LOT OF US ON THIS FORUM AND I THANK GOD FOR THAT AND FOR YOU.
“YOUR SIDE MAKES ME SICK”.
YES.
And this is the first time I ever posted in capitals.
The other side, those here maybe just quoting what they got from other sources, is so outraged by Mother Teresa that, though they rebuke our understanding of the binding and loosing sayings, they say she deserves Hell.
The other side, is so offended by Mother Teresa's obvious grace that they heedlessly embrace falsehoods about her as truth.
I know parents for whom nothing their children do is ever quite enough. They have forgotten that love is the law-giver, that unless they evangelize their children not with words but with deeds of love, they are failing in their duty.
Here, for the other side, a life given to washing in a bucket and kneeling on stone before going out to love the unloved and almost unlovable, such a life is contemptible and damned because mangled quotes suggest that maybe Mother Teresa did not agree with them in every particular.
Mt 15:18 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Mk: 7:6 - He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of [these] hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Yes.
That was spectacular, anything else I could say would only trivialize it.
I'm not Catholic and I think that any "religion" forum that engages in attacks on good, selfless people like Mother Theresa or tearing down the Catholic faith (or any other people's religious faith) serves no good purpose whatsoever. The nasty tone and vicious nature of FR's "religion" forum is shameful.
John 13:34-35Christ taught love and respect and forgiveness. He did not preach mockery and guile and contention. I know that FReepers can and are permitted all manner of behavior in the religion forum. But, just because that behavior is permitted by the rules of the forum, does that make it right?
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.Matthew 7:12
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.Luke 6:36-38
36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.Phillipians 2:3
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Only prayer and fasting can combat Satan as he manifests himself in these open threads through his servants who attack the likes of Blessed Mother Teresa, or Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, or the Most Holy Mother of God.
sitetest
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ, and thank you for your encouragements!
Bless you, brother. Let us praise God who is wiser and more loving than we.
(For those horrified at my prejudice, my best Virginia friend is Eyetalian. I asked him tonight if he knew how to make an Italian shut up.
Answer: Tie his hands.
He cracked up, and then drank the Margarita I made for him.)
The nasty tone and vicious nature of FR's "religion" forum is shameful.
May God forgive me. I am ashamed.
“Christ taught love and respect and forgiveness. He did not preach mockery and guile and contention.”
Well spoken.
Praised be Jesus Christ, NOW AND FOREVER!
I’m actually relieved you didn’t end that post with “to arms, to arms”. After I muted Jerry Lewis (an unheard of high crime in my home) and read it aloud to my wife I came very close to taking a hallelujah lap around the neighborhood and the police have enough to do on a holiday weekend already.
INDEED. WELL PUT.
FLEE IDOLATRY.
WHAT FELLOWSHIP, LIGHT WITH DARKNESS.
Hallelujah lap: good
Hallelujah lap with insufficient clothing: Not good.
Just sayin’
I’m a bit ambivalent about discouraging folks from their hobby and avocation of making a fool of themselves.
Some of them are so hilarious to watch.
May God have mercy on their souls.
I AGREE.PRAISE GOD.
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