Posted on 05/02/2011 9:43:40 AM PDT by Salvation
(4) Alphonsus Rodrigues, S.J., Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtue (Chicago: Loyola Un. Press, 1929) Vol. 2, p. 112-3.
Bolding is mine, but I believe this statement is oh, so true!
Pretty much all the Protestant ministers who refer to themselves as “Reverend” in my town are female, liberal, mainline wishy-washies, or all the above.
As a Protestant, it’s still difficult to address a Catholic clergy person by those titles.
Often, I just say “pastor”.
At least you can have some satisfaction that the Calvinists are reading your posts. They scour each of them to find a complaint they can make to the moderators. Maybe the contents will eventually sink in.
It's really funny to see that while | He Who Cannot Be Mentioned | is totally banned the same trash he spews shows up here over and over in spite of having been debunked hundreds of years ago. It's also surprising to see people who claim to believe that the Scripture has everything they need don't really study it all that much but instead apply the Lego Block Method of Scripture Interpretation to just stick together whatever suits them at any given moment.
I hate to tell you this but what you call trash are the spoken words of Jesus Christ...
Mat 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
What facts???
I hate to tell you, but you can’t read. Once again, we have an example of “Lego Block” approach to anything and everything including Scripture.
The trash is the argument about calling on man Father when the Apostles do that very thing and I’m quite sure you knew before you posted that I have never and would never call Scripture trash. You, on the other hand ...
The thread label has been changed to “ecumenical” meaning NO ANTAGONISM.
“And the stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone.”
(If we must talk about legos......LOL!)
In Polish it is Ksiądż (priest) -- as opposed to Ojciec (father) for example
Those “Hunkies”, as they'd call themselves, were all far different than the common caricature would lead you to believe, that's for sure. We'd visit my aunt when all nine of her husbands brothers and sisters were there, and among the ten of them they had a total of thirteen engineering degrees. They all started at the bottom then worked their way up in the mines or mills, too. Things were so much different in this country back then that I don't know if you can even describe it to young people these days. They really don't have anything similar to use as point of reference. I have great memories of that gang and regret how seldom I get to see those who are still around.
Sorry for the lapse into the OT stuff, but it's interesting to know that the use of "Father" isn't universal since I thought it was.
Well, no, it was a surprise to me too!
But then I learn new things each month in this country (and slap myself on the head every time I learn another crazy thing about the language!)
for instance, they don't use palms here on palm sunday but a strange mix of leaves bound together!
My wife's family are scary smart -- the wife is a Masters in Economics, her mother a Chemical Engineer, Dad a double Engineering and Economics scholar whose knowledge of history (not only Polish but pretty much global) scares me (I was once reading about some obscure ruler of Albania and he remembered his details off the top of his head), the sister in law is a Phd in Japanese and going for her professorship (one step HIGHER than a Phd) etc. --
The image of Poles as dumb is as silly as the image of Irish as dumb. And I note that both of these stereotypes came up recently in the 18th-20th centuries.
The Irish prior to the 16th century were regarded as intellectuals, poets etc., but post our dear Cromwell, that deteriorated to caricatures where they seemed almost sub-human. Ditto, thanks to the Nazis, the Poles were villified.
It's kind of pointed that some of the freepers here repeat Nazi generated stereotypes.
The trash is the argument about calling on man Father when the Apostles do that very thing and I’m quite sure you knew before you posted that I have never and would never call Scripture trash. You, on the other hand ...
Sorry but you are mistaken...
Again, I'll post the words that Jesus said...
Mat 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Mat 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Hey, either you believe God, or you don't...
So, once more, I'm not mistaken.
It says what it says...Has nothing to do with interpretation...It’s all to do with believing what you read...
That's exactly what Jesus prescribes...Good to hear they are following Jesus...Do they call the pope the Holy Father???
LOL. Of course it has everything to do with interpretation since everyone other than those who those who chose to interpret things to suit themselves `understands the context.
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