Posted on 05/21/2012 8:20:43 AM PDT by Salvation
Featured Term (selected at random):
The personal or professional analysis or night (sleep) dreams, to ascertain their meaning. Night dreams are dreams in the proper sense of the term. In sleep, which is by no means a passive state, a person's sense of activity is not dominated by his higher faculties of reason and will. This sense activity, when natural, is due to a variety of traceable causes, such as the physical condition of the body, external stimuli, such as talking or the ringing of a bell, or psychical factors, such as desires, fears, past thoughts and experiences. Consequently there is some value in dream interpretation, in as much as human science may derive from dream analysis some useful data for the treatment and healing of sick individuals, especially those afflicted with some psychological abnormality or disease. If such therapy is indicated, the person should seek out a thoroughly reputable and honest therapist, who will not advise or do anything that is contrary to Christian moral teaching.
On the other hand, to believe in one's own dreams or those related by others as foretelling future events is a sin of superstition. The exceptional cases where dreams are of supernatural origin are to be judged on their own merits.
All evidence from Scripture and the lives of the saints indicates that when God makes use of dreams as an extraordinary means of communication he also makes sure the person realizes where the dream originated. The standard rules for discernment of spirits are to be applied in case of doubt whether a dream is of supernatural origin.
Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper. (Would anyone like to help with this?)
|
Santa Maria Maggiore |
Doctrine |
Eugenic Sterilization |
|
Via Dolorosa |
Seven Dolors |
Authority |
|
Western Schism |
Sick Call |
Plain Chant |
|
Palm Sunday |
Malabar Rites |
Nonjurors |
|
Appellants |
Diocesan Chancery |
Chrism |
|
Book of Common Prayer |
Bridal Veil |
Canonicals |
|
Conflict of Rights and Duties |
Celestines |
Onan |
|
Psychophysical Parallelism |
Eucharisticum Mysterium |
Keys |
|
Soutane |
Mensa |
Gilead |
|
Antistes |
Material Co-operation |
Suicide |
|
Blood of St. Januarius |
Sirach/Ecclesiasticus |
Promulgation |
|
Days of Abstinence |
Holy Communion |
Dream Interpretation |
|
|
|
|
Catholic Word of the Day Ping!
If you aren’t on this Catholic Word of the Day Ping list and would like to be, please send me a FReepmail.
Also the patriarch Joseph, son of Israel, and the prophet Nathan, iirc.
I can generally connect my dreams to things that are currently going on in my life. For instance, when I fell asleep while nursing the baby and reading a book by P.J. O’Rourke, I dreamed that I was having dinner, topless, with P.J.!
Sister! Cool it ! Rofl!
I felt like an idiot, even in the dream, but P.J. didn’t seem to notice.
My sister inlaw's Mother had a dream that her husband was going to die. She saw that it was within a certain time. She took courses for job when she never had one( this was the 1940's). She was a mother of five at the time. Well she got her husband to go to mass and see the priest.
Well within a year he was died. She then started the job she trained for at night school a couple of months later. The husband worked for the post office so she got a stipend but this was not enough.
She lived to be 92 or 94. She was quite a character. Church goer all her life. Straight shooter. Suffered no lies.
He will help your needs not your greeds!! Praise Jesus!
Father Hardon rightly counsels great caution, while observing that God can communicate through our dreams, if He chooses.
Your relative’s course of action, based on her belief in her dream, was a sensible one. After all, job training is never a waste, and getting your husband back to church is always good! Now if she’d spent the food money on a large life insurance policy on her husband, that probably would have been imprudent.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.