thumbs up - a priest who knows his priorities
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Too Hindu for any Christian. Anything Hindu is far from Christianity.
I think it’s past time for Catholic churches and retreat centers to clean out all the yoga, reiki, eastern religious stuff and centering prayer.
So? I’m a baptist, and I wouldn’t want it in my church either.
Way to go Father!
I looked because I thought maybe she’d be innocent, and now I feel guilty for doing so. Thanks a lot, St. Isidore’s.
WOW, I was under the impression only Muslims had the monopoly on religious intolerance.
Good for the Catholic Church. Excerpts from article below:
“Syman describes yoga as a varied practice, but she makes clear that yoga cannot be fully extricated from its spiritual roots in Hinduism and Buddhism. She is also straightforward in explaining the role of sexual energy in virtually all forms of yoga and of ritualized sex in some yoga traditions. She also explains that yoga “is one of the first and most successful products of globalization, and it has augured a truly post-Christian, spiritually polyglot country.”
Reading The Subtle Body is an eye-opening and truly interesting experience. To a remarkable degree, the growing acceptance of yoga points to the retreat of biblical Christianity in the culture. Yoga begins and ends with an understanding of the body that is, to say the very least, at odds with the Christian understanding. Christians are not called to empty the mind or to see the human body as a means of connecting to and coming to know the divine. Believers are called to meditate upon the Word of God — an external Word that comes to us by divine revelation — not to meditate by means of incomprehensible syllables”
http://www.albertmohler.com/2010/09/20/the-subtle-body-should-christians-practice-yoga/
Huh...my wife does yoga, I’ve done it, never saw anything spiritual in it. I guess this piece doesn’t change my mind. It really helps with flexibility and core strength.
Do not stretch your tendons and muscles. It’s satanic!
My ex-girlfriend does yoga and she’s Satan.
Once had a devout christian come to my martial arts training class a few years ago. He didn’t come back after the first session, as he considered reing (bowing) to the sensei at the beginning and end of the session to be an idolatrous act and was too pig-headed to be persuaded otherwise.
Becasue we all know how much the bible condemns breathing and stretching exercise.
If one takes the philosophy too far, it is then Hindu spirituality specifically Tantric and vedic, which asserts about emptying the mind. This is quite the opposite of Christian meditation
Hence, if one does the whole-blow yoga with meditation, this is not Christian, but yoga just for exercise is ok imho
To 21twelve -- I think (note, my opinion) that replacing the meditation on the self as divinity which is Hindu and replacing it with meditation on Bible verses is a good approach for Christians
to susie -- I don't agree that yoga can't be separated out.
If some Muslim or Hindu teachers refuse to teach Western classical music because it’s too Christian, what would be our reaction?
People are often attracted to that which is new and exotic to them. There are many Catholics who wouldn’t think of praying a rosary or spending time in Eucharistic adoration because they are “old fashioned” but who will happily meditate as part of a non-Catholic practice. Ommmmmm
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Pilates okay, Yoga bad.
I take a yoga class at my Methodist Church. I wouldn't call it relaxing or very spiritual. In fact, brutal is the word that comes to my mind.
My church offers all kinds of free classes that are just about having fun and getting together with other church members.
This is just silly. Obviously, no one is going to a Catholic church to practice Hinduism.