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To: NYer

I don’t have complaints about the Church.


8 posted on 12/28/2013 4:20:34 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Try not to get too far ahead in the story. Spoilers abound." ~ Nicknamedbob)
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To: Tax-chick
I don’t have complaints about the Church.
You see no problems?Must be the rest of America that's confused.
18 posted on 12/28/2013 4:49:58 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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I don’t have complaints about the Church.

An all too typical state of cecity seen here .

22 posted on 12/28/2013 5:00:18 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Tax-chick

True. Complaints we all have from every angle: from modernistic Church architecture to people clapping and talking to mundane homilies. Sometimes no different from Protestant “services” reduced to a weekly social gathering. However, at the end of the day, at the center of our Church is the Eucharist, the Mass, and the Nicene Creed. The rest is all bearable.

That being said Vatican II was a disaster only because it allowed for “liberal” forms of teaching and rituals. Ecumenism has been a failure because of irreconcilable differences.

Unlike other heresies, Hillaire Belloc referred to Protestantism as having spawned a “cluster of heresies,” and so it has been. The sheer beauty of the Catholic Mass is not only the “perfect prayer” (Cardinal Newman and Pope Paul VI) but the celebration of the Eucharist as the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ that is a daily miracle as the stigmatist Saint Fr. Padre Pio experienced.


29 posted on 12/28/2013 5:23:13 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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