Being a Protestant is easy: NO
Sunday and holy day requirements
once-a-year confession requirement
meatless days
Lenten fasting, abstention
confessions at all
fasting one hour before communion
WHY change to Catholicism and then be required to do all this stuff? The Protestant path is the easy path and is so much simpler...and easy. We all like easy.
Ex-father Martin Luther paved the way for EASY.
Sunday and holy day requirements- required for what? (RFW)
once-a-year confession requirement- RFW? meatless days- Col 2:16
Lenten fasting- Luther fasted, abstention from what?
confessions at all- Obviously never read any Luther.
fasting one hour before communion RFW?
WHY change to Catholicism and then be required to do all this stuff?
Acts 15:28, Gal 3:23-29,
Yep, y’all are the saved by works bunch. Your own testamonies declare that.
Some of the RCs I have known for years abide strictly with that list,....and are some of the most foulmouthed people I know, even taking the Lord’s name in vain regularly.
I remember a older bookkeeper at a place I worked over 20 yrs ago. While known to use ‘colorful’ words now and then, she was fiercely devout; communion every day, followed all the rules. One day in February, she showed up with the ashes on her forehead. Me, not thinking about the start of (the man-made tradition) Lent, commented to her that she had a dirty smudge in her forehead, to which she replied: “D*** it, don’t you know it’s ash wednesday?”
She was a devout Dem as well. I’ll never forget her excitement upon returning from a presidential campaign rally for guvner Clintoon. She was awestruck, and went on and on about him. I said, “I thought your church disappoves of abortion.” She glared at me for moment, then walked away.