Posted on 09/11/2022 6:43:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
Burial site of devout Catholic artist Peter Paul Rubens is shrine to yoga
ANTWERP, Belgium (ChurchMilitant.com) - The historic church of St. James in Antwerp is now home to yoga enthusiasts chanting Hindu mantras below the main crucifix, with the altar and pews removed to cater to the new initiative.
With the approval of Fr. Bruno Aerts, the parish priest and vicar general, the organizers promote Hinduism under the guise of weekly "yoga classes," teaching participants to sing Hindu kirtans (a call-and-response style devotional song) during the sessions.
Promoting Paganism
Father Aerts has posted an advertisement for the yoga classes just below his "Welcome to St. James" note on the church's website. Titled "Yoga in Church: Are You In?" — the ad touts the church as the "coolest place to be in Antwerp" for the sessions.
Saint James Church, built on the site of a hostel for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, is under the episcopal oversight of Bp. Johan Bonny, who challenged the recent statement from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith banning blessings for same-sex unions.
"I feel ashamed for my Church," Bonny told De Standaard. He went on to call for "a respectful approach to same-sex marriage" within "the broader context of the order of service for marriage, as an eventual variation on the theme of marriage and family life."
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What a faithless pastor.
Why can’t he promote stretching exercises instead?
A church is not the appropriate place for physical exercising, especially if mantras are involved. One doesn’t need to chant to stretch.
You've obviously never been to a Pentecostal church service. LOL
That’s really what yoga is. Exercise.
Never had any use for people who said you can’t do yoga without the spiritual part.
Okay, let’s say they can’t lift weights unless they are Christian because Christ lifted and carried a cross.
“A church is not the appropriate place…”
Quick reminder: a church is not a place.
But I know what you MEANT.
Not quite.
Stretching is one thing.
Yoga, real yoga, is stretching for sexual purposes.
The fact he is advertising yoga exercises means he is either completely ignorant of the roots of yoga or he is an insurper.
Beautiful cathedral. Nice place for yoga, weight lifting, exercise bicycles and treadmills. If the pastor was brave, then he would have Latin mass and confession every day in order to bring in money, big families, good music and glory to the Lord.
You can have any thing in the Catholic Church except for the Old Mass.
“..: in order to bring in money, big families, good music and glory to the Lord.”
.::in that order.
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