Posted on 05/03/2008 4:38:34 PM PDT by NYer
I know some Catholics who lead me to wonder what they think they're doding in church. I know some whose notion of Christianity seems to be if you're good, do good stuff, and don't have too much fun maybe God will not mash you like a bug. I know some whose "religiosity" strikes me as n inadequate cover for serious personal issues. And I know a CHUNK of 'em who keep on looking for new ways to give what they have and themselves to God. (They're the easiest ones to ID. They're the ones who smile and laugh a lot.)
I rejoice, though, that the first three groups are well represented at worship because I think if people hang around the fire long enough, maybe sooner or later they might catch fire themselves. It ain't over 'til it's over, and the day before his Damascus road experience, I would probably have had very uncharitable thoughts about Saul/Paul.
“It is a mark of true faith to continue to choose to follow the commandments of Christ even when your soul feels dry.”
Agreed. God gave you emotions though. Use them all to the Glory of God. Did not David celebrate BEFORE THE LORD with wild nude dancing at the bringing of the Ark into Jerusalem?
Don’t think that the grand blessings of the Lord shouldn’t be greeted with an emotional AND intellectual praise. God gave you both...use both for His Glory.
3 denominations already.
***All point to emptiness of the rcc faith via lack of holiness and almost without exception no one living for the Lord.***
What was your criteria for “living for the Lord?” Where did you get it? How old were you when you made these observations? How do you know that you were old enough and wise enough to recognize “living for the Lord” if you saw it? Could it be that you might have made some mistakes and misjudged people? Were you a light to the people you came into contact with? Could someone have seen you and thought that you were “living for the Lord?”
“He’d have nothing to do with setting up a bunch of bureaucratic political intellectual elitists to head yet another RELIGIOUS BUREAUCRACY to lord it over the serfs.”
Completely agree.
Your two denominations are the work of the evil one. Only through squid can one be pure.
Just as the squid casts out its inky blackness, so too will we cast out our inky black sins.
See: my first two theses already.
You can have the ink. With my blue oyster cult I get the pearls of wisdom.
Then it will be war!
If we’re to have communion, someone will have to figure out how to make wine out of something on this island.
I’ll head up that committee.
That's ok for you; since you have the ink you can sin boldly.
Perfect. :-)
I learned on this thread that we’re all a bunch of drunks anyway, so we’ll probably have lots with us.
Few people realize that Pope Dawgus the One and Onliest gave a perpetual indult to families with small children (where small is "up to 25 years old"): Merely getting everybody clean and out the door at the same time and in time to get to Church before the Mass is over is a sign of heroic virtue.
Also, at least at my house, once we get home from Mass and prepare for Brunch, except for an often lengthy grace, Brunch is all about merriment. How should we NOT be merry? Jesus is risen from the dead and has appeared to Simon!
Usually, before he quit his column, this involved a solemn reading from the Gospel according to Dave Barry.
When the meal is over and we are drinking our coffee or tea, then maybe we will go over the sermon or share thoughts we had on the 3 Scripture readings and the psalm. But, to tell the truth, maybe not. The lure of the couch just long enough for me to stretch out on it may be too strong.
More daffynitions from the rubber dictionary?
I’d say no, but you’ll post them anyway.
Thanks for your kind words . . . imho, The Lord nailed it.
I may have been listening better than usual.
That was one of your slicker slide-in’s.
Given how wrong it is . . . I wouldn’t want to be on the reaping end of that sowing.
Sex-crazed drunks.
"I paint what I see, child."
Thanks thanks.
Sock it to em.
Gotta get my stuff together for the AZ trip.
Blessings,
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