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To: Quix
Well I hate to disappoint you. And it IS true that some Catholics seem, like some non-Catholics, to view their clergy with misplaced awe.

But the Catholics I talk to will piously and reverently receive the Sacrament from the hands of a priest (or bishop) they think very little of personally.

For them (and I'm one of them) it's not the guy, it's what God is doing through the guy.

6,248 posted on 08/03/2010 8:44:34 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. here)
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To: Mad Dawg

Good. I thought we agreed about that.

I don’t know that a Pentecostal would receive communion from someone they knew to be in gross sin. Some probably would. Many wouldn’t.

Why would that disappoint me?


6,285 posted on 08/03/2010 9:45:17 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: Mad Dawg
But the Catholics I talk to will piously and reverently receive the Sacrament from the hands of a priest (or bishop) they think very little of personally.

Very good point and very accurate.

6,327 posted on 08/04/2010 5:50:06 AM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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