Posted on 09/02/2011 9:07:47 AM PDT by marshmallow
Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask.
But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.
“When I started running for Congress it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress,” said Ellison, a Democrat now serving his third term in the House.
“But someone said to me, ‘Look Keith, think of a person of Japanese origin running for Congress six years after Pearl Harbor–this might be a news story.’”
Though Ellison's status as the first Muslim elected to Congress is widely known, fewer are aware that he was born into a Catholic family in Detroit and was brought up attending Catholic schools.
But he said he was never comfortable with that faith.
“I just felt it was ritual and dogma,” Ellison said. “Of course, that’s not the reality of Catholicism, but it’s the reality I lived. So I just kind of lost interest and stopped going to Mass unless I was required to.”
It wasn’t until he was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit when Ellison began, “looking for other things.”
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
Where do you come UP with this stuff?
I dated a gal once whose DAD said this!
Well, you get all knotted up about your Catholic education, if Catholics assume you don't know something, and now here you are getting all knotted up if we assume you do. Besides, there was a link to the Rosary provided shortly upthread, I am so sorry you missed it. You even gave me a mini tutorial on html on how to post it, if I remember correctly.
I’m at the state in life where ONE thing escapes me quite often!
The handy dandy link you proveded is in your post 4160, if I’m not mistaken.
What you gonna believe: something written in the Bible or some wild story handed down from the ‘fathers’?
Yeah!
They should just bare (bear?) their testimony and be done with it!
uh... stage
Thanks. That’s good. And then your previous statement is double-true. If one is devoting oneself to something that isn’t, -— it won’t end well....
The whole topic IS scary because it is such bait for spiritual pride. “More spiritual than thou.” Maybe this is PART of the reason to pray for humility.
But it is my understanding the whole idea about counting on the rosary beads is not to forget or leave out prayers and one of the reasons it is used????
Oh, Mary as the Ark?; That’s an easy one. The ark of the Old Covenant bore the Word of God, the Torah. IHS is the Word of God. Q.E.D.
This kind of delightful(to me) typology and figuring and such ... I enjoy it. It doesn’t change my THINKING about Mary, but it permits little love poems ...
This isn’t going to go over well....
Priests in the Holy Land used their sermons on Sunday to give their blessing to the Palestinians’ bid for United Nations membership. ....A joint statement by Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran priests pledged their “support for the diplomatic efforts being deployed to win international recognition for the State of Palestine... on the June 1967 borders with Jerusalem as our capital.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.3c0263595c71e78940603d36986e4caa.151&show_article=1
Maybe this is PART of the reason to pray for humility.
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pray for humility.
Hows that done ???
got scripture on that ???
Maybe you need to do this ...
let’s humble ourselves by wearing burlap around our waists and putting ropes on our heads, 1 Kings 20:31
There are spaces and beads. If you really want to know this information, and are not just playing games, I’m sure you can call a parish school and ask for someone who would be willing to teach you.
Or, go here:
http://www.newadvent.org/images/rosary.pdf
But, the Rosary is more than repetitive prayers. If you want to know the Rosary, say the prayers sincerely. For example, you would not pray the “Our Father” as fast as you could, just to get it done with, you would recall that you are talking to the Lord God Almighty, Who sent His Son to pay the price for your sin, and with love and gratitude in your heart, say the prayer.
The listing of the Mysteries at the link tells the image you should hold in your heart as you pray, and gives a Scripture reference.
If this does not appeal to you as a spiritual exercise, that is not a problem for me, and while I’m sorry that you are missing the blessing of the Rosary, unless the Holy Spirit moves you, the information you requested is on the page, I have nothing further.
I go through the posts in order. The one of yours I questioned was 4256 and MD’s response was in post 4265. I didn’t see it until after I replied to you so didn’t know that he had provided the information.
Theology (study of God) is quite interesting, however
That is, like, SEW thirteenth century. Nobody is wearing burlap these days, when the tonsure has been replaced by the blow-dried bouffant guy hairdo.
Do you know Cardinal DeVal's Litany of Humility? It's a hard prayer to pray yet it seems to capture what humility is "on the ground."
That sounds so clinical and impersonal.
I don't want to know ABOUT God as much as I want to KNOW Him. A personal relationship with someone is far more exciting and satisfying than studying about them.
That's where I found Catholicism really lacking. Lots of knowledge about God, but little knowing Him and relating to Him on a personal level.
But considering the God Catholicism portrayed to me was one who was ready to zap my for the slightest infraction, I saw plenty of reason to stay our of His sights and not draw undo attention to myself.
Gag me.
A fine example of what you get when the reverend clergy don’t stick to their knitting.
A personal relationship means how well one knows tthe person.
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