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To: xrmusn
Whether I ‘left’ the church or I feel the church ‘left me’, if I were to continue patronizing etc and going along with things I don’t believe or feel comfortable with, that would really make me the worst kind of hypocrite. I probably landed a place in Purgatory - if it still exists.....

not good enough...the church didn't leave you at all, it has been exactly the same for over 2,000 years. Oh, of course there were changes in very minor things like the Mass being said in the vernacular instead of Latin, and getting rid of the communion rail with the cloth folded over your hands, but by and large everything's the same.

You have to become comfortable with the church, it does not try to satisfy every minor need of every parishoner. Hispanics want more Spanish language Masses, younger people want more "in" type music but these are meaningless problems.

if you are furtunate enough to find yourself in Purgatory....yes it still exists....consider yourself saved...you will pay a small price for your behavior and spend eternity in Heaven....welcome home.

just try a little harder, you'll be fine.

143 posted on 01/29/2013 7:03:40 PM PST by terycarl
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To: terycarl
just try a little harder,

Catholicism in a nutshell.

Galatians 3:1-14 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. 2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” 12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

158 posted on 01/29/2013 8:20:00 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: terycarl
not good enough...the church didn't leave you at all, it has been exactly the same for over 2,000 years.

Anyone that can read; knows this statement is false.

166 posted on 01/30/2013 3:33:12 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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