Mass as nourishment, not as obligation

OSV ^ | February 5, 2015 | Melinda Selmys

[Elsie]

And German, French, Spanish, Japanese...

[Elsie]

Nominally Catholic again, but simply discount any dogma that does not have Scriptural foundation.

Your fellow catholics on FR will now castigate YOU!

[Elsie]

Mass is not for your personal pleasure, it is a way Catholics adore God and accept Him through His Body and Blood in the Eucharist.

John 15:11
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

[Elsie]

It is not easy to be a Catholic and we should expect some suffering to follow the path of Christ.

My yoke is easy...

[Elsie]

/iPhones are the devil’s tool! //sarc

And they WILL allow everyone of us to be tracked and found... when the time comes.

[Elsie]

Pope of OURS...he is Pope of ALL Christians...

Even the EO's??

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BB was never held to using facts; either.

[Elsie]

Tell that to Floridians!

[Elsie]

The Catholic Church clarifies its teachings when necessary.

Oh?

MORE evidence it didn't do it RIGHT the FIRST time!

[Elsie]

Some 30,000 to 40,000 different sects are currently in existence.

Dammit!

Why doesn't ROME know for sure??

[Elsie]

For any lurkers and sincere "seekers of truth"...

[Elsie]

... all of the fallacious, inaccurate balderdash contained in some of these sadly misguided Catholic-Bashing posts. (I believe I will start to post these links, and other interesting conversion stories, every time I find another one of these threads loaded with so much false and deceiving information concerning ....

Mighty bold talk for a one eyed fat man!

Perhaps a lurker or two; maybe even a TRUTH seeker as well; might want to see EVIDENCE of your brash accusations.

[Elsie]

If some priest told me I had to, I’d ignore him.

Oh?

Why?

[CynicalBear]

That was really sad on several levels. First of all believers are not anointed with the church. What you affectively did was replace the Holy Spirit in that passage with the church. Not a good idea. Second, I should have used a better translation because the Greek word does not mean man it means anyone or someone. So it should read "you do not need anyone to teach you".

It's not called the word of the church Steelfish. It's called the word of God. People have a choice. They can either study the word of God or the word of some church. Peter wrote "but the word of the Lord endures forever." And this is the word that was preached to you." Every day Catholics come in here and preach the word of he church. The Catholic Church demands that their followers believe things never once taught by the apostles. Paul wrote "Do not go beyond what is written." Yet Catholics follow a "church" that goes well beyond what was written.

People have a choice. Study the word of God or study the word of the church. The two are not the same.

[CynicalBear]

>>We were born of our mothers’ wombs; we were born again in Baptism. That’s what we believe.<<

So you disagree with Steelfish when he said "Catholics don’t ned any of that born-again nonsense"? Wouldn't that mean that one of you is "interpreting" scripture?

[CynicalBear]

Of course it is. The Catholic Church claims to know what went on in the bedroom of Joseph and Mary. Scripture teaches the they had other children but the Catholic Church says they didn’t. It’s not scripture that’s lying.

[Kolokotronis]

Our priests, especially those who act as our spiritual fathers, teach us first and foremost, how to pray. It is through prayer that we “die to the self” and become increasingly focused on God and so we can experience the “uncreated energies” of God. No one, no priest, no hierarch, has any authority to order or direct us to do that. In fact, that any such person would attempt it is likely good evidence that he hasn’t even started to focus on God and “die to the self” and so should be avoided, at least disregarded as much as possible. Priests and especially hierarchs, have a hard time with that as the icon of the Ladder of Divine Ascent so graphically demonstrates.

[verga]

Two sets of rules.

[ADSUM]

God was speaking the Truth.

Christians are supposed to hate the sin, but love the sinner.

Remember Jesus’s two great commandments: 1) Love God... and 2) Love your neighbor as yourself.

Many here want to label Jesus as a sinner, so are they true followers of Jesus or just hateful of any religion that they personally don’t agree with?

[ADSUM]

Good. Perhaps you have made it easy on yourself by not following all of the teachings of Jesus.

I hope God understands all of your caustic remarks about His Catholic Church.

[Mark17]

Well, I guess I’m just going to have to go over there and have it out face to face.

That’ll teach him.

Well if you do, you can leave your winter coat at home. 😄😃😀😊