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To: Mark17
I'm kinda enamoured of those wafers myself!


359 posted on 05/01/2016 10:35:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; metmom; boatbums; knarf; Syncro
I'm kinda enamoured of those wafers myself!

Well, when I was a Catholic, many moons ago, it was just flat, tasteless bread, not nice wafers, like in your picture. When I was around 12, I knew I was always committing mortal sins, so I stopped receiving holy communion, because I didn't want to commit a mortal sin of sacrilege. A mortal sin was bad enough, but a mortal sin of sacrilege, was far worse. Kind of like the unpardonable sin.
Sometimes I couldn't sleep at night, because I was worried about the mortal sins on my soul. My dad started to wonder, and asked if I needed to go to confession? I didn't pay much attention in catechism class, so I was always at a loss, to determine what was a mortal sin, and what was a venial sin. Venial sins were ok, it was the mortal sins I wanted to avoid.
As you know, I don't indulge anymore. Praise God for that, but I looked back on my life, and I could see God preparing me for TRUE faith, as opposed to false faith, all the way back to when I was a Catholic. If I had been a Mormon, they would have called me Jack. 😄😂😄

372 posted on 05/01/2016 4:37:02 PM PDT by Mark17 (I traded my shackles for a glorious song. I'm free, praise the Lord, free at last.)
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