@JanneDaArc135 @RealMattFradd It’s not infallible and cannot be. We still have to answer to our consciences. Some consciences may not permit it to themselves.
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Suzanne McGuire
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Suzanne McGuire
@LearKentFool
I have 5 kids of mine own, and I teach 40+ middle schoolers. X peeps don’t scare me.
Around the Bend शामिल हुए Ağustos 2010
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@LearKentFool @RealMattFradd The popes have allowed the practice and not condemned it. If it’s okay for the highest authority in the Catholic Church, it’s okay for me and you.
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@melodymlyons @SeamusMickgill @CraigOnan Melody, he knows it’s controversial because it has caused problems in the past. It is always best to presume innocence. You can simply say— there is a conflict of information here table it and decide how you will receive the Eucharist based on conscience not a questionable story.
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@LearKentFool @SeamusMickgill @CraigOnan In charity, mistaken is a possibility. But Father does not think he is mistaken. And the other perspective on his pause and question to Matt is a guilty conscience.
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I receive on the tongue and my children receive on the tongue but this is obviously not true.
That Trad Gal@thattradgal
When St Mother Teresa was asked what the greatest evil she had ever seen was, she said communion in the hand.
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The sisters from her order debunked it when it was said years ago. Father’s word is up against her own sisters who issued a statement saying it was false. You would have to say that *they* were outright lying. So we have a nasty situation here in which it does indeed look like one is lying. Talk about diabolical confusion and division. Terrible.
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@melodymlyons @SeamusMickgill @CraigOnan Maybe, in charity, let’s go with mistaken. But I heard the same thing said years ago from different sources who said they heard mother say this. In the video, Fr. even says Matt can cut this part from the interview before he shares it. That doesn’t sound like the set up to a lie.
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She allowed her sisters to receive in the hand. And when she had the world’s stage, she talked in absolutes about the greatest evils. and it was always abortion, indifference and a lack of love.
Nowhere in her writing, in her interviews, her speeches, nor in her interactions with her sisters was this statement ever repeated.
In addition, it is at odds with the Church of antiquity as well as the present. The Church Fathers received reverently in the hand. And whether we like it or prefer it now, it simply isn’t a Catholic statement to call it evil, let alone the greatest evil. There is no evidence outside of one testimony that she did. In fact there’s counter evidence.
It seems like a great violation of the spirit of her life and the message she herself chose to highlight to put this story forth. Either Mother was a liar or this priest is lying, embellishing, or mistaken.
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@JanneDaArc135 @RealMattFradd No Pope has said “it’s perfectly fine”. It was allowed by indult where the practice had become popular because certain local bishops encouraged disobedience to the previously ubiquitous practice in the Roman rite of reception on the tongue.
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@RealMattFradd No. Popes have said receiving communion on the hand is perfectly fine. End of the matter.
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@melodymlyons @SeamusMickgill @CraigOnan I heard this story about Mother Teresa more than 20 years ago. Why do you assume he’s lying? I think that’s pretty rash judgment.
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@SeamusMickgill @CraigOnan As I said, it's a pretty bold lie.
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@jdflynn Me: Screen? They have those now? Heck- I want a whole sound proof wall I can close between me and the kids in the back, so my husband and I can have a conversation and don’t have to hear them argue!
Then it dawned on me: Oh. He isn’t talking about that kind of screen…
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@SteveSkojec LOL— I mean. Holding your breath sounds like a perfectly natural reaction to me.
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@LearKentFool I just did my best to ignore him. Realized I was holding my breath like I was in a room with an Ebola patient.
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At a gas station grabbing a drink. Cashier is a dude almost as big as I am, in a wig and fake nails, and he keeps calling me “love” in a shitty falsetto that sounds nothing like a woman.
I’m working and have no desire to make a scene, but WTAF?!
This delusion needs to end.
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@_Leila I agree that it is not spiritually/emotionally healthy for women to plan for the “what if” divorce. But I think it prudent for young women to have education and/or skills for a long list of other “what if” reasons.
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@GabrielHudelson I don’t think it’s healthy to go into marriage thinking: “what if we divorce.” On the other hand, so many other things can happen in life that make a college degree extremely helpful for a woman to have. I shouldn’t have to enumerate them.
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YES, MY WIFE IS TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON ME.
“But if you don’t have a college degree, what is your fallback plan if your husband divorces you?”
This mindset is in the water at this point in American history. But it is not in the Bible. Here are a few considerations.
1- Scripture says that the two shall become one flesh. I can tell you right now that I do not have a contingency plan for what I will do if half of my organs and limbs stop working. I mean, we might make it to a hospital and maybe figure something out… But that’s not something that I’m planning for. There are solutions for paraplegia, but I don’t know anyone who has written out a step-by-step paraplegia plan… nor am I aware of anyone who has become a double amputee for any reason other than the most extreme.
But today, we have an attitude towards marriage that puts marriage in roughly the same category as fashion or diet. These are lifestyle choices. You choose what best expresses your authentic self, and if your authentic self changes, so does its expression.
But from a Christian perspective, divorcing your spouse is not like changing your haircut. It’s like cutting off an arm and a leg. If the two have become one flesh, then they cannot be separated without catastrophic damage, and they should not be separated except under catastrophic necessity.
So do I have a contingency plan for getting both of my legs blown off? Does my wife? No, we don’t.
Do you?
2- Yes, my wife is in a very vulnerable spot. But so am I, actually. She is dependent on me. I am dependent on her. This is what it means to be one flesh. She wouldn’t have a house without me, and I wouldn’t have a home without her. We need each other.
Furthermore, my heart safely trusts in her. Which means that if anybody wanted to rob me blind or wound me deeply, she could do it. And in today’s culture, plenty of ladies are actually doing this through the divorce process.
Yet for some reason, no one ever asks young men what they’re going to do if their wife divorces them. No one is ever concerned about their contingency plan. Why is this?
And when the redpillers start talking about prenups, this is seen as the height of misogyny. But what do you expect from young men who face the prospect of legal plunder if they tie the knot to a bad woman?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of prenuptial agreements. I think marriage is dangerous and it is supposed to be that way. And I think that you should make sure that you really know someone to the best of your human ability before you marry them.
But let’s not act like the ladies are supposed to have a contingency plan, but if the boys have a contingency plan then it is misogyny.
3- Marriage is dangerous. The disciples understood this implication when Jesus said what He did about divorce, and concluded that it was better not to marry at all. It is noteworthy that Jesus did not say “whoa guys, you’re getting the wrong impression, there’s very little risk involved in marriage, and if you marry a bad spouse you can just divorce them and get a different one; no one should have to live in an unhealthy marriage! Everyone has a right to feel safe!”
To the contrary, Jesus said “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given.” (Matt. 19:11)
Marriage puts both parties into a very vulnerable position. Marriage is very dangerous.
Most of the best things in life are.
4- A fundamental issue here is our culture of safety. There is a fundamental crisis of purpose in our culture today. What are we here for? To have a quiet house with no children to disturb our peace and to spend our Friday nights sipping martinis on our yacht?
Or were we made for something more? If we were made to slay dragons, then we need to recognize that dragon slaying is not an occupation you pursue for its chill vibes.
The goal is not to figure out what path has the least resistance, but rather which path burns the most brightly for Christ.
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@LearKentFool I could relate some terribly absurd anecdotes, but they were probably something I was doing. Lol.
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Uhhh, guys, please just do a little reading first, and don't lean on modern vernacular cognates for the Latin celébrare. Not everything has to be a hot take.
Coalition for Canceled Priests@canceledpriests
The Holy Mass is NOT a celebration! It is an offering. We do not celebrate a Mass, we offer it.
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@LearKentFool Alas, more than one occasion for that in my years there.
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@VadeadIesum I agree. We SHOULD all go back to the Latin Mass. very logical of you.
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People are apparently triggered by this. Learn how to control your brain in mass, instead of praying the rosary to meditate because you cant slow your brain down.
There's a reason the rosary is prayed BEFORE and AFTER mass, not during. It's not part of the liturgy. It's not a good practice.
By this standard of the X note, we should all just go back to the latin mass.
Joseph Francis ♱@VadeadIesum
Do NOT pray the rosary during mass. This is inappropriate and against church teaching.
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@vegashotflash @tulipgrrl @brittilina Well, there you have it. You’re an E and the OP is probably an I. And, that probably explains the difference. E’s have 30 more contacts for every 1 an I has. Don’t kick other women when they are low. It’s just ugly and mean and small. Not “honest.”
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I am ENTJ only 1% of women have this personality, I get it.
I am not talking to her face to face. I would be more gentle with my words but I would still speak the truth. I am trying to convey information to reach a solution.
Many women want to kvetch with no solutions. That is not me. She is free to ignore the info.
We lie to each other so much at church it can be unhelpful. Think about when the Pastor’s daughter is singing and is terrible. People lie, pump her up and she goes on to study music in college. I have seen it.
My church family will and would help anyone but it is a 2 way street. People have to want a change.
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So this is me admitting to envy publicly, but also just feeling sad for missing out on … something. Might delete.
At our church, we have a policy of letting small groups handle ministries like baby showers and meal trains and such.
The small group I attend didn’t forget me or anything. They gave me a small diaper shower at one of our meetings and set up a meal train for four meals after we got home from the hospital.
But it does hurt to see other ladies who were pregnant at the same time as me getting full-on showers with registry gifts (we needed actual baby things again, and $$ is tighter than it was w our 3yo) where the whole church was invited. Just now, the sister of a new mama posted her meal train for the whole church to participate in and it had a solid fourteen meal slots.
We went to church with our baby for the first time this week, and one of the leaders of the women’s ministry told me she didn’t even know I was pregnant.
Just feels like you have to be popular to get more support, and if you don’t have an advocate or want to toot your own horn, you aren’t as valued as other women.
So now I’m midnight-nursing-ugly-crying over here. Don’t mind me. Most ppl don’t.
*end self-pity vent*
P.S. I had this same feeling with my last baby - the shower situation was exactly the same (our gap then was 5 years, so we had even less baby stuff then). We had more financial wiggle room, but I struggled postpartum and really could have used a robust meal train.
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@normonics Maybe, I’d be hella worse without it. Barely human, in fact.
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If you have no charity in your heart -- not even for your fellow Catholics -- is your preferred liturgy really working for you?
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@SteveSkojec and to say the demons not only cause it, but possessed a virtuous woman because of it? It hardly rises to the level of venial sin.
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@SteveSkojec 🤦♀️ okay. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. But no more.
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Yeah, I know, sugar is addictive.
But demonic possession? Really?
Fractured Light@FracturedLight0
Father Chad Ripperger tells Tucker Carlson sugar is a big addiction demons drive in people who are possessed. “I’m not surprised even a little bit. I’m just surprised you said it out loud.”
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@EduRogue @SteveSkojec Demons don’t need to help what happens naturally as a result of how the body functions. Gluttony — maybe. But we also have concupiscence. 🤷♀️
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@SteveSkojec Steve, you don’t think a demon would want to destroy the body it possesses by any means necessary? Sugar is highly destructive to the human body in excess. Sugar would actually be an incredibly nefarious means to wreak physical havoc on a body.
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@DannyPsmith @SteveSkojec I can believe that more than I can believe the demons are behind sugar addiction.
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@SteveSkojec Tucker did say that he was scratched by demons. Seriously, he said that, look it up. And it wasn't a joke or a bit, this troglodyte seriously claimed that demons scratched his back in his sleep... 😂😂
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