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RetroGuy76, if he doesn’t then I’m becoming an atheist. (No pressure Br. Casey 😁)

Thanks! That's quite a comparison!

Yes, you do have the charm of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen.

Awesome! Glad to hear the connection was clear!

Peace and good to you as well!

Haha always gotta see it all the way through!

It’s always hard to accept the fact that you have BO...I’m here for ya

I appreciate your response. It means a lot to me, and the People of God, to see such humility and contrition. We all make mistakes, but few are "man" enough to admit them. Peace and good to you.

You sound like a hateful person - brian. Pity

Amen

Glad to hear it!

God wants you to be a Catholic Priest

Thanks!

Glad to hear it, thanks for sharing!

Thanks, very encouraging!

It is likely that in a little over a year, when I am ordained a priest, I will be assigned to a parish.

Maybe he's talking about some Eastern Catholic churches? Byzantine Catholic churches allow married clergy if they're married prior to ordination.

Breaking In The Habit Come back to St. Camillus please!

Jose F. Hernandez it's not, some eastern churches within the Catholic church, our syriac maronite church being the example I am most familiar with, allow priests to be married if they get married before being ordained a deacon, but those priests cannot become bishops (in the Maronite church).

Glad this was helpful! I appreciate your sharing this, and hope that Breaking In The Habit continues to speak to you as a non-Catholic!

Breaking In The Habit Thanks for noticing my comments and in general being a nice person even though I'm not a member of your faith. It means a lot

@@carverredacted thank you for acting differently from those of your faith

Wish I could say that I had an answer for this, but I have no idea!

Good advice to live by!

Very cool!

I thought he was crying too.

TRUTH

Not sure what Walmart you're going to to hear music like this...

LouisFGraham Well the answer to your question is exactly what you say: it calls us to change. Sure, it’s comfortable to not know, but is ignorance really a defense for our actions or a way we want to live our lives? Once we are awoken to an issue-ours or in the world-we are responsible to make a change, which is a good thing.

I'm not saying that we need to accept everything about someone or that everyone has a valid opinion. There ARE definitely right and wrong answers. What I'm saying is that we need to have the humility to realize that sometimes WE'RE the ones with the wrong answer! It's only when we're in diverse and honest community of prayer that we can start to shed light on our own blindness.

Just checking the old pits to see if I smell! Not cool enough to dab...

That's a lie and you know it!!

Ironically enough, you're proving my point by your comment. Just because you haven't experienced something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it means that we live in echo-chambers that do not allow us to routinely interact with other people's positions. What I share is not my opinion or something I pulled out of thin air, it's the findings of the National Academy of Sciences. There is actual data to support it. www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554.full

Well, that certainly depends on which sins you're talking about...

+Herrera If I may, this will be general but I think applicable. If you have any questions about it, feel free to follow up: 1. You are biological. Biology is very old and very deep. That which is deep is a drive and not a choice. 2. You will always have drives. 3. You do, however, have a frontal lobe, a prefrontal cortex. It can regulate your drives 4. Christ sends us the Holy Spirit to educate (and much more. This is RU-vid, not a systematic theology) us 5. In the Bible, what are drives are not called 'sins,' just temptations' 6. Temptations ca be resisted 7. We must decide to resist them because they are biological, which means deep and automatic 8.Thus, you must choose between your drive(s) and your actions 9. Only a greater love can overcome a drive ('temptation') 10. It will not be easy. This never is. 11. thus, you must be patient and persistent. this will last your entire life 12. It will be worth it 13 You must be completely honest with yourself as well as with God 14. Take advantage of the Sacrament of Confession 15. Find some way of serving Christ at every moment. We are most vulnerable to temptation when we are alone, in the evening, when we are distracted, when we have not prayed, or when we are idle. 16 Decide to learn (and then work at it) how to make every act an act of repentance. 17. Love others more than you love yourself. Every sexual sin uses others for our own good. Love others so that the best in you works for the best for others. 18. Love God above all, with all your heart and soul and mind and strength. 19. Memorize the _Suscipe_ prayer, meditate on it, and live it. 20. Read Hans Urs von Balthasar. Start with his _Engagement with God._ Twice. Grow from there. Go with God.

+Aristo Telian This is good advice.

I can have an input but I don't know what sexual sins in particular are you talking about. I've given up the hope of entering the monastery to be a monk because I have sexual urges and I thought before the monks don't have it or overcome by staying in the monastery. Also I don't like the set up in the monastery that each of you have your own cell that is your own small bedroom to sleep. Usually at night when we are about to rest to sleep that's the time we have sexual temptation like doing masturbation to release it. But if you are in the monastery you should never indulge to this act. But this temptation can be averted if two people share own cell-bedroom of course with separate bed. I found it if I sleep with others in the room the temptation is less. Like the Hare Krishna group they allowed you to stay in their ashram provided you share some choirs in the ashram like cleaning or cooking or gardening etc and their cell-bedroom two people shares in one bedroom of course separate bed that is so convenient to avoid temptation. I know a lot of stories in the seminary because each of them have separate cell, some of a gay priest went to one of the seminarian and doing blow job that is happening because the seminarian was by himself in the bedroom, imagine if there are two or three sharing in the room that would be avoided because the moment the gay priest enter the room the other will witness it and will create scandal thus the temptation of the gay priest to blow job the seminarian will be unlikely. I know some of the ashram in India and some Buddhist they share bedroom like 2-4 in the room, unless they are all gays and doing some kind of orgies over there that's their fault.The only thing we have problems with someone sleeping with you or group is if one of them is snoring loudly that will ruin your night. But for me I prefer to have only two people share in one cell, maybe if you find him snoring at night you could have arrangement with the Abbot to solve it. I guess I can sleep with other snoring because we all snores unknowingly. The trick to that is to make sure that both of you sleep at the same time so you will be indifferent to snoring and try to get used to hear it or if the other really snore louder ask the Abbot to move you or him to other cell, I mean those snores louder should share room with those who snores louder. Or if that not fix the problem with two people snoring louder together that's maybe solved to sleep alone in one cell.

You probably shouldn't be a monk.

Javier20 .Javier20 Maybe he did. Certainly sounds like something he would say. My favorite is from Karl Rahner, something to the effect of “There are many that God has that the Church does not have, and there are many that the Church has that God does not have.”

Such a good point!

It depends what we mean by nationalism and what it leads us to do. I don't think there's a problem with being "patriotic," but when our nation becomes the most important aspect of our lives (basically a god) and causes us to hurt others who are not a part of this country, it is definitely a sin.

@@BreakingInTheHabit I see. That makes sense. I know of a quote of Pope Pius XII that says: “It is quite legitimate for nations to treat their differences as a sacred inheritance and guard them at all costs.”