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15 июл 2009

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@BishopBarron 15 лет назад

I see your point, but I think you're reading things too negatively. What I was pointing to was the way that this practice got into the bones and bodies of Catholics. It's that kind of incarnate spirituality that I admire.

@SunsetSix 12 лет назад

No meat on Friday was also a way for people to sacrifice. So was fasting before Holy Communion. We need sacrifice in our religious lives.

@braydenshanley7435 4 года назад

SunsetSix Why?

@christophermartin8685 12 лет назад

As a hispanic, not eating meat on friday was a very big thing here in texas. Many families gathered at restaurants on fridays and ate fish.

@TheAaronChand 5 лет назад

@ThisIsTurok1 as a Hindu.i find no meat but fish thing a loophole

@psiroki 14 лет назад

@OccamKant And not just the church! Today I left my apartment and thought "Did I lock the door? I can't really recall it" I went back and checked: "It's locked. I must have closed it without even realizing what I am doing. On one hand that's great, on the other hand, HEEEEELP! I have brainwashed and programmed myself to lock the apartment door after I leave!". I think I'm living the nightmare you're talking about.

@corym8358 Год назад

So we do it just because it's who we are. Fair enough. At least he's honest about it.

@tonyspare2468 5 лет назад

I thought we were defined by our love...

@Paul-bd7fe 3 месяца назад

We are. And by being a people of love, there are a lot of things we don’t do!

@Nocturnalux 13 лет назад

@OccamKant I know what you mean. I was raised Catholic and am an Atheist now, however, I still find myself genuflecting whenever I enter a church. In other words, it is an almost instinctive reaction with no faith at all behind it. I suspect many others are the same.

@mariemunzar6474 2 года назад

That's because faith goes on a deeper level than how you feel on the surface.

@Nocturnalux 2 года назад

@@mariemunzar6474 It’s not, I have zero faith in the RCC. It’s simply automatic. When movie theaters were first introduced, people in my very Catholic country would genuflect when entering. They had been conditioned to associate gathering places that dim with going to church and mass. They would do this even when the movie was racy, too. Or racy by the RCC’s standards, that is

@mariemunzar6474 2 года назад

@@Nocturnalux well I only genuflect in a Catholic Church

@billybagbom 13 лет назад

@fhkjds Yeah, but George Carlin is dead. May God remember, save, and have mercy on him. His point is well-taken, though. It is obviously not for such minor ecclesiastical infractions as beef jerky on Friday that a soul might be lost, but for hardness of heart, irreverence toward what is holy, and indifference toward God, His Church, and His good news of salvation. Carlin was a funny man, a sensitive soul and a keen observer. I like him for that. I think Jesus does, too.

@vkorchnoifan 12 лет назад

Dear Father, I wonder if the devil will tempt us while we are in heaven? The reason why I ask this questions is because in the Book of Job the devil talks to God. God is in His Kingdom so the devil had to be in His Kingdom to talk to Him. My final question is why is God even talking to this low life who enjoys hurting God and hurting us ?

@mariemunzar6474 2 года назад

No, the devil cannot go to heaven and will not tempt us there. We are free in heaven. God is all powerful and can talk to the devil (and also to us) from anywhere he is located. God is more powerful than the devil, in the book of Job it's God giving permission to the devil to tempt Job to show how faithful Job was to God. Without this permission the devil couldn't have done anything. He was giving Job a chance to show his faith. The story of Job relates to us as well, whenever we encounter evil in our lives we need to turn to God in faith, rather than losing hope and turning to despair. Because we don't see the big picture of where God is leading us to and why, so we have to trust him. That's my understanding of it.