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Posted 1 year ago #
haha, :)
Peace
Peace
Posted 1 year ago #
pouliot, I am sorry I must burst your bubble. We are not allowed permission to create a rule where anything goes. As Catholics we are always required to be on our best behavior and to have the greatest intention of peace toward our brothers and sisters. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen
Posted 1 year ago #
Re: Yanastrovich's post:
"I am sorry I must burst your bubble. We are not allowed permission to create a rule where anything goes."Really?! I hope you write in the same spirit as I posted, otherwise I would be compelled to resort to the immortal words of Pogo.
- Regards,
- Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic [Latin rite] & generally inveterate amateur)
Posted 1 year ago #
God loves you .
Why NOT just about 'anything goes' in written exchanges, that our actions may be more Christ-like as a result?
It could be that a sophomoric rant (one's own, or another') could be just the thing to stir thoughts that rise above our own sophomoric needing-improvement ways.
We could respond: "Thanks, Pristinus - I'm rising above THAT!"
Or: "Prissy, I'm praying for you. Do you offer kisses to God with that mind?"
Remember, I love you, too .
In the Suffering of Christ, and in His hope of His Resurrection,
Pristinus Sapienter
(wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)
Posted 1 year ago #
pouliot, All right, but dont say I did not warn you! Kerrrrrrrpowwwwww! Why does every town in the United States have two Protestant churches and only one Catholic? Answer: because it takes two Protestants to make one Catholic. Ha Ha Ha Ha!In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen
Posted 1 year ago #
Re: P.S.'s post:
"Do you offer kisses to God with that mind?"Just what I needed! Your turn of mind is so..., so..., so... Je ne sai quoi.
GFETE
- Regards,
- Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic [Latin rite] & generally inveterate amateur)
Posted 1 year ago #
God loves you .
" ' GFETE ' " Gesundheit!
Yana, play nice now - there are in town two Protestant churches for the one Catholic church so that next year there can be four Protestant churches for the one Catholic church. :) ;)
Remember, I love you, too .
In our delighted glory in our Infant King,
Pristinus Sapienter
(wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)
Posted 1 year ago #
Let's see, two Protestant churches now, four next year, so can we expect 8 in year three? While the lone Catholic Church seeks to add on to the existing building?
Posted 1 year ago #
As I posted somewhere earlier,
I hope we don't enjoy our Catholic postings so much we lose opportunities.
I pray that we can follow the lead of the Pope in lovingly engaging in dialog with separated Christians to build upon what we have in common. Not to judge, belittle, insult, and win arguments, but to walk together with, encourage, share the joy, and trust in the Holy Spirit to bring them back to the Church.
Posted 1 year ago #
God loves you .
PTR, any visitor is free, as you have, to take issue with anything placed here.
As one pastor disagrees with another on their purported 'perfect interpretation' of Scripture, and leads 'these and those' away to yet another storefront or 'big-box', Protestant sects have not only shattered in the smallest venues, they have become cultic around leading pastors. In the town next to mine, there is a stretch of four blocks with five Protestant churches. Think they are constructively 'dialoging' with each other?
Should I not notice, and pretend that we have nothing to say about a never-ending parade of 'perfect interpretation' church leaders among the Protestants? Who shall we dialog with? There are limits to time, space, etc., that beg to have rather intimate exchanges. Frankly, right now I have to wonder how 'intimate' it can get with thirty-thousand-plus folk to hold such important dialogs with.
A CE article this very day sort of hints maybe Catholicism ought to 'emerge' shattered as non-Catholic sects just may (further, and likely will). Hence, the dialogs can happen all over the map - and, thence, Christian unity? for our one Shepherd? about His one flock?
I will exchange and engage with anyone - I assure them, one and all, that in Christ I love them. In loving them, in a sort of cynical view, I more greatly love God and myself (as well as them) that in my exultation of love, I have so much about me to decrease that Christ may increase in and about me. (Let that, all that from love in me to decrease of me, be Your will for me, my Lord.)
But, I will not dilute my faith as so many even Catholics seem willing to dilute theirs - and, I am fiercely and evermore apologetically Catholic.
That last noted - so are you, PTR, and others around here.
Remember, I love you, too .
In our delighted glory in our Infant King,
Pristinus Sapienter
(wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)
Posted 1 year ago #
I don't think the Pope is leading us away from talking and even asking challenging questions of our Protestant neighbors.
Posted 1 year ago #
"But, I will not dilute my faith as so many even Catholics seem willing to dilute theirs - and, I am fiercely and evermore apologetically Catholic."
Amen, brother. I'm with you. That's why I'd love to see an 'anything goes' thread where I can tell anti-Catholic bigots exactly what I think of them. Charitably, of course.
Posted 1 year ago #
Somewhere around the 4th or 5th of December the point of this little "prank" may have been lost.
It wasn't made here, anywhere.
It was made here: Anything-Goes
- Regards,
- Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic [Latin rite] & generally inveterate amateur)
Posted 1 year ago #
darn, lost the momentum.
Peace
Peace
Posted 1 year ago #
God loves you .
Well, Old Sig, we're taking up the issue here -
I don't want to make ad hominem attacks on anyone.
But, (one of my BIG 'buts'), there are questions which would take some bees out from under my bonnet (you may VERY softly chortle at the image) and stick them under bonnets of target types.
And, they would be free to respond. :(=) - toothy grin
(Even funnier: PTR's avatar with a bonnet instead of a full helm; basket of posies rather than a shield?)
Remember, I love you, too .
In our delighted glory in our Infant King,
Pristinus Sapienter
(wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)
Posted 1 year ago #
If anything goes, then everything goes as well..... :) whoops out there oh no, uncle bill, squash...
Peace and yule tide,
Peace and good will to men of good hearts.
P.S. I thought the table was rectangular....
Peace and yule tide,
Peace and good will to men of good hearts.
P.S. I thought the table was rectangular....
Posted 1 year ago #
Re: P.S.'s post:
"Well, Old Sig, we're taking up the issue here -"I'm not so sure. Related, maybe, but the original point was a little different. Deliberately made a little ambiguous to avoid that ad hominem thing.
Regardless, posts here are beginning to be interesting in their own right. Bees, bonnets, and baskets included.
- Regards,
- Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic [Latin rite] & generally inveterate amateur)
Posted 1 year ago #
God loves you .
A little late in this thread, but -
I should have called myself a "fiercely and evermore unapologetic apologetical Catholic"
To which, their next straw-man jibe: "Oh yeah? Where is 'apologetics' in the Bible?" To which I might respond: "In the way from the Law, through the histories, Psalms, wisdom books and prophets, and into the Gospels and the whole New Testament, how the thematic calls to repentance, grace, obedience, justice, love, etc., cycle over and over are very apologetics without title." Yeah - apologetics - God invented that with truth.
Remember, I love you, too .
In our delighted glory in our Infant King,
Pristinus Sapienter
(wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)
Posted 1 year ago #
I have been slowly preparing myself to become an apologetic for a few years now. It has been and is a long journey but, I have learned so much about our Catholic faith that I wonder how could anyone that claims to love Christ be anything but a Catholic?
As a Catholic convert I often feel that our Protestant brothers and sisters are 1.) afraid of the truth or 2.) wouldn't know it if it was to bite them on a tender body part. They all seem to be taken in by the minister or fad of the moment. I want to be able to show them that this Catholic "fad" has been in place for over 2000 years unchanged.
And part my learning comes often times from the posts here on CE. As I have written before, a good portion of what I read here stimulates me to go learn more or dig deeper into what many of you post.
I don't think I'm quite ready ready yet to declare myself as a bona fide apologetic but that is a goal of mine. And my reasons are not so much to 'defend" the faith from the plethora of "Catholic Bashers" but to use apologetics as a 'tool' to educate their inadequately educated backsides.
Thanks to all of you wonderful folks that provide some real "meat and potatoes" food for thought on this forum. I love to read material that makes my thought processes shift into high gear.
THANKS!
tarheel
Posted 1 year ago #
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