Hope this new forum look hasn't thrown you for a loop! We are soon going to install a much nicer forum module with better features -- and we will bring back the Roundtable name. But for now I hope you enjoy to ability to make comments that has been restored.

Mary
I am most grateful to your for your very uplifting posts. You have great insights and you help build us up.

I am grateful to Eric for getting this discussion going and to Fishman for his contributions. This, I consider, is our Round-Table at its best, where we share honestly and openly our thoughts and learn from each other.

Reading your post where you wrote:

“Because the law was a tutor leading to Christ”

I am reminded of St Paul’s ideas in Galatians. He considered (I think) the law to be not only the 10 commandments, but also the 613 requirements for Jews. The law for him included the identity markers of circumcision, Sabbath observance and the requirement to eat kosher food.

“Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ” (New Revised Standard Version, Ga 3:24-27 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989).

Is Paul’s idea similar to yours, Mary, where Christ fulfils the law and softens our hearts and enables us to become more completely in union with God?

God bless,

Noelfitz.

Novus,
Welcome to posting! I do know that further improvements to the forums are still underway, so keep the developers for CE in your prayers! We look forward to hearing more from you and from many other new posters. While under transition, it's been rather quiet here. So hopefully people will begin to post again soon!

I'm afraid that with the new design, I feel very cut off from Catholic Exchange. I used to read the articles that came in the digest every day, but apparently the digest is no longer available. I come to the website occasionally to read articles, but find the set-up very difficult to follow. Is CE no longer offering several new articles daily? I can't tell. The "Today" articles seem to offer one or two new articles a day, but the rest are from "yesterday" or longer ago. Is there a "contact us" option anywhere? I can't find it. Maybe I'll get used to the new system, but for now I am certainly confused.

I'd setting for the moment for having a link that lets me log into the form without having to return to the home page and then click past my profile. It would nice if it remembered me too.

Correction--after several tries I stayed logged in! I don't remember whether I did anything different, though!

in my favorites I have http://forums.catholicexchange.com/forum/1. this allows me to jump directly into the Faith and Life forum.

God bless,
Noelfitz.
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