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Flaunt the Faith by carrying a card
Topic Started: Friday, 3. February 2012, 21:52 (1,338 Views)
OsullivanB

Self-deception was your only sin, Carlo. There are up to five such guided tours a day, open free of charge to anyone who wishes to go.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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OsullivanB
Friday, 10. February 2012, 20:25
Self-deception was your only sin, Carlo. There are up to five such guided tours a day, open free of charge to anyone who wishes to go.
I am delighted! This was a certainly not clear.

I am blameless!

By the way if this tour is open to all I would recommend it - they were very friendly and the building is well worth seeing internally.

Pax

CARLO

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During a long week-end in Dublin about twelve years ago My wife, a family friend and I visited a Freemasons lodge. One room was extremely ornamented and decorated in Pharonic style - more appropriate for historical Egypt than these islands.
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as a friend of the Museum of London I went on a visit to the then newly refurbished Great Eastern Hotel at Liverpool St. They have a fully furnished masonic meeting hall dating from the 20s I think. Fabulous decoration and big fancy chairs for the presiders. The hall is not used by masons any more and you have to go through the gym to get to it and it's not open to the public anyway.
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So would any of us carry a card identifying us as Catholic? Since I already carry cards identifying me as a driver, a member of the RSPB, a shopper at the CoOp and a borrower of library books in this county I suppose one more won't break the wallet
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Sunday, 12. February 2012, 21:09
So would any of us carry a card identifying us as Catholic? Since I already carry cards identifying me as a driver, a member of the RSPB, a shopper at the CoOp and a borrower of library books in this county I suppose one more won't break the wallet
A card that identifies us as Catholic and requiring a Catholic priest in the event of an emergency/near death should be a must for all Catholics, since death without the "services" of a valid priest could *possibly be detrimental to our soul.
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There used to be cards at the back of churches with the words

In case of serious accident or illness please send for a Catholic priest.

With no other words, the message was in big bold letters. The new one is cluttered with other text, the line about sending for a priest is at the very bottom, in a smaller font than the others, as though it is less important. My concern is a nurse could look at the card, in a hurry and under pressure and quickly get back to her job, without noticing the last row. Shame it is not in a different brighter colour than the rest of the card.

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The image above the crucifix looks like a caterpillar, or a trail of rabbit droppings. Is it rosary beads?

The crucifix should have taken priority, at the top.
Keep the Faith!

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There used to be cards at the back of churches with the words
In case of serious accident or illness please send for a Catholic priest.

But if the weather is atrocious ring the local Vicar :wacko:
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Sunday, 5. February 2012, 11:54
I carry a simple card with me at all times that states:

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The words are more easily noticeable on the card I carry. I guess the rosary image is supposed to give the reader a clue that the bearer requires a Catholic priest but they could send for an Anglo-Catholic vicar by mistake. At least my card gives telephone numbers where priests can be reached anytime, day or night and that I'm 99.9% certain that a priest would come to me and do everything within his power to reach me, regardless of the weather.

Dioceses/parishes could have something similar I guess, if they can be bothered to answer the phone, or play the answer machine back at least once a day.
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Monday, 13. February 2012, 19:27
At least my card gives telephone numbers where priests can be reached anytime, day or night and that I'm 99.9% certain that a priest would come to me and do everything within his power to reach me, regardless of the weather.

Dioceses/parishes could have something similar I guess, if they can be bothered to answer the phone, or play the answer machine back at least once a day.
Any of those priests could reach you anytime, but not anywhere. There is a big world outside the British Isles.
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Monday, 13. February 2012, 20:01
Patrick
Monday, 13. February 2012, 19:27
At least my card gives telephone numbers where priests can be reached anytime, day or night and that I'm 99.9% certain that a priest would come to me and do everything within his power to reach me, regardless of the weather.

Dioceses/parishes could have something similar I guess, if they can be bothered to answer the phone, or play the answer machine back at least once a day.
Any of those priests could reach you anytime, but not anywhere. There is a big world outside the British Isles.
Ah, but there are districts covering most of Europe, and North America. Even Australia and New Zealand. To be fair, I've probably more chance of access to a priest at silly o'clock in such a situation than most. Not that it matters - any validly ordained priest is a validly ordained priest, with or without faculties, in "good standing", or not.
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OsullivanB
Thursday, 9. February 2012, 12:17
The Claddagh ring is another example of the surreptitious sign in the open.
What is it a sign of? I wear one and had no idea it had any significance.

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Monday, 13. February 2012, 22:51
OsullivanB
Thursday, 9. February 2012, 12:17
The Claddagh ring is another example of the surreptitious sign in the open.
What is it a sign of? I wear one and had no idea it had any significance.

Eileenanne
I've never heard of any masonic connection with the Claddagh which is supposed to be a token of friendship, or love, not fraternity.
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OsullivanB

Did I say it was Masonic?

It usually signals two things:

A claimed bond of some kind with Ireland.

The romantic/marital status of the wearer.

I have had mine recognised at about 30 feet by a court usher, but by no-one who wasn't Irish.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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