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Flaunt the Faith by carrying a card
Topic Started: Friday, 3. February 2012, 21:52 (1,336 Views)
Gerard

Nothing to do with the praying then?

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Anne-Marie

Gerard
Wednesday, 15. February 2012, 18:50
Nothing to do with the praying then?
Very much to do with the praying - I was immobilised in a bed in my room, and relied on the iest returning to tell me his version of what happened as he blessed her: Whatever the cause, the effect was instant!
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Gerard

I read many books about healing and many contain stories of priests ministering the "last sacrament" only to be surprised at the dramatic improvement of the patient. Frequently followed by suggestions that the diagnosis was wrong, or the priest couldnt understand it, or ..... anything but acknowlege that the sacrament is intended to heal.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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CARLO
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Gerard
Wednesday, 15. February 2012, 21:43
I read many books about healing and many contain stories of priests ministering the "last sacrament" only to be surprised at the dramatic improvement of the patient. Frequently followed by suggestions that the diagnosis was wrong, or the priest couldnt understand it, or ..... anything but acknowlege that the sacrament is intended to heal.

Gerry
Quite right Gerry.

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Pax


CARLO
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Derekap
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During years when I was more conversant with priests I used to hear of them struggling miles in attrocious weather to visit parishioners at death's door only to find them sitting-up in bed and very much alive. In those days very few had cars and during WW2 petrol was severely rationed anyway, if people qualified.
Edited by Derekap, Saturday, 18. February 2012, 17:28.
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Deacon Robert
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I probably have said it before, but, I have had a rosary with me for most of my life. I use it to pray it when time allows. When I was in the military I wore it around my neck. There were two reasons, first you may not have anything in your pockets. The second is it is trapped under your flack vest and makes no noise. I belive in Mary's promise. Today I carry it in a burse at all times.
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne

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Deacon Robert
Monday, 20. February 2012, 00:22
I probably have said it before, but, I have had a rosary with me for most of my life. I use it to pray it when time allows. When I was in the military I wore it around my neck. There were two reasons, first you may not have anything in your pockets.
A woman wearing a summer frock on a hot day is unlikely to have any pockets, so why not wear the rosary around her neck?

Nobody can spend a penny in our house without noticing we flaunt our faith. To get there, they go through a small lobby, where there is a crucifix on one wall and a nice plaque of Our Lady on the opposite wall. If they sit down on an armchair in our place they see a Victorian brass crucifix. Some people who know I have a brain and some common sense look at me in surprise and say "Are you Catholic?"
Keep the Faith!

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Rose of York
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One would never see nuns being so vulgar as to flaunt their faith in public.

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Patrick
Monday, 13. February 2012, 12:55
... since death without the "services" of a valid priest could *possibly be detrimental to our soul.
If I die tomorrow, I would like to think that I will be judged on my overall life over the last 60 years - or at least the last 53 years since I reached the Church's nominal age of reason - rather than how I happen to have spent the last few minutes of my life.
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Mairtin
Monday, 20. February 2012, 09:44
Patrick
Monday, 13. February 2012, 12:55
... since death without the "services" of a valid priest could *possibly be detrimental to our soul.
If I die tomorrow, I would like to think that I will be judged on my overall life over the last 60 years - or at least the last 53 years since I reached the Church's nominal age of reason - rather than how I happen to have spent the last few minutes of my life.
You're too quick for me, a chara - you'll have to give me a month or so to come up with a dacent response to that one.... :nw:
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Rose of York
Monday, 20. February 2012, 00:57
One would never see nuns being so vulgar as to flaunt their faith in public.

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When I, admittedly with help of a few others, liberated part of the 'Black South' of The Netherlands (as Protestants 'beyond the rivers' called it) in Autumn 1944 such was a common sight. Though the bicycles were more of the 'Sit-up and beg' type.
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OsullivanB

Which one is you, Derek?
"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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This thread has been radically edited to take account of an observation received from a member. Apologies to those whose babies may have gone out with the bathwater.
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Derekap
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OsB asked which one of the nuns in the picture was me. British Intelligence didn;t think I was intelligent enough to work for them. As I said, I had liberated the part of Netherlands, I didn't need disguise.
Edited by Derekap, Tuesday, 21. February 2012, 22:30.
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OsullivanB

Oops my mistake. I like the idea of the habit as a Secret Service disguise though:

"My name is Bond - Sister James Bond."
"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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