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Experiences of our Catholic Upbringing; What keeps us in & what brings people back?
Topic Started: Friday, 4. May 2012, 23:08 (506 Views)
K.T.B.

I know of a priest who, when he didn't want to be contacted except in emergencies, would get his secretary to say he was "on a course", meaning either a golf course or a race course. :)
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Mairtin
Friday, 8. June 2012, 22:36
I would dearly love somebody to explain to me where Jesus laid down conditions for people receiving His body and blood - or where He said that NOT receiving them could be every bit as good as actually receiving them.
Not sure if this answers your question Mairtin but I suggest you reflect on this passage.

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“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”
(Matthew 22:11-14 ESV)


Being a follower of Jesus is more than just looking the part or having the right invite, we are expected to live as Christ showed us and if we fail then we can expect the invite to be removed. Just a thought...
Edited by Penfold, Saturday, 9. June 2012, 20:19.
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Gerard

Just a little background to that parable ... as the guests entered the banquet, the host provided the dinner suits ...

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Rose of York
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During my early Catholic upbringing we were taught that it was acceptable for a Catholic who suffered at the hands of their spouse, to have a separation order, but it was mortal sin to get a divorce. In the junior school we were told that a woman, who was named by the teacher, and was mother to two pupils, was wicked because she had left her husband. I was friendly with the girls, so I told my parents the woman was very nice. They told me, she had found it necessary to leave because she suffered violence.

Nobody had explained to us, in class, that civil divorce is solely that - a civil procedure, and seeking one did not mean a person applying had denied the indissolubility of a valid marriage.

The attitudes of priests, nuns, teachers and Catholics in general towards divorcees are kinder now than in the past.
Keep the Faith!

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CARLO
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I grew up in a small town in the 50s and 60s where divorce was still rare. Divorced women (not men) would often be pointed out to me in whispered tones by adults.

One girl in my class had a different surname to her divorced and remarried mother and was the subject of much curious and sometimes unkind attention by other children. She grew up tough and did very well for herself.

I don't recall that attitudes amongst Catholics were any different at the time to the rest of society.

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Edited by CARLO, Saturday, 16. June 2012, 23:57.
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Rose of York
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CARLO
Saturday, 16. June 2012, 23:57
I grew up in a small town in the 50s and 60s where divorce was still rare. Divorced women (not men) would often be pointed out to me in whispered tones by adults.

One girl in my class had a different surname to her divorced and remarried mother and was the subject of much curious and sometimes unkind attention by other children. She grew up tough and did very well for herself.

I don't recall that attitudes amongst Catholics were any different at the time to the rest of society.
In the 50s and 60s times were a'changing. Perhaps I should have referred to the attitude of people in general, not just Catholics. In the forties people were prone to obey the written and unwritten rules, in every aspect of life.
Keep the Faith!

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When I was a young person we were taught that divorce was a mortal sin. It was a shock to learn that our parish priest (an Irishman) said it was often necessary to go through a divorce case in order to sort out the legalities. He was not of course suggesting that such separation permitted remarriage.
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