Catholicism vs Feng Shui

[anhphan]

Can Catholic practise feng shui? My friend said that if we touched or moved our ancestral graves in wrong place, we will be have trouble in work or we will have some serious health problems (may cause death). IOss that true? Thanh you very much.

 

[huck]

The cure for that would be to find a dead cat and twirl it around by its tail saying “curses wourses be gone hursses” three times then give the cat a Viking burial.

 

[Drtaheny]

My sense of this is that your friend is superstitious based on cultural norms that may be acceptable to the culture but it communicates a doubt in your faith. I personally find a level of truth in Feng Shui (when my office was decorated in a more balanced way, my clients felt it was more comfortable to have psychotherapy) but the difference seems to be in the amount of faith you place in it. It is a novelty to me, but to your friend, they seem to seriously believe it. God ultimately decides who lives and who dies. To believe anything else is false.

On a side note, many cultures have negative beliefs about moving the graves of the dead. This may be ancient wisdom because decaying bodies are a petri dish of bacteria (e-coli, streptococcus, staphylococcus, etc.) so moving a dead body that has been in a state of decay could present a risk to the body, simply by breathing airborne pathogens. Does that mean the superstition is true? No. Does that mean it is wise to consider the wisdom of the ancients? YES! Don’t move dead bodies that have been in the ground unless absolutely necessary.

Peace!
Maria

 

[Vanez]

Feng shui? Dont practise it! You are Catholic. You believe in God.

My grandfather, although my grandmother has converted to Roman Catholic (st. Bernadette), remained Confucian and also practiced feng shui. I will never encourage any Christian, and Muslim to believe/practise all things feng shui.

However, when i was a teenager i and mom attended a pentecostal church. There was a family there whose son continuallu became sick for no reason. They had a relative who believe in feng shui and thia woman told them their son was sick because they had a fish pond inside of their house. Being a Christians, this family didnt believe her until one day they got desperated and they followed her advice to close the fish pond. After they closed it their son was not sick anymore. People might think that the feng shui thing that woman told was true/right, but it is actually about health! It is not healthy to have a fish pond in a house without an open air on top of it. Its just not healthy, not because of the feng shui…