Demolishment of Altar Rails

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I wonder if perhaps you meant to reply to someone else? Because what you say, however true it may be, has little or nothing to do with what I wrote. Does this look familiar?
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not the bulk of people just trying to do the best they know how.
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Have you never seen anyone who came across as so extremely holier than thou because of the outward signs they practiced that would turn around and foreclose on a widow the day before Christmas?
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I don’t think I have. The people I know that value pious devotions come across as decent people and I have no reason to believe otherwise. They don’t come across as any more mean-spirited than those who don’t seem to particularly value pious devotions.
 
I was addressing you comment about “Holy than Thou” people. Right above my comment.
 
But you attributed thoughts and motives to me that I do not have. Nor did you address the entire post, just the small part you wanted to talk about. Seems I have seen that sort of thing elsewhere…
 
I don’t think so.

Of course I don’t know all the details of the lives of all these people, but if I see someone deep in prayer or devotion my initial thoughts are not that they are likely to be a hypocrite who cares little for his fellow man. Why would one assume that?
 
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A random someone deep in prayer or devotion was not the subject of my post.
 
Or a person engaged in pious devotions then. Perhaps saying a novena, or praying the Rosary, or receiving Communion kneeling, or praying the Stations of the Cross, or saying the Divine Mercy chalet, or praying to the Sacred Heart, or observing First Saturdays, or First Fridays, or getting enrolled in the Brown Scapular, or attending days of Marian devotion. What sort of pious devotions do you associate with such attitudes?
 
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Please reread my last post. I cannot answer your question because what you are talking about is not what I was talking about. This has become pointless.
 
If by that reply you mean that you have no problem with people who practice pious devotions and you accept that they are no more likely to be hypocrites than those who do not, then we can agree.
 
Of course I have no problem with people doing what they feel called to, whether it be prayer, a specific devotion or devotions, charity work, ministries, or whatever. What I have a problem with are hypocrites, and that is obviously a function of the individual person, not what devotion or prayer or whatever they practice. I thought I had made that clear in the beginning, but obviously not…
 
They are, in my experience, far and away less likely to be hypocritical.
 
We have at my parish the option to stand and receive (which I have felt that is disrespectful) or to kneel to receive which is what I do, when we were practicing how to receive the Eucharist and the blood we were told that we were going to practice both ways of receiving I was a little bit upset about the way that we were practicing to receive in the hands if we wished to do so because I have always felt that one should kneel to receive but that’s just me I guess.
 
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We have at my parish the option to stand and receive (which I have felt that is disrespectful) or to kneel to receive which is what I do, when we were practicing how to receive the Eucharist and the blood we were told that we were going to practice both ways of receiving I was a little bit upset about the way that we were practicing to receive in the hands if we wished to do so because I have always felt that one should kneel to receive but that’s just me I guess.
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Yes, it’s’ just you’, I’m sorry to say.

The Church teaches otherwise.
 
That’s a marvelous iconostasis! Is that a Byzantine, Melkite or Ukrainian Greek Catholic church?
 
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