Four letter words

[coralewisjr]

When I was a teenager (I’m 20 now so saying “when I was a teenager” feels very odd), I swore. Looking back, I realize that I swore when I was immoral people and during times when I sinned. Luke (DH) and I don’t allow swearing in our home. Please pray that my parents and teenage brothers stop swearing, or at least refrain from swearing when they’re around Baby (after I birth him or her). I wouldn’t want God to hear those words, so why would I want to expose my child to them?

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne

 

[Brenda_V]

FightingFat:

I Interestingly, my large Irish Catholic family, all practice and are lovely people, all use Jesus, God, Jesus, Mary & Joseph and various other exclaimations constantly. It always puts me on edge and I feel it is a little careless for someone who professes faith, but what do you do???

Actually, when I hear someone say “Jesus, Mary & Joseph” I think of prayer - like a petition that the three persons of the Holy Family intercede for them.

My guess is that this is how these expressions started out - as a suppplication of prayer.

I do like the idea that was suggested about adding a doxology and making the exclamation a prayer

Brenda V.

 

[Fashina86]

I am a proud 18-year-old to say I have never sworn (or used any other of those vulgar words) in my life!

 

[Edwin1961]

God is NOT a four-letter word!

People today treat the name of “GOD” like a four-letter word.

From the CCC:
211 The divine name, “I Am” or “He Is,” expresses God’s faithfulness: despite the faithlessness of men’s sin and the punishment it deserves, he keeps “steadfast love for thousands.” By going so far as to give up his own Son for us, God reveals that he is "rich in mercy. "

By giving his life to free us from sin, Jesus
reveals that he himself bears the divine name: "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will realize that “I AM.’”

God alone IS
212 Over the centuries, Israel’s faith was able to manifest and deepen realization of the riches contained in the revelation of the
divine name. God is unique; there are no other gods besides him. He transcends the world and history. He made heaven and earth:

“They will perish, but you endure; they will all wear out like a
garment . . . but you are the same, and your years have no end.” In God “there is no variation or shadow due to change.” God is
“HE WHO IS,” from everlasting to everlasting, and as such remains ever faithful to himself and to his promises.

213 The revelation of the ineffable name “I Am who Am” contains then the truth that God alone IS. The Greek Septuagint
translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and following it the Church’s Tradition, understood the divine name in this sense: God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end. All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone is his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is.