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[RebeccaJ]

Dear Rebecca. Do you get the picture, “door slammed in his face”?

As happens with Mormon missionaries from time to time.

He should have stuck around though. Answered the questions that he felt he could, and be prepared to defend his faith!

 

[elt1956]

I’ve been here a couple of weeks (and I have Catholic friends too) so I understand how you guys see it. From my perspective it’s certainly worship, but I respect your definition too.

Yes. I think religion depends on the mindset of the individual. We all see the same thing many different ways. Peace.

 

[elt1956]

As happens with Mormon missionaries from time to time.

He should have stuck around though. Answered the questions that he felt he could, and be prepared to defend his faith!

Dear Rebecca. I thought this forum was listed as a learning area. Prostylizing one’s faith, whether by
Catholic, or Mormon turns me off when I am looking for an exchange of ideas. Peace.

 

[RebeccaJ]

Dear Rebecca. I thought this forum was listed as a learning area. Prostylizing one’s faith, whether by
Catholic, or Mormon turns me off when I am looking for an exchange of ideas. Peace.

Dear elt956,

Why do people like to write “Dear Rebecca”?

Outside of that, Dorsey is the one that invited questions. He got a pile of them. The usual dogpile on Mormon doctrines ensued. Some were in finer form than usual and really added to the “discussion”. And here we are. We made it through to now, the perfect time to discuss.

As Dorsey has had many questions posed to him, per his request, he can choose what it is that he would like to talk about.

Love all around,
Rebecca

 

[RebeccaJ]

Technically, it’s accurate, in the same way Roman Catholics are polytheistic.

Mormons have one God they know and ask favors of (roughly corresponding to your God the Father), but we believe he has a God, and that God has a God too, and on and on.

You guys have Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Mary. Then you have demigods in various saints, though most Catholics probably couldn’t be called worshipers of them.

Dear LaMar,

Catholics do not believe that our venerated saints or our Blessed Mother are divine. They have no godly powers. All that is done is done by God.

Mormons, however, believe that there are many gods, all who have divine powers and can do lots of godly things. Like Create things such as planets and all the things that go on a planet. Like you and me.

They also believe that they too could someday be a god, with divine powers, and do lots of godly things.

Catholics have no such belief. God is God, One God, and is infinite, eternal and uncreated. Our venerated saints do not do godly things. Our Blessed Mother does not do godly things. They are, however, part of our Holy Community, and even in death, they pray for us.

St. Mary Magdalene, pray for us.

Holy Mother, pray for us now, and at the hour of our death.

Lord, hear our prayer.

And we believe that if we confess our sins, when we die, we have hope in Christ that we too will be part of our Holy Community. With God. And there we probably will continue to pray for each other. It’s what we do.

Love all around,
Rebecca

 

[majick275]

Dear Rebecca. I thought this forum was listed as a learning area. Prostylizing one’s faith, whether by
Catholic, or Mormon turns me off when I am looking for an exchange of ideas. Peace.

and dorsey started out doing this. how much experience do you have with LDS missionaries? He never asked any questions about catholicism. what is the purpose of exchanging ideas on a non-catholic religions board at catholic answers? i am interested in your answer to this.

 

[elt1956]

and dorsey started out doing this. how much experience do you have with LDS missionaries? He never asked any questions about catholicism. what is the purpose of exchanging ideas on a non-catholic religions board at catholic answers? i am interested in your answer to this.

True communication, an exchanging of ideas opens the sinuses. Peace

 

[majick275]

True communication, an exchanging of ideas opens the sinuses. Peace

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[why_me]

Maybe someday whyme will tell us the doctrines of his new religion. I think they are LDS, with the rituals of Catholic Mass, and the Eucharist, with it being ok in his religion to take the sacrament at an LDS service. Oh, and religious, because its cool to have religious in your own personal religion and hang with them and have them tell you that your new religion is OK by them (as whyme hears it).

Confession with a priest because Catholics are forgiven, where if he 'fessed up with a mormon Bishop, he just might get ex’d. And this won’t do, as his doctrines are mainly LDS.

So, he’s mixed the two religions up, and is mainly mormon. Maybe whyme, you can name your new religion Morlic.

Dear Rebecca,

I like my own religion. It gives me a lot of leeway. It would be nice to come to the salt lake cathedral and preach my faith to my fellow catholics. And of course, I would celebrate devine mercy sunday and pray the rosary and celebrate pioneer day.

 

[LaMar]

elt wrote:

they revere is not the highest power. There is one above him.

I would love to learn more about this. Do you have a source or know the name of the tribe?

One thing I admire about Roman Catholic missionaries is their allowance for First Nations people to keep a lot of their aboriginal traditions. It has been very interesting to google various saints over the last couple of weeks and tie them in with the pre-Colombian archetypes.

 

[LaMar]

Dear Rebecca,

I like my own religion. It gives me a lot of leeway. It would be nice to come to the salt lake cathedral and preach my faith to my fellow catholics. And of course, I would celebrate devince mercy sunday and pray the rosary and celebrate pioneer day.

The Roman Catholics have a beautiful historic building in Salt Lake City. It’s called The Madeline by the locals. I never went in for a service (St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral on 900 East was my escape from Mormonism – and it was just as nice as the RC cathedral though not as large).

 

[RebeccaJ]

The Roman Catholics have a beautiful historic building in Salt Lake City. It’s called The Madeline by the locals. I never went in for a service (St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral on 900 East was my escape from Mormonism – and it was just as nice as the RC cathedral though not as large).

Yes, she is beautiful. I was baptized there about a week and 1/2 ago.

The Mass at the cathedral is formal, in Episcopal language… high church. But I do love that place.

If you come for the 11AM Mass, you can stay afterwards for a tour of the Cathedral. Something that I recommend.

 

[RebeccaJ]

Dear Rebecca,

I like my own religion. It gives me a lot of leeway. It would be nice to come to the salt lake cathedral and preach my faith to my fellow catholics. And of course, I would celebrate devine mercy sunday and pray the rosary and celebrate pioneer day.

Yes, I had my own religion for a while. It was called “film with coffee every Sunday morning when I felt like finally getting out of bed”.

If you come to SLC I’ll buy you coffee and give you sh*t in person. You can have a hot chocolate if you must.

 

[elt1956]

elt wrote:

they revere is not the highest power. There is one above him.

I would love to learn more about this. Do you have a source or know the name of the tribe?

One thing I admire about Roman Catholic missionaries is their allowance for First Nations people to keep a lot of their aboriginal traditions. It has been very interesting to google various saints over the last couple of weeks and tie them in with the pre-Colombian archetypes.

Hi LaMar. It has been some years ago since I read this. I “think” it might have been a Plains Nation. You might try a book on Native American Spiruality, or Religion. Peace

 

[LaMar]

Hi LaMar. It has been some years ago since I read this. I “think” it might have been a Plains Nation. You might try a book on Native American Spiruality, or Religion. Peace

That’s pretty interesting.

The NA/FN tribes where I live now are what ethnologists call Salishan. The traditionalists among them seem to see God in the same sort of pantheistic way that (Catholic philosophers) Duns Scotus and Eriugena did. A sort of universal spirit, that permeates everything, expressed in the laws of nature. They talk about “The Great Spirit” (the apocryphal speech by Chief Seattle is an example) but they seem to mean something a lot less anthropomorphic than we palefaces do.

 

[why_me]

Yes, I had my own religion for a while. It was called “film with coffee every Sunday morning when I felt like finally getting out of bed”.

If you come to SLC I’ll buy you coffee and give you sh*t in person. You can have a hot chocolate if you must.

Maybe you would. I would have a hot chocolate. But actually, I am quite involved with the catholic community in my area and I have done catholic volunteer work abroad. You would see a different why me in person. I think that I have given something to the catholic community and received much in return.

But I have no negative feelings about mormons and mormonism. They and it, aren’t perfect and most are just trying to live life like everyone else and survive. I tend to be open minded when it comes to faith. I set no barriers. As a young adult, I attended the Presbyterian Church and was involved in their young adult program as I was in the lds young adult program. They were also fine people and in salt lake, I attended my local ward and the UU services.

What I have discovered is that people are people and each has his or her own way of worshipping god and interpretating the bible according to the faith to which they belong to. But all were human beings with good souls and wonderful hearts.

 

[elt1956]

That’s pretty interesting.

The NA/FN tribes where I live now are what ethnologists call Salishan. The traditionalists among them seem to see God in the same sort of pantheistic way that (Catholic philosophers) Duns Scotus and Eriugena did. A sort of universal spirit, that permeates everything, expressed in the laws of nature. They talk about “The Great Spirit” (the apocryphal speech by Chief Seattle is an example) but they seem to mean something a lot less anthropomorphic than we palefaces do.

This Great Spirit we whites identify with is what I was taling about. Seems there is another being this Great Spirit reports to, but I don’t really have any more info. on it. Let me know if you find out anything. Peace

 

[elt1956]

elt wrote:

they revere is not the highest power. There is one above him.

I would love to learn more about this. Do you have a source or know the name of the tribe?

One thing I admire about Roman Catholic missionaries is their allowance for First Nations people to keep a lot of their aboriginal traditions. It has been very interesting to google various saints over the last couple of weeks and tie them in with the pre-Colombian archetypes.

Yes, I guess the missionaries who first came over with the conquistadors finally realized that if all the Native Americans were killed there wouldn’t be any left to convert. Peace.

 

[luvlife]

More questions…

1. What is the significance of the special underclothing some Mormons wear?
2. Is it a sin in the Mormon faith to blow off church services for no good reason?
3. What is that burning feeling that Mormons speak of… supposededly it tells them their faith is correct?

 

[Jerusha]

Oh, and religious, because its cool to have religious in your own personal religion and hang with them and have them tell you that your new religion is OK by them (as whyme hears it).

Confession with a priest because Catholics are forgiven, where if he 'fessed up with a mormon Bishop, he just might get ex’d. And this won’t do, as his doctrines are mainly LDS.

So, he’s mixed the two religions up, and is mainly mormon. Maybe whyme, you can name your new religion Morlic.

I’ve called such a blend MormoCatholic, but you are right, it is more Mormon than Catholic. Sounds like something out of Tolkien. WhyMe definitely does have a peculiar religion.