"It’s expensive to be Catholic"

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BernadetteM said:
Your answer is still lacking specific items or sacraments etc., that you were asked to pay for.

Of course if you taking a Bible study or another type of workshop, it would be expected that someone has to pay for the workbooks or other supplies. Catholic parishes are not wealthy. As a former protestant in a liturgical parish we were asked to donate for votive candles and tracts.

Also I have been to several protestant churches where they are always asking for money.

Some even promise the more you donate the greater your blessings will be.

So if you don’t mind please be specific instead of answering that “just about everything they wanted money for”.

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Bernadette
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That as spefic as I can get. Everytime we went to do something they spurng a conference this or a conference that that we had to go to which was very expensive. That was one parish, my old parish never did that so I can’t say every parish did that anymore than I could say when I was a Protestant that they all wanted money because they didn’t.

All I can say in my experience it was more expensive as a Catholic
 
Not to get off subject, but it kind of relates. I know a lot of my evangelical friends who have recently gotten married usually do it on the cheap. I think it has more to do with not having money than anything their church has them do or not do. But I do notice at least in my areas that Catholic weddings are more extravagant than most of my evangelical prod friends, but in a sense I like that.

A wedding is suppose to be a time of celebration. Now if you don’t have money its one thing, and you shouldn’t just use your money for a show. But if you do it because you want it to be special thats great. The Catholic weddings I mentioned seemed more special and memorable to me. And nothing against my protestant friends, but their seemed kind of blah in the sense that there wasn’t much ceremony to it, and while I know some couples lack money, you should at least try to do something special. One couple I know just had a small wedding (only their parents and a few attendants) and just had their pastor do it in a local hall and from what I heard from one of my friends, it basically was a 15 minute service followed by a really short reception and that was it. To each their own though
 
Anastasia13 said:
Why do Catholics not tithe?
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Tithing is giving ten percent of one’s income. In an era where income does not only constitute money, tithing can be difficult to quantify. To some, time and talent given in service for the Church can very well constitute their income. We are exhorted to give generously but it can be in the forms of money, kind and time.

Having said that, Catholics are not known to be very generous during the offering collections but when required especially if fund is needed for a specific purpose, the same Catholics very often step up to the occasion.
 
=ltwin;10250876]I was reading this PRI article, “Conversion: A Mexican Village’s Evangelical Shift,” which discussed the rise of evangelical Protestantism in Mexico. One part of the article interested me:
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I’'m curious, is this more of a Mexican thing or is it also true in the US as well? How expensive is it to be Catholic?
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And beyond that, how much pressure are Catholic’s put under to financially contribute to the church? Do any Catholics tithe? Just curious.
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Both the examples ARE personal choice not requierments of catholism.🙂

Tithing is an Precept of the CC; BUT NOT 10%; end of debate:)

Everyone is required to Support the Church and Catholic Organizations as BEST they actually are able to do. Included is the right and generous use of our time and talents to bnefit the church as well as finanical considerations.

We can not ever out do God’s Charity in reurn to our generous giving.:love::clapping::gopray2:
 
Funny…I never give a “certain” amount I give what I can. If you want to give 10 percent of your income become a mormon…🙂
 
Kristine1957 said:
Funny…I never give a “certain” amount I give what I can. If you want to give 10 percent of your income become a mormon…🙂
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I think we’re given something concrete to shoot for: 10%. If after putting some love into the planning for our gift to God, the ends don’t tie together fine…then we can increase our time to compensate. The effort to reach the 10% goal may be the best test. Did we scrimp in our lunches…did we eat out less often. Did we reuse items a bit longer. Did we mend our socks, or did we throw them out. The constancy of our love and attention required to give to God takes effort…and if we are short, God will make up the difference.

But it is too easy to go “blurry” with our objective…and claim we’re doing our best without occasional examination.
 
More expensive to be a Catholic? Nonsense.
In some cases, it’s more expensive to be an anti-Catholic.
 
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