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bones_IV
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What examples of showing no partiality would St. James refer to if he were writing today?
What do you think?
What do you think?
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blackrobe
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One thing that comes immediately to mind is the selling of tickets to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. I haven’t heard anything since the first episodes of that story a few years ago. I am optimistically assuming the idea died a natural death.
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Pug
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Perhaps most parishes would be unlikely to usher an obviously rich person to the best seating, but it could show up in more subtle ways. Would a really poor, shabby person be chosen to be a EMHC? Who would most likely be selected to be on a committee? I don’t know if these things happen or not, but they could.
Perhaps age comes into play. From 1Tim4
Perhaps age comes into play. From 1Tim4
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CRW
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I do see those that have the most and offer or support the Church with their resources are favored in many ways. God forgive the priests, who in the interest of his parish, knows that he needs these resources to better the Church for all.
One Easter Vigil, I was ask to reserve a seat for a Doctor because his son was receiving Confirmation. That night we had an excess of 40 receiving the same. I felt that our priest was pressured in this request and also did not want to offend the doctor that supports the Church with his money.
We must always pray for our priest, their works pave many roads.
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lak611
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I think James would be concerned about racial prejudice in today’s church. I wish my own parish was most diverse in terms of different races/nationalities. I know that there are Catholic churches in my diocese that are Hispanic, Asian, and African-American, as well as other nationality churches (Polish, Irish, German). I would consider inviting people from other races and nationalities to my parish if I knew Catholics from those other parishes (Hispanic, Asian, African-American, etc.). I think we all belong together and I don’t think the Church should be segregated.
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Andruschak
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Living in the city of Torrance, California, both of the Catholic Churches near me have Masses in English and Spanish. My RCIA Church also has a large Samoan group, who often show up for mass in their traditional skirts. Being Scots, I sometimes wonder if it would be OK to wear The Kilt
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Paul_Folbrecht
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I think the teaching here can best be summed up as “look at every person as God sees them”. It can be surprising to discover the subtle biases that can exist in us so easily. Really striving to see each and every human being as an immortal being, created in God’s image, no matter what they do or look like can be a deep growing experience. Not to mention being cognizant of the fact that all the things the world holds as valuable - money, success, looks, etc. - mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the Kingdom of God. Less than nothing.
I have been at Mass where a homeless person is present and people obviously ignore him in the peace greeting. This is unconscienable.
I have been at Mass where a homeless person is present and people obviously ignore him in the peace greeting. This is unconscienable.
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lak611
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I work at an ecumenical mission for poor people. It is held at a Methodist Church; and Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, and Lutherans participate as volunteers. We serve food to the poor and welcome the poor to join us in Masses or services in our churches. Several of the poor people have come to Mass at my parish. I always welcome them. They are God’s children. Money means nothing to the Lord!
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bones_IV
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Actually he would put it more on how we discriminate those inside the womb. Abortion is much worser form of discrimination than racism.
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