Welcome to the American Catholic Church! Yes, our confession lines are desolate but the line for Holy Communnion is full! Hypocrisy? Yes! Condemnnation? Yes!
It was asked why there no respect for Jesus.
No. Rather, I’d say my leisure time helps me to praise God.
No, but perhaps I don’t understand the question. I think I need to rest and re-create to allow me to be “recollected”. When I am recollected, I am much better able to pray and to give proper recognition to God’s presence in my every activity. If I am recollected, I am aware of the presence of God as I type. If I’m scattered, then I am less aware or even blind to the presence of God.
From my perspective, no. I have practically no leisure time because I am always in pain. To me, that is not leisure time. I spend as much time as I need in simple activities to get my mind up to speed. Then, once it is up to speed I use that time up on work, prayer, service, things like that. I’ve only got a set amount of that to go around each day. Sometimes I resent that I don’t get to spend my up time on myself, though. I’m not saying that is right, but I do do it.
Absolutely not. I referenced it because we are to do leisurely things on the seventh day, so we are designed for leisure, IMO.
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Nope. While I am sitting here typing this, I am either listening and praising God via Christian Music on the radio or I am praying in my mind while listening to a CD that has the Hail Mary and the Divine Mercy. Furthermore I give praise and glory to God for 1 hour in a combination of Prayer of the Hours and Reading of the Bible prior to going to bed. That is why you will find very few posts from me during prime time. And when I do watch TV, My nose is buried in the Bible during Commercials.But you could use that time to pray, so obviously you love comming in here more than you love God. Hence, according to your logic, you’re committing mortal sin.
This seems confusing. Pleasure is not good or evil. It is the antecedent action that makes it good or bad.Any one thing on any given day that you that is pleasurable to you that you do more than you give to God in Prayer is a Mortal Sin in my honest opinion.
**You and I are of a Minority in the aspect. **
Unfortunately you don’t speak for the majority of Catholics, confession attendance attests to this.
You are added to my prayer list.
Again, unforturnately, you don’t speak for the majority of catholics, confession attendence attests to this.
You and Catechism does not speak for what many Catholics do. If that same leisure takes one away from God on the seventh, then the leisure itself is a sin.
My husband goes to confession once a year, the requirement, and takes the Eucharist every week. For those sins he goes straight to God on a daily basis and asks for forgiveness. Maybe, that is what the people at your church do.
WOW, you certainly are holy.
Not even close. That is why I do what I do. My lifelong sins are many, but forgiven, but not fully penanced for.WOW, you certainly are holy.
Jim
No, I still hold to that.
I will have to contemplate that one.
They may not realize they are lieing to themselves if they have convinced themselves that they are not sinning.
One can brainwash one’s own brain into believing something.I asked earlier and never got an answer. What is the infatuation with the time period of one day. Could not the same argument be made for any given hour of the day, or for a month, five minutes, etc.?
Not mortal sin. Kissing your wife is a sign of affection, which is part of your immediate attention, which is mandated by the sacrament of marraige.
I really don’t have an answer for that other than it’s the first Unit of Time that God gave us in his Holy Writ (Genesis).
In a typical day no one has the excuse of forgetting.
