Nobody's perfect

[scylla]

How does someone respond to this?

Lets say I am talking to someone about the Mass and I point out something that someone did deliberately. Not a mistake, not forgetting bring enough hosts, forgetting to turn on a mic, fill up the water fonts, etc…

But when someone does something like invite some guys to dress up like fairies and dance around, or invite half the congregation to get their feet washed, etc…

What do you say when you point this out and the response is,
nobody’s perfect, don’t worry about it?
Am I being uptight, is it that hard to be obedient to what we should do?

I still have never gone to the extraordinary form of the Mass, I have come close in the last couple months but everytime I have ended up still going to the ordinary form of the Mass. What do I say to people who don’t seem to care about obedience? I stay involved and be as quiet as possible, just praying when I see disobedience. It is good for my patience yet am I doing what I should.

(I know, I know, every other thread is about abuse, doesn’t that mean that something is wrong?)

Just following directions would make you perfect in your execution, wouldn’t it? Or perfect enough… No one is perfect?

God Bless
Scylla

 

[Phemie]

The usual response I get is “I’m sure God didn’t have a problem with it.” AAGGHHHH! How do you presume to speak for God?

I haven’t figured out how to respond to that either.

 

[m134e5]

How does someone respond to this?

Lets say I am talking to someone about the Mass and I point out something that someone did deliberately. Not a mistake, not forgetting bring enough hosts, forgetting to turn on a mic, fill up the water fonts, etc…

But when someone does something like invite some guys to dress up like fairies and dance around, or invite half the congregation to get their feet washed, etc…

What do you say when you point this out and the response is,
nobody’s perfect, don’t worry about it?
Am I being uptight, is it that hard to be obedient to what we should do?

I still have never gone to the extraordinary form of the Mass, I have come close in the last couple months but everytime I have ended up still going to the ordinary form of the Mass. What do I say to people who don’t seem to care about obedience? I stay involved and be as quiet as possible, just praying when I see disobedience. It is good for my patience yet am I doing what I should.

(I know, I know, every other thread is about abuse, doesn’t that mean that something is wrong?)

Just following directions would make you perfect in your execution, wouldn’t it? Or perfect enough… No one is perfect?

God Bless
Scylla

Nobody’s perfect, but that’s no excuse to not try our best to be. If people are in a shipwreck, and they’re all under water. You could say “nobody’s breathing.” It may be hard to get to the surface, but in a life or death situation, people generally will work hard to save themselves and others. They may have to swim hard- maybe take off the clothes that weigh them down. They may have to get closer to the scum that’s floating on top of the water than they’d like to be, but they’ll do it because they know it’s worth it to stay alive. How much more should people work to save their souls- and the souls of others?

 

[LilyM]

No, nobody’s perfect but we are all called to be so, as Jesus said - ‘Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect’. Not to mention His words ‘he who is faithful in small things will be faithful in great things’.

So for a good Christian there’s no such thing as not sweating the small stuff.