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Buddy1
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I’m not saying this. It’s being preached from the ambo! I thought it sounded funny.
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Saxum
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The preacher is wrong-headed. As a priest, he is another Christ because he’s called to sacrifice his life for others and dispense grace. But he’s not the revelation of God! That’s crazy
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LawyersGunsAndMoney
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Buddy makes a lot of threads trying to find fault in what his priest says in the homily or the bulletin. I suspect he’s not actually understanding what the priest is really saying.
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Buddy1
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It’s not easy to ask questions.
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Buddy1
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You might be right. I just am bothered by the tone of the message.
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LawyersGunsAndMoney
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I’m not trying to be rude. You just seem really fixated on scrutinizing this priest. It comes off as a bit of an obsession. None of us were there. We have no idea what this priest might have meant.
And look, maybe you’re right. Maybe your priest is genuinely wrong about some stuff. But he’s the best person to clarify what he was saying, not us. If you have questions, why don’t you just discuss it with him?
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Buddy1
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I will. Its just that I get extremely nervous when I’m in the same room as he.
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LawyersGunsAndMoney
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It seems like you and this priest don’t mesh well. Maybe just find a new parish?
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MarkMcClendon
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I pray the Liturgy of the Hours every day. If I did so only when I felt great religious fervor, I’d pray maybe a few times a month. The key is to trust that your spirit is being formed by your prayer life even when you’re feeling spiritually dry. It’s like taking a prescribed medicine for a chronic disease - you don’t take it only when you’re feeling bad, and you don’t stop taking it just because you’re feeling better. Relying on emotionalism and sentimentality really betrays a lack of faith in the objective truth of religion.
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Buddy1
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It appears like it’s a horrible situation. It’s not at all. This forum only sees one of a multitude of things that are happening at my parish. Most if not all are positive! The one I bring to this site is the only worrisem thing that’s worth the expertise of millions of other people. I Don’t want anyone to think I dislike my pastor. I like him like a father. But I want to be able to trust him and I’ve told him so and he kinda didn’t give me an adequate answer or reason too trust him spiritually. He was just like. “If you have any questions I be happy to answer them so long as I think my spiritual director would approve.” It seemed like ultimetly he doesnt care one way or the other, that basically if I asked him my questions I’d ultimately see whos side he was on and I didn’t WANT to know, to tell you the truth. So I said I wasn’t spiritually strong enough to ask my questionsestions, and I ended the meeting. He might be on here reading this but then again maybe it will help.
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TheLittleLady
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Maybe it was a paraphrase of:
“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”
― Teresa of Avila
A quote by Teresa de Ávila
Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the...
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Buddy1
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That’s yet to be determined. But I do think it would help to have references when quoting these. It would make people like me look less obsessed! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
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