Should I be confirmed or not?

[jmcrae]

You still didn’t answer my question fully. How does Romans 14:5-10 not forbid holy days of obligation, and judging the faithful if we don’t abstain from meat on certain days?

St. Paul was not forbidding the Church from having holy days of obligation, or days of fasting and prayer - he had no authority to do that.

Rather, St. Paul was forbidding individuals from adding extra burdens to one another (for example, in our own times, there are those who, in their zeal for fasting and praying, will command other people to fast and abstain from meat on every Wednesday and Friday of the year, or else they will tell you that you must pray a Rosary every day for the conversion of Russia, or that you must do this Novena, or that Novena) - St. Paul is speaking to these kind of people, to remind them that as individuals, we do not have the authority to bind one another’s consciences - but the Church of St. Paul’s time certainly had the concept of penance and fasting, and there were certainly days set aside for the whole Church to do that, and St. Paul was certainly not undermining the Church’s authority to set aside these days of communal fasting and prayer, and days for the whole Church to come together for Mass and Holy Communion (Sundays and holy days of obligation).

It is the Church that has been given the authority by Christ to bind and loose our consciences - not various individuals, no matter how pious and holy they may be.

I hope this clarifies it for you.

 

[TBolt1000T]

How do you explain Gal 4:8-11 then?

 

[jmcrae]

How do you explain Gal 4:8-11 then?

They were still paying homage to the elemental spirits, and observing the solstices and equinoxes. St. Paul was telling them to stop doing that. He is not even discussing the subject of Christian holy days, and he is certainly not forbidding them to observe Christian holy days.

He is just asking them to stop observing the soltices and equinoxes in honour of the elemental spirits.

 

[benedictgal]

How do you explain Gal 4:8-11 then?

Again, you are reading it as a Protestant would, simply isolating the text. The folks visiting Galatia were Jewish and they were trying to get the Galatians to follow the practices of Ancient Israel. Furthermore, the days that Paul refers to also include what the Galatians used to do in their pagan cultic worship.

Remember, that the Church is the New Israel. None of the law of Moses, meaning the 10 commandments, was ever abrogated. The old law, the law that St. Paul refers to as being dead, was the Pharisaic law and the old form of worship for Israel, the law that was supposed to prepare them for the Messiah.

Rather than start picking apart things and pulling sections from the air, perhaps you might want to get hold of a good, solid Catholic biblical commentary like the one that Ignatius Press has. You are so close to your goal; I suspsect that the devil is trying to trip you up. Remember, Satan was pretty good at quoting Scripture until Jesus firmly corrected him.