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gbasilallen
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I want to start a blog about luxury lifestyle but don’t know if it is proper for a catholic to write about luxury. I need feedback. God Bless.
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SuscipeMeDomine
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If you’re describing the life you’re living in your blog, at least you’re being honest about your lifestyle. If you have concerns about whether you should blog about it, you should probably have the sane concerns about whether you should be living it.
Do you feel you’re living an appropriately Catholic life?
Do you feel you’re living an appropriately Catholic life?
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MaryEstelle2
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I guess I would think a blog could be THE LUXURY OF POVERTY and that poverty as a chosen lifestyle would have great grace and merit and expound upon such virtues. Luxury in itself is not a sin unless it was an ill-gotten gain or misuse of money, material possessions or abuses that often travel in the same circuit. Love to see your ideas 'though.
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Francis
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@gbasilallen
what about, where should a Catholic draw the line, or vanities of luxury lifestyle and compare it with living a simple lifestyle as each one according to god’s will for each one of us.
what about, where should a Catholic draw the line, or vanities of luxury lifestyle and compare it with living a simple lifestyle as each one according to god’s will for each one of us.
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MaryEstelle2
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Just a secondary note: Jesus didn’t say that wealth or luxury were sins per se. but it was harder for a rich man to gain Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a camel. Thus if you write about luxury or wealth in a positive manner i.e - all the good that one could do with the wealth that supports luxury - that would not be sinful.
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TheLittleLady
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Love of money is the root of all evil, not the money itself.
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midori
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Are you doing it because you have expectations of luxury item manufacturers sending you a zillion free samples to review? 
Write what you’re passionate about. Write what you can carry on an intelligent conversation about. Write what’s in your heart. Write what you love sharing with other people. Write about what occupies your thoughts.
If it’s not in your mind, in your heart— you’ll probably get ten or fifteen posts, if you’re lucky, and then your blog will gather dust and you’ll forget about it.
That said— if you’re Catholic, and materialistic things are uppermost in your mind and your heart, I’d probably raise an eyebrow. If you’re able to get enthused over jewel-encrusted stiletto heels, and think they’re the most awesome thing in the world, and you can’t think of anything else you’d rather spend a couple million dollars on… then, yeah, you might have a problem. (A seminarian costs about $15k a year to educate– that’s 133 seminarians you could sponsor! To support a home for street children in Africa costs about $72k/year-- that’s almost 28 years’ worth of support. To build a house for someone in a third world country can be done for $2800-- that’s over 700 houses. To dig and install a water well is about $6800-- that’s almost 300 wells. Sponsoring the construction of a chapel in a remote location is about $16-$26k; that’s 77-125 chapels. All of those are way cooler than a pair of $2M blingy heels.)
To be honest, the average income in the world is $7,000. If you earn $25,000/year, you’re in the world’s top 1%. So things like “a $500 smartphone” are going to be a luxury item to the vast majority of people on this planet. (49% of people globally still don’t have internet.) That’s not to say don’t buy a $500 phone, or don’t be happy with your $500 phone, because it could have been food-for-a-month-for-137-poor-kids. But when you start getting into Rich-Kids-of-Dubai or Rich-Kids-of-Hong-Kong territory, it starts getting pretty silly, and you have to ask yourself-- is this a healthy place for my mind and heart to be?
If those are the circles where you already run, that’s one thing. But if those are the circles where you yearn to be… write about what you know, as an insider, not as an outsider looking in with all the other outsiders.
Write what you’re passionate about. Write what you can carry on an intelligent conversation about. Write what’s in your heart. Write what you love sharing with other people. Write about what occupies your thoughts.
If it’s not in your mind, in your heart— you’ll probably get ten or fifteen posts, if you’re lucky, and then your blog will gather dust and you’ll forget about it.
That said— if you’re Catholic, and materialistic things are uppermost in your mind and your heart, I’d probably raise an eyebrow. If you’re able to get enthused over jewel-encrusted stiletto heels, and think they’re the most awesome thing in the world, and you can’t think of anything else you’d rather spend a couple million dollars on… then, yeah, you might have a problem.
(A seminarian costs about $15k a year to educate– that’s 133 seminarians you could sponsor! To support a home for street children in Africa costs about $72k/year-- that’s almost 28 years’ worth of support. To build a house for someone in a third world country can be done for $2800-- that’s over 700 houses. To dig and install a water well is about $6800-- that’s almost 300 wells. Sponsoring the construction of a chapel in a remote location is about $16-$26k; that’s 77-125 chapels. All of those are way cooler than a pair of $2M blingy heels.)To be honest, the average income in the world is $7,000. If you earn $25,000/year, you’re in the world’s top 1%. So things like “a $500 smartphone” are going to be a luxury item to the vast majority of people on this planet. (49% of people globally still don’t have internet.) That’s not to say don’t buy a $500 phone, or don’t be happy with your $500 phone, because it could have been food-for-a-month-for-137-poor-kids. But when you start getting into Rich-Kids-of-Dubai or Rich-Kids-of-Hong-Kong territory, it starts getting pretty silly, and you have to ask yourself-- is this a healthy place for my mind and heart to be?
If those are the circles where you already run, that’s one thing. But if those are the circles where you yearn to be… write about what you know, as an insider, not as an outsider looking in with all the other outsiders.
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