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I know this is reeaallllyyyy off topic, but I’m not sure how to start a new thread, and I would like to know if there are any teens here besides me that went to ICYC this past weekend.🙂
 
Nobel_Gingi said:
Very well then, I’ll post it this weekend. Living in Malaysia as a Roman Catholic is a true challenge. For years, I was exposed to Islamic influence and only limited christian education, I wonder how did I manage it? Do anyone of you live in a multi-religion community?
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hi neighbor! i am from the Philippines!

well i’ve been to different schools and i’ve encountered teachers teaching that souls do not leave their bodies, they just “sleep”, i’ve encountered a teacher who is trying to spread his religion by pausing betwen lectures and giving other lectures (and you can find in his desk a pamphlet about “why catholicsm is bad”), i;ve encountered a teacher who told us that sh’es a Catholic but her belief is of born again, a former seminarian telling us that it is not important to go to confession. Yup these are all true in my place.
 
Nobel_Gingi said:
Very well then, I’ll post it this weekend. Living in Malaysia as a Roman Catholic is a true challenge. For years, I was exposed to Islamic influence and only limited christian education, I wonder how did I manage it? Do anyone of you live in a multi-religion community?
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Im studying in a Catholic School, but I have a Muslim teacher, I cannot understand her, she is really proud of her religion, she says that Catholics don’t have respect to the Holy Bible, but Muslims give a great honor to their Koran, and the only one who can hold it is their Imam.
Another thing to her, is she also prayed the Holy Rosary, she attends our First Friday Mass devotion and received the communion, she received the ashes during Ash Wednesday. I cannot understand her faith, nor I’m confused of what she believed, she believed in Allah but she has also faith in God.

But still I look at her as my teacher, a great teacher for me and for my classmates. 🙂
 
Living in a place where there are many different religions and people who want to influence you, is hard. We must remain rocks of faith against these people. Pray against their influence. Hold strong to Jesus. Look to His cross for strength.
 
Adrienne5678 said:
Living in a place where there are many different religions and people who want to influence you, is hard. We must remain rocks of faith against these people. Pray against their influence. Hold strong to Jesus. Look to His cross for strength.
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Yes, we need to have a strong faith to Jesus. I have very close friends who used to be Born-again, they invite me to their religion, they say to me that their way of worship is far from the Catholics. But I’m still holding in my faith, I respect their religion, but when they tell me false belief about our religion, I just explain it to them, and soon we understand each other. We all end up having a harmonious relationship with each other. Even both of them are Born-again and I’m the only one who use to be a Catholic, we enjoy each accompany.

We are studying in a Catholic School, they also received the Blessed Sacrament every First Friday Mass, they just say to me, that if you received the Blessed Sacrament without believing that this are really the Body of Christ it is nothing.

One time, I brought them in the Adoration Chapel, it is their first time to go their. They look uncomfortable being there. After we went there, I ask them, they told me that the place is really quiet, they don’t believe that it is really the Body of Christ which is present in the Blessed Sacrament.

I’m also encouraging them to return to their original religion, which is Roman Catholic. Let us pray that they may convert to our religion.

🙂
 
You should not allow them to receive the Eucharist. They are committing a grave offense against God. The Eucharist is for Catholics, it is a gift God gives to believers. I will indeed pray for them as should we all. God Bless!
 
Adrienne5678 said:
You should not allow them to receive the Eucharist. They are committing a grave offense against God. The Eucharist is for Catholics, it is a gift God gives to believers. I will indeed pray for them as should we all. God Bless!
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Unfortunately, lay people cannot prevent anyone from receiving the Eucharist. Only a priest or Bishop can do that. I recommend that you talk to the parish priest where they are going and tell him your concerns. He is the only one that can make the decision. Also, you need to tell your friends. Bring them to the priest if you have to. I remember a certain passage in Scripture:
“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.”–Matthew 18:15-18
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Meaning that, if you try to tell them, and they don’t listen, take it to a priest. If they still don’t listen, you can’t do anything, but the blame is not on you anymore.

Hope this helps! :blessyou:
 
Unfortunately, lay people cannot prevent anyone from receiving the Eucharist.
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I know you probably didn’t mean it this way, but it’s very fortunate that lay EMsHC can’t deny people from receiving Communion. Imagine if lay people could pick and choose who could receive Our Lord. How many would take it upon themselves to judge who is or is not in the state of grace? Thankfully our priests know how to privately approach those who should not receive and also recognize that any parishioner could have had Confession directly before Mass.

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JD88 said:
I know you probably didn’t mean it this way, but it’s very fortunate that lay EMsHC can’t deny people from receiving Communion. Imagine if lay people could pick and choose who could receive Our Lord. How many would take it upon themselves to judge who is or is not in the state of grace? Thankfully our priests know how to privately approach those who should not receive and also recognize that any parishioner could have had Confession directly before Mass.

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Yeah, I realized, after it was too late and couldn’t change it, that I worded it wrong. Being an EMHC myself, I don’t feel it is appropriate, AT ALL, to get into people’s business. Like Jesus said, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” 👍
 
Yes, sorry, I worded mine wrong also. You can’t stop them, but let them know. Good Luck!
 
I think, I’m the one who started it.

Change Topic.

I have question, Do you think that dreams can be a sign that we have a religious vocation?
 
It’s a difficult decision because of the fact that when we’re thinking about something a lot, when we sleep our consciousness closes and our subconscious awakens and it can surface what we’re currently dealing with in dreams. But, God can also use dreams to tell us things. So, the real question is, what do you feel? Do you feel that God did this as a sign or it was just a dream? If you want, you can tell us about your dream.
 
Adrienne5678 said:
It’s a difficult decision because of the fact that when we’re thinking about something a lot, when we sleep our consciousness closes and our subconscious awakens and it can surface what we’re currently dealing with in dreams. But, God can also use dreams to tell us things. So, the real question is, what do you feel? Do you feel that God did this as a sign or it was just a dream? If you want, you can tell us about your dream.
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My first dream.
(September 6, 2008)

Actually before I have this dream, I am not still thinking to be religious sister, even though it occur just a month after my retreat, as I said in my vocation story, I just don’t mind idea of it, because I just thought that I was just carried away by my retreat, that I have those kinds of ideas.
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My dream started this way, I was in a mass, during the communion, I was ask to go in the altar, where the Blessed Sacrament is present. I was told to give communion to the people present during the Eucharistic Celebration. I can really hold the Consecrated bread and give communion to the people. I just can't understand why I am in the mass and giving communions. After the communion, I was asked again to go in the altar, someone is  calling me and asking me to drink the water that I saw in the altar. I cannot recall in my dream, if I drank the water. (And Who is present in the altar, in the tabernacle?, as I can recall I'm the only present there.) 

Then I woke up, hearing  the lines "Through Him, with Him, and in Him...Our television id turned on and was tuned in a Sunday T.V mass.

 I also have a dream that the religious sisters welcomed me in their congregation and my parents allow me to enter the convent.

 According to my classmates, they dreamt that I was wearing a religious habit and saw me praying in church. (Sometimes,it is somewhat a weird thing, seeing me wearing those habit and praying makes me laugh when I heard those stories from them) 

  It is not a dream anymore, it is real I was awake those times, I was in the church with my classmates since it was our First Friday devotion. We are sitting in the side of the church, and we can see clearly the sacristy from our place. After praying the Holy Rosary, we just sat down, some of my classmates are talking to each other, I was sitting in the very side of the bench, I was looking in the sacristy and I stay silent. Suddenly a woman pass, wearing a white and blue, I cannot distinguish the face because of the distant, I asked my classmate if they saw the woman passed on the sacristy, they said that they don't saw it, as I analyze the habit that the woman is wearing it is somewhat the same with those nuns, but the earliest forms of their habit, looking like a nurse. But I just don't mind it, I just taught that it was a woman who serve in the church, After the mass, I asked my CL teacher, who used to be a lay minister during that time, I asked him if there is a woman wearing that habit in the sacristy, but he said to me that they don't saw any girl in the sacristy. :)

After that, I became really got curious about it, I asked a priest.​

It was followed by many dreams, the setting is always in the Church, during the mass, talking to a priest and saying to me, to just continue, the most mysterious dream I ever had, I cannot recall all the events in that dream. I just saw the different images or apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in one place. In a place that, looks like a paradise, it was shining, with flowers, there are flowing waters, but I am the only person present there, and it is just the images of the Blessed Virgin Mary appearing one by one.

In reality, not on my dreams, when I visited the Adoration Chapel in the Parish beside my school, I realized that there are similarity in the place in my dream. They are nearly the same, the background. And it was my first time to visit the adoration chapel, maybe the second time, I cannot recall the place anymore, I was a child since I visited that place. But from that dream. I tried to visit everyday the blessed sacrament.
From those dreams, my curiosity about religious life arise.

"Indeed God speaks once,
Or twice, yet no one notices it.
"In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,
Then He opens the ears of men,
And seals their instruction, (Job 33:14-16)

God spoke, but then I do not notice it. I told to myself never mind those ideas.

-Having those dreams, doesn’t make me assume that this is really God’s will in my life. I’m still praying that I may discern my true vocation in life.
 
Selgi said:
My first dream.
(September 6, 2008)

Actually before I have this dream, I am not still thinking to be religious sister, even though it occur just a month after my retreat, as I said in my vocation story, I just don’t mind idea of it, because I just thought that I was just carried away by my retreat, that I have those kinds of ideas.
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My dream started this way, I was in a mass, during the communion, I was ask to go in the altar, where the Blessed Sacrament is present. I was told to give communion to the people present during the Eucharistic Celebration. I can really hold the Consecrated bread and give communion to the people. I just can't understand why I am in the mass and giving communions. After the communion, I was asked again to go in the altar, someone is  calling me and asking me to drink the water that I saw in the altar. I cannot recall in my dream, if I drank the water. (And Who is present in the altar, in the tabernacle?, as I can recall I'm the only present there.) 

Then I woke up, hearing  the lines "Through Him, with Him, and in Him...Our television id turned on and was tuned in a Sunday T.V mass.

 I also have a dream that the religious sisters welcomed me in their congregation and my parents allow me to enter the convent.

 According to my classmates, they dreamt that I was wearing a religious habit and saw me praying in church. (Sometimes,it is somewhat a weird thing, seeing me wearing those habit and praying makes me laugh when I heard those stories from them) 

  It is not a dream anymore, it is real I was awake those times, I was in the church with my classmates since it was our First Friday devotion. We are sitting in the side of the church, and we can see clearly the sacristy from our place. After praying the Holy Rosary, we just sat down, some of my classmates are talking to each other, I was sitting in the very side of the bench, I was looking in the sacristy and I stay silent. Suddenly a woman pass, wearing a white and blue, I cannot distinguish the face because of the distant, I asked my classmate if they saw the woman passed on the sacristy, they said that they don't saw it, as I analyze the habit that the woman is wearing it is somewhat the same with those nuns, but the earliest forms of their habit, looking like a nurse. But I just don't mind it, I just taught that it was a woman who serve in the church, After the mass, I asked my CL teacher, who used to be a lay minister during that time, I asked him if there is a woman wearing that habit in the sacristy, but he said to me that they don't saw any girl in the sacristy. :)

After that, I became really got curious about it, I asked a priest.​

It was followed by many dreams, the setting is always in the Church, during the mass, talking to a priest and saying to me, to just continue, the most mysterious dream I ever had, I cannot recall all the events in that dream. I just saw the different images or apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in one place. In a place that, looks like a paradise, it was shining, with flowers, there are flowing waters, but I am the only person present there, and it is just the images of the Blessed Virgin Mary appearing one by one.

In reality, not on my dreams, when I visited the Adoration Chapel in the Parish beside my school, I realized that there are similarity in the place in my dream. They are nearly the same, the background. And it was my first time to visit the adoration chapel, maybe the second time, I cannot recall the place anymore, I was a child since I visited that place. But from that dream. I tried to visit everyday the blessed sacrament.
From those dreams, my curiosity about religious life arise.

"Indeed God speaks once,
Or twice, yet no one notices it.
"In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,
Then He opens the ears of men,
And seals their instruction, (Job 33:14-16)

God spoke, but then I do not notice it. I told to myself never mind those ideas.

-Having those dreams, doesn’t make me assume that this is really God’s will in my life. I’m still praying that I may discern my true vocation in life.
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  1. Keep a journal. If something concerning your vocation doesn’t happen a year from now, you can look back at those dreams, and check it against what’s presently happening.
  2. According to the Catechism, water can represent the Holy Ghost. Our Lady is the Spouse of the Holy Ghost. I believe there is a passage in the book of Revelation where it says, “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’”
  3. Come to what? you might ask. Sounds like adoration to me. A recurring theme in your dream is the Adoration Chapel. Make that the first step.
  4. The habit/sister that you saw–it was the Pre-Vatican II habit of a local community? I think that’s what you were seeing. This could indicate that there needs to be some kind of reform within the community, and that you could have some part in it. Have the founders died? If they are, perhaps you could pray to them for guidance. Your friends have had dreams of you being in habit–which habit?
HTH.

Blessings,
Cloisters
 
Selgi said:
My first dream.
(September 6, 2008)

Actually before I have this dream, I am not still thinking to be religious sister, even though it occur just a month after my retreat, as I said in my vocation story, I just don’t mind idea of it, because I just thought that I was just carried away by my retreat, that I have those kinds of ideas.
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My dream started this way, I was in a mass, during the communion, I was ask to go in the altar, where the Blessed Sacrament is present. I was told to give communion to the people present during the Eucharistic Celebration. I can really hold the Consecrated bread and give communion to the people. I just can't understand why I am in the mass and giving communions. After the communion, I was asked again to go in the altar, someone is  calling me and asking me to drink the water that I saw in the altar. I cannot recall in my dream, if I drank the water. (And Who is present in the altar, in the tabernacle?, as I can recall I'm the only present there.) 

Then I woke up, hearing  the lines "Through Him, with Him, and in Him...Our television id turned on and was tuned in a Sunday T.V mass.

 I also have a dream that the religious sisters welcomed me in their congregation and my parents allow me to enter the convent.

 According to my classmates, they dreamt that I was wearing a religious habit and saw me praying in church. (Sometimes,it is somewhat a weird thing, seeing me wearing those habit and praying makes me laugh when I heard those stories from them) 

  It is not a dream anymore, it is real I was awake those times, I was in the church with my classmates since it was our First Friday devotion. We are sitting in the side of the church, and we can see clearly the sacristy from our place. After praying the Holy Rosary, we just sat down, some of my classmates are talking to each other, I was sitting in the very side of the bench, I was looking in the sacristy and I stay silent. Suddenly a woman pass, wearing a white and blue, I cannot distinguish the face because of the distant, I asked my classmate if they saw the woman passed on the sacristy, they said that they don't saw it, as I analyze the habit that the woman is wearing it is somewhat the same with those nuns, but the earliest forms of their habit, looking like a nurse. But I just don't mind it, I just taught that it was a woman who serve in the church, After the mass, I asked my CL teacher, who used to be a lay minister during that time, I asked him if there is a woman wearing that habit in the sacristy, but he said to me that they don't saw any girl in the sacristy. :)

After that, I became really got curious about it, I asked a priest.​

It was followed by many dreams, the setting is always in the Church, during the mass, talking to a priest and saying to me, to just continue, the most mysterious dream I ever had, I cannot recall all the events in that dream. I just saw the different images or apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in one place. In a place that, looks like a paradise, it was shining, with flowers, there are flowing waters, but I am the only person present there, and it is just the images of the Blessed Virgin Mary appearing one by one.

In reality, not on my dreams, when I visited the Adoration Chapel in the Parish beside my school, I realized that there are similarity in the place in my dream. They are nearly the same, the background. And it was my first time to visit the adoration chapel, maybe the second time, I cannot recall the place anymore, I was a child since I visited that place. But from that dream. I tried to visit everyday the blessed sacrament.
From those dreams, my curiosity about religious life arise.

"Indeed God speaks once,
Or twice, yet no one notices it.
"In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,
Then He opens the ears of men,
And seals their instruction, (Job 33:14-16)

God spoke, but then I do not notice it. I told to myself never mind those ideas.

-Having those dreams, doesn’t make me assume that this is really God’s will in my life. I’m still praying that I may discern my true vocation in life.
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I firmly believe that God can and does speak to people in dreams. It sure seems to me that He is telling you something. I agree with Cloisters, keep a journal, pray and talk to others.

JMJ+
~Betsy
 
Yes, indeed. The Lord speaks through dreams, but be careful because the Enemy uses them also.

I had lots of dreams in which I entered Religious Life, or other things like that.
In them, I long for humility, I kneel and ask for forgiveness to thom whom I offensed during the day. It happened three times.

I also had dreams which lead me to take important decisions like my discernment journey to England, in a Convent I found thanks to providence. I had dreamt about my journey before the idea had even come to my mind. Amazing! 😉
 
Do you want to be a sister? If you think about it a lot that could be a sign, if you want to be one, that can also be a sign, and if you don’t want to be one but you’re thinking about it a lot THAT could also be a sign. 😃 Pray and reflect on your spiritual life. read books on the saints. And I invite you to take this free survey for fun:

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Dear whoever is reading this post,
I need help.
Yesterday I got a note from my teacher asking me to get a costume of the Franciscans. She gave me a number of websites. www.catholichomeandgarden.com was one of them. So I went on the site, and I found what I was looking for and I also started looking at the website for a bit because it was actually not just costumes but a lot of other Catholic things. You should check it out. Anyway, while I was looking I saw one that said Modest Clothing for Christian Women. And it wouldn’t go out of my head so I clicked on it. It said that Our Lady of Fatima said “Certain fashions offend Our Lord very much”. I scrolled down and I saw dresses and skirts. Modest clothes. The thought occurred to me, I know it may seem odd to you, and you may disagree, but, isn’t wearing pants a little masculine? please don’t get mad, I’m not trying to offend. So all their clothes are from this really cool department called Willow Ridge. I got the feeling that Jesus wants me to ask my mom to buy my sisters and I those clothes. I got the image in my head that my sisters and I would be at the mall with casual pretty modest dresses and people would ask us about out clothes. it’s weird but it’s just a random thought that keeps coming back. Maybe to start a fashion statement or something. So I showed my sisters the clothes and each one of them loved it. For the rest of the night it wouldn’t come out of my head. I went to sleep. I dreamed of it. weird huh? The next day I couldn’t get it out of my head. I kept getting the feeling Jesus wanted me to tell my mom about it. I still haven’t and now I feel this tension inside of me. This anxiety I can’t explain. I also feel depressed. What do I do? Do you think Jesus wants me to tell my mom about it? Please give me advice! 🤷 😦
 
I really like those clothes! Especially these:

http://www.softsurroundings.com/detail.php?parentid=2073930&aid=cj

and also the green dress at the very top and the pinkish one underneath it.

I do think that you should your mum about it. The last few times I have had that feeling…“I’ve gotta tell her!!”… it just stays there until I tell mum or whoever. Do you feel nervous or something about telling her? I get that even when it’s something good I have to tell because I don’t know how they’ll take it.

I wish those styles of clothes were more available in “normal” shops. They’re nice enough to be! People would buy them, too, most of them wouldn’t look like you are trying hard to be modest if you wore them. They’re beautiful!
 
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