What is a Mormon service like. Just click on the video.

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Religio71 said:
I was LDS before I became Catholic 😉 The ward and stake websites restrict most content, and the membership directory is completely separate. Parishes that have membership directories restrict that part of the website, not everything else. Just an observation.
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Good afteroon Religio71! I hope you are doing well today. 🙂

Just a slight correction. The Membership directories are incorporated in to the Stake and Ward websites. They aren’t completely separate. Once you log in to the Ward website, you can access the membership directories, without any additional authentication, of the whole Stake. It may have been different when you were a member of the Church.

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Finrock
 
AdvanceAlways said:
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Pray for me! I’m Discerning God’s Call to the religious life!

Orders I am pondering
Trinitarians
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
The Companions of the Cross

SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE CLASS OF 2013!
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A.A., You got it! I have a question about the Trinitarians. Are you referring to
the St. John de Matha Trinitarians?
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     [trinitarians.org/](http://www.trinitarians.org/)
or the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity (or Servants of the Trinity)
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     [mssst.org/](http://www.mssst.org/)
I have some good friends in the later. They are often called Trinitarians.

prayers,
-kc
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Those “temples” look like hotels, spas, and theatres. Not like places of worship or God’s house.

Also… while I realize those twelve ox are a throwback to the 12 tribes of Isreal, I kept thinking all they needed were to be made out of gold. 😉
 
GodIsGracious said:
Those “temples” look like hotels, spas, and theatres. Not like places of worship or God’s house.

Also… while I realize those twelve ox are a throwback to the 12 tribes of Isreal, I kept thinking all they needed were to be made out of gold. 😉
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Good morning GodIsGracious! I’m happy to meet you. Here’s to wishing you a great day today! 👍

How the temples look is a subjective thing, so I can’t really say much more than that in my experience, whenever I’ve entered any temple, I’ve always felt peace and my mind has been drawn to reverence towards God and godly things.

At least in LDS understanding, the twelve oxen do represent the 12 tribes of Israel, as you surmised. Also, you might be interested to know that originally, the baptismal font being held up by twelve oxen in Mormon temples, was specifically patterned from Solomon’s temple where the “brazen sea” was positioned on the backs of twelve oxen. In Solomon’s temple the brazen sea was used for ritual baths. The first time the LDS used this pattern was in Nauvoo. The oxen were made of wood, but it was painted with gold paint. Whether you were inferring this or not with your statement, the oxen have never been worshipped in any shape or form by the Mormon people.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic.

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Finrock
 
Interesting, I’ve always wondered what a Mormon service is like. Sounds too long.
I’ve been to several different protestant services. (Mostly Methodists and Non-Denom)
I like that the Mormon service has some kind of structure. I don’t like Baptist services where you sit and listen to the preacher talk and maybe singing a few hymns. The Mass has a defined pattern of sitting, standing, kneeling, responding, singing et cetera. The UM service is semi-structured compared to the RC Mass.
I’ll stick with the mass which is about an hour. 🙂
 
Religio71 said:
The prime difference I see between the Divine Liturgy/Mass and the Endowment, using your statement, is that the union with the Divine occurs literally during the Liturgy. The point of the Endowment is not to be literally united with Christ during the ordinance. Also, there really isn’t any worship involved in the Endowment. Instead there is a dramatization of various stories,** as well as the teaching of signs and tokens needed to be exalted.** Thus the relationship between the Divine Liturgy and the Endowment is more superficial than anything, and really could be applied to many ceremonies, Christian and non-Christian.
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Could you share these signs and tokens with us?
 
Dylpickleh8 said:
Interesting, I’ve always wondered what a Mormon service is like. Sounds too long.
I’ve been to several different protestant services. (Mostly Methodists and Non-Denom)
I like that the Mormon service has some kind of structure. I don’t like Baptist services where you sit and listen to the preacher talk and maybe singing a few hymns. The Mass has a defined pattern of sitting, standing, kneeling, responding, singing et cetera. The UM service is semi-structured compared to the RC Mass.
I’ll stick with the mass which is about an hour. 🙂
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And of course the video shows disapproval of these things (most often associated with Catholicism) by marking with a check mark.
no repetition
no standing
no kneeling
I’m not sure who the “no shouting Hallelujahs” is most associated with but obviously this is not something to be enjoyed either.
I’m also unfamiliar with the quiet attributed to “services” due to lack of children since every Mass I’ve ever attended included children of all ages.

It would have been an informative little piece if only it had refrained from snarking on other religions at the end of the video.

Outline of the vidoe “we do this, this, and this, not like others who do all this pointless stuff” not to mention the obligatory dig on the “collection plate”.
 
why_me said:
For those interested in seeing what a Mormon service is like, please click on the video. I do not do this for Missionary work but rather for understanding a mormon service. I think that there are many posters who post on the mormon threads who have never had an explanation of a mormon service:

realmormonism.com/category/is-mormonism-true/

Enjoy!!! 😃
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That was interesting. I’d always wondered. 15 yrs ago I was invited by Missionaries to attend and they were going to take me, but never showed up. Been curious since then.
 
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