just wondering…
are Catholics more into Jesus???
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This is a straw man.
You are not wondering anything here, just making up stuff.
well, i can tell YOU aren’t JEsus come again…
He KNOWS the motives of my heart …
My point is you are just making a blustery comment without having any idea whether other churches have a daily service.
You cannot prove that no other church has a daily service, and you cannot prove that the Catholic church always has a daily service (in many places that is just not possible, even in the USA). You make an assertion that perhaps ‘Catholics more into Jesus’, although that does not follow.
You have not demonstrated anything but a willingness to start a confrontational thread.
For purposes of basic information, the Eastern Catholic churches have a set of different norms than the Latin Catholic church, the Byzantine Catholics follow the practice of the Orthodox.
For Orthodox (I first learned this from a Byzantine Catholic priest) the priest is fasting and the altar is fasting. Fasting, for the priest means total abstinence from foods and pleasures, for the altar is meant no other eucharist has been served that day.
That means that only one divine liturgy is offered by the priest, and only one divine liturgy is performed on the altar each day. In those places where celibate clergy or numerous clergy are available (as in monasteries or some larger parishes) a divine liturgy is possible every day. Still, however, there must be a congregation present… no private liturgies.
The Latin church ordinarily requires a priest to say a Mass every day, whether at home in private or in the chapel. This is possible when the the priest is a faithful practicing celibate, he can (or at least should) fast from foods and pleasures every day. Interestingly, not only many eastern Catholic churches but even the Latin church today has married priests.
This is not true of the Byzantine church where celibacy is an option, and this has been the norm since Pentecost.
This is all related to custom, which is reflected in the discipline of the local church. The Latin church was not able to institute mandatory celibacy until centuries after Christ, which means it could not have widespread daily Mass in it’s own early history as it does today, it would have had a practice similar to Holy Orthodoxy.
None of this has any link whatever to a measure of devotion to Jesus, and your own church has never even put this idea forward nor implied such a thing. It would suggest that one part of the Catholic church has superior practices to any other part of it (which the Catholic church will not say). Where you have come up with this canard is a mystery (I am pretty sure you did not read it somewhere, but you could give us a reference), and your reasons for saying such a thing smack of Latin triumphalistic pride.
No, I cannot see into your heart, and you cannot see into mine, but we can read each other’s words.
hmmmm… 
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How porno, TV and the internet pertains to Bible studies and the Alpha course only you must know.
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