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TechieGuy
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Unless you bake it as described in Ezekiel 4:12
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Tis_Bearself
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I believe you are incorrect in taking the numbering of the general grants as meaning that they are numbered in order of “importance”. My impression is that the numbering is simply reflecting when the grant was originally conceived. The Foreword to the edition of the Enchiridion I have available right now (which is the 1968 edition in which the fourth grant about witness had not yet been added) states:
Do you have some language in the later edition shifting the Church’s viewpoint on this to make penance less important?
Doesn’t sound to me like any of the grants are more “important” than any of the other grants, rather it’s the spirit in which you do them. Furthermore, saying that penance is “more than ever imperative” and noting the concern about “mitigation of fast and abstinence” sounds to me like the post-Vatican II church didn’t want to lose the idea of penance, including fasting as well as other self-denials.
- The first and second grants are a resume of many given in times past; the third, on the other
hand, is something altogether new but most suited to the present time when, with the
mitigation of the law of fast and abstinence, it is more than ever imperative that penance be
practiced in other ways.
Do you have some language in the later edition shifting the Church’s viewpoint on this to make penance less important?
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BlackFriar
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The above four points are clear, my points are clear.
The order of importance looks to reflect current Magisterial views - though I get it you disagree.
The primary one is what I say, doing well the duties of one’s state and patiently bearing the trials of life that providence provides. I believe I learnt this from PAENITEMINI many years ago.
Look it up for yourself.
Its just too trivial an issue to put energy into debating further sorry.
The order of importance looks to reflect current Magisterial views - though I get it you disagree.
The primary one is what I say, doing well the duties of one’s state and patiently bearing the trials of life that providence provides. I believe I learnt this from PAENITEMINI many years ago.
Look it up for yourself.
Its just too trivial an issue to put energy into debating further sorry.
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goodcatholic
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getting closer now to ash Wednesday
drum roll
entering Lent
so exciting!
drum roll
entering Lent
so exciting!
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