If everyone did the best he or she could, this world would be much more livable.. Maybe you do, but I'd say 80% of people do not. Wait, maybe 100% of us do not. We could all do better. We Americans in particular waste a lot of time doing "friv".. watching sports, etc.. while the country falls apart... Not enough people watch the news, and yet they vote.. and I could go on and on
Well, you spelled the word incorrectly (it is Penance) but in any case, I'm not sure the point you're making. I agree it involves restitution. If you steal, give back what you stole. If you can't do that for some reason, you can offer prayers for the person ripped off and sacrifice something you like (ice cream on Sunday or what have you) in reparation for your sin. One of my favorite (true) saints is St Benedict Labre who.. well, I can't think of another saint who sacrificed so much.. in fact, he sacrificed his whole life living as a homeless person. I tend think he went to extremes, certainly did things I can't see myself doing, but no one can say he didn't give up the world and the flesh.. have often wondered how his fight w/ the devil went..
some of them allow abortion at certain stages of the pregnancy and soon, many of them will begin to accept the same position on abortion as the world does: up to the 9th month.
At the same time, we aren't to become burdens for others as well taking what they worked hard to get when we can ourselves feed ourselves, clothe ourselves and house ourselves. Not much of a saint in my eyes. Who did he help? It's like cursing your employer who is rich when he's giving you a job to feed your family, house them and clothe them.
People need to read up on St LaBre. He did not impose on people and ate very little. He fasted a lot and that is why a certain monastery or monasteries rejected him, he was too weak to do the chores. He wanted to get to Heaven as soon as he could. It's possible he was a little off on some things.. Who among us is not? But he was canonized by the Church and that was in the days when a canonization was a real canonization. Anyone "canonized" after, say 1962 is not necessarily a saint and very likely is NOT. The Vatican was taken over some 65 years ago but its enemies who wanted power & control.. Anyone who doesn't believe me can look at what the last "popes" have done and taught. They are NOT Catholic.
You cannot 'transcribe' from one language to another, you can only transcribe from oral to written in the same language. I think it is well know that EVERY translation introduces some changes and there are examples of this in the Bible.
If you believe the Catholic Church is not really the Catholic Church then you're not a Catholic you're a Protestant.
You don't understand a word of what I am saying... just like the Protestants here.
People do the best they are able to do. In the days since Covid my graduate students are unable to flatten shipping boxes, where before Covid they could. I give them a pass for diminished capacity.
They also seem depressed and are generally unfriendly.
I can't speak on this because I didn't take the vax and never will. Or are you saying it was covid that made them weak? OK.. I don't know if I had covid or not.. had this incident where I felt weak and lethargic for a few days, then got better but who knows? In any case, when the Virgin appeared to Melanie at LaSalette, France, she told them that in the last days.. well, it's a long, long story that you can Search.. a very interesting story, about how in the last days, "Rome will lose the faith" and the Catholic Church will be hard to find and etc..People do the best they are able to do. In the days since Covid my graduate students are unable to flatten shipping boxes, where before Covid they could. I give them a pass for diminished capacity.
"Saints" in the Bible were merely baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ. Nothing special.
God didn't choose the Catholic Church. That church had long been in apostasy as Paul prophesied. The only church God has chosen since his resurrection is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as His Church needed to be restored after destroyed with the Catholics and others.
You don't like my religion so why do you post anything to me? If you think I will ditch the True Church for some man-made "church" so called
Some translation errors are pretty big, most are not.
Saints do not err when transcribing the Word (as St Jerome did in the 4th century). You don't believe in saints.. well, that disbelief does not make them un-real or zap them into non-existence or what have u
I don't believe in saints.. well, that disbelief just makes them human. If you want to believe Saints had supernatural guidance, no one, certainly not me, can say you're wrong.
why do Protestants always just KNOW what Catholics think and believe, yet they don't study what Catholics believe.. ?
I never said I didn’t like you. I taught at a catholic high school for 16 years. The people are great! I actually can walk and chew gum at the same time.
