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by VeryTas
Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:07 am
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate: Dilexi te
Replies: 10
Views: 292

Re: Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate: Dilexi te

Do you think Cardinal Fernandez had no hand in it?
by VeryTas
Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:01 pm
Forum: The Lyceum
Topic: Bible "what-ifs" that you think about?
Replies: 10
Views: 13021

Re: Bible "what-ifs" that you think about?

What if God had made Eve out of the dust of the ground instead of from Adam's rib? Would Adam not feel incomplete without her? (I have noticed that chromosomes look like a rib cage and that indeed a man's sex chromosome (Y) is like the X missing one piece.)
by VeryTas
Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:27 pm
Forum: The Lyceum
Topic: The First is the Greatest
Replies: 1
Views: 46

The First is the Greatest

Both paragraph 24 in Leo's Exhortation and #2055 in the Catechism speak of the two greatest commandments as constituting a single commandment, as if Jesus joined together what the Old Testament had held apart. It is good that he did lay them next to each other, but I think he purposely distinguished...
by VeryTas
Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:12 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Y'All Be Wary
Replies: 16
Views: 888

Re: Y'All Be Wary

The place we need y'all is in Bible translations. Older English used to distinguish singular (thou) from plural (you). The Douay-Rheims (and the King James) reflect that. It made statements clearer, like "Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat, but I have pr...
by VeryTas
Tue Sep 16, 2025 7:25 am
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: "if you do not forgive"
Replies: 16
Views: 1869

Re: "if you do not forgive"

Doom wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 2:35 pm As I said, I think it is clear that we have been offered forgiveness on no other terms.
On no other terms than what?
As you said where?
by VeryTas
Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:35 am
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: "if you do not forgive"
Replies: 16
Views: 1869

Re: "if you do not forgive"

As often, Doom makes some excellent points.
by VeryTas
Tue Aug 05, 2025 9:25 am
Forum: The Lyceum
Topic: The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...
Replies: 4
Views: 1152

Re: The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...

The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? Forgiveness implies the sinner may change. Satan, the father of lies, will never change. We're juggling two teachings here: 1. It is commonly said that unforgi...
by VeryTas
Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:34 am
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: What if you accidentally forgot a sin during Confession?
Replies: 4
Views: 4536

Re: What if you accidentally forgot a sin during Confession?

Catholic Answers: It was absolved already. If it is a venial sin, you do not need to confess it. If it was a mortal sin, it was absolved, provided you at least implicitly intended to mention it if you had remembered it. What this means is that you confessed all known sins and would have confessed w...
by VeryTas
Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:09 pm
Forum: The Lyceum
Topic: The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...
Replies: 4
Views: 1152

The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...

The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? It's true that we don't get to blame him for our own sins, but I'm thinking that he has done as much damage in God's creation as Adam and Eve. So it can be natu...
by VeryTas
Sat Apr 26, 2025 9:30 am
Forum: Apologetics
Topic: Call no man father!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Replies: 26
Views: 23760

Re: Call no man father!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

No, that isn't what he meant, and I can't believe you just tried to give a serious answer to this joke thread When is a thread a joke? When people needle each other. ( :lalala People who needle people are the luckiest people in the world.) When is a joke a thread? When the punch line is hanging by ...
by VeryTas
Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:40 am
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: Catholic and dealing with transgender relatives
Replies: 10
Views: 1441

Re: Catholic and dealing with transgender relatives

We have a daughter who leaned the way the world has been leaning about sexual identity. She came out as Lesbian during college and even "married" (in Canada which recognized such a thing before the U.S.). But before long she went on into "transition" and so has a groomed beard an...
by VeryTas
Sun Dec 01, 2024 7:34 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: HELP! Electric appliances failing...
Replies: 28
Views: 16531

Re: HELP! Electric appliances failing...

Next time anyone has what might be an electrical problem, private message me. Troubleshooting home electrical, even remotely, was my professional niche. Sorry I didn't see this topic till now.
by VeryTas
Sun Oct 27, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: The University
Topic: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
Replies: 14
Views: 17754

Re: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?

Around here "full, active, conscious" participation in the Mass is commonly touted as calling for singing all the hymns (and it doesn't help that my wife loves to sing and doesn't understand why I don't always). But I do sing the mass settings, once I get the hang of the latest one.
by VeryTas
Fri Oct 25, 2024 9:49 pm
Forum: The University
Topic: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
Replies: 14
Views: 17754

Re: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?

Depending on how you define it, hundreds if not thousands of musical settings for the Mass have been written. I'm happy to enjoy hundreds of settings, but the difference now is that we non-musician, non-choir people are expected to perform them (even while processing up for communion somehow, in th...
by VeryTas
Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: The University
Topic: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
Replies: 14
Views: 17754

Liturgy: Rich or Restless?

What prompts this question is that my parish has now led us into learning yet one more "mass setting" (of music). Yes, besides more than four mass texts that a priest may opt to use, there are in the U.S. now at least eleven ways for us to sing our parts of the mass, as well as the hundred...
by VeryTas
Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: Funeral Mass
Replies: 20
Views: 28973

Re: Funeral Mass

Doom wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 7:54 am I literally have absolutely no idea what you just said, I do not understand a word of it.
Not a word of it? Not even "I'm happy for Providence ... to arrange my funeral"?
I'm raising the question of why one might want to arrange one's own funeral to any degree.
by VeryTas
Tue Oct 01, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: Funeral Mass
Replies: 20
Views: 28973

Re: Funeral Mass

If you want to affect how people will remember you, get in their face now. (They shouldn't be fooled by something you chose for your funeral.) I'm 77 and don't see the end of the tunnel yet. I'm happy for Providence (including relatives and the parish priest) to arrange my funeral. If they don't do ...
by VeryTas
Mon Sep 16, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: The Lyceum
Topic: Today's reading from 1 Cor.
Replies: 5
Views: 10292

Re: Today's reading from 1 Cor.

11:19 "19 there have to be factions among you in order that [also] those who are approved among you may become known.[j]" The footnote says: Paul situates their divisions within the context of the eschatological separation of the authentic from the inauthentic and the final revelation of ...
by VeryTas
Fri Sep 06, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Feedback Requested re: Peculiar interaction (probably not demonic?)
Replies: 7
Views: 3122

Re: Feedback Requested re: Peculiar interaction (probably not demonic?)

Off the top of my head, any chance she might have needed to stick the buds in her own ears and hear what you were hearing?
by VeryTas
Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: NABRE
Replies: 11
Views: 16982

Re: NABRE

The cynic or the fundamentalist would say that the Catholic Church, having been forced against its will to issue a Bible, has decided to only make it available in the most worthless, useless editions that no one who loves books would ever buy, and thereby discourage anyone from reading it. Another ...