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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Yeah, every time I hear or read, "Luke has Jesus say ...", I roll my eyes (up to heaven, asking How long O Lord).

How do we know Paul is calling human-to-human marriage the mystery? "This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church." -Ephesians 5:32

Surely, it cannot be a coincidence that the only named character in any parable, specifically one that involves someone dead whom it is explicitly suggested in the parable could come back to life, is someone who actually did die and is brought back. It is especially unlikely, given the apparent clo...

In the wake of our Lady's assumption to heaven, body and soul, how are we to understand the state of the (other) saints there? Without their bodies yet, isn't their personhood in heaven incomplete? Their joy in heaven is not complete for one additional reason -- that they await also the Church Suffe...

Full disclosure: I don't enjoy poetry (even though I have written some that some others say they enjoy). Still I understand the appeal of poetry. At the least it can use rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration to paint a memorable or memorizable picture or to help you enter another's experience or viewpoint...

A couple things: 1 - Prayer doesn't change God (God is immutable), prayer changes us . 2 - God does will some things contingently (that is - contingent on our prayers!). I would keep praying. These points have always struck me as some kind of double-talk. (For instance, is it even true that we &quo...