tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post6059402475431002473..comments2024-01-09T15:49:37.273-05:00Comments on THE TENTH CRUSADE: Why Catholics Pray for Piety (and should refrain from vulgarity)TTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-9446790859581702922016-08-31T21:09:17.545-04:002016-08-31T21:09:17.545-04:00Tsk tsk, Let's not be too pious: It was Efffff...Tsk tsk, Let's not be too pious: It was Efffffin' Gabriel ya jack$&@!!!! <br /><br />(Sry couldn't resist)Kathleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-19613162733058881902016-08-31T19:56:04.862-04:002016-08-31T19:56:04.862-04:00Oops! Of course! Thank you!!!!Oops! Of course! Thank you!!!!TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-11673258626707900262016-08-31T17:04:31.145-04:002016-08-31T17:04:31.145-04:00I think it was Gabriel at the Annunciation, not Mi...I think it was Gabriel at the Annunciation, not Michael. The Sandpiperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07513538957439176850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-63090876626810099482016-08-31T14:54:30.217-04:002016-08-31T14:54:30.217-04:00It doesn't seem to me that you are open to lis...It doesn't seem to me that you are open to listening at this time, so I don't have much else to say about this subject.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-20433971507884215352016-08-31T14:52:16.803-04:002016-08-31T14:52:16.803-04:00p.s. I stand by what I said about the priest robb...p.s. I stand by what I said about the priest robbing you, how the practice leads a soul away from holiness.<br /><br />Class has nothing to do with money.TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-82071292421281008772016-08-31T14:48:54.892-04:002016-08-31T14:48:54.892-04:00The post wasn't about you, it was about Why Ca...The post wasn't about you, it was about Why Catholics out to stop swearing and making vulgar sexual references with the worldly culture. That is what you invited me to do. I said we all do it from time to time and need to stop. I had no idea you were doing anything but letting the occasional swear word slip out so how you took this as an ad hominem against you is going completely over my head. I included my own guilt.<br /><br />The idea that Catholics reserve a tabernacle reserving Christ a few inches from their mouth and talking vulgar is "respect for God's will" doesn't gel. The New Testament is filled with the witness of a perfect Man who carried out God's Will and there is no swearing. It isn't a tool for salvation by any stretch of the imagination<br /><br />God Bless.<br />TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-88565337683676135532016-08-31T14:34:18.065-04:002016-08-31T14:34:18.065-04:00And yes, I am still open to correction.And yes, I am still open to correction.Mark Dochertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15324479233339537303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-57776263368766549702016-08-31T14:23:37.931-04:002016-08-31T14:23:37.931-04:00TTC,
I was wondering what was taking so long for...TTC, <br /><br />I was wondering what was taking so long for you to respond, since I had offered my openness to correction. So after three days of discernment, instead of rational logic-based rebuttal to my argument, all we get are ad hominem attacks and red herrings? That’s very Shea-like, and very unlike TTC. I’m a little disappointed. But hey, it’s my first interweeb scrap, so I’ll go with it.<br /><br /> “A priest demolished him from the pursuit of piety…” That’s not what I said. I said he demolished one of my ‘notions’ of piety by exposing it as FALSE piety… “by explaining he should exchange holiness for swear words.” What? How is it “exchanging” holiness? “So here we have a priest who encounters a soul being infused by this gift (no doubt through prayer and the Sacraments), and he rushes over to rob him of it…We sure are surrounded by deranged prelates aren't we?” <br /><br />Whoever said this was an exercise in abandoning piety? No, it’s an exercise in saving souls by using all means necessary, except evil. And I should have left the priest out of it. He’s long since dead, and I am taking up his argument without reservation. He was hugely responsible for my hard conversion, and the incident in question occurred many years after that. I should have just explained the logic and not mentioned him.<br /><br />“Mark, you seem like a humble, smart, catechized Catholic. Why on earth wouldn't you recognize the stupidity of this advice? Ugh.” <br /><br />Thank you, but humility is not one of my strengths by a longshot. So I will happily accept any and all prayers for that. But would you mind getting into the “stupidity”? The mission is salvation of souls, correct? Should we use all the tools at our disposal for the sake of the mission, or should we keep some tools in the toolbox, because we have more respect for the oh-so sensitive ears of polite society than we have respect for God’s will? Think about that. <br /><br />Then you call me a putana? You go, girl. You’re starting to get the hang of it!<br /><br />And I would never disparage “longshoremen”; in fact I have great esteem for them, as I do for all blue collar workers, especially the trades. Their skills will be in great demand after the collapse, when advanced degrees will be worthless. Furthermore, the weight of their souls is the same as anyone else’s.<br /><br />You say I’m “offensive”. Is it offensive in the eyes of God or man? <br /><br />You say I’m “ill-mannered”. Is it Ill-mannered in the eyes of God or man? <br /><br />Also I lack “class”. Guilty as charged! I come from lower middle class family and a lower class neighborhood, the nickname of which is notorious in the region as the embodiment of, shall we say, white trash. But in the eyes of God, will my class count against me at my Particular Judgment? I didn’t think class mattered to God.<br /><br />Your argument, from what I can discern, is that the Church Militant is REQUIRED to scuttle some of its weapons, at the risk of immortal souls, for the sake of the sensitivities of refined society. Please offer support for your argument.<br />Mark Dochertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15324479233339537303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-17454736634453895492016-08-31T11:15:42.305-04:002016-08-31T11:15:42.305-04:00We are temples of the Holy Spirit.We are temples of the Holy Spirit.Romulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18071095565318181930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-53620015008626972442016-08-31T08:33:27.335-04:002016-08-31T08:33:27.335-04:00Well said Carol. If only the priest in question h...Well said Carol. If only the priest in question had as much sense. Michael Dowdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16650782589323136700noreply@blogger.com