"I'm O.K. with you being a Catholic, as long as you aren't actually Catholic"
posted by Unknown @ 7:30 AM
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Stella Borealis IV - Blog Comments, Letters and Stuff
I've been collecting articles off of the papers, magazines and the internet for years and years (maybe 40) figuring I would look at them again some day. It'll take me as much work to store them on a blog as it would on my hard drive. And you get to see the things about which I become exasperated.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
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At August 16, 2007 9:52 PM,
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Beautiful :-)
I'll put all suffering Catholic vets in the remainder of this eve's Rosary. -
At December 23, 2009 3:17 PM,
bathmate said...
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very good posting. i liked it. :-)
bathmate
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You're The Poisonwood Bible!
by Barbara Kingsolver
Deeply rooted in a religious background, you have since become both
isolated and schizophrenic. You were naively sure that your actions would help people,
but of course they were resistant to your message and ultimately disaster ensued. Since
you can see so many sides of the same issue, you are both wise beyond your years and
tied to worthless perspectives. If you were a type of waffle, it would be
Belgian.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
There are a lot of CINO's out there. And they feel threatened by ORCIMMN!'s out there (Orthodox Roman Catholic is my middle name!).
I have been volunteering at the local Veterans Hospital for the past few months. Frankly some of my most rewarding interactions with patients are with those who admit that they haven't been a good Catholic.
The honesty brings tears to my eyes.
Today a patient admitted that he hadn't been practicing his faith. It sounded like he had had almost no education in his faith. He was in for some major surgery and admitted that he had been near death.
That got him reminiscing a bit and he mentioned a time when he was in Vietnam and his Division was engaged in some kind of major movement and as the men moved by, a "Mexican Priest" stood on a high platform and "splashed water on us" and prayed the Hail Mary over them.
He claimed that he had always remembered the prayer and agreed to say it with me (but he didn't remember most of the words).
I later brought him a little prayer book with the words and asked him to pray "one Hail Mary a day."
Many of you might have heard Father Corapi tell how his mother send him a holy card with the Hail Mary on the back and asked him to do that when he was at his lowest in California. It worked.
June 04, 2007 4:51 PM