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⛪ Tradition-minded, #Bible -believing #Catholic - #Christian convert | #TLM | Former member of #COG ("Church of God" -- a.k.a. Armstrongism)

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Exactly.

I brought that up (I had even prepared a list), and I was literally the ONLY PERSON in the room who defended biblical Catholic morality.

Scriptural examples were like rubber bullets bouncing off their supermodernist chests. No one attempted to deal with sound theology or sound (and simple) reasoning.

In answer to St. Paul's teachings, for example: All Paul knew back then was that pretty much everyone was straight, and there were a few perverts.

But now in our day we understand the concept of having different orientations, and so we hold on to the justice and freedom and love that undergird all of morality, so, homosexual acts are no longer prohibited in every case because we understand people can have different orientations. God made them that way.

Such retarded and demonic delusions.

My questions and explanations created a scene only because I challenged their evil worldly conclusions with scriptural Catholicism and clear Catholic theology they should have learned as children.

Like a lion prowling about the streets, the devil has devoured most people in my city.





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I was going to do some yard work this morning, but I just saw this ad for a Catholic education opportunity for my city's parishes. I just have to go.

(I need to make our Director of Adult Faith Formation feel nervous. He loves 🏳️‍🌈stuff.)

BTW, there's NO CRISIS in the Church!!!

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The COG Catholic · 1d
What a nightmare. It was awful. I do not share the same religion as these "Catholic" people.
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I think one reason modern normie Catholics and others fall for false ecumenism and delight in interreligious handholding is this:

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They believe religion is fundamentally about being nice to each other. So most religions promote the same message, serve the same purpose, shoot for the same goal.
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But the foundation of true religion -- i.e., Christianity, or Catholicism -- is how we respond to the Person of Jesus.

Without that foundation, your nice religion is as impotent and useless to save your soul from hell as the local Rotary Club.
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A few years ago I went to Confession at our local college's Catholic center.

The priest was (at the time) the diocese's vocations director.

It had been a couple weeks since my last Confession. He said we should confess like we go to the dentist: about every 6 months.

He invited me to read something he wrote explaining that. There were photocopies of it outside the confessional.

This was at a college campus from the vocational director?!

#crisis #RecognizeAndResist
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arkinox · 2d
What? That's bizarre. I'm in that booth more than a soundcloud rapper. Supply meets demand!
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I have a clear conscience supporting the #SSPX 's planned consecrations of bishops when I see the Archbp of Wash. D.C. presiding over an "LGBTQ Mass" without consequence.

Disobedience can either be heroic or damnable, or somewhere in between.

It takes a little discernment with a well-formed Catholic conscience.
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When Protestant friends of mine insist on baptism by full immersion, because it captures the idea that our old selves are dead and buried, they don't seem to recognize that water is also associated with cleansing and new life.

Remember how the Red Sea is seen as a prefigurement of Christian baptism? The water that came crashing down to kill the Egyptians is the same water by which Israel was saved.

Scripture shows we are cleansed (not just buried) by the waters of baptism, and the Holy Spirit is depicted as being poured.

The short of it is that both immersion and pouring are acceptable modes of baptism. This was understood early on and was taught in the Didache, which was likely written in the first century.

Oddly, my friends who insist immersion is the only true form of baptism also insist that baptism is merely a symbolic gesture that doesn't actually save. They say it's only an outward sign, a symbolic witness to others, of a pre-existing inward change.

Pro Tip: The latter issue is much more critical to figure out than the first. Priorities.

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For weeks now I've been praying multiple rosaries a day, and it has been very helpful. 📿

One of my unfortunate personal problems is a tendency to think of God as being displeased with me.

But praying the rosary throughout the day -- a set or two of mysteries in the morning, a decade here or there with my work-safe "ring rosary" during breaks or lunch, etc. -- helps me fight that inclination.

I still have a sense of my own sinfulness and imperfections, but the difference is that with regular rosaries I feel more closely connected to Our Lady and Our Lord.

I sense (and know) they are not disappointed with me, but eager to teach, train, and mold me into what I will become. I consider myself enrolled in the School of Mary, and she won't let me fail to graduate as long as I keep showing up to class.

I see things more clearly, with more perspective, when I heed St. Paul's admonition to pray without ceasing.