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Post by elizabeth on Mar 13, 2014 13:56:02 GMT
Pope Francis marks one year at the VaticanAs Pope Francis completes his first year in office, David Willey reports from Rome on the changes that have taken place in the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Back in 1978 - which went down in history as the "year of the three Popes" - I remember meeting a gregarious American priest and journalist who drew up a pithy job description for the leadership of the Catholic Church on the death of Paul VI. "We need a happy, holy man, who smiles!" he said. Well, we got just such a man in Papa Luciani, the Patriarch of Venice who charmed the world with his breezy manner and his simple, endearing smile in the 33 days he reigned as Pope John Paul I before his sudden death - most likely from a heart attack. Continue reading BBC article by clicking here
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Post by LS on Mar 13, 2014 15:47:09 GMT
As he celebrates his anniversary with Cardinals ... and a little dance
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 13, 2014 16:04:30 GMT
For his age, I'd say he's pretty smooth on his feet  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 19:08:47 GMT
LOL. I'm laughing but I'm sure there could also already be dozens of dancing videos like that of me tripping at various points in my life. That was funny, though.
I'm afraid I'm once again not in a celebratory mood, though. Just yesterday this "Pope"'s Brazilian FB page posted an image of a baby holding one of those rosary necklace-like thingies that Catholics use to pray (I forget the name), and in it a couple of sentences instructing people to teach their children to pray the rosary to the "Holy Mother", and saying that if more children prayed it, the world wouldn't be the same.
... No. I'm guessing on that note still no progress inside the Catholic church.
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Post by shiloh on Mar 15, 2014 4:49:22 GMT
LOL, LS! You better start tweetin' the pope cuz he said he could reduce your Purgatory sentence or even give you a "get out of Purgatory free" card, according to him. That's only if you tweet him though.
John, I remember it was that there were 5 beads that were Hail Mary's and the 6th was the "Our Father". It went around the whole rosary that way.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 4:59:05 GMT
Actually, I think you just have to be on his followers list on Twitter. Quick tip: there are multiple accounts, too, for different languages, so you can reduce purgatory time even further if you follow them all. 
Regarding the rosary, I don't know much about it, since I never really prayed it, and if I did, I don't remember. Some Catholic that I used to be, huh? Lol
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Post by shiloh on Mar 15, 2014 5:44:10 GMT
LOL @ the Twitter and reducing Purgatory time. Hey, John, don't feel bad. You didn't lose your salvation because of it. If ya really want the truth, I used to cheat and skip a whole lot of the Hail Mary's. I was a little kid. It didn't make me feel guilty one bit and it never haunted me. I never said the rosary prayers except for the Our Father after gradeschool.
We used to have this priest who would always say, "Keep up the good work." when we went into the confessional. But, someone could tell him they just got done murdering 100 people and he'd say, "Keep up the good work. Go kneel and say 5 Hail Mary's and 2 Our Father's."
Did you make your First Confession in 2nd grade? That's when we did. It seemed so scary going into that dark closet with a small screen between you and the priest and it was so dimly lit, you couldn't see him. I used to get panic attacks because at that age, I knew cerain things were sin, like lying and murder. So, I fretted more about what I was going to say because we HAD to go every week. I just made stuff up and really didn't understand what sin was at that age.
I remember telling a priest that I stepped on a bug and killed it and he started laughing and said, "I really don't think that's a sin, so there's no need to confess that and don't worry." Mind you, I was only 6 years old. Then, I'd come up with fake stuff when I couldn't think of anything and say, "I lied to my parents", which I hadn't and later thought, "Wait, I just lied to the priest about lying to my parents." lolololol...so.....what do you do? Go back the next week to the same priest and tell him you lied to him about lying to your parents?
After awhile, I gave it up and said I was going to confession when I really wasn't. My parents never pushed going to confession with me but I went to Jim's corner store and got myself some big pretzels, ice cream and licorice and a huge pop.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 15:59:16 GMT
You didn't lose your salvation because of it. (...) I fretted more about what I was going to say (...) I went to Jim's corner store and got myself some big pretzels, ice cream and licorice and a huge pop.
I know what you mean about fretting on what to say. Lol, that was me the day (and probably the whole week prior to that due to social anxiety) when we did confession for the first time ever, in order to do that communion ceremony to be able to partake in communion during mass. It was also the only time we did confession, I think, because our priest was an odd one and didn't want to do any other ceremonies after that, and so in our Sunday school reunions the teacher thought it was best to just focus on analysing God's Word instead, and it was all we did after that. All (or at least almost all) that we analysed was the New Testament (mostly Jesus' time on earth and the things He did), though. That's why I knew more about the New Testament than the Old Testament last year when I started reading the whole Bible. But I am thankful for it, though, it allowed me to grow up hearing the Word.
We even talked about the miracle in which Jesus healed that man's ear when He was about to be taken captive. That's why it's one of my favourite things, it always stuck with me, and in my opinion it's one of the "simpler" and least talked about miracles, yet to me it shows such compassion and mercy from the Lord. He could have let it go in the midst of all that was going on, but He didn't.
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