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What church?
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#21
RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 12:39 pm



Presbyterian.
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#22
RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 5:33 pm (This post was last modified: April 24, 2013 at 5:35 pm by Ben Davis.)
(April 24, 2013 at 11:33 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Hey, I got a question for the Catholics:

If your church is named after one saint or person or whatever or another, does that change the values of that church or the way the priest 'preaches' (if they do?)
Hi Summer, it's two-fold:

1. Different prelatures can have different focus or different missions. For example, the prelature of St John the Baptist's angle is public display of piety & evangelism whilst the Benedictine prelature's angle is private austerity & self-sacrifice. I won't pretend to understand all of them because it's pretty confusing and the differences between some prelatures seem very slight (if any). There are bishops in the Vatican whose jobs are to understand and maintain the prelatures, though.
2. By having pan-diocesian groups, it makes it possible to remain part of your catholic 'community' thus providing social continuity whilst allowing mobility. For example, my mother's local, baptismal & confirmational church where she grew up in Liverpool was a catholic church of St John the Baptist; when my family needed to relocate (first to London then to Hastings), they picked locations with St John the Baptist churches. This continuity would also exist, to a great extent, if they had moved to a different country.
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#23
RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Unfortunately still in a Catholic church (St. Dominic)
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RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 5:40 pm
(April 24, 2013 at 9:29 am)Godschild Wrote: Question for those who were christians and then left the belief.
What denominational church did you belong to at the time?
This is to satisfy my curiosity.

How many denominations did you belong to before you found the 'right one'?

I understand it's a bit off topic, but it would satisfy my curiosity Wink
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#25
RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Ben, that's exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you.
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#26
RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Catholic
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#27
RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Lutheran
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RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 7:19 pm
(April 24, 2013 at 12:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Catholic... and no, Summer. They all suck no matter which "saint" they are named for.

That's why they've been in the news a lot.
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RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 7:58 pm (This post was last modified: April 24, 2013 at 8:00 pm by Godscreated.)
(April 24, 2013 at 5:40 pm)Napoléon Wrote:
(April 24, 2013 at 9:29 am)Godschild Wrote: Question for those who were christians and then left the belief.
What denominational church did you belong to at the time?
This is to satisfy my curiosity.

How many denominations did you belong to before you found the 'right one'?

I understand it's a bit off topic, but it would satisfy my curiosity Wink

Always been a Southern Baptist.
I thank all who have answered and would ask for responses from others, again thanks to all of you.
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RE: What church?
April 24, 2013 at 8:04 pm
How lucky for you, to have been born into a true faith™...lol.
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