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Natural family planning
#31
RE: Natural family planning
(November 26, 2022 at 11:12 am)Ahriman Wrote:
(November 26, 2022 at 11:09 am)Jehanne Wrote: Most Catholics don't believe in any of it; they have other motives for participating.

"other motives" that make them think going to Mass every Sunday is an intelligent thing to do? Those "other motives" had better be fucking stellar.

Most Catholics do not fulfill their "Sunday obligation" (under pain of mortal sin) or other Holy Days of Obligation by attending Mass. Why is that?
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#32
RE: Natural family planning
(November 26, 2022 at 11:51 am)Jehanne Wrote:
(November 26, 2022 at 11:12 am)Ahriman Wrote: "other motives" that make them think going to Mass every Sunday is an intelligent thing to do? Those "other motives" had better be fucking stellar.

Most Catholics do not fulfill their "Sunday obligation" (under pain of mortal sin) or other Holy Days of Obligation by attending Mass.  Why is that?

I don't know why they wouldn't. Catholics should do Catholic things, otherwise don't call yourself a Catholic.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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#33
RE: Natural family planning
(November 26, 2022 at 11:51 am)Jehanne Wrote:
(November 26, 2022 at 11:12 am)Ahriman Wrote: "other motives" that make them think going to Mass every Sunday is an intelligent thing to do? Those "other motives" had better be fucking stellar.

Most Catholics do not fulfill their "Sunday obligation" (under pain of mortal sin) or other Holy Days of Obligation by attending Mass.  Why is that?

Eating a hot dog on Lenten Fridays is a mortal sin.  https://jimmyakin.com/2004/04/meat_on_lenten_.html

Quote:"Thus one must substantially observe the law of abstinence on such days, and the obligation to do so is a grave one, meaning that it satisfies the condition of grave matter required for mortal sin. If one knowingly and deliberately fails in this obligation then one has committed mortal sin."

But now Pope Francis says atheists go to heaven, so all those roasting hot-dog eaters are down there going, "What the hell, man?"
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#34
RE: Natural family planning
Well there is no Heaven or Hell in the first place.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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#35
RE: Natural family planning
(November 26, 2022 at 11:51 am)Jehanne Wrote:
(November 26, 2022 at 11:12 am)Ahriman Wrote: "other motives" that make them think going to Mass every Sunday is an intelligent thing to do? Those "other motives" had better be fucking stellar.

Most Catholics do not fulfill their "Sunday obligation" (under pain of mortal sin) or other Holy Days of Obligation by attending Mass.  Why is that?

(Bold mine)

Because of confession. If you miss one Mass or a dozen, you can always be shriven.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#36
RE: Natural family planning
(November 26, 2022 at 12:12 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:
(November 26, 2022 at 11:51 am)Jehanne Wrote: Most Catholics do not fulfill their "Sunday obligation" (under pain of mortal sin) or other Holy Days of Obligation by attending Mass.  Why is that?

Eating a hot dog on Lenten Fridays is a mortal sin.  https://jimmyakin.com/2004/04/meat_on_lenten_.html

Quote:"Thus one must substantially observe the law of abstinence on such days, and the obligation to do so is a grave one, meaning that it satisfies the condition of grave matter required for mortal sin. If one knowingly and deliberately fails in this obligation then one has committed mortal sin."

But now Pope Francis says atheists go to heaven, so all those roasting hot-dog eaters are down there going, "What the hell, man?"

But even a mortal sin doesn’t necessarily condemn one to hell. See my previous post.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#37
RE: Natural family planning
(November 26, 2022 at 1:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(November 26, 2022 at 11:51 am)Jehanne Wrote: Most Catholics do not fulfill their "Sunday obligation" (under pain of mortal sin) or other Holy Days of Obligation by attending Mass.  Why is that?

(Bold mine)

Because of confession. If you miss one Mass or a dozen, you can always be shriven.

Boru

Most Catholics do not go to Confession, though.
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#38
RE: Natural family planning
To work around the Sunday obligation...I remember when it became okay to attend mass on Saturday night. Then go out to eat, get drunk, and sleep in on Sunday.

This was after they got rid of the Latin mass and added the absolutely disgusting Folk Mass. Of course, that was at 10 so there was a chance to sleep off the effects of the night before going to hear a bunch of crappy musicians play crappy music.

I actually preferred the pipe organ and choir to that stuff.

I also remember the no meat on Fridays years. We tended to go for tuna casserole (as fish was okay) or mac and cheese.

It was curious to me that these most sacrosanct of Catholic rules got changed around.
  
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#39
RE: Natural family planning
(November 26, 2022 at 2:44 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: To work around the Sunday obligation...I remember when it became okay to attend mass on Saturday night.  Then go out to eat, get drunk, and sleep in on Sunday.

This was after they got rid of the Latin mass and added the absolutely disgusting Folk Mass.  Of course, that was at 10 so there was a chance to sleep off the effects of the night before going to hear a bunch of crappy musicians play crappy music.

I actually preferred the pipe organ and choir to that stuff.

I also remember the no meat on Fridays years.  We tended to go for tuna casserole (as fish was okay) or mac and cheese.

It was curious to me that these most sacrosanct of Catholic rules got changed around.

Yeah, almost as if the whole thing is complete horse shit or something.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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#40
RE: Natural family planning
The communial penance services will also substitute for sacramental confession; just show-up, sit there and all your sins are forgiven! The 10-second (or, perhaps, 5) "confessions" afterwards always amazed me, when folks, a minority, would come forward, utter a few words and the priest would perform absolution.

I remember when I was really "into it" and went to a traditional Catholic priest, a complete stranger, and "laid it on him". He listened for my 15 or 20 minutes of ranting all of my sins before pronouncing the traditional formula, "Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti". It was, for me, a moment of transcendence and it must be admitted that religious faith can bring complete strangers together to do odd things.
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