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Not even the experts know the origin of my name even though it's at least a few hundred years old.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 23:00 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 02:49 |
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Valiantman did you just out yourself as a highlander
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 23:02 |
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There aren't any saints with my name despite it being all Irish and stuff. My middle name is Roman and there aren't any there either. I can corner this market if I can quick figure out how to be super holy.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 23:38 |
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HopperUK posted:There aren't any saints with my name despite it being all Irish and stuff. My middle name is Roman and there aren't any there either. I can corner this market if I can quick figure out how to be super holy.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 23:45 |
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HEY GAL posted:like, literally Roman? that's Romanus, patron saint of music Nah, I mean, of Roman origin. Lavinia.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 00:04 |
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As someone who is named after a pope I would like to say that remarried women and men who live together more uxurio while not having had their previous marriages annulled are, in some circumstances, fit to sit at the Eucharistic table with their brothers and sisters in Christ and partake in Holy Communion *mic drop* Watch Burke start a fuckin' war.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 00:06 |
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Thirteen Orphans posted:There is no (recognized) Saint of my name.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 00:25 |
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100% Slavic name with a meaning. Surname is the result of an archangel's name being jumbled through alphabets and languages. Translated, it would sound like a bad fanfic OC.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 00:31 |
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my dad posted:Translated, it would sound like a bad fanfic OC. My full name means "Who is like God? The leader of the people, from the countryside." I was supposed to grow up to be a dictator, I think. e: A hick dictator. A hicktator, if you will.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 00:35 |
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That position is currently filled
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 00:40 |
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Thirteen Orphans posted:There is no (recognized) Saint of my name. One of my classmates in elementary school was named Shannon, and her parents' pastor objected that there's no St. Shannon. Her grandmother said, "then she'll be the first," which, naturally, got repeated every time a teacher in religion class asked us if we knew what our names meant. Obviously this means you two need to be the first goons to be canonized. No pressure.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 02:00 |
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We named our newest babby after a pagan goddess, that's probably breaking a rule somewhere.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 02:32 |
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System Metternich posted:
There are also consecrated hermits; I used to really enjoy (and learn from) Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, and once got a very kind reply to a question I'd sent her.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 02:44 |
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A man can become a consecrated virgin too It only costs
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 04:46 |
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:My full name means "Who is like God? The leader of the people, from the countryside." You should become a Catholic, fall in love with liberation theology and then marry it to Maoism somehow. Me, my name might be derived from a Roman god of war (at least, that's what some book I read in elementary school claimed), but I chose my middle name to be of the patron saint of journalists. The problem with saint naming is that those names sound really strange in every day Lithuanian. As for peeps discovering my real name, well, I don't hide that much.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 07:37 |
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Finland's (and consequently Europe's) biggest Christian youth festival is at full steam again. Yesterday's evening mass featured a large youth orchestra playing and singing Baba Yetu during the passing of collection e: The priest specifically thanked them for it before the formal send-off of the congregation at the end. Valiantman fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Nov 19, 2016 |
# ? Nov 19, 2016 12:36 |
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HEY GAL posted:stop posting things that lead to your real names in this thread people, tias i am looking at you I really don't worry too much about being doxxed, I keep an axe in the house at all times. HEY GAL posted:goon project: everyone itt do something cool, but keep it secret This. Cooldoing is cool, bragging about rarely is.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 15:33 |
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Tias posted:This. Cooldoing is cool, bragging about rarely is.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 15:39 |
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HEY GAL posted:if you worship jesus as well as your gods, keep in mind that this is exactly what he wants you to do: help others and don't brag about it. I know. I do love to brag, though
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 15:58 |
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Bragging <3
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 16:04 |
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Tias posted:This. Cooldoing is cool, bragging about rarely is. I dunno. I think it's okay to talk about what you're doing so that people know opportunities are out there. Like at my last church we had an ecumenical ministry program (there were a bunch of local Protestant churches participating in it and collecting offerings for it) that created transitional housing for homeless people in the community. We even got a couple grants from the city after we could demonstrate that transitional housing, getting homeless people back to work and getting them on Medicaid, providing rehab expensive or trips to AA/NA meetings if they needed it to get them sober etc. actually saved money for the community as a whole in the long run due to the decreased need to law enforcement involvement (jail-time and court time) and write-offs from the local hospitals due to ER visits from indigent homeless patients. I mean it's not really bragging but it was a cool thing that we were doing for the community and I enjoyed talking about it, and talking about it at various churches is how we actually got donations to do what we were doing anyway.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 17:03 |
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I popped into the cathedral just now and the choir were practicing for evensong and it was extraordinarily beautiful. I thought of you lot in this thread. My slow meander back to faith has honestly been assisted by the discourse here and I just wanted to say thank you. So thanks, posters. Thosters.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 17:16 |
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The Phlegmatist posted:COOL HOMELESS SUPPORT PROJECT This would be kind of tricky for me because I am the kind of person who loves talking about things I'm excited about, and if I was involved in something like that I would want to talk about it because it is a really cool project. And while I wouldn't be talking about it to talk myself up as a superior person or anything, people might interpret it that way. I guess that's kind of a different issue, but it's an interesting one: anyone know of scripture or other teachings about "other people interpreting you as being boastful"? Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Nov 19, 2016 |
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The Phlegmatist posted:I dunno. I think it's okay to talk about what you're doing so that people know opportunities are out there. Like at my last church we had an ecumenical ministry program (there were a bunch of local Protestant churches participating in it and collecting offerings for it) that created transitional housing for homeless people in the community. We even got a couple grants from the city after we could demonstrate that transitional housing, getting homeless people back to work and getting them on Medicaid, providing rehab expensive or trips to AA/NA meetings if they needed it to get them sober etc. actually saved money for the community as a whole in the long run due to the decreased need to law enforcement involvement (jail-time and court time) and write-offs from the local hospitals due to ER visits from indigent homeless patients. Oh no doubt. When I mean I love bragging, I'm talking about talking myself up and blowing up my share of projects, nothing that will actually benefit people.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 18:33 |
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i think there's a difference between being happy about doing something, or happy at being good at it, and bragging. As I see it, the fault is trying to pretend you're more moral than you are, or like the pharisee say "it's a good thing I'm not less good, like those other people". content: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/pope-francis-decries-epidemic-of-animosity-toward-minorities
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 21:41 |
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The Phlegmatist posted:it was a cool thing that we were doing for the community and I enjoyed talking about it This is one of the things I find difficult about Christianity, and I sort of blogposted about it a while ago, have a translation: quote:In my religious education as a kid one question kept coming up: Doing good selflessly is good. But what if you do good while mainly thinking of your own benefit? tl;dr: Feeling good about doing good is better than doing it "selflessly". That said I really respect all people who work in charity, I sort of try to get into it every now and then and I never find a place to fit in, and then I give up and just throw some euro-bucks at a charitable organization. pidan fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Nov 20, 2016 |
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HEY GAL posted:i think there's a difference between being happy about doing something, or happy at being good at it, and bragging. As I see it, the fault is trying to pretend you're more moral than you are, or like the pharisee say "it's a good thing I'm not less good, like those other people". Did I mention I love judging others, especially in matters of morality? I perfectly understand what I must aspire to, and I will say that on days where I remember to pray not to judge others, I don't. I mean, don't get me wrong, I know my behaviour is wrong, but no matter how hard I try I do worse than the people around me - what has begun to matter to me is that I try, and that every time I do it to others, I make amends. I can't really excuse it, either, I just think an abnormally lovely growing up has left me fuller of bile than other people - and I believe it can go away with time and effort, so there's no point in being too hard on myself about it.
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 09:33 |
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fully admitting I didn't read the thread so maybe this has been asked before but is there a TL;DR on how the hell you reconcile the old testament cranky god with new testament hippy jesus or is it all ~a metaphor~ or what have you
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 10:15 |
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It's pretty normal for someone to mellow out once they settle down and have a kid, you know
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 12:07 |
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Scionix posted:fully admitting I didn't read the thread so maybe this has been asked before but is there a TL;DR on how the hell you reconcile the old testament cranky god with new testament hippy jesus or is it all ~a metaphor~ or what have you God didn't change, the culture did. The perception of God and how he's described is what is different between the two testaments.
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 14:21 |
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Also, if you take the new testament at face value, the old laws made by the angry god is no longer in effect. He might still be angry, though vv
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 18:08 |
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just fyi implying that the new testament is happy and nice and the old testament is angry and mean is antisemitic! the old testament god is a god of liberation, of hospitality, of justice. jews do not worship an angry and mean god. and that's really the bridge between testaments; the bible is full of examples where those who are the underclass, those who are oppressed, are exalted by god. whether it's the eunuch who helped rebuild the temple (i think, as a former catholic i have to admit i never read the bible much so i could be getting that detail wrong) or jesus talking about the least of these, god seeks justice and compassion in all things. what we see as "mean" and "angry" is simply a showing of god's sense of justice though the whole genocide thing and a lot of stories in the bible are also culturally there to help promote national cohesion and colonialism so it kinda complicates things like exodus but i would still say that justice is important in the old testament. tikkun olam didn't come from nowhere, after all
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Mo Tzu posted:just fyi implying that the new testament is happy and nice and the old testament is angry and mean is antisemitic! the old testament god is a god of liberation, of hospitality, of justice. jews do not worship an angry and mean god. and that's really the bridge between testaments; the bible is full of examples where those who are the underclass, those who are oppressed, are exalted by god. whether it's the eunuch who helped rebuild the temple (i think, as a former catholic i have to admit i never read the bible much so i could be getting that detail wrong) or jesus talking about the least of these, god seeks justice and compassion in all things. what we see as "mean" and "angry" is simply a showing of god's sense of justice I don't think implying that the old testament is angry and mean is antisemitic. I mean there is the entire fact the thing is a kind of racial-supremacy narrative that, *thank God*, is swept away by the decision to bind the Gentiles to the Jews like the branch of a wild olive tree is joined to a cultivated one. Then again, if looking at the (biblical) actions of Jews regarding non-Jews in the places they're in charge of leaves me with a sour taste, then maybe I'm antisemitic! I'd also say that there's a big disconnect between Justice and Law in the old testament. The old Testament is a book concerned with laws. These laws aren't terribly just, in and of themselves, and seem (forgive me my audacity here) arbitrary. I'd argue that the New testament, with the Golden Rule, fosters far more Justice than the previous legalistic approach.
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 00:06 |
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Ceciltron posted:I don't think implying that the old testament is angry and mean is antisemitic. I mean there is the entire fact the thing is a kind of racial-supremacy narrative that, *thank God*, is swept away by the decision to bind the Gentiles to the Jews like the branch of a wild olive tree is joined to a cultivated one. Then again, if looking at the (biblical) actions of Jews regarding non-Jews in the places they're in charge of leaves me with a sour taste, then maybe I'm antisemitic! You should read the Talmud, friend.
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 00:23 |
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Deteriorata posted:God didn't change, the culture did. The perception of God and how he's described is what is different between the two testaments. Indeed, every contributor to the Bible lived in a specific time and place, their full context lost. To the believer, it has always been one God.
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 10:24 |
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As I understand it, it's not possible to discuss the morality of abortion in this thread, but what do you make of the pope's comments today? What effect do you think it will have in practice?quote:Pope Francis has declared that abortion, which remains a "grave sin" in the eyes of the Catholic Church, can be forgiven by ordinary priests for the foreseeable future — instead of requiring the intervention of a bishop. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/21/502852325/pope-francis-grants-all-priests-the-ability-to-forgive-abortions
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 14:56 |
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Blurred posted:As I understand it, it's not possible to discuss the morality of abortion in this thread, but what do you make of the pope's comments today? What effect do you think it will have in practice? Eh, makes sense. Priests can independently forgive most sins including murder, so why not this one? And as the article notes, in the US and many other countries most bishops had already delegated this power to their priests, so in practice it doesn't make a difference to most people in this thread.
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 15:04 |
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What in the world do you think "we can't talk about abortion" means? It means we can't talk about abortion, anything about it.
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pidan posted:Eh, makes sense. Priests can independently forgive most sins including murder, so why not this one? They've always been able to grant absolution; this just makes priests worldwide permanently able to lift the automatic latae sententiae excommunication, which previously bishops would have to give the priests in the diocese the faculty to do that. Failing that you'd have to get a bishop to lift it. Excommunicated Catholics still have access to the (and only the) Sacrament of Reconciliation, so it's entirely possible to remain in a state of grace while excommunicated. Between this and Pope Francis allowing remarried couples (in some circumstances) to receive the Eucharist, I think His Holiness just really wants people to be able to participate in the sacramental life of the church with as few impediments as possible.
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Blurred posted:As I understand it, it's not possible to discuss the morality of abortion in this thread, but what do you make of the pope's comments today? What effect do you think it will have in practice? Faculties for the SSPX extended indefinitely
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