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Post by StellaMaris on Jul 19, 2021 22:04:57 GMT
Bishop Barron has devised a small booklet free to download, for parishes and catholic communities to regroup and recommence the business of Catholicism. www.wordonfire.org/covid/ |
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Post by inoculationdeaths on Jul 20, 2021 1:39:50 GMT
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Post by inoculationdeaths on Jul 20, 2021 1:43:32 GMT
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Post by Beryllos on Jul 20, 2021 1:45:13 GMT
StellaMaris, thanks for posting that booklet. I downloaded it and will read it soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2021 1:51:52 GMT
It's easy, what to do next. Take the darn masks off, stop worrying about who is vaccinated and who isn't, fill the pews and worship God the way He deserves to be worshipped. Stop putting fear of illness and bodily death above the very real spiritual death happening as a result of the lockdowns and restrictions on the faith.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2021 1:53:52 GMT
Sts Teresa of Calcutta and Damien of Molokai did not worry about catching an illness when they went to Mass and communed with those around them. They did not isolate and wait for a vaccination before going hands-on to minister to those sick and dying in their care. That's the difference. They had heroic faith. Many Catholics nowadays, do not. Too many Catholics saw the shutting down of Churches and the restriction of Sacraments as a "prudent" decision that was saving lives, completely ignorant of the cost of losing souls. I have only pity for such weak faith.
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Post by po18guy on Aug 1, 2021 21:18:00 GMT
As I am certain the good Bishop mentions, Catholicism never stopped. It changed, but certainly did not stop. Every priest, every bishop celebrated mass daily. For our part, we prayed daily, right? Rosaries, various chaplets and other devotions, scripture reading, witnessing our faith to others, sinning and asking forgiveness. So, the institutional aspect of our faith is getting back in gear, but the practice of our faith never stopped. Consider the early Korean Catholics - from whom we can learn foundational truths:
We are called to wait with patience (to suffer without complaint), faith, hope and love. |
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Post by StellaMaris on Aug 1, 2021 21:57:18 GMT
"The first Christians in Korea were baptized by invading Japanese soldiers in the late 1500s. The faith slowly grew, and then in 1777, several Christian texts made their way to Korea and converted some scholars. When a missionary priest visited the country more than a decade later, he found 4,000 Christians living without the sacraments—they had never seen a priest before." True love patiently waits. That is actually a wonderful testament! To me it shows that Christianity not only makes sense but feels true, to put it in blatant layman's terms. It is in our nature to want to not just know who made us but to meet Him now on our earthly pilgrimage. Can you imagine when the missionary Priest finally brought the Eucharist to them! I would have loved to have been there for that joyous day. |
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Post by toddy on Aug 2, 2021 8:13:04 GMT
There is no such "after corona virus", because the international borders are allowed to open for travel unless you show the government how to blockade the international ports from the virus on behalf of over 600,000 deaths. Many nuns who cared for the elders at nursing/rehab centers passed away. The states shut down the churches, because the outbreaks happened at some churches seriously while medical science did not know what to do with Covid effectively yet. The illness spreaded too fast and many churches could offer online masses, but unprepared to deliver Eucharists by drive in method except a few or parking lot mass. Why? God banned to carry shoes inside the holy places according to the Bible. Shoes can carry some 100,000 germs including covid. So Mask on, or parking lot mass are the most protection or filtering out the church air, or use steam cleaners to disinfect shoes before entering the holy place. Mask off is the trick until your head, outskirts and shoes are free from virus which can survive on the surfaces for 28+ days after zero cases are reported.
In the meanwhile, after Israel and Canada, Cape Cod doctors just announced 74% new infections are vaccinated people. Vaccines protect from new variant is a big lie.
Just offer some ideas. No mistake for grave matter. |
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Post by katy777 on Aug 2, 2021 18:14:15 GMT
Yes this is a sensitive subject to me. My mother died as covid began, Easter.
No priest would say mass in the Novus Ordo or go to the funeral site.
Then we saw a Traditional priest come to someone else's funeral to say prayers.
So now I attend traditional mass.
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Post by tth1 on Aug 23, 2021 14:44:48 GMT
David Rathnick is only renowned for being a conspiracy theorist. If you believe in him there is a very simple test that can be done. Fortunately for your benefit it would be immoral and, almost certainly, illegal to do the test. You can choose which of his hypotheses you would test. Would you prefer to be innoculated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)? I believe the sensible option would be to refuse both. In the future, it would be advisable for you to source your scientific information from accredited, recognised and peer-reviewed journals, which is where scientists with anything credible to say publish their work.
It would seem to me to be very sensible to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 infection. It also seems to me to be a charitable thing to do as the more of us who are vaccinated the vulnerable, including those who are unable, for clincial reasons, to be vaccinated, are better protected. I would be mortified if a vulnerable person died from COVID-19 and I had been their source of infection.
Yes, viruses do exist and cause may diseases from the relatively mild common cold to highly deadly rabies.
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