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I'm sure god will give them a new proclamation saying "Jesus fuck, guys! Quit being so honest about your gay-hating! Yer gonna have to learn to fucking lie about that like you lie about your history if yer gonna convert these soft young children to submit unto me!" and they'll be able to continue fucking up the BSA. Er, I mean, being involved in the BSA.
They may always regard you as a Catholic, but that will only matter if you decide to start attending Mass again. If you lose contact with the Church, it's not like they are going to hunt you down and drag your sorry ass back and deposit you in the Nave. Whatever parish that you reside in won't even know that you are Catholic unless you contact them and tell them so. At least that's how it has gone with me. I only hear from the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses, as do we all. The RCC, at least in the US, puts it entirely on the parishioner to keep up the contact.
This is true...mostly. They got a little shitty with me when my ex-husband, whose second wife is a Catholic, needed to prove that he was eligible to marry her in church. While HE was the one who had requested the "audit," the diocese responded to ME - addressing me by my maiden name, no less - rather nastily informing me that they didn't consider that I had ever been married, and scolding me for not following doctrine.I wanted to respond in kind, but didn't, primarily because my aunt is a nun in the same diocese and is probably buddies with the nun who wrote to me, and I didn't want to hear about my "rudeness" from my mom.
Past tense Biel. one good thing the Reformation did was force them to stop letting the rich buy their way to heaven. Indulgences are gifts these days for special acts of piety. And putting extra in the collection plate isn't one of the acts that they count.
We got a monthly supply at school. There were amounts listed with a checkbox to select what you put in. If I remember right, our kid-size ones went from a dime to a dollar. I don't remember my parents using one though. Different parishes, different customs.
That explains my differing memory. I was Catholic during the 60s. Vatican II was the big deal then. Ushers with collection baskets and no risk if you were an altar boy.
I'm sure god will give them a new proclamation saying "Jesus fuck, guys! Quit being so honest about your gay-hating! Yer gonna have to learn to fucking lie about that like you lie about your history if yer gonna convert these soft young children to submit unto me!" and they'll be able to continue fucking up the BSA. Er, I mean, being involved in the BSA.
That's why my mom handed out the quarters - so we all could "contribute."
Isn't selling spiritual graces the great sin of Simony?
Religion is evil, folks. How many times do I have to say it?
They may always regard you as a Catholic, but that will only matter if you decide to start attending Mass again. If you lose contact with the Church, it's not like they are going to hunt you down and drag your sorry ass back and deposit you in the Nave. Whatever parish that you reside in won't even know that you are Catholic unless you contact them and tell them so. At least that's how it has gone with me. I only hear from the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses, as do we all. The RCC, at least in the US, puts it entirely on the parishioner to keep up the contact.
This is true...mostly. They got a little shitty with me when my ex-husband, whose second wife is a Catholic, needed to prove that he was eligible to marry her in church. While HE was the one who had requested the "audit," the diocese responded to ME - addressing me by my maiden name, no less - rather nastily informing me that they didn't consider that I had ever been married, and scolding me for not following doctrine.I wanted to respond in kind, but didn't, primarily because my aunt is a nun in the same diocese and is probably buddies with the nun who wrote to me, and I didn't want to hear about my "rudeness" from my mom.
I think you should win interwebs for correct and in context use of simony
Creflo Dollar and his jet beg to differ
These are the kind of tips I'm looking for.
I love you.
I live to serve
https://youtu.be/6YEarMyIAzs
"...we are not becoming a church..." Thank God for that.
Past tense Biel. one good thing the Reformation did was force them to stop letting the rich buy their way to heaven. Indulgences are gifts these days for special acts of piety. And putting extra in the collection plate isn't one of the acts that they count.
We got a monthly supply at school. There were amounts listed with a checkbox to select what you put in. If I remember right, our kid-size ones went from a dime to a dollar. I don't remember my parents using one though. Different parishes, different customs.
That explains my differing memory. I was Catholic during the 60s. Vatican II was the big deal then. Ushers with collection baskets and no risk if you were an altar boy.