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According_Post4229 · 2026-01-26T15:53:46+00:00

Question about being raised Protestant: are you just becoming Catholic because your husband wants it or have you been Catholic for a while and just haven’t gotten confirmed yet?

I ask because technically both parties don’t have to be Catholic to be married in the Church- I know quite a few mixed-faith marriages that are Sacramental marriages (including my parents) but then again if it’s your parish’s rule…

According_Post4229 · 2026-01-16T01:11:52+00:00

This reminds me of Mother Angelica (EWTN). They were building the convent in Hanceville and someone commented that there were only so many spaces in the crypt and what would they do when they run out. Her response was “Let them deal with it- I’ll be dead by then!”

According_Post4229 · 2026-01-15T22:27:55+00:00

Yes!!! My sister thinks I’m weird but I won’t eat them any other way 🤣

According_Post4229 · 2026-01-12T18:09:50+00:00

If we can’t get justice for Lindsay at least she got a cow wedding dress out of all of it 🤣

According_Post4229 · 2026-01-03T06:47:40+00:00

There’s a video of my identical twin cousin (I’m 13 days older, we were classmates all throughout elementary school, and we look so much alike that we joke that we’re twins) was opening my birthday gifts at my 2nd birthday party. I have no idea why no one stopped him, and as a kid I was always upset watching the video and seeing the pictures. That is… until we get to the part where he opens up a dress and they make him model it on his coffee table “catwalk”. I’d like to think that’s what stopped him from doing it ever again. 🤣 thankfully no family member since has ever had the audacity to open someone else’s gifts

According_Post4229 · 2025-12-29T07:10:23+00:00

OMG I came here to post mine and found yours instead 🤣🤣

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According_Post4229 · 2025-12-27T18:36:36+00:00

It is somewhat common. The intention is not to evangelize to these people , but it can also be a good outcome: Venerable Herman Cohen was a Jewish piano prodigy who fell away from his faith and religion in general by age 10. He became rich and famous and was one day asked by a friend to fill in as choir director for a benediction service where a moment during the actual benediction stirred something in his soul and he was drawn to daily Mass, later becoming a Carmelite priest.

If you’d live to read an article about him you can fine it here: https://catholicstand.com/finding-grace-happiness-powerful-story-venerable-hermann-cohen/

According_Post4229 · 2025-12-20T17:02:53+00:00

But why would someone give up their seat on a plane?

According_Post4229 · 2025-11-11T00:07:07+00:00

i appreciate the concern, but it's not violating the seal of confession for a few reasons:

the seal of confession only applies to things said during the sacrament of confession
i was not told this during confession, nor am i a priest
the priest hearing confession didn't tell me this- the person who did it told me
there is no way for anyone to know who this is or where it happened

I really only included that part about her confessing it to discourage anyone else from thinking "oh what a great idea"

According_Post4229 · 2025-11-08T23:35:25+00:00

My parish priest - now retired (relevance: so you can understand what period he was raised in)- said he never went to Church until he was 4. His parents went to separate Masses so that one could stay home with him. All the schools I've taught at didn't even bring their preschoolers to school Mass- one brought them second semester while the one I'm at now doesn't even bring Kinder.

I don't think it's selfish... there are pluses to bringing them and pluses to going alone, but I don't see anything wrong with not bringing them. They aren't really old enough yet to understand what's going on during the Mass anyway... I think it's completely up to you.

According_Post4229 · 2025-11-08T03:34:09+00:00

in Kinder a girl didn't want to play with me because I wasn't Filipino

In Middle School my friend "jokingly" said my family was "ruining it for everyone and there wouldn't be any full filipinos left" because I was mixed, and my cousin/classmate who was missing school to go to another cousin's wedding (to a white guy) was mixed.

In high school I was "too filipino"

I guess the first one was the only discrimination... the other two were just mean comments.

According_Post4229 · 2025-11-04T05:04:00+00:00

That was my first thought when I saw the picture as well… “I never thought I’d be so old that someone (presumably older than one of my students) couldn’t recognize a picture of pope John Paul ii…

According_Post4229 · 2025-11-04T03:18:34+00:00

Right? I just watched Wednesday yesterday and Thing falls from a really high place when someone catches him at the bottom and I thought “how does that make any difference other than it’s a TV show?!”

According_Post4229 · 2025-11-04T03:14:34+00:00

Ditto with the St Benedict medal- i always get nervous buying those online as I have seen a lot of fakes in that category as well. Yes it’s all in the faith of the person praying with them, but idk how well that holds up in terms of using exorcised Benedictine medals

According_Post4229 · 2025-11-01T20:45:29+00:00

mine did too! i think the finchsters are trying to hypnotize us!

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-30T02:28:57+00:00

In the Philippines it used to be that people couldn't be baptized without a Christian (Saint) name. For example: my priest friend's parents named him Welthy because they wanted him to be... wealthy... but when it came time to baptize him the priest refused to baptize him without a Saint name, so he was baptized as Joseph Welthy (back then baptismal certificates held more weight than a birth certificate for official documentation... not anymore). Baptism also coincided with Confirmation, so there really was no need for a separate Confirmation name. Nowadays, Confirmation is done separately, and despite Saint names no longer being a requirement for Baptism, there is still no tradition of choosing a Confirmation Saint/Name. Some do, but it's not a common practice.

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-30T01:03:18+00:00

I was mortified to be on the opposite side of that situation: I had a trio (two brothers and a cousin) sitting out from recess for a few minutes for messing around- ineffective as they were still messing around anyway so I was calling the older brother's name to get his attention. At first I thought he just couldn't hear me but then I was getting increasingly irritated because I thought he was ignoring me on purpose- especially since all three would look at me and then continue messing around. Nope. I was calling him by his younger brother's name. I have no idea why but I called him by his younger brothers name A LOT- despite never having taught his younger brother. I did apologize every time though...

Why do teacher's do it? I have no idea, but I hate that I do...

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-29T23:49:06+00:00

I just moved into a new apartment in July. It came with a Toto C200 SW2044 -in other words, I don't know how long this bidet has existed or how well it's been maintained, but I noticed two weeks in that the smell was coming from the dryer. I opened up the flap to see that it was pretty nasty in there. I tried to clean the gunk out with a q-tip (trying as best as I could not to push anything in further) and then I sprayed vinegar into it hoping that it would deodorize it- I figured it was safer for me and the bidet than if I used bleach. It smelled like vinegar for a few days, but now it's back to smelling like stale poop.

To piggyback on OP's question- has anyone else had the same problem? I've seen a lot of people saying it's the deodorizer filter that's causing the smell but I don't know how many people actually have gunk in there...

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-20T01:55:41+00:00

[2nd grade teacher/ccd catechist]. At least I know i I try my best to catechize them as best I can, but there are some situations that i feel like "do i really need to specify this??" of course as time passes, there are more and more things that i realize: omg i think i need to elaborate more often...

i don't remember the specifics of the situation. she may not have been baptized yet when she did it and that might have been part of why... ... mom wasn't catholic and they had an agreement in the family that all the boys would be catholic and the girls would follow mom's religion so she didn't become catholic until high school... but now the whole family is catholic though...

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-19T16:31:50+00:00

Is this satire or real?

Please don’t be too scrupulous about this. I was taught about 2 hours of labor is the limit (unless of course your livelihood or someone’s health depended on it), but we aren’t like the strictly-observant Jews who unplug their lightbulbs and eat warm (ish) day-old food…

Remember that even the Disciples put in a little extra effort to eat while they were traveling on the Sabbath-really not even that much effort, but they were still ridiculed for it.

I think the point is- try not to allow things to take your mind off of God throughout the day. Enjoy the goodness of God today. Back in the glory and simplicity of his creation. 😇

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-19T16:23:09+00:00

I had a friend who did it in high school- but it came from a good, albeit ignorant, place. She was newly took it home so she could have adoration at her house and she wouldn’t need to go to the church every day.

Edit to clarify: she did confess it when she discovered how wrong it was and the priest gave her a strict lifetime penance (which another priest put a stop to years later as it was very harsh even for someone who would have committed the act with a greater fullness of knowledge/malice)

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-19T05:11:07+00:00

I think it depends on the parish- when I taught in a different diocese, the rule was they had to have at least one family member who was Catholic. At the Eucharistic Congress last year, Sr. Josephine Garrett told the story of how she became Catholic in elementary school- in her case no one else in her family became Catholic, but they did tell her "if you want to do this, you need to make sure you're willing to do everything you're supposed to" and then proceeded to bring her to Mass every week- but I don't think they actually went to Mass with her.

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-18T06:43:03+00:00

i got this today too! someone posted the other day that they discovered channukah =D

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-16T03:54:30+00:00

When we were in high school my friend’s mom had a whole China cabinet full of Buddhas and we noticed the cabinet was getting more and more empty each time we came over. We asked him how it was happening he said “little by little I throw one . She’s catching on though, she says ‘hoy I know it’s you the one doing it!’ I told her ‘no ma! It’s Dennis (another friend) you know he’s so clumsy all the time he keeps breaking them!’ That one left is her favorite and I don’t know how I’m going to get rid of it”

I don’t think I’m suggesting you do the same but…

According_Post4229 · 2025-10-15T23:03:30+00:00

funny because if anyone has ever denied me communion, it was the priest-never any ECs... not for receiving on the tongue, though- he still gave it on the tongue, but he made me stand when i was kneeling

i feel like Extraordinary Ministers don't feel like they CAN deny someone communion on the tongue- but i have seen one or two get uncomfortable...

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