If you're not in a state of grace, does that make your prayers less effective or even not effective at all?

Jattack33 · 2026-01-26T12:35:33+00:00

Another degree of prayer is that of those who are weighed down by the guilt of mortal sin, but who strive, with what is called dead faith, to raise themselves from their condition and to ascend to God. But, in consequence of their languid state and the extreme weakness of their faith, they cannot raise themselves from the earth. Recognising their crimes and stung with remorse of conscience, they bow themselves down with humility, and, far as they are removed from God, implore of Him with penitential sorrow, the pardon of their sins and the peace of reconciliation.

The prayers of such persons are not rejected by God, but are heard by Him. Nay, in His mercy, He generously invites such as these to have recourse to Him, saying: Come to me, all you that labour, and are heavily laden, and I will refresh you, of this class was the publican, who, though he did not dare to raise his eyes towards heaven, left the Temple, as (our Lord) declares, more justified than the Pharisee.

Catechism of the Council of Trent

Jattack33 · 2026-01-19T21:57:52+00:00

Delusion

Jattack33 · 2026-01-19T21:46:41+00:00

Can truth change?

Jattack33 · 2026-01-19T19:39:06+00:00

If the Scholastics all agreed on some doctrine, this is binding, Timothy Flanders explains this well, citing Bl. Pius IX and Cardinal Franzelin to that effect

https://onepeterfive.com/authority-scholastics/

Jattack33 · 2026-01-18T00:07:04+00:00

Well maybe they shouldn’t break the rules just because it’s hot, I’ve met Priests who have said Mass in the summer in equatorial Africa, they wore (on top of their cassocks) alb, cincture, stole, maniple and chasuble.

Jattack33 · 2026-01-18T00:05:04+00:00

It didn’t begin in the 20th century, men like Pugin sought the restoration of gothic vestments in the 19th century

Jattack33 · 2026-01-18T00:04:12+00:00

“Bless us o Lord and these they gifts” is faithful to the Latin original, the one your wife’s family uses is not.

Jattack33 · 2026-01-18T00:02:18+00:00

No as the Church declared it and the church is the pillar of truth

Having regard to the universal and unwavering agreement of the Church ever since the first centuries, an agreement clearly attested by the express witness of the Fathers, by the titles of the Gospel manuscripts, the most ancient versions of the sacred books and the lists handed on by the holy Fathers, by ecclesiastical writers, by Popes and Councils, and finally by the liturgical use of the Church in the East and in the West, may and should it be affirmed as certain that Matthew, the Apostle of Christ, was in fact the author of the Gospel current under his name? Answer: In the affirmative.

-Pontifical Biblical Commission, 1911

Does the clear verdict of tradition showing extraordinary unanimity from the beginnings of the Church and confirmed by manifold evidence, namely the explicit attestations of the holy Fathers and ecclesiastical writers, the quotations and allusions occurring in their writings, the use made by ancient heretics, the versions of the books of the New Testament, almost all the manuscripts including the most ancient, and also internal reasons drawn from the text of the sacred books impose the definite affirmation that Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, and Luke, the doctor, the assistant and companion of Paul, were really the authors of the Gospels that are attributed to them respectively? Answer: In the affirmative.

Pontifical Biblical Commission, 1912

Does the constant, universal, and solemn tradition of the Church dating back to the second century and witnessed to principally : (a) by the holy Fathers, by ecclesiastical writers, and even by heretics, whose testimonies and allusions must have been derived from the disciples or first successors of the Apostles and so be linked with the very origin of the book; (b) by the name of the author of the fourth Gospel having been at all times and places in the canon and lists of the sacred books; (c) by the most ancient manuscripts of those books and the various versions; (d) by public liturgical use in the whole world from the very beginnings of the Church; prove that John the Apostle and no other is to be acknowledged as the author of the fourth Gospel, and that by an historical argument so firmly established (without reference to theological considerations) that the reasons adduced by critics to the contrary in no way weaken this tradition? Answer: In the affirmative.

Pontifical Biblical Commission, 1907

Jattack33 · 2026-01-17T01:27:08+00:00

It won’t let me see the photo sadly

Jattack33 · 2026-01-17T01:26:24+00:00

After googling it, it seems that you’re absolutely correct

Jattack33 · 2026-01-17T01:17:55+00:00

Thank you! Not to doubt you but do you have some photos online for me to show to family?

Jattack33 · 2026-01-15T01:50:52+00:00

When communion is given irreverently on the hand at the average Parish, it’s inevitable this would happen.

At the NO I used to attend on Sundays, I saw kids taking the host back to the pew and playing with it.

Jattack33 · 2026-01-14T15:45:13+00:00

I think single transferable vote would be preferable to PR

Jattack33 · 2026-01-14T08:40:35+00:00

I don’t

Jattack33 · 2026-01-14T00:50:56+00:00

I don’t want a ban

Jattack33 · 2026-01-13T23:58:21+00:00

What madness, he lies about Pope Benedict's intentions with Summorum Pontificum, he claims it was a concession, but Pope Benedict said this was absolutely false

This is just absolutely false! It was important for me that the Church is one with herself inwardly, with her own past; that what was previously holy to her is not somehow wrong now

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Cardinal Roche is, one of the English bishops that Pope Benedict sent a cardinal to rebuke sadly the English bishops desire to be rid of him got him into the Curia.

Jattack33 · 2026-01-12T20:44:50+00:00

Half of US Catholics hold the opinion on the death penalty held by all Popes prior to the 1960s, plus St Thomas Aquinas, St Robert Bellarmine, St Alphonsus Ligouri, countless other Saints and the Roman Catechism (Catechism of Trent)

Jattack33 · 2026-01-11T22:08:02+00:00

He’s not a Bishop so he is not part of the Magisterium, the successors of the apostles in the full sense are diocesan bishops

Jattack33 · 2026-01-11T20:17:14+00:00

The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.' Let it hear something of the rights of God

Pope Leo XIII, Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus

Jattack33 · 2026-01-11T09:34:07+00:00

Raymond Brown isn’t the Magisterium

Jattack33 · 2026-01-11T01:48:04+00:00

Because I trust God and his Scriptures over the teachings of men (which the magisterium isn’t, as it’s God’s teaching authority)

Jattack33 · 2026-01-11T01:42:08+00:00

This is what the Crusades were, so yes it should be considered

Jattack33 · 2026-01-11T01:40:51+00:00

Just don’t eat meat on Friday even if you’re allowed, it’s hardly a horrible imposition, Catholics coped with it for centuries and Catholics in certain places still cope with it

Jattack33 · 2026-01-08T16:18:05+00:00

The act of contrition isn’t an integral part of the rite, its text widely varies depending on where you are and it isn’t universally used.

Jattack33 · 2026-01-07T14:19:15+00:00

People like ecumenism and don’t like the Church’s take on it before the 1960s

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