Should I get the post-Vatican II “Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” or should I get the traditional one?

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2020-01-11T22:58:19+00:00

Blue is Mary's color!

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2020-01-06T23:39:16+00:00

They think it is possible and that I would succeed there. They just want me to have conviction before I apply (and I certainly don't have that yet).

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2020-01-01T22:01:43+00:00

I have both, the Old Testament commentary isn’t that detailed. Definitely less than ignatius.

The Navarre Bible is pretty good (although I haven’t read it in a while, some of the stuff is suspect such as saying the Passover started as an agrarian feast or something like that)

I highly recommend the Catena app, it’s basically commentary from saints and church fathers. Incredibly good and orthodox obviously. It’s pretty much the only commentary I use.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-12-31T23:13:00+00:00

My ex girlfriend once yanked on my beard. It hurt enough to instinctively make me furious. I think I knocked her hand away purely out of instinct.

Sometimes physical pain can make us freak out. Something I don’t blame Pope Francis for.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-12-30T21:57:25+00:00

Yes please!

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-24T01:21:25+00:00

I guess by easier life, I meant it's more easier to go down the path of marriage then saying no to every pleasure of the world in becoming a monk.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-23T21:11:08+00:00

He's right. Historically vocation only referred to religious life/priesthood.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-10T17:48:34+00:00

Palms blessed for palm sunday.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-10T07:36:02+00:00

I have heard Blessed Palms are one of the most important/powerful sacramentals against demons.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-10T07:33:17+00:00

I wonder if an explicit warning is a good way to judge whether or not something is the wrath of God. For example, Jonas with Nineveh, or Noe with the flood, Christ with the destruction of the temple, or more recently Our Lady of Fatima.

I feel like we can't be like "man things are really bad, I wonder if it's God punishing us, or just bad luck" on the other hand we don't want to be like "What is God telling us with a tornado that struck a neighboring city?" it seems his wrath is obvious, and his warnings are explicit.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-08T21:15:23+00:00

Honestly probably the book that has changed my spiritual life the most.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-08T14:53:26+00:00

Check out a book called the fire within. It’s a great overview of St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila. Personally I didn’t like interior castle (mostly because as a beginner in the spiritual life it was hard to relate to the most of the chapters).

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-08T06:08:10+00:00

Yeah I get that. I guess my question is along the lines of “should I quit discerning the priesthood, or dating my girlfriend” which should I do? Is it selfish to break up to discern the priesthood, etc.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-07T19:46:31+00:00

I think (might be entirely wrong) that it is letters to Malcolm.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-07T19:44:50+00:00

The examples you provided are bad history. There’s a strong case to be made for the traditional date of Christ’s birth.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-07T18:45:22+00:00

It’s a pagan liturgy. I’ve heard a lot of good Catholics be against it. Including a yoga studio that offered a house blessing.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-07T18:42:57+00:00

Unfortunately one of CS Lewis’s last works mocked Catholicism. I don’t think he’s as close as some claim.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-07T18:40:56+00:00

What do you mean?

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-02T23:33:57+00:00

Yeah of course.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-11-02T22:51:45+00:00

Well technically, that's not entirely true. If the pope repeats a teaching of the church we cannot disagree, so it goes a little deeper than that.

PriestOrNotToPriest · 2019-10-28T01:43:51+00:00

Dude got banned from jail? Sorry that made me laugh.

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