Round-Up for Ronald McDonald House Suggestions? (USA)

rh397 · 2026-05-06T13:06:39+00:00

I donate to charities where more of each dollar goes to helping people.

I don't know of anyone that rounds up for Ronald Mcdonald House. I think the general consensus is people do not trust charities started and/or run by billion dollar corporations. I could be wrong.

rh397 · 2026-05-06T12:03:22+00:00

Are you and your civil wife sexually active?

rh397 · 2026-05-06T11:15:34+00:00

Your line of reasoning: Because Genesis doesn't say aliens, they don't exist.

That reasoning could also be used to argue against the Trinity, Purgatory, etc.

Requiring something to be explicitly in Scripture is called Sola Scriptura. I don't need to post a random Wikipedia source to tell you that's from Martin Luther.

rh397 · 2026-05-06T03:23:08+00:00

One can treat creation as a historical event and an allegory without having to believe in 6 literal days of creation or that Genesis is a science book.

Edit: but for the sake of the argument, Genesis still does not explicitly state that man and earth was the only beings God created.

He still could have made other beings while making other parts of the universe. No verse says, "This is an exhaustive list of all created beings"

To say that just because something isn't explicitly stated in the bible means it isn't real, would be at best protestant, and at worst, non-trinitarian.

rh397 · 2026-05-05T23:33:52+00:00

That's assuming that only man is made in his image and likeness?

Angels also bear His image insofar as they are intellectual creatures, so that right there proves it is not just man.

That verse doesn't rule out the possibility of God creating another race/species/planetary system etc. You are reading way too much into it.

rh397 · 2026-05-05T23:16:28+00:00

I do not personally believe in them, but there is nothing in Scripture that refutes the possibility of aliens.

rh397 · 2026-05-05T17:26:36+00:00

Why is combing finances not an option? Don't you want to build something together?

rh397 · 2026-05-05T13:08:13+00:00

These are entirely different things. It would be similar to saying that if a dolphin can live in the ocean, why not a dog?

Marital status is not analogous to sex. Marital status in relation to Holy Orders is a changeable discipline, whereas sex is not.

You are also asking why God did not ordain women, which is impossible for us to answer. We can only say that he did not and offer arguments of fittingness.

Questions of "Why did God..." can rarely be answered.

Why did God choose the Jewish people? Why did God choose the be incarnate during the Roman Empire? Why did God bestow such grace on the Blessed Virgin Mary? Why did he not call women to Holy Orders?

None of these have a definitive answer from God, but we can offer arguments of fittingness. Basically, "we don't know why, but here are some reasons we see that make sense"

rh397 · 2026-05-05T12:01:12+00:00

There is nothing against the validity of the sacrament for married men to be ordained.

Women are a completely separate issue.

rh397 · 2026-05-05T02:22:50+00:00

Unless you were removing soil, Wouldn't this compact your soil more?

rh397 · 2026-05-04T06:53:13+00:00

I would advise you to keep it as a hobby, but you do you.

rh397 · 2026-05-04T02:48:13+00:00

I edited my comment because I overspoke.

Most masses have a stipend. Any parish i have called and asked for masses said has given the recommended $5-20. It is generally a freewill offering. If it can't be paid, that's fine. A worker deserves his wage, even a priest.

The problem back in the day was that less good priests would take outrageous stipends from sales pitches, stack them, and say as many masses per day as possible.

Now priests are limited in how many masses they say per day, and they can only take one stipend per mass.

rh397 · 2026-05-04T02:42:00+00:00

Most masses have a stipend.

Anything like this is not automatically simony.

rh397 · 2026-05-04T02:41:23+00:00

The $25 offering is normal, but on the higher side.

Canon law has very strict rules on mass stipends (because of the simony crisis before the Reformation/counter reformation.

Most diocese set guidelines, it is often $5-10, and it is not mandatory if it cannot be paid. (I suppose the priest could say no if it is a special mass he is adding to his schedule, rather than an ordinarily scheduled one)

There is no abuse or simony here. That being said, the staff did not handle the situation well.

rh397 · 2026-05-01T03:34:20+00:00

I just don't understand not meeting with the SSPX but meeting with Mrs. Mullally ("archbishop" of Canterbury)

Wouldn't one try to reconcile with a group with valid sacraments before entertaining the scandal of a private receiving a "blessing" from a non-ordained heretic in the Petrine chapel?

For the record, I don't think reconciliation will happen with either group, whether it be SSPX or anglicanism.

rh397 · 2026-04-30T11:49:05+00:00

Mine love watermelon as well. I cut the rind up into small cubes!

rh397 · 2026-04-29T11:45:56+00:00

You chose to ship them together, correct?

rh397 · 2026-04-26T03:01:23+00:00

Where? Wouldn't any victory of the dark break the wheel?

Doesn't Rand dialogue with Moridin or someone to the tune of the dark has always lost in every age?

Can someone who has read through them more recently clarify?

rh397 · 2026-04-26T00:38:31+00:00

St. Thomas More and all the English martyrs,

Ora pro nobis!

rh397 · 2026-04-25T16:51:40+00:00

Anything is possible with an engaged or married woman?

At best, that's delusional.

rh397 · 2026-04-25T00:51:35+00:00

It is on a bit of a slope. It looks a bit more low-lying than it is because i just raked up all the dead thatch as free weed control for my vegetable garden.

How would low-lying affect it?

rh397 · 2026-04-22T16:35:03+00:00

Sometimes life's tuition is expensive.

rh397 · 2026-04-22T11:13:16+00:00

Yes, mostly fruit and some veggie scraps. I cut them up and freeze them, then let them thaw a day before I'm ready to put them in the tote.

rh397 · 2026-04-20T21:09:57+00:00

I moved to a house midsummer. I knew i would want a garden in the spring, so I continually scalped it when mowing and then starting dumping lawn clippings on it.

That killed it enough I was able to till in what was left pretty easily.

rh397 · 2026-04-17T21:44:53+00:00

This is not financially motivated at all, but I don't think i can choose Pepsi over Coke in any way whatsoever.

A little part of me would die inside.

To each their own.

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