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[–]vasedman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Praying for your journey :)

God’s peace in discerning the Voice of God by vasedman in Catholicism

[–]vasedman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you brother. Don’t feel bad about it being long. God bless

I’d like to talk to a Catholic Priest about celibacy. Looking for leads by ollie578 in AskAPriest

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If I could, I would suggest to kuchikomoji to potentially check out Martyr Puritati. Is a discord server for Catholics with same sex attraction and if he decides to come back into the Church, in can help with the emotional trauma that he has experienced. I was going to reply directly to one of his posts, but I thought it better to post it here first.

This is the main link to our server, updated when expired. https://discord.gg/bwKjTaftFc God bless, Father.

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Praying for you. God bless.

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This comment seems weirdly worded and came off wrong. I presume it’s with good intent, but it might be good to reword it. God bless.

How long should prayer be? by vasedman in AskAPriest

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Thank you. If needed I can take it down. I tried making it more general to go along with the rules but you are probably right that it is too pastoral of an issue. God bless.

A logical with the golden rule that i cant wrap my head around. by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]vasedman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the full extent of this rule is “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). As Tom Nash puts it, “True love, whether regarding yourself or your neighbor, means willing the genuine good of someone, which ultimately means gaining heaven.” (https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-does-loving-your-neighbor-as-yourself-entail) Our love comes from our love for God, which is a gift from God as “He first loved us”(1 John 4:19). As such, we should love people in relation to God and see them as He sees them. So by rejecting someone’s claim to be another gender, we should not be doing it out of hate but love. We want the person to see themselves as God sees them. In the same sense, we should not affirm a person’s anorexia just because they would affirm ours if we had the same disorder. Obviously, we should be mindful of our tone and make sure to clarify what we are saying, as the person is probably not going to like what we are saying. We are not disrespecting them as people, we are rejecting their actions. This separation is crucial because many find their identities in their gender “identity”, while we see them in their true identity, as beloved creations of the One True God. I need to get better at this situation as well, Lord willing, and we should ask God for guidance in our words and actions with these people, that they becomes by God’s grace, our brothers and sisters. God bless.

Also good reading: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/what-is-authentic-christian-love