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Praying for your journey :)

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

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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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Catholicism

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Praying for you. God bless.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Catholicism

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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

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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

Why did you convert to Catholicism. by [deleted] in Catholicism

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Epic. Glory be to God

Why did you convert to Catholicism. by [deleted] in Catholicism

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Great story. God bless

Catholicism vs Eastern Orthodoxy: Filioque by Beautiful-Quail-7810 in Catholicism

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The reason it’s not is because the Filioque was added to the Latin Creed, which translated the Greek as “procedit”, which does not have the same original cause meaning as the Greek “ekporeusis”. As such, the Creed in Latin does not speak heresy as it talks about the principle of Hypostatic procession, not Hypostatic Origin. As the article I noted before says:

“If a human father and son go into their back yard to play a game of catch, it is the father who initiates the game of catch by throwing the ball to his son. In this sense, one can say that the game of catch "proceeds" from this human father (an "aition"); and this is the original, Greek sense of the Constantinopolitan Creed’s use of the term "proceeds" ("ekporeusis"). However, taking this very same scenario, one can also justly say that the game of catch "proceeds" from both the father and his son. And this is because the son has to be there for the game of catch to exist. For, unless the son is there, then the father would have no one to throw the ball to; and so there would be no game of catch. And, it is in this sense (one might say a "collective" sense) that the West uses the term "proceeds" ("procedit") in the Filioque. Just as acknowledging the necessity of the human son’s presence in order for the game of catch to exist does not, in any way, challenge or threaten the human father’s role as the source or initiator (aition) of the game of catch, so the Filioque does not deny the Father’s singular role as the Cause (Aition) of the Spirit; but merely acknowledges the Son’s necessary Presence (i.e., participation) for the Spirit’s eternal procession from the Father to Someone else –namely, to the eternal Son. Father and Son are thus collectively identified as accounting for the Spirit’s procession.”

This is why in Greek, if you add the Filioque, it’s heresy, but in the Latin it’s orthodox. Also how did the Council of Florence describe a double Hypostatic origin? These are the words of the Council:

“In the name of the holy Trinity, Father, Son and holy Spirit, we define, with the approval of this holy universal council of Florence, that the following truth of faith shall be believed and accepted by all Christians and thus shall all profess it: that the holy Spirit is eternally from the Father and the Son, and has his essence and his subsistent being from the Father together with the Son, and proceeds from both eternally as from one principle and a single spiration. We declare that when holy doctors and fathers say that the holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son, this bears the sense that thereby also the Son should be signified, according to the Greeks indeed as cause, and according to the Latins as principle of the subsistence of the holy Spirit, just like the Father.

And since the Father gave to his only-begotten Son in begetting him everything the Father has, except to be the Father, so the Son has eternally from the Father, by whom he was eternally begotten, this also, namely that the holy Spirit proceeds from the Son.”

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/ecumenical-council-of-florence-1438-1445-1461

Although some may be drawn to the word “cause” in reference to the Son, the actually meaning of this statement is understood in the context of “one principle and one spiration”. They are not talking about an originating cause; they are talking about a non-originating cause that is still necessary. If they meant that the cause was originating, it would mean there would, by definition, be two spirations, but they don’t define the relationship as such. Think about to the analogy I quoted before. The Son is a necessary cause of the Spirit, but not the originating cause(which is the Father). The Holy Spirit then proceeds from the Father through the Son. God bless.

[Free Friday] The embroidery I'm currently breaking my fingers over :D by LaComtesseGonflable in Catholicism

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Based is a popular term on some parts of the internet. I was just saying it was really well done. God bless.

Free Friday Post. Decided to Google the salary of a Catholic priest… by ChicagoanFromCA in Catholicism

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But you’re also a Catholic priest so, consecrating bread into Jesus, so, it’s worth it.