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29388. jexster - 10/27/2008 1:05:05 AM Father Geoffrey Farrow is a gay priest who publicly opposed Proposition 8 in California. He is a serious man who wrestled with faith and unfaith over the years and came back to the church, to serve it, as a pastor. This kind of man is essential for the Church's future. And yet the price of his decision to speak out for the marginalized is that he has been removed from his parish, and his health benefits end after this month. But his story is, to my mind, a sign of what Catholicism is at its best:
Farrow said he still sees the church as home, and believes his new mission is to force this issue whether he's wearing a collar or not. "They said I've caused scandal to the church," he said. "I think the real scandal is the thousands of gay and lesbian children who feel abandoned by the church of their baptism."
Continue reading "The Price Of A Conscience" » Andrew Sullivan
29389. jexster - 10/27/2008 5:21:23 PM Day 2
29390. Jenerator - 10/28/2008 3:36:02 PM This case should be interesting.
Wealthy cleric Pujiono Cahyo Widiyanto marries a 12-year-old girl in his hometown of Semarang, Central Java
The second edict, issued in 2006, bans purely religious marriages, kawin siri, as conducted by the cleric, because of the inherent disadvantages it brings. Such a marriage, however, is allowed under traditional Islamic law. 29391. jexster - 10/28/2008 4:46:59 PM Election Novena Day 3
29392. wonkers2 - 10/29/2008 5:12:17 PM Religion's downside manifested in world's largest democracy. 29393. judithathome - 10/29/2008 5:20:53 PM Well, Jen, luckily Obama is already married to an adult woman. 29394. judithathome - 10/29/2008 5:21:45 PM I had "sarcasm" after that in < > brackets...it didn't show up. Hmmmm.... 29395. jexster - 10/29/2008 6:06:01 PM Election Novena Day 4 29396. jexster - 10/30/2008 9:41:52 PM Election Novena Day 5
1 Corinthians 11
The Institution of the Lord’s Supper
23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, 24and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for* you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ 25In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Partaking of the Supper Unworthily
27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. 28Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29For all who eat and drink* without discerning the body,* eat and drink judgement against themselves 29397. Jenerator - 10/31/2008 10:07:01 PM transubstantiation 2 : the miraculous change by which according to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox dogma the eucharistic elements at their consecration become the body and blood of Christ while keeping only the appearances of bread and wine
Jexster, are you allowed to drink the wine at the Lord's Supper? 29398. jexster - 10/31/2008 10:52:38 PM Election Novena Day 6
The United States is under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Catholic Univ.
Washington DC
Where I was graduated from law school...and the late 109109 29399. Jenerator - 11/1/2008 4:10:26 PM Jexster, are you allowed to drink the wine at the Lord's Supper?
29400. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/1/2008 4:23:56 PM nd the late 109109?
Is he dead? 29401. jexster - 11/1/2008 10:20:28 PM Election Novena Day 7 29402. jexster - 11/2/2008 6:15:33 PM The Eighth Day 29403. jexster - 11/2/2008 6:18:50 PM The moran is dead to me 29404. jexster - 11/2/2008 8:24:37 PM We're still here
Religious Left Rallies for Democrats 29405. jexster - 11/3/2008 4:57:12 PM Election Novena - The Ninth Day
 29406. jexster - 11/3/2008 9:02:42 PM Sundown on Colorado fundamentalists
A Sunday visit to the megachurch that praised George W. Bush suggests that its political end of days is near.
29407. jexster - 11/3/2008 9:03:03 PM
The Power of the Election Novena!
Immaculate Heart of Mary,
help us to conquer the menace of evil,
which so easily
takes root in the hearts of the people of today,
and whose immeasurable effects
already weigh down upon our modern world
and seem to block the paths toward the future.
From famine and war, deliver us.
From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from
every kind of war, deliver us.
From sins against human life from its very beginning,
deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the
children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both
national and international, deliver us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments of God,
deliver us.
From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of
God, deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.
Accept, O Mother of Christ,
this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual
human beings,
laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all sin:
individual sin and the “sin of the world,”
sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed once more in the history of the world
the infinite saving power of the redemption:
the power of merciful love.
May it put a stop to evil.
May it transform consciences.
May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope.
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