tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post8303936799700733693..comments2023-06-18T05:01:03.708-05:00Comments on Popin' Ain't Easy: Spiritual discernment? Or just restlessness?Throwbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-27647781606597952010-11-05T16:55:11.720-05:002010-11-05T16:55:11.720-05:00If that was it, I'm not sure they'll find ...If that was it, I'm not sure they'll find it any different in Orthodoxy. They don't seem to be any more pleased with their bishops right now than we are.Throwbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-39180794119840849422010-11-05T11:57:04.013-05:002010-11-05T11:57:04.013-05:00As far as I can tell, they left for restlessness. ...As far as I can tell, they left for restlessness. They would probably put it as a dissatisfaction with our bishops. I don't know exactly, since they didn't talk to me about it at all. I would have been unsympathetic, which is probably why they didn't talk to me.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773904547340912042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-70838891921006853002010-11-04T20:30:31.451-05:002010-11-04T20:30:31.451-05:00Wow. That stinks. Do you mind sharing the rational...Wow. That stinks. Do you mind sharing the rationale? The Catholics I know who have gone that route did so for free reign in contraceptive matters.Throwbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-86581308381806671992010-11-04T10:15:36.118-05:002010-11-04T10:15:36.118-05:00Atticus, I understand completely.
My friends lef...Atticus, I understand completely. <br /><br />My friends left for another church, namely the Orthodox Church.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773904547340912042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-39240809369422458492010-11-01T21:24:45.754-05:002010-11-01T21:24:45.754-05:00I don't believe in the concept of "ordina...I don't believe in the concept of "ordinary believer." Allow me to illustrate my point quickly by juxtaposing two quotes:<br /><br />"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."<br />- Philo of Alexandria<br /><br />"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process."<br />- Phillips Brooks <br /><br />If we live in "occupied territory," as C.S. Lewis described the world, then a Church search, as my Evangelical friends call it, becomes an exercise in pride for the Catholic. (I am assuming your friends have left your parish for other parishes.) The task at hand is so dangerious, so exciting, and so unique every day that it seems silly if not prideful to be concerned about the particular guerilla cell, i.e., parish, we frequent. <br /><br />I have seen this phenomenon in my parish where two friends refuse to worship at our parish because it is, at the same time, too liberal or too conservative to these two fellows of opposing views. Both try to convince me of the rectitude of their choices and get angry when I tell them "the Mass is the Mass." Oddly enough, they take this as a slight on the faith when I mean it in the very opposite way, i.e., the immensity of the Consecration pales all incidental issues.<br /><br />Oh well, I trust I make myself obscure, as someone famous once said, but I just got home and am a bit tired.Atticushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03488587748660769822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-63266090684955848362010-11-01T20:33:51.436-05:002010-11-01T20:33:51.436-05:00We grow in the desert.
As C-3PO said, "We w...We grow in the desert. <br /><br />As C-3PO said, "We were made to suffer; it's our lot in life."<br /><br />Doesn't fly very well with modernity, though.Throwbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-55124012315315671482010-11-01T14:06:46.065-05:002010-11-01T14:06:46.065-05:00is that an acedia post i feel coming?is that an acedia post i feel coming?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com