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I dared to laugh there and found myself severely beaten about the head and buttocks. No one came to my aid until I was already unconscious so I assume it was just to dispose of what they thought was my dead body. (Nevermind my warning. I see that a moderator has closed the thead saving any laughing infidel who just happened to wander in from the same dire situation I`m now recovering from) <the above has been a comical dramatization based on actual events> |
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Godless Dave --
I am responding your question of the closed thread on "elsewhere" -- "What did St. Therese do?" She loved -- she realized in her life, as a Carmelite nun, she could do nothing great, so she did her simple chores and manual labor with great love. As she lay dying, she said, "I have said all ... all is consummated ... only love counts." Regardless of whether we do anything great, we can all love. She has made millions of lives better through her autobiography, The Story of a Soul. Gemma Therese |
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To deny the existence of Purgatory...
To deny the existence of Purgatory (:Is of course a HERESY!) would deprive a whole lot of leech-clerics from collecting BIG BUCKS for "offering" Masses for the repose of the souls of the dear Departed. You know, that the way Catholics now/still express their sympathy/condolences to one another in the deaths of Catholics is to "send a Mass card": the process is to go around to the Rectory, pay some money ("the stipend") to have a Mass "said" for the dead person; get a "Mass card" to witness to this purchase, and give or send the card to the mourners. There are Monastic orders who make a nice income "selling" Masses for the dead. The Franciscan Friars minors do this, I know: they sent me a batch of the cards recently = pay as you use them. An infallible moneymaker! Ask some Dear Old Lady to explain it to you.
It doesn't QUITE look the same as purchasing "indulgences" =paying money to priests to get Purgatory time shortened: but the dirty truth is that that's what Catholics think they're doing. Maybe I'll ask some of my near & dear why they do that? =??? Pay some money to show their respects = "what Catholics do."**************** ************** Thomas Aquinas's big UNFINISHED book, the Summa theologiae, is a bunch of jolly fun, often useful to put you to sleep on a long night. Some of his (bland) assertions are hilarious! = plain BULLSHIT. Most of it is about human fictions totally-alien from anything humankind CAN know or investigate. ThAq's INITIAL premise, that "God" exists, is of course JUNK. And everything else he has to say is derived from it. There is a second work, like unto it, called the Summa contra Gentiles, also good fun for a rainy week at the shore.... |
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People who read her autobiography learn her "little way of spiritual childhood" -- complete trust in God, and the very concept that most of us are not called to greatness, only love. Gemma Therese |
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Godless Dave,
As I said, you probably need an appreciation of the purpose of cloistered, contemplative communities to appreciate the greatness of St. Therese of Lisieux. Contemplative life Gemma Therese |
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OK I just read it. Here are some select quotes and my thoughts. All quotes from Contemplative Life at NewAdvent.org.
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So St. Gemma Therese is a role model because she felt love for others but did nothing about it and denied herself the pleasures and comforts of human life for no good reason. |
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