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Recent content by ChesterKhan

  1. ChesterKhan

    Help with a former Catholic.

    I have a heart-shaped pillow. It's the Sacred Heart of Jesus. "One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus..." John 13:23 God love you. :)
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    If a priest says the sacraments are charismatic and you don't need the renewal?

    We need the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit unites both the Sacraments and charisms, as the Catechism notes, and we ought to look out for our charisms. But this historically does not necessarily mean only the Charismatic Renewal as such, but rather any gift of God, particularly the spiritual...
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    To end the Schism?

    I'm not so worried. The Church started small and fractured (remember St. Paul's letter to Corinth?). In some places it disappeared almost completely. And then made a resurgence. Spain, Greece (it used to be under the Ottomans?), the Soviet Union. These are three examples. Society will not last...
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    People say Charismatic Catholics are Jesus-Freaks?

    :wave: I can think of two off the bat: the Eucharist, and the authority of Tradition. I could never be a Protestant, because the Church, even while the Apostles were alive, has always taught the Catholic teaching about those two things, and not the Protestant conception. Your personal...
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    If a priest says the sacraments are charismatic and you don't need the renewal?

    He sounds like an anti-Charismatic. Such things, I'm afraid, are rampant. Nevertheless, he is correct in a sense. You receive God Himself when you receive the Sacraments. You don't technically need the Charismatic Renewal. The Renewal is just a devotion, a take-it-or-leave-it part of the...
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    Help with a former Catholic.

    Hullo again! :) I was particularly replying to you, not the OP. And when I was speaking of relationships and such, I was speaking in reference to God, not the OP and his friend. Sorry if there was any confusion. :sorry: His friend has the right to know God in His Fullness. And since you...
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    The Sign of the Cross - the body's reflection thereof

    Ha ha ha... :D that's not what I meant at all. A prayer or reflection can profit a person in far more ways than a physical or psychological effect. The chief purpose behind my post was to offer yet another way we can come closer to God - just as every thought about God and every prayer to Him...
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    The Sign of the Cross - the body's reflection thereof

    And Protestants have crosses in their churches, meeting halls, on their Bibles... You know what? Maybe we are doing something bad. :P Oh? The way you compare the sign of the cross to the occult led me to believe otherwise. But if it's just a matter of personal taste... So if you read...
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    The Sign of the Cross - the body's reflection thereof

    And so what? Mormons use the Bible, too. Does that make you a Mormon? Does that make me a Mormon? I suspect you have a preacher who expounds the meaning of Scripture. I don't think there's a religion on the Earth that has not done that. Does that mean they are all Bible-believing Christians...
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    Help with a former Catholic.

    Hullo. We don't believe there are myriads of "Christian" "gods", either. That's just silly. But you have the right to know the truth about a person with whom you are in a relation. And it's not as good a relationship as it could be if you believe lies about a person, or more likely did not...
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    People say Charismatic Catholics are Jesus-Freaks?

    I would not say the differences are minor. There are differences that are insurmountable, unless either the 33,000 forms of Protestantism or the Catholic Church cease to exist entirely. That being said, the Catholic Church and Catholics faithful to her love our separated brethren. And thought...
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    The Sign of the Cross - the body's reflection thereof

    OK. I would consider avoiding doing these things to be a different sort of piety - in keeping with the "what your Father in Heaven sees you do in secret" sort of piety. I don't think you can really avoid piety. Just do what brings you closer to God. Thank you. There was a reason I put it...
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    The Sign of the Cross - the body's reflection thereof

    Again, that wasn't my intention, though I appreciate your defence of God. I was more working from, "what is my head, my heart, and my shoulders, in relation to God?". How am I supposed to understand myself, and my prayers, in relation to the Person who made my body, and made my prayers?
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    I cannot be a conservative Christian.

    Well, let's hope she's not spiritually catatonic. ;)