Recent content by EllenMoran

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Aw! That is so sweet.

Hi ZooMommy :) I'm a many-generation Catholic with Irish family on both sides. We are in close touch with my Dad's side of the family - my grandmother's first cousins & their descendants - and spend ~2wks almost every year in Ireland. I do not have the skills of an seanachai, though I love to...

I would recommend learning ONE method thoroughly and using that. I like the objectivity of STM with the temps and live where CCL is headquartered, so I have a lot of access to live classes & teachers. STM drawbacks - sometimes the mucus & temp signs don't line up, which can be frustrating. I...

Speaking as an NFP-user married to an agnostic, I'd put it this way. We didn't start using NFP in order to "help our relationship grow," but we both far prefer our relationship while using NFP to that while we used condoms or the Pill. That's obviously not a religious thing, as my husband thinks...

My brother is graduating from Notre Dame this week. His faith has grown immensely at the University. The "cutesy" nickname is ridiculous and doing nothing to help build support for your position. (And yes, benedicta, he sure as heck *is* attempting to insult the University with that...

Right - phone lines don't reach to heaven, so we have to use prayer to ask her to pray for us. It's an older usage of the term "pray" - the way Shakespeare would say "I pray thee..." - it means "to ask." It is definitely NOT worship. Intercessory prayer (asking those in heaven to pray for...

Prayers for you all! You give me hope for our toddler to travel well when we go to Ireland in April.

TLF may have a different answer, but no, there's no tape measure of closeness or not to Christianity. (Sorry, I'm giggling a bit since the idea of scaling made me picture some monk running around going "OK, Muslims, -4.5, Buddhists -6 3/8, Pastafarians, -120" etc.) This has always read to me...

Aw, good for him! Ellen Siobhan is doing that thing where she stands unsupported for a couple of seconds, then realizes what she's doing & plops down on her butt. :) I'm sure the walking is just a few weeks away - probably right in time for our vacation.

But, as has been pointed out to you, we haven't. And since the threads pretty much tend to be everyone agreeing about how horrible these acts were, and that the bishops shouldn't have covered things up, they don't stay on the front page as long as threads where people are debating. Further...

And all of that, I agree with. But the kind of negative reactions BA is getting still need to happen, because how it is said does matter, particularly on these topics. I read your comment as saying that the method of delivering the message didn't matter, which I disagree with. If I...

Honestly, no. If the intent is to actually bring people to Christ, to help free them from sin, then we HAVE to be mindful of how we speak. I understand perfectly well the frustration, but re: issues such as these the way in which we speak about them becomes even more important, and should not...

Praying for you still. :hug:

We had no problem with Target for our registry - but maybe we had the gift receipts we needed, I can't remember. They wouldn't let you return with just your ID? Last time I returned something, they let me do that and said you can do so twice per year, otherwise you have to have a receipt. I...