Recent content by MilesVitae

Thank you for all the prayers - I have not yet heard an update, but I believe she is still waiting to do further testing. Thank you again.

Hi all, I'd really appreciate any prayers for my aunt. My mom just spoke with her and she said the doctors found a mass on her pancreas. They haven't yet done all the tests to confirm, but the fear, of course, is that it's cancerous. Please pray for her, as well as for my cousins - they lost...

Is it correct to say that, since God the Father gives all which He is to the Son (except being the Father, of course), that, given God's "nature" as pure act of being, totally one, ground of all that is, the Son, while not the Father, cannot be a "separate entity?" I try to express these things...

I had a conversation about religion with a non-Christian (formerly Jehovah's Witness, now non-organized-religion spiritual) co-worker of mine today - something I rarely do. In part we discussed our notion of God, and she asked me to explain the Trinity. Frankly, I was at a loss for words. How...

Her aunt ultimately did not die at her own hand (thank God). However, she has passed away due to the cancer.

My friend's aunt (a fallen away Catholic, if I remember correctly) has terminal cancer, and my friend just found out that she is planning to end her own life this weekend. Please pray for her that she won't go through with it, and that she will be saved in any case. And please for my friend...

Please, please pray for my friend's aunt. She has terminal cancer, and my friend just found out she has pills with which she is intending to end her own life this weekend..... Please pray for her, and also for my friend and their family...

I've heard that the Ethiopian Orthodox are not permitted to eat pork. Also, I've read that in that Church, those who are married and who engage in sexual relations do not receive communion (at all, not just as a matter of pre-communion abstinence). These practices are strange to me - are they...

Hey, I would greatly appreciate prayers for a friend of a friend. She is facing an unplanned pregnancy, and is considering abortion (which my friend is attempting to convince her not to do). Please pray for her and her child. Thanks!

Hi guys, My friend mine recently told me that one of her best friends is facing an unplanned pregnancy. My friend is trying to convince her to keep her child and not to have an abortion. Please pray for this young woman and her baby, as well as the father, of course. Thanks!

I'm curious how an Eastern view would differ from the quotation in the OP in regards to civil punishment, order, and justice, etc.

It isn't a merely descriptive statement, as though the Church was saying "The findings of the newest study from the Jesuits indicate that, with the last 2,000 year of deflation, prayers and penitential acts now hold more value than those in the early Church." Rather, it's a statement of how...

Well, over all, it doesn't necessarily, like I said (although, it seems slightly less problematic than saying "this prayer will definitively remove such amount of days from purgatory," in a state of being in which "days" may not even be a meaningful qualifier, etc.) I don't think that's what...

Just a clarification since I think I've seen this referenced mistakenly a few times in discussions here (unless I'm misunderstanding you).... Regarding the emphasized above, I'm guessing you are referring to certain prayers being worth a "100 days" indulgence and the like. Sometimes people...

Okay. Given my confusion from some other things said earlier, I thought you might have been going in a different direction with that.