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Recent content by Papist

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    He wouldn't hear my confession.

    This is a very difficult question. Recently I was in need of confession but my parish priest doesn't really believe in sin -- he's of the 'I'm all right, you're all right' school of thought that would turn a confession into a counselling session. My immediate thought was, "I want a *real*...
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    Apostolic succession or apostolic teaching

    Alban, your point is excellent -- regardless of the particular peculiarities of the priest or bishop in question, we still have the Liturgy.
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    Apostolic succession or apostolic teaching

    What's more important? A direct line of consecration and ordination from the Apostles, or the teaching of the faith once delivered to the Apostles? My concern with the Anglican Church is that while we have the Apostolic Succession, many of those bishops are of the 'modernist' school who...
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    PDA and Orthodoxy.

    Silly question, but what's a PDA? Psion Organisers, that kind of thing? I don't see the connection ...
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    Urgent prayers for London

    They were real bombs that didn't work properly ... thank GOD! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4705933.stm This is very, very scarey indeed.
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    prayer request

    Praying right now
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    Urgent prayers for London

    I wonder how he got into Downing St? The gates are pretty huge.
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    Urgent prayers for London

    Detonators exploding, apparently.
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    Urgent prayers for London

    I'm just listening to this on the BBC World Service. It sounds quite bizarre to me -- what are they up to? Praying ...
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    Spiritual Pride

    This is something that bothers me. I know that my spiritual growth is all about God's grace and all I can do is co-operate and repent and all that ... but ... I have noticed myself getting little glows of spiritual pride, then feeling repulsed by that. I'd almost rather be embroiled in...
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    Unity of the Universal Church

    Well said. I get into that trap too often. I needed to hear that.
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    Never on a Sunday ?

    That reminds me of the person who asked their pastor if it was OK to eat when praying. When the answer was 'no', he then asked if it was OK to pray while eating ...
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    Roman denial of Anglican Catholicity

    It forced me to look again at the pre-Roman roots of the Anglican Church.
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    Very Urgent Prayer Request

    Thank you. She's come through well, with timely intervention, heaps of antibiotics, great medical staff, and HEAPS of prayers. She's out of danger now, thank GOD!!! Thank you LORD JESUS!!!