Protestants, you jelly?

[Targaryen]

Are you guys and girls hitting on the Church because you're jealous of the fact we have coffee and donuts after the Mass?

Donuts?

Usually I have a cookie with coffee after Eucharist.

I wonder if tim horton's could supply our parish after Eucharist.

 

[Yab Yum]

Perhaps a trifle sacrilegious but oh well...

 

[Yab Yum]

Edible iconoclasm: You destroy the heretical religious symbolism by eating it?

 

[Yab Yum]

I think I'd better stop now ...

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Excellent! A donut rosary.....brings to mind this great thread:

http://www.christianforums.com/t7494806-101/

Repeating Rosary, should the beads be changed?

Originally Posted by Frogster

Besides the fact that the ratio is out of whack, something like 50 prayers to Mary, while the Father gets very little, we also have this.

Matt 6:7 And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

So this thread is a different angle, not really about the usual praying to Mary idea, but isn't the repitition contrary to what Jesus said?

Isn't it in and of itself very uncreative?

Isn't God worth a little effort and a fresh new idea, and new things each day?

Oooops..forgot...the Rosary is not really about him, because the priorities are established in the ratio, where the beads are, so is the heart. Why not reverse the ratio?
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Originally Posted by Deut 5:29

The rosary is the epittome of vain repetition and is pagan to it's core.
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Originally Posted by bugkiller

In answer to your title question I would asnwer, NO! I think it needs to be replaced and not for another type of the same thing.

bugkiller

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[Gregory Thompson]

so this is about donut and coffee communion or jello (with extra pig hooves in the gelatin) for communion .

 

[Mama Kidogo]

We have a full spread of Greek, Russian, Georgian or Arab food nearly every Sunday.

Come on Sunday!

 

[Albion]

Come on Sunday!

Absolutely! When it comes to the "coffee hour," there's nothing to compare with an Orthodox church. I put that in quotes since it's so inadequate to describe the spread. BTW, if the Roman Catholics (per the OP) have any at all, it must be a recent development.

 

[katherine2001]

In the EO, we have much more substantial food after liturgy. We haven't eaten since midnight (and usually we don't get communion until almost 11-12 hours later). We are usually starving by then, so we have a lot more food than just donuts. We go through lots of coffee too since we haven't had any of that either.

 

[Mama Kidogo]

In the EO, we have much more substantial food after liturgy. We haven't eaten since midnight (and usually we don't get communion until almost 11-12 hours later). We are usually starving by then, so we have a lot more food than just donuts. We go through lots of coffee too since we haven't had any of that either.

It can be a bit rough when you get up very early to prepare something really good to add to the spread.

 

[katherine2001]

It can be a bit rough when you get up very early to prepare something really good to add to the spread.

I agree! We have one family that cooks ham when they have coffee hour. You can smell it all through liturgy--it smells so good and you are hungry! But is every bit worth the wait when you get to receive Christ's Body and Blood.

 

[daydreamergurl15]

I get nourishment from the bread and the fruit of the vine and get to feast on meat. So, no, I'm pretty satisfied

 

[Journey.In.Grace]

If it's food, then it will always be great!

 

[faroukfarouk]

If it's food, then it will always be great!

And the Word of God is always good spiritual food to feed on!