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Mockingbird0 · 2025-11-25T17:23:59-0600

I voted yes, but I would allow the substitution of corn tortillas for wheaten bread and brandy for wine in special circumstances.

lucypevensie · 2025-11-25T17:21:43-0600

Eating early sounds extra brilliant.

BRLLI

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:20:55-0600

linux.poet said:
The world's population has grown by 3 billion in 32 years?!

I learn something new every day.

Same here! I suspect the population will rise steadily, and eventually go down. I cannot be sure. Just my opinion.

CLEEB · 2025-11-25T17:18:55-0600

soldier of light said:
It's like I'm an outcast and misfit.

So am I. But we are not alone, GOD and Christ are with us, they have made their home with us, tabernacle in our temporary dwelling of flesh. There are also others like us scattered to the four winds but extremely few in number. All who live GODLY in Christ Jesus suffer persecution. You seem to handle it well.

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:18:29-0600

I need to wear mine more often.

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:17:19-0600

Anyone else surprised? Anyone? Bueller?

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:15:43-0600

Lost4words said:
Bigfoot is real...

Do SEVERAL of them exist? Surely the one "found" in the 60s is long deceased by now...

fhansen · 2025-11-25T17:14:59-0600

CLEEB said:
When Adam and Eve gained the knowledge of good and evil then they knew they were naked and obviously knew that this was not good because they attempted to cover themselves.

It's not, IMO, that they knew that nakedness was wrong; it's that, with their loss of innocence they thought it was wrong. They thought they were wrong, in their essence, as God made them. They now knew something foreign: they knew shame. And we've never gotten over this and will not get over it in this fallen world; shame of self is part of the exile from God that we all experience in this world. JMO, tho.

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:12:14-0600

ChubbyCherub said:
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Personally, I'm a very open book and have no fear of judgment because I know that we are all sinners and I do not judge others for their sin but try to instruct them in the ways of Christ.

That being said, I am reading that many are embarrassed or ashamed so this once popular action is not very popular, anymore?

I'm not sure it was ever popular in Protestant churches but I haven't lived since the beginning of when they were formed so am not an authority on this point.

Furthermore, is this why Catholics confess to priests?

Thanks, as always, for helping me! I know I always have lots of questions but you all are very good to me with your assistance.

God bless.

(posting in fellowship)

A little known fact.

Private confession isn't just in the Catholic Church.

The Orthodox Church, all other Eastern Churches (Oriental, Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East etc), Lutheran, Anglican/Episcopalian also offer private confession to the priest or minister followed by absolution, as well.

I will not comment further because I am NOT non-denominational, I am Catholic.

Peace

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:08:35-0600

Thanks for sharing!

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:07:57-0600

johnnypapa said:
Newman Guide adds Catholic elementary, secondary, graduate school sections

www.catholicworldreport.com

Thanks for sharing!

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:04:36-0600

Lord have mercy!

RileyG · 2025-11-25T17:03:25-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Texas A&M committee rules professor's firing over gender identity lesson unjustified
The internal committee ruled that the university didn't follow proper procedures and didn't prove there was good cause to fire Melissa McCoul, who was a senior lecturer in the English department with over a decade of teaching experience.

[The professor's lawyer believes it will have go to litigation, as the school may not listen to its own committee.]

Good! Professors should be allowed to have academic freedom.

BelieveItOarKnot · 2025-11-25T17:02:22-0600

FireDragon76 said:
Hate implies preference more than it does the kind of negative affective emotions and judgements we associate with the word hate in the modern world. Jesus isn't addressing what we think of today as self-loathing and self-harm. He's just saying there's a hierarchy of goods, with our life being situated within a set of values

The word is hate. No sense trying to water it down.

I think we can all agree that God hates evil and we all have evil in our hearts. Not hard to hate ourselves if we recognize the presence of the tempter tempting us within.

Yep. Hate

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:59:37-0600

That's pretty awful. I wonder if he has some form of dementia?

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:59:03-0600

seeking.IAM said:
The evening news and any other talking head telling me what I should think and believe.

I feel like I don't watch cable anymore.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-25T16:57:42-0600

wing2000 said:
...and President Trump will secure the great oil fields of Venezuela for the American people. Drill, baby, drill!

The oil will be throwing garlands at the feet of American troops as liberators.

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:56:30-0600

MotoToTheMax said:
Have they checked all the local churches? Seems they tend to offer safe harbor for these kind of people.

Many predators become ministers because it's all about ACCESS. I don't even want to think about what is going through their minds. It gives the chills. ugh

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:55:11-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Update time.

Mississippi Republican Takes Plea Deal After Destroying Satanic Statue in Iowa
Michael Cassidy, a former congressional and legislative candidate, was set for trial June 3, but his attorney filed a guilty plea on his behalf to an aggravated misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal mischief, the Des Moines Register reported. [felony charges were dropped as part of the deal. He gets 2 years probation and pays restitution.]

Since that 2023 event, Iowa has refused the Satanic Temple's applications to have a holiday event at the Capitol.

State again denies Satanic Temple's request to hold event at Iowa Capitol building
Matt Kezhaya, general counsel for The Satanic Temple, said the government is not alowed to deny pubic services or benefits to people or religous groups because officials disagree with their beliefs.

"Once state officials open up the Capitol to public events, as it has for displays and events around the holidays, they can't legally exclude The Satanic Temple because of its disfavored or minority viewpoint," he said in a statement.

In June, the ACLU of Iowa filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of The Satanic Temple Iowa alleging state officials illegally discriminated against the group based on its members’ religion when they denied the group’s event request in 2024.

[And now they've denied it again for 2025.]

Vandalism is vanadism. I understand why he did it, from a retro-perspective*, but he has no right to destroy someone's property. That's so uncalled for.

*In Christianity, Satan is evil. NOT that I'm advocating for destroying other people's property. EVER.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-25T16:53:33-0600

Trump's trying to get more rigs.

Trump faces rare rift with Florida Republicans over offshore drilling plan

“The new maps released today by @SecretaryBurgum and @Interior outlining potential new offshore oil drilling sites in the Gulf of America are HIGHLY concerning—and we will be engaging directly with the department on this issue,” Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) wrote in a post on the social platform X.

“Our Administration supports the 2020 Presidential Memorandum [when Trump 1.0 blocked drilling in Florida] and urges the Department of Interior to reconsider and to conform to the 2020 Trump Administration policy,” Molly Best, a spokesperson for DeSantis, said in a statement to The Hill.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s “updated reserve estimate of 7.04 billion barrels of oil equivalent shows the Central and Western areas will remain prolific for decades, but sustaining the Gulf’s long-term competitiveness means evaluating opportunities in the Gulf of America Program Area B as well,” Erik Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, said in a statement to The Hill, referring to all of the drilling areas proposed by the Trump administration.

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:52:18-0600

No longer surprising since this happens everywhere. ugh.

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:50:02-0600

Lybrah said:
Well, everyone sings and there’s no music. I don’t like to sing, so I listen ir sing in my head. Then it’s like a RC where we get crackers and little wine things, and take “the Eucharist.” Then we sit through readings and the preacher comes on. I find the sermons to be pretty good but sometimes they have a Spanish guy there and they take turns where the preacher says a sentence and the Spanish guy translates.

Ahhh, I see.

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:48:08-0600

Bob Crowley said:
Catholic Church - Christ the King.

Same here!

RileyG · 2025-11-25T16:46:34-0600

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen

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