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  1. JimR-OCDS

    Seminaries Are Doing More to Open Doors for Older Vocations

    I knew a man who was a deacon and attended Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary, to become a priest. He served in a couple of parishes in my dioceses and eventually died from cancer. He was only in his late 50's when he died. He was a good man and a good priest, no two ways about it. May he...
  2. JimR-OCDS

    Tattoos & the Catholic Church

    I have a tattoo that I got when I was in the Marines. It's a bulldog with a DI hat on and the letters USMC below it. The thing is that all tattoos fade and turn dark and are more difficult to distinguish the older you get. People argue that the ink used is better today, but that isn't why they...
  3. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    What Is the Church’s Teaching on Yoga? https://www.franciscanmedia.org/ask-a-franciscan/what-is-the-churchs-teaching-on-yoga/ Follow what the Catholic Church teaches.
  4. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    Yoga doesn't say we are focusing on God and want to come to enlightenment, unless that is your intention. You can have the same intention in anything you do, including lifting weights or doing calisthenics, It very possible if you're doing exorcises of any type, you're including yoga, but you...
  5. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    Thats one of the differences that I saw. Today, yin and yang are seen as opposites and applied to many things, i.e. female, make black, white etc. The author of the book never went down that path and said Taoism got polluted over the centuries. I don't know, but I believe that the essence of...
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    DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER?

    In my 73 years as a Catholic, I've only knew one priest who had some questionable behavior and was once accused of sexual abuse by a person who was suing him, the order he belong to and the Church. I don't know the end result and I believe things may have been settled out of court, which usually...
  7. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    To me the chi is just electrical impulses within the body that a person who is trained can move to various parts of the body. My years ago, I read a book on Taoism, written in 1922, long before the new age movement polluted it, I don't recall the name of the author, and I took the book out of...
  8. JimR-OCDS

    FEMA missed major flood risk at Christian Camp Mystic, analysis claims to show

    NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and the other major networks are just looking the place blame on the Trump administration. They'll keep running with this blame game until the next headline news event.
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    Thoughts of centering prayer

    Yes, I read Fr John Dreher's article back on CAF. It turned out to be borderline fraudulent and not at all what Centering Prayer is. For a time, Centering Prayer was banned at CAF, but after one of the administrators at CAF actually went on a Centering Prayer retreat and he learned what it...
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    Thoughts of centering prayer

    Centering Prayer was originally called Quiet Prayer, or Prayer of Quiet. It is in the 1917 version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church; https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608b.htm The name was changed after Fr Keating and Fr Pennington gave a retreat to religious. The text of "The Living...
  11. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    Taking it too far would mean going into the spirituality of Hinduism or some other spirituality other than Christianity. I remember Fr Z get upset when people who do Yoga, did the 14 stations using Yoga. I saw what they were doing and thought it was great. He was upset as he usually is.
  12. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    And yet the Catholic Church teaches that those through no fault of their own, do not know Christ, can be saved. I don't know of Scripture that says when Jesus descended into the place of the dead he called out to those who were there. Where did you get this?
  13. JimR-OCDS

    Thoughts of centering prayer

    I read The Way of the Pilgrim years ago, and through it I learned the "Jesus Prayer," which I often use as a sacred word in Centering Prayer, and is commonly used by Orthodox. Reading the book led me to purchase the three volume set of the Philokalia. I have not read the three volumes as other...
  14. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    Years ago, a nine year old child ended up doing a school project where he proved Reiki is bogus. His mother was a registered nurse and helped with the experiment. I don't remember all the details but he had so-called reiki experts come in and from a blind curtain before them, they stuck their...
  15. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    The Tao, which means "the way," existed long before Christ revealed that He is the way and the truth. Did all the people who practiced Taoism hundreds of years before they had knowledge of Christ, end up in Hell?
  16. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    First off, Reiki and Yoga are not the same. Reiki is New Age, and most likely not true as has been proven over the years. Yoga on the other hand is ancient and existed before Christ. For us Americans, we do mostly "gym yoga," which is exorcise, nothing more. Intention of whom you worship makes...
  17. JimR-OCDS

    What is Church teaching on yoga and reiki?

    Not even close! Peter words were trying to dissuade Jesus from going to Jerusalem to die. Doing Yoga exorcise doesn't deny Jesus's death and resurrection. Only an ill formed fundamentalist would believe it to be satanic. :D
  18. JimR-OCDS

    Arrests made after tire spikes found in LA sabotage attempt against Border Patrol

    They won't dial it back. They'll continue to blame everyone else except themselves even if their rhetoric causes a civil war.
  19. JimR-OCDS

    The Bible, Age of the Earth and Evolution

    What does it matter? If the earth is billions of years old, so what, and how does that effect your faith? If you take the Old Testament literally, you'll come into trouble. It isn't meant to be a textbook on history, but rather the relationship between God and man. I watched Dr Jordon...
  20. JimR-OCDS

    Sashka Company

    So, you could wear it because it's pretty. No different than wearing a ribbon in your hair. This what God made beautiful things for. To appreciate their beauty and not turn them into a thing of worship.