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RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:23:12-0600

Tom D said:
I believe it's a symbol of Our Lady, who was a descendant of people with original sin, but was free from origin sin herself.

Interesting. Never heard of that before.

I know the Ladybug is associated with Our Lady.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-12-02T00:23:10-0600

A2SG said:
100% of people have mental health issues.

Nope. Show me a person who desires to mutilate themselves by removing healthy and perfectly functional body parts and I will show you someone with mental health issues. After all, are not the left that keep telling us that gender is in the mind and sex is between the legs?

PloverWing · 2025-12-02T00:22:56-0600

Important medical note: You need to drink water (or another liquid) to survive. Don't try to go 40 days without water.

If you're planning to go 40 days without food, I recommend checking with your physician to make sure it will be okay for you.

Depending on what you have in mind, there are lesser fasts that you can observe for long periods. For example, the Orthodox abstain from meat, eggs, and dairy during Lent. This is sustainable for a multi-week period without risking health.

What is your goal for this time of fasting? Are you looking to withdraw from everyday chores and pleasures so you can concentrate more fully on prayer? Something else?

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:21:48-0600

Lady Bug said:
I don't know if it's the ketchup being an abomination, but the hotdog

I eat my French fries with BBQ sauce or 1000 island dressing!

NEVER ketchup! Ketchup is an abomination

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:20:58-0600

Michie said:
Look. Ketchup is divinely revealed as a basic food group. I get it. I get it, in fact, by the demijohn.

But this has to stop. Something must be done. I cannot be silent. If not I, who? If not now, when? If not here, where? If not… those other things, then…. I digress.

Divine Revelation provides all things necessary for salvation and human flourishing. Human flourishing clearly includes French fries. And French fries, by natural law, demand ketchup, not mayo, not vinegar, ketchup. So, because whatever is necessary for the proper use of God-given foods is part of God’s providential plan and since ketchup is necessary for the proper use of French fries, which are clearly God-given, therefore, ketchup is part of God’s providential plan. This fact rises to the level of at least sententia certiora: a teaching “more certain” because all right-thinking people accept it without complaint. HENCE, ketchup is not merely a condiment, it is a basic food group, divinely intended, doctrinally secure, and pastorally indispensable.

Except when hot dogs are involved.

What God ordains for a specific purpose may not be distorted for an unholy purpose. But God ordained ketchup for French fries (and related potato-based delights… okay hamburgers, scrambled eggs sometimes, grilled cheese sandwiches perhaps), not for hot dogs.

Therefore, using ketchup on hot dogs is a distortion of divine purpose.

Furthermore, Tradition must be considered.

Continued below.

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If His Holiness speaks infallibly hot dogs must be eaten Chicago style from the chair, then I will believe it!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:19:47-0600

Michie said:
I too feel that ketchup is an abomination on a hotdog. We have a Pope that does not know how to eat a hotdog!

I like my hotdogs plain. I do NOT like ketchup nor mustard.

I will eat chicken nuggets/chicken strips with hot mustard or honey mustard from McDonald's, Chickfila or Wendy's, though.

Other than that, Ketchup nor Mustard will NEVER pass my lips

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:18:25-0600

May God bless him abundantly! :prayer:

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:16:40-0600

PloverWing said:
A small note: In the chart in the previous post, the first column should read "Protestant Bible", not "Christian's Bible". (Noting, of course, that some Protestants find value in the deuterocanonical books, but "Protestant" will do as a brief heading that fits in a chart.)

The larger point is correct: the various branches of Christianity have not been able to agree on exactly which books belong in the Old Testament portion of the canon.

The points alluded to in the last paragraphs -- reconciling apparent contradictions, whether the text is inerrant, and how to apply Scripture to our modern context -- are separate from the question of what belongs in the canon.

Oh! Yes!

Agreed. Some Protestants, notably Anglicans/Episcopalians and some Lutherans, revere the deuterocanonical books even though they don't consider them inspired Scripture. It's interesting to note that in the Book of Common Prayer (Anglican/Episcopalian), readings from the deuterocanonical books are often included in their offices.

*Generally, Protestant Bible refers to the 66 books of their canon.

I'm just a theological nerd!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:14:22-0600

FAITH-IN-HIM said:
Your argument goes like this: I read the Book of Job, and the Holy Spirit gives me the understanding that it is accurate; you read the same book, and the Holy Spirit guides you to believe it's inaccurate. Someone else reads the Book of Isaiah, and the Holy Spirit leads them to think Isaiah was never a prophet, while another person reads the book and feels guided by the Holy Spirit to believe what the prophet Isaiah wrote about the birth of Jesus is true. Is this how the Holy Spirit guides each of us?

Which is why there are literally thousands upon thousands of different Christian denominations in the world today. People have different interpretations and traditions. No two people think alike.

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:13:03-0600

A2SG said:
I think the point is that pronoun use has nothing to do with biology.

-- A2SG, no one checks genitalia before using a pronoun....I hope....

This isn't about genitalia.

Generally, men and women (boys and girls) look very much different. One can often notice by looking at the face through facial structure. Men have more masculine, muscular features, while women have softer features. Men have more prominent Adam's apples, women do not. Not to mention hands, voice, shoulders.

Sometimes, NOT ALWAYS, it's a dead giveaway.

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:11:30-0600

Stopped_lurking said:
Pronouns don't shift biology.

No (legal) medical transition is started without the input of a doctor.

Well? I'm not sure how to feel and have no further comment.

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:11:10-0600

boughtwithaprice said:
I have found YouTube videos that appear real but are stating questionable things. Like bishop Barren giving a talk saying priests can be married and the celibacy rule is lifted
If we rely on AI or YouTube videos alone, we can be deceived. I always check the Vatican news to see what the magisterium is really teaching

I would say AI is dangerous in that it can be used to deceive by looking so offical yet be so wrong sometimes.

It's happening all the time! It's VERY concerning!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:10:50-0600

AvilaSurfer said:
AI Pope Leo is all over TikTok

That's terrifying!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:10:16-0600

Wyoming is a beautiful state! Haven't visited in roughly 16+ years!

Thanks for posting!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:09:41-0600

May God bless us with many more vocations to the Eastern Catholic Church in the priesthood, religious life, and laity! :prayer:

Perpetual Student · 2025-12-02T00:09:23-0600

essentialsaltes said:
I didn't do it, but it was legal!

Nithavela said:
And if I had done it, they would have deserved it.

The two next stages:
"Why do you love criminals?"
"Quiet, piggy".

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:08:48-0600

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

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:08:27-0600

May the Good Lord bless them with many more more priestly vocations!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:07:56-0600

Lady Bug said:
Hi, I'm just perplexed about how I come across in real life to some people. It was the final day of one of my formation courses, and there are people who have commented how funny I am and they have laughed vivaciously at the things I said from time to time, and I made a joke in front of all the parishioners who attended that really cracked them up and the priest seemed to get a kick out of it too. They don't know the misery and emptiness I feel, the ideation, the things I feel about/against myself, yet I have the ability to make others smile and laugh and they would never know. How the heck am I supposed to know what is the real me? People at my table were really wanting to see me come to more things with them. From one extreme to the next, I am lonely, yet I may not be able to keep up with people asking me to attend things. The kind of effect that I described that I had on people tonight is not the first time, at all.

I do not know. Do you have a close friend or close relative you can express your feelings to? Someone who knows you REALLY well?

May God bless, protect, and preserve you! May Mother Mary wrap you in her mantle! May St. Joseph wrap you in his cloak! May Jesus keep you in his Sacred Heart!

Amen and amen!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:06:23-0600

David Lamb said:
I'm not a Roman Catholic, so I hope I am not breaking forum rules by answering. I like that hymn, too, as it looks back to the first coming of Jesus at Bethlehem, and forward to His glorious Second Coming. I especially like this verse:

"O come, O Branch of Jesse's stem,
unto your own and rescue them!
From depths of hell your people save,
and give them victory o'er the grave."

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:06:06-0600

FaithT said:
I love it too. We sang it Saturday night at Mass.

Yes! We sang it this Sunday for the first Sunday of advent!

A2SG · 2025-12-02T00:05:53-0600

RileyG said:
Ehhhh...I'm on the fence on this one. Some parents might not like it, some teachers might not like it, some conservative districts might not like it. Some professionals may or may not agree or disagree.

When it comes to minors, I think they should be left alone and leave it to biology.

THEN AGAIN, I think that should be left up to mental health professionals and doctors.

I think the point is that pronoun use has nothing to do with biology.

-- A2SG, no one checks genitalia before using a pronoun....I hope....

RileyG · 2025-12-02T00:05:35-0600

Lady Bug said:
Whether or not the hymn is cliche for the Advent season, it never fails to move me. I love it

Me too!

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