Send CathInfo's owner Matthew a gift from his Amazon wish list:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/25M2B8RERL1UO

« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Blessings for non-Catholics  (Read 924 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Änσnymσus

  • Guest
Blessings for non-Catholics
« on: August 22, 2013, 04:49:06 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Anything wrong with a simple "God bless" as a sincere courtesy? To say so seems quite Pharisaical to me but I could be wrong.
    Logged

    Offline jen51

    • Full Member
    • ***
    • Posts: 1704
    • Reputation: +1757/-70
    • Gender: Female
    Blessings for non-Catholics
    « Reply #1 on: August 22, 2013, 04:51:14 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • I see nothing wrong with that what so ever. I say it to Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
    Logged
    Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
    ~James 1:27

    Offline Sigismund

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 5386
    • Reputation: +3121/-44
    • Gender: Male
    Blessings for non-Catholics
    « Reply #2 on: August 22, 2013, 05:13:15 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Non-Catholics certainly need blessings, so why not?
    Logged
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

    Änσnymσus

    • Guest
    Blessings for non-Catholics
    « Reply #3 on: August 22, 2013, 07:11:13 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • I don't say "Bless you" when someone sneezes.  People act as if I'm a monster for not saying it.
    Logged

    Offline jen51

    • Full Member
    • ***
    • Posts: 1704
    • Reputation: +1757/-70
    • Gender: Female
    Blessings for non-Catholics
    « Reply #4 on: August 22, 2013, 08:37:15 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Quote from: Guest
    I don't say "Bless you" when someone sneezes.  People act as if I'm a monster for not saying it.


    Is there a certain reason why you refrain from that gesture? Honest question. Maybe it's the same type of reason I don't pledge allegiance to the flag while everyone else in the room does.
    Logged
    Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
    ~James 1:27

    Offline Sigismund

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 5386
    • Reputation: +3121/-44
    • Gender: Male
    Blessings for non-Catholics
    « Reply #5 on: August 22, 2013, 08:53:12 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Quote from: Guest
    I don't say "Bless you" when someone sneezes.  People act as if I'm a monster for not saying it.


    I don't either, because it seems to me to trivialize a blessing.
    Logged
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

    Offline parentsfortruth

    • Sr. Member
    • ****
    • Posts: 3821
    • Reputation: +2664/-26
    • Gender: Female
    Blessings for non-Catholics
    « Reply #6 on: August 24, 2013, 01:11:04 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • I read once that the reason they said "God bless you" when someone would sneeze was from the middle ages when they thought that breathing in like that could cause a demon to enter you, so they would say "God bless you" to try to prevent that from happening.
    Logged
    Matthew 5:37

    But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.

    My Avatar is Fr. Hector Bolduc. He was a faithful parish priest in De Pere, WI,
    Pages: [1]
    « previous next »