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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2023, 07:08:06 PM »
Quote from: Mithrandylan on March 26, 2023, 12:58:12 AM
I won $240 on a scratch off when I was in my late teens or early twenties. Bought my cigarettes for two weeks.

That's a lot of cigarettes.

Nicorette 4mg lozenges are as satisfying as any tobacco.  Get the ones in the blue packs, the small ones in the difficult-to-open green packs are awful.

I do miss the taste of a good Camel unfiltered, though.   Best not to start thinking about it.  To this day, I can pass someone smoking a cigarette, smell the aroma, and say "oh, man...".  Tough habit to kick.
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Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2023, 09:06:18 PM »
Quote from: Seraphina on March 26, 2023, 10:07:53 AM
My grandmother used to buy one lottery ticket on Saturday.  She’d win maybe $25-$75 every now and then.  She also seemed to win things like 50-50 raffles and door prizes at Chinese auctions or community board meetings.  I think she probably broke even.  I still have and use the set of Ginsu knives she won as the door prize at her Ladies Bowling League Christmas party! 

I've had some relatives like that - they'd win small amounts here & there.  And one relative won $100,000 decades ago.


Quote from: Seraphina on March 26, 2023, 10:07:53 AM

I don’t buy lottery tickets myself.  It’s something that’s not really on my radar.  Are Catholics allowed to buy them?  I’d say yes, so long as by doing so you aren’t depriving your family or God of His due, and don’t trust in winning more than in God to provide.  (You’d have to be kind of stupid to think you’ll win the top prize given the odds!)  If you have a gambling addiction, then you mustn’t buy them ever.  Better to put the money in the collection at Mass or give it your priest or as alms to a needy person. 

It's not on my radar either, although I have splurged on a single ticket a few times when the pot got really big & it made the news enough that even I heard about it.  And then only if I happened to be in a store where it was convenient to buy one.  The way I always looked at it, all you need to do is buy 1 ticket.  Either God wants me to win (& He only needs me to buy 1 ticket to win), or He doesn't, thus giving me a 50/50 chance of winning!  ;)  ::)   

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Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2023, 09:27:26 PM »
I matched 5 of 6 in the Virginia lotto in the 90s
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Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2023, 04:21:58 AM »
Quote from: Yeti on March 26, 2023, 03:27:54 PM
Quote from: Yeti 3/26/2023, 3:27:54 PM
This is pretty bizarre. Why would someone object to this? Everyone wins here -- the person who donated the Mercedes gets merit for giving to the Church, the people buying the tickets are getting merit for the same reason, the seminary gets built, and the winner gets a new Mercedes! (Not as good as supernatural merit, but I doubt they complained either :laugh1:) What possible objection could anyone have to this?

Let's just say the seminarians should have been more aloof with regards to this particular luxury vehicle.

https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/mercedes-benz-giveaway-c300-was-bought-by-fr-le-roux-for-40k/

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Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2023, 05:59:12 AM »
I used to buy lottery tickets a few times a month, sometimes more, until one day about 8 or 10 years ago it hit me - God does not want me to win big, to build a Church or two, to fund trad projects, to help my family, needy members of my chapel and others and so on. God does not want me to do those things, nope, He wants to do things His way. Period. 

So since then, I have only bought a very few over the years for birthday gifts or some such thing, but for me, it simply is not in the cards - and I kinda enjoy that He prefers to do things His way. Everything will end up a whole lot better that way.
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