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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2023, 08:50:19 AM »
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    • Quote from: Minnesota on March 26, 2023, 01:42:25 AM
    I don't think the lottery is a scam. It's just a numbers game run by the entire country, so when that is 300 million Americans, your chances are astronomically low in matching any chance of infinite numbers.

    They've been caught scamming numerous times, even on the larger prizes.

    But, OP's point has nothing to do with odds, as odds mean nothing to God.
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
    « Reply #16 on: March 27, 2023, 08:54:36 AM »
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    • Quote from: Stubborn 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.

    Meh.  God doesn't want you to win the lottery now.  It's almost as difficult to know sometimes what God doesn't want as it is to know what He does want ... beforehand.  Obviously if you don't win, God didn't will for you to win.  But it's hard to know beforehand what God does or does not want.

    Wasn't there some gentleman who won the lottery to help build Padre Pio's hospital?  I think Padre Pio told him to pray to some saint who was also patron saint of lotteries.
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    Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
    « Reply #17 on: March 27, 2023, 08:59:03 AM »
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    • Found this somewhere ...
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    Dr. Guglielmo Sanguinetti from Parma. Was a country doctor in Ronta di Borgo San Lorenzo in Mugello area, in Tuscany near Florence. In Borgo San Lorenzo he was member of the Confraternity of Misericord. He married Emilia Spilman, his high school sweetheart at the Liceo Tasso in Rome. Sanguinetti visited Padre Pio on June28, 1935. He told him: “You have to come here to help me to build a large hospital. Sell what you have and come to live here.” Sanguinetti: “I am a country doctor, I don’t have savings, I can’t afford the move.” Padre Pio: “You have a piece of paper that will soon solve your problems.” Back in Borgo San Lorenzo Sanguinetti kept ruminating what Padre Pio had told him and couldn’t find any sense. One day he finally understood what piece of paper Padre Pio was talking about. It was a lottery ticket he had bought some time ago.  He won a large sum of money and was able to afford the move to San Giovanni Rotondo.

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    Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
    « Reply #18 on: March 27, 2023, 09:01:38 AM »
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    Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
    « Reply #19 on: March 27, 2023, 09:03:25 AM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on March 27, 2023, 04:21:58 AM
    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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    I think the picture looks staged for humorous effect, especially the guy at the far left. Besides, these are just young guys who have not been in the religious life all that long; do you really expect them to be standing next to a brand new Mercedes and not admire it? I could see a problem if that were a replica of the Venus of Milo instead of a car, and they were looking at it like that, but this is just a car. :laugh1:
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    Re: Know of any Catholic that ever won the lottery?
    « Reply #20 on: March 28, 2023, 06:14:43 PM »
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    • Yes! I knew a traditional Catholic family who won the lottery.  They were wise with the money too.
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