Author Topic: The Symbols of Our Faith (Read 979 times)

poche · « **on:** October 20, 2016, 11:44:06 PM »

In his excellent speech at Notre Dame (about which more anon), Archbishop Charles Chaput makes an interesting point about Muslim women who wear the hijab or burqa:

Some of my friends are annoyed by that kind of “in your face” Islam. But I understand it. The hijab and the burqa say two important things in a morally confused culture: “I’m not sɛҳuąƖly available;” and “I belong to a community different and separate from you and your obsessions.”

There are problems with Islam, especially in its more assertive forms, and the archbishop says as much in passing. But those two messages are messages that our culture needs to hear. It wouldn’t be a bad thing at all if Catholic women—and Catholic men, for that matter—found winsome ways to deliver the same messages.

http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=1370

Shortly before he died, Pope John Paul II said that we Catholics should display the symbols of our religion. What do you think? What do you do?

Last Tradhican · « **Reply #1 on:** October 21, 2016, 08:39:29 AM »

"In the country of blind men, the eyed man is a king".

Bp. Caput is just saying what any real Catholic would say. That it is seen as some kind of a revelation, and he is seen as an icon (and JPII or B16) of "conservatism" for saying the obvious, is indicative of the blindness of Catholics today. It is a relief today to hear a bishop (and a pope) do something Catholic, but that is all it is, a relief.

OHCA · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2016, 11:02:23 PM »

"There are problems with Islam..."

He doesn't look too troubled:

poche · « **Reply #3 on:** October 21, 2016, 11:17:08 PM »

Quote from: OHCA

"There are problems with Islam..."

He doesn't look too troubled:

The question is how does how you present yourself profess the Catholic Faith?

Last Tradhican · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2016, 09:30:54 AM »

Quote from: Last Tradhican

"In the country of blind men, the one eyed man is a king".

Bp. Caput is just saying what any real Catholic would say. That it is seen as some kind of a revelation, and he is seen as an icon (and JPII or B16) of "conservatism" for saying the obvious, is indicative of the blindness of Catholics today. It is a relief today to hear a bishop (and a pope) do something Catholic, but that is all it is, a relief.

songbird · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2016, 05:23:35 PM »

I like this post. I wear the scapular; that is under the clothes, but if I were in the hospital, the staff would find it on me. I wear the miraculous medal and I do have people in the grocery store and dept. stores comment about the medal.

When I go to the Rec. center, I walk the path and say rosary and I get comments; mostly good. Yes, I do get some negative. One man asked me, "Is that all that you do?"

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** October 27, 2016, 12:36:05 AM »

Quote from: songbird

I like this post. I wear the scapular; that is under the clothes, but if I were in the hospital, the staff would find it on me. I wear the miraculous medal and I do have people in the grocery store and dept. stores comment about the medal.

When I go to the Rec. center, I walk the path and say rosary and I get comments; mostly good. Yes, I do get some negative. One man asked me, "Is that all that you do?"

At Custer's last stand the Indians mutilated all but one of the bodies of the soldiers that they killed. The one soldier whose body was not mutilated was wearing the brown scapular.

sea leopard · « **Reply #7 on:** October 27, 2016, 01:46:34 PM »

re Custer

Please some original docuмentary proof.

Thank You

Spera in Deo · « **Reply #8 on:** October 27, 2016, 01:58:15 PM »

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There are problems with Islam

really?!?
The entire heresy is a "problem"!

poche · « **Reply #9 on:** October 28, 2016, 03:25:08 AM »

Quote from: sea leopard

re Custer

Please some original docuмentary proof.
:thinking:
Thank You

In pioneer days when American Indians had been somewhat Christianized by missionaries while more selfish white men came to be their hated enemies, a most unusual sight greeted investigators at the battle site after Custer's celebrated stand. Strewn with massacred soldiers, the field presented a most harrowing scene of butchery. But among the lifeless, bloody forms, one body had been signally respected. It was that of Colonel Keogh, an Irishman of deep Catholic faith, which was propped against a tree. The garments over the Colonel's breast had been torn open ; there, carefully and neatly disposed by savage hands, was the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The American correspondent of L'Univers commented that "without doubt the Sacred Badge awakened recollections of the teachings of some devoted missionary; one could see that several of the savages had assisted in bearing the body of an enemy, only a few moments before an object of detestation, to a sheltered spot; there placing it in a reclining position, the head leaning against a tree, they had carefully arranged the Badge, so loved by the deceased, upon his breast." [Carm. Rev., IV, pg. 70; Chroniques du Carmel, July, 1892.]

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/scapular8.htm

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #10 on:** October 30, 2016, 04:29:58 PM »

A good way to present our Catholic faith, and to preserve our faith is to avoid the Novus Ordo and the banalities of Novus Ordite clergy.

Having said that, we should pray daily for those souls in the Novus Ordo.