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Traditional Catholic Faith => Crisis in the Church => Topic started by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 08:41:38 AM

Title: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 08:41:38 AM
Television doesn’t belong in any church.  

I’m at funeral and there is a tv with video.  

They don’t belong in Sspx chapels either.  

I know the local indult didn’t have tv but they had speakers so you could assist at Mass if no room or babies. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 10:06:24 AM
What is the issue with a TV livestreaming the mass in an "overflow" room where mass cannot be seen? You think it is better to stare at the wall or floor?
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 12:22:43 PM
What is the issue with a TV livestreaming the mass in an "overflow" room where mass cannot be seen? You think it is better to stare at the wall or floor?
Maybe it’s better to add a mass instead of tv. For the overflow.  No.  Tv does not belong in any church.  It’s unholy.  It’s so Protestant and Novus Ordo.  Some churches have two.

Stay home if you want to watch television. 

If there is overflow time to add a Mass. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 04, 2025, 12:29:18 PM
Maybe it’s better to add a mass instead of tv. For the overflow.  No.  Tv does not belong in any church.  It’s unholy.
Maybe that is too much for an independent, older priest that is all by himself.

A TV is just a tool. It is neither evil nor good. The morality of it depends on what it is used for. God allowed for these tools, do we have to destroy them all because they can be used for evil?
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 12:37:21 PM
I’m sorry. I understand what you say.  The majority of television is evil.  It is a tool not meant for church.  

We were at priests’ home and we were watching the news and I was embarrassed when a female product commercial came on.  These commercials are crude and nasty.  

There has been many older priests and masses with zero tv.  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 12:55:00 PM
I’m sorry. I understand what you say.  The majority of television is evil.  It is a tool not meant for church. 
And a livestreamed mass is NOT the majority of "television", it is NOT evil. A television streaming a mass in an overflow is not playing a movie, or tv series, sports game, or the news. It is a SCREEN, just like the computer SCREEN you are looking at in order to post these inane, retarded comments. The only thing the television in an overflow room is going to be showing is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is insane for you to be saying that is "unholy", you puritanical luddite
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 04, 2025, 01:03:25 PM
And a livestreamed mass is NOT the majority of "television", it is NOT evil. A television streaming a mass in an overflow is not playing a movie, or tv series, sports game, or the news. It is a SCREEN, just like the computer SCREEN you are looking at.The only thing the television in an overflow room is going to be showing is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
I know what Viva says is frustrating, but name calling doesn't help people understand.

I adjusted your post to retain the meaning without the negativity. :cowboy:
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 01:14:23 PM
And a livestreamed mass is NOT the majority of "television", it is NOT evil. A television streaming a mass in an overflow is not playing a movie, or tv series, sports game, or the news. It is a SCREEN, just like the computer SCREEN you are looking at in order to post these inane, retarded comments. The only thing the television in an overflow room is going to be showing is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is insane for you to be saying that is "unholy", you puritanical luddite
lol.  I don’t bring my phone to Sunday mass.  Unless I’m by myself.  

The majority of Television is filth, sodomy, taking God’s name in vain, adultery etc. There is more satanism, witchcraft on tv with a few crumbs of televised Mass etc. 

having cell phones and televisions isn’t traditional Catholicism.  It’s a very modern.  Many masses held with overflow with televisions.  

If there is overflow, there needs to be a bigger church or add a mass.  

Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 01:18:24 PM
When there’s no Mass available or that I can get to, which happens fairly often, the ability to livestream is a blessing. True, it’s not on a TV as I don’t own one, but I do view on a tablet. I see nothing whatsoever wrong with a live TV at in a cry room or at a large event like a funeral or Mass that normally doesn’t have huge crowds. I went to a funeral last year where I watched on TV. The chapel was very small and reserved for family and a few invited close friends of the deceased. 
In many situations, technology is easily abused, but when used for the good of souls, it ought to be used!  After all, we’re not Amish or Luddites!  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 01:25:46 PM
I know what Viva says is frustrating, but name calling doesn't help people understand.

I adjusted your post to retain the meaning without the negativity. :cowboy:
You just so happened to remove my reference to the most egregious thing VCR said, that having a television streaming the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in an overflow room is "unholy". That is puritanical. Eschewing technology simply because it is "modern" is the behavior of a luddite. Her comments are retarded because it's apparent there is a severe lack of critical thinking that goes into them
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Minnesota on March 04, 2025, 01:34:50 PM
You just so happened to remove my reference to the most egregious thing VCR said, that having a television streaming the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in an overflow room is "unholy". That is puritanical. Eschewing technology simply because it is "modern" is the behavior of a luddite. Her comments are retarded because it's apparent there is a severe lack of critical thinking that goes into them
VCR says while being on a device connected to the internet, on a forum... run by the internet... all with technology younger than the television by about 80 years.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 01:39:15 PM
When there’s no Mass available or that I can get to, which happens fairly often, the ability to livestream is a blessing. True, it’s not on a TV as I don’t own one, but I do view on a tablet. I see nothing whatsoever wrong with a live TV at in a cry room or at a large event like a funeral or Mass that normally doesn’t have huge crowds. I went to a funeral last year where I watched on TV. The chapel was very small and reserved for family and a few invited close friends of the deceased.
In many situations, technology is easily abused, but when used for the good of souls, it ought to be used!  After all, we’re not Amish or Luddites! 
Watching Mass at home is needed at times.  

We aren’t traditional Catholics either.  

Before Vatican II, the true Catholic Church tried to warn Catholics about certain tv programming and even shows, theatre, dances.  It’s why the church is in crisis today.    I guess Catholics were Amish or puritan like before Vatican II.  

So many people who attend any chapels are holier than thou and dressed like frumps but during the week while  they dress like hookers at weddings. Its hypocrisy. 

many times you are in church and you can’t see because maybe a tall man is in the pew in front of you but I can read my missal and hear the priest.  So what is wrong with speakers for the overflow?   

television, marijuana, overeating, cell phones etc can be false idols.  







Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 01:44:32 PM
You just so happened to remove my reference to the most egregious thing VCR said, that having a television streaming the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in an overflow room is "unholy". That is puritanical. Eschewing technology simply because it is "modern" is the behavior of a luddite. Her comments are retarded because it's apparent there is a severe lack of critical thinking that goes into them
You are so immature.  I guess the true traditional Catholics prior to Vatican II were puritanical and a behavior of a Luddite.  How old are you that you cant listen to Mass and use your brain to assist at an overflow Mass?  Obviously you lack critical thinking if you think tv is traditional Catholicism.   


Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 01:47:44 PM
QUESTION?
In the past I have told my daughter who is 27 years old, still lives at home and is preparing for marriage in July, that watching Vampire Diaries I believe opens portals to the demonic. The satan will already try to disturb her peace as she and her fiance prepare for this beautiful Sacrament. I believe you will agree with me that its not good to watch.
Can you give me your opinion on this matter please so that I can let her know that its just not mom "being mom" as I care for her soul. Any references to a book and of course Holy Scripture would be great to pass on to her.?? Thank you so much for being there for all of us in God's earth.
ANSWER!
1. *St Padre Pio was disturbed and disgusted by the television. He realized it would destroy family life and told everyone not to buy one. Regarding cinema or “sin” ema he always gave the same answer: “The devil is in it.” Could it be that a man which the world recognized as extremely holy, who heard countless souls in confession and would tell them sins omitted, could also have correct discernment about television? (“I See Far” p.61).
2.   *American St Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) had a vision she could not understand in the middle 1800’s: “Every American would have a black box in their home and the devil would enter.” This one statement by a modern saints (canonized by Venerable Paul VI in 1975) should strike you heart like lightning. Go to any outlet store and look whether this American saint was wrong about the devil entering the home through it (Ibid).
Television was invented in 1928, almost 100 years before she made this prophetic statement which I am sure she did not fully understand.
3.   *“We must watch over our mind, our hearts, and our senses, for these are the gates by which the devil enters in.” — St. John Vianney
4.   Matthew 6:22-23 [RSV] says, "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! !" The point of this passage is that much of our lifestyle is determined by how we use our eyes -- what we choose to look at. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 04, 2025, 01:48:43 PM
You just so happened to remove my reference to the most egregious thing VCR said, that having a television streaming the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in an overflow room is "unholy". That is puritanical. Eschewing technology simply because it is "modern" is the behavior of a luddite. Her comments are retarded because it's apparent there is a severe lack of critical thinking that goes into them
Maybe, but as you see VCRs next posts confirm that she will not be fazed by you.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 01:54:36 PM
The Catholic Church is in crisis because of the world. 

Tv is of the world.  

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Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 01:59:26 PM
You are so immature.  I guess the true traditional Catholics prior to Vatican II were puritanical and a behavior of a Luddite.  How old are you that you cant listen to Mass and use your brain to assist at an overflow Mass?  Obviously you lack critical thinking if you think tv is traditional Catholicism. 
The Catholics prior to Vatican II did not need overflow rooms because there were so many valid, licit masses available. How old are you that you cannot differentiate between a television being used to stream Mass versus movies, tv shows, etc.? Too old.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 02:01:50 PM
I guess third orders are puritan and Amish like?  

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5. They are not to go to unseemly parties or to shows or dances. They shall not donate to actors, and shall forbid their household to donate.
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[color=rgb(var(--color_15))]Or other forms of entertainment where the vice of the world is put on display. Nor are they to pay for use of entertainment platforms for secular means such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, and the many others. This is how we are interpreting “donate to actors.”
• The computer or phone, too is not to be used for any type of secular entertainment which brings our faculties to their base function.
• Here we are including secular news sources as worldly entertainments and base use of our faculties, as we know that mostly all news has become sensationalized, anti-God, and ideologically-driven and so must be avoided. This is especially the case for men who become very easily addicted to these forms of sensory gratification.
• iPhone, Androids, and all like phones are forbidden unless mandated by our work place, in which their use is permitted for work but not personal use.
• All phones are to be simple.
† “Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world” (John 2:15). This contempt of the world and its pleasures passed from the Heart of our Divine Redeemer to that of His Apostles. The Rule of the Third Order, being drafted from the counsels of evangelical perfection, naturally bears the impress of this same spirit, and declares that the noisy turmoil and dissipation of the gαy world is incompatible with the sanctity of a Christian life.
Let the Tertiaries, then, never forget that in their profession they have renewed before God and men the vows made at their baptism, to renounce the devil and all his works. They must observe not merely the letter of the Rule in this respect, but also the spirit of it. They are forbidden balls, where modesty is so often imperilled, and theatres, where human passions have their full sway, and where the most solid virtue suffers some taint. Let us hear on this subject an eminent master of spiritual life:
“Were the theatre to confine itself to the representation of memorable historical events, to the reproduction of the edifying actions of great men, it would not be objectionable. But this is not the case. We find there, on the contrary, everything combined to excite the passions. The splendor and fascination of the stage, the artful representations enhanced by seductive decorations, the ensnaring pantomimes and indecorous dress of the actors and actresses — what can they produce but temptations? Add to this the subjects which compose the plays: what are they but a glorification of the passions? Very often, also, religion and sacred persons and things are held up to ridicule, and made subservient in a most unworthy manner to the gratification of a morbid curiosity. And were it even possible for a person to witness such spectacles without arousing his passions, it is nevertheless sinful to expose ourselves to temptation, because it is our duty always and everywhere to watch over our senses and to repel dangerous thoughts and ideas. Can it, moreover, be excusable to spend money for such things, whilst poverty and distress surround us and clamor for relief?”
As to dancing — it is at best a frivolous amusement, usually fraught with dangerous consequences for soul and body, and therefore an abomination to virtuous persons. The propensity to indulge in it betrays a great levity of character and want of religious zeal. We may therefore reasonably conclude that dancing is an insurmountable obstacle to that perfection, which members of the Third Order are supposed to profess.
The members should also avoid public houses, and, in fact, any places of loose public resort. Gambling of any sort is strictly for-bidden, as well as acting, or taking part in any conversations or actions inconsistent with modesty and purity. At the same time innocent recreations are not forbidden. Tertiaries must, then, try to steer the middle course between the pernicious follies of the age and a moroseness and melancholy which are incompatible with the real Christian spirit of love and joy. They must strive to edify the world by their modesty and charity, so as to make virtue and piety attractive, by a greater sweetness, kindness, and benevolence, towards all with whom they are brought in contact. So will they win souls to Christ, and their apostolate will bring forth fruit a hundred-fold.
The reading of bad books, papers, novels, plays, in a word of the trashy literature of the day, in which vice and passion are clothed in the most seductive colors to insinuate their fatal poison into the soul, is one of the chief causes of prevalent immorality and infidelity. Tertiaries should have recourse to their spiritual director or prefect for advice in the selection of reading matter, and they will be sure of partaking of wholesome mental food
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Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 02:02:29 PM
The Catholic Church is in crisis because of the world.

Tv is of the world. 

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Lack of critical thinking on display yet again. What is more likely, that Padre Pio was referring to a television being used to watch movies, shows, news, sports etc., or that he was referring to a television screen being used to stream the mass in an overflow room? (Hint: The latter usage did not exist yet!) That should narrow down the possible answers from two to one. Use your thinking cap!
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 02:02:46 PM
Third Order Franciscans. 

Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 02:09:10 PM
Lack of critical thinking on display yet again. What is more likely, that Padre Pio was referring to movies, shows, news, sports etc., or that he was referring to a television screen being used to stream the mass in an overflow room? (Hint: The latter usage did not exist yet!) That should narrow down the possible answers from two to one. Use your thinking cap!
Padre Pio discourage Catholics from even purchasing a television.  That’s correct tv anywhere in church is a new and modernist.   You even admit it. Use your thinking cap.  TV in church is so very Protestant and Novus Ordo.   You don’t need tv , you need speakers or maybe your brain is so dull that you can’t listen and comprehend.  Use your thinking cap. Most tvs are used to spy and collect data.  

who paid for the tv and service?   Maybe take the money and put it towards a bigger church. 



Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 02:14:09 PM
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Third Order of St Pius X


“No TV means no TV at all, even if you are going to use it only for watching good movies... I remember how the laity, even non tertiaries, where encouraged to remove their TVs from home, for even owning one might be a "near occasion of sin", or you might give ways to corrupt your children……..”


THIS IS NOT MY POST.  Just another puritan. Lol




Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Angelus on March 04, 2025, 02:20:30 PM
The Catholics prior to Vatican II did not need overflow rooms because there were so many valid, licit masses available. How old are you that you cannot differentiate between a television being used to stream Mass versus movies, tv shows, etc.? Too old.

It would seem that an adjacent "overflow room" that allows the person to be "morally present" suffices to satisfy the Precept of "hearing Mass."

But watching a Mass on a screen from one's home, for example, would not provide the "moral presence" to satisfy the Precept. Still, watching from home seems better than nothing, as long as the person watching the screen did not think that they satisfied the Precept by doing so. 


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2577. How Mass Must Be Heard.—In reference to the person who hears Mass, the positive part of the precept calls for external assistance and internal devotion.

(a) Thus, the external or bodily assistance must be such that one can be said to take part in the divine worship. This happens when one is physically present, that is, when one is in the same building or place as the celebrant and can either see or hear him, or is morally present, that is, not in the same building but able to see or hear him naturally (e.g., by looking from the window of a neighboring house), or is unable to see or hear him but joined with the congregation (e.g., those who are outside the closed doors of the church but who can follow the bells and choir to some extent, those who are inside with the congregation but behind a pillar that shuts off the view). In a field Mass amplifiers can carry the voice far out to the edge of a vast crowd. But there does not seem to be a sufficient moral presence when Mass is “seen” by television or “heard” over the radio, since in these cases one is not present to the consecrated species or united to the worshippers.


Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 02:26:29 PM
One can say speakers have no place in church, either. Are they not technology? People could simply sit outside and read their missals. Are speakers not used outside church to broadcast evil?  Perhaps we should not use cars to get to Mass, either! After all, billions of people use motor vehicles for evil purposes. Can you walk to Mass?  
Is it not sinful to even comment on CI? Billions use the internet to view pornography. The point is, that technology in itself is neither good nor evil. Just make sure our use of it is for the good of our soul. 
Anything can be made into an idol. Many people, women in particular, make their clothes into an idol.  So, shall we go about naked or wear burlap potato sacks or Hefty bags with three holes cut in them?It’s fine if you personally choose not to watch Mass on a TV, keep your eyes averted and read your missal, or just listen with your eyes closed, but please don’t impose your choice on a neutral matter on others. 
TVs in chapels aren’t tuned in to broadcast shows any more than speakers are blasting death metal rock music. And honestly, if a very tall man blocks my view at Mass, or I find myself seated by people who distract me, I move if at all possible. I can scoot a little ways to either side to see around a tall man. Once, I moved as discreetly as possible to a pew on the opposite side of the church because a woman sitting beside me had on a fur coat to which I was allergic. Sneezing, coughing, nose blowing is not only annoying to me, but to those around me including the woman with the coat! I don’t what kind of fur it was, but I was clearly allergic!  I had nothing personally against the woman; I didn’t know her. I wouldn’t think of telling her it was sinful to wear a fur coat to church, or anywhere else for that matter! 

BTW, the person resorting to name calling and rudeness to Viva, please stop. This IS a case where one should disagree agreeably!   
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 02:34:41 PM
The Catholics prior to Vatican II did not need overflow rooms because there were so many valid, licit masses available. How old are you that you cannot differentiate between a television being used to stream Mass versus movies, tv shows, etc.? Too old.
The tv has access to other channels. Who is paying for the tv and service.  It’s a waste of money.  

Tv is part of the problem why there are not many valid licit masses available.   duh.  How blind are you people to see that owning a tv has caused many problems in our society.   Padre Pio advised Catholics to dress modestly and don’t own a tv.  Third order St Pius X also said not to own tv and dress modestly. 

We can see that traditional Catholicism is sliding back into modernism.  

This all how the Catholic Church ended up in apostasy. 


  

Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 02:36:45 PM
I shouldn’t have to breathe in cigarettes or pot at Mass either. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 02:44:04 PM
Third Order Franciscans.
Third Orders have joined by choice and agreed to the rules. They don’t expect nonmembers to  obey them or cater to them in different environments. I don’t own a TV, don’t see any use for one in my home since, as you say, there is so much rot on them. There’s nothing good on TV that I can’t access on my tablet. Nonetheless, if I go to someone else’s home and there’s a TV, I don’t tell them to get rid of it. How do I know how they use it? Maybe it’s for watching old videos of good shows, or they’ve a video of their wedding or old Masses, their children’s Confirmations or other Sacraments. I don’t refuse to enter their home if I see a TV.  The only time I’d say anything is if there’s something bad playing on it. If I’ve taken a vow to never watch or be in the presence of a TV, well, I could ask them to turn it off, and if they refused, I have to excuse myself and leave. Most Catholics are not Third Order Franciscans. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 02:55:02 PM
Padre Pio discourage Catholics from even purchasing a television.  That’s correct tv anywhere in church is a new and modernist.  You even admit it. Use your thinking cap.  TV in church is so very Protestant and Novus Ordo.  You don’t need tv , you need speakers or maybe your brain is so dull that you can’t listen and comprehend.  Use your thinking cap. Most tvs are used to spy and collect data. 

who paid for the tv and service?  Maybe take the money and put it towards a bigger church.
Again, Padre Pio was not referring to a TV used to internally view and hear what is going on inside the church. Internal systems not attached to broadcast aren’t spying on anyone. Or if they are, I’m not sure they can’t in 2025, but one can buy an old system in a thrift shop, save lots of money, and there’ll be no monthly bills. Building an addition or getting a larger church is much more expensive than a TV monitor and video camera! 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 02:59:59 PM
I shouldn’t have to breathe in cigarettes or pot at Mass either.
You’ve been to a Mass where people were smoking cigarettes and marijuana?  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 03:05:11 PM
The Catholics prior to Vatican II did not need overflow rooms because there were so many valid, licit masses available. How old are you that you cannot differentiate between a television being used to stream Mass versus movies, tv shows, etc.? Too old.
How old are you?  Why all of a sudden there are now televisions in chapels when there wasn’t?  Going along with the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr church.   We all see the gradual changes to SSPX and many that go to independents chapels are living a double life too. 

These aren’t regular tvs.  These are “smart” tvs.  Big brother is watching. 



Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 03:07:06 PM
You’ve been to a Mass where people were smoking cigarettes and marijuana? 
Yes.  I’m so glad someone removed the ashtray out from the doorway of the church.  That’s bad that they even needed an ashtray.  

  And thanks to whoever removed Bergolio’s picture from the church. 

I guess they got to get high to appreciate a low Mass. 
 




Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 04, 2025, 03:10:17 PM
How old are you?  Why all of a sudden there are now televisions in chapels when there wasn’t?  Going along with the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr church.  We all see the gradual changes to SSPX and many that go to independents chapels are living a double life too.

These aren’t regular tvs.  These are “smart” tvs.  Big brother is watching.
Prayers for you Viva. You sound a little paranoid. God wants you at peace. If your peace is disturbed say some Our Father's and Hail Marys to regain your peace. :pray::pray::pray:
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 03:11:33 PM
Prayers for you Viva. You sound a little paranoid. God wants you at peace. If your peace is disturbed say some Our Father's and Hail Marys to regain your peace. :pray::pray::pray:
Paranoid.  No. I’m just annoyed by the hypocrisy and lukewarmness. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 03:13:27 PM
Padre Pio discourage Catholics from even purchasing a television.
Right, because the only use at the time was...watching movies, news, etc.


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That’s correct tv anywhere in church is a new and modernist.
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maybe your brain is so dull that you can’t listen and comprehend.
  Ironic. 


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Most tvs are used to spy and collect data. 
You say as you use the internet. Imagine what Padre Pio would say about the internet if he were alive today. How many more souls have been lost due to the internet and the much more readily available filth on it than televisions. I don't expect you to understand the contradiction 

The tv has access to other channels. Who is paying for the tv and service.  It’s a waste of money. 
Again, the TV is only being used to stream the mass. Again, you have to pay separately for streaming services. Those are generally not included when you purchase a TV. I would assume the TV is paid using chapel funds. It's not a waste of money if it benefits those in an overflow room

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Tv is part of the problem why there are not many valid licit masses available.  duh.  How blind are you people to see that owning a tv has caused many problems in our society.  Padre Pio advised Catholics to dress modestly and don’t own a tv.  Third order St Pius X also said not to own tv and dress modestly.

We can see that traditional Catholicism is sliding back into modernism. 

This all how the Catholic Church ended up in apostasy.

A TV being used in an overflow room to stream a mass does not result in apostasy 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 03:16:19 PM
Why all of a sudden there are now televisions in chapels when there wasn’t?  
Because the technology was not readily available before, and because chapels are growing.

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These aren’t regular tvs.  These are “smart” tvs.  Big brother is watching.

Big brother is watching mass? Maybe it will lead to a conversion or two :laugh2:
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 03:16:42 PM
Was Padre Pio paranoid?  He was right.  He was right about bad fashion too.  

Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Clare67 on March 04, 2025, 03:17:27 PM
You’ve been to a Mass where people were smoking cigarettes and marijuana? 
:laugh1::laugh2:
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 03:19:03 PM
Better management of priests scheduling.  Put the priest where they can help with overflow. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 04, 2025, 03:21:04 PM
Paranoid.  No. I’m just annoyed by the hypocrisy and lukewarmness.
Don't you see your own hypocrisy?

The internet holds more atrocities than a television, yet here you participating on an online forum.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Mithrandylan on March 04, 2025, 03:39:03 PM
Nadir was the last woman worth allowing on the Internet. Can probably let Seraphina keep her Internet card too. After that, it's past time for women to get off the Internet. What a dumb thread.

ETA: The admin's wife is OK, too
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 04:09:47 PM
Yes.  I’m so glad someone removed the ashtray out from the doorway of the church.  That’s bad that they even needed an ashtray. 

  And thanks to whoever removed Bergolio’s picture from the church. 

I guess they got to get high to appreciate a low Mass.
:facepalm: I’ve never heard of such a thing!  Not even in the novus ordo!  I don’t doubt you, but at least someone had the sense to rectify the situation.  As for the picture, I went to a chapel (SSPX), where the pictures of Benedict and another small photo of Bp., then Fr. Williamson kept being found stashed in various places like janitor’s closet, back or on top of kitchen cabinets, etc. There was a place in back of the parking lot where a group of older women, then in their 60’s and 70’s, hung out and smoked cigarettes after Mass. They’d stamp out their butts on the ground. The volunteer custodian grudgingly swept it up. Marijuana, no! Fr. wouldn’t have allowed smoking and an ash tray in front of the door!  Catholics are allowed to smoke tobacco, but it seems to me in the doorway is NOT the place!  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 04:29:46 PM
Nadir was the last woman worth allowing on the Internet. Can probably let Seraphina keep her Internet card too. After that, it's past time for women to get off the Internet.
Thanks? I read some threads on CI and comment. I don’t do social media of any type like Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, or whatever. It’s a bunch of gossip, self-promotion, bullying, plus if you value your privacy, it’s no good. I live-stream Masses, look at crafts, sewing, cooking, nature, sermons, conferences, the weather forecast, briefly scan the “news.” I use email to correspond with a very few people, and to get basic information, such as, what time does Farm and Home Supply close tonight?  Oh, and I’ve purchased items like books, a Rosary, an office chair for my nephew’s birthday, etc. That’s the extent of it. In fact, it’s time to sign off because the store closes at 7:00 and I need to make another stop en route. 
Add AMDG to your list. She’s into sewing and on the women only thread. I probably missed a few people. There are men who shouldn’t be online, either! 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Dominic on March 04, 2025, 04:34:38 PM
There's a difference between "television" and "tv screen."

Television is the movies, news, various shows, etc that are shown through a tv screen. You have to pay for these via cable or some streaming service. This is what Padre Pio (and many others) say is bad.

A TV screen is just a screen - it's no different than a computer monitor. It's up to the owner to determine whether to pay for service or not.

The TVs found in an SSPX chapel are most likely just connected to a computer - meaning that it would be impossible to just "change the channel" and have them suddenly be playing the evening news.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 04:46:11 PM
:facepalm: I’ve never heard of such a thing!  Not even in the novus ordo! 
You've never heard of such a thing because it simply doesn't happen. VCR's obsession with Traditional Catholics "smoking pot outside of mass" stems from this thread, and coincides with her compulsion of bringing up sodomy whenever marijuana is mentioned:


https://www.cathinfo.com/members-only/people-smoked-weed-before-mass/

She never saw anyone smoke pot, and never saw the supposed pot smokers engaging in sodomy..yet labels them as pothead sodomites and says they should not be allowed to attend mass.

Pretty easy to tell which posts are hers if you have read her comments before. Interesting to note how much more vitriol she displays when posting anonymously!
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 07:49:41 PM
Don't you see your own hypocrisy?

The internet holds more atrocities than a television, yet here you participating on an online forum.
No. It’s about smart tv physically being present in a church.  I’m here on the internet but I’m not in church.   I don’t take my cell phone to church. 

I’m not in a church so I’m not a hypocrite. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 07:53:41 PM
You've never heard of such a thing because it simply doesn't happen. VCR's obsession with Traditional Catholics "smoking pot outside of mass" stems from this thread, and coincides with her compulsion of bringing up sodomy whenever marijuana is mentioned:


https://www.cathinfo.com/members-only/people-smoked-weed-before-mass/

She never saw anyone smoke pot, and never saw the supposed pot smokers engaging in sodomy..yet labels them as pothead sodomites and says they should not be allowed to attend mass.

Pretty easy to tell which posts are hers if you have read her comments before. Interesting to note how much more vitriol she displays when posting anonymously!
Yes. It does happen.  One can smell marijuana on a person.  Truth hurts.  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 07:56:26 PM
Because the technology was not readily available before, and because chapels are growing.

Big brother is watching mass? Maybe it will lead to a conversion or two :laugh2:
The technology has been available for years.  Now trad have televisions in there chapels like the Protestants.   

the SSPX to belong to their third order was not to have a television in the home.  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 07:58:22 PM
I have no time for lukewarmness. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 08:00:02 PM
I’m sorry but I don’t support sex abuse of children period either.

Why thumb down?  Do you support it?  I know there are a few people who are indifferent. 



Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 08:08:25 PM
Right, because the only use at the time was...watching movies, news, etc.

  Luddite

  Ironic.

You say as you use the internet. Imagine what Padre Pio would say about the internet if he were alive today. How many more souls have been lost due to the internet and the much more readily available filth on it than televisions. I don't expect you to understand the contradiction
Again, the TV is only being used to stream the mass. Again, you have to pay separately for streaming services. Those are generally not included when you purchase a TV. I would assume the TV is paid using chapel funds. It's not a waste of money if it benefits those in an overflow room

A TV being used in an overflow room to stream a mass does not result in apostasy
It is a waste of money to use funds for tv and service.  There shouldn’t be any overflow if enough priests were supplied with additional Masses.

Again. Stop twisting words.  We are talking about in a chapel.  No one should be bringing in their cell phones to Mass or at least turn it off instead of texting, playing video games etc.  No need for tv. Too.

Padre Pio said that Catholics should not own zero televisions.  So Padre Pio would be against cell phones too. 

Liberals twist words to justify their idols.







Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 04, 2025, 08:36:37 PM
It is a waste of money to use funds for tv and service.  There shouldn’t be any overflow if enough priests were supplied with additional Masses.

Again. Stop twisting words.  We are talking about in a chapel.  No one should be bringing in their cell phones to Mass or at least turn it off instead of texting, playing video games etc.  No need for tv. Too.

Padre Pio said that Catholics should not own zero televisions.  So Padre Pio would be against cell phones too. 

Liberals twist words to justify their idols.
SSPX is not the only Traditional Option.  Many people go to independent chapels that do not have new priests to help the old priests.  Pray for vocations.  We are in a CRISIS.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 08:36:47 PM
Yes. It does happen.  One can smell marijuana on a person.  Truth hurts. 
When someone asks you, "You’ve been to a Mass where people were smoking cigarettes and marijuana?" and you respond "Yes" that is called lying, Viva. You have never seen someone smoking marijuana at Mass.

It is a waste of money to use funds for tv and service.  There shouldn’t be any overflow if enough priests were supplied with additional Masses.
Those in the overflow benefit, not a waste of money. Not so simple as supplying additional masses

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Again. Stop twisting words.  We are talking about in a chapel.  No one should be bringing in their cell phones to Mass or at least turn it off instead of texting, playing video games etc.  No need for tv. Too.
Padre Pio said that Catholics should not own zero televisions.  So Padre Pio would be against cell phones too.

Except you have many times, and in this very thread, said catholics should not use televisions under any circuмstances. You have made that very clear. You have made it very clear that Padre Pio was against television precisely because of the filth on it. How much more so on the internet! Do you not think that Padre Pio would be adamantly against the internet if he were alive today, considering it is many times more dangerous than television? Time to get off the internet Viva, it's new, it's modern, it's filled with sin. Stand by your principles, don't be a hypocrite!


Nice 6 posts in a row, by the way. Never change


Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 10:02:47 PM
When someone asks you, "You’ve been to a Mass where people were smoking cigarettes and marijuana?" and you respond "Yes" that is called lying, Viva. You have never seen someone smoking marijuana at Mass.
I’ll concede it IS possible she has seen or at least smelled pot on someone at Mass. I’ve never seen or smelled it, but I’ve seen some pretty bizarre and bad behavior, mainly in a novus ordo church, but a few times in a traditional setting as well.
1) Woman in front of me wearing low cut jeans, midriff top, and top of sequined thong underpants displayed on her backside
2) Woman with two iguanas in a vented duffle bag. She took them out one at a time to sit on her lap and stroke their dewlaps during Miraculous Medal devotions.
3) Man entered during mass, scooped up handfuls from large Holy Water bowls to drink, then washed his face and wet his hair
4) Man sat in back of side altar where Blessed Sacrament was kept and proceeded to eat his McDonald’s meal
No’s. 1-4 were in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NY. No’s 3-4 were caught and escorted out by ushers/security. No’s 1-2 weren’t caught.
5) Man suddenly pulled out digital camera (pre-smartphone day’s) and began walking up and down snapping pictures in people’s faces and right behind and to the side of the sanctuary as Fr. was saying Mass. He was taken outside by a male parishioner who happened to be a plainclothes police officer. This was at a traditional chapel where there were infiltrators looking to capitalize on an incident that had occurred about a decade beforehand. It was a mess. I don’t know how it was resolved, but they did not succeed in destroying the chapel. I just couldn’t cope with the atmosphere and stress, so I heard Mass every three weeks or so after a two and a half hour drive.  Frankly, it would have been a lot less harmful to souls had a few people stood outside the door and smoked marijuana!
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 10:04:48 PM
SSPX is not the only Traditional Option.  Many people go to independent chapels that do not have new priests to help the old priests.  Pray for vocations.  We are in a CRISIS.
These independent chapels don’t have tv at all. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 10:09:51 PM
When someone asks you, "You’ve been to a Mass where people were smoking cigarettes and marijuana?" and you respond "Yes" that is called lying, Viva. You have never seen someone smoking marijuana at Mass.
Those in the overflow benefit, not a waste of money. Not so simple as supplying additional masses

Except you have many times, and in this very thread, said catholics should not use televisions under any circuмstances. You have made that very clear. You have made it very clear that Padre Pio was against television precisely because of the filth on it. How much more so on the internet! Do you not think that Padre Pio would be adamantly against the internet if he were alive today, considering it is many times more dangerous than television? Time to get off the internet Viva, it's new, it's modern, it's filled with sin. Stand by your principles, don't be a hypocrite!


Nice 6 posts in a row, by the way. Never change
Again.  I DONT TAKE MY CELL PHONE TO MASS.  I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE SMOKE CIGARETTES.  I HAVE SMELLED MARIJUANA ON PEOPLE.  PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM HAVE EVEN PROMOTED POT.

  It was about televisions recently placed in “traditional Catholic” chapels.

Stop twisting my words too.  You talk like a liberal.  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 10:16:02 PM
Again.  I DONT TAKE MY CELL PHONE TO MASS.  I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE SMOKE CIGARETTES.  I HAVE SMELLED MARIJUANA ON PEOPLE.  PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM HAVE EVEN PROMOTED POT.

You are just a punk.  It was about televisions recently placed in “traditional Catholic” chapels.
Your computer can do anything a television can do. In fact, it can do even more. There is much more evil on the internet than on TV. You shouldn't have a computer in your home. Log off and throw it out
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 10:19:15 PM
You need to get off the internet.  You are disrespectful and you fail to read and comprehend.

And Padre Pio said it. Not me.

You are 23 years old.  Grow up. Obviously, many Traditional Catholics aren’t traditional Catholics.   Televisions and cell phones in a church don’t belong in church at all.  In real life you are so conceited and uncharitable. 

With Catholics like you, history repeats itself and many of you are no better than the liberal Novus Ordo or liberal Protestants.   I see many chapels in liberal neighborhoods with liberal attitudes.  




Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 04, 2025, 10:25:19 PM
These independent chapels don’t have tv at all.
I know of two that have TVs in the cry room.
As for cell phones, you can leave it in your car if that’s how you get to Mass. If you perchance take public transportation, where should you leave it?

Viva, I think the problem here is that you long for the world to be holy and Catholic, which is good! What is not good for your soul is that you allow yourself to get too upset by others’ sins. Please don’t let the devil anger and discourage you in this way. It is a temptation by which Satan wants to deprive you of the Mass and Sacraments. The enemy tempts evil souls with evil, but he tempts good souls with seemingly good thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and actions. That’s why hype we are admonished to “take captive our thoughts to serve Christ.”
Read II Corinthians 10:4-6.

It’s almost Ash Wednesday. This is an auspicious time to end this thread.
May you and everyone have a productive and holy Lent!
Blessings to all!
Seraphina
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 10:26:00 PM
You need to get off the internet.  You are disrespectful and you fail to read and comprehend.

And Padre Pio said it. Not me.

You are 23 years old.  Grow up.
Your computer can do anything a television can do. In fact, it can do even more. There is much more evil on the internet than on TV. You shouldn't have a computer in your home. Log off and throw it out
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 10:26:46 PM
Amen. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 10:32:35 PM
Your computer can do anything a television can do. In fact, it can do even more. There is much more evil on the internet than on TV. You shouldn't have a computer in your home. Log off and throw it out
What is your problem?  I said tv should not be in church.  (And cell phones should not go off in church.).  You seem not able to comprehend.  You worldly; not worlds away.  You need to grow up and log off instead being rude and obnoxious.  Typical punk attitude.  Go tend to your wife and children. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 04, 2025, 10:36:03 PM
I know of two that have TVs in the cry room.
As for cell phones, you can leave it in your car if that’s how you get to Mass. If you perchance take public transportation, where should you leave it?

Viva, I think the problem here is that you long for the world to be holy and Catholic, which is good! What is not good for your soul is that you allow yourself to get too upset by others’ sins. Please don’t let the devil anger and discourage you in this way. It is a temptation by which Satan wants to deprive you of the Mass and Sacraments. The enemy tempts evil souls with evil, but he tempts good souls with seemingly good thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and actions. That’s why hype we are admonished to “take captive our thoughts to serve Christ.”
Read II Corinthians 10:4-6.

It’s almost Ash Wednesday. This is an auspicious time to end this thread.
May you and everyone have a productive and holy Lent!
Blessings to all!
Seraphina
Church should be a sanctuary not of the world. Jesus Christ now and forever. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 04, 2025, 10:39:17 PM
What is your problem?  I said tv should not be in church.  (And cell phones should not go off in church.).  You seem not able to comprehend.  You worldly; not worlds away.  You need to grow up and log off instead being rude and obnoxious.  Typical punk attitude.  Go tend to your wife and children.
Your computer can do anything a television can do. In fact, it can do even more. There is much more evil on the internet than on TV. You shouldn't have a computer in your home. Log off and throw it out
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 05, 2025, 05:03:57 AM
Your computer can do anything a television can do. In fact, it can do even more. There is much more evil on the internet than on TV. You shouldn't have a computer in your home. Log off and throw it out
You are a broken record.  Are you possessed? They say that evil can come through electronics.   Do you even have a job?  You need to log off and get a life.  I don’t have a computer in my home. You need to log off whatever you are on and start praying and fasting.  I can see traditional Catholicism is gradually going Protestant and Novus Ordo.  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 05, 2025, 05:05:10 AM
In the Name of Jesus Christ,  log off and repent.  

Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 05, 2025, 05:10:03 AM
“ All the evil in the world is because of lukewarm Catholics” St Pius V 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 05, 2025, 06:09:04 AM
You are a broken record. 
No Viva, you are the broken record. You have been a broken record on this forum for over 12 years, and I'm sure much longer in the "real world". You litter the forum with your all your BS puritanical little one-liners and throw a fit when you are exposed for being wrong, a hypocrite, a liar, etc. You say TVs are evil and of the world, you constantly use Padre Pio as a source and authority. The issue you take with television is that there is much immoral content that is shown on it, with Padre Pio saying the same. If that is your reasoning for eschewing Television in all forms and in any circuмstances, you should not allow yourself to use the internet. Many more souls have been lost due to the internet. I don't care if you don't have a computer. If you use a smart phone or tablet you are still a hypocrite. A tablet or smart phone can do anything a television can do and more. It is time for you to leave the forum

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Are you possessed? They say that evil can come through electronics.

Another reason for you to get rid of any devices with internet :sleep:
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: dymphnaw on March 05, 2025, 06:27:46 AM
What is your problem?  I said tv should not be in church.  (And cell phones should not go off in church.).  You seem not able to comprehend.  You worldly; not worlds away.  You need to grow up and log off instead being rude and obnoxious.  Typical punk attitude.  Go tend to your wife and children.
Viva, why are you so angry all the time?  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 05, 2025, 07:03:34 AM
Viva, why are you so angry all the time? 
Am I?   
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 05, 2025, 07:13:07 AM
No Viva, you are the broken record. You have been a broken record on this forum for over 12 years, and I'm sure much longer in the "real world". You litter the forum with your all your BS puritanical little one-liners and throw a fit when you are exposed for being wrong, a hypocrite, a liar, etc. You say TVs are evil and of the world, you constantly use Padre Pio as a source and authority. The issue you take with television is that there is much immoral content that is shown on it, with Padre Pio saying the same. If that is your reasoning for eschewing Television in all forms and in any circuмstances, you should not allow yourself to use the internet. Many more souls have been lost due to the internet. I don't care if you don't have a computer. If you use a smart phone or tablet you are still a hypocrite. A tablet or smart phone can do anything a television can do and more. It is time for you to leave the forum

Another reason for you to get rid of any devices with internet :sleep:
Do you know me?  Happy ASh Wednesday to be slandered by a 23 year old with zero life.  In the real world I go to church where there is tv present downstairs.  You are the hypocrite and you lack charity like most who attend these chapels. 

Don’t you work a job?  Or do you like to abuse technology by slandering people.

You’re so immature.  You talk like a stalker too.  Who are you to judge me.

You lie.  You aren’t a traditional Catholic.
You talk talk like a liberal Protestant.  Also, I don’t only use Padre Pio.  The old SSPX discouraged Catholics from owning a television especially if they were members of the third order of St Pius X.  Keep posting. Because it demonstrates your lack charity and intelligence. 

From what we hear that many men struggle with pornography addiction….  Adultery.  How many young people are addicted to video games. Many are in their 20’s living with parents.  That’s messed up.  Is that you? 

In real life most traditional Catholics are fake and phonies like yourself. 

















Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 05, 2025, 07:25:41 AM
Drivel 
(https://i.imgur.com/ZsWsbP5.png)
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 05, 2025, 08:05:56 AM
We are never going to get a “conservative” pope because soyboy “Catholics” like you. 

Maybe you should get sign off to work a job, pray and fast. 





Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 05, 2025, 08:06:56 AM
Do you know me?  Happy ASh Wednesday to be slandered by a 23 year old with zero life.  In the real world I go to church where there is tv present downstairs.  You are the hypocrite and you lack charity like most who attend these chapels. 

Don’t you work a job?  Or do you like to abuse technology by slandering people.

You’re so immature.  You talk like a stalker too.  Who are you to judge me.

You lie.  You aren’t a traditional Catholic.
You talk talk like a liberal Protestant.  Also, I don’t only use Padre Pio.  The old SSPX discouraged Catholics from owning a television especially if they were members of the third order of St Pius X.  Keep posting. Because it demonstrates your lack charity and intelligence. 

From what we hear that many men struggle with pornography addiction….  Adultery.  How many young people are addicted to video games. Many are in their 20’s living with parents.  That’s messed up.  Is that you? 

In real life most traditional Catholics are fake and phonies like yourself.
Wow! This IS getting out of hand. Viva AND WorldsAway, I think you’re missing the point! Our Lord wants you (plural) to work on replacing your predominant faults with the corresponding virtues. His timing is perfect, just at the beginning of Lent. Replace anger and rash judgment with forbearance and mildness, harsh words with gentle, temper with meekness, disdain with charity, rudeness with being polite, disrespect with respect, condemnation with forgiveness, and so on. Review last Sunday’s Epistle, I Corinthians 13. Just DO as St. Paul says. Never mind your “feelings.” Do as instructed and your feelings will eventually follow. Don’t give up until the thought of one another no longer stirs up wrath. It sounds as if you are both of a choleric temperament, so Our Lord has given you a Lenten challenge. You may never be “besties.” That’s okay. Read Romans 12:18-20.
:( When God brings disagreeable people into our lives, it’s to make us holier!  
:pray: May you have a fruitful Lent!
~ Seraphina
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 05, 2025, 08:18:45 AM
From what we hear that many men struggle with pornography addiction….  Adultery.  How many young people are addicted to video games. Many are in their 20’s living with parents.  That’s messed up.  Is that you? 

In real life most traditional Catholics are fake and phonies like yourself.
Missed the edit. This is not the first time Viva has baselessly accused people of being porn addicts:

https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/spewing-bitter-vile-personal-attacks/msg817113/#msg817113

Is this some sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder? Marijuana, sodomy, porn, television, ad infinitum 
 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 05, 2025, 08:29:20 AM
Wow! This IS getting out of hand. Viva AND WorldsAway, I think you’re missing the point! Our Lord wants you (plural) to work on replacing your predominant faults with the corresponding virtues. His timing is perfect, just at the beginning of Lent. Replace anger and rash judgment with forbearance and mildness, harsh words with gentle, temper with meekness, disdain with charity, rudeness with being polite, disrespect with respect, condemnation with forgiveness, and so on. Review last Sunday’s Epistle, I Corinthians 13. Just DO as St. Paul says. Never mind your “feelings.” Do as instructed and your feelings will eventually follow. Don’t give up until the thought of one another no longer stirs up wrath. It sounds as if you are both of a choleric temperament, so Our Lord has given you a Lenten challenge. You may never be “besties.” That’s okay. Read Romans 12:18-20.
:( When God brings disagreeable people into our lives, it’s to make us holier! 
:pray: May you have a fruitful Lent!
~ Seraphina

The problem is that VCR has been able to discern that I am a jobless, porn addicted, video game addicted, adulterating, lukewarm, modernist stalker with zero life because I do not oppose the usage of TVs livestreaming mass in overflow rooms. When push comes to shove I cannot think of a user who displays more vitriol and hatred. This is not the first time she has done this.  I have attacked the content of her posts because she is wrong. She has attacked my character because she is bitter and lacking in charity, as she has done to many users
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 05, 2025, 08:46:27 AM
WA, you can be 100% correct, but if you lack charity, it’s useless. I Cor. 13!
Just think how holy you could be by Easter. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 05, 2025, 09:24:37 AM
The problem is that VCR has been able to discern that I am a jobless, porn addicted, video game addicted, adulterating, lukewarm, modernist stalker with zero life because I do not oppose the usage of TVs livestreaming mass in overflow rooms. When push comes to shove I cannot think of a user who displays more vitriol and hatred. This is not the first time she has done this.  I have attacked the content of her posts because she is wrong. She has attacked my character because she is bitter and lacking in charity, as she has done to many users
When dealing with people who just don't get it and won't stop, it is best to walk away. I know that she made some very hurtful accusations and that is not fair. Some people can be reasoned with, others can't. Just learn whose who and act accordingly. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 05, 2025, 09:25:44 AM
Wow! This IS getting out of hand. Viva AND WorldsAway, I think you’re missing the point! Our Lord wants you (plural) to work on replacing your predominant faults with the corresponding virtues. His timing is perfect, just at the beginning of Lent. Replace anger and rash judgment with forbearance and mildness, harsh words with gentle, temper with meekness, disdain with charity, rudeness with being polite, disrespect with respect, condemnation with forgiveness, and so on. Review last Sunday’s Epistle, I Corinthians 13. Just DO as St. Paul says. Never mind your “feelings.” Do as instructed and your feelings will eventually follow. Don’t give up until the thought of one another no longer stirs up wrath. It sounds as if you are both of a choleric temperament, so Our Lord has given you a Lenten challenge. You may never be “besties.” That’s okay. Read Romans 12:18-20.
:( When God brings disagreeable people into our lives, it’s to make us holier! 
:pray: May you have a fruitful Lent!
~ Seraphina

Thank you for saying this.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: WorldsAway on March 05, 2025, 09:52:16 AM
WA, you can be 100% correct, but if you lack charity, it’s useless. I Cor. 13!
Just think how holy you could be by Easter.
Yes, I could have been more charitable. I will try to have a productive lent :pray:
When dealing with people who just don't get it and won't stop, it is best to walk away. I know that she made some very hurtful accusations and that is not fair. Some people can be reasoned with, others can't. Just learn whose who and act accordingly.
Personally I don't really mind it that much as I am anonymous. It is more so her soul we should be worried about because even though her accusations do not damage my character, they are still bitter, vile, baseless sentiments she is holding in her heart towards a fellow Catholic
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Meg on March 05, 2025, 10:32:00 AM
Watching Mass at home is needed at times. 

We aren’t traditional Catholics either. 

Before Vatican II, the true Catholic Church tried to warn Catholics about certain tv programming and even shows, theatre, dances.  It’s why the church is in crisis today.    I guess Catholics were Amish or puritan like before Vatican II. 

So many people who attend any chapels are holier than thou and dressed like frumps but during the week while  they dress like hookers at weddings. Its hypocrisy.

many times you are in church and you can’t see because maybe a tall man is in the pew in front of you but I can read my missal and hear the priest.  So what is wrong with speakers for the overflow? 

television, marijuana, overeating, cell phones etc can be false idols. 

Actually, speakers for the overflow is a good idea. I don't think that a TV is really needed, when we know how to follow along in a missal, or not even follow along. We can tell by the words being said by the priest as to where he is in the course of Mass. Maybe, for newbies to the TLM, a TV is helpful, but they really shouldn't be the basis for a norm. 

I have a TV and watch occasionally, but it would be better if I didn't. I mostly watch old movies and Hallmark-type stuff. 

I recently read an article about the problem with TV. It's not only that so much programing contains bad things, but that most TV shows don't depict the fact that many Americans still have some sort of religious beliefs. On TV, the characters almost never have any religious beliefs, and that does not represent the reality for many people. But still we want to watch TV. I think it's a way to de-stress and forget about real life. But it can also move us away from growing in holiness, if we depend on it. It can be the same with the computer, though we can better control what we view on a computer. Just my 2 cents worth. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Gray2023 on March 05, 2025, 10:42:23 AM
Actually, speakers for the overflow is a good idea. I don't think that a TV is really needed, when we know how to follow along in a missal, or not even follow along. We can tell by the words being said by the priest as to where he is in the course of Mass. Maybe, for newbies to the TLM, a TV is helpful, but they really shouldn't be the basis for a norm.

I have a TV and watch occasionally, but it would be better if I didn't. I mostly watch old movies and Hallmark-type stuff.

I recently read an article about the problem with TV. It's not only that so much programing contains bad things, but that most TV shows don't depict the fact that many Americans still have some sort of religious beliefs. On TV, the characters almost never have any religious beliefs, and that does not represent the reality for many people. But still we want to watch TV. I think it's a way to de-stress and forget about real life. But it can also move us away from growing in holiness, if we depend on it. It can be the same with the computer, though we can better control what we view on a computer. Just my 2 cents worth.
From the point of view of a mother, if you are nursing or have unruly children then a screen is helpful to see where you are in the Mass and help give some instruction to your children without bothering others. I spent 8 years in such a room and I am very grateful to its utility.  
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Mithrandylan on March 05, 2025, 11:56:37 AM
Thanks? I read some threads on CI and comment. I don’t do social media of any type like Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, or whatever. It’s a bunch of gossip, self-promotion, bullying, plus if you value your privacy, it’s no good. I live-stream Masses, look at crafts, sewing, cooking, nature, sermons, conferences, the weather forecast, briefly scan the “news.” I use email to correspond with a very few people, and to get basic information, such as, what time does Farm and Home Supply close tonight?  Oh, and I’ve purchased items like books, a Rosary, an office chair for my nephew’s birthday, etc. That’s the extent of it. In fact, it’s time to sign off because the store closes at 7:00 and I need to make another stop en route.
Add AMDG to your list. She’s into sewing and on the women only thread. I probably missed a few people. There are men who shouldn’t be online, either!
I forgot about AMDG. Absolutely she gets to keep her Internet card too. And Jen51.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: dymphnaw on March 05, 2025, 12:53:19 PM
Am I? 
Yes. I can't remember the last time you seemed content and you keep lashing out at anyone who makes the slightest disagreement with you. 
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Fifteen Decades Daily on March 05, 2025, 02:58:05 PM
I forgot about AMDG. Absolutely she gets to keep her Internet card too. And Jen51.
Keep Soubirous, too.

Put the rest of us on view-only mode, while retaining the Women Only forum.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Mithrandylan on March 05, 2025, 04:14:18 PM
Didn't know Soubirous was a woman
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: rum on March 05, 2025, 06:43:56 PM
I like Fr. Feeney's comment: "To have a TV in your living room is like having a iw in your living room."

Of course I was raised on iw-tv and iw-movies.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Aleah on March 05, 2025, 07:00:23 PM
Keep Soubirous, too.

Put the rest of us on view-only mode, while retaining the Women Only forum.
Well, darn🤐
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Seraphina on March 05, 2025, 08:16:47 PM
I like Fr. Feeney's comment: "To have a TV in your living room is like having a iw in your living room."

Of course I was raised on iw-tv and iw-movies.
Maybe TA because I’m old, I’ve no idea what is iw?
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: rum on March 05, 2025, 08:21:32 PM
Maybe TA because I’m old, I’ve no idea what is iw?
The people who Jesus called "Children of the Devil." I have to use different spelling because these people are so powerful that the owner of this forum has felt the need to warn members to never use the word outside of the members only subforum.
Title: Re: Tv, iw ,etc.
Post by: Twice dyed on March 06, 2025, 12:09:48 PM
https://homework.study.com/explanation/what-year-was-the-letter-j-invented.html

...Until the year 1524, there was no letter 'J' in the alphabet. The letter 'J' was originally the same letter as 'I. ' The 'father of the letter J' is Gian Giorgio Trissino, an Italian author and grammarian who lived from 1478 to 1550.
***
Now I know where the J comes from. I wonder when the Latin dictionaries adopted it? 

IESU, miserere nobis. +

I don't like cameras/ photographers in a church. But then, look at Padre Pio...cameras were basically in his face at his last mass. 
Interesting that I saw two newscasts , interviews with Sspx priests, and sure enough, the interviews were held in the nave...It's like the pagan media want to insult us catholics by denying that there anything holy in a Catholic church: ie. No Real Presence in the Tabernacle. Chipping away at the holiness/sacred... 
Yup! iw doodedit.

Title: Re: Tv, iw ,etc.
Post by: Giovanni Berto on March 06, 2025, 12:52:29 PM
https://homework.study.com/explanation/what-year-was-the-letter-j-invented.html

...Until the year 1524, there was no letter 'J' in the alphabet. The letter 'J' was originally the same letter as 'I. ' The 'father of the letter J' is Gian Giorgio Trissino, an Italian author and grammarian who lived from 1478 to 1550.
***
Now I know where the J comes from. I wonder when the Latin dictionaries adopted it?

IESU, miserere nobis. +

I don't like cameras/ photographers in a church. But then, look at Padre Pio...cameras were basically in his face at his last mass.
Interesting that I saw two newscasts , interviews with Sspx priests, and sure enough, the interviews were held in the nave...It's like the pagan media want to insult us catholics by denying that there anything holy in a Catholic church: ie. No Real Presence in the Tabernacle. Chipping away at the holiness/sacred...
Yup! iw doodedit.

This is interesting. Ironically, there's no J in modern Italian.
Title: Re: TVs everywhere
Post by: Minnesota on March 06, 2025, 02:09:49 PM
How old are you?  Why all of a sudden there are now televisions in chapels when there wasn’t?  Going along with the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr church.  We all see the gradual changes to SSPX and many that go to independents chapels are living a double life too.

These aren’t regular tvs.  These are “smart” tvs.  Big brother is watching.
Because the technology is there, the cost is lower and we have the infrastructure to stream a feed from a phone camera to a TV with wifi or a data connection. You can buy a regular TV and something to stream the YT feed from a phone to the TV for less than $100. Walmart has their own brand which is actually quite good.

You ask this, but again, I ask of you: Why are you on a thing that requires internet access if you consistently bemoan modern technology?