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« on: November 20, 2015, 08:04:43 PM »
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  • I had been in a group before on Facebook like this.
    It was good but none were near me and the early
    starting of the group was alright not something that
    was bad. Just not enough people to get it going at
    that time.  Are their any like this with traditional
    Catholics in the Usa. It would be nice if they do
    exist in good areas of the Southwest where i am
    currently residing.  It is something to consider.


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    « Reply #1 on: November 21, 2015, 12:16:23 AM »
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    I had been in a group before on Facebook like this.
    It was good but none were near me and the early
    starting of the group was alright not something that
    was bad. Just not enough people to get it going at
    that time.  Are their any like this with traditional
    Catholics in the Usa. It would be nice if they do
    exist in good areas of the Southwest where i am
    currently residing. It is something to consider.


    It must be done already with the help of Almighty God! We are in great need to establish genuine Catholic communities again, in order to restore Christendom. Here is a link to a good reading about building such communities. This article lays down nine foundational principles.  

    Some extracts:


    Christendom’s Building Blocks — Catholic Communities


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    Advantages. Thus understood, a Catholic Community would have the advantages of sanctifying individuals and families by encouraging virtue and making more readily available the means of growth in the spiritual life. This implies, at the least, the availability of Mass, the sacraments, and sound religious instruction, as well as a concrete set of shared principles among those in the society.

    What It’s Not. Of course, a Catholic Community is not a cult like Jonestown, or a Utopian society like Fruitlands. We are members of the universal Church and we are realists. Further, such a community is not necessarily rural, urban, or suburban; as it can exist in all three environments. Neither is it necessarily committed to the agrarian lifestyle. For many reasons, the existence of a multitude of rural agrarian Catholic communities would be ideal — and the popes have affirmed this — but, to be a Catholic community, it need not fit that pattern.


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    Many sacrifices will have to be made simply to return to being normal, ordinary people at home, work, school, church, and in the neighborhood. It is a battle that will require great energy. I am reminded of St. Louis de Montfort’s prophesy that the True devotees of Our Lady in the latter times will build with one hand and fight with the other. While I make no special claim to be one of those he prophesied, it certainly looks as if that’s what we’re being called upon to do. Because of what the forces of organized naturalism have done in their war against Christian order, we live in an atmosphere that is not only barren, but positively noxious. Further, the support we should be getting from churchmen is wanting because of the rampant liberalism in the clergy. God certainly understands this state of affairs and has given us the remarkable example of simple sanctity in form of St. Therese’s “Little Way.” He has also taught us through Our Lady’s revelations at Fatima that the conscientious carrying out of our daily duty is a recipe for sanctity in the modern world.

    This return to normalcy in the home will be aided by a community where those in other homes are striving for the same thing. However, it will still occasion great suffering. It is an uphill battle that we simply cannot win. Only God can win it for us. However, in His mysterious economy of salvation, our sacrifice — if united to His sacrifice on the Cross and its renewal in the Mass — can merit the graces we need to achieve the restoration of Catholic faith and morals, Catholic Liturgy, and Catholic social order. In a word, tomorrow’s Christendom can be supernaturally built by the patient labor of building Catholic Communities.

    http://catholicism.org/christendoms-buildingblocks.html
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.


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    « Reply #2 on: November 21, 2015, 01:01:24 PM »
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  • Quote from: HiddenServant
    I had been in a group before on Facebook like this.
    It was good but none were near me and the early
    starting of the group was alright not something that
    was bad. Just not enough people to get it going at
    that time.  Are their any like this with traditional
    Catholics in the Usa. It would be nice if they do
    exist in good areas of the Southwest where i am
    currently residing.  It is something to consider.


    What about the people from your chapel?

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    « Reply #3 on: November 21, 2015, 03:17:31 PM »
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  • Not that easy , I have 2 autism children,  Did try get to know
    others and instead got the cold shoulder since they did not like
    and respect my children and how their behaviors. Not all the time
    did i go to latin mass. Some times we went Eastern Rite in the
    Catholic Church. Same deal. Now a new group of people are showing
    not many now. Lots of the trouble makers left and so did some of
    the good people who were pushed to the side for not being in their click.