Author Topic: Look who I found at the Thrift Store (Read 4642 times)

s2srea · « **on:** August 20, 2013, 03:17:35 PM »

I just couldn't leave Him there. Besides, I don't have Him yet:

MyrnaM · « **Reply #1 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:20:00 PM »

BEAUTIFUL!

I love going to thrift shops, have found so many Catholic treasures there.

What do you mean, you don't have Him yet?

s2srea · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:21:56 PM »

I'm going to ask my mother in law if she can make a new vestment for Him. The stitching doesn't' look too complicated. Anyone have experience with this?

s2srea · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:23:24 PM »

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BEAUTIFUL!

I love going to thrift shops, have found so many Catholic treasures there.

Yes! Now, my mother has the BEST luck at thrift shops. She's found many missals, and old pre-VII religious books of all kinds, including priests books.

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What do you mean, you don't have Him yet?

I mean I don't have a statue of the Infant of Prague... but now I do!

Emerentiana · « **Reply #4 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:30:44 PM »

Rea,
they have tons of Infant of Prague clothes for sale on e bay type in the term vestments into the search. Make sure you measure the statue from the bottom of the base to the neck. Contact the seller and ask him to measure the vestment.

MyrnaM · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:41:24 PM »

Oh, sorry, I am a bit slow today, I thought for some reason you purchased the statue but couldn't bring it home for some reason.

s2srea · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:42:39 PM »

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Rea,
they have tons of Infant of Prague clothes for sale on e bay type in the term vestments into the search. Make sure you measure the statue from the bottom of the base to the neck. Contact the seller and ask him to measure the vestment.

Thanks for the idea- already on it!

Stubborn · « **Reply #7 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:43:42 PM »

Beautiful!
Don't forget to get Him blessed.

If you run into problems with His outfits, PM me.

s2srea · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:44:04 PM »

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Oh, sorry, I am a bit slow today, I thought for some reason you purchased the statue but couldn't bring it home for some reason.

Not to worry- my English grammar and composition isn't known for its perfection. :wink:

s2srea · « **Reply #9 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:45:25 PM »

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Beautiful!
Don't forget to get Him blessed.

Yes I was thinking the same.

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If you run into problems with His outfits, PM me.

Thank you!

TCat · « **Reply #10 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:49:02 PM »

Myself, I have never had a devotion to the infant Jesus of prague.
I just don't see how people could adore Jesus by meditating on when He was an infant. His kingship is a manly one, full of wisdom and power, the infant to me represents a kind of Jesus that is weak and vulnerable, and under our power as any infant would be. Sorry if this offends, I understand it is a practice since before Vatican 2, but I don't think the church was free from error before the council either. Some people kiss that thing and practice idolatry. My point is Jesus and His glory was that He fearlessly preached the truth, was cruxified and rose again to be king. This infant represents before all this happened. And like the bible says of Jesus when He was lost in the temple ( I think ) "he grew in grace with God and men" - then His godhood was not expressed as fully when He was a child. He was an ordinary child, different, but until age 30 was an ordinary man, except without sin.
It was only in adulthood 3 years before he died that He demonstrated His glory, and IF His glory was in adulthood, is not venerating/adoring(?) the child Jesus some refusal to accept Jesus in His glory.

I think this is what happens when Catholicism gets comfortable, people mutilate it into what they want and make Jesus a child.
If anyone has some argument as to why I should accept this child Jesus worship then Id like to hear it.

s2srea · « **Reply #11 on:** August 20, 2013, 03:58:55 PM »

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Myself, I have never had a devotion to the infant Jesus of prague.
I just don't see how people could adore Jesus by meditating on when He was an infant. His kingship is a manly one, full of wisdom and power, the infant to me represents a kind of Jesus that is weak and vulnerable, and under our power as any infant would be. Sorry if this offends, I understand it is a practice since before Vatican 2, but I don't think the church was free from error before the council either. Some people kiss that thing and practice idolatry.

I understand what you're saying, but reading up to this point, and considering some of your other posts, I think your attention and concerns are better focused elsewhere. I will promise you this. I will use this Infant of Prague, once blessed, and ask for your peace of soul and a Holy Death for you.

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My point is Jesus and His glory was that He fearlessly preached the truth, was cruxified and rose again to be king. This infant represents before all this happened

This is true. And while not all devotions or prayers of Church tradition are imposed on the Faithful, people often have particular devotions to one or another (be it saints, prayers, etc).

Our basic catechism teaches us that God is Eternal. He has no begining or end. God is Trinitarian, containing three persons. Jesus, the second person of that Blessed Trinity, is God. Jesus is Eternal. Devoting oneself to the Eternal God, the second Person in the Blessed Trinity, we, as you rightly point out, speak to Him as our human minds only know how: as a person in a particular time; in reality, He is outside of time. But for our minds to comprehend what we can, we pick a particular time of His life on earth to meditate on and/or converse with him.

Our Blessed Lord was Lord and God during his Childhood, just as much as when He was an adult, and vice versa. Even his entire adulthood, He did not have a public ministry; but that did not make Him any less God before He converted water to wine for His Blessed Mother. It wasn't as if that was the moment, His first public miracle, that He had a new Nature. I'm sure others can speak more eloquently on this subject than I. But I want you to be assured of my prayers.

Zeitun · « **Reply #12 on:** August 20, 2013, 04:06:32 PM »

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Myself, I have never had a devotion to the infant Jesus of prague.
I just don't see how people could adore Jesus by meditating on when He was an infant. His kingship is a manly one, full of wisdom and power, the infant to me represents a kind of Jesus that is weak and vulnerable, and under our power as any infant would be. Sorry if this offends, I understand it is a practice since before Vatican 2, but I don't think the church was free from error before the council either. Some people kiss that thing and practice idolatry. My point is Jesus and His glory was that He fearlessly preached the truth, was cruxified and rose again to be king. This infant represents before all this happened. And like the bible says of Jesus when He was lost in the temple ( I think ) "he grew in grace with God and men" - then His godhood was not expressed as fully when He was a child. He was an ordinary child, different, but until age 30 was an ordinary man, except without sin.
It was only in adulthood 3 years before he died that He demonstrated His glory, and IF His glory was in adulthood, is not venerating/adoring(?) the child Jesus some refusal to accept Jesus in His glory.

I think this is what happens when Catholicism gets comfortable, people mutilate it into what they want and make Jesus a child.
If anyone has some argument as to why I should accept this child Jesus worship then Id like to hear it.

I dare you to say this to Fr. Hewko's face.

shin · « **Reply #13 on:** August 20, 2013, 04:18:56 PM »

'As to why I did not immediately assume the same stature at birth as I had in my thirtieth year, I answer: If I had done this, everyone would have been full of wonder and fear, following me more out of fear and because of the miracles they had seen rather than from love. And how then would the sayings of the prophets have been fulfilled? They foretold that I would be placed in a manger among animals, and adored by kings, and presented in the temple, and pursued by enemies. Therefore, in order to show that my human nature was real and that the prophecies were fulfilled in me, my limbs grew over intervals of time, although I was as full of wisdom at the start of my birth as at the end.'

Christ, 'The Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden'

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #14 on:** August 20, 2013, 04:20:29 PM »

Our Blessed Redeemer was and is fully God eternally, and that includes even the very first moment in the virginal womb of Our Lady. How can it possibly be idolatry to adore Him at every moment of His existence veiled in human flesh? Here He shows His love for us and His humility in allowing Himself to be but a helpless Babe fully dependent upon His Mother to care for Him. The shepherds came to adore their God.

St. Francis of Assisi was deeply devoted to the "Babe of Bethlehem".