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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Last post by 2Vermont on Today at 05:38:29 AM »
Quote from: StrivingCatholic on Yesterday at 10:03:08 PM
There is an easy answer to that. We share a love that just makes us want to be answerable for each other and to spend all our lives together, eg. cooking together, doing groceries & chores together, attending mass & other church community activities together, praying together, being beside each other as we lay down to sleep/pillow talk, etc. And we cannot do some of that without the Sacrament of Marriage.

I do not believe an union between two persons have to be about sex. I used to think that way in my youth but now I am actually quite surprised by the kind of nurturing love that can be shared between two persons who did not put sex as a motivation. Love can be shown by other ways that lasts longer than an orgasm. :laugh1:
I don't believe it has to be "about sex" either, however, isn't it something that the Church considers an essential part to a valid marriage?  To be clear, I want to keep this conversation PG (please) and I do not mean to be disrespectful to you, but maybe others can chime in on this.

Having said all of that, from what I'm reading, I suspect that you are already married.  The reason why I brought the attraction issue up is because, assuming you are still married and cannot re-marry, then it sounds like it would still be possible (not exactly what you both WANT, but possible) for you to have this relationship with this person as a great friend without cohabitating. The fact that there is no physical attraction is a huge plus in this regard.
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The Earth God Made - Flat Earth, Geocentrism / Re: Test to Prove Gravity
« Last post by Marulus Fidelis on Today at 02:40:40 AM »
Quote from: St Giles on Yesterday at 06:24:26 PM
... antimatter ...
You've gone off the deep end man... 
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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Last post by Nadir on Today at 12:34:21 AM »
The issue that you need to be concerned with in your case of cohabitation is one of scandal

You two obviously don’t go round with placards which read “we are not having sex”. Your lady friend is a Catholic and now so are you. So observers will believe that you are fornicating and so living in sin. This is no small matter and even if you do not engage in the marital act until you are married, (if indeed you do marry) you are still in danger for your and her immortal souls.

Please read the reasoning behind this.

The Sin of Scandal
http://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/The%20Sin%20of%20Scandal.html




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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Last post by Nadir on Today at 12:17:58 AM »
Struggling Catholic, the Sspx has never been out of communion with the Catholic Church. Whoever tells you that is deceiving you. It is the novel creation of Vatican 2 which has broken communion with the Church established by God and established on His apostles.

Here are the details for Singapore SSPX

St. Pius X Priory
286 Upper Thomson Road
Singapore 574402.
Tel: [65] 6497 2873
www.facebook.com/sspx.sg/
Email
Contact us by webform
View Priory on map
Mass: Sunday 8:00am (Low) & 10:00am (Sung), Monday to Saturday: 7:15am, 11.30am or 7.00pm (please check).
Resident Priests:
Rev. Fr. Patrick Summers (District Superior)
Rev. Fr. Lawrence Novak
Rev. Fr. Etienne Demornex (District Bursar



It will cost you nothing to approach them and see what they have to say about your situation. You could also sit in on one of their Masses or even approach them for confession.

What have you to lose?
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SSPX Resistance News / URGENT Appeal by Nigerian Resistance for Financial Help
« Last post by Plenus Venter on Yesterday at 10:40:11 PM »
This really is an urgent last minute appeal for financial help.

Please see this post from November by Matthew on the Nigerian Resistance for information about their apostolate:
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/resistance-in-nigeria-72685/

I received this email from Fr Onuorah 4 days ago:

Greetings in Our Risen Lord Jesus Christ...  To God be all glory. 

Please don't be offended.  We have only this one week remaining in this month of April to complete the payment for the land I told you about in February as written in the agreement with the owner. By the grace of God through people's donations and Mass stipends...  we have been able to raise and pay up to US$ 8,000, remaining about $9,000. If anyone can still help us please we still need help. Thank you so much and God bless you. 

Be assured of my continued prayers. 

God Bless. 

Sincerely yours in the Risen Lord, 

Rev. Father Joseph Onuorah.

Bank details for Fr Chigbata are on Matthew's post at the link above.
Contact details for the priests are:
onuorajoe93@gmail.com
chigbatamike@gmail.com

Just yesterday, I was reading these words in The Glories of Divine Grace by Fr Matthias Scheeben:
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy". (Matt. 5:7). "Give and it shall be given unto you". (Luke 6:38). The mercy and charity that we show others is so pleasing to God and so meritorious that, on the day of judgment, Our Lord, in accounting the works to be rewarded, will mention only those of mercy, and in the case of the reprobates, will only assign the neglect of these works as the cause of their damnation. In the dispensation of grace, God generally follows the same rule as in the dispensation of the eternal reward. He will be generous to us in this dispensation in proportion to our generosity towards our neighbour. For we deny God what we deny our fellow men since they are the children and members and temples of God. We give God what we give them, for He accepts it as if we had given it to Him." (Ch. 55)




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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Last post by StrivingCatholic on Yesterday at 10:03:08 PM »
Quote from: 2Vermont on Yesterday at 11:42:01 AM
I understood what you were saying, but MF is correct in stating that your living situation is scandalous.

And I'm willing to bet that your struggles with prayer will end when you fix it.

Q:  If you aren't attracted "that way", then why do you want to marry anyway?  Companionship?  It seems to me that you two could remain close friends without marrying and without living together. 
There is an easy answer to that. We share a love that just makes us want to be answerable for each other and to spend all our lives together, eg. cooking together, doing groceries & chores together, attending mass & other church community activities together, praying together, being beside each other as we lay down to sleep/pillow talk, etc. And we cannot do some of that without the Sacrament of Marriage.

I do not believe an union between two persons have to be about sex. I used to think that way in my youth but now I am actually quite surprised by the kind of nurturing love that can be shared between two persons who did not put sex as a motivation. Love can be shown by other ways that lasts longer than an orgasm. :laugh1:
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The Earth God Made - Flat Earth, Geocentrism / Re: Answers in Genesis full panic mode about Flat Earth
« Last post by Matthew on Yesterday at 09:48:49 PM »
It's comical.

Atheist scientists are lying and/or wrong about the origin of the universe, God, religion, the Bible, the nature of Man, the existence of aliens, possibility of time travel or sentient AI, and countless other fundamental errors.

And they've been caught lying more times than I can count. And their lies and errors *couldn't get* larger or more fundamental: existence of "dark matter", the Theory of Relativity, etc.

"But by gum, they are telling the honest truth about the shape of the earth and "outer space"! It's the Bible that's being poetic, wrong, etc."

How can one BE so dense? Stockholm syndrome much? It's like a battered wife deceiving herself to justify her abuser. It's pathological.

THESE SAME SCIENTISTS -- if you trust them -- have a LOT MORE they expect you to believe. Why do you stop short? What justification have you?

I'll tell you what though: you can't serve two masters. Eventually you're going to cut the rope and cast off atheistic science completely -- OR religion. The two can't be served long-term. Our Lord said so, not me.
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The Earth God Made - Flat Earth, Geocentrism / Re: Outer Space is a deception
« Last post by St Giles on Yesterday at 09:48:19 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on Yesterday at 09:02:02 PM
No, it's about the angles at distances.  You just make stuff up, don't you?  Whatever sounds good that you can latch on to with your confirmation bias.  Radio waves get weaker over distance because they spread outward from their source.  It's very similar to how light works, also in waves.  There's something referred to as the inverse square law that applies to anything that moves in waves, whether it be light or sound.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/inverse-square-law



And you tend to oversimplify stuff. It's so much easier that way. It's so much easier to be novus ordo than consider the complexities of viewing the current situation in the church in the light of tradition. It's so much easier to believe there is no pope. It's so much easier to be protestant and just believe in Jesus, be baptized and sin all you want. It's easier to just be a careless atheist sheep.
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The Earth God Made - Flat Earth, Geocentrism / Re: Outer Space is a deception
« Last post by Matthew on Yesterday at 09:44:42 PM »
It's comical.

Atheist scientists are lying and/or wrong about the origin of the universe, God, religion, the Bible, the nature of Man, the existence of aliens, possibility of time travel or sentient AI, and countless other fundamental errors.

And they've been caught lying more times than I can count. And their lies and errors *couldn't get* larger or more fundamental: existence of "dark matter", the Theory of Relativity, etc.

"But by gum, they are telling the honest truth about the shape of the earth and "outer space"! It's the Bible that's being poetic, wrong, etc."

How can one BE so dense? Stockholm syndrome much? It's like a battered wife deceiving herself to justify her abuser. It's pathological.

THESE SAME SCIENTISTS -- if you trust them -- have a LOT MORE they expect you to believe. Why do you stop short? What justification have you?

I'll tell you what though: you can't serve two masters. Eventually you're going to cut the rope and cast off atheistic science completely -- OR religion. The two can't be served long-term. Our Lord said so, not me.
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Anσnymσus Posts Allowed / Re: Reputations of Eastern Orthodoxy
« Last post by Änσnymσus on Yesterday at 09:41:16 PM »
Quote from: SimpleMan on April 25, 2024, 10:26:36 AM
And there are some Orthodox who want to take it one step further, and proclaim Moscow to be the "Third Rome", in that Constantinople doesn't really exist anymore as a center of Orthodoxy (the Ottoman Turks took care of that).


Rome isn't a center of "orthodoxy" today either, so......
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