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Offline Vladimir

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« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2011, 11:13:28 PM »
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    • Nothing wrong with the concept of a youth group. It would be rather fun if a strong Catholic spirit was the momentum behind it.

    Think about it...a room of teenagers musing on St. Robert Southwell's poetry, sipping some tea, with some Haydn playing lightly in the background...
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    « Reply #16 on: July 19, 2011, 08:59:53 AM »
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    • Quote from: Vladimir
    Nothing wrong with the concept of a youth group. It would be rather fun if a strong Catholic spirit was the momentum behind it.

    Think about it...a room of teenagers musing on St. Robert Southwell's poetry, sipping some tea, with some Haydn playing lightly in the background...


    Wonderful!!!

    This is how youth groups should be. I love the idea of praying the Divine Office, singing Gregorian chant, learning the Catholic language: Latin, etc. How are we youth supposed to know how to be Catholic if "youth ministers Protestantize our activities? Someone said earlier that the Church isn't only for adults. I agree with that, but we shouldn't turn the Church into a playground to make teenagers feel good. They should be the place where youth learn how to live as a Catholic (traditionally) for their adulthood.
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    Offline Jim

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    « Reply #17 on: July 19, 2011, 10:17:24 AM »
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    • In spite of whatever bad things WYD and other things of this nature have, they have been instruments of people's conversions. I have read accusations of immorality at WYD, but have also elsewhere read that these were exagerations, and not all were true.(specifically sɛҳuąƖ allegations.)
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    « Reply #18 on: July 19, 2011, 11:44:34 AM »
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    • Quote from: Vladimir
    Nothing wrong with the concept of a youth group. It would be rather fun if a strong Catholic spirit was the momentum behind it.

    Think about it...a room of teenagers musing on St. Robert Southwell's poetry, sipping some tea, with some Haydn playing lightly in the background...


    What would also be fun is to have six or seven teenage boys going out with the priest for a day, helping him around the church with physical lifting, landscaping, painting, etc, while the priest talks about fun stuff like philosophy, stories about the saints, history, theology, science, etc. and we can just listen to him and ask questions.
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    In regards to being a responsible man, would it be interesting to learn, after six years of accuмulating all the wisdom you could, that you had it right all alon

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    « Reply #19 on: July 19, 2011, 01:06:43 PM »
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    Nothing wrong with the concept of a youth group. It would be rather fun if a strong Catholic spirit was the momentum behind it.

    Think about it...a room of teenagers musing on St. Robert Southwell's poetry, sipping some tea, with some Haydn playing lightly in the background...


    What would also be fun is to have six or seven teenage boys going out with the priest for a day, helping him around the church with physical lifting, landscaping, painting, etc, while the priest talks about fun stuff like philosophy, stories about the saints, history, theology, science, etc. and we can just listen to him and ask questions.


    Totally agree. I love gardening/landscaping.

    This may be a random question but what ever happened to cassocks? Many priests I know where a clerical suit which is fine with me because I've met many priests that dress like lay people. But many times you can't tell if someone wearing a clerical suit is a Catholic priest. Cassocks give this distinction. They were actually a lot of what attracted me to the priesthood, then I found out no body wears them anymore.

    I brought up the cassock because whenever I think of a priest gardening, I always think of him wearing a cassock. I don't know why, I just always do.
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    "If I saw an Angel and a priest, I would bend my knee first to the priest and then to the Angel." --St. Francis of Assisi (later quoted by St. John Vianney)

    "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of ev
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