Stitches

re: Venial Sin my butt!

Posted by Stitches on 3/31/24 at 7:57 pm

I'm applying for Holy Apostles online graduate program. Hoping to start in the fall, but my first child is also due any day now, so that might get pushed back. ...

re: Planning on Attending Good Friday Mass for the First Time.

Posted by Stitches on 3/26/24 at 11:18 am

Multiple things. 1) Comparing the doctrine as defined in the original Protestant confessions to the scriptures. For example, WCF 1.6 basically states that all things pertaining to a matter of salvation, faith, or life must be explicitly stated in scripture, or implied in such a way that you c...

re: Planning on Attending Good Friday Mass for the First Time.

Posted by Stitches on 3/26/24 at 9:23 am

Yeah its been quite the journey. Once the first plank fell (sola scriptura), everything else just sort of fell into place. ...

re: Planning on Attending Good Friday Mass for the First Time.

Posted by Stitches on 3/26/24 at 9:20 am

Holy Thursday is not a day of obligation....

re: Planning on Attending Good Friday Mass for the First Time.

Posted by Stitches on 3/26/24 at 8:35 am

[quote]Jesus gave up the ghost after only 6 hours. What’s the deal with that?[/quote] Being beaten almost to the point of death, having a crown of thorns shoved into your brain, and having the sins of the entire world pressed upon your shoulders in an instant might all have something to do wit...

re: Planning on Attending Good Friday Mass for the First Time.

Posted by Stitches on 3/26/24 at 8:17 am

[quote]you are excluded from drinking blood and eating human flesh.[/quote] [quote]It’s a cannibalistic ritual[/quote] So you admit that the bread and wine are transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? [quote]a guy they murdered[/quote] That would ...

re: Planning on Attending Good Friday Mass for the First Time.

Posted by Stitches on 3/26/24 at 8:11 am

[quote]What happens during Easter vigil?[/quote] It's probably THE most sacred Mass for the entire liturgical year, but it's also 3 hours long. New converts are welcomed into the church during the vigil service, and some have to be baptized if they have never been baptized. It's basically lik...

re: Planning on Attending Good Friday Mass for the First Time.

Posted by Stitches on 3/26/24 at 7:44 am

Just follow along with what everyone else does, and you'll blend right in. There are really only a few times when you stand, and only a couple times during the consecration of the Eucharist when you kneel. It's super easy to follow along. Nobody will know you're not Catholic unless you tell every...

re: Venial Sin my butt!

Posted by Stitches on 3/24/24 at 9:19 am

Foo, I asked this in another thread, and the thread was deleted before I could see if you ever responded. What is your take on the flood being global vs local? ...

re: Do the majority of Catholics share Biden and Pelosi's view on abortion?

Posted by Stitches on 3/9/24 at 12:38 pm

[quote]Do the majority of Catholics share Biden and Pelosi's view on abortion? [/quote] No. There isn't an entity on the planet that is more pro-life than the Catholic church. It goes without saying that there will be tares among the wheat though. ...

re: Dog Heartworm Lifecycle has changed?

Posted by Stitches on 3/6/24 at 7:27 am

I'm the type of guy who would weigh each of my dogs the first day of each month, and give a dose of ivermectin accordingly. Never missed the first day of the month. One of my dogs still got heartworms. My vet said that ivermectin is becoming less effective in the south, and this is a more common...

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re: Suggestions for precocious teen reader

Posted by Stitches on 3/3/24 at 7:07 am

[quote]Watership Down The Giver Wrinkle in Time Ender's Game Brave New World Frankenstine Time Machine Dracula Lord of the Flies Huck Finn [b]Call of the Wild[/b] [b]Treasure Island[/b] Gulliver's Travels Sword in the Stone Three Musketeers Swiss Family Robinson The Outsiders Little...

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re: How much worse do you think Sodom and Gomorrah were than today’s world?

Posted by Stitches on 3/3/24 at 6:57 am

According to Scripture and Jewish tradition, the sin that led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was inhospitality....except in this case, inhospitality means everything from charging a toll to anyone wanting to enter into the city, all the way to gangraping visitors....

re: Pope Francis taken to hospital after this morning's General Audience...

Posted by Stitches on 2/28/24 at 7:28 am

[quote]Next Pope needs to be young [b]and[/b] based[/quote] The "and" is the key word here. A young Eastern or African Catholic Pope would be awesome. A young and vibrant second coming of Francis would be horrible. ...

re: Pope Francis taken to hospital after this morning's General Audience...

Posted by Stitches on 2/28/24 at 7:25 am

[quote]f you currently look up the Saint Malachi prophecy of the last Pope before Roma falls and an antiPope. Last Pope "Peter The Roman" It seems wikipedia and a lot of publications are calling it fiction. [/quote] It is fiction. It was published in 1595, and as a result, shows insane accura...

re: Venial Sin my butt!

Posted by Stitches on 2/28/24 at 6:24 am

[quote]My point was that when the Scriptures existed, they were authoritative even if they were lost to the people of Israel for nearly 60 years, or if not everyone in Christendom had all books available to them for a few hundred years, though they were widely available much earlier than the 300's.[...

re: Venial Sin my butt!

Posted by Stitches on 2/26/24 at 6:10 pm

[quote]Yep, it was a good debate. Dr. White is a good debater[/quote] Agreed. His anti-KJVO work pulled me away from fundamentalism. I watch all of his stuff, even though I disagree with him on many things. [quote]The Scriptures ("the book of the law") were the authority in the Old Testament ...

re: Venial Sin my butt!

Posted by Stitches on 2/26/24 at 12:35 pm

[quote]What is found in the Apocrypha, Enoch, etc. that is essential to saving the lost?[/quote] The lost were saved between 33AD and 49AD when not a single word of the New Testament was written. So I'm not sure what the point of the question is. I'll say that in 1519, Luther was handily defe...

re: Venial Sin my butt!

Posted by Stitches on 2/26/24 at 9:08 am

[quote]Why does the Orthodox Church have 79 books and the Ethiopic Bible have 84 books?[/quote] The tl;dr version is there has been no synod or council to determine a set list of books amongst the various Orthodox churches post-schism. What they all share in common is their Creed, and so inso...