Top Ten Reasons To Be Catholic

[Nihil Obstat]

Sounds like you're a sore loser.  And isn't Josef Frings' former aid the one who is currently running around trying to get people to do more Tridentine Liturgy and all that stuffs your flavor of Catholic likes?  Seems like it'd be safer to be on his side.  

 

Also Alfredo had his microphone turned off in the middle of one of his speeches during the council because he was just that annoying.   :|

 

Seriously, more people need to get in on this.  It was totally the best part of 1963, hands down.  

 

 

 

 

 

Sounds like you're a sore loser.  

 

Nah, I am content for now. I know what needs to be done.

 

And isn't Josef Frings' former aid the one who is currently running around trying to get people to do more Tridentine Liturgy and all that stuffs your flavor of Catholic likes?  Seems like it'd be safer to be on his side.  

 

 

Like good whisky, he just gets better with age. :proud:

 

 

 

Also Alfredo had his microphone turned off in the middle of one of his speeches during the council because he was just that annoying.   :|

 

 

Truly the crowning moment of childishness of the entire Council. He deserved far better.

[Anastasia13]

25. An Armenian rite exists (which you should all consider joining if you can).

26. Catholics are one of those few denominations that you know you can admit to drinking around or something like that.

27. Stephen Colbert, Jose Mourinho, Shakira.

 

 

Edited January 11, 2013 by Light and Truth

[Adrestia]

1. Truth
2. Love
3. Forgiveness
4. Mercy
5. Redemtive suffering
6. The Eucharist
7. Community
8. Reconciliation
9. Tradition
10. Family

[brianthephysicist]

Last weekend I learned that a fair number of non-Catholic Christian groups don't have is Purgatory (which means we can't pray for the dead).  Most of these same groups also don't have the ability to ask those in heaven to pray for us.  

 

 

This just brought a question to mind.  Can those in Purgatory pray for us?  My first response is "yes, of course" but I know that sometimes my views of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory get a little bit off track.

[Mary+Immaculate<3]

The Eucharist

Marian devotion/prayers

The Intercession of the Saints

Religious Life

Latin Mass

The Pope

Infallibility/the Magisterium

The 73-book, original Bible

My PM phriends

St. Lucy!

2,000 years of Tradition

Pro-Life from conception to natural death

Heaven!

[Mary+Immaculate<3]

Forgot to mention, but still very important:

Confession and the other Sacraments

New Catholic Generation

The fulfillment of the Old Testament in the New Testament, which is only complete in the Catholic Church

All the awesome people in history and modern history who happen to be Catholic

Christopher Columbus

[sixpence]

1. Mass

2. Awesome-ness

3. Awesome-ness

4. The promise of Christ to the Church

5. Tradition (with tune from Fiddler on the Roof)

6. Adoration

7. Global community (Diversity with Unity)

8. The Communion of Saints

9. Confession

10. Awesome-ness

[add]

Free bread and wine

[Era Might]

Free bread and wine

 

The Orthodox actually give you bread after Mass to eat lol...I forget what it's called, but it's non-consecrated bread.

[Nihil Obstat]

The Orthodox actually give you bread after Mass to eat lol...I forget what it's called, but it's non-consecrated bread.

 

Antidoron is the word you are looking for, I think.

[i<3franciscans]

1. Mass

2. Adoration

3. It's true

4. Priests and sisters

5. Confession

6. Saints

7. Mary

8. The Rosary

9. The Communion of Saints

10. Heaven. :)

[Anastasia13]

-Best explanation of the trinity I ever heard came from a Catholic priest during a catechism class.

-Best explanation of why we ask saints to interceed for us that I ever heard came from a Catholic Campus minister.

-One of my biggest regrets about how my years of college went before I ever transferred anywhere was that I did the good Protestant thing (aka listened to evangelicals too much) instead of being more into the Catholic club that felt more like home.
-Catholics seem less judgemental about things that don't matter much, like having a beer and saying a cuss word when occasion calls, plus they don't all listen to Christian rock or praise and worship, which is a healthier approach to life than many groups I have been in.

-If every Apostolic church holds to real presence, there may be something to it.
-I don't think I have ever had to defend a neurological diagnosis to a Catholic before, but I have to some EO, and some Protestants and non-Christians.

-A Catholic has never told me that I am called to be less holy because I don't think I am not supposed to be a nun.

-Catholics have added more than a couple saints over the last millenium/millenium and a half.

-At the Oriental Orthodox churches I have attended, it is even harder to find a single age appropriate guy who attends church more than 4 times a year: I have met a few Catholic guys like that (and who attend more than 4 times a year!).  Orthodox pwns any of you on diffuculty finding someone religious to marry after you are 25.

-The nicest guys I ever dated were Catholic.

-Good soteriology.

-I've never heard of anything with a sexless marriage in an Orthodox church, but a re-reading of 1 Cor. 7 may make this more reasonable for a few couples than I used to think, and I read a few years ago that there is a special dispensation or something for this in the Catholic church.

-The Catholic Church articulates something more directly fitting my view of non-Apostolic Christians than does the Orthodox churches.

-Eastern rites permit married priests.

-The Armenian Catholic church I once visited had an English Mass as well as an Armenian Mass.

-The Orthodox, and even the Armenian Orthodox have killed in the name of Christianity.

-Communion/Eucharist is weekly/daily as it should be, not monthly like some groups.

-Church leadership is also male.

[MissScripture]

Last weekend I learned that a fair number of non-Catholic Christian groups don't have is Purgatory (which means we can't pray for the dead).  Most of these same groups also don't have the ability to ask those in heaven to pray for us.  

 

 

This just brought a question to mind.  Can those in Purgatory pray for us?  My first response is "yes, of course" but I know that sometimes my views of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory get a little bit off track.

Yes, those in purgatory are able to pray for us, and we for them, but from my understanding, they cannot pray for themselves. 

[God the Father]

Plaid skirts

[theculturewarrior]

I don't have a list.  Phatmass is cool, and Mount Carmel.  Only one thing really comes to mind: the Cross.

 

In 2007, a regionally famous singer upset some powerful people and she survived an assassination attempt.  Her entire entourage was gunned down.  The gunmen followed her to the emergency room and gunned her down on the operating table.  Although I was on the other side of the border, I was within walking distance when this happened, and this was toward the beginning of Calderon's Drug War,  For some reason it was singers and journalists who came out in the news first.  It was not uncommon to hear of criminals decapitating a journalist and then throwing his head into the newspaper offices as a warning.

 

As the years rolled by, the criminals starting killing each other off, and they needed new blood.  They began a campaign of forced conscription.  I posted about San Fernando here before.  People were taken off of the buses and given the choice to kill or to die.  There was a student who lost his life that way.  He is my inspiration.  I saw him around my office from time to time.  He was just starting out in life and he seemed like a very kind, gentle person.  He couldn't have been more than a sophomore.  Very quiet, I never heard him a speak a word, which is actually unusual for librarians these days.  I found out in the news that he was taken from the bus while travelling and murdered.

 

His name was Jonathan.  My entire understanding of the Gospel comes from his example.  In life, we all suffer and die.  That is universal.  Jonathan, though, died with his refusal to consent and his dignity in tact.  From his example, I would rather suffer anything than a coward's life and a coward's death.  I never heard him speak a word, but he changed my life completely, and I realize looking back that if I can change one person's mind in a way that pleases God, I can change the world, and I would imagine that Jonathan inspires many more lives than own.

 

This is the Cross.  This is the only answer to oppression.  Everything I have, everything I want, and everything that I am is Christ's.  You have not answered the call to holiness unless you are willing to make the sacrifice of Isaac, and until we have that in our hearts, tyranny reigns.  We belong to God.  He gives us only two things in life: stewardship, and this present moment to do the best with that we can.

 

I don't know where I am going and I don't what doing most of the time.  It usually begins with a prayer that it pleases God though and for his guidance.  I have been looking for closure for years and I have only found the Cross.  I don't know what that means.  I know where I want my story to end.  I want to return to San Fernando, and my heart won't rest until I do.  I saw it before the war.  It was a happy a place with street vendors and people laughing and smiling.  Now it is a ghost town surrounded by mass graves.  I want to feel that sacred dirt run through my fingers.  There is hope for mankind.  Jonathan is one of tens of thousands of people who made that act of conscience and paid for it with their lives.  When I say que viva Cristo Rey, it means that I am ready to suffer anything if it pleases God.  My life would not make sense without the Cross, without a crucified King, and I found its fullness in the Catholic Church.  Que viva Cristo Rey!

Edited January 12, 2013 by theculturewarrior