tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post1489274167786294433..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Virgin and MartyrFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-81062839820497182382013-02-06T13:18:55.606+00:002013-02-06T13:18:55.606+00:00Austen's defence of marriage in your link to t...Austen's defence of marriage in your link to the Guardian is good stuff for once. Tina's arguments on the other hand are the usual mixture of unreadable prose, emotion and lack of reasoning skills. Apparently marriage is another one of those 'difficult and complex issues' which require hours and hours of thinking about when in fact if you asked an uneducated French peasant what it was they would tell you straight away. I'm glad I'm not a professor.<br /><br />Meanwhile Tina's latest offering on her blog is a 'sermon' she delivered on a Sunday recently at a Methodist church in Bristol. Is she trying tell us something? Still a Protestant at heart and wants to be a 'priest'? Anyway in the rambling prose she writes this<br /><br />"However we explain evolution and the processes of life, we know that in the struggle to the top of the evolutionary ladder, we have lost some of the fundamental attributes that would allow us to be at peace in the world and with one another. This is what Christians call original sin, but we can call it by other names – alienation, being towards death, existential angst."<br /><br />She clearly doesn't understand the meaning of Original Sin and I think that's her problem. She doesn't actually understand what sanctifying grace is. I notice also there's no reference to rejecting God's authority, sin or concupiscence. In a lot of ways I think it explains plenty.BJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07593104081224026799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-62070676392784446962013-02-06T04:28:16.313+00:002013-02-06T04:28:16.313+00:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0YQdLuMwHY
Triden...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0YQdLuMwHY<br /><br />Tridentine Wedding Mass.<br /><br />After a courtship supervised by a Priest, the first kiss between this couple was when the Padre pronounced them husband and wife.<br /><br />They were catechized in tradition, no novelties, and received the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony properly, then began to have their children, as many as God will allow.<br /><br />How many come before your altar in a state of grace?<br /><br />Priests need to work on chastity, catechism, and providing proper sacraments.<br /><br />"...I have always found it irritating that there are women saints in the church honored as "Virgins" but no men honored as such..."<br /><br />Only women are virgins, men are chaste.<br /><br />"Joseph was Mary's most chaste spouse"<br /><br />Catholics must abandon Liberalism and return to the True Faith.<br /><br /><br />*Pablo the Mexicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09384415590309803327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-8213678461913007962013-02-06T02:11:44.713+00:002013-02-06T02:11:44.713+00:00"[the Church] sees all humanity, and human ac..."[the Church] sees all humanity, and human action, including especially our sexuality, as flawed and damaged and yet, in Christ, all is redeemable" In a nutshell. Deo gratias<br /><br />'virgins and mothers' -the virgin renounced, made a sacrifice of, at least the possibility, of motherhood:<br /><br />"For virginity is most intimately connected to the theological foundation of marriage...earthly infertility becomes true fertility. . . ."<br />Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 'Daughter Zion', Ignatius Press.Our Lady of Good Success-pray for us.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14746510579669229511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-10306241149023699552013-02-05T23:16:38.140+00:002013-02-05T23:16:38.140+00:00Hopefully those male monks who hadn't been mar...Hopefully those male monks who hadn't been married were also virgins!gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-40446412433840740012013-02-05T22:42:15.760+00:002013-02-05T22:42:15.760+00:00Gem,
St John is honoured for his virginity.
There ...Gem,<br />St John is honoured for his virginity.<br />There is also Dominic Savio and Alouisius Gonzaga.<br /><br />The thing is in the 1st Millenium the was the distinct order of Virgins, whereas men just went off to be monks or hermits.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-79568934554302471102013-02-05T22:34:27.073+00:002013-02-05T22:34:27.073+00:00I have always found it irritating that there are w...I have always found it irritating that there are women saints in the church honored as "Virgins" but no men honored as such.gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-66307407609902478412013-02-05T15:43:23.629+00:002013-02-05T15:43:23.629+00:00"There've dart Tina Beattie"
If onl..."There've dart Tina Beattie"<br /><br />If only she was just legendary. . . <br />johnfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16233791349837340770noreply@blogger.com