Our first visit from the bishopric

[_Rambo]

Sounds like you might have to take your name off the church records if you don't want them to come anymore.

I haven't gotten this visit yet. Although, I did ask in my old ward for the bishop not to visit me and keep my cousin as my home teacher. I recently moved and my Mom asked for my address the other week. It was pretty random but I think she was going to use it to give to my new ward. Oh and my brother asked me in a text and I kept asking him why he wanted it but he never answered and ignored the question.

I'm expecting a visit from this new ward sometime. I have some really good friends in this new ward actually so I am sure the bishop knows all about me from them.

Oh well I am impossible to get a hold of if you don't text me and I am rarely home so visiting me is pretty hard to do. If they do happen to catch me I'll just go on a rant about why I don't come to church anymore.

They probably will think I'm crazy and believed all the lies on the internet.

[_why me]

Why was he crying?

It is a little difficult to believe that the bishop would start crying in front of people that he really does not know and has no connection with. I just don't see it happening at all. But it does make for an interesting read.

[_Hoops]

Why was he crying?

He was the one with the BMW and not the Lexus?


Peace,
Ceeboo[/quote]

Well done!!

[_Hoops]

Other than the Masses of obligation nothing you listed is required of Catholics they are just some choices available in Catholic spiritual practice. I do see again how you take every opportunity to say negative things about the Catholic church though.

What he/she said!!!


You beat me to it, café. Thanks for jumping in.

[_why me]

It is interesting that quark is interested in the catholic mass. I was born catholic and I do go to the catholic church. But if I weren't born catholic and converted to mormonims, I don't think that I could attend the catholic church because the situation is the same. Mormons have a prophet and catholics have a pope. And when it comes to history, catholic history is not that faith promoting. Also, a devout catholic is more than just a sunday mass goer. One must go to masses of obligation, go on retreats, take an occasional pilgrimage, say the rosary, and have a religious statue in the home or a crucifix over the bed. One knows when one is in a catholic's home.

Another completely ignorant and off topic post delivered by my favorite Catholic Latter Day Saint. (Bizarre!)

Peace,
Ceeboo

How is it off topic? First, former Mormons on this forum love to bring up Mormon history as a sign the LDS church is false. They love to mention MMM as an example. Then, we have the nauvoo expositor as another example. Catholic history is far from perfect and when one looks at catholic history, MMM and the nauvoo expositor incident looks like a garden party.

Then we have the priest abuse scandals. Can you imagine the outcry from the former Mormons here if this happened in the LDS church as it did in the catholic church? We would never hear the end of it. Then, basically we have the same structure in both churches going from the top down. If I did not have catholic roots, why would I want to come to catholicism as a former Mormon with complaints about history and Joseph Smith's prophethood. How would catholicism be different for me?

Now I did list what a devout catholic should be doing. It is not just a sunday religion. Granted for many catholics it is a sunday religion but for a devout catholic, there is the rosary, pilgrimages, masses of obligation and confessions to a priest. And yes, when I was a boy that would include masturbation, which is another favorite topic of this board.

It was the virgin mary who said that the rosary should be said everyday. Do you agree? If you don't agree, maybe you should speak to an opus dei priest.

[Guest]

Other than the Masses of obligation nothing you listed is required of Catholics they are just some choices available in Catholic spiritual practice. I do see again how you take every opportunity to say negative things about the Catholic church though.

What he/she said!!!


You beat me to it, café. Thanks for jumping in.

I have already proven to café that the virgin mary requested that the rosary be said everday. Also, for a devout catholic, retreats are a must for their own spirituality and a pilgrimage is a way for a spiritual connection too. Just ask the milliions of catholics who visit lourdes.

I have a hard time believing that café is catholic.

Distribution over time

38. The Rosary can be recited in full every day, and there are those who most laudably do so. In this way it fills with prayer the days of many a contemplative, or keeps company with the sick and the elderly who have abundant time at their disposal. Yet it is clear – and this applies all the more if the new series of mysteria lucis is included – that many people will not be able to recite more than a part of the Rosary, according to a certain weekly pattern. This weekly distribution has the effect of giving the different days of the week a certain spiritual “colour”, by analogy with the way in which the Liturgy colours the different seasons of the liturgical year.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_ ... ae_en.html

[_Buffalo]

Why was he crying?

It is a little difficult to believe that the bishop would start crying in front of people that he really does not know and has no connection with. I just don't see it happening at all. But it does make for an interesting read.

Many Mormon men are inappropriate blubberers. You'd know this if you'd stepped foot inside an LDS chapel in the last 30 years.

[_Runtu]

It is a little difficult to believe that the bishop would start crying in front of people that he really does not know and has no connection with. I just don't see it happening at all. But it does make for an interesting read.

Once again you show your unfamiliarity with Mormon culture and practice. You can't imagine a bishop crying in front of strangers? Are you kidding?

[_why me]

Many Mormon men are inappropriate blubberers. You'd know this if you'd stepped foot inside an LDS chapel in the last 30 years.

Well, maybe so, but going over to a strangers house and making introductions and have the wife tell the bishop that she is not interested in the church anymore will start a perfect stranger crying?

Also, the wife went to church and met a new friend. Why did the wife of quark go to church to begin with? She seemed to open a can of worms because she showed interest.

[_Rambo]

My bishop cried in front of strangers or people he didn't know to well all the time. They cry because they are honestly worried about your salvation. They want you to come back and cry when you say no. They think that you won't be happy and you are another lost sheep.

Whyme you crack me up. A defender of Mormonism that does not have a clue what Mormons are like.