Campbell
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I'm sure this is important to many but all this smoke and mirrors makes my arse crave an onion.
Just what good is done when any man "Blesses" another. What good is done when one human being lets another kiss his ring, that seems like Godfather stuff to me, the Marlon Brando kind. What good is done with a bunch of formal ceremony when it's about an invisible man in the sky?...... You gotta love the smoke pots.....kinda like Christmas tree ornaments.
I was checking Google concerning the pope's daily activities:
He starts his day by praying and preparing his morning mass, reflecting on the day's scriptures and on his homily. The mass, he celebrates each day at 7 a.m. in Santa Martha's chapel, has become the most privileged way to watch and get close to him. It is a half private, half public event, which gathers selected visitors from Rome and abroad.
Wearing unsophisticated liturgical cloth, the pope enters from the side, with no altar boy. His daily homily is his way of delivering messages to the rest of the Catholic Church throughout the world and to the Roman Curia inside. His way of reforming the Curia is not just through structural measures and nominations, but also with a "thought of the day" approach. In this way he slowly spells out, day by day, his spiritual approach and spreads it, via the Vatican media, to shape his organization's vision.
When the mass ends, everyone remains seated. Pope Francis gets up in silence, often moving to a seat in the back row, to pray among the people. All the others try to pretend he's not there, all the while keeping an eye on him. Francis then stands up and leaves to warmly greet everyone outside the chapel -- every single person, one by one. It's just now 8:00 AM.
Now this one will thrill you. Transubstantiation (in Latin, transsubstantiatio, in Greek metousiosis) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, the change by which the bread and the wine used in the sacrament of the Eucharist become, not merely as a sign or a figure, but also in actual reality the body and blood of Christ. The Catholic Church teaches that the substance, or reality, of the bread is changed into that of the body of Christ and the substance of the wine into that of his blood. In other words just like cannibalism.
Just what good is done when any man "Blesses" another. What good is done when one human being lets another kiss his ring, that seems like Godfather stuff to me, the Marlon Brando kind. What good is done with a bunch of formal ceremony when it's about an invisible man in the sky?...... You gotta love the smoke pots.....kinda like Christmas tree ornaments.
I was checking Google concerning the pope's daily activities:
He starts his day by praying and preparing his morning mass, reflecting on the day's scriptures and on his homily. The mass, he celebrates each day at 7 a.m. in Santa Martha's chapel, has become the most privileged way to watch and get close to him. It is a half private, half public event, which gathers selected visitors from Rome and abroad.
Wearing unsophisticated liturgical cloth, the pope enters from the side, with no altar boy. His daily homily is his way of delivering messages to the rest of the Catholic Church throughout the world and to the Roman Curia inside. His way of reforming the Curia is not just through structural measures and nominations, but also with a "thought of the day" approach. In this way he slowly spells out, day by day, his spiritual approach and spreads it, via the Vatican media, to shape his organization's vision.
When the mass ends, everyone remains seated. Pope Francis gets up in silence, often moving to a seat in the back row, to pray among the people. All the others try to pretend he's not there, all the while keeping an eye on him. Francis then stands up and leaves to warmly greet everyone outside the chapel -- every single person, one by one. It's just now 8:00 AM.
Now this one will thrill you. Transubstantiation (in Latin, transsubstantiatio, in Greek metousiosis) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, the change by which the bread and the wine used in the sacrament of the Eucharist become, not merely as a sign or a figure, but also in actual reality the body and blood of Christ. The Catholic Church teaches that the substance, or reality, of the bread is changed into that of the body of Christ and the substance of the wine into that of his blood. In other words just like cannibalism.
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