General Chat

I wonder what the majority of Catholic priests would say?

Lynda - depends on the eligible young ladies in their respective flocks probably.
(only joking)
I think it is such a difficult one because of the fundamental basics of catholicism. But, as said earlier, it is probably on the back burner at the moment.

I have just come back from preaching to over 80 at a local chapel.

You will never guess my text. It was 1 Corinthians Chapter 7 verses 8 and 9. And by sheer coincidence, that is the passage Gwynne has quoted a couple of posts ago.

I always get a wonderful reception at this chapel and confided how nervous I was at the start. And I went over my allotted hour so sermon must have been about 30 minutes long.

And everyone (honestly, everyone) said I had managed to deal with a very thorny subject very well and many said it had helped them a lot to understand Paul and to understand the Catholic tradition of only celibate men in "Adam's seat".

Anyway, I will put more on Christian thread tonight but just thought I would share that coincidence with you :-)

Thanks, as an atheist I was enthralled!

What a pity we cannot have alternative views published without being leapt on!

Anyway back to the SUBJECT:

Hey ho such is life and I look forward to hearing how the RC church will handle their latest hot potato ;-)

They will be juggling it from one to another Sues till it cools down .......not only that they do have very large carpets, ;-) :-D :-D :-D :-D.


and big brushes. ;-)

Does that mean if they drop the potato and it makes a mess of the carpet they will be able to sweep it up?

Well I wouldn't want to be the one left holding it :-D

As for the mess nobody will be able to walk on the mountainous carpet ;-) there is enough errr....'stuff' been brushed under already :-D :-D

The church is no different to any other organisation, it doesn't want bad publicity!

crumbs - you do have a busy day John - attending three services and preaching at another and still time to come on here :-S

John it would be fascinating to see a transcript of your sermon as it is so topical

It was probably copied and pasted from google.

GP

lmao GP - very good

as for the hot spud it puts a whole new slant on,

One potato ,two potato..... :-D ;-)

Is that how they choose the new pope?

Only after they have been boiled in holy water and blessed. So mote it be.

GP

Should I be incensed?

Errol. My notes are almost unintelligible to me. I kept scribbling bits out and adding bits in this morning when doing final preparation.

No GP - not much googling at all. But I did find parts of this thread to be amazingly useful and would like to thank many of you who have clearly thought about this issue spiritually.

I had notes for about 5 minutes, so fact I was able to confidently spout on for perhaps 30 minutes with hardly any notes and not bore the pants off people spoke volumes for what we can do when God is with us and when you have quite a few very knowledable and thoughtful people on a serious thread like this.

Thanks for posting thread, OFG :-D :-D

could be painful Errol :-D

GP

if gods with you John tell him

its his round at the bar :-D :-D

John - Just 5 minutes of notes - You must know the holy book from back to front - its right what you keep telling us you are briiliant person.

GP

I know very little of the Bible, GP. I was a late starter as far as church was concerned. Was probably an atheist and used to take the michael out of churchgoers till I was about 36yo. So I can hardly be critical of you or anybody else who takes the michael out of me.

Preaching since 1999 (almost every week) and, although I am still as nervous as a kitten and never feel prepared, so far it has always worked out. :-D