tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post114383325262512351..comments2023-10-09T10:54:03.005-05:00Comments on Whitehall: penanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post-1144293313881332332006-04-05T22:15:00.000-05:002006-04-05T22:15:00.000-05:00Fr WB,If you are hearing confessions and instructi...Fr WB,<BR/><BR/>If you are hearing confessions and instructing your people like this, then you are offering them a tremendous blessing.<BR/><BR/>Jason Kranzuschaxegrinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541820431425577403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post-1144070837600235372006-04-03T08:27:00.000-05:002006-04-03T08:27:00.000-05:00When children are squabbling, I am sure many a par...When children are squabbling, I am sure many a parent has said "you will sit through dinner with your sister and you will get along... or else" and if your analogy was true, families with siblings who aren't speaking would host separate Christmasses, rather than forcing them to come together at the same table for the sake of unity...DBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07327574529287324041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post-1144033191457976652006-04-02T21:59:00.000-05:002006-04-02T21:59:00.000-05:00Ranter, I think God does take our divisions seriou...Ranter, I think God does take our divisions seriously as a parent takes seriously sibling divisions that disintegrate a family. However, our divisions will not endure. Whether from pagan Rome, communist ideology or Islamic militancy persecution has always united (and grown) the church. Today's persecution arising from the "faux church" though causing separation within denominational divisions, is simultaneously unifying the biblically-based believers within each denomination and across denominational lines. <BR/><BR/>We should take our divisions seriously too, because He must proportionately dispense "the cure." When Jesus returns for His bride, there will only be one. <BR/><BR/>But what will it take to achieve that? If I'm right, we're asking for trouble when we say, "That our divisions may cease...we pray to You O, Lord"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post-1144027044118456552006-04-02T20:17:00.000-05:002006-04-02T20:17:00.000-05:00I recently posted about confession... in our ECUSA...I recently posted about confession... in our ECUSA, with it not being a standard practice, there are many practical considerations... including, to be blunt, finding a priest who believes in sin in the old fashioned sense of the word. At the moment I have a decent confessor, and I'm going in the near future... but I am wondering, what do the rules (of ECUSA) say about confessing in a Roman Catholic parish... I know its against the rules for the Romans to recieve sacraments in ECUSA, but is it against the rules for Episcopalians to receive in Rome? (I know its against Rome's rules, but I don't know as God really takes our divisions as seriously as we do...)DBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07327574529287324041noreply@blogger.com