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Vatican Releases List of Modern Day Evils
Those newly risking eternal punishment include drug pushers, the obscenely wealthy, and scientists who manipulate human genes. So "thou shalt not carry out morally dubious scientific experiments" or "thou shalt not pollute the earth" might one day be added to the Ten Commandments.
Modern Evils:
- Environmental pollution
- Genetic manipulation
- Accumulating excessive wealth
- Inflicting poverty
- Drug trafficking and consumption
- Morally debatable experiments
- Violation of fundamental rights of human nature
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The new mortal sins were listed by Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti at the end of a week-long training seminar in Rome for priests, aimed at encouraging a revival of the practice of confession - or the Sacrament of Penance in Church jargon.
According to a survey carried out here 10 years ago by the Catholic University, 60% of Italians have stopped going to confession altogether. The situation has certainly not improved during the past decade.
Catholics are supposed to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year. The priest absolves them in God's name.
Talking to course members at the end of the seminar organised by the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican department in charge of fixing the punishments and indulgences handed down to sinners, Pope Benedict added his own personal voice of disquiet.
"We are losing the notion of sin," he said. "If people do not confess regularly, they risk slowing their spiritual rhythm," he added. The Pope confesses his sins regularly once a week.
The Bible
I got that fact in a website wherein i searched in yahoo. Honestly, these people got nerve. The Bible is supposed to be the book that will make you more in contact with God and his virtues and all that sort of stuff. I was quite surprised t first but when i realized that the Bible is in the market for so long, I realized it really wasn't that great.
Anyway, I attended a seminar about contraceptives that was announced in the church. I was really surprised since the church is against it and you get the picture. So I attended with a bunc of people but for us, it was mostly because of educational purposes and find out why the church had approved on these pregnancy preventive methods.
I was so damn surprised! They were talking about things that the devil works in. They say that the subtle way the devil works is through everything around us. The speaker also said that "The Devil Wears Prada" move was the work of the devil and that the commercial of Ann Curtis I think, about a specific alcoholic drink was also the work of the devil. And that the lightning is also the devil because of a passage of the Bible that said "And the devil went down from heaven like a lightning". For heaven's sake! Are these people like in shock? Panic? or mentally ill? The passage said, "LIKE a lightning" and not "a lightning". Has this person like, went though an English subject or not? There is a very big difference between the two phrases. The like a lightning pertains to the manner in which the devil traveled, you know, the speed. And so, not surprisingly, he also concluded that Harry Potter is the work of the devil and that we are all falling for it. Go figure...
It's like, everything this person sees and hear is the devil's work. Like also contraceptives because it alters the body structures and that it is bad because we're not grateful to out creator because we make changes in out body. So i asked, "drinking medicines, going under surgery, wearing clothes, using earrings and a lot of more things alters the body structure therefore, is it also bad?" He said, "NO". So, what's the difference? And so i asked.
"But if contraceptives are not used, many, especially the poor will have a lot of children and they cant really afford to take care of all these children. I had a client in the community before that only earns about 100 pesos a day and she has about 10 children. If not for contraception, this mother will have more that two dozen children"
so he answered, "Well, sex isn’t supposed to be used or done as a sort of leisure or if you are bored."
So I said to myself, (the speaker was a doctor then took up nursing; i took up nursing and now a nurse), "Did this doctor really went through the course or did he fast tracked it? i guess YES!" No wonder he didnt know this most simplest basic fact.
Is the use of contraceptive methods bad to you or not? Everything else is bad except for these 3 methods except for the billing's method (checking of vaginal discharge), basal body temperature, or total abstinence or no sex.
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.
Sometimes when I surrender, things do show up. Sometimes nothing happens until I act. And sometimes I do the wrong things, too, and it still doesn’t show up.
For the first, in what seemed like a very long time, I slept very deeply and woke up completely refreshed.
I know that these are small and perhaps trivial examples, but they do point to a much larger theme. God helps those who help themselves.
Basically, you have to act in this world to get things done. Rarely do things just show up by themselves. This does happen, but not at a statistically significant level to count on it. However, after you act, you have to let it go. You can’t predict the outcome, and you definitely can’t control it. Thus, I have come to the conclusion that our best recourse is to do what we can and then let go the results. Basically, we act and then we surrender.
Here is a small fable to illustrate my point:
In a time long ago, there was a clever merchant who bought some camels from a distant town and had to transport them to his home through the desert. On his first night in the desert with his new herd of camels, he did not know whether to take the time to tie them all up before he went to sleep that night in his tent. Should he just trust God and hope that he would be able to see them still flocked around in the morning? Should he make the effort of spending several hours tying up each camel to a stake in the ground?
Mysteriously, a monk showed up. He was passing through and asked the merchant for some food and shelter.
After dining the monk, the merchant asked him what to do about his camels.
"Tie up the camels," said the sage, "and trust God to keep them there until morning."
And here is a true story that illustrates it:
I once worked with an MLM person. I joined his team when he was making direct sales and doing $10,000 a month. He was a wizard at the cold call. He could charm the fleas off a dog with his words. He was also highly religious. What he did was make the effort and surrender the result. Avalanches of abundance flowed to him.
Then he became enamored with the surrender texts in his Bible and shirked the doing part. Within four months, everything that he had built up collapsed.
In conclusion, God is the ultimate mystery. Sometimes our life lessons are to be proactive and change the world. Sometimes it is to be passive and let the invisible powers make all the necessary contacts and experiences. As human beings, we seldom recognize the lesson until later on. From our limited perspective, we don’t know what things mean and what to do. Thus, I think action and surrender is the best way to play the game of life.
True faith involves trusting God and helping ourselves. There are some things that only God can do for us. Acceptance of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is necessary for forgiveness of sin. Only God can give us eternal life
For the first, in what seemed like a very long time, I slept very deeply and woke up completely refreshed.
I know that these are small and perhaps trivial examples, but they do point to a much larger theme. God helps those who help themselves.
Basically, you have to act in this world to get things done. Rarely do things just show up by themselves. This does happen, but not at a statistically significant level to count on it. However, after you act, you have to let it go. You can’t predict the outcome, and you definitely can’t control it. Thus, I have come to the conclusion that our best recourse is to do what we can and then let go the results. Basically, we act and then we surrender.
Here is a small fable to illustrate my point:
In a time long ago, there was a clever merchant who bought some camels from a distant town and had to transport them to his home through the desert. On his first night in the desert with his new herd of camels, he did not know whether to take the time to tie them all up before he went to sleep that night in his tent. Should he just trust God and hope that he would be able to see them still flocked around in the morning? Should he make the effort of spending several hours tying up each camel to a stake in the ground?
Mysteriously, a monk showed up. He was passing through and asked the merchant for some food and shelter.
After dining the monk, the merchant asked him what to do about his camels.
"Tie up the camels," said the sage, "and trust God to keep them there until morning."
And here is a true story that illustrates it:
I once worked with an MLM person. I joined his team when he was making direct sales and doing $10,000 a month. He was a wizard at the cold call. He could charm the fleas off a dog with his words. He was also highly religious. What he did was make the effort and surrender the result. Avalanches of abundance flowed to him.
Then he became enamored with the surrender texts in his Bible and shirked the doing part. Within four months, everything that he had built up collapsed.
In conclusion, God is the ultimate mystery. Sometimes our life lessons are to be proactive and change the world. Sometimes it is to be passive and let the invisible powers make all the necessary contacts and experiences. As human beings, we seldom recognize the lesson until later on. From our limited perspective, we don’t know what things mean and what to do. Thus, I think action and surrender is the best way to play the game of life.
True faith involves trusting God and helping ourselves. There are some things that only God can do for us. Acceptance of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is necessary for forgiveness of sin. Only God can give us eternal life
Christian by Heart
- Accept your path, with it's many twists and turns-- the adventure is the journey,not in the arriving.
- Accept your humanity: you are allowed to stumble.
- Accept your divinity; the God within you empowers you to pick yourself up again.
- Accept suffering. It can stretch your heart to make room for greater love and joy.
- Befriend your anger.Listen--It has much to teach you.
- Be open to growth. The heart seeds of misfortune blossom into the flowers of courage and compassion.
- Contentment does'nt mean getting all you want,but enjoying what you have. Don't postpone enjoyment.
- Don't push your good intensions on others. You can't help them unless they want you to.
- Give others freedom. When you hold them captive to your own wishes,you destroy them.
- Ignore unfair criticism. Others can't hurt you unless you let them.You cannot change circumstances or other people.
- If you don't like the way your life looks,try changing the way you look at life.
- You are constantly becoming. Honor all that you have deen,all that you are,all that you will be.
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