Wow, St. Michael The Archangel Prayer "spam."

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1351363899' post='2498699']


if Freedom doesn't want a hug, can i have one? it's been a long morning.
[/quote]hug!

[kujo]

[quote name='Freedom' timestamp='1351363733' post='2498689']

Everyone is focusing on me and everyone should feel shame for ganging against me like that.

Go get a life, and this is to all of youz. I feel sorry for you, you must be so lonely. No one can make friends with so much anger inside.
[/quote]

I'm gonna go pray in the middle of that crowded interstate I referenced before. Anyone who doesn't stop their car and kneel alongside me is a demon from the pits of hell, right?

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' timestamp='1351363939' post='2498701']
hug!
[/quote]

awww, thank you mama!

and now i'm going to post Catholic Memes, for levity.
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[Freedom]

[quote name='Aloysius' timestamp='1351363278' post='2498678']
Certainly praying belongs everywhere, but my point about the pharisees was not meant as an attack to call you a pharisee or anything, but to call attention to Our Lord's advice that we not pray in public to be seen like the pharisees. if this was not the way you intended your posting of the prayers, that is certainly the way they came across to many people here.

Anyway, it certainly is difficult to be in a minority position on a message board; I've been there (back in the Funny Buzzy Crusade days). You deserve slack in that regard.
[/quote]

Thank you but I still disagree with you that praying in public is comparable to the pharisees. Praying anywhere is always good.

[Lil Red]

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[Lil Red]

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[MIKolbe]

Absolutely

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Freedom' timestamp='1351364010' post='2498704']

Thank you but I still disagree with you that praying in public is comparable to the pharisees. Praying anywhere is always good.
[/quote]
That's cute, but that's not what Jesus said.

"5 When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you."

[Lil Red]

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[Aloysius]

I think it's all about context. When people all come together to pray, even in public, that's certainly a good thing. If someone stands on a street corner praying as loudly as he can, he's using those "prayers" more as a means to make a point or to call attention to himself, which is what Our Lord was criticizing.

I suppose the online space is not as easily differentiated sometimes, but I think the reaction labeling your prayers as "spam" indicate that it looked more like the street corner guy than the sincere public prayer guy to many people. generally on PM we would probably make a particular thread to pray, I know there was a pretty long running rosary thread once upon a time, also a very long Jesus prayer thread; not sure if there's anything around like that currently; from time to time an interjection of a prayer might be good within a particular thread, but one should never use prayer to try to make a point.

[Lil Red]

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[MIKolbe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SykNSv-1Dks&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Aloysius]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' timestamp='1351364281' post='2498711']
That's cute, but that's not what Jesus said.

"5 When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you."
[/quote]
and yeah, that quote, that's an important quote to always keep in mind.

[Lil Red]

i love this one

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[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='kujo' timestamp='1351363005' post='2498668']


It takes 0.000003 seconds to hit the "quote" button. FYI, it also takes 0.000003 seconds to hit the "reply" button you are currently using.

And you'd probably have more time if you'd stop praying for a few seconds.
[/quote]

He is a very busy man. It is not easy being the only real Catholic in the world you know.

[kujo]

[quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1351364391' post='2498718']
i love this one

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[/quote]


LOLOLOLL!!!! Oh[font="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"][color="#333333"][size=2] [/size][/color][/font]man...that got a good laugh...

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1351364753' post='2498725']
He is a very busy man. It is not easy being the only real Catholic in the world you know.
[/quote]

you're harshing on my levity.

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[Lil Red]

[quote name='kujo' timestamp='1351364864' post='2498726']


LOLOLOLL!!!! Ohman...that got a good laugh...
[/quote]

i know, right?? [url="https://www.facebook.com/CatholicMemebase?ref=ts&fref=ts"]Catholic Memes[/url] is where it's at

[kujo]

[quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1351364892' post='2498727']

you're harshing on my levity.

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[/quote]

Funny story.

I was drunk once and tried to answer a question with either "does a bear s*** in the woods" or "is the Pope Catholic?" In my stupor, it came out "Does the pope s*** in the woods?!?!?"

A regional meme was born.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='kujo' timestamp='1351364990' post='2498729']

Funny story.

I was drunk once and tried to answer a question with either "does a bear s*** in the woods" or "is the Pope Catholic?" In my stupor, it came out "Does the pope s*** in the woods?!?!?"

A regional meme was born.
[/quote]

i literally lol'd