Protestant get-togethers?

[Vetus Ordo]

Your problem is, you need to take a firmer hand with the wife.  After about 5 minutes, you should have stood up, headed toward the door, stopped about halfway there, looked back at her and said, "Are you coming?" and then kept going.  She would've gotten the message, and known who wears the pants in the family.

Women are a lot like dogs.  They just need to be whacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper once in awhile and they'll learn.  Metaphorically speaking of course. 

Are you still in the seminary, Doc? Because with that kind of sensitivity, you might be more suited to marriage...

Doc is spot on.

I agree with him: sometimes a husband needs to man-up, otherwise he'll never be respected.

[dave france]

Protestantism is Antichrist.  Means to protest Christ/His Church.  False Bible, beliefs, no valid priesthood,; totally anti truth.   That's why the world is being destroyed.  Lack of true faith & Fidelity to it.

Pope Pius IX, Graves ac diuturnae (# 4), March 23, 1875: “They [the faithful] should totally shun their religious celebrations, their buildings, and their chairs of pestilence which they have with impunity established to transmit the sacred teachings.  They should shun their writings and all contact with them.  They should not have any dealings or meetings with usurping priests and apostates from the faith who dare to exercise the duties of an ecclesiastical minister without possessing a legitimate mission or any jurisdiction.”

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos #9, Jan. 6, 1928: “Everyone knows that John himself, the Apostle of love, who seems to reveal in his Gospel the secrets of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and who never ceased to impress on the memories of his followers the new commandment ‘Love one another,’ altogether forbade any intercourse with those who professed a mutilated and corrupt form of Christ’s teaching: ‘If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say to him: God speed you’ (II John 10).”

[Virgil the Roman]

I went to a Prot Bible study not too long ago. My best friend [who is a Prot, but wants to convert to the True faith] called the bible study the "Protcentration camp."    I see nothing of substance at such meetings.  Most folks are just plucking out verses to fit their topic or theme; ignoring the deeper themes and subjects of Holy Writ.

It felt devoid of all authority or real sense of Scripture. Just mindless guess work.

For example, we ignored in 2 Cor.15 the pardoning of the incestous man; the protestant translation (NIV): "If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven--if there was anything to forgive--I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,"

As one may see, it is mistranslated in the NIV. In the D-R, it reads: " And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.   " (2 Cor. 2:15).


http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/2-10.htm

[mistman]

"Women are a lot like dogs."

What a terrible, tacky way to make your point. Saints preserve him. 

But I've noticed non-Catholic "christians" fall into two camps:

1. The well-meaning and ignorant
2. The malicious.

I'll put up with group 1's non-sense but not group 2.
 

 

[3Sanctus]

So, this wasn't an isolated incident, but is actually kind of common?  How bizarre.  It's like being invited to a classy golf tournament, and you arrive to find a mini-golf course.  A mini-golf course staffed entirely by clowns.

Mini-golf course staffed entirely by clowns?  I'll have to remember that next time I'm talking to a liberal Catholic, lol.

[3Sanctus]

Your problem is, you need to take a firmer hand with the wife.  After about 5 minutes, you should have stood up, headed toward the door, stopped about halfway there, looked back at her and said, "Are you coming?" and then kept going.  She would've gotten the message, and known who wears the pants in the family.

Women are a lot like dogs.  They just need to be whacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper once in awhile and they'll learn.  Metaphorically speaking of course. 

Are you still in the seminary, Doc? Because with that kind of sensitivity, you might be more suited to marriage...

Doc is spot on.

I agree with him: sometimes a husband needs to man-up, otherwise he'll never be respected.

I agree that the husband needs to man up and ought to exercise prudent dominion over his family (that's his job after all - and keep in mind that when a wife doesn't show proper deference to her husband it's often because he doesn't exercise his dominion well or often enough).  That said, comparing someone's wife to a dog is completely inappropriate.  The wife is of one flesh with her husband (to say nothing of being a creature of God with an immortal soul) and is obviously of far greater inherit dignity that any animal.

While I believe that I agree with the basic sentiments Doc was trying to express, I must say I take great issue with the imagery applied in his post.

[Vincentius]

And what in the world is a Filipino doing being a Protestant anyway?  What?  The Catholic country of the Philippines needs to be saved from itself?  I'd like to see those Protestant missionaries go to Mindinao (south Philippines).

I'm an expat and now a re-pat -- back to the old roots after four decades in the States.  When I left the Philippines, there were be a few sprinklings of protestant denominations, mostly Presbyterians (owing mostly to Silliman Universoity in Dumaguete City), Lutherans and the local version of the Mormons (Iglesia ni Cristo).  A year ago I came back and -- good grief -- I thought I never left the States.  The whole slew of the 20,000 + protty faith was present and alive in the Islands.  What brought them here considering that the Catholic faith was strong and vibrant for centuries?   The spirit of Vatican II and the weakening of the faith.   No other reason.  This is what has happened everywhere else.

And what in the world is a Filipino doing being a Protestant anyway?   Gullibility and ignorance = weakening of the faith.  That charismatic preacher (and healer -- there's the local Benny Hinn version here too) is what has attracted the city and country folks.  Salvation is easy,and that statement is pleasant to the ears.  Unless the Catholic Church here has a religious conversion and returns to Tradition, she won't be saved from herself. 

There have been "missionaries" to Mindanao, but not anymore, or hardly anymore.  Kidnappings have deterred them.   In a way, this has stemmed protestant conversions down south.  But not the Catholic missionaries (mostly Irish and Italian).   They are still heeding Christ's command to go out and preach to all nations (hopefully, the Truth and the true faith).

[Antonius Josephus]

I'm an expat and now a re-pat -- back to the old roots after four decades in the States.  When I left the Philippines, there were be a few sprinklings of protestant denominations, mostly Presbyterians (owing mostly to Silliman Universoity in Dumaguete City), Lutherans and the local version of the Mormons (Iglesia ni Cristo).  A year ago I came back and -- good grief -- I thought I never left the States.  The whole slew of the 20,000 + protty faith was present and alive in the Islands.  What brought them here considering that the Catholic faith was strong and vibrant for centuries?   The spirit of Vatican II and the weakening of the faith.   No other reason.  This is what has happened everywhere else.

And what in the world is a Filipino doing being a Protestant anyway?   Gullibility and ignorance = weakening of the faith.  That charismatic preacher (and healer -- there's the local Benny Hinn version here too) is what has attracted the city and country folks.  Salvation is easy,and that statement is pleasant to the ears.  Unless the Catholic Church here has a religious conversion and returns to Tradition, she won't be saved from herself. 

There have been "missionaries" to Mindanao, but not anymore, or hardly anymore.  Kidnappings have deterred them.   In a way, this has stemmed protestant conversions down south.  But not the Catholic missionaries (mostly Irish and Italian).   They are still heeding Christ's command to go out and preach to all nations (hopefully, the Truth and the true faith).

Amen. I think the same when I hear of Poles (either in the US or Poland) being anything other than Catholic. When the Faith is accepted, truly taken to heart, and truly becomes an honest and irrevocable part of one's culture and people, it is a perversion to hear of them turning to something else.

I agree, it is the "spirit of Vatican II", the attempts by some to humanize or secularize or Protestantize the Catholic faith, that has allowed for this to happen. The Church was emasculated and hamstrung and as a result, valuable bastions of the Faith were lost or are in jeopardy.

[dymphna17]

All you had to say was, "Here, let's break out the TRUE Bible and see what it has to say.  I'm sure the Church Fathers can enlighten us as well while we're at it."  Done, huge fight, party over.  Your wife needs to be reminded that God comes first.    Even in manners. (That's how the Prots trick you btw, manners.)  jmho

[Vetus Ordo]

Your problem is, you need to take a firmer hand with the wife.  After about 5 minutes, you should have stood up, headed toward the door, stopped about halfway there, looked back at her and said, "Are you coming?" and then kept going.  She would've gotten the message, and known who wears the pants in the family.

Women are a lot like dogs.  They just need to be whacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper once in awhile and they'll learn.  Metaphorically speaking of course. 

Are you still in the seminary, Doc? Because with that kind of sensitivity, you might be more suited to marriage...

Doc is spot on.

I agree with him: sometimes a husband needs to man-up, otherwise he'll never be respected.

I agree that the husband needs to man up and ought to exercise prudent dominion over his family (that's his job after all - and keep in mind that when a wife doesn't show proper deference to her husband it's often because he doesn't exercise his dominion well or often enough).  That said, comparing someone's wife to a dog is completely inappropriate.  The wife is of one flesh with her husband (to say nothing of being a creature of God with an immortal soul) and is obviously of far greater inherit dignity that any animal.

While I believe that I agree with the basic sentiments Doc was trying to express, I must say I take great issue with the imagery applied in his post.

Good grief!

Doc was speaking metaphorically.