the Lord's Prayer... OF DOOM.

[dustthouart]

The medicine has kicked in REALLY well. I feel so much better already. I even had the energy to go back to the market to pick up the bag of veg I left behind. Oops.

I think I may have written about this before, but I think that the Lord's Prayer is the most terrifying prayer there is.

If you don't believe me, let's just take it line by line.Our

Comments

[earthminor]

Usually they're not there for the faith, rather they are culturally catholic. In any case, they don't live like I'd expect a believing Catholic to live (sex before marriage, drinking to excess, etc.). Really, they just seem like non-Christians in their actions. My father's side of the family is 'Catholic', but they never go to Mass except at Christmas and Easter, and I know my aunt believes in reincarnation. So I must confess I don't see them as genuine Catholics.

But even the 'real' Catholics that I know don't ever talk about the saints or their days as much as you do, or observe the liturgical calendar (never heard of it before you blogged about it!). I talked a lot about Catholicism with a colleague who sat across from me, and he explicitly said that the only thing to worry about is being a decent person in order to get into heaven. I asked him why Jesus came at all in that case, and he didn't have an answer. That doesn't seem to be your opinion, you seem to believe that Jesus died for our sins and rose again. But this guy goes to Mass every week without fail. Clearly they're teaching him something else at his church!

So that's why I ask if there are different kinds of Catholics. I go to an Anglican church, and there are lots of different sub-groups (I'm in the group that most Episcopalians are railing against for being too fundamentalist), so perhaps I'm projecting!