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It is impossible to take one seriously who doesn't even know themselves.

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"What makes a person saintly is love"---St Porphyrios of Athens

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Headlines used to be able to get people to read the actual articles, now they get them to ignore the rest of the article. This is what happens when opinion is placed above fact.

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Intentionally, or unintentionally, we place crosses on others. We should avoid this. Life is hard enough with the crosses we already carry.

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The awkward moment, when it is your monkeys, and it is your circus....horray :p

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Our trials are for a reason, a greater good will always be brought out of our weakness.

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It is said that if one has nothing to say, one should say nothing....So many problems are caused by people talking way too much.

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There is too much projectivism. People too often times project their own faults onto others, or read the hearts of people they should not be reading.

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You know, forcing introverts out of their shells, probably not a good thing.

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Rome does not have a monopoly on the expression of the Faith, Theological schools of the East are valid as well. Sadly, many in traditional circles have yet to learn this lesson.

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The God of surprises TM , seems to be rather lawless to me, that doesn't seem like a good thing at all.

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If the Pope has absolute power without limits, God help us all, seriously, God help us all.

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Yes, it is important to occasionally reach outside of oneself, but it's also true that doing so should not be an exercise in Chinese torture methods either.

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Allow yourself be loved...allow yourself to give love...One can't receive what one is not open to.

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Welcome to America, where a non-Christian company, decides to not print something on their cups, people get outraged over the cups, when they should be outraged at the overpriced, horrible excuse of coffee they're paying for....Yep, sounds legit

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Sometimes it is very tempting to run from the cross that can be our lives. Sometimes it's a great consolation to "let people win" and not fight on. Avoid this. We can't let people defeat our spirit.

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Blessed are they who keep my coffee cup full, for they shall not see grumpy cat...

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Pray for the Synod, remember folks, dogma can't change, that is not the issue, the issue will be any change in praxis that undermines dogma/doctrine. Pray that any praxis changes will not undermine the dogma that can't change.

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Making more laws punishes those that seek to follow the law, not break them. It's not that difficult.

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Traditionalists and the Poor: The major issue I think at play, and what often ticks off those that are of a more traditional bent, is not that he's necessarily his emphasis on the poor (we're certainly all called to do that...), but rather being forced to take specific stances, when there are a variety of ways of working with and helping the poor among us. That is to say, is the government the best means to help the poor, or is the individual or something organized at a more local level? (The Church does have a principle called subsidiarity of course) How we help the poor is a matter of prudential judgement, and two people can legitimately disagree as to exactly what to do. Does helping the poor necessarily mean repeating UN or DNC talking points?

Rather unfortunately various points of LS are UN talking points (but to be fair of course population control was condemned in LS)....Sometimes as good as a lot of intentions of the various programs that are instituted to help the poor, they do the exact opposite of what they intend. Is it necessary that we support things that don't work quite as intended.

The poor we will always have with us (this of course doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help people carry their cross, or try to help them). The real sad thing to me actually, is that previous Popes DID talk about helping the poor, but no one ever listened. At least for sure with Benedict XVI was pope....The thing is those these things were done without fanfare or celebrity....(No one remembers the time when Pope Benedict went to the prison, met with sex abuse victims ab libitum from his schedule, or even rode the bus back)....