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Credo Catholic
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| First Name: | Marsha | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | Baptist, Catholic |
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Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 08:30 pm |
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| I'm driving up to the Raleigh area tomorrow to visit the grandchildren for a few days. Pray for travel mercies and that I can be a witness for Christ to my daughter and her family. I just spent half my little paycheck on books at Barnes & Noble and St. Anthony's Catholic Bookstore, so I can read a lot to them! God bless you all
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BettyBoopToo
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| Location: | Camas/Washougal, Washington USA |
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| First Name: | Betty | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | Fist Baptist/Calvary Babtist/Secular Confusion/ Roman Catholic |
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Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 09:05 pm |
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Marsha
I pray that you enjoy your grand children and children for the weekend.
In the Name of the F,S & HS
Lord Jesus, please send you spirit to guide Marsha this weekend to the words, actions and deeds pleasing to you and what you would want her to say and share with her family. Please send her guardian angel to keep her safe on this trip and bring her home safely after a joyful weekend with her children.
Our Father.........
Hail Mary..........
Amen!
In the Name of the .........
God Bless you my friend
Betty
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"Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent."
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Racaela Fultz
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Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 10:47 pm |
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Oh, Betty, I like that! See, as a protestant, I would always simply pray for someone and not have all the other things to say - I mean, it would just be "dear Jesus, help Marsha to be a good witness to her relatives and to have a good and beneficial time visiting with them." Now though, there is so much more to say! Our Fathers, Hail Mary's, and so on. And asking for her gardian angel, and you can ask the saints to pray. Being Catholic is wonderful! Not that I'm actually Catholic yet, at least not officially...
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 11:17 pm |
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Racaela Fultz wrote:
Being Catholic is wonderful! Not that I'm actually Catholic yet, at least not officially...
Your heart is Catholic, Racaela, and that is what God sees. You will be officially Catholic soon enough. Meanwhile, you can pray just as Betty does; God will be pleased.
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Credo Catholic
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Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2007 02:06 am |
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| Betty that is a beautiful prayer and I thank you. Racaela is right, we are learning to pray in a more mature and complete way. Not that the former ways were wrong in any way, but now we have so much more guidance and example.
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BodRod
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Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2007 09:08 am |
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Racaela Fultz wrote: Being Catholic is wonderful! Not that I'm actually Catholic yet, at least not officially...
Been there ..... Done that!!! By the time I started RCIA, I had read so much and studied so much that I was a mental Catholic looooong before "my Easter". 
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BettyBoopToo
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Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2007 03:28 pm |
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Credo Catholic wrote: Betty that is a beautiful prayer and I thank you. Racaela is right, we are learning to pray in a more mature and complete way. Not that the former ways were wrong in any way, but now we have so much more guidance and example.
Marsha: I hope that your visit was wonderful and you enjoyed yourself.
Racaela Fultz wrote:
Being Catholic is wonderful! Not that I'm actually Catholic yet, at least not officially...
Racaela: It is so wonderful to be at home in the Catholic Church. One of the first things that I noticed was the freedome and richness of prayer life that we have. When I was outside the church, I thought how on earth could a person pray for an hour a day or why would they? Not any more.
David is right, your already catholic in your heart. The angels and saints are rejoicing at the new lamb that has come home.  I'm enjoying your post and participation here at the network. It's such a joy to see so many young people coming home. You all seem so much wiser and mature than I was at your age. The decisions you make today, will play a very large part on the way you spend the rest of your life. You've made a great start of it!
God Bless
Betty
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Credo Catholic
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Posted: Sat Aug 25th, 2007 12:28 am |
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My visit (with the grandkids) was great although it took a full day to recuperate! I cooked dinner one night while their mom and dad went out. At the table I showed them how to make the sign of the cross before the blessing and they really liked that. I had them repeat the words a couple of times. Later we had a discussion about heaven, during bath time, because one of their dogs had died recently and they were told the dog is alive in heaven by their parents. So they wanted to know . . .
5 yr. old: Where is heaven?
Gran: It's above the sky.
7 yr. old: How high is heaven?
Gran: It has no top, no bottom and no sides. It goes on forever.
All children: Forever???
Gran: Yes, forever. There is no time, no clocks, just right now.
7 yr. old: Is Cody (dog) alive in heaven?
Gran: Yes Cody is alive in heaven (not wanting to contradict parents!).
5 yr. old: Are there good toys in heaven?
Gran: Everything in heaven is good. It is a wonderful place and you will be very happy there. If God wants us to have toys, then we will.
7 yr. old: Can we jump back to earth if we want to?
Gran: No. No one has ever left heaven to come back to earth. You wouldn't want to leave, it is such a wonderful place.
This went on for a little while. I was amazed how interested they were, and how little prepared I was to answer their questions. And then I wondered, they have been told that Santa drives a sleigh on Christmas Eve pulled by eight reindeer and delivers toys to all the children in the world in one night. They have been told an Easter bunny comes to the house on the night before Easter and leaves candy and little toys in their baskets. How are they going to know the difference between fantasy and the reality of heaven? To me, it's harder to explain heaven because we don't have even an artist's rendering to show them, like we have thousands of images of Santa and the Easter bunny every year. Does anyone know of a book for small children (3-7) that is just about heaven?
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BettyBoopToo
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Posted: Sat Aug 25th, 2007 04:33 am |
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Credo Catholic wrote: My visit (with the grandkids) was great although it took a full day to recuperate! I cooked dinner one night while their mom and dad went out. At the table I showed them how to make the sign of the cross before the blessing and they really liked that. I had them repeat the words a couple of times. Later we had a discussion about heaven, during bath time, because one of their dogs had died recently and they were told the dog is alive in heaven by their parents. So they wanted to know . . .
5 yr. old: Where is heaven?
Gran: It's above the sky.
7 yr. old: How high is heaven?
Gran: It has no top, no bottom and no sides. It goes on forever.
All children: Forever???
Gran: Yes, forever. There is no time, no clocks, just right now.
7 yr. old: Is Cody (dog) alive in heaven?
Gran: Yes Cody is alive in heaven (not wanting to contradict parents!).
5 yr. old: Are there good toys in heaven?
Gran: Everything in heaven is good. It is a wonderful place and you will be very happy there. If God wants us to have toys, then we will.
7 yr. old: Can we jump back to earth if we want to?
Gran: No. No one has ever left heaven to come back to earth. You wouldn't want to leave, it is such a wonderful place.
This went on for a little while. I was amazed how interested they were, and how little prepared I was to answer their questions. And then I wondered, they have been told that Santa drives a sleigh on Christmas Eve pulled by eight reindeer and delivers toys to all the children in the world in one night. They have been told an Easter bunny comes to the house on the night before Easter and leaves candy and little toys in their baskets. How are they going to know the difference between fantasy and the reality of heaven? To me, it's harder to explain heaven because we don't have even an artist's rendering to show them, like we have thousands of images of Santa and the Easter bunny every year. Does anyone know of a book for small children (3-7) that is just about heaven?
Marsha
This is absolutly precious I loved it, thank you for sharing.
BTW; My pastor told me, when I asked about animals in heaven, that although animals don't have the same type of eternal soul as humans that he has chosen to believe that our all powerful God can allow the animals in our lives that gave us joy and we loved to be with us in Heaven.
He's an avid Bow Hunter and he said he could not imagine being in heaven with out animals to hunt, he thought maybe by them the lord would let him get one. LOL
We were kinda sorta on the same page!
Thanks for sharing, what a joy they must be.
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"Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent."
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