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I haven't seen Year 1 TOG. But I would assume that you should look into how the Old Testament, New Testament, Greek philosophers are treated, and of, course how the early church is described (including doctors and fathers of the church). Even here, the differences can be enormous. TOG is, I believe, written from a Reformed Protestant view.

There is a free talk by dr Scott Hahn titled: "The Healing Power of Confession" - scroll to the very bottom for the link It's based on a great book with the same title.

loved it, thanks for posting

I second US being anti-Catholic. Europe is anti-religion, but here... individualism has such deep roots that overpowers reason often... modernism that turned into post-modern MEism, pope-fobia an SolO Scriptura... such a mess:tongue_smilie: Everybody talks about their own experience like that validates anything.

English. I pray the Office of Readings sometimes by myself in Polish.

We sing Lauds and Vespers. :-)

Rosie, what was intriguing?

Another question: By believing Joseph Smith's interpretation of the Bible and his visions, you have to throw away most of Christian thought, theology and tradition that developed from Jesus' times. How come can you put one man's revelation above thousands of theologians, church fathers, doctors of the church, martyrs and saints, especially the ones who lived in the first few centuries after Jesus' death? Don't you think that this is quite dangerous - to suddenly believe one man who questions the heritage of Christianity? How do you "feel" about it?

It is called church consumerism: I choose the church that fits what I believe.

Sorry, I can't read everything here, but the question is concerning this statement: "The reason why I think the apostasy happened was that the Christian church gradually lost a few of the early teachings of Jesus. As the Church was persecuted and the apostles killed, priesthood authority was lost. " Why do you believe it was lost? The Apostles chose their successors - in the NT, which you read and believe, it says so, doesn't it?

You can read it here: Classical Liberal Arts Academy Common School opening in September 2011

I should of asked: "which changes before Luther did the RCC did from the original Early Church...", because that's what we discussed. My bad. Practices follow theology, so practices, or local traditions (particular churches) are not the issue for me. two things: ad1. but they (eastern churches) were "under" the pope through their bishops, from the beginning... I am aware of 300 years of debates before the actual schism happened ad3. in different times and places it looked different, and there were reasons for it - we, for example, receive both on every Mass ad4. what's the deal here? ad8. it varies also, historically and now it depends on a diocese... my youngest will have Communion and Confirmation on the same date, and if we would have been in this diocese, they would have it together with their baptism, since we are reverts/converts Don't Orthodox admit that Purgatory and Immaculate conception was widely believed pretty early on?

1. What changes, according to you, the Catholic Church made, which wasn't in agreement with the Early Church's doctrines (not opinions)? 2. I get that Orthodoxy stopped and did not go with the theological "development", mostly with Scholasticism.

He would because the dominating philosophical thought of the days was coming from Greece, later of course through Rome, but originated from Greek philosophers. NT was written in Greek also - to accomplish it's purpose in the world, it had to aim at the culture of their times. Christianity evolved also because, not despite, the Greek philosophers.

Catholic Bibles online: one used in liturgy (church services and LOTH) is New American Bible Douay Rheims Bible (sort of like King James for Protestants) New Revised Standard Version (a lot of people use this one for Bible Studies) All of the above have paper versions of course. For me the best book version is Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament with commentaries done by Catholic Biblical Scholar dr Hahn. The OT is coming. You also might like Jerusalem Bible and Navarre Bible.

It does not matter how many times you pray a day, even if one, you can say that you are praying the LOTH.

I was raised Catholic and have experienced heart conversion, baptism of the HS within it, but slowly drifted away toward Evangelical Charismatic Protestants. I married Charismatic Evangelical Baptist from the South, who was baptized Catholic at infancy. We were missionaries in Eastern Europe and Middle East for a decade. Seeing a lot of churches, being in different cultures, living within the contest of different faiths, political and philosophical systems (countries with dominant Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism and Islam) provoked us to search and rethink everything. Last Easter we joined the Catholic Church - for both of us it was reverting rather than converting, but practically for me it was coming back after 19 years, and for my dh converting. The family thing is quite hard, but in our case Catholics were much more understanding and rational during our Protestant years, than Protestants are now (since we stopped protesting, as we like to say). Some family and friends were furious and steamed their anger, called us names, tried to psychologically explain our decisions etc. Some are having good apologetic discussions with us. Our kids' friends rejected them. We moved in August, so this helps in forming new relationships.

Yes, you pray pre-written prayers, 90% of it are just Psalms and parts of Bible. There is a moment for spontanously offered supplications, and you sing a hymn (or a song) also. If you pray all of the prayers daily, you will pray through all of the Book of Psalms every 3 months. There are days that are consecrated liturgically to a specific feast for Jesus (like Christmas Day, His Baptism, Crucifixion), Mary, local saints, martyrs etc. and the Psalms and readings will correspond with it. Clergy and religious, depending on their spirituality, order etc, are required to pray some or all of them. Lay people can choose and pray however many times they want. All of the groups of people, no matter how many parts, can say that they pray the Liturgy of the Hours. You can pray it wherever you are, with others or by yourself.

Historically, it came from the early Christians (Apostles in the Bible) praying in the Temple during the hours prescribed for prayer. It evolved through the ages, but the main idea is to be united with the whole Church praying and meditating over the same Psalms and Scriptures (and Church Fathers readings if you pray Office of the Hours) all over the world few ties a day. This unity is like nothing else on earth, when you know that millions are joining in.

This movie can be streamed on Netflix. The story of making it is quite amazing, since it took 16 years for the monks to decide when to make this movie. It took 5 months (with breaks) to complete it, and for 4 months the director lived like an Carthusian himself. It is 160 minutes of almost total silence (only one interview with an elderly and blind monk - quite moving), yet when the movie was released in France - people flooded movie theaters. Movie's info

Awana on Catholic Answers Forum: http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=102258 http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=211589

I have seen these two series over Christmas. Pretty good. There is one more done by BBC where people are gone only for a week to the monastery. it is pretty shocking to see especially atheists encountering God in silence. The Big Silence

I prayed Lauds (Morning Prayer) at 6am in my parish with my youth group for few years. Last year I started to pray Office of Readings, and we started Lauds and Vespers with the kids during Advent. It's a keeper. :-) For the Latin lovers - how to pray the Divine Office in Latin

It is rather typical for former Catholics to be quite anti-Catholic. :-)