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[wil]

So.when a priest blesses a rosary or a cross, what does it do? How long does it last?

Is it still inaffext when the US border patrol takes it away and tosses it in a box and sends your kids to a different cage?

 

[RJM]

So.when a priest blesses a rosary or a cross, what does it do? How long does it last?

Is it still inaffext when the US border patrol takes it away and tosses it in a box and sends your kids to a different cage?

Have you seen Braveheart? As a child, the girl he later marries gives him a thistle. They kill her and he goes to war against them. He is betrayed and captured, and after he is executed, his hand opens and drops the thistle? The soldiers would have just picked it up and chucked it away too.

There is a beauty in difference.

Sometimes an Orthodoxy seeks to impose a privileged interpretation.

Have you got a goldfish?

 

[wil]

Have you seen Braveheart?

No, but still awaiting an answer

So.when a priest blesses a rosary or a cross, what does it do? How long does it last?

 

[CobblersApprentice]

Have you got a goldfish?

I have had in the past. Relating this to your dialogue with wil, some of those only lasted a day or two.

 

[RJM]

No, but still awaiting an answer

What's a dried thistle worth? I once tried to borrow a ladder from someone named Godfrey, but he wouldn't let me take it because it used to belong to his deceased mother.

 

[RJM]

 

[RJM]

 

[wil]

While I was hoping to obtain some understanding and maybe unboggle my mind.

It appears your answer is the blessing by the priest does nothing at all.

But that it is you, who believe it does (like the ladder or the thistle) that imparts the value in the blessing. So like the ladder or the thistle, I can take a rosary or a magic wand and impart an incantation by jingling keys and if I believe that will protect me, or absolve me, or ordain me or the wand...it will.

Hmmmm

 

[RJM]

will protect me, or absolve me, or ordain me

None of those things. But it can become to yourself the symbol of something that is holy, especially because you believe Christ is really present in the church that he established when he ordained Peter ...

 

[wil]

Christ is really present in the church

Only in the church?

 

[RJM]

Only in the church?

@wil
To the heavens I gazed. In a sacred manner I live. My horses are many.
-- Old Sioux song

 

[wil]

Turtles all the way down

 

[RJM]

Turtles all the way down

Like, a great big turtle big enough to support the weight of the world and all the people and elephants and whales and trees and stuff, you mean? You really think?

And then then an even bigger turtle underneath? And then an even bigger one? Really?

Whooo -- you really think? And what does the bottom turtle stand on? Whooo ... I don't know ... haven't you ever heard of the Big Bang?

 

[wil]

Lol, nope I was simply expressing my dismay

So.when a priest blesses a rosary or a cross, what does it do? How lon

Maybe rephrasing is required. What does your religion say it actually does? Or what do you believe it actually does?
in not being able to get a straight answer from a simple question in our forum.

 

[wil]

Lol, nope I was simply expressing my dismay in not being able to get a straight answer from a simple question in our forum.

I'd love to be able to edit...oh welll

 

[RJM]

what do you believe it actually does?

It imparts a quality to the rosary that makes it more than just a set of beads on a string. It acquires a specialness because it has been blessed. It becomes a symbol of holiness in a sick and profane world where people believe we are just like any other animal. But I answered you already?

 

[RJM]

There are far more subtle forces moving than blind materialists want there to be. They can't be explained simply in words or by what they 'do'.

 

[RJM]

It just comes back to: 'If you believe God exists, you are required to prove it to me.' It's so boring. God doesn't need to prove he exists to you. I'm not required to prove anything and God won't dance to satisfy anyone's demands.

EDIT: There's also the assumption that a 'believer' is desperately anxious to convert a non-believer. But the only thing this particular believer wants anyone to know is that he doesn't give a toss whatever they want to think or do with their own lives ...

 

[A Cup Of Tea]

in not being able to get a straight answer from a simple question in our forum.

Implying that it is a simple question.
Sometimes you seem to expect Catholics to read the Bible like the rules pamphlet to a game. "A rosary gives +5 to Faith."
RJM simply feels that it has meaning, that it helps, not in a quantifiable "scientific" way.

 

[wil]

Implying that it is a simple question.

Potential acceptable answers to simple questions. I don't know.