CATHOLIC GENERAL: GOOD FRIDAY EDITION

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CATHOLIC GENERAL
>IT'S HOLY WEEK SO LET'S SEE HOW CATHOLIC GENERALS DO ON NON-SUNDAYS


Everyone is welcome.
Discuss news, ask question, give answers, be kind to one another, and above all assist one another in living the virtuous life.

Today is Good Friday
Here are your daily readings
usccb.org/bible/readings/041417.cfm

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>Catholic Encyclopedia
newadvent.org/
>Directory for Finding a Latin Mass (U.K)
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>Directory for Finding a Latin Mass (U.S/Can)
ecclesiadei.org/masses.cfm
>Laudate App
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>Tales of Love and Virtue
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Required watching for Good Friday
youtube.com/watch?v=p3RMXtfvM-g

Required listening for Good Friday
youtube.com/watch?v=P21qlB0K-Bs

Every Easter they air this flick on TV here in Italy. Probably the most popular non-dubbed movie ever.

I just watched the Passion of the Christ for the first time. Absolute masterpiece.

Be thankful. I can't recall it ever being aired here on tv. May be too graphic for secular, sensitive bongs

Glad you liked it Germanbro. It's a fantastically realistic & accurate film

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First for BASED Catherine Anne.

Been reading her stuff all week. Happy Good Friday /Christpol/

Woah

If that's the first time you're reading any GK Chesterton, leaf, I strongly suggest you read his Orthodoxy (that's where the quote is from)

You too, Americanon. Glad you're reading the works of the saints. They're one of the ways I found most effective in strengthening my faith

For you Italybro if you're still here & you haven't had the chance to see the sacramental altars in Rome during Holy Week: newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/04/roman-sacrament-altars-2017.html

pic related an example

>boyfuckers
>human

Ottoman, please

>In the days of the Ottoman Empire, pederasty-like relationships were common between pre-pubescent boys and bearded older men. Though today it seems homoerotic, the relationship had a deeper meaning according to the mystic Sufis and their search for God
hurriyetdailynews.com/male-sexual-quirks-among-the-ottomans.aspx?pageID=238&nID=78968&NewsCatID=438

You dont get it.

Theres a difference between pederast warriors like non-Turkic janissaries and Spartans etc. and boyraping priests who were supposed to be celibate envoys of God.

Only good Christian is a Protestant.

>Only good Christian is a Protestant.
I'm genuinely glad to hear you say that

Who else /blackfast/ here?

>This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken.
newadvent.org/cathen/02590c.htm

Friendly reminder that Israel/CIA/Shariablue create religious threads in an attempt to cause infighting among us. It's classic D&C (divide and conquer). Ignore religion threads: the OP is NEVER sincere with his questions or points. It all just to start a fight.

Who's 'us'?

Did the Lucifer with the Baby scene scare you?

That's Chesterton man. I read this last year. Really made me think.

you people have internet?

No. Random packets somehow hit the Sup Forums servers to make that post. It's pure coincidence. Likely not to happen again.

Ghananon bringing the bants. Ghana might continue having internet long after the US if Kim Jong Un gets his way.

On a more Catholic note: this from SSPX on the profound meaning and symbolism of the Good Friday liturgy might interest some sspx.org/en/news-events/news/instruction-good-friday-3931

Mel Gibson is a goat director.

Avoiding porn and not eating meat here; those are some of my favorite things.

One of the few movies that makes me cry tbqh

Will be doing that tomorrow. Merry Easter gentlelads.

I actually listened to the Way of the Cross at the Vatican (on EWTN)

same. it's amazing. ordered my king james version. really eye opening

>Go to church
>it's flooded with fat Mexicans on welfare
>priest give the occasional sermon about immigration is good
>people are always trying to talk me and get into my life
>priest is always asking for gibbs before the mass officially ends so people have to of through 5 minutes of shilling for the church
>obligatory picture of the anit christ
>normie Christians flooding the church every Easter or Christmas
>no talks about Christian philosophers like St. Augustine or Thomas Moore
And to think Jesus died for this

I unironically agree desu. Apocalypto was great too

You're supposed to avoid porn every day, user. But I hope this is the start of you doing what St Josemaria Escriva asked (pic related)

Happy Easter Dutch Catholad

Glad to hear it Ghanon. Is the impression we get over in Europe true about African churches being full to the brim?

That really sucks, user. You ought to find another parish, the cancer hasn't completely spread as yet.

>Picture of the antichrist
Wtf

Christ said our faith would be tested user. He never promised it wouldn't come from those in our Church.

But if it's negatively influencing your faith, try and find a new parish (see OP links for latin masses in the US)
Also, what I always recommend is get a book of sermons by a saint (like archive.org/stream/sermonsforallsun00liguuoft/sermonsforallsun00liguuoft_djvu.txt) & read one after mass every Sunday

>priest give the occasional sermon about immigration is good


This. I get that the Pope is aiming for the more charitable angle (and that's a good thing. Really.)

But I hate it that he's not speaking more publicly (and causing more outrage) about the evils that are making the immigration problem a problem.

> no talks about Christian philosophers like St. Augustine or Thomas Moore

I wish every priest will teach hardcore philosophy and theology at mass. Sermons tend to be touchy-feely, empty, or just Protestant-prosperity with a thin veil of Catholicism

I missed the stations of the cross because I was trying my hand at apologetics all afternoon in another thread

How screwed am i

Kek is with you. I know the feels. Jesus died for you, for your salvation.

until you find a place for you, check out good sermons online. honest preachers are few and far between these days.
youtube.com/watch?v=FP0mZ6C8b8I

spot on. most churches and all modern bibles are corrupted and filled with (((madness))).

getting a good KJV is key.

>But I hate it that he's not speaking more publicly (and causing more outrage) about the evils that are making the immigration problem a problem.

the last pope gave warning in 2006. obviously his words sparked outrage in the muslim world and with the (((pro immigration))) sect. Many people believe this is why pope benedict was forced down shortly after.

w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg.html

>"[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.”-Arcbishop Futon Sheen, 1948
I want to you to make a wild guess on who I am talking about

not screwed at all. jesus died for our sins. rituals are not mandatory for God's acceptance.

>Is the impression we get over in Europe true about African churches being full to the brim?

Mostly. Churches in West Africa, in general are big. The Catholic church sees a lot of numbers. And churches at my place tend to be large, and have multiple masses on Sunday (as many as 3, plus a Saturday night vigil mass at my university)

I probably remember the outrage from a TIME Magazine piece I read around that time.

The Pope seems to be taking a hard line against conservative Catholics. I think that's good, because we need someone to call out our own hypocrisy.

But he shouldn't let (((them))) off the leash by making it look like he sides with some of their public policies (immigration and anything remotely nationalistic/anti-Trump).

Seriously, I will be happy if Francis came off more as a friend-to-no-one, no-nonsense Pope than a "progressive" Pope.

>e-excuse me user is anyone sitting in the seat of Peter, or is it....

Not very, user. It's good to go to the extra services to deepen our faith, but they aren't essential: especially if you won the debates

I think the problem is simply that Pope Francis is an 80 year old man from Argentina. It's unsurpising that he doesn't really have a stance on, for example, the spread of Islam. He will have spent vast majority of his life mostly unaware of Islam. We'll have to wait for someone like Cardinal Sarah from Guinea to become Pope, God willing

Very glad to hear it

Roll call:
How many masses does your parish offer on an average Sunday?

Mine does five, a vigil mass on Saturday and daily masses every morning

My current parish does two.
My church (an outstation of the parish) has only one.
We started another outstation sometime last year. Never been there.

>5 masses

Wew lad. Is your parish home to the FSSP or an order of monks?

My parish has a Saturday night vigil & a mass on Sunday morning. Daily masses every morning too

Is it a far distance between these churches?

>good friday
>not listening to St. Matthew's Passion by Bach

I'm glad I'm not a catholic

It's a red town with a majority Irish/Polish/Italian population. This area was Catholic as fuck until the millenials... now it often seems like me and the pastor are the only ones in the room who weren't old enough for Woodstock.
As Benedict said... We're going to be a fervent group in the future, albeit a much smaller one.

Sven, please, check the whole thread before typing

What are the liturgy, calendar, holidays, etc. like? Are they different than the one us first-world Westerners are accustomed to?

Just dropping in to say hi to you Catholics. Y'all know you're heretics and in danger of going to hell, right?

I'M SO HUNGRY

BUT I MUST GO HARDCORE FAST FOR THE LORD

I see... and to whom do we owe this friendly admonition?

About a 20 mins drive from parish to my outstation, so not that far. There are enough Catholics in my area to warrant the new church building.

happy easter. post your traditional easter dishes

What's a good Catholic news site?

I usually use Catholic Hearld, but the anti-Trump stuff is killing me.

It's your non-acceptance of solo-Scriptura and cult of Mary worship to start with. I could go on, but I've got to go fishing in 10 mins. Repent, read the Bible and accept Jesus as your saviour and you'll be good. You're almost all the way there.

I'm not sure. I've only every been to churches in my country and South Africa. St. Agnes in Woodstock has masses for different demographics.

The French mass is more "African", with more drums and local language songs. The other masses were more "Western", imo. Here we don't do a lot of Latin except around this period.

I'm sure you'll find our church here significantly different.

Where in the bible do the words "sola scriptura" appear?

youtube.com/watch?v=K7Ax2hsZ7V4& For easter

> Sola Scriptura
> Read the Bible.

That's never made sense to me. The fact that the Catholic church is much older than the Bible (we made it) makes it odd that the church will suddenly pivot and claim the old book as its only source of truth (or whatever the Protestants claim about it)

It just doesn't make sense.

I don't see the Catholic church as a "Bible-centered" (or a Bible-believing church, like Evangelicals like to put it). It just doesn't work that way.

>cult of Mary worship

Yeah, you may have a point with that one. Personally, I find some people's devotion to Mary a bit too much, but that's just the limit of my (and their) personal spirituality. But the church rightly giving her honour is a good thing and should be encouraged. She does have a special place in our shared Christian faith, after all.

It's not in the Bible. Solo Scriptura is the theological concept that the Bible alone is the final authority. Catholics practice Solo Ecclesiasta - the clergy trumps the Bible and the Pope is the ultimate authority. It's heresy.

Peace out bro - Happy Easter. Off to catch some snapper!

I use New Advent, but I'm not exactly thrilled with some of the inclusions

>supposed to avoid it everyday
I know, but I figure if theres at least one day its on days like today

>Catholics practice Solo Ecclesiasta - the clergy trumps the Bible and the Pope is the ultimate authority.

Bible is still the ultimate authority, just not the only one. For example, although we both agree that there are both books inspired by God, which have authority as consequence of being authored by God - and ones only being claimed to be such. Discerning whether a book belongs to the first or to the second category can hardly be done on Bible's authority, since we are trying to find out what that Bible consists of in the first place. Perhaps we could agree on at least the Gospels and deduce that some books, like Isaiah, are inspired, but that's hardly enough for the complete Bible.

Happy Easter Polebro. Have a hot cross bun

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Merci mon ami

Blessed Good Friday catholic general! Praise to Christ for His immense and holy sacrifice, that we might be saved.
and what have you done about it user? the only thing needed for the Enemy to win is for you to stand and do nothing. Preach to all who would here it, and to those who won't. whenever the opportunity arises, seek to convert to dispel the lies of the enemy about the Way and the Truth that is the Church, to speak back to those who spread lies in the Church's most holy name, call all men to hard work and service of Christ and others.
we must not merely complain, but work to make the world as Christ intended: Good.

I never got this baby. is that supposed to be the anti-christ?
because he's gonna have a hell of a time getting mankind to follow him looking like that. or si a it a random demon baby?

Also, kind of related, but what is /catholic generals/ opinion on Satan, demons, hell, etc.
are they real things to you all, metaphors, a mix, or something else? and what do you imagine them to look and be like?

>That's never made sense to me
it's also not even biblical
2 Thessalonians 2:15: "So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter."

6 on Sunday and a vigil mass on Sunday.

it's a big church, and we get so many people we have to have 2 priests.

I think the baby is supposed to the anti-Virgin and Child. Not sure if it's the anti-Christ, but really as an insult to Jesus while He is suffering.

>are they real things to you all, metaphors, a mix, or something else? and what do you imagine them to look and be like?

If I believe in God as a literal being, then so must Satan be, as frightening as the thought is.

But this is separate from our own cultural representations of Satan and his demons.

Why do I feel more attracted to Satan than Jesus?

Happy Good Friday, everyone.
For the end of Lent I was planning to attempt generals that include Orthodox and Oriental Christianity as well due to how close they are and how they are united in their anti-modernism.

Do you think this would be proper to do or should we focus on Catholicism solely? Further, if this were done, what should it be named? I was thinking "Apostolic Christianity" but google search results pull up only Pentecostals calling themselves "the Apostolic Christian Church". It's ridiculous.

You're confused of the situation.

>I never got this baby. is that supposed to be the anti-christ?

It's a reference to the Catholic view that evil, rather than being a distinct principle opposing good, is its perversion. The scene shows something good and beautiful - mother with a child - transformed and disfigured.

Source: christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/marchweb-only/040301passion.html

because that's how Satan works.

one must think of Evil like Alcohol. Both are pleasing to the flesh, both are tempting, both makes us feel pleasurable to indulge in. Yet, both are completely unhealthy, drink for the body, evil for the soul.
However, just as alcohol manufactures do all they can to advertise their product as good and bringing joy and prosperity, so to with the father of lies. He makes evil appear to be good, promising us that our lives will be better, we'll be richer, have more friends, more lovers, more things.
But as with alcohol, as we drink more and more of Satan's lies we become not greater, but lesser men. we lose our humanity, and we become like beasts. Satan could not ever tempt anyone with things that are plain and true: remember the fruit in the garden looked "good for food" to Eve.
Satan will do anything and everything he can to tempt us, he is the father of all evils: the media, the government, the culture, all these are now tools of the enemy. with these he makes Evil seem Good, and so many have fallen for his lies.

it would only make sense that Satan seems attractive, but this is his greatest and most ancient lie: he is the most hideous and repulsive thing when not hidden behind his lies, that wretched being farthest from God, the source of Good.

If God exists & is the ultimate good, there must be an ultimate evil to counteract that. Otherwise there'd simply be different levels of good, & that would therefore diminish the ultimate good.

Also I always liked this quote from Abp Sheen:
>"Do not mock the Gospels and say there is no Satan. Evil is too real in the world to say that. Do not say the idea of Satan is dead and gone. Satan never gains so many cohorts as when, in his shrewdness, he spreads the rumor that he is long since dead. Do not reject the Gospel because it says the Savior was tempted. Satan always tempts the pure—the others are already his. Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance. Do not say it is absurd that Satan should appear to our Lord, for Satan must always come close to the godly and the strong—the others succumb from a distance."

Because Jesus asks that we follow his path away from wordliness. Satan merely asks that we stay still mired in sin

Not sure about names, but I'd happily contribute to that. Think you're likely to find more opposition from the Orthodox than Catholics

It was raining today.

>Do you think this would be proper to do or should we focus on Catholicism solely? Further, if this were done, what should it be named? I was thinking "Apostolic Christianity" but google search results pull up only Pentecostals calling themselves "the Apostolic Christian Church". It's ridiculous.
go for it. ecumenism is always a good thing, in any form. There's already a united christian general though, but that has protestants and thus devolve into typical proddie "muh catholic church is actually pagan" type shit.

>For the end of Lent I was planning to attempt generals that include Orthodox and Oriental Christianity as well due to how close they are and how they are united in their anti-modernism.

Go for it, but on a different day than Sundays and rarer than every week - that should be reserved for Catholicism. As close to us as they are, we are the ones that have the fullness of truth and it's our church that is the safest wa to Heaven. Our religion is, in this respect, unique and should be treated as such.

Although closer relationships with the Orthodox are something to strive for, I suppose that occasional, ecumenical threads in addition to the usual Catholic ones would be a better idea than abandoning the latter in favour of the former.

I'm eating this on Sunday.

God bless you all.

>Go for it, but on a different day than Sundays and rarer than every week - that should be reserved for Catholicism.
I do like this option.

Ahh WOLFSHIEM at last...
Could you please throw the link to your paste with all the info you gathered?

Had to wipe PC completely and lost the bookmark.
Thanks in advance!

pastebin.com/u/wolfshiem

No problem, man.
I appreciate you asking.

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bumpity bump

>dying
lolno
Art dump

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Have you witnessed or experienced any miracles user? I'd like if your shared your stories

Posting the Palm Sunday procession in Sevilla because the floats are fantastic & the Cathedral is a masterpiece youtube.com/watch?v=EaVCOK6ujuo

pic related just one of the side chapels in Sevilla Cathedral

What is the Catholic answer to the problem of evil?
If it involves free will, why believe in a God that doesn't intervene or only does so arbitrarily?

>What is the Catholic answer to the problem of evil?

Which?

Because its not your place to question 4d chess

Man must have the choice to do evil so he can therefore have the choice to do good. If man had to be good, or was simply incapable of wrong, he'd be little more than an automaton. If man is to be worthy of eternal salvation, the actions he takes to get there MUST be a choice.

Also, in many instances, one man's evil act gives another man the opportunity to do a great/good act.

>All these fucking Catholicucks
Enjoy your famine.

>on the bus to my hometown
>as it climbs the mountains the qt besides me does the sign of the cross
>don't talk to her
>probably lost the timeline where I marry a catholic qt