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well ,i'm a roman catholic but haven't been practicing my faith and is very much confused about the above descriptions.
Many various sects claim the title catholic but only those who are in faithful obedience to the Pope are genuinely `Catholic` or `Roman Catholic` all others are lacking in doctrinal areas.
Catholic simply means Universal but unless you are in union with Rome you are not a full functioning member of Christ`s holy church on earth.
God bless.
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January 28 2009 | Catholic | 15 Comments »
Could a boy from india who is muslim marry a christian girl? If so, how what type of marriage would they have? How would this work?
A muslim boy marrying a christian girl is perfectly acceptable in Islam although it is not preferrable. Male muslims can marry a Jewish, Christian or, obviously, Muslim female because the religion is passed down through the father so the children would be considered Muslims. This is why it is okay.
My own parents are similar to the types of people suggested in your question! My mum is completely english and was brought up a christian and my dad lived in Jordan all his life (he is half Syrian, half Jordanian) and then at university in England, they met and in the end got married. Everything turned out fine.
However, in answer specifically to your question, I do not know whether Indian parents would allow their son to marry a christian girl because it is a different culture to Arab culture. If the parents were happy with it, then it would be fine.
Hope I helped somehow 
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January 28 2009 | Christian | 21 Comments »
Since upgrading my Sony Ericsson 850 software there is a picture icon with an arrow next to the reception bars.
What is that?
its a message that has not sent or in your outbox delete the message
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January 28 2009 | Icon | 1 Comment »
i have no knowledge of skiing but i own a couple of pairs of skis and want to try cross country skiing. would i be able to use a regular pair of skis. if not how much would cross country skis be.
What? You mean the difference between cross country and alpine? Jesus. About 120K p/h and the actual potential of getting your silly ass killed!
Here's the breaks. Cross country skiing is a form of sport derived from Nordic/Viking winter hunting/military displacement. It's great exercise, scenic, you can actually talk to your girlfriend, instead of just bombing the hill ahead of ther. You can also carry weapons on your back, which is why cross-country is the basis of the biathlon winter sport.
Alpine, a.k.a. downhill, skiing is a fast, dangerous sport practiced by speed demons and controlled sucidal and/or sadistic maniacs that will snuff you out for fun, if there are no witnesses around. It is a fast-paced sport that can reach-up to 128 Km/h in competition downhill or over 251 Km/h if doing speed skiing. Good alpine skiers can expect to exceen over 100 Km/h downhill on real slopes, like you can find in the higher Tatras, Appalachians, Rockies, Alps or Himalayas. Although there are many differences, all skiing basically makes use of poles (though alpine and telemark make it optional).
Cross country skiing makes use of soft ankle-boots, or booties (ankle-height insulated shoes with front-end bindings, basically) where only the top tip of the boot is bound to the ski, and heel rest is used to set the foot upon the ski. They are also narrow skis, where the skis are always about as wide as your heel, from side to side. This is the slowest form of skiing, and is therefore most suited to its primitive origins of hunting and soldiering.
Telemark skis are a downhill derivative of cross country. The skis are much wider, boots much stronger, poles can be adapted from alpine and speeds are much higher than x-country Just like x-country skiing, only the front-end of the boots are bound to the skis. The wider skis, stronger boots and poles allow you to negotiate apline terrain, only in a bent-knee guise, which makes it faster than x-country and more dangerous to your knees and person (overall), but usually quite slower than alpine skiing.
Apline skiing is the shit. It is an orgasmically fast and dangerous sport (requiring serious self-mastery). Boots are hard an mostly un-movable, though they allow for some forward inclination. Bindings are stiff and often placed on an impact-absorbing binding mount). Skis are heavy, long and/or wide. You can reach some of the fastest speeds in alpine skiing and if you're a dolt, you'll be scraped-off the side of some cliff or tree by rescuers. There is no boot lifting like in x-country or telemark, you're stapped-in hard and either accelerate down a hill, turn, break, or eat some or nature's harder stuff. You go head-first avoiding trees, boulders and mountain facades at breakneck speeds, over bumbs, ice and in-between your slower co-inhabitants. It's like a drug, only it won't fry your brains, unless your head stops dead agains a tree, or the face of a mountain (or a large rock or boulder, or even a tractor, ehehe). Downhill skiing is extreme. Some snow-boarding is just as much so (only it's less sophisticated and may involve knuckle-dragging, do they eat more bannanas?).
Speed skiing is probably the most extreme form of skiing: aerodnamic clothing and helmets, no poles, and just pure speed downhill. Deadly, if your skis hit your helmet and pierce right through and then eath and then your skull and brain.
Ski-jumping is also very dangerous and exhilerating. Can you pictue goind over a curved jump at over 90 Km/h with the longest skis in the business (146% of your body height). You're expected to land at the longest possible distance, and not fall and have your legs wrap around your neck.
Freestyle skiing takes from snowboarding and ends-up with lighter alpine skis with identical tips and ends, so you can alternate directions and ski backwars and change orientation when negotiating slopes or obstacles. It's hooligan skiing re-written.
This is the difference between x-country and apline skiing. If you're out for a liesurely ski, get xome x-country skiing. But expect to get exhausted if you try to catch some speed. If you want the absolute in extremeness and dont fear truning into a buch of plasmatic gellatin at then end of the day, take-up downhill.
There you go.
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January 28 2009 | Cross | 4 Comments »
I have a 13 year old daugher, 8th grader. She wants to start a bible study at her school. How should she proceed? Any suggestions on material?
The easiest way is to avoid asking the Administration at all costs. Do it in the library, or another public place where they don't have to have permission. If you ask the principal, it puts them in a very delicate legal position…with the whole separation of church and state and all. As anyone in the education system will tell you…it's always easier to ask forgiveness later than permission now.
Go to the library and look in their computerized catalog. Type in the words "teen bible studies" in the search engine. It should direct you to a whole list of books.
You might also ask the youth pastor at your church for suggestions.
Good luck!
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January 26 2009 | Bible | 4 Comments »
I know there are loads of protestant denominations, but I'm just asking generally. Also excluding the fundamentalists.
I'm a liberal (more of a leftist) Catholic. I know many, many liberal Catholics. However, I know some who are extremely conservative, as well. In Protestantism, you'll find a really wide range of viewpoints, too. The most theologically and socially liberal of the Protestant denominations include Episcopalians, the United Church of Christ, Metropolitan Community Churches, Swedenborgians, Unity, Unitarian Universalists (although that group includes non-Christians as well as Christians), Quakers, and others. It would also depend upon the area in which you live (for instance, the Southern U.S. has its liberals, but on the whole, is going to be more conservative overall than, say, California).
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January 26 2009 | Protestant | 6 Comments »
I know the orthodox mass is longer than roman catholic mass.. for me both churches are catholics.. but I have heard me as a roman catholic.. I can’t take the communion with an orthodox church.. I don’t know but I have read that from an orthodox point of view.
Orthodox Mass (technically, “Liturgy”) is more ornate, but both follow the same format- reading of the Word, intercessions, consecration, etc. The word Mass comes from the Latin “Missa”, which for obvious linguistic reasons, doesn’t apply to Orthodox Liturgy, as Orthodox Liturgy is conducted in Greek. Mostly it is more ornate because the Greeks didn’t go through the happy happy reduction of the Mass that we experienced in the West (vernacular, folk songs, etc.). A traditional (Tridentine) Catholic Mass is permitted and encouraged by Rome, and these are more ornate and you would see less disctinction between the two.
You are right that you as a Catholic can not participate in Orthodox Communion, though both Communions are the same thing. This is because Orthodox broke from Rome in 1054, and although they still have Aposolic Succession, and a valid Eucharist, they are not under the Pope and for you to participate in their Eucharist would be a false action of unity. Although their Eucharist is valid (i.e., true, it actually happens) it is illicit, ie., not allowed. In certain dire circumstances you are permitted to participate as a Roman Catholic, if near death or in an area of the world where you cannot attend an R.C. Mass. This is rare in modern times, unless, you’re in Istanbul, possibly, but even there I think there are R.C. churches.
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January 26 2009 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
I wonder if I might have a vocation as a brother either teaching classical literature and philosophy or engaging in social work; however, my religious ideas, if they exist in the form of dogma, are extremely far left. They are egalitarian in sentiment but have no real ideology. I am Roman Catholic. Is there an idea oriented order where I might apply. And how does one apply to be a brother?
Where ever it is that you renouse your faith
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January 26 2009 | Catholic | 8 Comments »
I am a christian young woman, im 17, but quite mature by my age.
I just wonder, what other christian men today in 2008, want in a woman.
So many women today were not taught how to run a household efficiently while in the care of their mothers. God gives guidelines for how a virtuous woman lives. Proverbs 31 is an empowering look at the role of women. Not only is a virtuous woman righteous in the Lord, but she is a loving wife and mother, a smart shopper, a seamstress, a gardener, a good housekeeper, and trains her children with wisdom. Her husband appreciates her and can praise her to his associates and friends because she is worthy of praise. Is this attainable for the average Christian woman? Absolutely! All things are possible through Christ. With prayer and study and a little know-how, we can all be “Proverbs 31 women.”
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January 26 2009 | Christian | 14 Comments »
When I click on my start menu, and go to click on music it shows the old yellow folder. I would like to restore it to vista folder with the cd and music note. I already fixed the issue on my desktop as well as the c: drive (in the user folder) but that didn’t seem to fix the start menu icon.
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January 26 2009 | Icon | 2 Comments »
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