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To: napscoordinator
It is really a religion that requires that you go to church every Sunday. Most religions don't care if you skip here and there.

Incorrect - it is a religion that requires that you go to Mass every DAY. If you're not attending every day, you're doing far worse than just "skipping here and there" - you're missing church 86% of the time.

69 posted on 02/02/2011 1:49:14 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
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To: Alex Murphy
Incorrect - it is a religion that requires that you go to Mass every DAY

That's false, Alex, and inexcusably so.

2180 The precept of the Church specifies the law of the Lord more precisely: "On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass."117 "The precept of participating in the Mass is satisfied by assistance at a Mass which is celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the holy day or on the evening of the preceding day."118

Now, Alex, you have NO EXCUSE for ever posting that error again. You know better. To knowingly post a falsehood is to lie; to lie about another person or group is to bear false witness against them. I feel quite certain, Alex, that you have heard the phrase "bear false witness" before ... and that you know it to be an act forbidden by God.

73 posted on 02/02/2011 2:05:21 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Alex Murphy
Incorrect - it is a religion that requires that you go to Mass every DAY. If you're not attending every day, you're doing far worse than just "skipping here and there" - you're missing church 86% of the time.

And just when you were starting to get things right at least some of the time...

94 posted on 02/02/2011 3:00:12 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: Alex Murphy
"Incorrect - it is a religion that requires that you go to Mass every DAY. If you're not attending every day, you're doing far worse than just "skipping here and there" - you're missing church 86% of the time.

Oh, hogwash! You really ought to do some fact checking before you post such an easily verifiable falsehood. It will prevent you from looking so foolish and petty:

CCC 2042 - The first precept ("You shall attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor") requires the faithful to sanctify the day commemorating the Resurrection of the Lord as well as the principal liturgical feasts honoring the mysteries of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the saints; in the first place, by participating in the Eucharistic celebration, in which the Christian community is gathered, and by resting from those works and activities which could impede such a sanctification of these days.

120 posted on 02/02/2011 8:26:06 PM PST by Natural Law
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