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To: mc5cents
"Well I have heard of burying statues of St. Joseph, upside down, in the front yard of your house in order to sell the house quickly, but perogies? Not so sure. :-))"

The Church has been very clear that this practice is superstition:

CCC 2111 - Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

9 posted on 10/04/2011 8:27:28 AM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Natural Law; mc5cents

..but loading up and going to Lourdes to be “healed” because a “vision” of the Virgin “appeared” there isn’t considered superstitution?


11 posted on 10/04/2011 8:31:03 AM PDT by smvoice (The Cross was NOT God's Plan B.)
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