"She". (Not "he".) And not nearly the plug-ugly bulldyke I expected …
Posted on 11/05/2019 9:55:05 AM PST by Morgana
For one thing, Methodists just get grape juice, but Catholics get the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ. Something no Methodist would even claim.
The lesbian and homosexual atheists who run the heretical and apostate United Methodist Church have exactly no authority to speak to actual people of faith.
The Methodist minister needs to 1) be concerned more about his own flock than the Catholic priest’s parish; 2) realize that he is NOT an enforcer of Catholic doctrine and dogma, primarily because he is NOT Catholic; 3) re-look at how his view of Methodism has strayed from its doctrinal roots on viewing good and evil and change his ways.
Basically old liberals and the senile who don’t know what’s happening?
A typical mainline Protestant church. They only survive by living off their endowment funds.
The pastorally-minded priest, in this situation, acted as he was morally obliged to do, in order not to cooperate with three gravely serious sins:
There is a path back to Communion, even for Biden. It involves sincerely repenting and turning away from his wretched, defiling sin; confession to a priest and obtaining absolution; being reconciled to God and to the Church; making due reparation (should include public rejection of abortion), and then being admitted again to Communion and the other sacraments, rejoicing in God's mercy to sinners.
I know and respect a number of Methodists, and I can't imagine this lady pastor's errant opinions count for much with many of her fellow-believers.
"She". (Not "he".) And not nearly the plug-ugly bulldyke I expected …
Let’s pray for her, OK? I know I’ve said evil and shame-worthy things in my past which I have long repented of, and if she is open to God’s grace she can do the same.
May God grant the grace of repentance and conversion to Joe Biden and to Violet Johnicker, and to all of us poor sinners.
Note to Methodist Pastor: Stay in your lane.
From her bio
She is an advocate for LGBTQ affirmation in the United Methodist Church, believing that God places no limits on who God calls into ministry and marriage.
In other words, she apparently makes up her own belief system.
Sorry, Methodist Pastor, you are not Catholic so your vote doesn’t count in Catholic Churches.
I think there was a time in Mehodist Churches when that Pastor would not have have been able to be a Methodist Pastor. That was when taking communion went with the acceptance of what communion meant. It was not a “greeting” to believers and non-believers alike.
In Catholicism that fundamental belief translates into other corallary beliefs in Catholicism. In that context, communion in a Roman Catholic church is really for Roman Catholic believers, not those who openly express denial and opposition to Catholic beliefs.
Methodists, like most Protestants, don't think that is what communion is. Lutherans believe something different than most Protestants, but presumably she doesn't have the Lutheran view of communion. So she's basically making things up.
I must confess that I didn’t note of her first name, Violet, might have indicated female, especially since I’ve known a guy whose name was Beverly (old tradition in his family).
As a Catholic I was lectured by my teetotalling coworkers (nice guys except on this topic) that alcohol in any form is sinful.
I reminded them that Jesus’ first miracle was to transform water into wine at Cana; Mary His mother had said to Him, “Son, they have no wine.”
They replied that it was really grape juice. I mentioned how the head steward, having tasted the miraculous wine, criticized the bridegroom for saving the best wine when the guests were already buzzed.
No, they said, Christ would never create anything sinful. I mentioned that the modern temperance movement only dates back to the 19th century and that even the early Mormons took wine in their rituals.
Like talking to a brick wall. Two of them.
I really don’t get where she has the temerity to pipe-up about this.
I’m Catholic and whatever the Methodist or Presbyterian Churches choose to have as rules for their members is none of my business.
No personal criticism intended; just adding information to the thread.
I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s Kingdom
That was said at the Last Supper Passover meal, at which wine is always served.
Non-Catholic lay woman fails to mind her own business in spite of having no standing to tell Catholic priest what to do.
^^Fixed it.
“There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.”
—Matthew 27:34-35
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