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LIFE MOB DANCE - STEP BY STEP. Learn the moves for the Flash Mob in Madrid next week: thanks to Megan and Sarah form Generation Life for the moves! See you at Viva La VIda! www.youthdefence.ie/…/…More
LIFE MOB DANCE - STEP BY STEP.
Learn the moves for the Flash Mob in Madrid next week: thanks to Megan and Sarah form Generation Life for the moves! See you at Viva La VIda! www.youthdefence.ie/…/conference-2011
ACLumsden
@Rhemes - Well, the whole point of the joke I recalled was that God does not do for us what we can do for ourselves. The light bulb can easily be replaced by means of a step ladder and a fresh bulb; it is for the Benedictine to unscrew the blown bulb, and replace it with the new.
Prayer without good works, i.e. doing ones part to advance the Church's betterment, is quite useless indeed.
The irony …More
@Rhemes - Well, the whole point of the joke I recalled was that God does not do for us what we can do for ourselves. The light bulb can easily be replaced by means of a step ladder and a fresh bulb; it is for the Benedictine to unscrew the blown bulb, and replace it with the new.

Prayer without good works, i.e. doing ones part to advance the Church's betterment, is quite useless indeed.

The irony of the joke is that the Benedictines are the one of the oldest orders in the church; they strive after a healthy balance between prayer and work, ora et labora (as Cannoli as so aptly pointed out).

Pax in Domino
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Holy Cannoli
I do come to this site to be taught.
There are sites that deal exclusively with teaching the Catholic faith and, although I don't speak for the administration at Gloria, this is not one of them.
Nevertheless, I enjoy visiting Gloria.tv., viewing videos that interest me, reading a few of the comments and making a few comments myself.
I would guess that over 95% of the videos uploaded to Gloria were …More
I do come to this site to be taught.

There are sites that deal exclusively with teaching the Catholic faith and, although I don't speak for the administration at Gloria, this is not one of them.

Nevertheless, I enjoy visiting Gloria.tv., viewing videos that interest me, reading a few of the comments and making a few comments myself.

I would guess that over 95% of the videos uploaded to Gloria were not actually created by the person who does the uploading. Members find a video that interests them and they share it thinking that others will also find that video to be either interesting, devotional, informative or even entertaining.

I am guessing that the priests at Gloria have lots of duties that prevent them from actively moderating this site. So, the moderation here is not strict and some comments (including some of mine) slip by without being deleted. I don't see this as a serious problem.

What I would like to see at Gloria is a much greater number of members, more variety in the videos uploaded and a greater quantity and more intellectually stimulating comments.
Holy Cannoli
The Answer is in the Church with those intrusted with the authority to teach.
Do you beleive that this is happening in the Catholic Church of 2011?
Do you beleive that this has happened in the post-Conciliar Catholic Church?
Do you beleive that "gimmicks" like WYD will teach Catholic youth anything related to traditional Catholic piety?
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Not unlike much of what …
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The Answer is in the Church with those intrusted with the authority to teach.

Do you beleive that this is happening in the Catholic Church of 2011?

Do you beleive that this has happened in the post-Conciliar Catholic Church?

Do you beleive that "gimmicks" like WYD will teach Catholic youth anything related to traditional Catholic piety?
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Not unlike much of what happens on this site, the void is often filled by Catholics thinking they can teach the faith to other catholics while those with the authority to teach remain silent.


Do you visit this site with the expectation you are going to be "taught"?

Upload a video, view some videos, comment when you are moved to comment, and voice your objections when you believe they are warranted. But, where in the world did you get the idea that you are going to be taught at Gloria.tv?

There are sites whose sole mission is to teach the faith. I don't see Gloria as being one of them although with its news stories and timely video uploads, it indirectly is a teaching/news/information site. Plus, it's interactive which is much more interesting than an exclusively "teaching" site.
ACLumsden
@Rhemes - that rather reminds me of the joke about the light bulb that blew, and the religious orders in the Church...... I believe twas the Benedictine who approached the problem by kneeling under the blown light bulb, in the dark praying, but nothing happened.
Holy Cannoli
What do you think will introduce them "to the timeless sacred beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass, and all the Church's Sacred and Holy Traditions"?
Wishful thinking doesn't cut it. To achieve a goal (any goal) the appropriate training, education, and effort must be applied. Perfecting their “gangsta-swag” won't help these young skulls full of mush to learn traditional Catholic piety yet this is …More
What do you think will introduce them "to the timeless sacred beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass, and all the Church's Sacred and Holy Traditions"?

Wishful thinking doesn't cut it. To achieve a goal (any goal) the appropriate training, education, and effort must be applied. Perfecting their “gangsta-swag” won't help these young skulls full of mush to learn traditional Catholic piety yet this is typical of the boy/girl, good-time, plastic banana, rock & roll sham known as World Youth Day.

Prayer is NOT enough. Ora et labora.
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The 'NEW EVANGELIZATION" ... 🤨
Holy Cannoli
Yo, this is really great and obviously essential for WYD but no thanks.
In my preparation for WYD, I learned to 'gangsta swag' from my ghetto home buoys and not from two suburban crackers. Yo.
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Yo, this is really great and obviously essential for WYD but no thanks.

In my preparation for WYD, I learned to 'gangsta swag' from my ghetto home buoys and not from two suburban crackers. Yo.

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