Lightbringer (10-10-2020)
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Lightbringer (10-10-2020)
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
Lightbringer (10-10-2020)
I see very little Christ-like behavior on message boards, even from those who wear their self-professed Christianity on their sleeve. Which is surprising, considering how much bible thumping has been on jpp dot com.
This kid only lived to be 15 before dying of leukemia, but in his short time on earth, he showed what it meant to live the authentic Christian life.
Millennial and Gen Z Catholics love Carlo Acutis. Here's why
Ahead of Carlo Acutis’ beatification this week, people who knew the young computer programmer shared their memories of his love for the poor.
“With his savings, he bought sleeping bags for homeless people and in the evening he brought them some hot drinks,” Antonia Salzano, Acutis’ mother, recalled at an event in Assisi Oct. 5.
“He said it was better to have one less pair of shoes and able to do an additional good work [with money not spent on shoes],” she remembered.
The Italian teenager, who loved soccer and video games, also spent his time volunteering at a soup kitchen in Milan run by the Capuchins and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
Acutis was religious from a young age, despite his mother saying his family had rarely attended church.
From childhood he showed great charity towards others. His love was extraordinary, first of all for his parents and then for the poor, the homeless, the marginalized and the elderly abandoned and alone,” Nicola Gori, the postulator of Acutis’ cause, has said.
“He used the savings from his weekly pocket money to help the beggars and those who slept outdoors. He organized fairs in the parish to help the missions with the funds raised.”
Acutis will be beatified in Assisi in the Basilica of St. Francis Oct. 10. He was buried in Assisi in 2006 at his request because of his love for St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the poor.
“Carlo had a special bond with Assisi. He had Assisi in his heart. He said it was the city where he felt happiest,” his mother said.
When he died, at the funeral, the church was full of poor people. Everyone else wondered what they were doing there. Well, Carlo used to help them in secret,” said Nicola Gori, who represented Acutis’s beatification case.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/n...fication-45189
Here goes... My Facebook page is loaded with anti-abortion, pro-2nd amendment and pro conservative posts. It also has some gardening/canning posts and some hunting/fishing posts. You know, just my life stuff. But I also have been putting my sermons on Facebook live (since the pandemic) for my folks who are still afraid to come to the building to worship. But the notion that I don’t pay taxes is false.
I get paid around $12,000 a year for preaching, on all of which I pay taxes to the state and feds.
Let me back up... Our religious organization follows the example of the New Testament as closely as we can. We have elders to oversee the local congregation and the local congregation is all that they oversee. Every Sunday a collection is made and the money given to the church is to be used for either evangelizing (including paying the preacher) and benevolent work. That money is not taxed being in the treasury of the church. Once it is paid to the local preacher, his salary is then taxed according to the rules of the state and federal government as income. I have to file it as self-employment tax.
Every preacher that I know personally pays taxes in this way. We’re not all Graham’s or Olsteens.
Just wanted to answer that “preachers don’t pay taxes” thing.
I posted earlier today. It went like this:
So on occasion I do post about specific politicians. In this case I don’t even live in the district where that representative race is. But there is never any doubt who I am supporting even if I don’t post about a candidate by name.Any of my friends who might live in Kendra Horn’s district....let me encourage you to vote Stephanie Bice.
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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