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If you look for answers in your mind about catholic christianity, or such, you might find some answers here.
http://www.catholic.net
http://www.imankatolik.or.id
And for some other more in depth questions, ask the right persons please, the Pope, for example, or the Bishop, or experts in this field. Not some oppositions or other negative feedbackers. They're good for piling up questions, but not for answers.
After you heard the answers, if you're not satisfied, ask further.
If that person is annoyed enough, ask for logics from your loved ones.
If that's not satisfactory, ask yourself.
Don't do it in reverse, you'll harden your heart first before receiving feed backs.
Do it in order.
And don't forget, always pray and ask God for consult. He has super low rate and extra discount for an extra good consultant at His level.
His answers might not be instantaneous, sometimes even need for further interpretation or deep thinking to translate, but He always gives you a satisfying and irrefutable answer.
What do you think about the ritual? Some people think ritual as not a logical thing.
BalasHapusRitual, as in ritus for the root of the word, is a form of repeated and passed actions from generation to generation. Some includes the same date, the same location, and/or the same settings of situation, and action.
BalasHapusWhile it is true that some of rituals cannot be explained by pure logic, so they say it's illogical, some have ground bases on why that illogical repetition should occur.
The breaking of the bread for example, you just won't accept that logically a body of a man can change into loaf of bread and then divided to numerous people to eat, more over saving them from eternal agony of hell by that action. But as stated in the bible, it has whole lot meaning that surpasses logic. The Lord Himself, as in Jesus, ordered us to do that, to commemorate His action of our salvation. This has nothing to do with logic. When your gut says to run from a raging bear, it is logical, but when you didn't step on a bed of grass because there's a warning not to, it's quite so not because of logic that you don't.
See, the authorities told you not to, because it's the right thing to do, because maybe, you don't know, if all people step on those bed of grass freely, the park they're on would be less pretty, and its visitors won't be as happy if they remain as well-maintained as it is. They have well thought-out reasons that can't be simply proven by swift logic, for the visitor to understand why, they would need in depth thinking and communications with the authority, which of course could take some while. If every person visiting that park, say, ask why and the authority should every single time explain their thoughts to the visitors, it will take forever.
As in this so called illogical ritual of breaking bread, it was stated by the highest of authority, as in Jesus Christ. To explain why we have to maintain this ritual, we need to think further than our swift logic, as in as far as God's logic.
That's almost impossible, so you need to speak to the authority for Him to explain why, in this case, you have to speak with The Deity.
I'm curious, but I'd rather have my own rationalization than going that far for things that I know is right from credible source of information/authorization and do the ritual.
You'd do it anyway.
So, I think this thought would come in handy for most ritual kept or ordered by Jesus Himself (of course some of them shouldn't be literally translated into action word per word). Then what about other ritual? The rosary etc2?
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