Subject: Follow up Peter first Pope |
Bible Note: I know I grew up thinking the church was salvation and hoping that I'd die right after confession-venial sin meant purgatory and mortal sin meant hell. I don't know if it still is, but back then, missing mass on Sun was a mortal sin. If you didn't go at least once during the Easter season, that was grounds for excommunication. They may be more lenient now, I don't know. :) Oh, they used to have those indulgences where you can buy time off from purgatory. Certain sayings were worth 300 days off, others were worth 900, you better believe I'd say bunches of those 900 ones to build up my acct. :) I never thought much about Jesus. I knew the Bible stories about Him but he was basically the big guy upstairs who was too busy or important to worry w/us, that's why you had to go thru His mama, He'd at least listen to her. I'd heard they changed but a few years ago went to a funeral at the same church my cousin, the priest, used to pastor. I picked up a few leaflets in the back and seems they were the same old stuff. I found a novena to our lady of something there. I had that tract for a long time as evidence but it got lost thru the years. Seems like you could still do indulgences too. Some things are just sneaking back in. :) |