MartiW
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 The 5th Comandment . . .
Every now and then something happens and I do not put it into perspective until later. Here is such an instance. It wasn't until I was talking to Onslow in another thread that I realized what I had been told.
A few months ago I was in the bathroom. There was a loud banging on the door. It was my (then)4 year old.
"Mom! My brother is breaking the 5th Commandment!" announced God's little policeman.
"What?!" I replied.
"He is breaking the 5th commandment!" she repeated, "He really is!"
"How is he breaking the 5th commandment?"
"He won't make a sandwich for me?" she responded.
"How is that breaking the 5th commandment?" I countered.
*Sound of a soft thud as she fell to the floor in dispair.* "Because it's killing me, Mom, it's killing me."
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PfP was speaking about the quietness maintained by Catholics. I, in turn, gave the historical reason for silence in American Catholics. Onslow pointed out that in our silence we do a disservice to others.
Each of us has the truth. We are blessed to have been welcomed into the family of God. It is a good question for every Catholic to ask oneself. Am I violating the 5th commandment? In being quiet about matters of faith and truth am I unwittingly killing somebody? We are held culpable for both our actions and inactions.
Is somebody, who is not being fed, falling to the ground outside God's door because it is killing them?
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DEUS meus, ex toto corde amo Te super omnia, quia es infinite bonus et infinite amabilis; et ob amorem Tui proximum meum diligo sicut meipsum, eique, si quid in me offendit, ignosco.
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4/26/2006, 10:53 am
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AndyS333
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Re: The 5th Comandment . . .
Very good point Marti!
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4/28/2006, 1:30 pm
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