tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post7672245948307786493..comments2024-03-05T14:07:28.062-08:00Comments on Ask Sister Mary Martha: Urns and Mary BurnsSister Mary Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00580244097177195453noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-65589606669251165802008-03-03T17:54:00.000-08:002008-03-03T17:54:00.000-08:00Sorry, one more question: praisedivinemercy says i...Sorry, one more question: <BR/>praisedivinemercy says it's a sin to scatter ashes. Is that so, and if so, why? This is interesting.<BR/>SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-29129968744162475812008-03-03T17:53:00.000-08:002008-03-03T17:53:00.000-08:00Question for you about the saints. I can follow as...Question for you about the saints. I can follow asking them for prayer - seems like a great idea to me. I can use all the help I can get. But how do they hear them? God can hear me, obviously. Someone once suggested that my prayers rise to heaven where the saints are, but I always thought God heard my prayers because he is right here with me always. Could you explain, please? Or refer me to an earlier post if you already have? <BR/>Thanks so much.<BR/>SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-91442662572076619632008-02-14T10:04:00.000-08:002008-02-14T10:04:00.000-08:00Yes this woman is definitely a Marrano! They are l...Yes this woman is definitely a Marrano! They are legion.paddy the papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01653578233648917038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-91242548383030991302008-02-12T21:46:00.000-08:002008-02-12T21:46:00.000-08:00Sr. MM, instead of giving up something for lent pe...Sr. MM, instead of giving up something for lent perhaps you could watch that soap every day. It sounds penitential enough! And in defense of the nuns for their rotten fact checking - I suspect they are in the same boat as most mothers (at least the teaching nuns) and have answered too many questions. Once I have reached my limit I just make up the answers and they get more and more absurd. It's the brains defense mechanism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-20291173206668148852008-02-12T12:35:00.000-08:002008-02-12T12:35:00.000-08:00As a former Lutheran I struggled with the 'praying...As a former Lutheran I struggled with the 'praying to saints' thing for a long time. I can say with total certainty Saints do help. I credit the birth of my first child to St. Gerard. The doctor said my son had died in utero. He is a regents scholar in college now. Thank you St. Gerard. <BR/>I credit St. Raphael for the healing of my cousins baby girl. Thank you St. Raphael.<BR/>I credit St. Anthony with saving my sanity more times than I can count. He finds all the stuff I lose. He is also a very comforting Saint. Thank you St. Anthony. Tracy, you may find it interesting that my Lutheran family has used St. Anthony several times and still preach the 'no praying to saints' until they are desperate to find a lost item. St. Anthony works for them every time too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-79138049642606497902008-02-12T06:28:00.000-08:002008-02-12T06:28:00.000-08:00Dear Sister,I get a hoot out of your blog, though ...Dear Sister,<BR/><BR/>I get a hoot out of your blog, though I'm protestant. Today I couldn't resist disagreeing with your father. Not to say that there aren't arrogant Protestants...there are and I am one of them at least part of the time (and perhaps now). But most of us, when we insist on talking only to Jesus, do not intend arrogance. We are simply repeating what our church taught us from birth. I've often seen Catholic submission to the magisterium characterized as proper humility...wouldn't the same fidelity to church teaching also be humility in a protestant? (I realize you must in the end regard our position as error.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-61353718213859750132008-02-11T23:35:00.000-08:002008-02-11T23:35:00.000-08:00Sister,As I recall, the real problem for the Churc...Sister,<BR/>As I recall, the real problem for the Church is being appropriately respectful to the body. At one time cremation was a very pagan sort of thing, so the Church outlawed it in order to make a distinction. Unless I'm mistaken, the original symbolism in pagan cremation contradicted the resurrection of the body.<BR/>While cremation is now permitted, it is considered a sin to scatter the ashes.PraiseDivineMercyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15000747762174079070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-71413390974852688542008-02-11T18:24:00.000-08:002008-02-11T18:24:00.000-08:00I just stumbled on your blog and I love it! As a M...I just stumbled on your blog and I love it! As a Mormon, I hear people come up with all sort of weird ideas about what it means to be Mormon. I've heard random ideas about what it means to be Catholic too and I can understand if those can be wearying to Catholic ears. I enjoy reading your take on Catholic beliefs.Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01411084536473455300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-19733712563634490622008-02-11T14:53:00.000-08:002008-02-11T14:53:00.000-08:00I'd be pleased to take some of your unfinished pen...I'd be pleased to take some of your unfinished penances upon myself, Sister. I love you and your blog.Arkanabar Ilarsadinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00098504849466846551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-34654437778476059642008-02-11T14:43:00.000-08:002008-02-11T14:43:00.000-08:00HA! That's MY show! It used to be (20+ years ago...HA! That's MY show! It used to be (20+ years ago) full of interesting intrigue and a few plot twists worthy of James Bond, but has denegrated to what it now is. I've seen about two weeks of that show in the past 10 years...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-10397020403173194072008-02-11T14:07:00.000-08:002008-02-11T14:07:00.000-08:00Just keep doing what you're doing Sister. You are...Just keep doing what you're doing Sister. You are the highlight of my day!the mother of this lothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04173598381711792094noreply@blogger.com