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and by the way Dereloaded, i dont quite agree that people should do whatever they desire to their bodies,
im really suprised all those making long posts here are ok with such. . . .

oh and by the way, excommunication means that you can no longer receive the sacrements, but you still can receive the sacrament of reconcilation. . . .

it could help if you have a little more understandn before commenting on things. . . .

as i said earlier, quit acting/postn out of hate, you always end up sounding sad.

most times when pple write out of hate, it lacks merit.
and yes i am a Catholic.

if my child, (God forbid) goes through same, i will not make her have an abortion.
every person including an unborn child deserves the right to life, simple as that.

the parents and the doctors who are Catholics already knew the implication of what there were about to do, so it makes little sense in them accepting it or not. . . . it is just like breaking a curfew, face the concequences. . .


Catholics are mammons, Catholics are demons, witches, bla bla bla, why not face and practise that which you feel comfortable with and leave that which you barely understand? ? ? ?

if you really think murder is ok in any circumstance, i fear we will never believe in the same thing. . . .

hi lady,

i share your views intoto. .  . .

so sori abt your Grannie, hope she is getn beta?
will rem her in my prayers always.

plz i also have a prayer request, my very good friend is battling a serious health issue, been in and out of hospital.
plz say a rrosary for her daily and rem her during Mass.
she is stil at the hospital, still critical. . . . . .
plz pray for her.

thank you!

may God bless us all and Mother Mary, pray for us.

nice day

hey Lady,

i always love your writings!

that was also enlightn to me. . .

talk to my Aunty?. . .
i cld give you her number.
i think for her and d husby, itz more abt looking for 'life issues' that is actually the issue.

we have had loads of discussions abt Mass and Catholic practises as a whole.
she and d husby feel that the Mass is boring ( i think some of us just do not listen while Mass is going, cos i cant think of a better prayer, it is sooo complete)
they prefer a more lively service, lots of music, and a Pastor that will always tell them that their problems are over. . .that sort of thing.

so i think i understand what the problem actually is.

i dont argue with them anymore, my Father was down these past months and when the husby came, he kept goin on abt how it cld be spiritual ,
and thou he knows our stand in our family on such issues, he kept sayn that it stll wldnt hurt to seek to find out where the probem emanated frm . . . . .

now thy attend Lord's Chosen and seem happy. . .
i just continue to pray for them

no he go Iraq

hey Omenuko, kedukwanu ife nwa ada ga eme? ? ?
oh b t w, nice name. . . .

Carl, sup brother.
wating for me?
shld have told me since, see the time we have wasted
i saw Imhotep's post in a thread, nice to know he is ard some where.
has he been ordained?


peeps, wishn you all a blessed day.

Glory to Jesus, Honour to Mary and Joseph.

Happi for Fed.
he shld give Sodeling a french kiss for dusting Rafa. . . .
Fed had lost the previous finals to Rafa, i just knew once Rafa was out, it was Rogers to grab. . . .
no matter how bad he plays, he always dust the other players, with Rafa and Novak off the mark, it was a done deal.
i was jus thinkn, if not for Rafa, Roger wld have won 3 str8t FO titles. . .so there. . . .

guys abt Serena and her outburts and comments.
for me really that what makes Women Tennis interesting!
Serena talks and papers sell, simple as that.

in other sports, athlets are free to say how great there are but not in tennis.
usually i prefer Serena talking cos i will look forward to something good to read.
it gets the bloggers busy, it get me laughn too.

imagine a womens final and little noise made about it. .  . .jeezz, i missed Serena!
her comments are not usually tactful but hey it makes headline.

lookn forward to Wimby!
now we have 4 contenders. . .  .great!
common Rafa!

hey lovely peeps. . .
missed you guys!!!!!
glad to be back

is that Ebos up there? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
howdy man! missed ya lots!
glad to know you are still pushn.
sorry abt any harsh enconter you may have experienced these past months.
you are always remd in our prayers. . . .

how Momsie?

looking forward to Oct.

i can see some new faces ard here and it is refreshn!
also you regulars; 4give my AWOL, i always rem this commnuity. .  .


Lady, you are one person that has kept it goin among all of us. . . thanx!

congrats on your graduation, things to celebrate keeps piling!
the good Lord will single out the best job and hand it over to you.
just let us know when to thank him for you, cos it will happen.

nice articles you have here gurl!
keep them coming!
tnx.


Uncle Carl, kedukwanu?
how go dey go?
how Momsie?
abeg she is yearning for grand children, wot are you waiting for sef?
i promsied her i will speak with you.  please letz get this settled nah. . . . .


Oby, thou you are AWOL too, you sha beta pass me.
plz gurl show up gurl lets put this thread where it actually belong.
how are ya?


chukwudi (i have a friend that bear you name and we call him Chukwiiiiiiiiii , cool dude anyday), bros what can i say, your da man! you kept it goin, dalu nna

omenuko, sup bro, we havent met, have we?

this is Viee, the bla bla bla of Nland
nice to meet you too

what of Lawyer and Karlenia(messed up d splen right?, sori bro)

Pam still dey?
wonda whatz up with her, now she is most def worst than me!

lady, i kinda like your idea abt a forum. . .
as you rightly said Catholicsim isnt a thread stuff, it is a forum thing.
then we can talk about different socities, there are.

guys, i was discussn with my kid brother some days back and he said something interestn.
it has to do with the chruch teachings. . .

some of us (incliding yours truly), are baptised as infants, receive communion as kids and also confirm as kids, but as adults  we dont tend to remember those basics we were taught in cathcesicm . . . .
i think to a large extent, it has contributed massively to most of us not really understanding what we practise. .  . .
not to even mention that some if not most of us are sunday sunday members and at Mass we slep through. . .
recently, my inlaw read some Jehova witness books where the said that Jesus is not God and that the Holy Trinty teaching is false. .  . then she started questioning if there is anywhere in the bible where Jesus was actually called God. .  . .
i had one answer, the first book of the bible, where it was written that: the Word was with God and the Word was God, then in John, it was also written: and the Word took flesh and became man.


she accepted this after more arguments (from her)but she was really not convinced. . .  .
guess she need a Priest or Pastor ( not this small gurl Viee for Gods sake )
needless to say, she now attends Lords Choosen where to her she feels Gods presence
i just feel that she never truly understood the teachings of the church, there are so many materials to read but there are not as avaliable as you see tracks from some churches.

homily these days do not really offer much in this regard either.

guys, what do you think cld be to actually get some of us more in tune with the teachings of the church?


oh b t w, Lady best and only way to get to Seun? jus keep sending mail
thanx for doing it on our behalf.
looking forward that actually happening.


enuff said abi? ? ?  ?
just feels too good to be back here!

love you guys plenty.

Glory to Jesus, Honour to Mary and Joseph!

ciao.

why is it that when ever Chelsea ends up on the loosing side, they cry fowl? ? ?
i cant blv most of the things i read. .  .
English press of course being one of the most biased press in world has been fuelling this!

one question: the foul on Iniesta by Essien shouldnt it have been a red card?
the trip of Messi at the edge of the penalty box, shouldnt it have been a free kick?
the foul on Henry in Nou camp, shouldnt it have been a penalty(cant rem barca making noise!)
how did Ballack manage to escape a red camp at nou camp and even at stamford brigde for his disgraceful behaviour?

funny no one rems all these and the fact that Barca played for 20 mins with 10 men
oh and by the way, all the 20 mins Chelsea still packed 11 men behind the 10 men barca!
and to think they accuse Barca of not having plan B!


lets even look at the penalty claim:

aganist Malouda?
shouldnt even be a foul because the idiot dived!
Pique? frankly some refs wld have given a penalty for such, some wldnt because it wasnt deliberate. .  . the ref happen to fall in the latter category
the Eto penalty, same as above.

conspiracy?
cant rem barca getting a penalty, they scored a perfectly good goal from open play. . . .


i read in some britsh sites that Drogba's behaviour was disgraceful, that Terry and Lampard were perfect examples!
i can rem Lampard, Terry, Cesh all bounced on the ref after the game.

Chelsea have always been sour lousers. .  .
when they win, they played unbelivable
when the lose, the world hates them. .  . .

guys, play football with your feet not your mouth please

have to say thou im not suprised, all you have to do is read British papers or listen to British commentary and you begin to think the world actually hates Chelsea. .  .

what a load of crap!

_{just for laughs}

supporting Liverpool is becoming like supporting Nigeria where you win and pray others lose (Man U)
you score and hope others dont (UCL Chelsea)



however trophys or no trophys YNWA!

bgees:
we played unbelieveably well and i have to give props to Rafa Benitez. After a night like this, his critics and haterz can go to hell!

sory bruv, i dont agree.
i think Rafa got it wrong.
wot was Lucas doing on the picth and Mach taken off?
it is an open invitation for Lamps to take shorts!!
i cldnt blv it!
hell, how was he supporting Torres, and Torress had 0 shorts on goal? (imagine having a Barry in place of Lucas for us!)
Yossi should have replaced Gerrad on that role while Riera and Kuyt play in the wings.
even if we were 2 goals down, Mash shld not be taken off becos we simply do not hv a good replacement for him. . .  .
this was a game we cld have easily won after Chelsea came in just to defend their 3-1 lead.

Rafa despite his good knowlegde of the game strikes me as someone who loves to prove a point.
he signs Lucas, we all complain that he is a waste of space and money but Rafa eulogises d guy.
he singled him out as the most outstanding player in that second leg. . . . wot a load of crap!
he is useless. . .i wish us GOOD luck in selling him wheneva that might be!
some pple say he will become a great player next season, i sure hope that happens in another club.
i have neva seen a player who tries so hard to do NUTIN
seems the only positive thing abot him is that is a Brazilian!
unfortunately, country dosnt play, individuals DO

Chelsea have picked form since Hiddink came, will be intresting to see how they play aganist Barca.  . .
for sure, i dnt see Barca running riots aganist them
Will be a 50-50 game but might just be boring, a Livpol/ Barca would have been GRAND
we live to fight another day thou. . .

i wish us plenty of luck aganist Assnal tonite.
in all sincerity, thou i wld have favored a double
but if i have to choose, i will go for League than Champions League
pity it is no longer in our hands.
lets play our part at least and then see how ManU fairs

B T W im kinda hapi about Daglish return to futbol and to Livpool.
thou 8 years is rather a long time, but i think a master is always a master
will be nice to see our youth team producing players that can grow to  the senior team.  . .  .


YNWA

chidichris:
dayokanu,
if u are living in the usa for real, u shld be talking basketball. on the other hand, the time u waste exposing and exporting ignorance on this forum can earn u a few dollars to take care of your family back home.
the case is always the same when flower cutters or dish washers or a mortuary attendant discuss soccer which is outside their areas of specialization. pls if u like soccer, go to europe or better still come back to naija.

@poster,
despite ur inability to provide us with link to ur news, it is obvious that mikel has become so important that both sports journalists and mourinho cannot discuss football without mentioning him.
on the other hand, mikel will be seeing off his three years contract with chelsea at the end of the season, what do u think will be his next move or destination.
i am yet to find any club in europe who will not jump at any opportunity to sign mikel. pls if u know of any, do mention it for me.

Chidi u ok? ? ?

@ Coolguyz

u bet!
but we always seem to struggle aganist the 'small' teams. . .
i just hope that Fulham defeat of man U will send warning signals to our guyz. . .
and oga Benitez too with his line up!

im so dying to see us win and manu draw. . .

congrats guys.

in about a year, this is the best 2 weeks as a pool fan for me!

kliverpool:
i dont like the draw
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

me either!

kliverpool:
but what can we do we have to play anybody at this stage

true talk

kliverpool:
i dont like the fact that everybody think liverpool will win this easily
it anybodys game

gbam!

kliverpool:
but i hope and pray liverpool wins

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

me too!!!!


aganist Aston Villa, i dont have faith either . . . .
Come on you Reds, make my weekend a good one!

@ Da Junta,

the sad thing is how we threw away our lead!
it wld have been better if we went down fighting. . . .
i remember a post on BBC website on the last day of the tranfers. . . .

" Please tell me Rafa has bought David Villa, Benzema, anyone!!!!
surely he cant sell Keane wnd leave us with the 'untapped' potentials of David Ngog"

it captured my feetings intoto.

Come on, Keane wasnt having a debut as good as Torress but he sure was better than some of 'key' players have been in their debut!
now we say Toress injury dented our 'ability'

Berbatov isnt playing his best yet at United but he wasnt sold, despite having capable replacements for him. . . .

i feel so sad!

for todays game, i dont feel so optimistic, a couple of our key and outstanding players for the last few games are out injured. . .

Real needs just a goal to turn the game around. . . .

Rafa wants full control, i hope when he gets it, it will show
we have recruited lots of young players in the past, cant say it has yielded much . . .

so, Da junta, right about now, i feel so lonely!!!!!!

wish us luck tonite thou.


YWNA

hapi new week pple.
hope we all enjoyed the lille holiday?

wishn everyone God's blessing and protection this week.

hey guys. . .
hapi lent

i pray that God will give us grace to see through our various lenten devotins.

heard something toda nad decided to share it with us all.

it is a sermon on todays reading:

God gives us a lot of privileges, and these privileges comes with responsibilities
the people ofNineveh had the privilege of being sent a prophet in the person of Jonah to warn them.
they turned from their evil ways, mourned and repentend.

the Jews however, were looking for signs instead.

Today, the 9th day of lent, God is reminding us of the privileges we have as his children
the privileges of the sacraments we have as practising catholics and what we have done we these privileges.

the privileges we have at be at our place of work, school, family, among friends etc and what we have done with these? ? ?

the lenten season always afford us the oppourtunity for a retreat, on this day, let us reflect on those privileges we have and think of ways to respond to them as christians, as catholics.

Fr (cant rem. his name, sori )

i was deeply touched and want to share it with pple i care about.

have a good day!

[quote author=~Lady~ link=topic=186945.msg3512028#msg3512028 date=1235532255]Ok people, for lent I am giving up Nairaland, and will return after lent.[/quote]
anything for lent thou so
see ay after lent.
have a wonderful and prayerful season

Oby,

sup gurl. . .
yes oo u beta pass _small lol
nice to see you ard.
come more often
went for mass before comin to office this morning
had a good time with God.

lets rem each other this season lent
and pray to God for countries at war, children who are hungry, homeless and for their parents also.
let us also rem in particular those who did lent with us last year, but are no longer with us, that God will thru our prayers, welkom them into his heavenly kingdom.

most esp, let us pray for all of us here, that God will grant us all our good heart desires, in Jesus name.

lets spend some time together with Lord, rem, we can always visit :savior.org at our offices


bless us all!

hey Lady,

im kool
hope you are too?

thanx for the info!

hey peeps. . .

e kaaro,
se daada ni?
yep, im working on my yoruba skills

Chukwudi, i did a bit of reading on the subject u asked and here is an extract from my reading:

Lunar calendar

The Catholic Church maintained a tabular lunar calendar, which was primarily to calculate the date of Easter, and the lunar calendar required reform as well. A perpetual lunar calendar was created, in the sense that 30 different arrangements (lines in the expanded table of epacts) for lunar months were created. One of the 30 arrangements applies to a century (for this purpose, the century begins with a year divisible by 100). When the arrangement to be used for a given century is communicated, anyone in possession of the tables can find the age of the moon on any date, and calculate the date of Easter. [7]



Gregorian reform
The motivation of the Catholic Church in adjusting the calendar was to celebrate Easter at the time it thought the First Council of Nicaea had agreed upon in 325. Although a canon of the council implies that all churches used the same Easter, they did not. The Church of Alexandria celebrated Easter on the Sunday after the 14th day of the moon (computed using the Metonic cycle) that falls on or after the vernal equinox, which they placed on 21 March. However, the Church of Rome still regarded 25 March as the equinox (until 342) and used a different cycle to compute the day of the moon.[8] In the Alexandrian system, since the 14th day of the Easter moon could fall at earliest on 21 March its first day could fall no earlier than 8 March and no later than 5 April. This meant that Easter varied between 22 March and 25 April. In Rome, Easter was not allowed to fall later than 21 April, that being the day of the Parilia or birthday of Rome and a pagan festival. The first day of the Easter moon could fall no earlier than 5 March and no later than 2 April. Easter was the Sunday after the 15th day of this moon, whose 14th day was allowed to precede the equinox. Where the two systems produced different dates there was generally a compromise so that both churches were able to celebrate on the same day. By the tenth century all churches (except some on the eastern border of the Byzantine Empire) had adopted the Alexandrian Easter, which still placed the vernal equinox on 21 March, although Bede had already noted its drift in 725—it had drifted even further by the sixteenth century"


you can read more about it on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

i didnt have that much info abt it so your question also made me look into it, so thankx!

@ all, swell day guyz. . .

hey Lady, sup dear. .

they were excommunicated because they didnt get Papal blessing before their ordination
there were 3 of them.
only one of them made the comment about the holocaust victims . . . . . .
i dnt knw the full details of excommunication and whether personal opinion can actually lead to excommunication. . . i will find out thou
i read somewhere that the Vatican has asked the Priest to retrieve his statement abt the actual number of victims and the gas chamber.

i will try and follow the matter more now. . . .

hey Lady!
just pick a date and venue
cake small sef

and yes, lent is my fav, i alwyas seem to go the extra mile during lent.

@chukwudi, i dnt knw much abt others Holy Fathers but i just love Pope John Paul.
for me, i wont exactly say he is the greatest but i do know that i love him.

@Lady, politically incorrect? now, thats really funny lol
you are absolutely correct. that is exactly the kind of thing that makes headlines u'knw.
i read an article on sunday Punch i think, it was calling for the Pope to resign. I said to myself, what has resignation got to do with all these? A half page of article and i still cldnt make sense of what the authour was hinting. . .

which brings me to this: whats your take on the Pope and Holocaust issue? it seem to be the issue making headlines, should there be conditions for such thing?

hey guys!!
wish you all a great weekend and hapi vals

be good!

God bless us all

halo my peeps
Glory to Jesus, honour to Mary and Joseph!

how una dey?
na wa o, our thread is on page 2?
not funny?
where are we all naw?

itz almost lent and i think we need each oda, abeg make una no desert me naw ooooo

thnx to you all that wished me a hapi bday?
just pick a date and venue for your own cake and ofcoures,

VIEE GO SHOW!!!!!!

i will try and log in more often, itz kind hard now, but i will

page 2? mba nu!

HEY PEEPS. . .
hapi new month!
Kar, how naw?
i fyn ooo, thankx for keeping this thread alive. . .
Carl, fancy meeting you here. .
kedukwanu?
Oby, hw bodi.

lets do the count down to my fav time in the year. . . lenten season.
itz abt 3wkz away and i hope we will all be able do it as we always do.

Lady, Nne, kedu?

hey karlie. . .
sup bro
i will try and log in more often.
how u dey naw?
thank God is friday!

our kinda wish this trens is still sticky oooo
now i have to search real hard to find it
it is not even easy cos Seun is the first poster as he is in some other trends
before, all i have to look out for was Flylady _{woteva happend 2 her?}
it all good thou, i will go thru anytin to be with everybodi. . .

i hope we all had a good week?
may our weekend be even better.

Glory to Jesus, Honour to Mary & Joseph

RSA, if it is easier to win with '25yrs' olds, why did you leave yours at home?
Go Naija!

hey peeps,

sori havnt been here awhile
how are you all doin?
Lady, the Holy Family has taken charge of your family,
have no fear!
Pam, nice to see u ard here.
Kar, how u dey naw?
hope good
jus to say hi all

Venus jus got beaten and im sooooo heart broken!
wotz with her and AO sef?
the only thing that will make me hapi is for Andy Murray to loose. . . lets c

ok, this is the big for me:
asked you'all yo join in prayers for my sistas and my dad. . .
like a big thank you for everyone that did
your prayers worked miracle!
Dad is getting beta, my sis got what she prayed for
and i also got what i have been praying for. . .
pls say a thank you prayer for me
i pray that the good Lord will meet us all at the point of our need.
may his name be praised. . . .