Yes, this little guy! Obviously, any Catholic person might be interested in the Infant of Prague … but for some reason, it’s really entrenched in Irish Catholic culture. I have heard it can be traced back to one charismatic bishop who was personally fond of it, and it seems to have caught on from there.
Lots of other images have a ton of clothes, and lots of images are copies of whatever original. All those images of Our Lady of Guadalupe are copies of the same one (even if they are done in a completely different medium, from those mosaics in San Antonio Bridget Burke linked to neon lights), all images of Our Lady of the Pillar or whatever it’s called in English are copies of the one in Saragossa, all images of Our Lady of Lourdes are copies of - you guessed it, the one in Lourdes!
There’s even images which are, uhm, redone. My home town’s patron saints are St Anne and St Joachim (Our Lady’s parents according to tradition), and there are two images of St Anne in the cathedral. One of them was actually sculpted as St Anne, but the other one is a St John the Evangelist to which someone attached a third head (St Anne, Our Lady, the Child). Yep, we’ve got a transexual St Anne!
Statues? I always thought that was how Julio stored his Coke.
“…the easiest way to find someone is to let them find YOU…”
“Hello, Ms. Parker? Hi. I’m from the “Mr Clean” bathtub cleaning service? Your neighbors had reported some very dirty thoughts around your tub and I just wanted to avail you of our free cleaning service. Maybe you’ve heard of us: ‘We’ll make you sing and we won’t leave a ring’?
Now if you’d just lean forward, I’ll start with your back. You know, you’d be Amazed at how dirty your shoulder blades can get? Why there are 40… maybe 45 ways that they can get dirty that you really ought to be made aware of…”
Oh, I just meant that dressing up the original in Prague is quite the activity; when you go to that church, you can see the Jesus off to the right, and then there’s an entire exhibit of the various vestments and what-not that they’ve dressed it in over the years, with note of what congregations, etc… sent the vestments.
Really strange, if you ask me. Almost idolatrous.
Which ones? Seriously asking.
There’s probably as much honor here as Antony meant to impute to Brutus after the “Et tu” incident.
Attitude!
I’m gonna remember this the next time you freak out over people criticizing the Jehovah’s Witnesses. At least Catholics don’t shun people who leave the church.
Oh–you are more comfortable with a religion whose doctrine does not clash with your personal values (one of which seems to be, “There is no such thing as a ‘bad person’”).
In the King James Version, Titus 3:10 reads, “A man that is an heretick after a first and second admonition reject.” Feel free to compare this with the reading in any translation bearing the Nihil Obstat and the Imprimatur.
Uhh, do I have to separate you people?
Right, and like I said, that ceremony which you find so strange has equivalents all over the place. Strange to you, everyday to me.
No, u.
How Puritan of you!
Patron saints of incest victims and lepers, respectively.
Isn’t everybody glad someone ELSE looked them up?
Say what?
Perhaps, but then again I always DID wonder where the original concept of Barbie & Ken came from.
“How come Ken has no thingy?”
“Cause Jesus was from… Mattel…”
Admonishing the sinner is considered one of the spiritual works of mercy. And folks are expected to reconcile themselves before coming back to the Church.
Absolutely. And in the local congregation there was one such family that had been expelled, eventually so reconciled, and was welcomed back with open arms. To which I can personally attest.
My Protestant church has a large, plain, wooden cross at the front of the sanctuary. We dress it with cloths of different colors, depending upon the season of the “church calendar”, and during the Easter season we insert three “nails” (actually railroad spikes) at the hands and feet positions. But never a corpus.
I question whether this is a hijack, but, until a mod says to stop, I guess I’ll reply.
Oddly, disfellowshipping/excommunication is something JWs have in common with Catholics. Both bother me as a Protestant, but I think excommunication seems less bad. I’ve never heard of Catholics not being allowed to even hang out with excommunicated people.
I have people in my family who left the JW faith over this. One became a Baptist, the other we have no clue because he decided to cut off the entire family. My aunt and uncle finally seemed to become less strict with their last kid, to avoid losing her, too.
And, the thing is, they aren’t bad people at all. It’s just what happens. You’re better off never joining, it seems, than to ever not toe the line.