@Rhemes - Well, the whole point of the joke I recalled was that God does not do for us what we can do for ourselves. The light bulb can easily be replaced by means of a step ladder and a fresh bulb; it is for the Benedictine to unscrew the blown bulb, and replace it with the new.

Prayer without good works, i.e. doing ones part to advance the Church's betterment, is quite useless indeed.

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I do come to this site to be taught.

There are sites that deal exclusively with teaching the Catholic faith and, although I don't speak for the administration at Gloria, this is not one of them.

Nevertheless, I enjoy visiting Gloria.tv., viewing videos that interest me, reading a few of the comments and making a few comments myself.

I would guess that over 95% of the videos uploaded to Gloria were not actually created by the person who does the uploading. Members find a video that interests … [More]

The Answer is in the Church with those intrusted with the authority to teach.

Do you beleive that this is happening in the Catholic Church of 2011?

Do you beleive that this has happened in the post-Conciliar Catholic Church?

Do you beleive that "gimmicks" like WYD will teach Catholic youth anything related to traditional Catholic piety?
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Not unlike much of what happens on this site, the void is often filled by Catholics thinking they can teach the faith to … [More]

@Rhemes - that rather reminds me of the joke about the light bulb that blew, and the religious orders in the Church...... I believe twas the Benedictine who approached the problem by kneeling under the blown light bulb, in the dark praying, but nothing happened.

What do you think will introduce them "to the timeless sacred beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass, and all the Church's Sacred and Holy Traditions"?

Wishful thinking doesn't cut it. To achieve a goal (any goal) the appropriate training, education, and effort must be applied. Perfecting their “gangsta-swag” won't help these young skulls full of mush to learn traditional Catholic piety yet this is typical of the boy/girl, good-time, plastic banana, rock & roll sham known as World Youth Day.

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The 'NEW EVANGELIZATION" ...

Yo, this is really great and obviously essential for WYD but no thanks.

In my preparation for WYD, I learned to 'gangsta swag' from my ghetto home buoys and not from two suburban crackers. Yo.