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| Fri, 02-03-2006 - 1:27pm |
Hi
I am new at the community here. I need help with this issue.
I have a sister in law that recently became a "Christian". My mother in law is Catholic and she practices the religion. Since my sister in law has become a Christian (about a year ago) she has thrown away at my mother in laws house the image of the Sacred Heart and a rosary my mother in law had. She complains all the time that it is evil and that she has to get rid of all of it. She criticizes everything about Catholicism and does see that if she does have Jesus in her heart like she says she does she should be more considerate and respect other people's religions and not step all over their lives.
I am sorry but if you are a Christian I think that you should respect other people's religions especially when you havent practiced any at all until now and just RESPECT should be the main word here. I dont know how to make myself clear to her that she needs to respect her mother's religion. I am a Catholic too and I do not put down any religion just because it is different than mine. I need to find articles or something that can help me make my point. I am not good at words or explaining things .I feel bad to see that all her life my mother in law has practiced Catholicism and feels strongly about it and that now in her third age she needs to put up with this.
If you have any page you can please direct me to where I can gather info or articles about respecting religions so I can confront her with it will be appreciated.
Thanks so much
Ivee

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Hallo Ivee
I myself still possess the rosaries of both my parents, even though I was never one for using my own, which I got when I did my first communion, when I was 6 years old. I just keep them, because I have good memories of them.
Furthermore, I feel that it doesn't matter whether you mil, bowed down to the pictures or statues she had in her home. She liked them, she kept them for her own reason and it made her feel good to have them around.. tis disrespectful to just without your parent's permission to take them away.
don't please think that if a person doesn't live in a communist country, that they are permitted to practice their believes. Because I was not allowed to practice or pray, when I was married to my first husband. I did anyway, but only when he wasn't around or when he was asleep.. I had friends who had the same thing happen to them too. And none of us, ever were able to attend mass in those years, because of our abusive husbands.
I still have some pictures of my favorite saints around and on my little altar, which I made at home for my own personal use and means.. I even have a beautiful picture of the Russian madonna and child on the arm, in my home, which a friend ones painted to me, after I was living on my own, with my children..
I don't worship the madonna at all, never have, but it is a beautiful pastel painting, made for me, by somebody very kind to me, once and so I keep it..
I hope that your mil, will be able to have peace in her home and her life for what is there more important than to know that one is safe in ones own home, which is ones haven from the world
greets from the old brush
I've been Protestant all of my life and I don't quote scriptures :to suit my own purpose." As far as Protestants not seeing Catholics as Christians, that is NOT true. I believe that Catholics ARE Christian; however, there are lots of Catholics that do not believe that they are Christian. They belive Catholicism is separate from being Christian.
I object to the generalization you have made regarding Protestants. Maybe the Protestants you know are like that. However, I am not like that and I know many Protestants who are not like that.
Sometimes if you approach a person with love in your heart, it is easier to open the lines of communication and understanding. Perhaps your SIL really believes, in her heart, that she is trying to save someone. And if she believes it then it is true for her. Trying to convince her she is wrong when you are so angry will only, in my opinion, make things worse, and convince her she is right. Perhaps the best way is through love and when you have love in your heart, who knows, the solution may present itself to everyone.
Good luck!
Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself.
You may not be perfect, but you are all You've got to work with.
Thanks Cara!
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