ot.........scary movies and kids

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Mon, 08-01-2005 - 11:37pm

bad mommy and daddy report tonight..we were channel surfing and dh decides to announce that we're going to watch the abc movie sixth sense. i'm saying no way and the oldest two, ages 6 and almost 8, are all for it because it's *scaaaaaary*. at every commercial i'm saying it's just make believe it's just make believe and even encouraged a channel change. we watched the entire movie and when it was time to go to bed, my oldest asked a genuine question: what do you do if (big emphasis on *if*) things pop out of the television mom? i reminded her that it was only a movie and that would never happen. she was certain i was wrong and kept asking "but what *if*...." i said it wouldn't happen and included other shows that wouldn't pop out either like her favorites spongebob and lizzie mcguire.

i feel so bad that these kids watched this movie. are there limits on programming at your home and would you have handled the scenario the same way with children at this age? tia for any btdt or advice.

m3t who can't wait til the school year starts so we can get back into a routine of 8P bedtime.

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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 5:52pm

Yep. I had attended a Methodist church through most of my hs days (my parents still attend said church). When I would go to Mass with xh, I felt very comfortable with the format, creeds, etc because it was so similar to my home church. However, my church would have allowed him to partake in Communion. I however was not invited to partake in the Eucharist.


(btw, it always bugged me that we only did Communion once a month ... it seemed important enough to me to be done every week)

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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 5:53pm

My goats are on the roof, trimming the grass.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 5:54pm

Me too.....I wonder what the history of only once a month was?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 5:56pm
Nobody said Lutherans are Catholics. What I said was, Lutherans are permitted to partake in Catholic Communion because Lutherans also believe in transubstantiation.

Karen

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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:04pm

Here you go:


Q: Why do United Methodists have communion only once a month?


You know, I thought I might get this question. In other churches, they have communion every single time. If you went to Catholic or Episcopal services, they have communion as part of every service. Other churches, what are called "low churches", have communion maybe once a quarter, or maybe only twice a year. I think that it is the result of history. Mr. Wesley was an Anglican priest and believed that Methodists should take the Lord's Supper often. Methodists in the Methodist Societies (as they were then called) in England, were expected to participate in the class meetings and in the prayer meetings, but then were expected to go down to the Anglican Church down the road for communion.


When Methodism began to grow in America and became a frontier religion, the ordained ministers were circuit riders who might only show up in your church every six weeks or so. They were the only ones authorized to perform the sacraments, unlike the lay leaders and lay preachers who would lead the congregation the other weeks. Then it likely became a question of possibility--you could only take communion once a month or so. That probably quickly achieved the status of tradition. In our community here, we offer communion every week at the healing service. We still follow the tradition of the majority of United Methodist churches by having communion in Sunday worship on the first Sunday of the month. I don't know that there's any hard and fast rule about that--if we here all decided to have communion every week, we could certainly do that.


It is from:


http://www.aumethodists.org/sermons/sermon050206.html


Our church has Communion every two weeks. We also have a special prayer service the opposite weeks of Communion.


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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:05pm
That's an awful big word there, missy.
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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:08pm

Partaking in Communion on a weekly basis is one of the things I like most about the DOC (Disciples of Christ) denomination.


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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:14pm

Thank you.


PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:14pm

The frequency of Communion is determined locally at the home church. *Most* Methodist churches, by tradition, serve once a month, but more and more often, Methodist churches are starting to serve weekly.

Interestingly enough, John Wesley wrote a rather lengthy sermon on the subject of taking Communion often (constantly) and makes a strong argument against the idea of "being unworthy" as well as dispelling the notion that St. Paul's comments about eating and drinking one's own damnation can be taken out of the original context of when Corinth practiced the Lord's Table by separating out parishioners according to their ability to provide food for the common meal. Some were eating first and basically gorging (the rich who could arrive early and provide copious amounts of food) while others who could not arrive til later went hungry (the poor who tended to have long working hours and were thus unable to arrive much before the start of the worship.

It's an interesting read: http://archives.umc.org/frames.asp?url=http%3A//gbgm-umc.org/UMhistory/Wesley/sermons/serm-101.stm

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
flat in others,
and really annoying when it's stuck in your head."

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
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Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:20pm

lol.

have you heard of consecration? turning bread and wine into body and blood? same thing.

i really don't know the answer to the question thou....i *think* the eucharist in the catholic church is exclusive to catholics only. but once dh did ask what would happen if he walked up and partook? would they really ever know? no....outside a guilty conscience maybe.

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