@Hidd3nTimobo@superxtianmario You're not allowed to eat dead meat though, meat that was killed and blood remaining. I guess you could say that's after Noah's time...
@GeorgeNicholasK@food_inquisitor Can you discuss in some more detail, in what sense is the ecclesiology so different? Aren't they basically just upgrading Pope Francis to a mega-patriarch and having the entire world as "one province"? It's quite silly sounding but doesn't seem like self-contradictory
@yecksd 1) Holy Spirit grace helping catechumens a lot (I've personally seen it and experienced it)
2) devil's temptations leading to great prelest
I feel like it's similar to a sailboat that has a lot of wind, but the captain is being tempted in steering the directions
@superxtianmario They "technically" aren't in schism based on their own rules, but practically and humanly speaking, they don't attend Novus Ordo churches, they don't participate in N.O. theological life, they don't talk to N.O. people... it's basically schism
@AdamJKrejci @LatinAcolyte St. Joseph was an old man, a widower who had sons from a previous marriage, entrusted as a guardian to marry the Virgin Mary when she was in ~13 years old. They were not a "young couple." Check "Life of the Theotokos" book by Holy Transfiguration