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<blockquote data-quote="Mage" data-source="post: 1276363" data-attributes="member: 1809">You see while in theory there is a difference between a &quot;practicing&quot; Catholic and a &quot;devout&quot; Catholic, in practice you are either devout and practicing or you are only nominal and not practicing.This priest is speaking theory, I have lived Catholic life and I know how it stands with practical non- clergy Catholics. If you want to make sure the person is a real Catholic who will stand by his faith, like when looking for Catholic wife or other reason then look for person who goes to confession every four weeks, or more often if happens to fall under heavy sin, and therefore is almost always in state of grace to receive communion, which she does every Sunday or even more often.Everyone who goes to receive a communion once a year is either living too away from civilization to do it more often or is just larping as a Catholic and should decide to become properly devout or stop being Catholic. It's not a good place to be stuck in for a long time.Also there is difference between west and east on how often you should go to confession at minimum. At west you have this new generation of priests teaching once per year is enough. In Eastern Europe priests are still teaching the old message that twice per year on Easter and Christmas time is minimum.Also please use quotation brackets properly next time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mage, post: 1276363, member: 1809"] You see while in theory there is a difference between a "practicing" Catholic and a "devout" Catholic, in practice you are either devout and practicing or you are only nominal and not practicing. This priest is speaking theory, I have lived Catholic life and I know how it stands with practical non- clergy Catholics. If you want to make sure the person is a real Catholic who will stand by his faith, like when looking for Catholic wife or other reason then look for person who goes to confession every four weeks, or more often if happens to fall under heavy sin, and therefore is almost always in state of grace to receive communion, which she does every Sunday or even more often. Everyone who goes to receive a communion once a year is either living too away from civilization to do it more often or is just larping as a Catholic and should decide to become properly devout or stop being Catholic. It's not a good place to be stuck in for a long time. Also there is difference between west and east on how often you should go to confession at minimum. At west you have this new generation of priests teaching once per year is enough. In Eastern Europe priests are still teaching the old message that twice per year on Easter and Christmas time is minimum. Also please use quotation brackets properly next time. [/QUOTE]

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