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A:I'm not sure but they arn't such a good couple because of the fact that other men has seen Gisele with no clothes on.(her photo shoots for Victoria Secret) I don't think they should get married. Him and Adrianna Lima would be cute together!!!!!!!!

A:<> There is no such thing. Such a service is not necessary for priests and nuns. <> How exactly do you know this? Are you a peeping in on parish rectories and convents? Something tells me 'no, you're not'. Look, the fact you can't maintain a celibate life doesn't mean others can't - especially those who have freely chosen to take a Vow of Celibacy. If anything, the vast majority of the priests and nuns who take this vow are living proof that it can be done. So, really, who's kidding themself here?

A:It's not a problem, dear; just don't participate in any communion service (sometimes called the Lord's Supper) because it does not mean the same thing to Protestants as it does to Catholics. You should also be going to Mass, though ... and perhaps if you take your boyfriend with you so he can experience how Catholics worship (and therefore know a little bit more about you), the need to help him understand what's going on may also help you to get more out of it. [Edit] However ... as the thumbs-down proliferation here indicates, and from my personal experience as a former Baptist, I can tell you that their prejudice against Catholics runs fairly deep. Do not take anything you are told about your own faith at face value.

A:I think that you are very wise to want to resolve this issue now. For devoutly religious people, being able to practice their faith together not only helps to prevent tension it brings you closer together. I believe that it is vitally important that you be able to raise your children in your faith together. I do understand, and sympathize, with the angst over your boyfriend's inability to "compromise" on this issue. I was an evangelical Protestant when I met my very Catholic husband. I knew that in order to marry him that I would have to promise to raise my children as Catholics. I decided that if I couldn't BE Catholic, I couldn't raise my children as Catholic so I investigated Catholicism. When I married I was just Catholic enough to understand that what I had been told Catholics believe all of my life wasn't quite accurate and that I was still Christian even if I was joining the Catholic Church. Over the years, as my prejudices and miconceptions were replaced with Catholic teaching I began to understand why it simply wasn't possible for my husband to compromise. He could turn his back on his faith entirely or not and there really wasn't a middle ground. Having been there once myself, I do understand that it is frustrating as all get out. My suggestion is to really investigate the Catholic faith. You are welcome to contact me via email and I can suggest some excellent books. I have a Yahoo group (Catholic Spirfire Grill) that is just for people investigating the Catholic Church and you are welcome to join us. We have an excellent collection of resources that can assist you in investigating so you don't even have to listen to us "talk" if you don't want to. We don't pressure anyone and all of us can relate to the difficulties of conversion. If you decide that the Catholic Church is not for you, then I would suggest that as wonderful as your boyfriend probably is....he isn't the one you should marry. I agree with so many others that have answered. It isn't necessary for people who wear their religion to church on Sunday like clothes to attend the same church but for those who are devout and live their faith....compromise is a very dangerous thing.

A:Depending on the particular Lutheran church, the service may be practically identical to either a Catholic or a Baptist service, or somewhere in-between. To be honest, the better, more credible Lutheran churches will be more like Catholics in their worship format. The move toward "contemporary" Baptist-style services really comes from a very different and un-Lutheran understanding of the purpose of the church service. There is a script of all the things that are said or chanted by the pastor and congregation, which we call the "order of worship," and this is found in a section at the front of the hymnal. You will be told in the bulletin or at the start of the service which page the order of worship is found on. This is where you spend most of your time, and you can use a page from your bulletin as a bookmark when you go to sing a hymn. It can be a little confusing the first few times, but you get used to it surprisingly quickly. The bulletin frequently has a summary of the service to help guide you through it as well, and some churches print the whole order of worship there. As far as differences from Baptists, the biggest thing Baptists are concerned with is that we baptize babies, and that we baptize by pouring water on the head rather than by immersion. But this is just the most visible aspect of deep differences in our understanding of how salvation works. We don't believe in a "born-again experience" in the sense that Baptists do. Rather, we believe that salvation is something the Holy Spirit works in a person through external means. Those means are the Word of God, and the sacraments. Simply put, one way of reading Matthew 28:19-20 is that Jesus was telling us exactly how disciples are made, and that it involves two steps: Preach the Word of God, and baptize. We believe that these two external actions, and *not* a personal choice of the recipient, are what save a person. We also believe that they may happen in either order (note that in Jesus' instructions baptism comes first), which is why we baptize our children shortly after birth. Of course, there's *much* more than this, but that's the most important difference, in a nutshell. One more thing: We believe that in Holy Communion we receive Christ's actual body and blood. Therefore, many Lutherans practice closed communion. If this church practices closed communion (or if you are uncertain), then you must not go forward under any circumstances. But even if they don't, you still should not go forward unless you have first spoken with the pastor. Receiving Christ's body and blood is serious business, and doing so in unbelief (thinking it's just a symbol counts as unbelief) is just not safe.