Toronto, Canada
When and why are the statues and the cross in the church covered or removed during Lent?
Sorry if this question has been asked before in Mandarin. I am afraid I am going back to basics. Do you need to bless yourself in Holy Water before entering a church? A friend mentioned that her family no longer touches the Holy Water since COVID. Is there a specific prayer to be said when blessing oneself with Holy Water or can you say what you want? Thank you.
We all have accumulated a lot of religious objects, such as prayer cards, rosaries, and pictures of Saints. But some are either worn out or broken. What is the most appropriate way of disposing them ? I have heard that it is a sin to toss them into the garbage ?
My cat is diagnosed with diabetes and needs insulin twice a day plus glucose level test twice a day. If eventually he needs to be put down (euthanize), what kind of sin I commit? I feel guilty of killing him but I do not want to see him suffer!
我的兒子選擇在聖堂以外結婚，我是否不能參加他們的婚禮呢？不能見證呢？ 雖然兒子及未來媳婦已經領洗，但不是虔誠教徒。
I count on GOD and trust GOD to protect my family. Recently we got 2 car accidents within 3 months and both were not our fault. I am so scared of when will be the 3rd one. Why does GOD allow that to happen again and again in such a short time? I don’t know what I did wrong or pray wrong? I always pray to allow the Holy Spirit in our hearts to walk us thru the life planned from GOD and give my family wisdom to select the choice GOD likes. I am so scared and how to avoid the 3rd one.
If God the Father is a Spirit, how can He made human according to his own image? When I was young I always thought God the Father is a old man hovering over the earth. I gradually realized this is a wrong thinking. But then I remember in the Old Testament it describes God is invisible and like a force / wind, then how can He create human according to His own image?
![If Adam and Eve were the original human, our ancestors, then, all descendants were a result of incest? Or, God had made more than two human somewhere else [descendants of Adam met somewhere else]?](https://askfrfrancis.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/moscow-518864-300x300.jpg)
If Adam and Eve were the original human, our ancestors, then, all descendants were a result of incest? Or, God had made more than two human somewhere else [descendants of Adam met somewhere else]?
Protestants like to ask Catholics why we pray ‘repetitious prayer’ like the Rosary and quote that Jesus said not to pray ‘vain repetitions’ in Matthew 6:7? How should we respond?
In the case of pregnancy resulted from rape, didn’t God grant each of us a free will? Rape is not the free will of the girl yet she is restrained by the church to keep the child. Shouldn’t a child be born of love?
Do dreams mean anything? Can we interpret our dreams? I often dream about a childhood friend who gave me a Miraculous Medal when we were little. We haven’t been in touch for over ten years. Is there anything I can do besides praying and offering Mass for this childhood friend of mine?
基督徒可以紋身嗎？
A family member, a born Catholic, has become a modernist/universalist during these years. He believes people of all religions can enter heaven; muslims, jews, hindus, scientologists, even pagans of the ancient world can enter heaven! He believes that there is one God, but he thinks that all the religious people of the world basically worship the same God even if it’s not Jesus! How can we help him to bring him back to the Catholic faith?
Why is the Church promoting our faithful to do novena with fixed prayers and such prayers usually fall into fixed number of days, such as 3, 8, 9, 33? Which novenas would you recommend?
Some ladies wear a veil to mass but most don’t. Some wear black and some wear white. What is the meaning of the veil?
During a difficult delivery, the Doctor gives the Mother and Father the choice: “I can save either the mother’s life or the child’s life. Which do you want me to save first?” The church tells us that we should save the baby’s life, but many would not agree. What are your thoughts?
We are Catholic and received an invitation from our cousin to attend his daughter’ s same sex marriage in Toronto. Are we supposed to refuse to attend or not?
神父平安。我的老家在新年時，有拜神明的習慣，而我不得不參與這個傳統。但我只是拿香站著而已，並沒有把神明當作神的心思，且在進行時，總是請求天主的垂憐與諒解。我需要不斷為此辦和好聖事，否則不能領聖體嗎？我是否會因此而失去天主的恩寵？祂是否因此而不再應允我的祈禱？謝謝神父。
If Jesus came to die for our sins, in order for us to go to heaven, what happened to all the people before Jesus’ coming?
