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Yes I too can struggle with food during holidays, pot luck ECT. Struggles are less than they used to be as low oxalate diet has become a solid life style change. Making thanksgiving dinner again this year, Half the food I make I can't eat but my family can so I make it for them. It sure is a blessing to hear the stories of others who also have had to make difficult life style changes. Thanks everyone for sharing your stories
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@content- oh what would we do without google? Do you remember when you just had to wonder about an answer, find someone who knew the answer, or go to the library and find the answer, assuming you did not own a set of encyclopedias? Sometimes I wonder how we grew up so knowledgeable and wise (hahaha)!
@lcamino I wonder that all the time. My sister and I have often said how much my mother would have loved the internet. My son had a problem when he was a toddler and I had so much trouble confirming my “mother’s instinct” about it. I checked the library and every book I could find in bookstores before I could confirm that I was right. I think it was one of Berry Brazelton’s books that confirmed my hunch.
Here are the Organ donation References that I want to share with you. I have copied them directly from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) web link. It is my opinion that many people are misinformed and confused by what they hear and see around them.
Here they are in the official language found on pages 553 and 554 found on line at: http://ccc.usccb.org/flipbooks/catechism/files/assets/basic-html/page-553.html
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Organ transplants
are in conformity with the moral law if the
physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportion
ate to the good that is sought for the recipient. Organ donation after death
is a noble and meritorous act and is to be encouraged as an expression of
generous solidarity. It is not morally acceptable if the donor or his proxy
has not given explicit consent. Moreover, it is not morally admissible
directly to bring about the disabling mutilation or death of a human being,
even in order to delay the death of other persons.
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Autopsies can be morally permitted for legal inquests or scientific
research. The free gift of organs after death is legitimate and can be
meritorious.
The Church permits cremation, provided that it does not dem¬
onstrate a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body
I hope that this helps to clarify the confusion.
Rosemary
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@2011panc those people just may not realize that the church has softened its stance.
JK