Posted on 01/06/2013 5:01:08 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
The setting is familiar, even if the message isn’t.
Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz is standing in a locker room giving what appears to be a pep talk. But instead of talking about offensive execution and defensive intensity, he is fervently reminding his listeners that “for victory in life we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is heaven.”
The divine pep talk is the newest “evangomercial” from Catholics Come Home, an independent media outreach intended to “inspire, educate and evangelize inactive Catholics and others, and invite them to live a deeper faith in Jesus Christ
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War Eagle and Roll Tide Roll.
Your comment dusggest you don’t understand what a personal relationship (nor a religion) is.
I’ll come home to Holy Mother Church when the last homosexual priest is laicized.
Nothing Jesus said can rationally support the notion that that the bread in an RC communion actually becomes the physical body of Christ; NOTHING. Jesus said, eat the bread in remembrance of Him.
Lou Holtz should have directed his comments to the administration and faculty of Notre Dame first and foremost.
It’s not about ND.
It’s about Christ.
When the veil of the Temple was torn at the death of Christ, it symbolized that everyone had direct access to God and not longer required a human priest to intercede for him. Jesus is the High Priest and all can go directly to Him.
As for the "Church He started", the first churches were home churches.
Did Jesus also ordain the historic corruption of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries? The RCC is a man-created organization that has done much good - and much evil; but it is merely a man-created organization.
Hearing Holtz talk on politics I don’t think he would invite Obama anywhere.
In Matthew 16 Jesus gives Peter a “triple blessing”. In the blessing is that Peter is rock and the gates of hell shall not prevail against his church. So was Jesus wrong - has hell prevailed over the Catholic Church?
If Priests are no longer needed why are they mentioned so often in Acts?
Also, when it is said in the New testament that first try to correct sinners, then bring a few people if that doesn’t work, and if that doesn’t work then bring them to the CHURCH. Whose house were they to bring the sinners to when a small group of believers was insufficient?
All organizations experience corruption. The Holy Spirit only protects the Catholic Church from deciding doctrine erroneously. He doesn’t protect the Church from corruption as its members are human and therefore prone to sin.
He said “This is my Body” just after holding a piece of bread. If we are to do it in remembrance of Him then those with apostolic succession are to also turn bread into Jesus’ body. I know it is a hard teaching and that is why so many of Jesus disciples left Him in John 6 - they couldn’t accept it.
Do not worry, AL will hand ND tonight their rear ends in the BCS Championship.
That is how the RCC began, as “home churches” during the time of the apostles.
The sweet irony of it all is that the most well-known Catholic cable channel is broadcasted from, of all places, AL.
“It’s Roman Catholicism that needs to “come home”... not the other way around”
Bingo!!
All I can say is give it a rest. Lots if people still at Notre Dame are great folks who want to do the right thing. If you want to be an absolutist that’s fine but its pretty difficult to find anyone who’s perfect. The students and many of the manners of the ND faculty are very good Catholics. Should they quit? Of course not, they try to fix from within. People like that are needed everywhere. And the ND Lou Holtz coached for didn’t have Fr. Jenkins as its president. Should he be held accountable for Jenkin’s actions?
Once again Mr. Holtz is a decent man with whom few would quarrel. However you should get beyond nostalgia, remove the Irish blinders and recognize what has and continues to happen. Fr. Jenkins not only invited the vile abortion promoting Obama to Notre Dame, conferred an honorary degree, celebrated him in his introduction, and in a mean spirited manner tormented the people who protested the nonsense. Fr. Jenkins by his vows and the position he holds, is a Catholic leader and educator of the young. His actions were not only inconsistent with that role but were abhorrent and harmful. Yet he remains the leader and president of Notre Dame. All those “good people” continue to serve under him without protest. There is a unwashed stain on Notre Dame which has forever corroded its reputation. Give it a rest? Until Notre Dame removes Jenkins and apologizes sincerely for its actions, they have bought into the carnage that Obama actually celebrates. Frankly when a candidate comes before me these days ballyhooing their unabashed pride and nostalgia for Notre Dame, immediately an apparent character defect is identified, and the next applicant is promptly considered.
Do you interpret all scripture literally?
Doesn’t the RCC also teach that communion wine actually become the blood of Jesus? Does it really taste like blood? The answer is “no”.
Holtz isn’t asking fallen Catholics to enroll at Notre Dame, that cesspool isn’t even mentioned in the commercial. He’s asking fallen Catholics to return to the faith. The faith that transcends the sins of John Jenkins, Monk Molloy, Ted Hesburgh, Richard McBrien and every other sinner in South Bend. Too bad your myopia prevented you from realizing that.
Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
We know from your own comment that you would have walked away like many others.
Scripture refutes your assertions.
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