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Bad timing for St. Stephen?
 
Bad timing for the observer, Saul -- later to become St. Paul?
 
Or bad timing to be right after the celebration of the Solemnity of the Nativity?
 
And a last question:  Do we speak out like St. Stephen and risk being ostracized, thought foolish or even being killed, etc.???

Catholic Ping!

2 posted on 12/27/2011 8:53:49 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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And a last question: Do we speak out like St. Stephen and risk being ostracized, thought foolish or even being killed, etc.??? I know for a fact that there are quite a few Prots and fundies that wouild prefer me to shut up and or go away.

Not that I plan on doing either anytime soon

4 posted on 12/27/2011 9:03:01 AM PST by verga (We get what we tolerate and increase that which we reward)
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"Do we speak out like St. Stephen and risk being ostracized, thought foolish or even being killed, etc.???"

Yes, although I do not seek martyrdom - it's coming unsought for by many of my coreligionists.

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!
7 posted on 12/27/2011 9:48:42 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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I think we have little choice except to speak out.


12 posted on 12/27/2011 1:46:04 PM PST by Rich21IE
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All GOD knows and plans out. HIS timing is perfect on both accounts.

 Also Stephen was a believer and knew about heaven; our real home. After he had faith, he was ready whenever ( as all believers should be)

We must all confess HE is LORD through our mouths and actions in the environments HE puts us in. 
 When talking to people about GOD, we must bare in mind that we were once like the people we are confessing openly towards. We confess and live our confession. Living what we confess shows the power that faith in HIM gives us and changes us to be living guiding examples that point to HIM. 

When we were always ignorantly sinning we rejected and ridiculed christ. Even now when we know we sin we knowingly do the same. Though the flesh will sin, it’s possible through constant prayer and fasting to keep it in the mind. This way it doesn’t effect others. This is the best we can do. This is what faith should make us do.

Jesus says we will see offense:

LUKE 10:16
16 ‘Anyone who listens to you listens to me; anyone who rejects you rejects me, and those who reject me reject the one who sent me.’

BUT!!

Rejected or not we must love all people. As Jesus says:

Luke 10:26-27

26 He said to him, ‘What is written in the Law? What is your reading of it?’
27 He replied, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself.’

MATTHEW 5:43-48
43 ‘You have heard how it was said, You will love your neighbour and hate your enemy.
44 But I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;
45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the bad as well as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax collectors do as much?
47 And if you save your greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional?
48 Do not even the gentiles do as much? You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.’

Praise Jesus!!

Jesus4life


14 posted on 12/27/2011 11:31:04 PM PST by jesus4life
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