[Marysecretary]

Too bad you have rejected my kindness. I do pray for your eternal soul if you don’t believe in being born again.

[Desdemona]

I was merely writing some apologetics, trying to correct some falsehoods that are repeatedly posted here and any number of places about what the Church teaches and why Catholics do what we do. It's all about actually doing what Christ asked us to do - serve others in His name. Do we know if we've done enough? No. We don't. We never do until we are judged as our fleshly life ends. And yes, I do believe in Purgatory and being purified through suffering - sometimes here on Earth. There are victim souls who suffer their whole lives and then go straight to God. Would that I could be one, but alas, no, I'm not. At least I don't think so.

None of it is as simple as "if you believe, then you are saved." It just isn't. That may be difficult to accept, but that's the way it is. We have to constantly, every day, turn to conversion from sin and sinful habits that includes pride and other all too human failings. Every day we have to guard against it. No one sacrament, liturgy, prayer, Scripture passage - any of it - can do that, but all of it together forms a sort of support system that acts as a bulwark against temptation.

I'm off this thread. I shouldn't have given in last night.

[terycarl]

Too bad you have rejected my kindness. I do pray for your eternal soul if you don’t believe in being born again.

WOW, Marysecretary, you’re back!! I just said a special prayer for you at Mass this morning and Halleluia, it worked!!!God works in mysterious ways, you’re still wrong, but you’re O.K.....that’s good.....thanks God!