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To: mlizzy
Then why don't you plainly answer the question, which not one among many RCs asked before have yet to do? Do you hold that one must believe (in the Real Presence) and receive the Eucharist in order to have life in them, and eternal life? Affirm or deny.

Any Catholic who would answer your question is overstepping his boundaries as a faith-filled servant of Jesus Christ. Hitler, John Wayne Gacy, and/or Margaret Sanger, could all be in heaven. This is the beauty of the Catholic faith. It's not our call, it's His.

That is really quite an escape. I began asking it because RCs regularly post those texts in asserting Jn 6. is speaking literal, but you come along and deny the certitude of of what must be the conclusion of such literalism, thus negating their argument.

So thank you for accomplishing what they are afraid of doing. .

What believing in the Real Presence and receiving the Eucharist WILL do for a person, is fill them with His strength and His power. Who wouldn't what that?

However, it manifestly does not. I am a former weekly serving RC, and have lived in a heavily RC area for over 60 years, and in addition have abundance of statistics , and the reality is that it is evangelical faith that effects manifest regeneration, while deadness and liberalism reigns where Rome does. Or blind zeal.

40 posted on 01/05/2014 6:26:08 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212
I am a former weekly serving RC, and have lived in a heavily RC area for over 60 years, and in addition have abundance of statistics , and the reality is that it is evangelical faith that effects manifest regeneration, while deadness and liberalism reigns where Rome does. Or blind zeal.
I remember going to see Rick Santorum in Glendale Heights, IL, and the crowd was mostly evangelicals, and they were a good group to be around, yes, very much alive in their faith, but the problem I see with your deduction regarding Catholics is the word "weekly." In order to see the true zeal available to the Roman Catholic, you must participate in the Sacraments more than once a week.

In fact, as my husband put it, when comparing the TLM to the NO, "I have difficulty just "getting through" the NO Sunday Mass." I agree with him, and I would not be a zealous Catholic if I only participated on Sundays. In fact, I've never been a Sunday-only Catholic. So since 1984, when I converted, I have been attending daily Mass with my husband. Also frequent reconciliation (which is necessary!), and adoration too. You wouldn't expect a marathon participant to win if he only practiced on Sundays, right?
41 posted on 01/05/2014 6:39:31 PM PST by mlizzy ("If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended." --Mother Teresa)
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