Posted on 01/11/2018 6:54:52 PM PST by Salvation
Evangelization Ping!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Don’t let the heretics and the idiots drive you out of the Church. The worse things get, the more Pope Frances undermines the Church, the more your minister may give silly sermons, the more you need to go to church and receive the sacraments.
If your local priest can’t do confession properly, go somewhere else. As long as he says the proper words at the consecration, and doesn’t mess up that part of the Mass, it can be presumed that the sacrament is there for you to receive.
For the sake of the Church, we need to resist the heretics and try to show a good example. And for our own sakes and that of our families, we need to receive the Sacraments regularly. Don’t let people like Francis drive you out. If you leave, you are just helping him realize his aims.
Should be forwarded to the Vatican.
You know I was thinking about it when Benedict was Pope, but I changed my mind when he was deposed.
May want to consider Alpha. An opportunity to find about Christianity (not specifically Catholic) and God. Good videos, interesting interviews,and small discussion groups. Our parish has recently started several groups as an encouragement to seek God to help us find peace. Tries to explain some basics and ask questions.
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“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:5
“For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.’ Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’ But the law is not of faith, rather ‘The one who does them shall live by them.’ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.”
Gal 3:10-14
“You know I was thinking about it when Benedict was Pope, but I changed my mind when he was deposed.”
Which means you never changed your mind because Pope Benedict was never deposed. He simply resigned. Thus, you’ve been thinking about it for more than 5 years. Time to fish or cut bait.
You can come back anytime. It’s you who are the important actor in the scene of your life.
God is waiting patiently for you.
Right on, right on.
“God is waiting patiently for you.
It is only coming to Christ alone that brings salvation. Not any church or denomination.
Here is the real “Coming Home Network”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
The church has left me not I the church. Pope Francis is an abomination to the teachings of "The Church."
Odd is it not, the greatest pope in a thousand years, Pope John Paul and the worst, Pope Francis, are sepaerated by just 13 years. Pope Francis is a result of the corruption in the college or cardinals. The cardinals have become political and have abandoned the church also.
We as baptized are the Body of Christ through the Catholic Church as founded by Jesus and protected by the Holy Spirit until the end of time.
I am with Jesus Christ and His Church with the Sacraments. We are all sinners, even the Pope and Cardinals. Many Catholics are saints and we should try to follow their example and the example of Jesus and the Blessed Mother. We need each other and we need to help all grow towards loving God and neighbor.
So you leave the Church because of a few individuals, look at what Jesus endured for your salvation, you can certainly endure His Church?
No one is capable of doing it alone without God, and his best help is in His church.
Roman Catholicism can seemingly do nothing apart from Mary.
You don't realize this but you're equating Jesus and Mary to be on the same level.
In my view this has nothing to do with law but only
religion.
You impute comments with your false and misleading opinions.
Following an example of others does not infer that they are the same level.
Perhaps you need more love in your heart for God and your neighbors.
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