About Fr. John Corapi with observations about our times (Fr. Z weighs in)

WDTPRS ^ | June 18, 2011 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

[AnneM62]

Does anyone recall the story of his old friend, the ex-heroin addict turned Carmelite Nun? She left the convent and ended up back on heroin, in a brothel.
Out of desperation, she called Fr. Corapi and he paid her pimp 14k, then he aided her return back to the convent.

I wonder if she left again and Father Corapi tried to help her out?

Dear Lord, you gave Saint John Vianney the strength to pursue a priestly vocation amid trials and adversity, please watch over all our Priests and religious and give them this same strength and faith. Amen

[will of the people]

“I was Lutheran and Assembly of God before I found the answers to Hebrews 6:1-3 in The Catholic Church”

If only you’d made it all the way to Hebrews 9:25-28

25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Will

[NYer]

Thank you for posting that! Indeed, I do recall that story but had forgotten it.

Thank you especially for that prayer! It is most beautiful and would definitely apply to St. Pio as well.

[trisham]

You’re right.

[mas cerveza por favor]

You imply that Hebrews 9:25-28 differs from Catholic doctrine. That means your interpretation of Catholic doctrine and that passage differs from the interpretation of the Early Christian Fathers. They believed in the Eucharist, but did not consign Hebrews to apocrypha like the Epistle to the Laodiceans or the Gospel of Peter.

By the Forth Century, the Fathers had eliminated any epistle or gospel from the canon that they considered to be in conflict with Catholic doctrine. Of course, the Fathers could not anticipate that people in the Sixteenth Century would begin interpreting Scripture to mean whatever these people wanted.

[Jaded]

Wow.