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To: metmom
Why are Catholics not sure of making it to heaven then? If eating the literal body and blood of Christ gives eternal life, why are they unsure of their eternal destiny?

Name a Catholic or give a post number where a Catholic stated they were unsure of their eternal destiny.

Why the need to be baptized? Last rites?

When you face taking your final breath, will you not pray? Will you not be blessed by having friends pray with you and for you? Or are you so arrogant as to face God without those comforts, if they are available to you? Probably so, according to your posts. I personally hope I have one last chance to receive Christ in the Eucharist, and be annointed and prayed over by my priest, the way my husband did. I hopw my death is not sudden, and that I have a chance to tell God I am sorry for my sins one last time, and receive my Church's assurance of forgiveness for them. Your church may not have much power, and could very well be useless in the circumstance of extremity. I hope you remember the prayers you learned and that you haven't cast them out of your heart as it beats the last few times.

298 posted on 09/04/2011 7:58:08 PM PDT by Judith Anne ( Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Judith Anne
Name a Catholic or give a post number where a Catholic stated they were unsure of their eternal destiny.

Are you sure you're going to heaven?

322 posted on 09/04/2011 8:30:40 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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