Posted on 05/17/2012 4:18:46 PM PDT by Salvation
What is the source of your post, please.
Agreed. I would call it “apostate”.
If you ever get into south Central Virginia I would likle to take this opportunity to invite you. Depending on the circumstances of the previous marriages of both of you, there may be no reason why you can't come into the Catholic Church.
If only... A lot of the beauty of the Catholic liturgical tradition was thrown out in the silly season of the 1960s and 1970s, but with our traditional and liturgical minded Pope, I think things are starting to slowly get back on track. Liturgy should be about worshipping the Lord worthily in communion, but not worship of the community itself and singing Kumbaya.
Ah, but it’s all good now:)
I literally attend Mass daily and twice on Sunday, lol!
I also serve as an EM, lector and teach CCD.
I learned a LOT of patience with my husband and the Lord.
Sounds like your parish is flourishing. Do you think it is mainly a combination of lapsed returnees and new immigrants?
A little of both as well as people from other parishes doing their parish-hopping thing.
Our priest is an excellent preacher and teacher, and I think that has a lot to do with it.
Many people can sit in the congregation, and after Mass I hear statements such as “He was talking straight to me. How did he know?”
And I would say I hear that statement about every three months — for people to say something positive like that — multiply by ten at least.
Actually, that is hardly likely to be an issue today, unless you advertise it or want to be more active than the typical RC.
And considering the wide criteria for annulments and the thousands granted after being sought and processed, it is possible many married Catholics are really not, and if your wife married a nonRC, that would be grounds for an annulment, in addition to things like psychological abnormality, stubbornness.
Mark, as you also have asserted that the apostle Paul himself was a “pushy guy with a chip on his shoulder”, and a large “inferiority complex a mile wide,” and whose epistles likely had to be massaged, then it is not surprising to see you relegate the RC convert to evangelical churches to only be ones who have personal reasons, rather than the lack of the spiritual life which attracted souls originally to the church.
I’m wondering where you are getting the authority to speak for the Catholic Church???
Are you a priest, a deacon?
It appears that you are of another denomination, for no Catholic (usually) uses the initials RC to denote Catholicism.
So, then I ask, Are you a minister?
Where are you getting this authority to speak for the Catholic Church?
You have FReepmail.
The actual sources are carefully provided in the post, and the ^ refers to the previous listed source, as explained in the link provided in “See more and notes here” (http://www.peacebyjesus.com/RC-Stats_vs._Evang.html).
All good comes from God. It's up to us to accept His good. :) I believe that God tests us - not for His knowledge, but for our own good. Part of the process of imitating Christ...
There is a lot of truth in your post.
Perhaps I should introduce you to Acts and Paul's Epistles. The man himself wrote most of those words, or influenced their writing (Luke was primarily a disciple of Paul, after he was a disciple of Peter).
and whose epistles likely had to be massaged
Oddly enough, I don't remember posting anything along those lines. I have repeatedly posted that there are many, as Peter has told us, that simply get it totally wrong. We see them every day on FR.
then it is not surprising to see you relegate the RC convert to evangelical churches to only be ones who have personal reasons,
You oughta listen to their background stories, not just their up-front facades. It can be illuminating.
rather than the lack of the spiritual life which attracted souls originally to the church.
The tide has turned. The seminaries, after the weeds had been removed and the chaff been separated, are now experiencing greater numbers of applicants than they can handle. The return to orthodox Christianity from the horrible Vatican II experiment has convinced many, along with the decline and secularization and corruption of the ever splintering Protestant separations provides a strong contrast when the two are viewed in comparison.
Thanks, as I hit post I thought I saw a www. in there somewhere. It verified my judgment.
Yes, the tares are leaving the evangelical churches where they are not well received, and going to the nicolaitan churches where it is hard to tell a tare from an idol worshiper.
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That is because God’s elect have been called away from the harlot that rides the beast.
Mystery Babylon’s dual fall is not far off, judging by the exodus from catholic idolatry.
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