Ping!
A BTTT story! May there, indeed, be many conversions.
A better translation of what he said is”let us go in and greet them.” The verb “saludar” in Spanish means “to greet”.
“The astonished priest asked “why?”
Seems like those Pentecostals knew more about the Catholic faith than that priest. The Catholic Church does not consider all Pentecostal baptisms to be valid.
I was raised Catholic (Catholic grade & high school) but I now am a Christian and go to an Evangelical Free church. It’s conservative and teaches the word of God.
I really think highly of Pope Francis because he is tearing down the wall of separation between Christians; Catholic and Protestant. One of the things that drew me away from the Catholic Church was hearing that only Catholics are going to heaven. The bible teaches it’s not your denomination, but believing and accepting God’s gift of salvation; and when we trust God with our lives we walk in His ways and not the ways of the world we are in God’s will.
I think, Pope Francis is humble and walks with God. He is not just a figure head that other pope’s have been. He is not concerned about politics, but what God thinks. Jesus told us to love one another and spoke of a house divided will fall. Maybe we will see a revival, not from protestants, not from catholics, but in all God’s children.
With all these “conversions” and fences being taken down, got to be vigilant that he doesn’t end up being leader of the “One World” church. Such a movement has been waiting for exactly this kind of charismatic individual. And no doubt social justice will be one of the primary themes of the new church.
The Lord God is bringing the Christians back together.
The answer from the couple were two words: “Pope Francis”.
I think Jesus was closer to 28 years old when he was Baptized.
I heard that the crowds who came out to see him numbered in the brazilians.