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Reading or listening (highly recommended) to Scripture YOURSELF, day after day, will help you understand what it MEANS.

This assumes you are a believer in Jesus Christ and have been given the Holy Spirit and have your ear inclined to Him. He reveals Himself to babes, no scholarship required (though not bad in itself, scholarship puffs up many).

If the above is true of you, you can be shown what correct interpretations are by the Lord. Yes, he uses other believers in our lives, but the idea that you cannot seek God YOURSELF and get real truth from Him is plainly false.

Seeking Him in truth should have alarm bells going off in your spirit when someone claims to be channeling a message from Christ’s earthly mother. Knowing His word will enable you to see clearly the Serpent behind the coy channeled messages, too.

So stop criticizing “Protestants” for seeking to know Him through Scripture and try it out for yourself. If you find in HIS word a blazing expose of the falsehood of your church’s teachings then have the integrity before God to challenge and refuse any such teachings.

[LurkingSince'98]

I attend morning Mass on average three times a week and I have been told by protestants that Catholics hear more scripture at Mass everyday than a protestant hears on a Sunday. YMMV

http://www.catholicbible101.com/scriptureinthemass.htm OR

http://www.catholicbridge.com/catholic/mass.php

In addition to scripture I am ready the Apostolic and Early Church Fathers, which I know is not a big favorite with some protestants, however many protestants on this forum have studied the Church Fathers extensively.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.html AND

http://www.staycatholic.com/early_church_fathers.htm

thanks for your helpful suggestion as it is hard to go wrong by recommending someone read scripture.

I believe daily Mass and reception of the Eucharist keeps me close to the Lord.

For the Great Glory of God