Posted on 01/26/2018 1:04:07 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
We are in a time of the first ever mass conversions of Muslims, Father Mitch Pacwa SJ told me in a phone interview. God is doing a mighty work among them.
Pacwa said that mass conversions are happening even in very fundamentalist countries. There is rapidly growing number of conversions especially on the edges of the Muslim world in the western and southern parts of Africa, he said. Africa is now growing predominantly Christian despite crackdowns, Pacwa said.
Some of the noteworthy countries he mentioned include Iran, reported to have 3 million Christians, and Indonesia with reports of 2 million a year converting.
In Mongolia, the president opened the country to Christians and theres even an archbishop, Pacwa said. They built a Catholic school there too. If I was younger, I would have gone. He said that the desire for a Western education was the impetus to open up the country to the Catholic Church.
There are even conversions happening in many strict Muslim countries, according to Pacwa. He did not want to go on record with particulars for fear of increased retribution. Mass conversions are also being reported among refugees that are filling up the Christian churches left empty by Europeans. Many wonder if those are authentic conversions or just a response to improving their chances for amnesty, but time will tell.
Signs of this conversion are showing up in the U.S. too, Pacwa said. I was about to celebrate Mass at a Maronite church in San Diego and I said hi to a man who introduced himself as Achmad. I asked if he was a Christian. He said: Yes, I was recently baptized. He said he from Morocco. Christians do not have the name Ahmadthats a form of Mohammad.
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Amen sister!
22 years ago I left the Roman Catholic Church because the Lord loved me so much that He had somebody point out the error of my ways through Holy Scripture.
A dear sister in Christ had this as her “tagline” a few years ago. It’s the best one I’ve ever seen!
“Jesus + something = NOTHING, Jesus + nothing = Everything”
Amen!
Childlike faith spoken of in Matthew 18:3.
Yep. These threads get too long, and we are still trying to figure out what the meaning of the word is is. I have no problem understanding the verses you mentioned. I didnt understand when I was a Catholic, because I had no spiritual discernment at all.
The preaching of the cross, really WAS foolishness to me. When I was born from above, and left the Catholic Church in 1970, then, the blinders were removed, and I began to grasp the true Gospel, and abandoned the false Gospel that I had been involved in.
I was at Mountain Home at the time. Some guys accused me of getting religion cuz I was shipping out for Vietnam. The truth was, I got mercifully saved, before I got orders for Vietnam. I managed to survive that. 👍😁😇 and I escaped this. 🔥 Others say we use religion as a crutch. If one wants to consider saving faith in Christ as a crutch, have at it. 👍
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Prove it.
put your money where your mouth is.
HereIn, it is exactly that - the Lord’s call who is saved.
This in-fighting is destructive, imho. It is certainly not uplifting - just fighting the Reformation fights all over again. There are plenty of enemies outside the walls, are there not? But we choose denominational in-fighting? On a Sunday? It’s very poor, imho.
Please list a few of these Roman Catholic writers. Where did you hear about this concept about Mary? It is definitely not the teaching of the Catholic Church. I find it interesting that some people, uneducated about the teachings of the Catholic Church, feel free to speak so definitively about something that is factually untrue.
FReepers - you know that question: “Would anyone know I am a Christian by spending time with me?” (to paraphrase). This discussion is anything but Christian, imho. If Christ were on this thread, would you post the same?
From the Catechism of the Catholic church....
Mary Co-Redemptrix
http://catholicism.org/mary-co-redemptrix.html
And then there's this from the CCC.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p6.htm
969 This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.510
Names of God from the Bible. Compare them to the names given to Mary in the above prayer.
Jesus
Hope (our) - 1 Timothy 1:1
Counselor - Isaiah 9:6
Advocate - 1 John 2:1
Mediator - 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 12:24
Holy Spirit
Comforter - John 14:26
Helper John 14:16
This is worship of Mary if ever there was.....Attributing to her the attributes of God is idolatry.
The Jesus who called the pharisees and religious leaders of the day hypocrites because of their adherence to tradition and allowing it to supplant the Law?
That Jesus?
Please see post 370.
Yep
Of COURSE not!
It's how you STAY born again!!
--Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary)
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No PROT explanation is going to cut it for a TBC.
Rome has spoken and you can take THAT to the BANK!
Sigh...
http://www.ewtn.com/library/Montfort/TRUEDEVO.HTM
Then the Roman Catholic Church sure should try to put down this FALSE teaching that PERMEATES it's members thinking!
What?
Co-redemptrix??
At Rick's???
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