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To: Father Anthony

"You could start by helping to make the Catholic Church more attractive..."

Let's start with this: It is the one, true Church of Jesus Christ, founded on the Rock of Peter, outside of which neither holiness nor salvation can be found.

Seems pretty "attractive" to me.


19 posted on 07/29/2005 9:26:35 AM PDT by Mershon
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To: Mershon

It's a problem of apologetics. You repeat "EENS" to the man in the street, until the cows come home, and he'll look at you as if you come from Mars. You don't start with arguments and polemics, but with the beauty of the Mass and having others see in your life the lives of the Saints - then one might get somewhere. But it's not for you to do this, but for your church to be open and put on something that will inspire people: Mass, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Vespers, etc. - just the things missing in blogs and forums.

God bless!

Fr. Anthony


20 posted on 07/29/2005 10:48:15 AM PDT by Father Anthony
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To: Mershon
Seems pretty "attractive" to me.

Yep, avoiding eternal damnation is a pretty strong motivator.

21 posted on 07/29/2005 10:51:19 AM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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