One commonality I find among the Calvinists I know personally and it seems true of the ones that I know here is that they exalt in their own self-appointed salvation and wallow in the belief that all others are lesser beings and are all headed straight for hellfire everlasting.
We Catholics on the other hand, believe Paul when he says in: 1 Thessalonians 5: 8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
Galatians 5: 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we await the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. 4
We hope for ourselves and for all men that all men are saved, as Paul told Timothy.
Thank you for these great quotes from St. Paul and for our “reasons for hope” that they give us as we journey to the Promised Land.
They are worth repeating again and again.