Thanks Brother....
It is my pleasure to enlighten anyone who has the eyes to see!
Most of our protestant friends don’t have a clue! :)
Yes, and unfortunately many have no appreciation for the history and traditions of the Church.
And, I think, less appreciation for the Incarnation. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us... born of a woman.
How simple and yet the world was changed forever.
Yet, for all its simplicity, there were the long struggles against heresy, the necessary delineation of theology... the creeds... the martyrs… all together as is so necessary for us as Church to be here two thousand years on.
The older I get the less I understand why some needlessly try to go it alone or with the Church’s book alone? And end up in such twisted binds and confusion: Jesus is God; St. Mary is His Mother, but St. Mary is not the Mother of God. Or St. Mary must have given birth to a “nature” or one nature, but not another, unlike all other mothers who give birth to persons not natures. How some try to make the Incarnation not so simple; not the Word became flesh, born of a woman.
All the possible heresies we see now, the Church dealt with centuries ago. Simply. As Our Saviour taught and the Apostles and their successors maintained: the Catholic faith, One, Holy and Apostolic, as Jesus established Her, the pillar and foundation.... So beautiful in His wisdom, so loved, healed and cared for by His Church.
It seems such an unnecessary loss and a sad decision to separate one’s self from Her, to rebel against His Church.
I’m glad you are here and thank you for your reply.