Posted on 08/20/2016 7:45:03 AM PDT by Salvation
Msgr. Charles Pope Catholic, August 28, 2016
Question: How will God judge non-Catholics at the time of their death? — William Bandle, Manchester, Missouri
Answer: Scripture says, “God does not see as a mortal ... The Lord looks into the heart” (1 Sam 16:7). Thus, God, who knows our hearts, will judge us based on what is there. Not all have had the same opportunity to come to know the Lord, his Church and the help of the sacraments. God is just; he knows this and will judge accordingly.
Jesus says, “That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations or act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating, shall be beaten only lightly” (Lk 12:47-48).
In terms of non-Catholics who lacked some knowledge or sacraments of the Church, God will look into their hearts and judge them based on what they reasonably could have known and their actions based on that.
Therefore, to say that God looks into the heart does not mean that he merely looks to a person’s feelings or disposition. Rather, as Scripture says, we will be judged by our deeds (see Rom 2:6-11). Did our actions correspond to what we knew was expected of us or not?
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Thus, the degree of a person’s knowledge of God’s will and his obedience to that knowledge in deeds will be key on the Day of Judgment. This does not mean all non-Catholics and other nonbelievers simply get a pass. Their ignorance of full Catholic teaching must be what is called “invincible ignorance,” meaning a lack of knowledge that they could not reasonably overcome. Thus, if one is lazy or makes excuses when seeking the truth, God will take it into account.
Since the Lord alone sees into our heart, he alone will be our just judge.
I'm kind of wondering just where in Scripture God commanded us to join the Catholic church......
I think I missed that verse.
Or maybe it's in the Catholic Bible?
Can’t you just make these posts “caucus” so they aren’t taken over by people who come from a different perspective. Surely they have threads and/or cauci of their own? I hesitate to log onto these threads for that reason.
This could not be a caucus thread because it was not about Catholics alone, but involved non-Catholics as well.
I was never told not to read the Bible.
If we follow Christ, we will follow the Church he founded. For centuries the whole Christian world followed the Roman church. One by one little splinters broke off and then splinters from splinters. Which do you choose?
Not good enough for me. If I can't know positively, that I am going to Heaven, then it's all about eat, drink and be merry.
You incorrectly presuppose the roman catholic church was the Church founded by Christ.
A cursory reading of Acts and the history of the church in the 1st century would suggest otherwise.
The roman catholic church came into existence around the late 2nd or early 3rd century.
The first founded Church ,the RCC, holds that in it is the fullness of Christ’s church. Every other religion holds some truths,but not all. But each person must honestly search and decide. And God is our judge.
Holy Mary; Mother of GOD...
(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)
1 | Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces. |
2. | I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. |
3. | The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies |
4. | It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. |
5. | The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish. |
6. | Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. |
7. | Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church. |
8. | Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. |
9. | I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. |
10. | The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. |
11. | You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. |
12. | All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. |
13. | I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death |
14. | All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. |
15. | Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination. |
"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,
no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.
There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
Sister Lucia dos Santos
Yeah...
Sure...
Did they just say they HATE us differently??
Now we'll get the SPIN as to WHY they were FORBIDDEN to own GOD's Word.
Yes, with love.
It certainly reads that way, doesn’t it?
I suppose that they do. After all, I’ve seen FRoman Catholics call for and long for the days of the Inquisition.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any non-Catholic call for that kind of treatment for Catholics.
Something similar happens when I read YOUR replies!!
Does this guy think that he is right about what Protestants believe and every Protestant is wrong?
Hey, Long Colt, check out Elsie’s astute observation in post 133.
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That does not disprove that Catholics have been told to not read Scripture.
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