@pattyrikku Do you think I was there in the first few hundred years of Christianity combating heresy via church councils? If you care about the truth of Jesus then you will research and learn the faith. If you don’t then don’t be surprised when you are outside the faith and rejected.
@Godsavedme4real All lies. The Catholic Church has translated the scriptures into almost every language in existence and preached them throughout the world, long before your evil movement ever existed.
@Saori4976 Yes I have a copy and read most of it. It is basically him reflecting on his life in a very repentant way talking about how much sorrow he has for a life of serious sin. The stress that caused to his righteous mother that prayed for him always. It’s like his diary.
I just want to encourage all my fellow Catholics to make going to confession a priority. The official church teaching mandates to go at least once per year. But I would strongly encourage everyone to go more often than that.
We have to keep ourselves free from mortal sin in order to receive Christ in the Eucharist without defiling it. If we receive the Eucharist in an unworthy manner we are guilty of the body and blood of Christ.
Jesus loves us and is merciful. If we choose to reconcile with him by confessing our sin to him through the sacrament of reconciliation he will forgive us. This is our chance to face the judgement seat of Christ now when mercy and grace is freely available to us. If we refuse to repent and hold on to our sins we will have to answer for them later on judgement day. But then it’s too late to get absolution.
The devil tries to shame us into hiding our sins from Jesus. But nothing is hidden from God. Any shame that keeps us separated from God and his mercy and love is from the devil. God is a loving father and wants more than anything for us to be reconciled to him and to fully be united to him through Christ.
God bless everyone who reads this. I pray for all of you to be filled with God’s love daily.
@edithmariarosa There is nobody on earth who loves us more than Jesus and nobody more forgiving than Jesus. We can safely trust in his mercy. It’s the devil who makes us avoid confession out of shame like how Adam and Eve hid after sin. Don’t let him separate you from God.
@edithmariarosa That is what it is all about. You said it perfectly. Don’t be nervous. Do a full examination of conscience and trust God to show you all the things holding you back from perfect communion with him. Then hand those things over to Christ through confession and he will help you.
@jeff_of_norwich Move on and shift your attention to someone wanting help. It’s not your job to save him. You can’t force someone to dedicate their life to Christ.
@GeneraalOfGG@ccrownhim@EternalFaithEO That’s not what EO teach. They teach the Pope invented the RCC in 1054AD, that the RCC is the first Protestant movement that split off from the Catholic Church. All of that is false history. I’m not accepting this false history.
@williamofdallas@ccrownhim@EternalFaithEO What I hear is “I like to pretend I’m not a schismatic who left the Catholic Church so I’m gonna claim the Catholic label to feel better”.
St Augustine: Against the Fundamental Epistle of Manichaeus (Contra Epistolam quam vocant Fundamenti, 4): He observed how heretics relate to the name: "Although all heretics wish to be styled Catholic, yet if any one ask where is cordon or place of the Catholic Church, none of them would venture to point out his own conventicle [meeting place]".
@sola_chad I am certain that you spent nearly zero effort to research any of these topics. I would be shocked beyond belief if you could explain the Catholic position accurately and make an argument for their position in the strongest form. You reject things you don’t know or understand.
Pope Leo incentivises young people to get married and have kids ✝️
“If I previously said do not be afraid to think about a vocation, marriage is also a vocation. Do not be afraid of marriage and of forming a family”
@joshwhitlatch So what you are saying is you think Jesus violated the commandment to honor his mother. You think he dishonored her by refusing to even accept her as a mother. Protestantism is brain dead.