Anyone in Seattle like to

[Adamski]

I found this organization called st Paul street evangelation. I would like to get involved and start a Seattle area chapter. But I would rather not do it by myself. I would spend all the money if needed on the sign, rosaries and information we would hand out. I would like to work with someone who would be interested in updating the website/Facebook page.
I live at snoqualmie pass and drive to Bellevue mon-fri to work and would like to do this on a weekday evening. I am well versed in the faith and understand how to talk to protestants, athiest and lapsed Catholics very well.

Contact me if interested

Thanks
Adam

 

[KathleenGee]

Hi Adam,

Will pray for this for you. I am a native Seattleite. I am very much interested in formats in reaching our young people.

All the attacks on the Church regarding the priest scandal fell off mature ears. It was directed mainly at the vulnerable young people, many who claim they are more progressive now than their parents.

 

[englishredrose]

really;
wouldn’t it be better if you could say that you are able to meet people (who ever they are) in their moment of need of a listening ear?

The way you have worded it terrorised me into thinking you’re going to bully them into Roman Catholicism and that is not what they need. They need to see by your actions and words that you have time for them at that moment, not your agenda? That was what I got from the way you worded it Am not in Seattle but have seen the St Paul Evangelist website through general surfing the web

 

[Guilou67]

really;
wouldn’t it be better if you could say that you are able to meet people (who ever they are) in their moment of need of a listening ear?

The way you have worded it terrorised me into thinking you’re going to bully them into Roman Catholicism and that is not what they need. They need to see by your actions and words that you have time for them at that moment, not your agenda? That was what I got from the way you worded it Am not in Seattle but have seen the St Paul Evangelist website through general surfing the web

Hey not so fast, I don’t see anything terrorizing and bullying about what she wrote. She just states that she’s well versed and is able to talk to protestants and atheists. Maybe you don’t have any idea what having a protestant well versed on your back all the time. And you, the only thing that keep you moving is your Catholic faith. I know, because I am dealing with one of them right now. Why my head is not on fire right now is because I ask for a break during the lent as I want only to pray and do penances.

 

[Porknpie]

The way you have worded it terrorised me into thinking you’re going to bully them into Roman Catholicism and that is not what they need.

What in the words that he wrote make you feel that way?

I thought the website explained their mission well. streetevangelization.com/mission/

I found this organization called st Paul street evangelation. I would like to get involved and start a Seattle area chapter. But I would rather not do it by myself. I would spend all the money if needed on the sign, rosaries and information we would hand out. I would like to work with someone who would be interested in updating the website/Facebook page.
I live at snoqualmie pass and drive to Bellevue mon-fri to work and would like to do this on a weekday evening. I am well versed in the faith and understand how to talk to protestants, athiest and lapsed Catholics very well.

 

[KathleenGee]

I think a good place is going to a coffee shop that has young people. They come there to talk.

It is also good in such an occasion to have a partner. And hold on to the concept of engagement and dialogue without violating their space. There should be coffee shops to allow people to come in to talk, to open up and not be afraid.

I am reading Moynihan’s book on Pope Benedict, ‘Let God’s Light Shine In’. Pope Benedict describes so well our present world where people have made God such an abstract and way out there, that they don’t need Him or religion.

So we have to step back and recall that becoming a Christian is actually an encounter with the Living Jesus. And for people to come into contact with Him, through you, they need to disconnect from the world. They need to feel their poverty. And it is very hard right now.

It sounds terrible, but looking at all the pointers that we are approaching a world wide financial collapse, it again looks terrible. But it could, if it does happen, be a great grace to draw people back to God.

 

[englishredrose]

What in the words that he wrote make you feel that way?
It just that you used the words/terms protestant and atheist and that did upset me in that there is a negative connation on these boards about those two groups of people and in why I read it, almost better being atheist rather than protestant. A lot of Catholics here seem to think that protestants are something that aren’t Christian and they are Christian. Just because they don’t agree with what the RCC teaches, don’t make them not Christian. I wouldn’t want to be proud to show of that I can talk to Roman Catholics and Jews if I was showing off my listening skills. My listening skills, if I had any, would mean simply I can listen to who I meet, not sorts of people, but just whom I meet.
But thank you for asking me rather than jumping down my throat as I did to you it seems but didn’t quite mean it like that. I hope I have explained what I didn’t like

I thought the website explained their mission well. streetevangelization.com/mission/

 

[englishredrose]

Hey not so fast, I don’t see anything terrorizing and bullying about what she wrote. She just states that she’s well versed and is able to talk to protestants and atheists. Maybe you don’t have any idea what having a protestant well versed on your back all the time. And you, the only thing that keep you moving is your Catholic faith. I know, because I am dealing with one of them right now. Why my head is not on fire right now is because I ask for a break during the lent as I want only to pray and do penances.

the one ting that keep you moving is your Catholic faith - just like to add that I am not Roman Catholic and suprised no one has pointed this out. I am catholic as in universal by the church I go to is Anglican.

Yes I have had my fair share of Born Again Christains who include ‘Praise Be’ etc in every other sentence. Yes it is frustrating and over the top for me when I am in company but I am quiet enough that I do not try to change them and know they are Christian too. Not all Protestants are for ever quoting scripture and using such sayings. Some are but not every single Protestant. Atheists I don’t have a problem with either so long as they don’t bang on about there aint a God all the time and accept Christmas is for Christians not for athesits. That does bug me some what and the one’s who insist on saying ‘God’ or ‘Jesus Christ’ in vain and yet they don’t believe there is so how can they take the name in vain at all if don’t exist. Double dutch is that to me.

But as for me, I am not religious in the church sense of the word even with Anglican terms. Yes I follow through and do confession but the priest has made God accessible for me 24/7 and not just in church and in need. God is real in my life but not as in what keep me moving as what that might mean I really don’t know because I have my own way of viewing God as such.

But what I meant was that on here at least there seems to be a negative undertone about Protestants just because they do not follow the RCC. I know that is what all of you are taught. But in essence they or is it we are Christian too. I am Anglican and not Catholic so whether that makes me Protestant I don’t know but I don’t think about my faith in God in terms of religion most of my time.

It is far better to be able to state one can listen and meet people in their moment of needing to be listened to rather than categorise them:thumbsup:

 

[KathleenGee]

Englishrose…appreciate your comments.

We in the Pacific NW live in the least religious region of the country, and our major cities are number one in casual sex in the country. I am in a city…I was just feeling it again yesterday, of the profound emptiness. This city was number one in drug abuse, now number one in country for free sex, pornography 1000 feet from families’ homes…and this profound indifference. We are also top, or one of the top in country for suicide. This every present emptiness. Very repressed spiritually.

Cannot say much more, it is starting to depress me writing about me…where is the joy of Christ…how this environment represses the faith of everyone around us…the indifference, teh shallow opening of self as Christians to one another, this invalidation of our Christianity because we are Catholics by the dominant evangelicals…you sense very little impact of your faith on those around you in this…culture of isolation.

 

[englishredrose]

Englishrose…appreciate your comments.

We in the Pacific NW live in the least religious region of the country, and our major cities are number one in casual sex in the country. I am in a city…I was just feeling it again yesterday, of the profound emptiness. This city was number one in drug abuse, now number one in country for free sex, pornography 1000 feet from families’ homes…and this profound indifference. We are also top, or one of the top in country for suicide. This every present emptiness. Very repressed spiritually.

Cannot say much more, it is starting to depress me writing about me…where is the joy of Christ…how this environment represses the faith of everyone around us…the indifference, teh shallow opening of self as Christians to one another, this invalidation of our Christianity because we are Catholics by the dominant evangelicals…you sense very little impact of your faith on those around you in this…culture of isolation.

Your words spoke to me and a few minutes later I have realised that actually you could be writing about the town where I live in England. Certainly if you are counting by bums on pew method of belief in God.

I myself will add that my priest has shown me God is accessible and it wouldn’t worry me if the whole organised religion ceases ‘today’. I would still believe in God and pray how this priest has shown me because for me, yes I do still question, but it works for me. Not everyone does organised religion. I kind of do in that I am an adult choir member/Altar Server. But as I say if Church of England shut down next minute I wouldn’t be worried and I wouldn’t become Catholic either to get that church fix. God is more than organised religion to me without wanting to offend anyone.

But I am entirely lost to the approach to what you set out to say and how it deals with my response over Catholics and Protestants. Are you actually trying to tell me that the culture of isolation is set out by Protestants? If you are then tred very carefully. I don’t know what you are trying to say about Catholics and Protestants which was my postings. We are all Christians, whether you feel it in your town by being the ones who attend church the most or not. There are many people out there in this world that are of neither by their own being but believe in God. That is what matters surely. But if you are really saying the town is souless as such because they aren’t Catholic. It not about number, it not even about sinnners remember because God loves all of us. It is about that they love God. I know this board teaches RCC in total and that seems to give a right that they can slam Protestants but surely do you actually slam protestants simply because they/we are not Catholic? Honestly