my dear brothers and sisters in Christ i would like to greet you all mabuhay!i am very glad to hear that my fellow filipinos are concerned about whats going on in our country and our church.I spent few years in manila and i studied apologetics with St. Peter men’s Society where i learned additional knowledge on how to defend the faith.my mother inspired me a lot with her strong faith and from the simple life we have.I learned the scripture basically from the readings during the mass since i was young and it’s in my heart.That’s why when I was in high school I was so curious about what other christians view of my faith so i attended baptist bible study but the very first uncatholic doctrine that i heared sola fide and the belief that once saved always saved , i found myself defending the catholic faith and started to read the bible.Knowing that I am telling the church teachings I will always win in any arguments not primarily of my wit but the splendour of catholic faith, just present it and it will give Light!
I was never ashamed of my belief whenever I am challenged to defend. I was invited to ADD while I was in Singapore and Soriano ridiculed the pope and the doctrine of infalliability right there and then when they said that we could ask questions I stand and I asked him this question,“Can you give me an example of what
you just said that,” pope after pope teach a doctrine that contradicts each other" He has not answered me but said something about Gallelio which I know very well as no good answer to my question .So I just laughed and never allowed to question him again.I was told that somebody will talk to me with my question ,only to be told later that soriano’s representative had read more books than me and he is older than me period !
Here in UK I just started to have a with dialogue with non catholic group which I would like to describe them as sincere christians.
Catholic is really misrepresented or I would say never presented to them I shared with them about the church role and authority,and how we got the bible based on history and the belief of the first christians about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. they are very interested about our faith
next month I wil be there again to visit my family and hoping I could also do some apologetic works to serve the Lord
God bless us all!
Winnie Ibe[brother po]