Catholic or Christian?

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Annunciata:
To be honest with you, I though you were a Catholic!

What’s that saying…”If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…”

I mean this in every good way. I thought to myself when I happened to meet you on some recent threads, “What a wonderful Catholic…wish I could be more like her”…then I read your profile as I usually do whenever I’m going to respond to a particular post. Ooops… :o Wrong!!! I have a baby brother your age!
Anyway I think you are just fine and wish there were more like you here:thumbsup:
and I am truly sorry that you have been hurt by the Church.😦
God Bless, Annunciata:)
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Thank you so much for your compliments. If you continue im going to look like a peacock. 😃 P/s Im a 54 yr old male baby in Christ. 😃
 
“Whoever is separated from the Church and is joined to an adulteress [a schismatic church] is separated from the promises of the Church, nor will he that forsakes the Church of Christ attain to the rewards of Christ. He is an alien, a worldling, and an enemy. He cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother” Cyprian (*The Unity of the Catholic Church *6, 1st ed. [A.D. 251]).

“If someone of that people wishes to be saved, let him come into this house, so that he may be able to obtain his salvation (1)…Let no one, then, deceive himself: outside this house, that is, outside the Church, no one is saved. For if anyone go outside, he shall be guilty of his own death (2)” Origin (Homilies on Josue, A.D. 249 - 251).

catholic.com/library/Salvation_Outside_the_Church.asp

“Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council [Vatican II]teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church, which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Chirst, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 846

"Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you" Jn 6:53.

Whatever is troubling you, get over it. You’re only one confession away from home.

JMJ Jay
 
The term Christain means to believe in Christ.
“Professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus”, dictionary.reference.com/search?q=christian
Just with that generic defenition Catholics and Protestants are both Christians.
 
Hi All,

I understand this thread because I left the Church about 35 years ago, & only to return about 2 1/2 years ago. I never really thought that Catholics were not Christians, though I have heard quite a few people say that of us.

I recall one Presbyterian lady that hosted the Bible study I attended telling me that my mother was “so lost” after witnessing to her when she came to pick me up, but it never affected my opinion of my folks salvation. I have always maintained that even IF the Church became the “whore of Babylon” that at that point there wouldn’t be a real Catholic among them.

By the way, my Mom is about a saint:getholy: who, to this day attends Mass with my brother despite a bad case of Alzheimers.

I have had about a boatload of Protestants tell me that we are not Christians, but that’s just too easy to answer. Having been one of “them” (LOL) for many years I answer their evangelistic efforts with terms they can understand & sometimews offer them the chance to join us. I figure that if it’s okay for them…it’s okay for us too… :yup:

I love 'em though some can be kinda hard to talk to when they are determined to “evangelize” me. The last didligent guy that tried that is now well & truly on his way into the Catholic Church & is not the least shy about sharing his faith. He loves the Eucharist!
I know it wasn’t me, but the Holy Spirit, but still it’s graet to behold.

Pax tecum friends!
BTW…My name is Michael
 
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Hi All,

I understand this thread because I left the Church about 35 years ago, & only to return about 2 1/2 years ago. I never really thought that Catholics were not Christians, though I have heard quite a few people say that of us. …
…I love 'em though some can be kinda hard to talk to when they are determined to “evangelize” me. The last didligent guy that tried that is now well & truly on his way into the Catholic Church & is not the least shy about sharing his faith. He loves the Eucharist!
I know it wasn’t me, but the Holy Spirit, but still it’s great to behold.
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Hi Michael! And welcome home! Yes indeed it is great to behold… God Bless, Annunciata:)
 
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Annunciata:
Hi Michael! And welcome home! Yes indeed it is great to behold… God Bless, Annunciata:)
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Thanks Annunciata!

Dominus Vobiscum!
 
*“Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname. The one designates me, while the other makes me specific. Thus am I attested and set apart…When we are called Catholics it is by this appellation that our people are kept apart from any heretical name.” * (St. Pacian of Barcelona)
 
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