Catholic Pocket Bibles

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Douay Rheims New Testament and Psalms published by Baronius Press is ideal for carrying around in your coat pocket. It’s a faithful rendering of the Clementine Vulgate and uses Elizabethan English. Highly recommended.
 
I have actually carried around my Bible in my hoodie. It’s a pocket!
 
Melodeonist said:
Actually I just joined something called the “Newman Club” at my college. They have a Bible Study as their meetings. They are Catholic, but the only thing that worries me is that they let non Catholics in.
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If someone joins the Newman club to proselytize chances are the leaders will kindly ask them to leave. It is more likely that they are interested in learning from Catholics.
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
If someone joins the Newman club to proselytize chances are the leaders will kindly ask them to leave.
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I’m English and I was told by my former University chaplain that proselytism was banned on campus and that I’d be in trouble if I tried to convert anybody. This is a perfect example of the cancer of false ecumenism that infects many within the Church. Jesus Christ saved me and led me to his One True Church; it would be a great sin if I didn’t try to lead souls to Jesus Christ. This life isn’t a game. Many souls go to hell because they don’t hear the Gospel truth and because people don’t pray for them. Forget ecu-maniac-ism and preach Christ in season and out of season.

Carrying a pocket Bible around will help you spread the Good News. I’ve used my DR New Testament in the city centre when discussing scripture with the JW cult.
 
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Saxum said:
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
If someone joins the Newman club to proselytize chances are the leaders will kindly ask them to leave.
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I’m English and I was told by my former University chaplain that proselytism was banned on campus and that I’d be in trouble if I tried to convert anybody. This is a perfect example of the cancer of false ecumenism that infects many within the Church. Jesus Christ saved me and led me to his One True Church; it would be a great sin if I didn’t try to lead souls to Jesus Christ. This life isn’t a game. Many souls go to hell because they don’t hear the Gospel truth and because people don’t pray for them. Forget ecu-maniac-ism and preach Christ in season and out of season.

Carrying a pocket Bible around will help you spread the Good News. I’ve used my DR New Testament in the city centre when discussing scripture with the JW cult.
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I think you missed the point. @Melodeonist was afraid to join in a Catholic Bible study at a Newman Club because they let in Protestants. My point it that the Newman Center leaders would stop someone trying to win away Catholics in the blink of an eye. It would not be allowed. Most likely, Bible studies are open to all because Catholics are not permitted to have secret societies and many young people are incredibly curious as to what the Catholic church actually teaches.

A Protestant club Bible Study would have every right to ban prostatism by a Catholic. It would be in poor form to do so, anyhow. If your university was X religion, it is fair for them to say that only X religion is allowed to be taught and shared. If it was a state school with a controlling Chaplin than that’s a different story. It would be equally as wrong to force a Protestant school to host a Catholic club as it would be to force a Catholic school to host a Protestant one.
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
I think you missed the point. @Melodeonist was afraid to join in a Catholic Bible study at a Newman Club because they let in Protestants.
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I totally missed the point and I’m sorry - I should’ve read more carefully. I agree with what you’ve said. I’m big on proselytism but there’s a time and a place for it. I’d never go to a protestant bible study and rudely disrupt it. I engage in proselytism when it doesn’t cause disruption or cause a scene. My method is to begin with friendly dialogue and plant seeds.
 
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Perhaps a better term would be evangelization. Proselytism is a somewhat nasty term that insinuates you are trying to force your viewpoint on another. Evangelization speaks to spreading the word of God for His glory.
 
Yeah, I was going to say we Catholics are not supposed to proselytise but we are supposed to evangelise.
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
Perhaps a better term would be evangelization. Proselytism is a somewhat nasty term that insinuates you are trying to force your viewpoint on another. Evangelization speaks to spreading the word of God for His glory.
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What’s the difference between the two words? I’ve always seen them as synonyms.
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
Perhaps a better term would be evangelization. Proselytism is a somewhat nasty term that insinuates you are trying to force your viewpoint on another. Evangelization speaks to spreading the word of God for His glory.
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What’s the difference between the two words? I’ve always seen them as synonyms.
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Proselytism is about forcefully impressing your viewpoint. Quite frankly “our” viewpoint has no place in conversion. We should be leaving room for God.

Evangelization is, at it’s heart, about sharing the word of God through His works. It’s not about us at all, and it’s not about forcing.
 
This is just an idea…buy a paper back version and split it up. I had a college prof who split our anthology book up. She did not want to carry the entire thing. She rebound them with steel rings and just brought particular story we were studying. I would have used some thing like a hole punch and some kind of report cover. You get the idea. Office max should have all you need. I would not do it to a blessed copy. Just get a new paper back copy.
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
Proselytism is about forcefully impressing your viewpoint. Quite frankly “our” viewpoint has no place in conversion. We should be leaving room for God.

Evangelization is, at it’s heart, about sharing the word of God through His works. It’s not about us at all, and it’s not about forcing.
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Thanks for explaining. They mean the same thing but the method is different.
 
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