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Vic_Taltrees_UK
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Eat everything on the menu in God’s Good Cafeteria!
Only not all at once!
Keep coming back!
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Only not all at once!
Keep coming back!
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HelenRose
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I think the best approach is to live as a Catholic who is in love with the Church. We can only teach the beauty of all the Church’s teachings by living this life with joy.
We are each on a journey. I don’t like the term Cafeteria Catholic but even so, they know what the teachings of the Church are. There is no point in arguing with them.
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Vic_Taltrees_UK
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Some of us won’t have done, but your point still applies anyway!
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JoyIsLikeRain
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Pray for them.
Also, invite them to a mass that might be in their interests.
If it’s a modern, liberal-leaning mass at a non-conservative parish, don’t just tell this person to go to it. Offer to attend it with them.
If this person may have an interest in the opposite, such as a traditional, conservative mass, again, offer to attend a mass at such a parish with them.
More often than not, a Cafeteria Catholic prefers things modern and progressive. We, who accept the faith 100% still have to work at saving souls. It’s not a job only for priests.
So, if your friend says “yes” to going to mass at a parish where the cars in the parking lot have Obama and Coexist bumper stickers all-over their rear bumpers, swallow your pride and accompany them.
Also, invite them to a mass that might be in their interests.
If it’s a modern, liberal-leaning mass at a non-conservative parish, don’t just tell this person to go to it. Offer to attend it with them.
If this person may have an interest in the opposite, such as a traditional, conservative mass, again, offer to attend a mass at such a parish with them.
More often than not, a Cafeteria Catholic prefers things modern and progressive. We, who accept the faith 100% still have to work at saving souls. It’s not a job only for priests.
So, if your friend says “yes” to going to mass at a parish where the cars in the parking lot have Obama and Coexist bumper stickers all-over their rear bumpers, swallow your pride and accompany them.
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Vic_Taltrees_UK
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Just because the train halted at the points for a while, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the potential to get going again.
And many of us haven’t known them.
Pray for them to get slightly hungry, cloak it in some intriguing allure and not miserable nagging, and obliquely suggest they eat some of what’s on the menu, then some more, not all at once.
Bring back cafeterias!
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bmaj
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That’s an excellent question, yallancec, and there’s some very good well-though-out advice in the thread responses. I think the closest we are to the person who seems to want to “pick and choose” whatever they’re “comfortable with” in the Church’s teaches, the harder it is to try to help them understand our own concern for the well-being of their soul. I’ve sometimes noticed occasions where the Holy Spirit seems to be giving me convenient opportunities to broach the subject gently and lovingly with certain people, so maybe you will notice that as well. I wish I could say my efforts have born fruit, but I don’t think that’s the case yet most of the time anyway. However, we never really know God’s plan, and all of this is likely part of it. I think if we continue to pray for them and try our best to be caring in our words on the subject when the times seem appropriate to do so and always attempt to set a good example, it’s bound to bear fruit eventually, even if we don’t see it from our human vantage point.
May Our Dear Lord bless you always and help you in your efforts!
May Our Dear Lord bless you always and help you in your efforts!
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