Did I say the right things?

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Hi,

Please review the accuracy of these statements:
  1. If you study catholicism with an open mind and heart, you will eventually become catholic
–I heard this somewhere
  1. It’s okay to start RCIA if you aren’t fully convinced. You can bring your tough questions to get answers.
–Appropriate?

I just kind of blurted these out without thinking. Do I need to backtrack?
 
I would have to say yes. I have made these statements as well. I would add a “promise” I have made, too:

“If you pray the rosary (at least one set of mysteries) every day for thirty days, a miracle will happen in your life. I don’t promise the Red Sea will part, but some kind of private and personal miracle will take place.”

I have had many take me up on this challenge with no one to date telling me I was wrong!
 
rciadan said:
I would have to say yes. I have made these statements as well. I would add a “promise” I have made, too:

“If you pray the rosary (at least one set of mysteries) every day for thirty days, a miracle will happen in your life. I don’t promise the Red Sea will part, but some kind of private and personal miracle will take place.”

I have had many take me up on this challenge with no one to date telling me I was wrong!
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thank you. thank you.

As for your rosary promise, I will try that myself! I haven’t started meditating on the mysteries yet.
 
AlwaysAsking said:
Hi,

Please review the accuracy of these statements:
  1. If you study catholicism with an open mind and heart, you will eventually become catholic
–I heard this somewhere
  1. It’s okay to start RCIA if you aren’t fully convinced. You can bring your tough questions to get answers.
–Appropriate?

I just kind of blurted these out without thinking. Do I need to backtrack?
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#2 looks good to me
#1 I would hesitate to say this because it seems like a challenge to me, even if it wasn’t… (btw did you say these things? You’re listed as “Evangelical Protestant”)
 
musicality said:
#2 looks good to me
#1 I would hesitate to say this because it seems like a challenge to me, even if it wasn’t… (btw did you say these things? You’re listed as “Evangelical Protestant”)
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yeah; when do I stop being what I am? I feel I’ve been called to become a catholic (riiight about the time I joined CA) and have recently decided to simply obey, rather than hash every minute theological detail out in advance. But I’m not a catholic yet.

I want my lapsed-catholic husband to join me, or at least engage in the process of making an informed decision. So in a sense, it was a challenge: prove catholicism wrong. I qualified “with an open heart and mind” and he knows how the honor system works. He has agreed to make an honest review.
 
AlwaysAsking said:
yeah; when do I stop being what I am? I feel I’ve been called to become a catholic (riiight about the time I joined CA) and have recently decided to simply obey, rather than hash every minute theological detail out in advance. But I’m not a catholic yet.

I want my lapsed-catholic husband to join me, or at least engage in the process of making an informed decision. So in a sense, it was a challenge: prove catholicism wrong. I qualified “with an open heart and mind” and he knows how the honor system works. He has agreed to make an honest review.
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OK. I wasn’t aware of the context.
I can see how that could definitely be appropriate to say to a loved one. I just wouldn’t go around saying it to just anyone…
 
So, on #1: There is a story I heard before of a priest who challenged an atheist to live as a Christian for one year, promising him that if he did this he would be granted faith. The atheist took him up on it, and was granted a clear miracle within a year that resulted in his conversion.

I’m inclined to say that you are right on #1, but with the caveat of: “It may not happen before death.” But I cannot imagine God allowing the damnation of anyone who pursued Him with an open heart and mind and left this life before finding Him. This is, of course, my own opinion / understanding.

#2 you are definitely right on, as I used to help with RCIA and “You don’t need to be convinced yet, ask tough questions” was part of the message we gave.
 
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