How Do Catholics Hear The Gospel?

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Just wanted to share this link with all … it is awesome … read it and read it and read it! Let me know your thoughts!

**How Do Catholics Hear The Gospel?"
by Gary Michuta **

{from Hands-On Apologetics, March/Apirl 1997. Copyright Thy Faith, Inc. 1997}

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Nice. Thanks for sharing that. It is creative and charitable. It also demonstrates why the Missal plays an important role. It is hard (for me) to just hear the words each time. I internalize it better if I can read it as well. The things I say, I truly believe and remember, but it is much more difficult to be tuned into every word of the priest (or lector). Also, we only hear the Eucharistic Prayer that the priest chooses to use. It is good to be able to read the others to get a more complete sense of the Mass. Many churches in my diocese have, for the most part, eliminated the missalettes, and I miss them. Perhaps I will obtain my own.

Ellen
 
Wow - I can’t believe that everyone has seen this before. I just thought it was awesome … and filled in some of the Apologetic breaks!

God Bless!
 
This is great! I have read it once and it jumped out at me!
I have so many friends who have left the Church …this is what I have been looking for! Thank you Holy Spirit!🙂
 
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I like this tract.

Every time I hear an “ex-catholic” say they didn’t hear the gospel in the Catholic Church, I am so tempted to scream “WHY WERE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION?” but I gotta control myself.
 
Every time I hear an “ex-catholic” say they didn’t hear the gospel in the Catholic Church, I am so tempted to scream “WHY WERE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION?” but I gotta control myself.
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Apparently they weren’t. It’s pretty hard to miss, there’s a big acclamation, everyone stands up, and it’s even announced as the Gospel. :rolleyes:

(Okay, I should be more charitable, and I would never say this to someone’s face unless extremely provoked, but really this is one of the weakest anti-Catholic arguments I’ve ever heard.)
 
How do Catholics hear the Gospel?

I suppose they hear it like everyone else - with their ears. 😃
 
This is a wonderful resource and just great for those door-to-door missionaries. I will make sure to pull it out next time one comes my way. Thanks!
 
Thanks very much for posting that. I’m going to make sure to keep a missalette in my car and home all of the time!
 
I just loved it! It was the truth said in a loving manner. I have printed it and will have it handy the next time my Bible only friends challenge my Church. Fittingly, the friend who challenges me most often is an ex-Catholic.

I went through RCIA a couple of years ago and have been trying to learn a lot more about the Catholic faith, doctrine, liturgy, etc. Even with my very limited knowlege, I seem to know more about those things than some cradle Catholics and ex-Catholics I have met. It’s a shame. It appears that the Church (clergy, laity, parents, educators) really needs to do a better job of catechising our children. Perhaps it should be stressed that catechesis should continue during our entire life. I have been overwhelmed at how much information is available in the form of books, seminars and the internet! I say overwhelmed because I am 61 years old and I don’t think I will be able to know all I want to know and read all I want to read about Catholicism before I die! I’m giving it a try, though, and it’s one of the most exciting and interesting times of my life.
 
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SeekerJen:
Apparently they weren’t. It’s pretty hard to miss, there’s a big acclamation, everyone stands up, and it’s even announced as the Gospel. :rolleyes:

(Okay, I should be more charitable, and I would never say this to someone’s face unless extremely provoked, but really this is one of the weakest anti-Catholic arguments I’ve ever heard.)
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I think this thread is one of THE most important ever . Everyone read the link in the opening post about the EX-Catholic, then lets discuss this.
I say this is THE issue because , for all the objections we hear here on line , all the arguments from protestant inquirers, it is this problem that needs the MOST attention. Millions of Catholics are leaving the Church over this one little thing: They have said the mass their whole life, and never knew what they were saying!

They could never mean in their heart what the liturgy is saying when they did not understand it. They obviously did not KNOW they did not understand it. Why is this? Is it that the homily did not explain it? Has the sword of truth been dulled by so much " yes, but" type preaching that the clear message of the Gospel has become lost?

Yet, this is not primarily an intellectual problem. This is a Spirtiual problem. They didn’t leave because the protestant, Jehovah-Witness, Mormon church had better arguments. They left because they did not know Jesus. And did not know they could know Him.

To me this is the issue of all issues : unless the simple concept that we MUST meet Jesus is communicated, none of the rest of what the Church wants to communicate will make ANY since. The Mass is obviously just a comforting ritual, or a boring ritual, or an habitual ritual to people like this woman. Take her at her word, she never met Jesus, and when she did in what ever church, He was so beautiful that she accepted any other theology she had to, just to be near Him.

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JohnCarroll:
I think this thread is one of THE most important ever . Everyone read the link in the opening post about the EX-Catholic, then lets discuss this.
I say this is THE issue because , for all the objections we hear here on line , all the arguments from protestant inquirers, it is this problem that needs the MOST attention. Millions of Catholics are leaving the Church over this one little thing: They have said the mass their whole life, and never knew what they were saying!

They could never mean in their heart what the liturgy is saying when they did not understand it. They obviously did not KNOW they did not understand it. Why is this? Is it that the homily did not explain it? Has the sword of truth been dulled by so much " yes, but" type preaching that the clear message of the Gospel has become lost?

Yet, this is not primarily an intellectual problem. This is a Spirtiual problem. They didn’t leave because the protestant, Jehovah-Witness, Mormon church had better arguments. They left because they did not know Jesus. And did not know they could know Him.

To me this is the issue of all issues : unless the simple concept that we MUST meet Jesus is communicated, none of the rest of what the Church wants to communicate will make ANY since. The Mass is obviously just a comforting ritual, or a boring ritual, or an habitual ritual to people like this woman. Take her at her word, she never met Jesus, and when she did in what ever church, He was so beautiful that she accepted any other theology she had to, just to be near Him.

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Was I too harsh? -no one is responding?
 
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JohnCarroll:
Was I too harsh? -no one is responding?
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No, I don’t think you were too harsh. SeekerJen is right. It is a weak argument. Yet that is in essence what people are saying when they say, “I was Catholic and then I “got saved””.
I’ve heard this more than once.
 
What a great teaching tool! I printed it out and intend to share it with my 6ht grade ccd class.

Thank you
 
That lady had some great answers. What a great apologetics lesson.

The thing about accepting Jesus as you personal Lord and Savior has always bugged me. Nowhere in the bible (and that is a protestant’s sole rule of faith) did Jesus say this. He did however say to be baptized which somehow is never stressed by “bible believing Christians”.
 
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moira7:
That lady had some great answers. What a great apologetics lesson.

The thing about accepting Jesus as you personal Lord and Savior has always bugged me. Nowhere in the bible (and that is a protestant’s sole rule of faith) did Jesus say this. He did however say to be baptized which somehow is never stressed by “bible believing Christians”.
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i am one of those “Bible believing Christians” you are bashing over and over in this forum.
first of all, if you really believe that Jesus was God in flesh why wouldnt you want Him to be your Lord and Savior even if it wasnt on the Bible? (It is)
i cannot believe that a believer can say “accepting Jesus as you personal Lord and Savior has always bugged me”
Truth is that in your story the one talking to others about Jesus was not catholic. if you are going to use this story to fight Christians you are not doing what Christ asked you to do.
come on now even Jehova witnesses and mormons go out and share what they believe.
i cannot remember the last time a catholic knocked at my door to tell me about Jesus.
 
“i cannot remember the last time a catholic knocked at my door to tell me about Jesus.”

Where do you live? I will be there to share with you the GOOD NEWS!
 
No, we don’t. Remember what we had just read in the Mass. Catholic ask Mary, the angels, the saints and the whole congregation to pray to God for mercy on their behalf - just like I would ask you to pray for me to God. Does that mean that I look to you to ‘save’ me? No, of course I don’t believe that. I’m just asking for your help. Besides the ‘Gloria’ of the Mass proves that Catholics look to God alone to save us.”

I really don’t understand this point of view the lady had told him that only God can save you,his replay was this, that is above my writting.
If you read the scriptures about salvation it never say’s that you need
help to get save,but that you are saved by grace.
If i as a sinner don’t admit that to God,then i am not save,if i ask somebody to help me pray to get it, that is taking away what Jesus did for me in the cross and the reason why He came here on earth,wich is He die for my sins for me to see one day His Glory.
I think what the lady was trying to tell him was that in mass when they read about the gospels they don’t stress that Jesus did all the work,and that thru Him we have salvation.They don’t stress that at all,wich is what she try to imply in her testimony.
I am sorry to read that somebody can say it bug her, that thru Jesus you are save and she does not accept that.
It does not bug me it shows me that He love me so much He gave His life so i can be save,my works won’t save me but my personal relationship with Jesus can and to recognize that i have sin and like Paul said in Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
 
Jesusthe Savior,

Have you ever asked someone to pray for you? Have you ever prayed for a non-believing friend?
 
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