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How do Catholics view John Wesley, and how did he view Catholics? My parents want me to read some his writings. I don’t think they know I want to become Catholic, but I want to read what he has written as well, so that when I break it to them in my senior year of high school (two years away), they’ll know I’m not making a rash and ill-informed decision. Do any of you know of any good books on his thinking, preferably written by him?
 
I have read some of his works, and find them enlightening and founded on Scripture. Methodists have most of what we have, except Tradition and Sacraments. 😃
 
When Hilary Clinton was discussing Catholics and Methodists last week, she made the statement "One of the things that we share is the belief that in order to achieve our salvation, we need both faith and good works”

I this an accurate statement or do some Methodists veer from the “Faith Alone” view of salvation?
 
Well I like him. If he was born a hundred years later, I am sure he’d be an Anglo-Catholic as well.

This is interesting reading, and I recommend it.
 
And as an interesting point, though the Methodist Church traces its founding to John Wesley, he was an Anglican until he died. It was only after his death that the Methodists officially split.
 
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How do Catholics view John Wesley, and how did he view Catholics? My parents want me to read some his writings. I don’t think they know I want to become Catholic, but I want to read what he has written as well, so that when I break it to them in my senior year of high school (two years away), they’ll know I’m not making a rash and ill-informed decision. Do any of you know of any good books on his thinking, preferably written by him?
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My dear friend in Christ,

I respect your right to do so. But in doing it:

1 PRAY VERY MUCH for guidance and protection

2 Keep uppermost in your mind and heart that

There is and can be only One true God [the 1st Commandment]

That even GOD can [and does] have only one true set of faith beliefs that even being GOD, He absolutely could not have waited more than 1,000 years after the Bible had been fully authored, was accepted and suffered for by Millions, and had a thriving New Faith and Church {singular" provable biblically and historically.

God could not in Divine Justice have waited for Wycliffe, Henry VIII, Luther, Calvin or Wesley to make HIS faith, HIS path to salvation known.

And GOD accomplished exactly what he GOD desired; just one Church; know that No church can be separated from the faith-beliefs of that church

Wesley lived in a time of revolt and PROTEST;{post-reformation}, a time of near unprecedented individualism; where "I Do know more; I Do know better than anyone else {God included} had been evidenced by the leaders of the revolution against Catholicism. So in a sense this was another NEW “me-too” religion.

No doubt that these men THOUGHT they were doing right; following their consciences in doing as they did. BUT man has a GRAVE responsibility to RIGHTLY have a informed conscience. Truth has to be singular defined issue to be the TRUTH [singular.}

**Pope Benedict explained it this way:

There cannot be your truth and my truth or their would be no trutn." Objectively logical and morally sound!

Contact me if you have any more faith questions,

God Bless and keep you in His Love:thumbsup:

PRAY much

Patrick
 
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