Just wondering...what do Catholics and Protestants like about each other?

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The really nice and knowledgable non-Catholics hang out here. 👍👍 And the food.😃 Though that seems true for Catholics and Protestants alike.😃 :yup: The food that is.
 
Non-Catholic Christians and Catholic Christians are hungry for the Truth… That is why I love them both…
 
Twice a year, our local Methodist church has a sandwich and ice cream social complete with homemade pie. Mmmmmmm, good! The minister and his wife are very nice people, and live only a block away from us. She is a double breast cancer survivor and I admire her very much. I admire their faithfulness and their courage. The members always seem to be a close nit bunch that look after each other in time of need. Sometimes, in our church, we are lucky to be spoken to. Our churches should get away from the run out of Mass, hop in our cars, and barrel out the parking lot, complaining that Mass lasted ten minutes longer than usual. I guess the Protestants call it fellowship. But don’t get me wrong. I’ll be Catholic until the day I die.
 
I love the Protestant fellowship. They are kind and willing to help. I wish all Catholics shared the same spirit.
 
As a Catholic, I admire the Protestants zeal for study of and proclaiming the Gospel, as long as it, as already mentioned above, doesn’t lead to the Pope-anti-Christ claim, Catholic-Mary/Saint worship idea, or Rome-Whore of Babylon, or Catholic-non-Christian idea (I’m sure you can read my shorthand).

I admire their missionary work.
 
I can only speak from my own experience within my family only. I had never been to any non-Catholic church to really know more. I admire for their time in studying Bible.

I am a Catholic, my old brother is a Protestant who came to Canada when he was very young and fostered by a very loving Protestant couple; hence, he grew up as a protestant himself.

He is now in US and he’s the one he got me into study Bible - he bought me a Catholic Bible as a gift and helped me study Bible. He respects what I believe as a Catholic, and he only helps me grow in faith in the area that we both share in common.

His daughter is 8 years old and she can remember verses that I can not. 😃

This is a good thread to share our commons instead of just the differences. 👍
 
I admire Protestant Christians for the love of God’s Word, their fellowship, and their excellent hymns. I had never read the Bible until a Baptist gave me one. Now I belong to a Catholic Bible study, but I am grateful for the person (Baptist) who got me to study the Bible originally. 🙂 My neighbourhood is having an ecumenical service on 28 January (Christian Unity service), and I will be attending. As a Catholic Christian, I believe that we need to be charitable to all of our brothers and sisters in Christ, and although there are differences, there are more similarities.
 
JoeyWarren said:
To be honest and true to myself and God.

I am Anti-Protestant because I am Anti-Heresy.
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Boy you sure killed the thread.

What if someone said they are Anti-Catholic because they are Anti-Heresy?

There are things I like about the Catholic Church but I will share only one right now. I like how you guys have service every day! Would that we Protestants would do the same thing. We’d be following the Scripture we say we believe so much.
 
prv said:
As a Catholic, I admire the Protestants zeal for study of and proclaiming the Gospel, as long as it, as already mentioned above, doesn’t lead to the Pope-anti-Christ claim, Catholic-Mary/Saint worship idea, or Rome-Whore of Babylon, or Catholic-non-Christian idea (I’m sure you can read my shorthand).

I admire their missionary work.
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If the above is a common experience for Catholics, then I also admire that you will still speak with Protestants 🙂

Water: “This is a good thread to share our commons instead of just the differences.” (Sorry, I don’t know if you can quote multiple posts yet, or how to)

Yes it is. I am glad we do have so many things in common, and also that there is more to this relationship than constant arguing…

At this point I am beginning to suspect the reformation may have hurt both of us more than we know 😦

May God grant that we continue to love more and bicker less.

Zirconia
 
Zirconia said:
I am curious about the following…

First, for all the Catholics who care to answer…

Is there anything, anything at all, that you sincerely admire about the Protestant churches?

Conversely, for all the Protestants out there, is there anything you sincerely admire about the Catholic Church?

To get this started, I (as a Protestant) deeply admire the sense of reverence and awe towards God that is evident in the Catholic litanies…on top of which they are gorgeous expressions of prayer that most of the Protestant churches I have encountered don’t seem to include. Also, the idea that great beauty and worship don’t have to be mutually exclusive 👍

Anyone else?

Zirconia
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The very openness of Roman Catholics to public prayer and piety is something very rare among Protestants. Protestants are much more sermon-oriented, much more likely to express their spirituality in public by way of a lesson or a seminar. Aside from the Anglicans with whom I have joined myself in recent years, few Protestants seem comfortable with prayer as something done in public and in community with other Christians. Even the Pentecostals, the most prayerful of all Evangelicals–don’t actually pray together most of the time: they pray individually, as individuals each praying their own prayers.

I also think the RCC has done admirably in standing against some of the most egregious errors of modern culture. I think Catholic theology suffers from it’s own excesses and errors–but they have roundly rejected modernism, secularism, political correctness, the agendas of homosexuals and feminists, and so forth. Few Evangelical churches have done so successfully in warding off such encroachments.
 
flameburns623 said:
The very openness of Roman Catholics to public prayer and piety is something very rare among Protestants. Protestants are much more sermon-oriented, much more likely to express their spirituality in public by way of a lesson or a seminar. Aside from the Anglicans with whom I have joined myself in recent years, few Protestants seem comfortable with prayer as something done in public and in community with other Christians. Even the Pentecostals, the most prayerful of all Evangelicals–don’t actually pray together most of the time: they pray individually, as individuals each praying their own prayers.
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In my neighbourhood, there is a service at the end of this month (28 January) which is ecumenical. It is being held at a Catholic Church, with Lutheran, Methodist, Church of Christ, Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches. The Methodist minister is giving the sermon. The choirs of the various churches are participating together. It is a service for Christian unity. I have participated in several of these services in the past, including one at my church. It is very nice: a chance for all of us to pray together. 🙂 ❤️
 
Good thread!!
I’ve been to mass many times and as a protestant I find there is such a reverence in their churches for God’s Holiness.They are overall very kind and loving people with a real heart for God.I admire the Pope for his satements made about the muslims.He stood his ground and spoke the truth.If you were to ask me who I admire most I would have to say Mother Theresa.What a loving woman she was!! Your cathedrals are beautiful as well might I add.God Bless
 
I have limited time to post so can’t get engaged n many discussions or for long but had to respond to this one!

There is much I LOVE about Protestants! I think Protestants, in the main, are ace! I don’t think their theology is A1. I think as a system of thought Protestantism is very weak (and this leads to problems with Protestants engaging with the rise of super-rational atheism. Protestantism hits it’s inconsistencies big time on the front line here.) But Protestantism as a force of evangelism and witness I have great respect for.

I like:

The fire of Protestants, how they have a fervour for their faith!
Their compassion. Protestants (and Catholics but Protestants were a MAJOR FORCE) got me through the horror of the 1990’s with tragedy after tragedy in my life!
Their love of scripture (honest) when accompanied by intellect (and not just mindless quoting!)
Their desire to evangelise. I wish I could get Catholics to move on this!! I wish Protestants would read more and learn better apologetics but that’s true of Catholics too! Protestants have the zeal but not the tools. Catholics lack both. 😦
Their holy living. Sure, Protestants sin and, yup, contraception is an issue. But Protestants do have a sense of moral living and they stick by it in the UK against HIDEOUS pressure. There are many saints living the UK unnoticed and Protestants count for many of them.
Protestants understand the difference between means and ends. Whatever I think of Protestant means of doing things they are clear about the END. Protestants are focused an evangelism, Bible study and holy living. They don’t obsess about the language of the liturgy! Thus, they get things done! Catholics can be awful at being paralysed by doctrinal hair splitting and navel gazing over a potential mortal sin. (Stop confessing all the time and do something positive for someone!!! 🙂

I wish to pay tribute to the many. Many protestants who have stood by me for 25 years finding my way to Christ and beyond. I have known true heroes for the faith in my time. Sure, I think the Catholic Church has it right and I have needed Catholics and the catholic Church to survive. (It’s been grim at times!) But Protestants have been there with me on the front and taken shots for me. That’s truly Christian living.

Protestants - I disagree with some of your theology. But I salute you!

(And don’t care what any ‘More pious than thou’ Catholics think! 🙂
 
Protestants are focused an evangelism, Bible study and holy living. They don’t obsess about the language of the liturgy

I couldn’t have said it better myself.Isn’t this what the Catholic should be living for as well?Jesus’ commision was to go and preach the gospel to all the nations.
 
JWilson said:
I couldn’t have said it better myself.Isn’t this what the Catholic should be living for as well?Jesus’ commision was to go and preach the gospel to all the nations.
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I believe the Catholics have been doing it for very long time. Indeed, if the French missionary had not come to Vietnam, my great-grandparents, my grandparents, my parents and I wouldn’t have been a Catholic today. And for this, there were hundred of devout Vietnamese Catholics being prosecuted for their faith.

Therefore, I am very grateful to those who are Christians, doesn’t matter Catholic or non-catholic, have given up their personal lives and go spreading the Good News.
 
lak611 said:
I admire Protestant Christians for the love of God’s Word, their fellowship, and their excellent hymns. I had never read the Bible until a Baptist gave me one. Now I belong to a Catholic Bible study, but I am grateful for the person (Baptist) who got me to study the Bible originally. 🙂

Glad to hear it!

I can add that Catholics have inspired me to read the Bible much more often then I used to, although my story is far more roundabout than yours. So what’s your favorite verse? (on second thought, maybe this should be a new thread…)

And I attend a Baptist church… 😉

My neighbourhood is having an ecumenical service on 28 January (Christian Unity service), and I will be attending. As a Catholic Christian, I believe that we need to be charitable to all of our brothers and sisters in Christ, and although there are differences, there are more similarities.
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I agree wholeheartedly.

Zirconia
 
My best friend is Protestant, and she went from being lukewarm in the faith to a truly holy Christian life-inside and out–from her attendence in a Catholic Charismatic group in the 1970s. The Spirit really reached out to her in the people and their love, fellowship, and Christian teaching. She credits Catholics and Catholicism with leading her back to Christ in her Protestant church.

I’m Catholic. I went through a great crisis in my faith in the late 1990s. I started going with my friend to her church where I found much love, fellowship, and sincere Christian teaching. . .which made me in turn seek deeply for the Holy Spirit who led me right back from being first away, then lukewarm, and finally striving to live a truly holy Christian life, inside and out–right back solidly in my Catholic Church. So I credit her and my dear Protestant friends with leading me back to Christ and Catholicism.
 
First, for all the Catholics who care to answer…
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Is there anything, anything at all, that you sincerely admire about the Protestant churches?
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I for one love the way the Methodists sing. We catholics might have some beautiful liturgies but we do not know ‘how to sing’!

Besides Sunday Mass, I also used to worship in the Methodist Chapel next door, for many years, It was there that I discovered my voice. I now sing my heart out at Mass.

In Methodist congregations, no one worries about what they sound like. It is the effort that counts. The most credit goes to those who make the most effort, not who possess the greatest melody, or sing in key.

In one of the Catholic congregations where I worship, the catholic congregation on the whole put on a magnificent performance. They literally raise the roof, but that is the influence of the Methodists again in a very active 'churches together movement. In another church, it is usual that besides the organ, all you hear is the priest singing a solo.

The most humble of Methodist Chapel’s put such Catholic congregations to shame.
 
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