My elderly mom loves Jesus, doesn’t believe in Saints

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why don’t you record or download Mother Angelica’s talks and put them, it would be great, Jesus has his time and by your prayers and intercessions, they will come to the light of faith, even though they may not know fully now, but god’s ways are different, children suffer for the sack of Jesus and for the world, its a part of redemption plan of god, their souls are saved for eternity Jn 6:63
 
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I think it is important to allow for others just believing different from each other. Catholics often claim someone doesn’t understand, when in reality, they understand the claim but they just don’t believe in it.
 
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not honoring the scripture that says our faith will put “mother against daughter “ etc.
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That scripture means that there will be families where part will convert and the others won’t. It does not require us converts or reverts to be confrontational to our moms 🙂
 
Thank you, I actually thought it did mean that in a way. I thought it meant defending our faith to our elderly parents even if it means they may resent us or at the risk of not talking to us.
 
Sadly, some people seem to think that Christ commanded us to be unkind and disrespectful, even to our parents 😦

“Be ye kind one to another” and “let your light so shine before men that they see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven” etc. all apply to our parents/family as well as to strangers 🙂
 
That’s terrible for anyone to think He expects us to be cruel to parents, in my case for example, to lovingly tell my mother I’m Catholic and this is what I believe, but I didn’t because I didn’t want to hurt her. And I feel the verse is saying I should tell her that truth even if it hurts her to hear I love the Catholic church. Even if the hurt causes us our relationship to change a bit
 
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Martha, I was born and raised Catholic. I was baptized as a baby, made my 1st communion very young and I was Confirmed too young. I guess my church wanted to get the confirmations over and done with, but we were too young. But all this makes me Catholic. At 18 my intellect lead me away from God and the church. It took 10 yrs but God drew me back to Him. I’m not young, I’m 66. At 30 I joined a Full Gospel church which fell apart 3 yrs later. That was about 1983. I’ve never found a satisfactory church since them. Presently I’m disabled without a car and I need a walker. The only church I can get to is Catholic and I go there occasionally. I study the Bible diligently both the protestant Bible and the Catholic books. I’ve even read many apocryphal books such as Enoch, Jubilees, Jasper and others. I’m very disgusted with the protestant denominations. At the same time, I disagree with many Catholic doctrines. My dearly departed mother was 1 of the most pious people I ever knew and she was Catholic. I saw her pray for something and then it happened. I just don’t think God subscribes to any one religion. Jesus once said His true followers are scattered all over the place and this seems more true today than it was 2000 yrs ago.

I doubt that what I believe is what the CC teaches but that doesn’t matter. Jesus was born and raised Jewish, He even went into a temple every Saturday but the Jewish priests and teachers didn’t agree with Him. Time has shown Jesus was right. If He was just some nut by now no one would care about Him.

I think your parents are fine and you are too. You don’t sound like a lukewarm Catholic, those are the people in trouble.

I have to be true to God and myself. IMO a good church is a church that makes you closer to God.
 
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