please keep me and mike in your prayers as we struggle to find a common ground between my Catholic faith and his Sola Scriptua Christian. We plan to get married and this is a huge issue for us.
The merciful Lord, in His goodness, brought me from nothingness to a fervent belief in His Eternal Goodness. Allow your faithful example (and a book or two) to inform him, that his spiritual eyes may be opened to the fullness of truth. Words will fail. Allow the Holy Spirit to illuminate his heart.
Now is the time to obtain great peace and graces through devotions. I cannot recommend too highly: Adoration, the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the old standby, the Rosary. When he sees the peace and joy that permeates your soul, he will desire the same for himself, as some of that has been missing in his faith tradition.
Two compact books by Mark P. Shea
mark-shea.com/ would greatly help him: By What Authority? and This Is My Body will reveal an Evangelical’s search for truth and subsequent “discovery” of the Catholic Church. Ask you beau if he loves the Lord enough to follow Him wherever He leads. If he says “yes” you have your answer.
Merciful Lord, You have placed two loving Christian hearts together. In Your infinite mercy, graciously open the eyes of chootal’s fiance to see the fullness of truth as Your Beloved Son Jesus Christ founded it in His church. Create in his heart a longing, a desiring for a fuller relationship with Your Son, our Redeemer. Providentially soften any remaining hardness of heart, that Your love may shine through as the morning sun. I ask this through Christ, our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God for ever and ever. Amen.