Should Catholic proclaim the Kingdom or wait to be asked?

[ISeekTruth]

I am so thankful to all who have responded. It has REALLY opened my eyes to the huge misunderstanding between going out to all the world and tell the news and proselytizing. It fills my heart with sorrow. The world needs to know Christ. When we offer Him to people, He converts their hearts.
God bless you all. Good bye.

 

[po18guy]

Matthew 25:14-30.

 

[BlueMaxx]

But should we place an impediment to the Holy Spirit by telling people they cannot speak of Christ or offer a prayer? I know people who have offered a prayer in obedience to the HS, and they were told to stop. They quit the facility.

I think it is an extreme and precarious position, but according to scripture, there does come a circumstance, or situation in which we are to shake the dust from our sandals and move on… but that is an area of which I would not care nor wish to define.

Paul and company were beat, jailed, exiled…suffered greatly for the spreading of the Word.

In todays society, honestly I do not know.
That is while I believe in the living to the best of our abilities to be in line with Christ and to exhibit those characteristics that do separate us, make us alien to this world and Christ will use that to draw others near, to make them seek out answers to why we are different.

5 Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

6 Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

7 And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things.

9 The things which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these do ye, and the God of peace shall be with you.

 

[BlueMaxx]

Ironically, Life Worth Living was just on and Bishop Sheen was on telling us to look for the good in every person, and a bout Paul when going to the Areopagus and passing the pagan statues, to deliver a message to a pagan people…

22 But Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.

23 For passing by, and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the unknown God. What therefore you worship, without knowing it, that I preach to you:

He did not insult, or “preach down” to them, he sought common ground…and in doing so gained a rapport with them. He simply sowed the seed…and how did it end up?

32 And when they had heard of the resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked, but others said: We will hear thee again concerning this matter.

33 So Paul went out from among them.

34 But certain men adhering to him, did believe; among whom was also Dionysius, the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

So the parable of sewing the seed comes into play…Paul was sewing the seeds of grace, and some did take root and grow…

I guess thats what we ought to do… not be all fire and brimstone, but out of love reach out with our words, deeds and actions and be not afraid to speak of Christ.

 

[PetraG]

I am so thankful to all who have responded. It has REALLY opened my eyes to the huge misunderstanding between going out to all the world and tell the news and proselytizing. It fills my heart with sorrow. The world needs to know Christ. When we offer Him to people, He converts their hearts.
God bless you all. Good bye.

I’m not sure I understand. You’ve described someone being expected to be obedient when that someone is told they are not to act as a prophet or a teacher in a limited situation. The limitation is understood prior to taking on the position. We know that not all are prophets and not all are teachers, so of course we don’t think everyone is to be a prophet or an apostle all of the time. How does this get extrapolated into forbidding Christians from proclaiming Christ? If that is forbidding people from going out and proclaiming Christ, I can’t imagine what is to be made of people who live a life of silence in cloisters.