I used to frequent a Catholic Forum .
It was a Catholic Forum open to all .
It was not a pleasant place to be .
Anti-Catholics used it to vent their hatred of all things Catholic .
I grew weary of trying to dialogue with such people , so I resorted to posting threads about the good things done by the Catholic Church…indisputable facts which were basically impossible to refute . They produced little response .
Two Catholic stalwarts of the forum , whom I admired for their dogged determination , sent me PMs in which they expressed their gratitude for what I was doing . Both pointed out that , though the threads I had created may have got little response , they were at least viewed .
From that , my advice is , if you like something then post about it . Don’t be put off if members fail to come along in their droves to respond . You will find that they are read . And who knows what good seed may have been planted by your words ?
So if there’s something you would like to post , then post it , and keep on posting …Keep sowing those good seeds .
Another member said , " A good friend here who has since passed on told me a lot more people read than comment. I tell my students that sometimes you’re
the pebble in God’s hand cast into the lake. Sometimes it sinks sometimes it skips but the ripples that it makes help life all through the lake and the pebble never knows what good it does.
" So be true to your heart and God , though you may never see the differences you make you will make them . "
It was a Catholic Forum open to all .
It was not a pleasant place to be .
Anti-Catholics used it to vent their hatred of all things Catholic .
I grew weary of trying to dialogue with such people , so I resorted to posting threads about the good things done by the Catholic Church…indisputable facts which were basically impossible to refute . They produced little response .
Two Catholic stalwarts of the forum , whom I admired for their dogged determination , sent me PMs in which they expressed their gratitude for what I was doing . Both pointed out that , though the threads I had created may have got little response , they were at least viewed .
From that , my advice is , if you like something then post about it . Don’t be put off if members fail to come along in their droves to respond . You will find that they are read . And who knows what good seed may have been planted by your words ?
So if there’s something you would like to post , then post it , and keep on posting …Keep sowing those good seeds .
Another member said , " A good friend here who has since passed on told me a lot more people read than comment. I tell my students that sometimes you’re
the pebble in God’s hand cast into the lake. Sometimes it sinks sometimes it skips but the ripples that it makes help life all through the lake and the pebble never knows what good it does.
" So be true to your heart and God , though you may never see the differences you make you will make them . "
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