In addition to all the good links above, I recommend reading Mary, the Ark.
What do ya think this discussion is? 
Seriously though, there are TONS of ways in which we share our faith. Here’s some links to sites and sources that I personally use.Yep, especially in our parish. We even have VBS coin’ up in a week or so.
My dear friend Catherine S covers this as well as I could in one of her M&G posts.
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It’s probably about the same as for n-Cs in general. How many such n-Cs do you know who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk. There are people like that in every faith community, so I don’t know if it’s worth losing too much sleep over. the good news is that after you convert, you can really start to help them deepen their own conversion. Drag 'em to Mass and the sacraments with you and swamp them in prayer and watch the Holy Spirit do the rest.
I’m sorry, that’s just kinda funny because no such thing exists. There is a 3 level crown but that hasn’t been worn in a long time. It also does not have any inscriptions on it as some a-Cs allege.Depends on the church…our parish has it to the right of the altar, while our mission parish has theirs in a special section just inside the church that is designed for adoration. The local cathedral has theirs about in the same place as our parish.
Yeah well, what can ya say? I pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for such people and I know our Lord will work on them as He sees fit.Thank you for all of the help ChurchMilitant! Not that they arnt loving ppl, but I usually take things that people from the COC with a grain of salt…I mean even the Baptists are apostate according to them
Listen my friend. Ever read the parable of the wheat and tares in Matthew 13?
Talk to your friend again… he was “such a good catholic” in judging others that he judged and righteoused his way right out of Catholicism. That doesn’t make sense and it was wrong of him to judge others anyway. God puts us all on our path of spiritual development, and as long as we are open to the grace of the Holy Spirit we will continue to grow and develope in terms of conformation to the will of God as taught through his church. Ultimately, however, while your friend was busy judging the moral “Catholicity” of others, he has inadvertantly tipped his hand by showing that he had the bigger problems with his faith all along… after all, those people who “weren’t really following doctrines” are still in the church where they can receive the sacraments to help them grow closer to God… your friend cannot say the same.
Thanks promethis, very inspiring words. I know I want to join the church and my heart knows it, but im still somewhat reserved and dnt want to open it up all of the way incase something bad is trying to get in…that may not make sense (again, protestant state of thinking). Are there others who have/had this problem on here?
There aren’t any groups that can trace themselves back in an unbroken line, but the thing about heresies is they tend to recreate themselves in later generations (which is why we hear about things like Semi-Pelagianism or neo-Nestorians). The Jesus Seminar people are the 20th century version of Gnostics, for example, and groups like Jehovah Witness have taken up a couple of old heresies, that Jesus is not God and so obviously doesn’t have a divine Nature.
In regards to Nestorianism any denomination that denies that Mary is the Mother of God would be guilty of that particular heresy.
