Why do Protestants think this way?

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Iamwishing, pray often! My girlfriend enlisted her whole family to pray for my conversion, they never really asked about it. I was even afraid to tell them my decision out of fear of making them think that they pressured me into doing it!

Only God can work miracles, and it sounds like he wants you to have a front row seat for one, lol.

In prayer,

-revelations
 
turtle18 said:
My sister told me my brother-in-law gets very angry that he can’t receive Communion. He has no interest in becoming Catholic because he doesn’t believe the tenets of the Church. My question is, then why is he so angry he can’t receive Communion? If you don’t believe in the Eucharist, why would you want to receive the Eucharist?
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That’s the modern tendency: people think about their own rights more than about other people’s rights. It looks like he feels “discriminated” by “intolerant” CC. The simple rule is - if you come to somebody else’s house you have to respect the rules. If you don’t want to - don’t come in.
 
t68ware said:
When a Protestant goes to visit a Catholic church, there is a written statement in the Missal about who can and cannot receive Communion, and I feel it is explained very well. Protestants who get miffed by this need to stop thinking they are owed something, and realize that is the way it is, so getting angry about it is useless.
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Not all Catholic Churches have missals though.
 
I have a friend who had been brought up Catholic. I didn’t see him for years, and when we got reaquainted I learned he fell away. Had lived with some protestant Christians in college, but after that (now going on 10 yrs) has not been involved in any kind of regular worship. His job situation takes him all over the US.

Anyway, we had both been in attendance at 2 funeral Masses and at the first one (my father), I was shocked to see him get in line for Holy Communion. Many of my Protestant relatives were there, and they knew enough to stay in their pews Well, I didn’t know what to say or how to say it, and it didn’t seem appropriate at the time. Then he did the same at his mother’s funeral Mass even though the priest announced that anyone who was not Catholic could come up with their hands crossed to receive a blessing, which some did.

I am trying to find a charitable way of asking him why he took Communion – maybe I should just come out and say it. I saw him recently, and there wasn’t really time to start a conversation about it in person, so I said I had “a question for you about religion” before he left. It actually might be a better idea to talk about it via email. Then I’ll have a chance to think about what to say.

Perhaps that is the Holy Spirit’s way of helping me figure out how to do this?

Suggestions welcome. I’m already praying the rosary for his conversion.

He is Risen! Alleluia!

Happy Easter,
Mimi
 
Mimi said:
I…Well, I didn’t know what to say or how to say it, and it didn’t seem appropriate at the time. Then he did the same at his mother’s funeral Mass even though the priest announced that anyone who was not Catholic could come up with their hands crossed to receive a blessing, which some did.

I am trying to find a charitable way of asking him why he took Communion,…
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??? I think the Church standard is to respect the privacy, If the issue is blatant the Priest will handle it. Same is true in reverse when long time participant does not receive, that is between them and God. Do you really believe all receiving are in a state of grace? (to include me) I think many Protestants see people receive who practice many questionable liestyles/actions
 
At the end of the day, it will be between that person and God. My parents for example, i have told them, and explained to them the teachings of it. Should the choose to receive anyways is their choice and i can’t stop them, so i pray instead! “Lord, have mercy on all those who receive you irreverently, use this time to show them who it is they are truly receiving and help them to grow in holiness”
 
I have a relative who has formally rejected her Catholic faith and is a member of another Christian faith which teaches that Communion is a “symbol” and is not truly Jesus. Yet, fully knowing the Catholic teaching about who can receive the Eucharist, she attends Mass occasionally and receives, obstinately proclaiming “I’ll do anything I want to if it makes me feel closer to Jesus.” Her attitude: “The pope is just a control freak who doesn’t know any better and isn’t going to tell me what I can’t do.” Other Catholic family members don’t correct her, they encourage her to receive. I wish priests would address this issue at least a couple times a year, at least to teach Catholics.
 
Why do people who disagree with the church always blame everything they don’t agree with on the pope? As if he decides everything and sets the rules arbitrarily. This comes straight from St Paul in the bible!

Then there’s the question, if you don’t agree with the church why do you want to receive communion? It’s a statement of being in communion with the church! Argh!
 
It isn’t just not recieving communion that upsets some people. I’ve had a couple women announce that they knew that the Catholic Church would view their children as illegitimate because they got a divorce?:confused: Another family member asked me some questions about holy water. She asked if she could get some. I informed her that yes, she could. She then went on a rather strange tirade that she could bless her own water. None of these people were Catholic so why would any of them be offended by a faith that they don’t practice anyway?🤷

I think that on some deep, subconscious level such people must know that the Catholic faith is the true on or why would they get offended?
 
quiet52 said:
I have a relative who has formally rejected her Catholic faith and is a member of another Christian faith which teaches that Communion is a “symbol” and is not truly Jesus. Yet, fully knowing the Catholic teaching about who can receive the Eucharist, she attends Mass occasionally and receives, obstinately proclaiming “I’ll do anything I want to if it makes me feel closer to Jesus.” Her attitude: “The pope is just a control freak who doesn’t know any better and isn’t going to tell me what I can’t do.” Other Catholic family members don’t correct her, they encourage her to receive. I wish priests would address this issue at least a couple times a year, at least to teach Catholics.
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Would this mean she wants a relationship with the church, even if she can not say that publicly (yet)
 
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