I think what area52 is saying is that he was probably baptized Catholic, since he says his parents are Catholic. However, he apparently was not catechized properly, nor was he discipled in the faith, and encountered Jesus in a personal way outside the Catholic church. This happened to me too. Perhaps he is here at CAF to find his way home?
What do you mean by ‘catechized properly’?
**Hey, whatever melts your butter, sweetie! **
Encountering Jesus in a personal way outside of the Church is not the same as encountering Jesus in the Eucharist, which is about as personal as one can get in a relationship with the Lord.
John 6
Thanks, of course I would like the rest of my family to know Christ too …Hello Huguenot…i think there’s some misunderstanding there…
Of course i’m not saying that you should remain Atheist since your parents and you’re family members are…
i can relate to the feeling of like being different from them when i have this eagerness to convert to a different religion once…but you’re right, its way more different from your case…that’s why i asked for guidance from our Lord to guide me in making a decision…and He revealed to me His words…
you have finally known God, i think its time for you to help your other family members to know HIM also…
that’s what i really wanted to say…sorry for confusing you…
God bless…
Catholic parents who baptize their infants make promises to God in front of the faith community that the child will be raised in the faith. These vows are patterned after those made by Jews who circumcised infants (which baptism replaces as the initiatory rite into the new covenant). When Catholic parents fail to do this, they violate their sacred vows before God and the community.
I have two things to say on this point. One is that finding Jesus is most fully done in the Catholic faith, part of which has been rejected by all Protestant communities. Secondly, coming to CAF with the purpose of “sharing the gospel from a biblical point of view” is clearly a violation of the forum rules. The purpose of this forum is to answer questions about Catholicism, not to give anti-Catholics a venue for promoting error. Such an agenda will get you banned from the forum. I strongly suggest that you re-evaluate your need for being here, and see if you can come up with anything that will not violate the forum rules.
I am delighted that you have, at long last, found the “Jesus of the Bible”. I, too, had to find Him there in Protestant communities, and can appreciate what you say. However, though His work is finished, ours is not.
Yes, I was one myself. My heart and prayers go out to them.
Hopefully this can happen without hatred toward the Church that Jesus founded.
I can appreciate your sentiment. Maybe you can find a place to share this that is appropriate. Bringing anti-Catholic sentiment here is not.
It may not be the same for some, but for those of us that did not encounter Christ in the breaking of the bread, I am very grateful that the HS works through these other faith communities. It was through that, and His word that I finally was able to find my way back, and eventually encounter Him in the breaking of the bread. For that reason, I am very reluctant to judge those who were hardened of heart, as I was.
Having never gone through the experience myself, it baffles me to some extent, but glad you are back in the true fold.
Sure. why not? But I’d take out the thee’s, thou’s and thy’s…much too annoying!
Lol, and I’d probably say it in Latin.
Is this the offical teaching of the catholic church?
Mary is at the cross, a very important scenario, of course. But two things from the Bible always struck me.
(1) After the nativity stories in Matthew and Luke, Mary is rarely mentioned in the gospels. And when she is it almost sounds as though Jesus is rebuking her. See John 2:4 and Luke 8:21.
(2) If Mary is so central to Christian worship, why doesn't her name appear in Acts, the letters of St. Paul and all the other epistles of the New Testament? That omission strongly suggests that she wasn't that central to the earliest Christians.
It seems that Mariology got a great impetus when Christianity had to compete with the mystery religions, where virgin goddesses often played a key role.
Honor Mary, of course. But the central role she plays in Catholicism today is unBiblical and - sorry - pagan. At the same time, if Catholics want to continue it, fine. I respect nearly all other faiths even when I cannot agree with them. I say 'nearly' because I do have trouble with extremist elements within all faiths, whether hyper-Muslims, Jews, Catholics or evangelical Protestants who look down on every faith but their own and consider the rest of us as heretics, inferior or hell-bent.I don’t know if it’s “offical” as in dogmatic, but does it really matter if it’s “offical” or not? Would you belive it if it was? I doubt it.