St. Faustina's Visions of the Afterlife.

Started by Xavier, April 07, 2020, 08:26:13 AM

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Xavier

During Holy Week, it is good to Meditate on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell, so that we may better understand how grateful we ought to be to Our Lord Jesus Christ for His sacrifices and sufferings, and for the salvation He won for us, at so great a cost. St. Faustina wrote that she was shown hell and its terrible torments so no one may claim that no one knows what hell is like. Hell exists and is real, just as Our Lord and the Faith teaches us; and it is a terribly painful eternal and unending torment in real fire.

More urgent than ever is the call of Christ and His Church to have our sins forgiven in the confession and implore from Him the Grace to be holy and never commit mortal sin again.

Bible verses on walking blamelessly with God, after being forgiven from our former sins. Some verses here: https://dailyverses.net/blameless

"[2] He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:[3] He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.(Psalm 14)

"[2] For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man."(James 3)

"[14] And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations; [15] That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world." (Phil 2:14-15)

abc123

You don't seem to be taking the hints considering that most of the topics you have spammed this subforum with over the past several weeks have garnered few or zero responses.

What exactly are you looking to accomplish by trying to be the center of attention here? Why not post these in the correct subforum?

Xavier

LOL. The Four Last Things are important considerations for non-Catholics, that they may become Catholics, and return to the Grace of God; and they also spur Catholics to greater efforts at holiness to attain heaven, avoid hell and minimize purgatory.

I'm not bothered what you or anybody thinks. I'm only interested in Catholics becoming holy and non-Catholics becoming Catholics. I don't post to get a response, even though there are many responses. I post simply to share useful things with others.

When are you going to become Catholic again? You do know that those who knowingly lapsed from the Church cannot attain final salvation, right? Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and all that. Read Mat 18:17 and see what the Lord says about that.
Bible verses on walking blamelessly with God, after being forgiven from our former sins. Some verses here: https://dailyverses.net/blameless

"[2] He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:[3] He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.(Psalm 14)

"[2] For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man."(James 3)

"[14] And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations; [15] That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world." (Phil 2:14-15)

abc123

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Quote from: Xavier on April 07, 2020, 09:10:10 AM


When are you going to become Catholic again?

Since I never wanted to leave it would take much more astute arguments pertaining to Church history and theology, with all the subtopics and nuances that entails, to convince me that the Church of Rome is what she has always claimed to be.

Since you fancy yourself an apologist I would offer this piece of advice: your cut and paste text walls, inability to answer objections, circular argumentation and question begging doesnt qualify.

Xavier

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Christ the Lord does not say anything about "wanting to leave" or not; He merely teaches those who refuse to hear the Church cannot be saved and are like the heathen or tax collectors: From the Protestant King James Version, "And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the Church: but if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican." (Mat 18:17)

The Savior of the world mentions His holy Church but 3 times in the Gospel of Saint Matthew the Apostle. Each and every time, by words so plain, with a meaning so clear, He tells you, who cannot claim to be invincibly ignorant, that there is but One Church, and hell shall never conquer this Church which has St. Peter for its Head Bishop or Rock. Did you simply lose faith in this Divine Promise of His?

You lost the Faith because you accepted sedevacantist and other radical claims blindly. The Catholic Church still teaches the Real Presence; even if some bad Catholics don't believe it. She still teaches Transubstantiation. She still teaches the Holy Mass is the Holy Sacrifice. She still teaches abortion and contraception are grave violations of the moral law. Many good Catholics believe and act on that; other bad Catholics may or may not do so, but it does not change Her teaching. The Anglican denomination by contrast compromised on everything starting about 100 years ago.

How can you possibly believe that sect is the Church built on the Rock, which Hell shall never conquer?

Here's a sample Protestant commentary on Mat 16:18 showing even some Protestants are realizing how absurd is the attempt of the deformers to deny the plain meaning of the Word of God about the Church, ""The obvious pun which has made its way into the Gk. text as well suggests a material identity between petra and petros, the more so as it is impossible to differentiate strictly between the meanings of the two words. On the other hand, only the fairly assured Aramaic original of the saying enables us to assert with confidence the formal and material identity between petra and petros: petra = Kepha = petros....Since Peter, the rock of the Church, is thus given by Christ Himself, the master of the house (Is. 22:22; Rev. 3:7), the keys of the kingdom of heaven, he is the human mediator of the resurrection, and he has the task of admitting the people of God into the kingdom of the resurrection...The idea of the Reformers that He is referring to the faith of Peter is quite inconceivable in view of the probably different setting of the story...For there is no reference here to the faith of Peter. Rather, the parallelism of 'thou art Rock' and 'on this rock I will build' shows that the second rock can only be the same as the first. It is thus evident that Jesus is referring to Peter, to whom He has given the name Rock. He appoints Peter, the impulsive, enthusiastic, but not persevering man in the circle, to be the foundation of His ecclesia. To this extent Roman Catholic exegesis is right and all Protestant attempts to evade this interpretation are to be rejected." (Cullmann, article on "Rock" (petros, petra) trans. and ed. by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament [Eerdmans Publishing, 1968], volume 6, page 98, 107, 108)" http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/apologetics/PeterRockKeysPrimacyRome.htm
Bible verses on walking blamelessly with God, after being forgiven from our former sins. Some verses here: https://dailyverses.net/blameless

"[2] He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:[3] He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.(Psalm 14)

"[2] For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man."(James 3)

"[14] And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations; [15] That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world." (Phil 2:14-15)

Xavier

And also, "R.T. France (Anglican/Protestant Evangelical) --

"The terms [binding and loosing] thus refer to a teaching function, and more specifically one of making halakhic pronouncements [i.e. relative to laws not written down in the Jewish Scriptures but based on an oral interpretation of them] which are to be 'binding' on the people of God. In that case Peter's 'power of the keys' declared in [Matthew] 16:19 is not so much that of the doorkeeper... but that of the steward (as in Is. 22:22, generally regarded as the Old Testament background to the metaphor of keys here), whose keys of office enable him to regulate the affairs of the household." (R.T. France, as cited in Butler/Dahlgren/Hess, page 54)"
Bible verses on walking blamelessly with God, after being forgiven from our former sins. Some verses here: https://dailyverses.net/blameless

"[2] He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:[3] He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.(Psalm 14)

"[2] For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man."(James 3)

"[14] And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations; [15] That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world." (Phil 2:14-15)