We are ALL Catholics … except that some time in the past some Catholics decided to leave the Church in protest. The Lord gives us the so-called “Freedom of Choice”.
Yes, the Church has had (and it may always have) imperfect people in it; and because of that fact some people inside and outside the Church argued that the Church has failed to fulfill its duties.
Wrong! Some Popes, priests, religious men and women, and lay Catholics – may have failed, but NOT the Church.
The Catholic Church is lead by Christ Jesus.
Just a often forgotten fact: look at the role the Church has played in the development of the best traditions and values of Western Civilization!
Would it have been possible without it? Would had it possible without HIM?
Would it have been possible if we ALL Catholics throughout the centuries until today have been unobservant of our Faith?
Did we Catholics look through our duties with blank unseeing eyes though the centuries?
Did St. Augustine, St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas and so many known and unknown Saints of the past and the present remained negligent of their Faith or indifferent to the call of our Lord?
Without doubt the answer is a loud NO!
Now, about human imperfections I ask the following question: If we were perfect would have been necessary our Lord’s first coming to redeem us from our human failures, our sins?
Certainly the answer would have been another loud NO!
Saint Paul in the letter to the… tells us “ “
A priest said to me years ago: “Nate, ask the Lord to make you a Saint;” my first reaction was: “me, a Saint?” Wouldn’t you react the same way?
What that priest was saying to me was that Jesus Christ came to show us The Way to Sainthood! The teaching of our Lord tells us that perfection can only be reached through Sainthood … and that we must humbly beg Him to help us to become one of them!
Catholics arise! Jesus and His Church need us; our Church needs saints!
Yes, the Church has had (and it may always have) imperfect people in it; and because of that fact some people inside and outside the Church argued that the Church has failed to fulfill its duties.
Wrong! Some Popes, priests, religious men and women, and lay Catholics – may have failed, but NOT the Church.
The Catholic Church is lead by Christ Jesus.
Just a often forgotten fact: look at the role the Church has played in the development of the best traditions and values of Western Civilization!
Would it have been possible without it? Would had it possible without HIM?
Would it have been possible if we ALL Catholics throughout the centuries until today have been unobservant of our Faith?
Did we Catholics look through our duties with blank unseeing eyes though the centuries?
Did St. Augustine, St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas and so many known and unknown Saints of the past and the present remained negligent of their Faith or indifferent to the call of our Lord?
Without doubt the answer is a loud NO!
Now, about human imperfections I ask the following question: If we were perfect would have been necessary our Lord’s first coming to redeem us from our human failures, our sins?
Certainly the answer would have been another loud NO!
Saint Paul in the letter to the… tells us “ “
A priest said to me years ago: “Nate, ask the Lord to make you a Saint;” my first reaction was: “me, a Saint?” Wouldn’t you react the same way?
What that priest was saying to me was that Jesus Christ came to show us The Way to Sainthood! The teaching of our Lord tells us that perfection can only be reached through Sainthood … and that we must humbly beg Him to help us to become one of them!
Catholics arise! Jesus and His Church need us; our Church needs saints!
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