Thank you! Sometimes we must first experience what seemed to be greener on the other side before we really and truly understand and appreciate what we gave up! Thank be to God that we can by grace, reverse our choices. Beautiful testimony 🌹🌹🌹 God bless.👐👐
Whenever I hear Bishop Barron's voice, I feel like I've come home. He is so wise, so learned, so inspiring, yet so humble. His love for Jesus and the Church is palpable. What a precious gift God has given us! ❤️🕊️
A friend of mine visited last night. She had broken a bone in her arm and she said the Hospital consultant was amazed and perplexed at how quickly it healed. She went on to say how she put alot of effort into looking after her arm so that it would heal. I asked her if she prayed, she said 'of course i did'. Then she said 'do you think i pointed at my arm and said God could you heal it please'. 'No' she said, 'I had to put the effort in myself as well'.
I remember when there is a Mass and the Priest start his preaching which I described as a harsh sermon because it struck my ego but afterwards I realize it is true. He's telling the truth and sometimes truth hurt but it doesn't harm. And I learn from it when every word he uttered struck my heart. Sometimes we think we just want to entertain ourselves in going to church but it is mostly a sacrifice, participating in the sacrifice of Jesus for his love of humanity.
- Irenaeus (AD 180): We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith. (Against Heresies, 3:1.1) John Chrysostom- The patriarch Abraham himself before receiving circumcision had been declared righteous on the score of FAITH ALONE: before circumcision, the text says, “Abraham believed God, and credit for it brought him to righteousness.” Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. [27] And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Protestant rulebook right there
You are fantastic, very wise! Thank you for these wonderful videos, concise, zealous, clear and beautiful! May God continue to bless this ministry of yours! ❤✝️🙏🏼🕊️
That's precisely the feeling that I have as a current protestant that was previously a bad catholic (please God forgive those who had teach me a lackluster catechism). Modern Protestantism has transformed Christianity into something completely private. I've been consuming a lot of content about the apostolic faith lately and I see how bad of a Catholic I was. As a Protestant, I never felt like I was part of a whole, part of something much bigger than myself. As the Bishop said, I experience this lethargy, this laziness. I feel tired of trying to reinvent the wheel, tired of trying to rationalize which of the Protestant denominations holds the truths of faith.The problem now is that I am married to an evangelical woman, who has an entire family of evangelicals, in a different state from the one where my parents and siblings live. I ask that anyone who can, pray for me. Pray that I grow in faith and knowledge so that, at the right time and with God's grace, I can reestablish myself in the faith I was called to profess, without fear of the consequences. Sorry if this seems all over the place, English isn't my first language and that's just a confession. I'll try to keep moving forward, if God allows that. Eventually I think I'll go back to the Catholic Church, it's just that I'm terrified by it at the moment.
I’ll pray for you. Your salvation is worth more than your wife. St Matthew 10:34-39 Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. 35 For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 36 and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’ The Conditions of Discipleship. 37 u “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38 and whoever does not take up his cross* and follow after me is not worthy of me. 39 * v Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Your English is fine. My husband was an Episcopal Priest for almost 20 years. I grew up in the Catholic faith. He eventually converted to Catholicism. He had to leave the Protestant denomination when he finally realized that the Catholic church was the true Christian church founded by Christ. It wasn't an easy path for us. We had to give up a nice house and a good salary with health care coverage. We literally had no money at times. My husband got a job as a hospice Chaplain after a while. Following Christ isn't always easy. But, it is important to obey God, instead of people.
Don't be scared. That is satan. He takes pleasure in it. Read the story of David and Goliath in the Bible. The giant fed on fear just like right now. Jesus is calling you home, calling you to the truth where you can receive him in the Eucharist. Everything else is just a waste of time. It's empty. Matthew 16:18.
Apostle Paul said workout your own salvation with fear and trembling. Look it up. You need to develop your relationship with Jesus through Holy Spirit and the Bible. Catholicism is basically ritchual.
I will include you in our family rosary and maybe you should start praying it as well. It is a powerful prayer. “The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.” -Saint John Paul II Our Blessed Mother promised: "Whatever you ask in the Rosary will be granted." She left for all Christians Fifteen Promises to those who recite the Holy Rosary. Imparted to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies. The Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenititude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death. All who recite the Rosary are my sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of my only Son Jesus Christ. Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
There is no question that all prosperity preachers make it about the people in attendance. It's as if God's sole task is to fulfill our wishes. Essentially, it is all about appeasing the crowd.
Great video. @6:25 - Mark Twain might have to take back seat concerning the two most important times in your life. They are actually stated in the Hail Mary prayer: Now and at the hour of our death. God bless from your subscriber out here in Long Beach, California USA 🇺🇸.
Go to your nearest Catholic Church and sit for a while in front of the Blessed Sacrament (Jesus). Pour your heart out to Him. Keep going there. He knows your pain. God bless you, I'll say a prayer for your heart. ❤️🙏🏼✝️🕊️
The difference between a Catholic baptism and a Protestant baptism is the Eucharist. A Catholic when baptized,sins are washed away and is in a state of grace ready for the Eucharist. So long the Catholic remains in a state of grace thru the sacrament of reconciliation then they are saved. Whereas in Protestantism the person is baptized and is solely dependent on faith alone for their salvation. Meaning that even while under mortal sin they are dependent on their faith alone doctrine to be saved. So someone with a faith alone mentality will sin even mortal sin and justify their sin forgiven by their faith in Jesus Christ alone. That is unbiblical doctrine and dangerous in the sense that the soul doesn’t have the means to have their sins absolved thus their heart becoming lethargic and callous all the while thinking that they are saved by faith alone. Reason why they are confused as to why confess to a priest when you have God directly. But it only works out in that way when the person is coming out of a sinful state which is given the grace to realize their errors and the grace to seek for Jesus Christ. Ultimately God leads those who he calls to the Catholic Church.
You add so many works to what Christ did on the cross. Faith alone is what saved the thief on the cross. Shown me where purgatory is in the Bible? You idolize Mary and the Saints putting them above Christ. You have a man over the church, Christ is the head of the church. Most Catholics don’t understand the gospel at all.
I know, and then why bother going to hear long talks by a pastor when it's all really about you anyway. What community is possible if everyone is on their own with their own 1 on 1 with God?
@@troy4544 For goodness sake, all of these have been answered thousands and thousands of times such that there are converts to Catholicism who never understood the depth of it before. You are parroting the words of preachers who just don't get it. There's a depth and a history to Catholicism that you can't get anywhere else, well except the Orthodox.
Yes! I was just thinking this today!! A Protestant friend wanted to tell me all about how the Catholic Church is wrong and I should come away from it.... I really didn’t want to get into a discussion about it, but this was something forefront in my mind!!
Stay where you will, but this is an absolute caricature of protestant churches. It's a fringe minority and we also call out the prosperity gospel vehemently. We are called to die to self and holy living.
Protestants are united in one thing they think the Catholic Church got it wrong and they got it right.... Which means Jesus lied and the Holy Spirit wasn't able to keep his Church together....sad they are so prideful and are there own popes.
Beautiful message. So glad I came back home to the Catholic Church after years of protestantism and decades of atheism. Very true that protestant churches tend to be very self oriented and crowd pleasing. The Mass/Divine Liturgy cannot be beat. The Eucharist is the source and summit for all Christians. I pray protestants will realize this glory one day.
@@RickyBlackwell-n8c no glory in churches with apostate origins which is every protestant church since the 16th century. Glory is with the Church that has been founded by Christ himself that is still standing since the 1st century just like Christ promised to his Apostles. Does your church have Apostolic succession? Can you trace your denomination’s lineage of succession all the way to the original Apostles? If not, then it’s not valid church and it’s not part of the Church that Christ established.
That's a mighty broad brush you're painting with there. You don't find this and many of the mainline denominations, that follow the Revised Common Lectionary.
In the nondenominational church that I attended the entire service was centred on the sermon, which meant it was focused on the charism of the pastor. De facto that tends to lead to personality cults. The rest was focused on the worship style which again meant that the musicians would ultimately have a personality cult. I was pleased to see the homily in Catholic daily Mass to be a simple 5 to 20 minute message about the saint or passage of the day. The rest is the renewed sacrifice. And the choir is in the loft to imitate the angels rather than to gain glory for themselves.
I think it is interesting that the prosperity gospel is used as the example of the Protestant church, when many Protestant churches have been saying that the prosperity gospel is not Christian.
I was just saying, never went to a church like that. I thought it odd she used the donuts example, because there's a Catholic parish I've attended, and they do coffee and donuts after the morning Mass. It's about fellowship, which is a good thing, and something Catholic parishes tend to be weaker on.
The mega-church "bible believers" don't want to be associated with the deragatory term, but they want you to believe their ministry is of God and they are doing God's will, so pls make a donation. Take for example the Swaggarts, who basically run a ministry that is a religious Home Shopping Network; for $1000 donation, Jimmy will autograph a Bible for you :) .
@@joenenninger971 After, or before is fine. During is disrespectful to the assembly of God and what we are there for. We're there to learn about Christ, strengthen our walk, and worship God. So, yeah, that's counterproductive. I've heard there's churches like that out there. I heard of the seeker friendly movement years ago, and it wasn't anything I was drawn to. More something to pray about.
I love how "Protestant" becomes some sort of generic blanket motif for anything and everything abused by modern "Evangelicalism", which has almost nothing to do with confessional and historical ACTUAL Protestants. Much honest, so truth.
As if it makes any difference to those of us who have the fullness of the truth. I'm not interested in Lutheranism either. It is just as empty as the Evangelicalism of my youth. I'm well aware of what Lutherans believe. As far as I'm concerned, it's all the same. Having belief isn't going to heal my heart of stone. Even the demons believe. Christianity is a practice, not merely a belief. I know you accept the epistle of James and you believe that faith without works is dead, and I acknowledge that, but I do not agree with the interpretation that true faith "produces" good works. That still makes you the arbiter of what good works are and whether or not you have true faith. I don't trust myself with that. The good works themselves are the faith. They are not separate things. You create a false dichotomy in your mind that faith is some kind of mental/psychological phenomenon and that this causes good works to manifest in your life. This was never evident in my own life. You can keep your ridiculous man-made doctrines. I'll take the truth of Jesus Christ over that any day. If the ancient heroes of the Church were not Protestant, then I don't want to be Protestant either. And especially after seeing how Protestants behave and speak, I want nothing to do with those traditions.
@@sakamotosan1887 Not much to reply to here other than pointing out if you think the biblical faith of The Way is that which the demons have, you quite literally know nothing of the Lutheran position which you dismiss. You were saying something about "fullness of truth" lol?
Amen brother, I was talking to my nephew(teen) about this topic yesterday. I asked him what he thought about the prosperity gospel. Leading the conversation toward our faith. Thank you 🙏🏽 as always!
There are the Catholic Gospel’s full stop because the Bible is a Catholic book the protestant Bible is an incomplete and corrupted Catholic book which I’d rip up.
@@NP-vk8deNo, this young woman found a deeper meaning in Christ Jesus in the one holy catholic and apostolic church. Sharing her personal journey here is not equivalent to promulgating hate. Rather, it shows deep love
@@chrissobolewski5509 In the case of the girl's testimony, it's great that she found deeper meaning in Christ by going to the Catholic faith. She was in some pretty empty denominations. The tenor of the video was all about, here's the worst that your side has to offer, but we'll pretend like this is all that your side ever offers. Here's the best we have offer, and we'll pretend like this is all there is on our side, and how much better our side is. It's ungracious at best. Not quite hateful, but far from echumenical and not looking to understand anything, just set up a caricature.
@@saintejeannedarc9460I do not believe this about choosing sides, one Catholic, the other not. I can testify to my own journey of searching when my secular life was shattered through retrenchment after 20 years of service to a company. I struggled for 18 months to understand and get meaning. I returned to the faith I was baptised into and the more I submit, the more I am fulfilled. Today’s Psalm 66:16-20 expresses my Red Sea moment, my salvation from the land of Egypt, my salvation from slavery. And I wondered in the desert for 18months while the Lord was preparing me. +Pax Christi
The video producer really should address the fact that many Protestant churches do have vibrant communities, wealthily tithed and run like businesses, where there are tighter community bonds (at least in financially committed, happy clappy musically and "liturgically" self-determining ways. The denominational divisions are complex, and varied, but there is something seemingly more "communally" attractive about small "independent" congregations that can do what "they" want. I guess that's where they cease to be in apostolic succession, though, isn't it? And (sadly), many care not about that direct line to the one fully sacramental Church Christ established. Looking forward to more of your thoughtful and compassionately caring commentaries! Thank you for them, and for reading my own meanderings. (I too am a caring convert... 23 years now.)
@abdadrum I think you are misunderstanding the term "Apostolic Succession." Only Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches have Apostolic Succession, i.e. they can trace the lineage of Bishops through the laying on of hands, all the way back to the Apostles. The Popes can be traced all the way back to Peter. There is disagreement as to whether certain Anglican and Lutheran churches might have it, but no other Protestants have Apostolic Succession.
My brother I have been there as well, asking God to bring a certain girl to me. I hope you have found something far better than you could have imagined !! Peace...
JD, can you react/refute on the sermons preached by the preachers of 901 Church and Zeal Church and compare it with the sermons preached by our prolific priests and bishops. I really want to find out the specific errors in their sermons.
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Another video where you lump all Protestants into the same category.
This is an excellent message. I personally have friends who are living the eh… whatever life. Could you post the link for the full message by Bishop Barron.
When my ex-wife and I were dating, I would occasionally go with her to her Pentecostal service. I couldn’t stand it. She lied and told me the service was a total of an hour and a half ,fine. It was a several hour deal. I really believed the pastor or the clergy were more interested in hearing themselves speak more than anything else , and make a big show of it with all the pontification. Don’t forget reminder of paying your tithes.
Conservative Lutheran Pastor here. Overall, I think that conservative Lutheranism is an exception to this generality. I see the same problems that you do. I really see it as a symptom of American Protestantism specifically. The same "do it yourself" spirit that made America what it is (we settle the new world and provide for ourselves, we govern ourselves, we have the opportunity to become the best version of ourselves) permeates through its religion as well. They all get hung up on the specific verbiage "accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior." From the get go their theology is rather ego centric. I'm the one initiating the faith, the sermons are all about my life and my actions. My baptism is something I do for God... For starters, you can't initiate faith. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. Also, they only see half the picture. Yes the Bible is extremely personal, but it isn't just about people. It's about God's interaction with people. Our actions fail to put us on good terms with God, and so God sent his Son to wash away our sins. In baptism we are new people (Romans 6) who are now empowered to live lives of thankfulness for God. It's all for God, BECAUSE of God. As to faith alone, I can see how that's ego centric if you view yourself as the cause of faith. But when you correctly view faith as something God gives you and that faith is the way we receive God's grace, then faith alone is actually all about God. I'm saved through faith alone. Faith is a gift of God, and through that faith I receive from God the grace that saves me (Ephesians 2:8-9). God gives the faith, God gives the grace, God gives his one and only Son, God gives forgiveness. It's all God. In response to the salvation God has given us, we as new people now live lives of thankfulness, which if you're doing it right, is once again... ALL ABOUT GOD.
I appreciate the sentiments of our catholic brothers and sisters pointing out the risk in journeying truth on an individual level. However I believe its bad faith to accuse protestants of being selfish instead of reacting to the authoritarianism rampant in the Catholic church that has cause pain and suffering throughout its inception. I much prefer a personal relationship where i lean on the letters of the creator and ask the Holy Spirit to give me the wisdom to understand while lining up that understanding with Biblical truth, that is know as a checks and balance system. Depending on the words of an authority without question only to read the sources (via the advent of the printing press) and seeing how the words of those in power distorted the scriptures God gave his people is how we arrived here. There's definitely risk regardless of what route you take, however, Corporate Christianity and Christian Cowboys should end up at the same place if were listening to the same creator right?
Your decision is on an individual level and God loves you to death, as an individual. But God uses the Church and faith is meant to be lived as a community.
IDK- I've heard the term "progressive catholicism", whereby the teachings of Christ had been watered down; supposedly, to draw more people to the Catholic faith- people whose lifestyle choices would otherwise contradict the strict dogma of Catholic teachings. In essence, similar to what was brought forth in this message- making one feel good about their own lot in life rather than doing "God's Will". In a manner of speaking, it's attempting to widen that "narrow path" that Christ defined as being the road to salvation.
As a New Testament Christian (not protestant), I, too, wonder when worship became more about the worshipper and less about the One being worshipped. I wonder exactly what kind of church it was (protestant? non-denominational? New Testament?) It would be very interesting to know the history of the church. Additionally, it is interesting to hear the main speaker talk about his incorrect prayers not being answered and blaming protestantism when most protestant churches teach to pray according to God's will. I think these people have had experiences, not with protestant churches or New Testament churches, but new world churches (we call them "wild fire" churches). Glad to hear our Catholic friends seeking truth. I pray that we all find the truth, not in Catholicism, not in protestantism, and not even in the New Testament churches, but in a relationship with our Maker through the Lord Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. I know many of my Christian friends do not like that I try to find common ground with the Catholic Church, but we need to remember that the Body of Christ is made up of all true believers regardless of their church affiliation. I believe there are true believers in Christ in the Catholic Church just as there are in the protestant churches and the New Testament churches. And, while I find many incorrect teachings in Catholicism that are in direct opposition to the Word of God, I also find such in protestant churches and New Testament churches as well. I think it's time we all stopped looking to an organization to lead us to God and follow Christ as revealed in Holy Scriptures. Jesus said that we should deny ourselves , take up our crosses, and follow Him. Let me say that again. Jesus said that we are to DENY OURSELVES, take up our crosses, and follow Him. I don't care what name is over the door of the place you worship. I only care about you having a REAL, GENUINE relationship with the Father, through the Son, by the Holy Spirit that aligns with the Word. Father in Heaven, help us all to throw off the traditions that have been given to us that are the works of man and not of You. Help us to embrace the Truth. Thy Word is Truth. Help us to answer the call of Christ to deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow Him. In the name of Jesus Christ, the virgin-born, perfect, sinless, crucified, risen, and soon-to-come King of Kings and Lord of Lords I pray. Amen
No offense to anyone, but protestantism seems like water-down Christianity. Catholicism is hard, and intended to be hard. It's about God, the Lord Jesus Christ and confirm your life to HIS will. That's what I've observed.
People like you don't half-talk complete poppycock. The Barbaric history of the RCC proves it or maybe that hard so-called catholicism you are talking about is something you agree with. The prosperity gospel got a lot of its ideas from you Catholics. Read if you can Martin Luther 95 thesis.
It is unfair to conflate, as this video does, "prosperity, mega-church preaching" with Protestantism. It is a gross mischaracterization of so much good Protestant ecclesiology. Also, I couldn't help but shake the sense that even as the bishop here wants us to move away from egocentric thinking, he ultimately gets us right back there. "Theocentric is best for YOU" sounds somewhat egocentric to me. As a Protestant, I couldn't help but feel that this video is more of an unfair hitjob against Protestants than a fair critique.
Protestantism is still stuck with "individual interpretation" of the Bible; each individual's "truth" - the ultimate egocentrism. 10 members of a protestant religion could interpret a bible verse 10 different ways (and do) and each one would claim guidance of the "spirit" and correctness of their way. And if the pastor, in his/her sermon, didn't agree then the member just moves on to another religion/church/congregation (just look at the Methodist church breakaway groups right now over lgbtcs++).
@@joenenninger971 You'll get no argument from me when churches turn away from biblical truth and as such bear the judgment of God. But Roman Catholicism has done the very same thing over the centuries. For crying out loud, the popes used to sell time off in Purgatory to make money for their building projects! You can't claim that Protestantism alone has the problem you state above. Catholicism has been riddled with falsehoods over the centuries. Trying to pretend otherwise doesn't help anyone. And again, don't paint all Protestants with the same broad brush. It isn't only left to individual interpretation as you like to think. Protestant denominations also have creeds and confessions and statements of faith that they adhere to. Lastly, Catholics are also fragmented in their thinking, as 90% disagree with the Vatican on birth control, for example. You can't pretend that only Protestantism has a fragmentation issue.
@@joenenninger971 This is true. But it doesn’t mean that is the problem with the church. It’s a problem with the individual. This is what is called post-modernism. It’s in the culture and the church is catching the disease. When you have a presupposition of truth being only subjective and approach the Bible with that way of thinking then you’re not going to read it for what the author intended. Learning hermeneutics is a needed tool for every person reading the Bible. Individual interpretation doesn’t mean you choose what the text means for yourself. If it wasn’t for the Reformers we wouldn’t have these discussions, we would be “stuck” with the Roman Catholic dictation. You wouldn’t even have the Bible in your native tongue. So it’s a freedom taken for granted for many. We ought to take the study of the Bible more seriously in my opinion. Otherwise we get all sorts of things wrong and follow bad teachers who form cults.
In the comments someone wrote this: "it was the Church which made the SAINTS". But I would say rather the opposite: THIS IS RATHER THE SAINTS THAT BUILT THE CHURCH.
This is what drew me away from Christianity in my early 20s. All the in-fighting. Catholics (generalizing here) paint all Protestants with the same brush and vice versa. Can't we recognize that we are all part of the same body, Christ's body? He loves us all equally, can't we do the same for each other? We might have our differences, sure, but we all believe in the same basic things: the Holy Trinity exists, God loves us, and Jesus died for our sins on the cross. Aren't those the things that matter the most?
No actually we don't. Baptism is regenerative and is what is meant to be born again. The eucharist is the actual body of Christ and is necessary. Salvation is not a one time event with an assured ticket to heaven. Unrepetanrant sin will damn you. Faith without works is dead. Sola scritura is not biblical.
Amen, amen. We all go through phases but in the end we return to our Catholic home as prodigal children. May the Church of Jesus Christ established through Peter and his apostles lead all people to the one true Living God in the narrow path to salvation, amen.
Religion is about worship and worship is sacrifice. It’s about us only in the sense in that we need it to be happy. We are wired for God. God needs nothing, but we do - Him.
Excellent point, when one considers the damage caused to society by relativism, caused by there being many “truths” which have resulted in contraception, which until 1930, all denominations prohibited until the Anglican broke away in 1930, abortion, IVF, divorce, SSM, LGBGT, transgenderism etc. Protestantism has a lot to answer for!
Wow, this is a very inspiring and important video for our Catholic faith! Thing called faith threw Jesus Christ in the holy church is important but prot just don't get it. We r called to worship him, to receive him, to adore him and this is keeping holy his ours Sabbath period. Unlike protestant gathering who egotistically preach and then it turns to a concert, this is not holy!
You speak the absolute truth here. Protestant Big Money churches want one thing: Money and focus on ways to get your money. God may seem the reason, but God is not the reason they gather.
There’s some truth to these descriptions of Protestant churches-especially those following the contemporary seeker sensitive” model-but to some extent the descriptions are caricatures that are, at best, partially accurate. We are not members of a seeker sensitive Protestant church but attend them on occasion. Even when there’s coffee in the lobby of these churches, many/most point toward God,not man. And while I’m generally not a fan of the contemporary worship songs these churches sing, I don’t think you can say the church is man centered just because the people actually like the music. So let’s have a healthy discussion, but let’s sure we’re charitable in our descriptions of each other.
It's completely caricature. I've never attended such churches. They aren't interested in healthy discussions. This is about puffing themselves as superior and triumphalism.
I guess in the 50 years I have lived, I have never met a catholic that seemed to live out their faith. It was all about ritual on Sunday and live how they want the rest of the week. Most are clueless about the Bible and could not defend their faith if life depended on it. Maybe the catholic doctrine started out with some truth but accretion over the centuries has morphed and distorted it into something that is unrecognizable. And what is up with this current pope? Is God really behind the things he is advocating? The catholic church is just the world's richest religion. That is about it.
All the Catholics I know use profanity and get drunk, because they believe they sin all the time and go to some man and ask for forgiveness. This is what I don’t want to be apart of, that’s one reason I’m not catholic. The Catholic Church is talked about in revelations as a bad thing. This is reason #2 I’m not a Catholic and their whole man made doctrines that they have
Something wrong with the people you hang out with. My friends and fellow parishioners are all living saints. I'm a Jewish convert to the Catholic Faith. The Lord has connected me with wonderful, generous, loving, faithful Catholics. You are very misinformed about the Catholic Church. Most Catholics know a lot of Scripture, we just don't necessarily know the "addresses" (chapter and verse). The whole Mass is filled with Scripture. If all you see is "ritual," you are deaf to the Bible and blind to what real worship is. You don't seem to know Jesus very well, or you wouldn't be so ignorant about His Church. Look up a list of the charities, hospitals, schools, emergency aid programs, etc. etc. that the Catholic Church has provided. That's where the money goes. Not into some prosperous Protestant preacher's pockets. The teachings of the Catholic Church handed down from the Apostles haven't changed in 2000 years. The understanding has developed as theologians studied doctrine and Church Councils clarified, in the process of combatting heresies. Protestant denominations all teach some heresies. Even those who know the Bible by heart backwards and forwards are interpreting it wrong. They do not have the authority that Christ gave to the Church He founded.
Can you do an interview on Romans 8:1-10. With regard to salvation & Romans 8, please talk about common ground between Protestants and Catholics, and also differences. To an unlearned reader like me, it sounds contradictory. On the one had, it seems to console us and tell us that Jesus has paid the price for our sins. On the other hand, it says that if you slip up and obey "the flesh" then you're dead already. Some phrases that Paul uses like "in Christ", "Spirit inside of you", etc are also tough for newbies like me. I thank you because you challenge and provoke my preconceived notions: even if I disagree with lots of stuff, I learn a lot along the way. Thank you.
Sola scriptura and sola fide aren't biblical. Eternal salvation is not biblical. The sinners prayer isn't biblical. Our Lord frequently warned about hell for the disobedient. He said if the Jews could be cut off the tree so can we. St. Paul said he was working out his salvation with fear and trembling. St Peter warned against private interpretation bc people will twist scripture to their destruction. St Paul said the pillar of truth is the church. Christ started the catholic church, luther started protestantism.
@@evangelion1962 yeah, I think you are right. My experience of life seems to also contradict what Luther said. I'm struggling through the catechism and some catholic bible commentary, but it is hard for a blue collar guy like me.
Just as it seems to me that many Protestant Christian’s are listening to The Bible in a Year and pastors are returning to the church calendar and cycle readings, we do this. Please, I understand what you’re trying to do but keep drawing through the light of the church fathers and mystics. Let the WORD speak and they will come to the water. Don’t muddy it up. Praying for all to return to what Christ instituted.
Every person I’ve met who attend an evangelical Protestant has told the same thing: compared to the Catholic Church, their church is much more fun. What these people were saying basically agreed with the premise of this video: the go to church because it’s all about them and little to do with God.
Most protestant churches are Christ centered. Never went to a prosperity gospel church and wouldn't. Went to many different different denominations, and never encountered it.
I believe that the self centered nature of modern protestantism is that most sects are of American origin. American culture and values is basically Masonic based. That is to say an emphasis on individualism at the expense of the group, and the individual's entitlement to define God as he sees fit. It also emphasizes democratic Republican and libertarian principles, which is contrary to the monarchial nature of heaven. It's no wonder this woman as well as the channel host were eventually turned off to being Protestant.
@@JW_______ Masonry predates the US, and at least 9 Masons influenced and signed the Declaration of of Independence. They were also heavily influential in drafting the Constitution. They admit their influence even to this day on their website.
Straw man approach has a narrow purpose of making those who agree with your beliefs happy! In any case, how does the RC approach fit in with the Lord's words to the Samaritan woman, that a time has come when worship need not be associated with a particular place. True worship need not involve any special rituals but anywhere you can worship the father in Spirit and truth. The key is being given the power to be a child of God after repentance and then you can have true encounter with God anywhere! Corporate worship is a bonus freely available, but salvation starts by repenting and turning to the Lord. It is not about belonging to a so called true Church but being in a personal relationship with one who is the way the truth and the life!
Why ? Why ? Why are you doing this ? At at time when we must all stick together in an increasingly secular age with potential catastrophic repercussions, you feel the need to pit Catholics against Protestants. Having we been through that nonsense before ?! My wife lost her father to the troubles in NI years ago. We don’t need this sickening nonsense to continue in any format.
It’s NOT pitting Catholic’s against protestant’s because protestant’s are NOT Christian! Only Jesus can found a Church. Now please read my other comment.
For years, Catholics had been highly criticized by our protestant brothers and sisters in Christ. Harsh! Even saying we worship the devil and hateful things NOT representative of what a follower of Jesus would say or feel. Now we are defending ourselves!
@@priscilacandal151 This isn't defending, it's an attack. Make up whatever excuse about it you like. @bradsmith from Ireland is giving you a caution, and you're just ignoring it, to your detriment.
I am a convert to Catholicism from the Evangelical church, but I am struggling with this video. Christ died for me. Christ died for you. If you are trying to win people to Christ, which evangelicals are all about, it better be about what Christ did for you. The Catholic Church does a horrible job at evangelism. Perhaps we can learn a few tips from evangelicals. I surely believe they can learn more than a few things from us about respect and worship of God.
The Catholic Church does a horrible job at Evangelizing? Are you sure because we are 1.4 billion strong and Protestants worldwide don’t even get close to 100million and I’m being generous.
Some Protestant preachers taught about what God can do to YOU, what God can give to YOU, what God can grant to YOU, etc; as looks like treating God just as a "wishing magic lamp". But, little about teaching that not everything is all about YOU. Yes, God is omnipresent. Yes, God is almighty. Yes, God is capable to do anything. But, have you ever try to do the opposite towards God? Have you ever try to open yourself to God? Have you ever try to LET GOD TO DO whatever HE WANTS, and NOT WHAT YOU WANT? Have you ever thinking to TRUST and ACCEPT GOD by whatever the final decision HE MADE? No wonder there are lots of Protestant (or even Catholic) felt heartbroken, when their prayer aren't answering by God. Or because the answer isn't looks like what they demand before. Why? Because lots of them are still thinking about themself, their ego, their pride, their self-centre; and NOT by LET GOD DECIDES what is best and good for you. We kept thinking that we know what is good for us, or how exactly is better for us; but forgetting that it is God that ALWAYS know what is best for us in a right timing. "For My thoughts ARE NOT your thoughts, NEITHER ARE your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways HIGHER than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
Just as what Bishop Baron said: think the example of Mary! When God wants to make HIS WAYS through Mary, did she complaint? Did she ever asking more of this and that? Remember, on that day, a virgin whom getting caught pregnant without a husband, she would face a danger of death penalty. Did Mary ask God for protection? No, what she answered is just: Let it be done, according to Thy words! Mary accepted trustfully her role and life to God. Even without demanding, Mary knew, God will protecting her, God will decide what kind of future of Mary and her Baby for the sake of God's mystery plan. Because Mary is already open her heart, willingly to lay low before God, and let God created the path of what was best for her. Something that we, also human, feeling struggle to do the same.
Certainly there are too many "It's about you" churches. However, the Catholic Church is not the Church to replace them because it preaches a false gospel such as limbo , a works salvation, and praying to Mary, etc. The Catholic Church is probably more about Mary than it is about Jesus. My church is about Jesus and not about me. Amen.
You are criticizing it without understanding what you are saying: there is no limbo, it is not based on 'works', we have a family of saints who might be helpful when we pray (just like when we ask a friend to please pray for a loved one in the hospital). So glad to hear your church is about Jesus, but you left out the Trinity!
@@Lucylou7070I don't think its ok to talk to the dead regardless of their standing, are you saying Saul did nothing wrong when he was talking to the dead?? if Saul had focused on God instead of trying to find answers from someone else maybe he wouldn't have lost his Kingdom to David.
My favorite (Protestant) pastor was very God-focused. I loved that- he always turned our hearts and minds to God, and who He is. Our services felt very worshipful, and left me wanting to love God and my Christian family, and my own family, and my ‘neighbors’. Another favorite pastor sat on a stool and read the scriptures to us.
I am a Christian Pastor. Having spent 42 a translator dedicated to teaching accurately from Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Syriac I find these comments very misleading. Deception has its ultimate origin in one creature. This man does not speak to benefit the spiritual rescue of humanity, he speaks denomination divisiveness. He speaks for that creature.
And if I humbly may say this : the Catholic Church translated the Gospel and the Bible for me. By the works of great theolgians . So I can use all my avaible time on Faith, Hope and Charity. And going to the mass and daily prayer. No matter for Jésus-Christ if I learn greek. He understand me and i understand Him in my language. Thank You to give us your opinion and God bless You dear Pastor
@@arthurgouvet9606 The term for redemption and salvation is summed up in the original text Luke 7:50, John 3:16 and is Σοτεριον (soterion). It is the universal term for “rescue”. We, as the imperfect in sin are rescued out of our fallen state and embraced. This is the only rescue for humanity because humanity cannot rescue itself. We must spread this good news. One’s denomination squabbles does not assist in this great calling to all true Christians. We bring great news of a Savior who was born, lived, sacrificed in our stead, then resurrected proving He was God.
I would say professing the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed with fellow Christians makes faith a community event. It would be nice to see Roman Catholics stop pulling this holier than thou stuff. No one alive went through the reformation. There was a reason for the split not the least of which was the abject corruption of the Roman church. I would think it would be more important to embrace fellow believers in Christ than be so divisive. Unlike Judaism, God did not provide a handbook with all the rules and regulations for how to live and worship.
As a Protestant pastor, who loves the Eucharist, I found this video extremely frustrating to watch. What you are talking about here is Pentecostal prosperity preaching, which mainstream Protestants also reject. Everything Bishop Barron said is what mainstream Protestant preachers also believe. Please be more informed about the nuances.
It's unfortunate that this guy is trying to pass this off as all of protestantism. I'm pretty sure he knows better, but it makes for great chest thumping. We could do the same thing by focusing on a small subset of Catholics and really bad parishes. I happen to know a lot about the strife and issues w/in the Catholic faith. It calls me to pray, I encourage Catholics where I can. Try and have fruitful dialogue w/ them where possible. It's not a call to gloat or try and portray a microcosm as if it's the whole. That would be ungracious and dishonest.
The problem is Protestants always do that to Catholics as well. How about we all just focus on what's important, the Lord, and love each other and do our best to represent Christianity in the way it's meant to be
The parents are their to help their kids, not the reverse...same with god..we cannot help a god in any way whatsoever..however if you are a believer ,he can help you.He does not require sycophants grovelling..amen
Of course there are egoistic Protestant pastors and leaders. There are egoistic clerics of all brands and varieties of Christendom. So what’s the point?
In the RC church people do not hear the truth of the gospel, its buried under a load of secular teaching and nice thoughts but salvation through Christ is never preached, at the end of the day its ritiual with no real gospel
After reading many comments from Protestant brothers and sisters who are so offended, I feel I need to comment myself. NEVER once have I or ANY catholic that I know go out of our way to talk down to Protestants. Sadly it is Catholics who are attacked for our beliefs & practices. It’s difficult to be a good Catholic. But it’s not supposed to be easy. We are to sacrifice our desires to follow the teachings of our faith. But let’s be honest with ourselves in that SO MANY look down upon us and spread lies about our practices and are downright confrontational to US both on forums, comments & in person. So if you’re triggered by this video, perhaps ask why & take a good look at your treatment of Catholics. NTM, I have NEVER gone on a Protestants comment section talking about the error of their ways or talk down to their faith. Yet there are ALWAYS Protestants or atheists in ours saying horrible things to us. There’s so much freedom to talk to Catholics in disrespectful ways but IF A CATHOLIC/ORTHODOX says anything we are being divisive. I agree we should all stand together as CHRISTIANS right now. But let’s be honest with ourselves about the constant insults & attacks on Catholics & orthodox in general & the tolerance & justification so many have in doing so.
to priscilacandal - protestant’s are NOT Christian and our NOT our so called separated brethren. Only Jesus can found a Church. You have the holy Catholic Church. You have 48,000 protestant CULTS. ONLY Catholic’s go to Heaven because there’s NO division in paradise.
If you're going to be criticizing Prosperity and charismatic pastors, get in line with the Protestants. We've been criticizing them for years. You're preaching to the choir.
My poor late wife had attended many happy clappy gospel of prosperity churches before finally finding rest in the Catholic church. She truly believed what they had told her, like she had gifts of the Holy Spirit, the power of healing, to speak in tongues and would have two houses and two cars and that ill health was because she wasn't praying enough or had sinned excessively. Also she believed that you cannot say the same prayer twice or more so had to keep composing new prayers. This is of course a complete misunderstanding of what Jesus said about the pagans and their repetitive babble to their idols. These "Pastors" at times would try to take full control of her life which she greatly resented.
Where in the Bible does Christ teach Sunday a Holy Day??? Where in the Bible does Christ teach Mary is a mediator/intercessor? Where in the Bible did Christ change the Sabbath to Sunday??? Where in the Bible did Christ teach that Mary has gone/ will go to heaven? Where in the Bibler did Christ teach that a mere man is head of His church??? Where in the Bible is the title "pope" mentioned??? Where in the Bible did Christ teach that those that die go right to heaven?? --Where in the Bible did Christ teach that mere men have to authority to change what God wrote???
@@sklenars ***Hebrews 4:12 Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart), or seen implicitly through its lens.
*** Deuteronomy 17:14-20 states that we “shall not turn away from God’s Word, not to the right or the left”.
***Psalm 1:2 and Joshua 1:7-8 says that “the righteous person dwells on the Word of the Lord day and night”.
***Deuteronomy 8:3 states that “we do not live on bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God”. - ***Proverbs 30:5-6 states: 5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. 6 Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
(--I will ask you, which NO ONE has replied to: Who's other writings does GOD tell us to accept as the truth??? QUOTE FROM the BIBLE!!!!) Remember these words from Jesus: John 14:6 NIV - Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Since HE IS THE TRUTH, then when a church preaches their version of the truth, who is the truth??? Jesus or the "Church"???
@@evangelion1962 quote----but scripture vomit didn't answer the question... unquote So, with your comment, EVERY word Jesus spoke--EVERY word that God spoke, EVER word the the disciples is VOMIT!!! --That means you deny Christ!! 1 John 2:22-23 He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. ... Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father ... By your comment, you say Christ is anti-Christ!!!
In Acts, Gamaliel wisely says that if something is of God, you can't defeat it. So why have troublesome Protestants been with us for so long? I suspect two good reasons, maybe three. The first is that Protestants generally focus on the interior of a person where they have invited Christ to live...at least much more so than Catholics who have become increasingly far too focused on the external. The second is their love of Sacred Scripture. The third might be their love of sincere, spontaneous worship commended by Christ in Luke 19:37-40. That's where it ends; their many heresies destroy lives and lead to hell. Jude and II Peter 2 is all about them. We Catholics can take the air out of their tires if we adopt all three of their great attributes. The same tire thing holds true of the Orthodox who value self-discipline and frequent fasting so much more than the West. Their thing about every Christian home having a prayer corner would also be smart thing for Catholics to adopt. "Let no one take your crown!" Jesus warned that Church in Revelation most pleasing to Him. In other words, protect and keep your spiritual valuables.😢
you cant talk about every protestants churches becuse only the amarican australien portestant churches think like that where i live in germany we kind of think like catholics exept for a few diferences like the 14 holys or praying to maria , ans also interistung is that cathilics use the prosperty gospel as an example of the protastant church when many protestant churchews said that the prosperly gospel ist not christian
The Protestant notion of sola scriptura is completely in line with such egocentrism. It’s all about how they “feel” about what THEY THINK the Bible says, not what it actually says or means, because they refuse to recognize any central authority that can legitimately TELL them what it means.
@@biblethumper8.1 Yes, that’s correct, but public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle. Are you suggesting we wait for Christ to speak to us personally, individually? As Catholics, we profess the Creed, the last paragraph of which explicitly professes belief in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, invested with authority by Christ himself, as a grace and to fulfill His promise not to leave us orphaned (John 14: 18), alone to muddle about trying to figure things out for ourselves until He returns at the end of time. He left us a Church.
@@gospeljoy5713 and what happens when 2 or 3 disagree with a different 2 or 3 about what any particular passage means? Who decides which is correct? Who’s the tie-breaker? Or do you just agree to disagree, and everybody goes off to start their own church? Do you not see a problem with that? Christ intended for us to be one. John 17: “20 “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”
@@Ken-kb5fw My opinion is like yours on the subject. Is neither here nor there. The catholic religion has no room to talk about dogma when they are latterly built on it. There's a reason why it's called roman catholic. As an atheist I think my opinion is more relevant. You know as an outsider. With no dogs in the fight. Did you like how many euphemisms I used. I thought they might help with symbolism of concepts.
Christ NEVER taught that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday. Christ NEVER taught that Peter is a pope. Christ NEVER taught that Mary will go to heaven. Christ NEVER taught that Mary is a mediator/intecessor. Christ NEVER taught that Mary never sinned. Christ NEVER taught that Mary remained virgin. Christ NEVER Taught that a mere man is head of His church. Christ NEVER taught about a church named Catholic. Christ NEVER taught that we can pray to the dead. Christ NEVER taught that the dead can hear our prayers. Christ NEVER taught that anyone can change the day of worship.
Thank you! Sometimes we must first experience what seemed to be greener on the other side before we really and truly understand and appreciate what we gave up! Thank be to God that we can by grace, reverse our choices. Beautiful testimony 🌹🌹🌹
God bless.👐👐
Whenever I hear Bishop Barron's voice, I feel like I've come home. He is so wise, so learned, so inspiring, yet so humble. His love for Jesus and the Church is palpable. What a precious gift God has given us! ❤️🕊️
Beautiful….thank you!!!
A friend of mine visited last night. She had broken a bone in her arm and she said the Hospital consultant was amazed and perplexed at how quickly it healed. She went on to say how she put alot of effort into looking after her arm so that it would heal. I asked her if she prayed, she said 'of course i did'. Then she said 'do you think i pointed at my arm and said God could you heal it please'.
'No' she said, 'I had to put the effort in myself as well'.
Awesome commentary from you, JD, as well as Bishop Barron ❤
I remember when there is a Mass and the Priest start his preaching which I described as a harsh sermon because it struck my ego but afterwards I realize it is true. He's telling the truth and sometimes truth hurt but it doesn't harm. And I learn from it when every word he uttered struck my heart. Sometimes we think we just want to entertain ourselves in going to church but it is mostly a sacrifice, participating in the sacrifice of Jesus for his love of humanity.
- Irenaeus (AD 180): We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith. (Against Heresies, 3:1.1)
John Chrysostom-
The patriarch Abraham himself before receiving circumcision had been declared righteous on the score of FAITH ALONE: before circumcision, the text says, “Abraham believed God, and credit for it brought him to righteousness.”
Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. [27] And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Protestant rulebook right there
You are fantastic, very wise! Thank you for these wonderful videos, concise, zealous, clear and beautiful! May God continue to bless this ministry of yours! ❤✝️🙏🏼🕊️
That's precisely the feeling that I have as a current protestant that was previously a bad catholic (please God forgive those who had teach me a lackluster catechism). Modern Protestantism has transformed Christianity into something completely private. I've been consuming a lot of content about the apostolic faith lately and I see how bad of a Catholic I was. As a Protestant, I never felt like I was part of a whole, part of something much bigger than myself. As the Bishop said, I experience this lethargy, this laziness. I feel tired of trying to reinvent the wheel, tired of trying to rationalize which of the Protestant denominations holds the truths of faith.The problem now is that I am married to an evangelical woman, who has an entire family of evangelicals, in a different state from the one where my parents and siblings live. I ask that anyone who can, pray for me. Pray that I grow in faith and knowledge so that, at the right time and with God's grace, I can reestablish myself in the faith I was called to profess, without fear of the consequences. Sorry if this seems all over the place, English isn't my first language and that's just a confession. I'll try to keep moving forward, if God allows that. Eventually I think I'll go back to the Catholic Church, it's just that I'm terrified by it at the moment.
I’ll pray for you. Your salvation is worth more than your wife.
St Matthew 10:34-39
Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword.
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For I have come to set
a man ‘against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
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and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’
The Conditions of Discipleship.
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u “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
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and whoever does not take up his cross* and follow after me is not worthy of me.
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* v Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Your English is fine. My husband was an Episcopal Priest for almost 20 years. I grew up in the Catholic faith. He eventually converted to Catholicism. He had to leave the Protestant denomination when he finally realized that the Catholic church was the true Christian church founded by Christ. It wasn't an easy path for us. We had to give up a nice house and a good salary with health care coverage. We literally had no money at times. My husband got a job as a hospice Chaplain after a while. Following Christ isn't always easy. But, it is important to obey God, instead of people.
Don't be scared. That is satan. He takes pleasure in it. Read the story of David and Goliath in the Bible. The giant fed on fear just like right now. Jesus is calling you home, calling you to the truth where you can receive him in the Eucharist. Everything else is just a waste of time. It's empty. Matthew 16:18.
Apostle Paul said workout your own salvation with fear and trembling. Look it up. You need to develop your relationship with Jesus through Holy Spirit and the Bible. Catholicism is basically ritchual.
I will include you in our family rosary and maybe you should start praying it as well. It is a powerful prayer. “The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.” -Saint John Paul II
Our Blessed Mother promised:
"Whatever you ask in the Rosary will be granted." She left for all Christians Fifteen Promises to those who recite the Holy Rosary.
Imparted to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan
Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.
I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
The Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenititude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
All who recite the Rosary are my sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of my only Son Jesus Christ.
Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Greetings from Brazil. SAO PAULO
Greetings from SA🇿🇦🇿🇦
There is no question that all prosperity preachers make it about the people in attendance. It's as if God's sole task is to fulfill our wishes.
Essentially, it is all about appeasing the crowd.
You don’t understand prosperity preachers anymore than you understand Protestants, most of whom are disgusted with the prosperity lie!
For real, they turn Him into a genie in a bottle :/
Great video. @6:25 - Mark Twain might have to take back seat concerning the two most important times in your life. They are actually stated in the Hail Mary prayer: Now and at the hour of our death. God bless from your subscriber out here in Long Beach, California USA 🇺🇸.
Praying to a dead person is necromancy and a sin worthy of death. Repent and believe on Christ alone for your salvation!
You nailed it JD. Very few Prot sermons focus on Christ alone and scripture before they turn to themselves.
I Am totally broken with this sad and lonely life God help me to find Heavens door and help me to keep pounding on it till it opens.Please.
Go to your nearest Catholic Church and sit for a while in front of the Blessed Sacrament (Jesus). Pour your heart out to Him. Keep going there. He knows your pain. God bless you, I'll say a prayer for your heart. ❤️🙏🏼✝️🕊️
“Faith alone” is weird because YOU get to judge your own soul. I don’t get how anyone could be comfortable with that.
The difference between a Catholic baptism and a Protestant baptism is the Eucharist.
A Catholic when baptized,sins are washed away and is in a state of grace ready for the Eucharist. So long the Catholic remains in a state of grace thru the sacrament of reconciliation then they are saved.
Whereas in Protestantism the person is baptized and is solely dependent on faith alone for their salvation. Meaning that even while under mortal sin they are dependent on their faith alone doctrine to be saved.
So someone with a faith alone mentality will sin even mortal sin and justify their sin forgiven by their faith in Jesus Christ alone. That is unbiblical doctrine and dangerous in the sense that the soul doesn’t have the means to have their sins absolved thus their heart becoming lethargic and callous all the while thinking that they are saved by faith alone.
Reason why they are confused as to why confess to a priest when you have God directly. But it only works out in that way when the person is coming out of a sinful state which is given the grace to realize their errors and the grace to seek for Jesus Christ. Ultimately God leads those who he calls to the Catholic Church.
You add so many works to what Christ did on the cross. Faith alone is what saved the thief on the cross. Shown me where purgatory is in the Bible? You idolize Mary and the Saints putting them above Christ. You have a man over the church, Christ is the head of the church. Most Catholics don’t understand the gospel at all.
I know, and then why bother going to hear long talks by a pastor when it's all really about you anyway. What community is possible if everyone is on their own with their own 1 on 1 with God?
@@troy4544 For goodness sake, all of these have been answered thousands and thousands of times such that there are converts to Catholicism who never understood the depth of it before. You are parroting the words of preachers who just don't get it. There's a depth and a history to Catholicism that you can't get anywhere else, well except the Orthodox.
@lucille - you didn’t answer my question. Show me where purgatory is in the Bible. All man made false doctrine.
Yes! I was just thinking this today!! A Protestant friend wanted to tell me all about how the Catholic Church is wrong and I should come away from it.... I really didn’t want to get into a discussion about it, but this was something forefront in my mind!!
Stay where you will, but this is an absolute caricature of protestant churches. It's a fringe minority and we also call out the prosperity gospel vehemently. We are called to die to self and holy living.
Protestants are united in one thing they think the Catholic Church got it wrong and they got it right.... Which means Jesus lied and the Holy Spirit wasn't able to keep his Church together....sad they are so prideful and are there own popes.
Amen! Fantastic information. Live and let God. Love our lives for the will of God while submitting to God’s will through faith in action.
Beautiful message. So glad I came back home to the Catholic Church after years of protestantism and decades of atheism. Very true that protestant churches tend to be very self oriented and crowd pleasing. The Mass/Divine Liturgy cannot be beat. The Eucharist is the source and summit for all Christians. I pray protestants will realize this glory one day.
No glory in what you said.
@@RickyBlackwell-n8c no glory in churches with apostate origins which is every protestant church since the 16th century. Glory is with the Church that has been founded by Christ himself that is still standing since the 1st century just like Christ promised to his Apostles. Does your church have Apostolic succession? Can you trace your denomination’s lineage of succession all the way to the original Apostles? If not, then it’s not valid church and it’s not part of the Church that Christ established.
@@dan-vc6xg God wasn’t a catholic, He was a jew
@@RickyBlackwell-n8c Jesus was a Jew no disagreements there.
Excellent program well done Sydney Catholics
That's a mighty broad brush you're painting with there. You don't find this and many of the mainline denominations, that follow the Revised Common Lectionary.
In the nondenominational church that I attended the entire service was centred on the sermon, which meant it was focused on the charism of the pastor. De facto that tends to lead to personality cults. The rest was focused on the worship style which again meant that the musicians would ultimately have a personality cult. I was pleased to see the homily in Catholic daily Mass to be a simple 5 to 20 minute message about the saint or passage of the day. The rest is the renewed sacrifice. And the choir is in the loft to imitate the angels rather than to gain glory for themselves.
Very enlightening message. Glory to God ❤️
I think it is interesting that the prosperity gospel is used as the example of the Protestant church, when many Protestant churches have been saying that the prosperity gospel is not Christian.
I was just saying, never went to a church like that. I thought it odd she used the donuts example, because there's a Catholic parish I've attended, and they do coffee and donuts after the morning Mass. It's about fellowship, which is a good thing, and something Catholic parishes tend to be weaker on.
Please read my comment. Ps it’s protestant CULTS.
@@saintejeannedarc9460 ...after...not before AND DURING like the ones I have attended with family.
The mega-church "bible believers" don't want to be associated with the deragatory term, but they want you to believe their ministry is of God and they are doing God's will, so pls make a donation. Take for example the Swaggarts, who basically run a ministry that is a religious Home Shopping Network; for $1000 donation, Jimmy will autograph a Bible for you :) .
@@joenenninger971 After, or before is fine. During is disrespectful to the assembly of God and what we are there for. We're there to learn about Christ, strengthen our walk, and worship God. So, yeah, that's counterproductive. I've heard there's churches like that out there. I heard of the seeker friendly movement years ago, and it wasn't anything I was drawn to. More something to pray about.
God Bless you my brothers and sisters
Yes and amen 🙏 I also came back to my catholic faith 27 years ago . Thanks be to GOD
Theo drama over ego drama, absolutely
Thanks for all the videos you make and spreading the truth.
Excellent video !
I love how "Protestant" becomes some sort of generic blanket motif for anything and everything abused by modern "Evangelicalism", which has almost nothing to do with confessional and historical ACTUAL Protestants. Much honest, so truth.
As if it makes any difference to those of us who have the fullness of the truth. I'm not interested in Lutheranism either. It is just as empty as the Evangelicalism of my youth. I'm well aware of what Lutherans believe. As far as I'm concerned, it's all the same. Having belief isn't going to heal my heart of stone. Even the demons believe. Christianity is a practice, not merely a belief.
I know you accept the epistle of James and you believe that faith without works is dead, and I acknowledge that, but I do not agree with the interpretation that true faith "produces" good works. That still makes you the arbiter of what good works are and whether or not you have true faith. I don't trust myself with that. The good works themselves are the faith. They are not separate things. You create a false dichotomy in your mind that faith is some kind of mental/psychological phenomenon and that this causes good works to manifest in your life. This was never evident in my own life.
You can keep your ridiculous man-made doctrines. I'll take the truth of Jesus Christ over that any day. If the ancient heroes of the Church were not Protestant, then I don't want to be Protestant either. And especially after seeing how Protestants behave and speak, I want nothing to do with those traditions.
@@sakamotosan1887 Not much to reply to here other than pointing out if you think the biblical faith of The Way is that which the demons have, you quite literally know nothing of the Lutheran position which you dismiss. You were saying something about "fullness of truth" lol?
Amen brother, I was talking to my nephew(teen) about this topic yesterday. I asked him what he thought about the prosperity gospel. Leading the conversation toward our faith. Thank you 🙏🏽 as always!
There are the Catholic Gospel’s full stop because the Bible is a Catholic book the protestant Bible is an incomplete and corrupted Catholic book which I’d rip up.
This is FANTASTIC. Thank you.
Amen. What a wonderful testimony. Thank you for your encouragement. +Pax Christi
For promulgation of hate?
@@NP-vk8deNo, this young woman found a deeper meaning in Christ Jesus in the one holy catholic and apostolic church. Sharing her personal journey here is not equivalent to promulgating hate. Rather, it shows deep love
@@chrissobolewski5509 In the case of the girl's testimony, it's great that she found deeper meaning in Christ by going to the Catholic faith. She was in some pretty empty denominations. The tenor of the video was all about, here's the worst that your side has to offer, but we'll pretend like this is all that your side ever offers. Here's the best we have offer, and we'll pretend like this is all there is on our side, and how much better our side is. It's ungracious at best. Not quite hateful, but far from echumenical and not looking to understand anything, just set up a caricature.
@@saintejeannedarc9460I do not believe this about choosing sides, one Catholic, the other not.
I can testify to my own journey of searching when my secular life was shattered through retrenchment after 20 years of service to a company. I struggled for 18 months to understand and get meaning. I returned to the faith I was baptised into and the more I submit, the more I am fulfilled.
Today’s Psalm 66:16-20 expresses my Red Sea moment, my salvation from the land of Egypt, my salvation from slavery. And I wondered in the desert for 18months while the Lord was preparing me. +Pax Christi
OK, but don't diss the free coffee! :D
There’s a reason Pope Clement VIII baptized it.
We have coffee after our catholic mass on Sundays with donuts!! You can give a buck or 2 if you want.
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My new way to live life: "I Did it Thy Way"
The voice of division- whose work is that.
The video producer really should address the fact that many Protestant churches do have vibrant communities, wealthily tithed and run like businesses, where there are tighter community bonds (at least in financially committed, happy clappy musically and "liturgically" self-determining ways. The denominational divisions are complex, and varied, but there is something seemingly more "communally" attractive about small "independent" congregations that can do what "they" want.
I guess that's where they cease to be in apostolic succession, though, isn't it? And (sadly), many care not about that direct line to the one fully sacramental Church Christ established.
Looking forward to more of your thoughtful and compassionately caring commentaries! Thank you for them, and for reading my own meanderings. (I too am a caring convert... 23 years now.)
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I think you are misunderstanding the term "Apostolic Succession."
Only Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches have Apostolic Succession, i.e. they can trace the lineage of Bishops through the laying on of hands, all the way back to the Apostles. The Popes can be traced all the way back to Peter.
There is disagreement as to whether certain Anglican and Lutheran churches might have it, but no other Protestants have Apostolic Succession.
My brother I have been there as well, asking God to bring a certain girl to me. I hope you have found something far better than you could have imagined !! Peace...
JD, can you react/refute on the sermons preached by the preachers of 901 Church and Zeal Church and compare it with the sermons preached by our prolific priests and bishops. I really want to find out the specific errors in their sermons.
Another video where you lump all Protestants into the same category.
He made it all about us at the cross. Its about God and us, he died for YOU!!
I hope Lyle can join you on Thursday night.
This is an excellent message. I personally have friends who are living the eh… whatever life.
Could you post the link for the full message by Bishop Barron.
Definitely not an excellent message
When my ex-wife and I were dating, I would occasionally go with her to her Pentecostal service. I couldn’t stand it. She lied and told me the service was a total of an hour and a half ,fine. It
was a several hour deal. I really believed the pastor or the clergy were more interested in hearing themselves speak more than anything else , and make a big show of it with all the pontification.
Don’t forget reminder of paying your tithes.
Conservative Lutheran Pastor here. Overall, I think that conservative Lutheranism is an exception to this generality.
I see the same problems that you do. I really see it as a symptom of American Protestantism specifically. The same "do it yourself" spirit that made America what it is (we settle the new world and provide for ourselves, we govern ourselves, we have the opportunity to become the best version of ourselves) permeates through its religion as well. They all get hung up on the specific verbiage "accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior." From the get go their theology is rather ego centric. I'm the one initiating the faith, the sermons are all about my life and my actions. My baptism is something I do for God...
For starters, you can't initiate faith. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. Also, they only see half the picture. Yes the Bible is extremely personal, but it isn't just about people. It's about God's interaction with people. Our actions fail to put us on good terms with God, and so God sent his Son to wash away our sins. In baptism we are new people (Romans 6) who are now empowered to live lives of thankfulness for God. It's all for God, BECAUSE of God.
As to faith alone, I can see how that's ego centric if you view yourself as the cause of faith. But when you correctly view faith as something God gives you and that faith is the way we receive God's grace, then faith alone is actually all about God. I'm saved through faith alone. Faith is a gift of God, and through that faith I receive from God the grace that saves me (Ephesians 2:8-9). God gives the faith, God gives the grace, God gives his one and only Son, God gives forgiveness. It's all God. In response to the salvation God has given us, we as new people now live lives of thankfulness, which if you're doing it right, is once again... ALL ABOUT GOD.
I appreciate the sentiments of our catholic brothers and sisters pointing out the risk in journeying truth on an individual level. However I believe its bad faith to accuse protestants of being selfish instead of reacting to the authoritarianism rampant in the Catholic church that has cause pain and suffering throughout its inception. I much prefer a personal relationship where i lean on the letters of the creator and ask the Holy Spirit to give me the wisdom to understand while lining up that understanding with Biblical truth, that is know as a checks and balance system. Depending on the words of an authority without question only to read the sources (via the advent of the printing press) and seeing how the words of those in power distorted the scriptures God gave his people is how we arrived here. There's definitely risk regardless of what route you take, however, Corporate Christianity and Christian Cowboys should end up at the same place if were listening to the same creator right?
Your decision is on an individual level and God loves you to death, as an individual. But God uses the Church and faith is meant to be lived as a community.
IDK- I've heard the term "progressive catholicism", whereby the teachings of Christ had been watered down; supposedly, to draw more people to the Catholic faith- people whose lifestyle choices would otherwise contradict the strict dogma of Catholic teachings. In essence, similar to what was brought forth in this message- making one feel good about their own lot in life rather than doing "God's Will". In a manner of speaking, it's attempting to widen that "narrow path" that Christ defined as being the road to salvation.
That must just be your church, but we call that going above and beyond and being kind
The question is are you saved? If you were to die today, are you sure Heaven is your home.
As a New Testament Christian (not protestant), I, too, wonder when worship became more about the worshipper and less about the One being worshipped. I wonder exactly what kind of church it was (protestant? non-denominational? New Testament?) It would be very interesting to know the history of the church. Additionally, it is interesting to hear the main speaker talk about his incorrect prayers not being answered and blaming protestantism when most protestant churches teach to pray according to God's will. I think these people have had experiences, not with protestant churches or New Testament churches, but new world churches (we call them "wild fire" churches).
Glad to hear our Catholic friends seeking truth. I pray that we all find the truth, not in Catholicism, not in protestantism, and not even in the New Testament churches, but in a relationship with our Maker through the Lord Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I know many of my Christian friends do not like that I try to find common ground with the Catholic Church, but we need to remember that the Body of Christ is made up of all true believers regardless of their church affiliation. I believe there are true believers in Christ in the Catholic Church just as there are in the protestant churches and the New Testament churches. And, while I find many incorrect teachings in Catholicism that are in direct opposition to the Word of God, I also find such in protestant churches and New Testament churches as well. I think it's time we all stopped looking to an organization to lead us to God and follow Christ as revealed in Holy Scriptures. Jesus said that we should deny ourselves , take up our crosses, and follow Him. Let me say that again. Jesus said that we are to DENY OURSELVES, take up our crosses, and follow Him. I don't care what name is over the door of the place you worship. I only care about you having a REAL, GENUINE relationship with the Father, through the Son, by the Holy Spirit that aligns with the Word.
Father in Heaven, help us all to throw off the traditions that have been given to us that are the works of man and not of You. Help us to embrace the Truth. Thy Word is Truth. Help us to answer the call of Christ to deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow Him. In the name of Jesus Christ, the virgin-born, perfect, sinless, crucified, risen, and soon-to-come King of Kings and Lord of Lords I pray. Amen
Thank you
No offense to anyone, but protestantism seems like water-down Christianity. Catholicism is hard, and intended to be hard. It's about God, the Lord Jesus Christ and confirm your life to HIS will. That's what I've observed.
Protestantism is so watered-down it's fake. The only authentic Christianity is Catholicism.
It's a knockoff cheap imitation of Catholicism.
False. It’s about unbiblical false dogma found nowhere in the Word.
People like you don't half-talk complete poppycock. The Barbaric history of the RCC proves it or maybe that hard so-called catholicism you are talking about is something you agree with. The prosperity gospel got a lot of its ideas from you Catholics.
Read if you can Martin Luther 95 thesis.
Hard compared to what? LDS?
It is unfair to conflate, as this video does, "prosperity, mega-church preaching" with Protestantism. It is a gross mischaracterization of so much good Protestant ecclesiology. Also, I couldn't help but shake the sense that even as the bishop here wants us to move away from egocentric thinking, he ultimately gets us right back there. "Theocentric is best for YOU" sounds somewhat egocentric to me. As a Protestant, I couldn't help but feel that this video is more of an unfair hitjob against Protestants than a fair critique.
Agreed
Protestantism is still stuck with "individual interpretation" of the Bible; each individual's "truth" - the ultimate egocentrism. 10 members of a protestant religion could interpret a bible verse 10 different ways (and do) and each one would claim guidance of the "spirit" and correctness of their way. And if the pastor, in his/her sermon, didn't agree then the member just moves on to another religion/church/congregation (just look at the Methodist church breakaway groups right now over lgbtcs++).
@@joenenninger971 You'll get no argument from me when churches turn away from biblical truth and as such bear the judgment of God. But Roman Catholicism has done the very same thing over the centuries. For crying out loud, the popes used to sell time off in Purgatory to make money for their building projects! You can't claim that Protestantism alone has the problem you state above. Catholicism has been riddled with falsehoods over the centuries. Trying to pretend otherwise doesn't help anyone. And again, don't paint all Protestants with the same broad brush. It isn't only left to individual interpretation as you like to think. Protestant denominations also have creeds and confessions and statements of faith that they adhere to. Lastly, Catholics are also fragmented in their thinking, as 90% disagree with the Vatican on birth control, for example. You can't pretend that only Protestantism has a fragmentation issue.
@@joenenninger971 This is true. But it doesn’t mean that is the problem with the church. It’s a problem with the individual. This is what is called post-modernism. It’s in the culture and the church is catching the disease. When you have a presupposition of truth being only subjective and approach the Bible with that way of thinking then you’re not going to read it for what the author intended. Learning hermeneutics is a needed tool for every person reading the Bible.
Individual interpretation doesn’t mean you choose what the text means for yourself. If it wasn’t for the Reformers we wouldn’t have these discussions, we would be “stuck” with the Roman Catholic dictation. You wouldn’t even have the Bible in your native tongue. So it’s a freedom taken for granted for many. We ought to take the study of the Bible more seriously in my opinion. Otherwise we get all sorts of things wrong and follow bad teachers who form cults.
@@joenenninger971 yeah look at the pope endorsing the blessing of gay weddings. The culture can affect any church.
In the comments someone wrote this: "it was the Church which made the SAINTS". But I would say rather the opposite: THIS IS RATHER THE SAINTS THAT BUILT THE CHURCH.
Great video
i'd have to quench the spirit to go to any church, Catholic or p[rotestant
She is awesome!!!
This is what drew me away from Christianity in my early 20s. All the in-fighting. Catholics (generalizing here) paint all Protestants with the same brush and vice versa. Can't we recognize that we are all part of the same body, Christ's body? He loves us all equally, can't we do the same for each other? We might have our differences, sure, but we all believe in the same basic things: the Holy Trinity exists, God loves us, and Jesus died for our sins on the cross. Aren't those the things that matter the most?
No actually we don't. Baptism is regenerative and is what is meant to be born again. The eucharist is the actual body of Christ and is necessary. Salvation is not a one time event with an assured ticket to heaven. Unrepetanrant sin will damn you. Faith without works is dead. Sola scritura is not biblical.
Super video
No, it's actually pretty ignorant. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that this is just super ill infromed, though I rather doubt it.
I enjoy coming here and seeing what my heretical brothers are talking about.
I attend a protestant presbyterian church and its not at all like that.
It’s the president CULT NOT church. Please read my other comment.
@@simonslater9024 I cant find your comment, could you paste it again?
Amen, amen. We all go through phases but in the end we return to our Catholic home as prodigal children.
May the Church of Jesus Christ established through Peter and his apostles lead all people to the one true Living God in the narrow path to salvation, amen.
Please don't spread this lie anymore
@@friedemannhuettner6156 This is Scriptural. Self deception will not help you in any way.
Religion is about worship and worship is sacrifice. It’s about us only in the sense in that we need it to be happy. We are wired for God. God needs nothing, but we do - Him.
The opposite of the truth is not a lie. The opposite of the truth is moral relativism.
Well said!
Excellent point, when one considers the damage caused to society by relativism, caused by there being many “truths” which have resulted in contraception, which until 1930, all denominations prohibited until the Anglican broke away in 1930, abortion, IVF, divorce, SSM, LGBGT, transgenderism etc. Protestantism has a lot to answer for!
This kind of goes along with the saying of “The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.”
A perfect example of how Protestants twist truth and logic
@@NP-vk8de deflection.
Wow, this is a very inspiring and important video for our Catholic faith! Thing called faith threw Jesus Christ in the holy church is important but prot just don't get it. We r called to worship him, to receive him, to adore him and this is keeping holy his ours Sabbath period. Unlike protestant gathering who egotistically preach and then it turns to a concert, this is not holy!
You speak the absolute truth here. Protestant Big Money churches want one thing: Money and focus on ways to get your money. God may seem the reason, but God is not the reason they gather.
In catholicism, we are God's chess piece.. In protestantism, God is the chess piece..
There’s some truth to these descriptions of Protestant churches-especially those following the contemporary seeker sensitive” model-but to some extent the descriptions are caricatures that are, at best, partially accurate. We are not members of a seeker sensitive Protestant church but attend them on occasion. Even when there’s coffee in the lobby of these churches, many/most point toward God,not man. And while I’m generally not a fan of the contemporary worship songs these churches sing, I don’t think you can say the church is man centered just because the people actually like the music.
So let’s have a healthy discussion, but let’s sure we’re charitable in our descriptions of each other.
It's completely caricature. I've never attended such churches. They aren't interested in healthy discussions. This is about puffing themselves as superior and triumphalism.
I guess in the 50 years I have lived, I have never met a catholic that seemed to live out their faith. It was all about ritual on Sunday and live how they want the rest of the week. Most are clueless about the Bible and could not defend their faith if life depended on it. Maybe the catholic doctrine started out with some truth but accretion over the centuries has morphed and distorted it into something that is unrecognizable. And what is up with this current pope? Is God really behind the things he is advocating? The catholic church is just the world's richest religion. That is about it.
All the Catholics I know use profanity and get drunk, because they believe they sin all the time and go to some man and ask for forgiveness. This is what I don’t want to be apart of, that’s one reason I’m not catholic. The Catholic Church is talked about in revelations as a bad thing. This is reason #2 I’m not a Catholic and their whole man made doctrines that they have
Something wrong with the people you hang out with. My friends and fellow parishioners are all living saints. I'm a Jewish convert to the Catholic Faith. The Lord has connected me with wonderful, generous, loving, faithful Catholics. You are very misinformed about the Catholic Church. Most Catholics know a lot of Scripture, we just don't necessarily know the "addresses" (chapter and verse). The whole Mass is filled with Scripture. If all you see is "ritual," you are deaf to the Bible and blind to what real worship is. You don't seem to know Jesus very well, or you wouldn't be so ignorant about His Church. Look up a list of the charities, hospitals, schools, emergency aid programs, etc. etc. that the Catholic Church has provided. That's where the money goes. Not into some prosperous Protestant preacher's pockets.
The teachings of the Catholic Church handed down from the Apostles haven't changed in 2000 years. The understanding has developed as theologians studied doctrine and Church Councils clarified, in the process of combatting heresies. Protestant denominations all teach some heresies. Even those who know the Bible by heart backwards and forwards are interpreting it wrong. They do not have the authority that Christ gave to the Church He founded.
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Can you do an interview on Romans 8:1-10. With regard to salvation & Romans 8, please talk about common ground between Protestants and Catholics, and also differences. To an unlearned reader like me, it sounds contradictory. On the one had, it seems to console us and tell us that Jesus has paid the price for our sins. On the other hand, it says that if you slip up and obey "the flesh" then you're dead already. Some phrases that Paul uses like "in Christ", "Spirit inside of you", etc are also tough for newbies like me. I thank you because you challenge and provoke my preconceived notions: even if I disagree with lots of stuff, I learn a lot along the way. Thank you.
Sola scriptura and sola fide aren't biblical. Eternal salvation is not biblical. The sinners prayer isn't biblical. Our Lord frequently warned about hell for the disobedient. He said if the Jews could be cut off the tree so can we. St. Paul said he was working out his salvation with fear and trembling. St Peter warned against private interpretation bc people will twist scripture to their destruction. St Paul said the pillar of truth is the church. Christ started the catholic church, luther started protestantism.
@@evangelion1962 yeah, I think you are right. My experience of life seems to also contradict what Luther said. I'm struggling through the catechism and some catholic bible commentary, but it is hard for a blue collar guy like me.
Just as it seems to me that many Protestant Christian’s are listening to The Bible in a Year and pastors are returning to the church calendar and cycle readings, we do this. Please, I understand what you’re trying to do but keep drawing through the light of the church fathers and mystics. Let the WORD speak and they will come to the water. Don’t muddy it up. Praying for all to return to what Christ instituted.
Feel good religions. Watered down worship. Its about a personal relationship to our Lord and Saviour.
Every person I’ve met who attend an evangelical Protestant has told the same thing: compared to the Catholic Church, their church is much more fun. What these people were saying basically agreed with the premise of this video: the go to church because it’s all about them and little to do with God.
Most protestant churches are Christ centered. Never went to a prosperity gospel church and wouldn't. Went to many different different denominations, and never encountered it.
I believe that the self centered nature of modern protestantism is that most sects are of American origin. American culture and values is basically Masonic based. That is to say an emphasis on individualism at the expense of the group, and the individual's entitlement to define God as he sees fit. It also emphasizes democratic Republican and libertarian principles, which is contrary to the monarchial nature of heaven.
It's no wonder this woman as well as the channel host were eventually turned off to being Protestant.
Why do you say "Masonic based?" Surely the Masons were a symptom of the dynamic you describe, not an origin of it.
@@JW_______ In my studies, I came to the realization that FreeMasonry worships MAN!
@@JW_______ Masonry predates the US, and at least 9 Masons influenced and signed the Declaration of of Independence. They were also heavily influential in drafting the Constitution. They admit their influence even to this day on their website.
@@historyloveriii2949 yes.
You are generalizing all Protestant faiths? Come on man, do your research!😢
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Straw man approach has a narrow purpose of making those who agree with your beliefs happy! In any case, how does the RC approach fit in with the Lord's words to the Samaritan woman, that a time has come when worship need not be associated with a particular place. True worship need not involve any special rituals but anywhere you can worship the father in Spirit and truth. The key is being given the power to be a child of God after repentance and then you can have true encounter with God anywhere! Corporate worship is a bonus freely available, but salvation starts by repenting and turning to the Lord. It is not about belonging to a so called true Church but being in a personal relationship with one who is the way the truth and the life!
The pillar and bulwark of truth is the church
@@evangelion1962 Believe in the Church and thou shall be saved! Init?
Why ? Why ? Why are you doing this ?
At at time when we must all stick together in an increasingly secular age with potential catastrophic repercussions, you feel the need to pit Catholics against Protestants.
Having we been through that nonsense before ?!
My wife lost her father to the troubles in NI years ago.
We don’t need this sickening nonsense to continue in any format.
It’s NOT pitting Catholic’s against protestant’s because protestant’s are NOT Christian! Only Jesus can found a Church. Now please read my other comment.
For years, Catholics had been highly criticized by our protestant brothers and sisters in Christ. Harsh! Even saying we worship the devil and hateful things NOT representative of what a follower of Jesus would say or feel. Now we are defending ourselves!
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Don’t you see ?
You’re still perpetuating it right here.
@@priscilacandal151 This isn't defending, it's an attack. Make up whatever excuse about it you like. @bradsmith from Ireland is giving you a caution, and you're just ignoring it, to your detriment.
It seems to me that a lot of the popular apologists for Catholicism are not lacking in ego and self obsession.
I am a convert to Catholicism from the Evangelical church, but I am struggling with this video. Christ died for me. Christ died for you. If you are trying to win people to Christ, which evangelicals are all about, it better be about what Christ did for you.
The Catholic Church does a horrible job at evangelism. Perhaps we can learn a few tips from evangelicals. I surely believe they can learn more than a few things from us about respect and worship of God.
I don’t know about worship. Most definitely the Catholic Church worships God as He intended, not as men intended,,which would be the protestant way.
Fredvonhayek: Catholics have a lot of housecleaning to do, but instead of cleaning house they turn their vitriol against Protestants! 😢
The Catholic Church does a horrible job at Evangelizing? Are you sure because we are 1.4 billion strong and Protestants worldwide don’t even get close to 100million and I’m being generous.
Some Protestant preachers taught about what God can do to YOU, what God can give to YOU, what God can grant to YOU, etc; as looks like treating God just as a "wishing magic lamp". But, little about teaching that not everything is all about YOU.
Yes, God is omnipresent. Yes, God is almighty. Yes, God is capable to do anything. But, have you ever try to do the opposite towards God? Have you ever try to open yourself to God? Have you ever try to LET GOD TO DO whatever HE WANTS, and NOT WHAT YOU WANT? Have you ever thinking to TRUST and ACCEPT GOD by whatever the final decision HE MADE?
No wonder there are lots of Protestant (or even Catholic) felt heartbroken, when their prayer aren't answering by God. Or because the answer isn't looks like what they demand before. Why? Because lots of them are still thinking about themself, their ego, their pride, their self-centre; and NOT by LET GOD DECIDES what is best and good for you. We kept thinking that we know what is good for us, or how exactly is better for us; but forgetting that it is God that ALWAYS know what is best for us in a right timing.
"For My thoughts ARE NOT your thoughts, NEITHER ARE your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways HIGHER than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
Just as what Bishop Baron said: think the example of Mary! When God wants to make HIS WAYS through Mary, did she complaint? Did she ever asking more of this and that? Remember, on that day, a virgin whom getting caught pregnant without a husband, she would face a danger of death penalty. Did Mary ask God for protection?
No, what she answered is just: Let it be done, according to Thy words! Mary accepted trustfully her role and life to God. Even without demanding, Mary knew, God will protecting her, God will decide what kind of future of Mary and her Baby for the sake of God's mystery plan. Because Mary is already open her heart, willingly to lay low before God, and let God created the path of what was best for her. Something that we, also human, feeling struggle to do the same.
Certainly there are too many "It's about you" churches. However, the Catholic Church is not the Church to replace them because it preaches a false gospel such as limbo , a works salvation, and praying to Mary, etc. The Catholic Church is probably more about Mary than it is about Jesus. My church is about Jesus and not about me. Amen.
You are criticizing it without understanding what you are saying: there is no limbo, it is not based on 'works', we have a family of saints who might be helpful when we pray (just like when we ask a friend to please pray for a loved one in the hospital). So glad to hear your church is about Jesus, but you left out the Trinity!
@@Lucylou7070I don't think its ok to talk to the dead regardless of their standing, are you saying Saul did nothing wrong when he was talking to the dead?? if Saul had focused on God instead of trying to find answers from someone else maybe he wouldn't have lost his Kingdom to David.
My favorite (Protestant) pastor was very God-focused. I loved that- he always turned our hearts and minds to God, and who He is. Our services felt very worshipful, and left me wanting to love God and my Christian family, and my own family, and my ‘neighbors’. Another favorite pastor sat on a stool and read the scriptures to us.
I am a Christian Pastor. Having spent 42 a translator dedicated to teaching accurately from Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Syriac I find these comments very misleading. Deception has its ultimate origin in one creature. This man does not speak to benefit the spiritual rescue of humanity, he speaks denomination divisiveness. He speaks for that creature.
Dear what is properly "the spiritual rescue" for the humanity? Please teach us...
And if I humbly may say this : the Catholic Church translated the Gospel and the Bible for me. By the works of great theolgians . So I can use all my avaible time on Faith, Hope and Charity. And going to the mass and daily prayer. No matter for Jésus-Christ if I learn greek. He understand me and i understand Him in my language. Thank You to give us your opinion and God bless You dear Pastor
@@arthurgouvet9606 The term for redemption and salvation is summed up in the original text Luke 7:50, John 3:16 and is Σοτεριον (soterion). It is the universal term for “rescue”. We, as the imperfect in sin are rescued out of our fallen state and embraced. This is the only rescue for humanity because humanity cannot rescue itself. We must spread this good news. One’s denomination squabbles does not assist in this great calling to all true Christians. We bring great news of a Savior who was born, lived, sacrificed in our stead, then resurrected proving He was God.
Dear Pastor, in your comment, where can I find "God is LOVE" ?
@@YepTriedToTellYou and what about "God is FORGIVENESS" ?
Prots are obsessed first and foremost on their own salvation.
"I mean, that's what's it's all about, isn't it".
I've never met one who was remotely concerned with his salvation. Everyone I've met thinks the sinners prayer bought him a ticket to paradise.
I would say professing the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed with fellow Christians makes faith a community event. It would be nice to see Roman Catholics stop pulling this holier than thou stuff. No one alive went through the reformation. There was a reason for the split not the least of which was the abject corruption of the Roman church. I would think it would be more important to embrace fellow believers in Christ than be so divisive. Unlike Judaism, God did not provide a handbook with all the rules and regulations for how to live and worship.
As a Protestant pastor, who loves the Eucharist, I found this video extremely frustrating to watch. What you are talking about here is Pentecostal prosperity preaching, which mainstream Protestants also reject. Everything Bishop Barron said is what mainstream Protestant preachers also believe. Please be more informed about the nuances.
Please read my comment.
Are you a non denominational Christian?
It's unfortunate that this guy is trying to pass this off as all of protestantism. I'm pretty sure he knows better, but it makes for great chest thumping. We could do the same thing by focusing on a small subset of Catholics and really bad parishes. I happen to know a lot about the strife and issues w/in the Catholic faith. It calls me to pray, I encourage Catholics where I can. Try and have fruitful dialogue w/ them where possible. It's not a call to gloat or try and portray a microcosm as if it's the whole. That would be ungracious and dishonest.
If you loved the Holy Eucharist, you would be Catholic
The problem is Protestants always do that to Catholics as well. How about we all just focus on what's important, the Lord, and love each other and do our best to represent Christianity in the way it's meant to be
The parents are their to help their kids, not the reverse...same with god..we cannot help a god in any way whatsoever..however if you are a believer ,he can help you.He does not require sycophants grovelling..amen
Of course there are egoistic Protestant pastors and leaders. There are egoistic clerics of all brands and varieties of Christendom. So what’s the point?
In the RC church people do not hear the truth of the gospel, its buried under a load of secular teaching and nice thoughts but salvation through Christ is never preached, at the end of the day its ritiual with no real gospel
After reading many comments from Protestant brothers and sisters who are so offended, I feel I need to comment myself. NEVER once have I or ANY catholic that I know go out of our way to talk down to Protestants. Sadly it is Catholics who are attacked for our beliefs & practices. It’s difficult to be a good Catholic. But it’s not supposed to be easy. We are to sacrifice our desires to follow the teachings of our faith. But let’s be honest with ourselves in that SO MANY look down upon us and spread lies about our practices and are downright confrontational to US both on forums, comments & in person. So if you’re triggered by this video, perhaps ask why & take a good look at your treatment of Catholics. NTM, I have NEVER gone on a Protestants comment section talking about the error of their ways or talk down to their faith. Yet there are ALWAYS Protestants or atheists in ours saying horrible things to us. There’s so much freedom to talk to Catholics in disrespectful ways but IF A CATHOLIC/ORTHODOX says anything we are being divisive. I agree we should all stand together as CHRISTIANS right now. But let’s be honest with ourselves about the constant insults & attacks on Catholics & orthodox in general & the tolerance & justification so many have in doing so.
Excellent Presentation!!
It's all about Gods will, not your will.
to priscilacandal - protestant’s are NOT Christian and our NOT our so called separated brethren. Only Jesus can found a Church. You have the holy Catholic Church. You have 48,000 protestant CULTS. ONLY Catholic’s go to Heaven because there’s NO division in paradise.
If you're going to be criticizing Prosperity and charismatic pastors, get in line with the Protestants. We've been criticizing them for years. You're preaching to the choir.
My poor late wife had attended many happy clappy gospel of prosperity churches before finally finding rest in the Catholic church. She truly believed what they had told her, like she had gifts of the Holy Spirit, the power of healing, to speak in tongues and would have two houses and two cars and that ill health was because she wasn't praying enough or had sinned excessively. Also she believed that you cannot say the same prayer twice or more so had to keep composing new prayers. This is of course a complete misunderstanding of what Jesus said about the pagans and their repetitive babble to their idols. These "Pastors" at times would try to take full control of her life which she greatly resented.
Where in the Bible does Christ teach Sunday a Holy Day???
Where in the Bible does Christ teach Mary is a mediator/intercessor?
Where in the Bible did Christ change the Sabbath to Sunday???
Where in the Bible did Christ teach that Mary has gone/ will go to heaven?
Where in the Bibler did Christ teach that a mere man is head of His church???
Where in the Bible is the title "pope" mentioned???
Where in the Bible did Christ teach that those that die go right to heaven??
--Where in the Bible did Christ teach that mere men have to authority to change what God wrote???
@@mitchellosmer1293 Where does it say in the Bible that everything you need to know for salvation is contained within?
@@sklenars ***Hebrews 4:12 Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart), or seen implicitly through its lens.
*** Deuteronomy 17:14-20 states that we “shall not turn away from God’s Word, not to the right or the left”.
***Psalm 1:2 and Joshua 1:7-8 says that “the righteous person dwells on the Word of the Lord day and night”.
***Deuteronomy 8:3 states that “we do not live on bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God”.
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***Proverbs 30:5-6 states: 5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. 6 Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
(--I will ask you, which NO ONE has replied to: Who's other writings does GOD tell us to accept as the truth??? QUOTE FROM the BIBLE!!!!)
Remember these words from Jesus: John 14:6 NIV -
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Since HE IS THE TRUTH, then when a church preaches their version of the truth, who is the truth??? Jesus or the "Church"???
@@mitchellosmer1293ok, but scripture vomit didn't answer the question.
@@evangelion1962 quote----but scripture vomit didn't answer the question... unquote
So, with your comment, EVERY word Jesus spoke--EVERY word that God spoke, EVER word the the disciples is VOMIT!!!
--That means you deny Christ!!
1 John 2:22-23
He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. ... Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father ...
By your comment, you say Christ is anti-Christ!!!
Catholic all the way ❤ from Australia.
In Acts, Gamaliel wisely says that if something is of God, you can't defeat it. So why have troublesome Protestants been with us for so long? I suspect two good reasons, maybe three.
The first is that Protestants generally focus on the interior of a person where they have invited Christ to live...at least much more so than Catholics who have become increasingly far too focused on the external. The second is their love of Sacred Scripture. The third might be their love of sincere, spontaneous worship commended by Christ in Luke 19:37-40.
That's where it ends; their many heresies destroy lives and lead to hell. Jude and II Peter 2 is all about them.
We Catholics can take the air out of their tires if we adopt all three of their great attributes.
The same tire thing holds true of the Orthodox who value self-discipline and frequent fasting so much more than the West. Their thing about every Christian home having a prayer corner would also be smart thing for Catholics to adopt.
"Let no one take your crown!" Jesus warned that Church in Revelation most pleasing to Him. In other words, protect and keep your spiritual valuables.😢
Muslims have been around longer than Protestants. Why have they been around so long? Buddhists? Hindus? I wonder how you would explain those.
you cant talk about every protestants churches becuse only the amarican australien portestant churches think like that where i live in germany we kind of think like catholics exept for a few diferences like the 14 holys or praying to maria , ans also interistung is that cathilics use the prosperty gospel as an example of the protastant church when many protestant churchews said that the prosperly gospel ist not christian
The Protestant notion of sola scriptura is completely in line with such egocentrism. It’s all about how they “feel” about what THEY THINK the Bible says, not what it actually says or means, because they refuse to recognize any central authority that can legitimately TELL them what it means.
It has become the psychology of self-help.
The central authority is Christ, not any church.
@@biblethumper8.1amen the holy spirit is the guide for scripture. A church can be as few as two or three. Some people have house churches.
@@biblethumper8.1 Yes, that’s correct, but public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle. Are you suggesting we wait for Christ to speak to us personally, individually? As Catholics, we profess the Creed, the last paragraph of which explicitly professes belief in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, invested with authority by Christ himself, as a grace and to fulfill His promise not to leave us orphaned (John 14: 18), alone to muddle about trying to figure things out for ourselves until He returns at the end of time. He left us a Church.
@@gospeljoy5713 and what happens when 2 or 3 disagree with a different 2 or 3 about what any particular passage means? Who decides which is correct? Who’s the tie-breaker? Or do you just agree to disagree, and everybody goes off to start their own church? Do you not see a problem with that? Christ intended for us to be one. John 17: “20 “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”
As an atheist I think it's a good example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Catholics are so hypocritical and spend most of their time navel-gazing!
Well, then, you need to do some more research.
As an atheist your opinion on this subject is irrelevant
@@Ken-kb5fw My opinion is like yours on the subject. Is neither here nor there. The catholic religion has no room to talk about dogma when they are latterly built on it. There's a reason why it's called roman catholic. As an atheist I think my opinion is more relevant. You know as an outsider. With no dogs in the fight. Did you like how many euphemisms I used. I thought they might help with symbolism of concepts.
@@comeasyouare4545 yes, I did. 😁
Im proud roman catholik praise the lord amen im watching from phillipines.
Christ NEVER taught that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday.
Christ NEVER taught that Peter is a pope.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary will go to heaven.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary is a mediator/intecessor.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary never sinned.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary remained virgin.
Christ NEVER Taught that a mere man is head of His church.
Christ NEVER taught about a church named Catholic.
Christ NEVER taught that we can pray to the dead.
Christ NEVER taught that the dead can hear our prayers.
Christ NEVER taught that anyone can change the day of worship.