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.
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! ❤️🕊️
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! ❤✝️🙏🏼🕊️
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.
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.
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.
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?
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'.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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. ❤️🙏🏼✝️🕊️
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.
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.
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.
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.👐👐
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!
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.
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.
Because apparently making a caricature of what the other Christian churches are about is more important than Christian martyrdom these days. CAtholics virtually don't talk about Islam or the persecutions, like protestants do. They like to talk about how theirs is the only church and how much better they are than protestant Christians. That's apparently a priority.
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...
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.
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
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.
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.”
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.
I don't know what protestant church you or Isabel attended, but I have been protestant all my life and it's ALWAYS been about Jesus-not Mary, not the saints, not “the Church”, not the Pope, and CERTAINLY NOT about *me*. Sure, the Gospel has been co-opted and corrupted (indulgences, anyone?) by men, but to say that the Protestants make it about ourselves is disingenuous, and a lie.
Faith alone turns out to be about yourself. And cherry-picking verses not believing in its entirety means that you don’t believe in it and believe only yourself. Hence the 33k+ Protestant denominations. I don’t want to believe just in one single church but in 33k different interpretations and churches.
I've attended Protestant and Catholic churches, my wife being the latter, and also feel that the former are more about God than what this video tries to indicate. There are merits and flaws in every church which reflect humans running them aren’t perfect. I've even been considering joining the Catholic Church as of the present, partly due to being disenfranchised by the directions Christianity seems to be headed. But considering this step gives me strong reservations, and seeing other posts here add fodder to these reservations.
@@marcservos3790 If you care to read the Divine Mercy novena that Jesus dictated to St Faustina. Day 5 reads, those who have separated themselves from My church cause me the greatest passion. Today pray that they will be united..... Protestant churches were established by heretics to oppose the Catholic church not to enhance it. Remember Jesus said to Peter, I will be with you till the end of time and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I hand you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.....
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!!!
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?
I Would encourage you to explore some of the churches accepted eucharistic miracles. Google or you tube Eucharistic miracles. Find a catholic friend and and go and spend some time with the Lord in an adoration chapel. It will change your life! Blessings to you!
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.😢
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
To be extra honest, the self-centered preaching/prosperity gospel teaching was and is being called out and warned about by Protestants everytime. Let's not make it appear as if it is the standard teaching of the Protestant Christians. There are also a lot of protestant channels here in RUclips that is constantly teaching against those unbiblical doctrines.
so what is the standard of the Protestant Christians the standard is they have no standards.😜😜 There are almost as many sects and beliefs as there are heads; this one will not admit Baptism; that one rejects the Sacrament of the altar; another places another world between the present one and the day of judgment; some teach that Jesus Christ is not God. There is not an individual, however clownish he may be, who does not claim to be inspired by the Holy Ghost, and who does not put forth as prophecies his ravings and dreams. they are purveyors of ‘self-centered worship.' You may get people to come to those churches, and you may have church growth. But you will not have church impact. The reason is that church becomes increasingly like the culture. People go in, see a skit, listen to some music, hear a soothing sermon, and think they have done their Christian duty. They are entering the exact precarious position the mainline found itself in the '60s and '70s." if salvation is by "faith only" it excludes even faith gained by reading the Bible. The First International Anglican Episcopal Lutheran Presbyterian Reformed Methodist Baptist Seventh Day Adventist Pentecostal Nazarene Unitarian Gospel Non Denominational Church and Assembly of God Christ Science Scientist of Latter Day Saints Jehovah Witness Evangelical Christian Restoration Calvary Bible Apostolic Progressive Faith Holiness Universalist Discipleship Congregational Covenant Independent United Communion Fellowship Conference Convention Association and Community Of The Lord. American Baptists, Southern Baptists, Christian Unity Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Duck River & Kindred Associations of Baptists, Baptist Church of Christ, Freewill Baptists, General Baptists, General Six-Principle Baptists, Independent Baptist Church of America, National Baptist, Evangelical Life & Soul Saving Assembly of the U.S.A., Regular Baptists, Separate Baptists, Seventh Day Baptists, Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists, United American Freewill Baptists, United Baptists, Free Communion Baptists, Anti-mission Baptists, Conservative Baptists, Fundamental Baptists, I thought that John Calvin strictly taught from the Bible. Mmmm, why, then, are there 25 different Calvinist denominations in the USA/Canada? They do not worship together on the Lord's Day. Alliance of Reformed Churches(founded 2021 out of the RCA) Calvin Synod (United Church of Christ) Canadian and American Reformed Churches (Dutch Reformed - Liberated) Christian Reformed Church in North America (Dutch Reformed - GKN) Free Reformed Churches in North America - (Dutch Reformed - CGKN) French Protestant (Huguenot) Church, Charleston, SC--The only French Calvinist or Huguenot congregation still existing in the United States. Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregations Hungarian Reformed Church in America Kingdom Network (inaugurating September 9, 2021 out of the RCA) Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church in America Netherlands Reformed Congregations Associated with the Dutch Reformed (Gereformeerde Gemeenten (Dutch)) churches in the Netherlands. Protestant Reformed Churches in America (Dutch Reformed - GKN) One of the most conservative of all Reformed/Calvinist denominations, the PRCA separated from the Christian Reformed Church in the 1920s in a schism over the issue of common grace. Reformed Congregations in North America Reformed Church in the United States (German Reformed) The majority of the original Reformed Church in the United States, which was founded in 1725, merged with Evangelical Synod of North America (a mix of German Reformed & Lutheran theologies) to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1940 (which would merge with the Congregational Christian Churches in 1957 to form the United Church of Christ) leaving the Eureka Classis serving as a Continuing church of the Reformed Church in the United States until 1986, when it was dissolved to form the Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States Reformed Church in America The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is the oldest Dutch Reformed denomination in the United States, dating back from the mid-17th century Reformed Church of Quebec United Reformed Churches in North America (Dutch Reformed - GKN) Congregational Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches Puritan Reformed Church Newfrontiers in the United States Sovereign Grace Churches (Credobaptist, charismatic) I thought that Martin Luther was the unifying force in the Protestant Church. Why, then, are there 26 different groups of Lutherans in the USA who DO NOT worship together on the Lord's Day. Is not the Bible their sole authority? Then why is the Bible so contradictory? Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches Association of Free Lutheran Congregations Association of independent evangelical Lutheran churches[J] Augsburg Lutheran Churches Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Church of the Lutheran Confession Concordia Lutheran Conference Conservative Lutheran Association Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America General Lutheran Church Illinois Lutheran Conference Independent Lutheran Diocese[J] Laestadian Lutheran Church[I] Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Lutheran Church - International[J] Lutheran Churches of the Reformation Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church[B] Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA Lutheran Orthodox Church[J] Missionary Lutheran Church Old Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference Protes'tant Conference United Lutheran Mission Association I thought that John Knox was a unifying force of the Protestant Church; yet, in North America, there are 35 versions of the Presbyterian Church. Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church - around 22,459 members (2018)[1] - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist, Covenanter & Seceder Bible Presbyterian Church - around 3,500 members - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist partially: Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches - around 15,000 members - Evangelical/Orthodox, Dutch Reformed/Presbyterian, Calvinist Cumberland Presbyterian Church - around 67,074 members (2016)[2] - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America - around 6,500 members - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America- 73 churches in the USA ECO (Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians) - more than 129,765 members, 320 churches and 500 Pastors (2018)[3] - Evangelical, Presbyterian[4][5] Evangelical Presbyterian Church - around 122,216 members (2018)[6] - Evangelical, Presbyterian, Charismatic[7] Korean-American Presbyterian Church - around 53,000 members - Conservative Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian, Calvinist Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad - around 55,000 members - Progressive Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian Orthodox Presbyterian Church - around 31,472 members (2019)[8]- Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Presbyterian Church in America - around 383,338 members (2020)[9] - Evangelical, Presbyterian, Calvinist[10] Presbyterian Church in Canada - around 225,000 members - Presbyterian Presbyterian Church (USA) - around 1,245,354 members - Liberal, Presbyterian[11][12] Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America - around 7,800 members - Orthodox, Exclusive Psalmody, A cappella, Covenanter, Presbyterian, Calvinist partially: United Church of Canada - around 388,000 members (as of 12/31/2018) - Liberal, Presbyterian & Congregational & Methodist[13 American Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Covenant Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, 1646 Westminster Confession, Presbyterian, Calvinist[14] Covenanting Association of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches Evangel Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church Federation of Reformed Churches - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist, Paedocommunion Free Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Presbyterian Reformed Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Puritan Reformed Church Reformed Presbyterian Church - Hanover Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Reformed Presbytery in North America - Orthodox, Covenanter Presbyterian, Calvinist Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church - less than 1000 members - Conservative, Presbyterian, Four-Point Calvinist Vanguard Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Free Church of Scotland - has 9 congregations in North America Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) - has 8 congregations in the USA Associated Presbyterian Churches - has 1 congregation in Vancouver Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland Presided Over By The Most Reverend Dr. Mr.Minister Pastor Bishop Brother Ned Smith Esq. preacher, apostle, Profit Thank you for that one
It is not Mary in haste went to meet Elizabeth, it was God's plan , it was the Holy Spirit guided her, now catholic are giving more importance to Mary the mother of Jesus in human, than Father, Christ and Holy Spirit. Even she is not resurrected, no witness that she has gone to heaven, the Catholic made her the mother of God, even she was the mother of Jesus in human not God. Praise Jesus.
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.
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
All catholics are not corrupt because the pope is, all Protestants are not self centric because you experienced one .... I know so many Catholics in my locality who are good , so are many protestants... Don't generalized bro.
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.
You can always use one disgruntled individual who is then willing to caricature the church she just left, in order to bolster your own church. But let's not forget that tons of Catholics leave Catholicism for Protestant churches too. This video is a bit sloppy here.
It is all about God Father Son and Holy spirit Mary and previous saints are nice but do not have any meaning for protestants. Prayer is personal relationship with my Heavenly Father and Jesus christ. No need for prayer beads or repeating God's name over and over again. By the way Muslim are leaving islam to follow jesus not the Roman catholic church.
to lengvijspeeker - sorry about that but you won’t like what I say - you have the holy Catholic Church. You have 48,000 protestant CULTS including the Presbyterian CULT. ONLY Jesus can found a Church. Only Catholic’s go to Heaven because there’s NO division in paradise.
- 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
Protestantism tends to the Individual, often emotions, etc. Catholicism now has been invaded by a lot of Protestantism. But traditional Catholicism is more an obediance to Church authority, not the Self.
This may be the funniest one I've watched yet, JD. Never have I ever attended any Protestant service that made it about me. Your assuming the prosperity gospel pastors represent all Protestantism is an absolute joke.😅 My church teaches that I must die to self, and it is no longer my life I live, but Christ living in me. I used to watch your videos to challenge my own understanding, now they are for entertainment purposes only.😊 I look forward to the day you do a video on the bad popes and the bad priests throughout the years where you say they represent the RC church and it's views correctly.
Popes and priests are human. They struggle just like anyone else. Come to the Catholic Church and truly learn how to die to yourself and live our Christ in you.
Rc church is all about God, and what God established and ordained with His Apostles. Even if some priests and popes are not faithful. Protestant herectics going on about God, and the bible, the bible that they took from catholic church and made thousands of counterfeit denominations, ignoring everything Jesus established. And no we are not saved just by believing in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ established a new covenant, with baptism jonh 3:5 Confession jonh 20:23 And the last supper wich is the institution of Eucharist. To live what Jesus established and ordained we must believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and saviour. Never he said ignore what I ordained with you as long as you believe in me you are saved. Instead He established the Eucharist, and said. Jonh6 53:54 Yes protestantism is completely false all of it. No exception. Millions are dying in their sins thinking they are already saved.
@@mariamartins5796 you just couldn’t resist with your diatribe of hate? I forgive your arrogance and hope you find love in your heart! ❤️ 1 John 4:20-21
@@NP-vk8de not for me I don't hate one soul in this earth. Telling the truth is not hate on the contrary. And it's time for people to tell the truth. Enough of letting the wolves devour souls. On the other hand calling someone hater when they speak the true seems something quite evil to me.. That is exactly what satan does, to stop the truth from coming out.
Catholic services don't exactly bring people to Jesus. Catholics tend to worship the saints and Mary. That's as far from God as you can get. The pope is a man and yet people kiss him as if he were special. Religion is just a bunch of rules and regulations. You can't be good enough to get into Heaven by your own works. Jesus is the only way to the father. If you're calling out others, make sure you check yourself to see where you are with Jesus. Sometimes we have a plank in our own eye. We can see others faults, but we tend not to see our own.
@OkieGirlsWorld - you are certainly welcome to believe and profess whatever you want to believe, but to glean this from OUR book, the Bible, is just plain silly… History shows us that Jesus didn't leave us a bible, the apostles didn't tell us which books belong in the bible, the church fathers never agreed on the 27 books of the NT through the 4th century, not only did they not agree but their individual lists of would-be NT canons were GROWING during this time, growing in numbers of hundreds of “inspired” NT writings. So, if it wasn't the Catholic/Orthodox church that compiled the 27 books of the NT in the 5th century with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and preserved it by laboriously hand copying them over and over throughout the centuries before the invention of the printing press, the “rule of faith” for many, please tell us, show us, who did? And if this church no longer exists today, what good is the text which came forth from her if she couldn't sustain herself?
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
only God is love, so without God you can never love. dont even attempt self-produced love by law works. stay in the gospel. there is no another gospel, not through law works. God paid for your freedom from under the law, so dont go back under the sin activated by/through the law. yes you will hate everyone with your law. and you become the law, not even the law itself. anyone who judges.
My man, read the New Testament properly. Humans are made like Titanium. They are hard to crack and mould. Titanium is named after the Greek Titans, and so was Titus. Again, read the New Testament properly, and learn something.
Yes they rebelled against a fraudulent church full of killers and sexual deviants! I’ll side with the people that don’t burn priests at the stake for trying to make copies of the Bible to give away! I’ll side with the people that don’t just allow pedophiles and homosexual priests to thrive and flourish in their perversions but hides and protects them from justice! I’ll side with the churches that stick to the Bible and the Bible only as being sufficient and not man made fictions, idols and traditions that do nothing for bringing people to God!
Protestant worship music is super helpful when I'm suffering though. I feel like what is most important is bridging the gap. A lot of people in the Protestant denominations are deeply poisoned and traumatized against Catholicism. They need a lot of respect and understanding to be drawn into the deeper more consistent relationship available in Catholicism.
‘Deeper and consistent’ depends on the person, not the church! And your understanding of Protestants isn’t just flawed and incomplete but outright wrong!
@@Halloweendm How is his understanding of Protestants "outright wrong" . All he said is that they need respect and understanding... Are you saying they need to be disrespected? What kind of fake Christian are you?
to gospeljoy - it’s very important that one worships in the holy Catholic Church because it’s the ONLY CHURCH and has Jesus present in the tabernacle! Look up Eucharist miracle’s by Bob and Penny Lord.
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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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.
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! ❤️🕊️
I relate joy your channel. You are so well spoken and articulate the key points that clearly present Catholic beliefs
Please read my comment. God bless.
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Beautiful….thank you!!!
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! ❤✝️🙏🏼🕊️
“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.
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.
You nailed it JD. Very few Prot sermons focus on Christ alone and scripture before they turn to themselves.
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 :/
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?
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'.
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.
Very enlightening message. Glory to God ❤️
This is FANTASTIC. Thank you.
Excellent program well done Sydney Catholics
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?
Thanks for all the videos you make and spreading the truth.
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
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
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.
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!
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. ❤️🙏🏼✝️🕊️
Excellent video !
My new way to live life: "I Did it Thy Way"
Yes and amen 🙏 I also came back to my catholic faith 27 years ago . Thanks be to GOD
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.
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.
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.
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.👐👐
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.
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.
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.
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?
She is awesome!!!
He made it all about us at the cross. Its about God and us, he died for YOU!!
I enjoy coming here and seeing what my heretical brothers are talking about.
Brothers and Sister in Christ, why are we fighting when out own Brothers and Sisters are getting killed by Islamism
Because apparently making a caricature of what the other Christian churches are about is more important than Christian martyrdom these days. CAtholics virtually don't talk about Islam or the persecutions, like protestants do. They like to talk about how theirs is the only church and how much better they are than protestant Christians. That's apparently a priority.
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...
i'd have to quench the spirit to go to any church, Catholic or p[rotestant
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.
The question is are you saved? If you were to die today, are you sure Heaven is your home.
Excellent Presentation!!
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" ?
@@DemsRNutless and what about "God is FORGIVENESS" ?
That must just be your church, but we call that going above and beyond and being kind
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
It's all about Gods will, not your will.
In catholicism, we are God's chess piece.. In protestantism, God is the chess piece..
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.
Thank you
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.”
It's about the Creator not the creature!!! The Holy Eucharist 🙏
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.
I don't know what protestant church you or Isabel attended, but I have been protestant all my life and it's ALWAYS been about Jesus-not Mary, not the saints, not “the Church”, not the Pope, and CERTAINLY NOT about *me*. Sure, the Gospel has been co-opted and corrupted (indulgences, anyone?) by men, but to say that the Protestants make it about ourselves is disingenuous, and a lie.
There are some 40,000 protestant "churches". which one do you have in mind
Faith alone turns out to be about yourself. And cherry-picking verses not believing in its entirety means that you don’t believe in it and believe only yourself.
Hence the 33k+ Protestant denominations. I don’t want to believe just in one single church but in 33k different interpretations and churches.
I've attended Protestant and Catholic churches, my wife being the latter, and also feel that the former are more about God than what this video tries to indicate. There are merits and flaws in every church which reflect humans running them aren’t perfect. I've even been considering joining the Catholic Church as of the present, partly due to being disenfranchised by the directions Christianity seems to be headed. But considering this step gives me strong reservations, and seeing other posts here add fodder to these reservations.
@@marcservos3790 If you care to read the Divine Mercy novena that Jesus dictated to St Faustina. Day 5 reads, those who have separated themselves from My church cause me the greatest passion. Today pray that they will be united.....
Protestant churches were established by heretics to oppose the Catholic church not to enhance it. Remember Jesus said to Peter, I will be with you till the end of time and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I hand you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.....
When did women become malicious and ignorant trolls? Is that equality?
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!!!
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?
What if the Eucharist is NOT God?
I Would encourage you to explore some of the churches accepted eucharistic miracles. Google or you tube Eucharistic miracles. Find a catholic friend and and go and spend some time with the Lord in an adoration chapel. It will change your life! Blessings to you!
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Feel good religions. Watered down worship. Its about a personal relationship to our Lord and Saviour.
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. 😁
Worry about your own woke pope
Why? Is it not fun to have a mirror turned on you?
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.
To be extra honest, the self-centered preaching/prosperity gospel teaching was and is being called out and warned about by Protestants everytime. Let's not make it appear as if it is the standard teaching of the Protestant Christians. There are also a lot of protestant channels here in RUclips that is constantly teaching against those unbiblical doctrines.
so what is the standard of the Protestant Christians the standard is they have no standards.😜😜
There are almost as many sects and beliefs as there are heads; this one will not admit Baptism; that one rejects the Sacrament of the altar; another places another world between the present one and the day of judgment; some teach that Jesus Christ is not God. There is not an individual, however clownish he may be, who does not claim to be inspired by the Holy Ghost, and who does not put forth as prophecies his ravings and dreams.
they are purveyors of ‘self-centered worship.' You may get people to come to those churches, and you may have church growth. But you will not have church impact. The reason is that church becomes increasingly like the culture. People go in, see a skit, listen to some music, hear a soothing sermon, and think they have done their Christian duty. They are entering the exact precarious position the mainline found itself in the '60s and '70s."
if salvation is by "faith only" it excludes even faith gained by reading the Bible.
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I thought that John Calvin strictly taught from the Bible. Mmmm, why, then, are there 25 different Calvinist denominations in the USA/Canada? They do not worship together on the Lord's Day. Alliance of Reformed Churches(founded 2021 out of the RCA) Calvin Synod (United Church of Christ) Canadian and American Reformed Churches (Dutch Reformed - Liberated) Christian Reformed Church in North America (Dutch Reformed - GKN) Free Reformed Churches in North America - (Dutch Reformed - CGKN) French Protestant (Huguenot) Church, Charleston, SC--The only French Calvinist or Huguenot congregation still existing in the United States. Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregations Hungarian Reformed Church in America Kingdom Network (inaugurating September 9, 2021 out of the RCA) Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church in America Netherlands Reformed Congregations Associated with the Dutch Reformed (Gereformeerde Gemeenten (Dutch)) churches in the Netherlands. Protestant Reformed Churches in America (Dutch Reformed - GKN) One of the most conservative of all Reformed/Calvinist denominations, the PRCA separated from the Christian Reformed Church in the 1920s in a schism over the issue of common grace. Reformed Congregations in North America Reformed Church in the United States (German Reformed) The majority of the original Reformed Church in the United States, which was founded in 1725, merged with Evangelical Synod of North America (a mix of German Reformed & Lutheran theologies) to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1940 (which would merge with the Congregational Christian Churches in 1957 to form the United Church of Christ) leaving the Eureka Classis serving as a Continuing church of the Reformed Church in the United States until 1986, when it was dissolved to form the Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States Reformed Church in America The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is the oldest Dutch Reformed denomination in the United States, dating back from the mid-17th century Reformed Church of Quebec United Reformed Churches in North America (Dutch Reformed - GKN) Congregational Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches Puritan Reformed Church Newfrontiers in the United States Sovereign Grace Churches (Credobaptist, charismatic)
I thought that Martin Luther was the unifying force in the Protestant Church. Why, then, are there 26 different groups of Lutherans in the USA who DO NOT worship together on the Lord's Day. Is not the Bible their sole authority? Then why is the Bible so contradictory? Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches Association of Free Lutheran Congregations Association of independent evangelical Lutheran churches[J] Augsburg Lutheran Churches Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Church of the Lutheran Confession Concordia Lutheran Conference Conservative Lutheran Association Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America General Lutheran Church Illinois Lutheran Conference Independent Lutheran Diocese[J] Laestadian Lutheran Church[I] Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Lutheran Church - International[J] Lutheran Churches of the Reformation Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church[B] Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA Lutheran Orthodox Church[J] Missionary Lutheran Church Old Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference Protes'tant Conference United Lutheran Mission Association
I thought that John Knox was a unifying force of the Protestant Church; yet, in North America, there are 35 versions of the Presbyterian Church. Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church - around 22,459 members (2018)[1] - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist, Covenanter & Seceder Bible Presbyterian Church - around 3,500 members - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist partially: Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches - around 15,000 members - Evangelical/Orthodox, Dutch Reformed/Presbyterian, Calvinist Cumberland Presbyterian Church - around 67,074 members (2016)[2] - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America - around 6,500 members - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America- 73 churches in the USA ECO (Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians) - more than 129,765 members, 320 churches and 500 Pastors (2018)[3] - Evangelical, Presbyterian[4][5] Evangelical Presbyterian Church - around 122,216 members (2018)[6] - Evangelical, Presbyterian, Charismatic[7] Korean-American Presbyterian Church - around 53,000 members - Conservative Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian, Calvinist Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad - around 55,000 members - Progressive Evangelical, Korean-Presbyterian Orthodox Presbyterian Church - around 31,472 members (2019)[8]- Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Presbyterian Church in America - around 383,338 members (2020)[9] - Evangelical, Presbyterian, Calvinist[10] Presbyterian Church in Canada - around 225,000 members - Presbyterian Presbyterian Church (USA) - around 1,245,354 members - Liberal, Presbyterian[11][12] Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America - around 7,800 members - Orthodox, Exclusive Psalmody, A cappella, Covenanter, Presbyterian, Calvinist partially: United Church of Canada - around 388,000 members (as of 12/31/2018) - Liberal, Presbyterian & Congregational & Methodist[13 American Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Covenant Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, 1646 Westminster Confession, Presbyterian, Calvinist[14] Covenanting Association of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches Evangel Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church Federation of Reformed Churches - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist, Paedocommunion Free Presbyterian Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Presbyterian Reformed Church - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Puritan Reformed Church Reformed Presbyterian Church - Hanover Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Reformed Presbytery in North America - Orthodox, Covenanter Presbyterian, Calvinist Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church - less than 1000 members - Conservative, Presbyterian, Four-Point Calvinist Vanguard Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist Free Church of Scotland - has 9 congregations in North America Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) - has 8 congregations in the USA Associated Presbyterian Churches - has 1 congregation in Vancouver Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
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It is not Mary in haste went to meet Elizabeth, it was God's plan , it was the Holy Spirit guided her, now catholic are giving more importance to Mary the mother of Jesus in human, than Father, Christ and Holy Spirit. Even she is not resurrected, no witness that she has gone to heaven, the Catholic made her the mother of God, even she was the mother of Jesus in human not God.
Praise Jesus.
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.
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
All catholics are not corrupt because the pope is, all Protestants are not self centric because you experienced one .... I know so many Catholics in my locality who are good , so are many protestants... Don't generalized bro.
Prostentant , Catholic etc those are fancy man made names, ultimately it's about God, not religion but relationship with Christ only ,
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.
You can always use one disgruntled individual who is then willing to caricature the church she just left, in order to bolster your own church. But let's not forget that tons of Catholics leave Catholicism for Protestant churches too. This video is a bit sloppy here.
It is all about God Father Son and Holy spirit Mary and previous saints are nice but do not have any meaning for protestants. Prayer is personal relationship with my Heavenly Father and Jesus christ. No need for prayer beads or repeating God's name over and over again. By the way Muslim are leaving islam to follow jesus not the Roman catholic church.
to lengvijspeeker - sorry about that but you won’t like what I say - you have the holy Catholic Church. You have 48,000 protestant CULTS including the Presbyterian CULT. ONLY Jesus can found a Church. Only Catholic’s go to Heaven because there’s NO division in paradise.
- 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
Protestantism tends to the Individual, often emotions, etc. Catholicism now has been invaded by a lot of Protestantism. But traditional Catholicism is more an obediance to Church authority, not the Self.
@Great1Duane like I said delusional? Catholic Church is not the “universal” church it thinks it is, do some research. Have a good day!
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This may be the funniest one I've watched yet, JD. Never have I ever attended any Protestant service that made it about me. Your assuming the prosperity gospel pastors represent all Protestantism is an absolute joke.😅 My church teaches that I must die to self, and it is no longer my life I live, but Christ living in me. I used to watch your videos to challenge my own understanding, now they are for entertainment purposes only.😊 I look forward to the day you do a video on the bad popes and the bad priests throughout the years where you say they represent the RC church and it's views correctly.
Popes and priests are human. They struggle just like anyone else.
Come to the Catholic Church and truly learn how to die to yourself and live our Christ in you.
Rc church is all about God, and what God established and ordained with His Apostles.
Even if some priests and popes are not faithful.
Protestant herectics going on about God, and the bible, the bible that they took from catholic church and made thousands of counterfeit denominations, ignoring everything Jesus established.
And no we are not saved just by believing in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ established a new covenant, with baptism jonh 3:5
Confession jonh 20:23
And the last supper wich is the institution of Eucharist.
To live what Jesus established and ordained we must believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and saviour.
Never he said ignore what I ordained with you as long as you believe in me you are saved.
Instead He established the Eucharist, and said.
Jonh6 53:54
Yes protestantism is completely false all of it.
No exception.
Millions are dying in their sins thinking they are already saved.
@@mariamartins5796 yep, just more Christ like love from your team. I'm so shocked.😁
@@mariamartins5796 you just couldn’t resist with your diatribe of hate? I forgive your arrogance and hope you find love in your heart! ❤️
1 John 4:20-21
@@NP-vk8de not for me I don't hate one soul in this earth.
Telling the truth is not hate on the contrary.
And it's time for people to tell the truth.
Enough of letting the wolves devour souls.
On the other hand calling someone hater when they speak the true seems something quite evil to me..
That is exactly what satan does, to stop the truth from coming out.
I would expect nothing less from Catholics and their followers!
Catholic services don't exactly bring people to Jesus. Catholics tend to worship the saints and Mary. That's as far from God as you can get. The pope is a man and yet people kiss him as if he were special. Religion is just a bunch of rules and regulations. You can't be good enough to get into Heaven by your own works. Jesus is the only way to the father. If you're calling out others, make sure you check yourself to see where you are with Jesus. Sometimes we have a plank in our own eye. We can see others faults, but we tend not to see our own.
You’re in a cult ❤
@OkieGirlsWorld - you are certainly welcome to believe and profess whatever you want to believe, but to glean this from OUR book, the Bible, is just plain silly…
History shows us that Jesus didn't leave us a bible, the apostles didn't tell us which books belong in the bible, the church fathers never agreed on the 27 books of the NT through the 4th century, not only did they not agree but their individual lists of would-be NT canons were GROWING during this time, growing in numbers of hundreds of “inspired” NT writings. So, if it wasn't the Catholic/Orthodox church that compiled the 27 books of the NT in the 5th century with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and preserved it by laboriously hand copying them over and over throughout the centuries before the invention of the printing press, the “rule of faith” for many, please tell us, show us, who did? And if this church no longer exists today, what good is the text which came forth from her if she couldn't sustain herself?
The click bait has to stop.
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
only God is love, so without God you can never love. dont even attempt self-produced love by law works. stay in the gospel. there is no another gospel, not through law works. God paid for your freedom from under the law, so dont go back under the sin activated by/through the law. yes you will hate everyone with your law. and you become the law, not even the law itself. anyone who judges.
My man, read the New Testament properly. Humans are made like Titanium. They are hard to crack and mould. Titanium is named after the Greek Titans, and so was Titus. Again, read the New Testament properly, and learn something.
Protestants rebelled and leaned on their own understanding. Exactly as the Enemy did.
Yes they rebelled against a fraudulent church full of killers and sexual deviants! I’ll side with the people that don’t burn priests at the stake for trying to make copies of the Bible to give away! I’ll side with the people that don’t just allow pedophiles and homosexual priests to thrive and flourish in their perversions but hides and protects them from justice! I’ll side with the churches that stick to the Bible and the Bible only as being sufficient and not man made fictions, idols and traditions that do nothing for bringing people to God!
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Protestant worship music is super helpful when I'm suffering though. I feel like what is most important is bridging the gap. A lot of people in the Protestant denominations are deeply poisoned and traumatized against Catholicism. They need a lot of respect and understanding to be drawn into the deeper more consistent relationship available in Catholicism.
‘Deeper and consistent’ depends on the person, not the church! And your understanding of Protestants isn’t just flawed and incomplete but outright wrong!
@@Halloweendm How is his understanding of Protestants "outright wrong" . All he said is that they need respect and understanding... Are you saying they need to be disrespected? What kind of fake Christian are you?
You wrote "Protestanismo" (missing second "T") in the thumbnail
You are kidding right you guys worship Mary more than anything else...
Do you still speak in tongues?
to gospeljoy - it’s very important that one worships in the holy Catholic Church because it’s the ONLY CHURCH and has Jesus present in the tabernacle! Look up Eucharist miracle’s by Bob and Penny Lord.
I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH YOUR ASSESSMENT AND OBSERVATION
She and u were in the wrong church
John 3:3 convinced me to flee the lukewarm Catholic Church.