The Toughest Catholic Doctrine to Accept.
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- "Indulgences". That word just sounds strange in the context of our faith. What are the common misconceptions people have about the Catholic teaching on Indulgences? How do they work? Do we still have them or was this abolished after the Reformation? How can we apply this to our everyday life? Tune in to the next episode of Catholic Feedback to hear what keith has to say.
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Indulgences are a very important issue to be addressed. I was taught the awfulness of this practice, but later in life, I informed myself and saw its grace.
I live in Peru and was born in a low-class district. My parents were able to provide a good education for me by sending me to a Catholic school. It turns out that this school was a big portion of land donated by a rich Spaniard to the Church in the 1800. He generously specified in his Will to give that land for the education of poor girls, which helped me more than 100 years later. I'm not sure if he received an indulgence for that, but many people gave their possessions from their hearts to help the Church and spread the Gospel. Under this logic, I do understand that the Church would give indulgences for their acts of charity.
Thank u for this Keith, I grew up a protestant believer, & a anti-catholic on top of that inside a Baptist Church.
Indulgences is something of course we Protestants always had trouble with, but now that I found the truth in The Holy Catholic Apostolic Church, I needed to study this for my family can see what the Church always taught about
Indulgences. So u have left us with great info that we can fact-check on our own time, & be able to share this message to other protestants.
So thank u
God bless u, & your family & God bless u all my brothers, & sisters 💯🙏🏼📿🌹🇻🇦💪🏻
Keith please keep posting content, you are one of the few calm, common sense voices left on social media! Please post more content encouraging Catholics with uplifting messages rather than just focusing on apologetics. Lots of men do apologetics. As a former pastor you offer something more unique which is a pastoring perspective: encouraging us in our faith, helping us deepen our understanding of Catholic living. I would love you to do a series on saints from the past 100 years and how they speak to us. As much as I love the community of saints from the past 2,000 years, we need to hear the stories of how Catholics are holding fast in the modern era. Other Christians or atheists NEVER hear these stories (except maybe about Mother Teresa) even Padre Pio is barely known outside the Catholic Church. That would be a new kind of apologetics i.e. it's all very well believing doctrine is true but how is it LIVED. That would be really powerful.
What about the young Italian Catholic who used the internet to evangelize (maybe he should be your patron 😄) who was recently beatified. PLEASE consider this as this is the content we need! 🙏 RUclips Catholics are mostly men, mostly talking a) traditional apologetics b) Catholic news c) ranting about various issues.
You may want to play to your strengths, don't just do what everyone else is doing. Be a pastor and present content as a PASTOR not an apologist. You are actually the only Catholic RUclips channel whose channel I watch regularly as I find many of the others can be more "niche". I appreciate that you speak to everyone, you don't pigeonhole yourself. To stand out, please don't just do what has already been done ad nauseum i.e. lots of apologetic topics. Talk about spirituality, prayer, the saints, encouragement, how to build a strong prayer life. I would like to see you bring on your parish priest or others to talk about the spiritual life rather than the same guests that cycle around all the Catholic RUclips channels, such as Gospel Simplicity, Matt Fradd etc because then you are just in a small circle sharing the same content with each other. Have on a Franciscan of the Renewal Brother and a Sister, talk to people out there serving rather than just the RUclips talking heads. That would be way more interesting and original. Thanks for listening. May God continue to bless all that you do 🙏
Thank you so much for that compliment. I am indeed trying to not just do what everybody else does. For Catholic feedback, I am answering questions from emails, so this is what I am working with. When I do have guests I want to have them address something that will help build people up, not just cover the same old stuff. I feel like the Unpacking the Mass Bible study and the daily Rosary are geared towards that. I have some other ideas too. Stay tuned for what I post tomorrow :). I really appreciate what you are saying. Thank you so much!!
@@KeithNester i am one those who have recently joined the Rosary Crew and also watch your reflections on the Sunday readings, you are definitely a breath of fresh air Keith and I also appreciate that you don't get drawn into some of the conflicts inside the Church but are facing outward and focusing on building up your brothers and sisters. I also like all the encouragement and hope you convey.
@@KeithNester , i absolutely agree with Beautiful Spirit.
You’re actually doing well, Keith, and keep it up, please, and never, ever stop what you’re doing, brother.
The ideas of Beautiful Spirit though are just very good suggestions for your future program or plan.
God bless, Keith.
All for the glory of our amazing God in Christ Jesus!
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thank you for a good revealing of this mystery
This is incredibly enlightening. I have done several acts of mortification but never really understood what they are for. Midway through fasting, i "allow" myself to slip; acts of charity becomes plain giving. I still believe that these efforts are good but the way I am doing it lacks understanding and depth that it does not fully unite my acts to God's will or plan. This explanation of Indulgence inspires me and give me more motivation to continue what I am doing. This time though, it will bear a deeper significance and meaning. Thank you Keith! You are awesome! God is good!
I am agree, it's some members that abuse of the authority that Jesus give.
Thank you for tackling this topic of indulgences! Because of my background as an agnostic and unbeliever, doctrines such as indulgences made me laugh out loud. You've done a great job explain and have given me a lot to think about.
Thanks for the kind words!
What a worthy and holy mission to pray for our deceased loved ones in purgatory to give them realese
Keith, I want to shake your hand. Thank you. While I am not really pursuing indulgences, I have months ago added to my daily prayers, based on my own research, "Please also forgive me for the temporal results and consequences of all my sins." Because of you I think I am on the right track. In my next confession I will say the same thing. I guess our salvation comes one step at a time. - Not sinless, but really trying. God bless, and happy new year.
Wow. That was excellent... I had gotten to a friendly place with indulgences but not necessarily felt excited that they are truly something I can offer towards the eternal outcomes for others. The scripture references were so helpful! Thank you for the clarity but most of all for the obvious excitement you have in communicating it. It's contagious! 👏 🙏🔥
Excellent teaching, Keith. I looked into indulgences myself before converting, but didn’t understand it as well as I do now, thanks to you. I am blessed by your ministry daily. God bless you and your family.
God bless you Mr. Keith Nester .
A great explanation. God bless you
Thanks alot brother, that was a full house of unpacking about the indulgences. Saves me a ton of studying it on my own. Where rubber meets the road really is a practical application of the faith. God bless this ministry. 👍
So glad the Gospel is free. Jesus didn't grant forgiveness for the payment of money. He paid for my sins in full on the cross. Thank God for the protestant Reformation!
Beautiful video Thank you Keith
Thank you for this explanation, I have come to see indulgences as a spiritual rehab and thank God for His grace and mercy upon us.
Great podcast for all the homeboys, Keith! Clear and sound. 😀
Thank you Keith.
Very well presented. Great question from homeboy!
Thanks for bringing clarity on indulgences
Thanks alot, I am a convert also didn't really had or understand the indulgence and seen it the reformation way and I'll be a Catholic but leave this part. Your talk as really help me to learn the truth really I appreciate it
Well done, Keith! Indulgences are such a misunderstood concept! You did a very good job of clearing up the bad and explaining the good! Thank you!
Hey Keith can you make a video on catholic miracles and the attacks on them
I haven’t had the chance to watch your videos in a while but this is an interesting topic, I look forward to watching it. Thank you, God Bless
it's a great question!
Thank you for this, Keith!
Thank you for explaining this
I’m glad this helped you
greetings😇
Keith, I appreciate the discussion, I have always got snagged on "temporal". BTW, being an Iowa boy I loved your straw vs hay example. I can relate! Peace, Happy Easter Dave in Altoona
Thanks Dave!
Thank you for explaining
Great teaching brother!
Loved this !!!!! Thank you!
Act of the devil; that’s what the indulgences really were. It took advantage of the superstitious and those who were unlearned concerning the wonderful truths of the Bible.
To think that a system would deliberately suppress the truths of God’s word and claim infallibility on its part is unthinkable, but this is what happened during the period known as the Dark Ages when there was papal supremacy. Thank God for people like Martin Luther who himself was a monk. When God opened the eyes of this humble God- fearing man he nailed 95 theses on the door of a church exposing the abuses and falsehood of that fallen church. Had not God protected Luther, he too would have been one of the many who were burnt at the stake for opposing the false doctrines of that system.
History has not forgotten, and the blood of God’s people remains on it pages. “ come out of her, my people , lest you share in her sins, and receive of her plagues, for her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities”
One can read about that in the last book of the Bible, Revelation 18: 1-6.
Come out of her, get into the ark of safety before it’s eternally too late.
As a convert I have read the Catechism but I didnt fully understant the role of undulgences. I have done prayers like the Devine Mercy and Chaplet of St Michael that have indulgences for those who pray these faithfully. It must be remembered Anglican Churches offered Monuments of the deceased in Churches in exchange for Money. The Catholic Church doesnt lay down a minimum Donation for Mass like some Reformed Churches. We should remember the wood in our neighbours eye not to see the log in our own. Love our neighbours as our selves. But remember whats said about our faith comes from prejudice
For Jews alms giving is very important even to this day!!! And remember love can cover a multitude of sin!
Wow! What a great job you're doing Mr Keith. Please how do I come in contact with you? I am JohnRex a Cameroonian situated in Africa
Martin Luther... indulgences caused issues
You da man Keith!
As someone who was tempted to convert, Marian theology was the show-stopper. But I confess, were I a convert, I wouldn’t participate in indulgences. Theologically, it would make more sense under something like Buddhism, not Jesus Christ.
Can. 995 §1. In addition to the supreme authority of the Church, only those to whom this power is acknowledged in the law or granted by the Roman Pontiff can bestow indulgences
The treasury of the church is the Gospel.
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Saints in purgatory? Did you just said that? Pls explain. They are still being purified in purgatory, so how they be saints in purgatory?
If that's the case, I'm in trouble 😳
There was a time when those in the Church were called saints (see the NT where the word saint often referred to those in the church on Earth).
But what is a saint? Today we technically mean those who have been judged (at the immediate judgement after death) to be worthy of heaven and are enjoying the Beatific Vision and have been declared so by the Vatican.
If you take the median ground between those of the Church on Earth being called saints; and those after the immediate judgement to be found worthy of the beatific vision but must first experience purgatory (for they will never lose their salvation so they are saved; just not fully saved yet); then you can consider them saints since they are saved and they can pray for us though they cannot pray for themselves and the Vatican has declared those in purgatory will indeed go to heaven.
The two toughest are indulgences and Extra Ecclesia nulla salus
Not sure how that doctrine is “tough”, let alone “toughest” - but so be it. The best source for the doctrine underlying the practice may be Paul VI’s 1968 Apostolic Constitution “Indulgentiarum Doctrina” - English translation here: www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_01011967_indulgentiarum-doctrina.html
I would imagine that the toughest Catholic doctrine to accept, is the belief that God created the Universe thirteen billion years ago, and suddenly noticed that two thousand years ago, enormous quantities of his flesh and blood were being consumed on a daily basis by countless Catholics. Quite a shock, I would imagine.
Do...do...do... The Gospel says..
It is done!
It is done Jesus defeated death, that we can enter heaven that was done, God is not finished with us yet. The New comes after his resurrection we need to believe and (do) what he commanded to do is all within His Church starting with the apostles Jesus gave this order to be obeyed this is the grace to be forgiven by a minister if Christ John 20: 21-23
To receive everlasting life John 6: 48- this is the ❤of the faith we believe and obey His words. With love❤to you
think of King David...he was not allowed the honor of building God's temple.
true!
Indulgences are just ways to pay penance for your sins that bring us closer to God such as prayer or reading scripture. Nothing scary
Indulgences are paying money 💰 🤑 to get out of a non existent place called purgatory.
I've also got a bridge for sale...
What a scam!
SO much corruption and false manmade doctrine. Satan's "Christian" church and so many deceived.
Your the scammer and it cost nothing to pray for loved ones for their salvation! Stop spreading misinformation
No , once saved always saved is a scam!!!
@@rsmyth75 You don't know what you're talking about.
@@rsmyth75 when a coin in the coffer rings , a soul from purgatory springs
Hey Keith, might probably want to correct the typographical error in the thumbnail!
DONE! Good call. That's the 2nd time this week that's happened to me. Thanks for pointing it out.
When you really delve into the life of Martin Luther, it’s clear that the indulgence issue was just an excuse that he used and our Protestant brethren really accept this as the reason of the reformation . He had OCD about sin and wanted a guarantee of Heaven ( once saved always saved) .So Luther then, wouldn’t need an indulgence bc once you’ve been baptized, you’re go to go Heaven no matter how many sins you commit,
Satisfaction of Christ AND the saints? Only Jesus made satisfaction for our sins.
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it's the elephant in the room
Not a single protestant even scholars have ever properly defined or understood indulgences. Go listen to any prot talking about indulgences or trying to explain it.
If someone sins against ME, I will decide if I forgive him or not, not God, Jesus, Holy Spirits, priests, or any other nobody who thinks he has the power.
Jesus said “ If we don’t forgive neither will the Father in Heaven forgive you!” If we remember that it will help us to forgive and not have a “ selfish attitude “ about it.
From now on your only gonna get emails from funny named accounts...
Uh, cuz not true.
Indulgences, Purgatory and burning in Hell forever is not from God's word. "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Jesus talked about hell more than heaven. Any true Christian knows there is a heaven and a hell. And purgatory is in the Bible. You are just not reading the correct Bible if you don’t see it.