tigeruniverse

I am thinking about buying one but worry about door dings parking it at my apartment complex.

How distraught can your interior life be to post such a comment on a public forum about one of the most holiest person to walk this earth?

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Most of us are one accident/sickness/mishap away from being on the street.
Ask yourself how low can your self esteem be to be making fun of beggars? Perhaps higher but I doubt it's much more.

“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”
? Fulton J. Sheen

I envy your dad. It is a selfless dedication to Christ and His Church. :bow:

Do you feel the urge to spread the Gospel or is it just superficial/ego thing? If your faith is not strong, your preaching will suffer and people will notice.

If I preach to you a wealth and prosperity gospel you would accuse me of profiting. If I preach to you a gospel about the evil of sins but without any consequences then you'll accuse me of lying. Like I said earlier, the truth hurts and all of us are free to accept it or not.

"For instance, Bishop Sheen had led a retreat for priests one weekend. One of the talks he gave was on the Real Presence of the Eucharist. One priest in attendance evidently was struggling with his faith. Indeed, he had a hard time believing that Jesus Christ was really present- body, blood, soul and divinity –under the appearance of bread and wine. After expressing his doubts, Bishop Sheen explained the doctrine of the Real Presece to the priest in a variety of ways. When that did not help assuage the doubts of the priest, with a keen spiritual instinct, Sheen abruptly asked him in an accusatory manner: “Is she a blond or a brunette?” Becoming indignant, the priest responded by asking what the bishop meant. Bishop Sheen then clarified his question: “Is the woman you are now with a blond or a brunette?” Absolutely incensed, and in so many words, the priest retorted back, “How dare you accuse me of being with a woman!!” Then he stormed off. The next day the doubting priest, who was deeply offended by the accusation the day before, approached Bishop Sheen and said, “She is a blond.” This good bishop understood that the moral blight of sexual sin dims the light of spiritual truth. He was able to connect the dots in a moments notice." LINK

"On being blunt, I recall a story Patrick Madrid told on his radio show once. He was traveling, in the airport I think, and this woman found out somehow that he was a Catholic apologist. They got to talking and she expressed a bunch of hurt, I mean, tons of hurt, and much of it having to do with Catholic family members, etc. She was telling him how free not being in the Church felt to her now. She seemed to be one of those people who loved to just put it all out there with strangers.
Anyway, she eventually asked him what he thought. Patrick blurted out something like, I think you need to go to confession. Her eyes immediately changed, sunk, she got angry and said something to the effect of, see, this is why I'm glad I left. Got up and walked away.
Understandably Patrick felt like an idiot and kept replaying the interchange over and over in his head for days. What could I have said instead? How could I have been more Christlike? How could I have been so stupid?
Cut to a couple weeks later, she looked him up (knowing he was a radio guy), and contacted him to let him know she went to confession and received the Eucharist for the first time in ages, because he got through to her. He was blown away."

"Sin is not the worst thing in the world, the denial of sin is. If I deny I am a sinner how can I ever be forgiven."

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

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2. Mary received grace just like all believers.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Rom 3:23)

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It's late so I'll leave you this link. God Bless
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