Thank you! We thank God for you cradle Catholics who have welcomed us home!❤

@@gather.sip.flourish And thankyou for thanking us cradle-Catholics. We sometimes get a bad wrap! Welcome home sister. Pax

Amen! Me too!

Me too

Hello! My first mass was definitely a lot different than most churches I went to growing up, but I had attended a few Anglican services in college so liturgy wasn't completely foreign to me. However, I almost ran into my friend when he geneluflected when walking and I was so confused why he was doing that 😂 lots of little things like that I kept having him explain and finally he said he'd tell me after haha. Those passages and others were definitely eye-opening for me. Once I re-examined them I realized there was no way as a Protestant to fit them into my theology without doing a lot of hermeneutical gymnastics

@@ChrisKellam-yo3rg There is a couple of videos on this KZfaq channel Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Church BHC Titled - Gestures & Postures at Mass That will explain a lot

To each other? or a priest?

@@gersonpinto8905 Christ said to each other and that if the one cannot reconcile with the other to take it to the church. The church being a physical church where we now have bishops and priests that work for that bishop. This is why Paul in his epistles says that Jesus has made them ambassadors for Christ and that the church has the ministry of reconciliation through which they are able to forgive sins with the power Christ has given them.

Thanks so much!

@@CatholicDefender-bp7my - it is difficult for me, but I will pray for him.

Gee whiz. What kind comments! Thank you! 😄

And please take this as just a good natured joking from your good friends south of the border. :)

We may have to invade Canada to save them from Trudeau then the can invade us to save US from the madness happening here now! 😂😂😂Oh Canada!

Please invade and save us here, on the natural level. And pray for us.

God bless you too!

Hello - it was the August 2020 version of Life magazine.

Ha ha. Thank you! 😂

Thomas, the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of "original sin" is much more Biblical that the Roman view.

The official teaching of the Church can be found in the CCC beginning with paragraph 1213-1284. Your specific inquiry may be found in paragraph 1263.

@@CatholicDefender-bp7my Good grief "Catholic Defender", why don't you know the difference between what the Eastern Church and the Western Church believe on the nature of sin and how they each define "original sin" ? Get an Orthodox Study Bible, which I carry to Church, and read what the Orthodox believe ( which is what the Early Church believed). I'm not Orthodox but they have it right in my view and are true to the Apostolic Tradition.

@@roddumlauf9241 What Greek ECF do you cite that have a clear developed view of "original sin" before even 300 AD. Saint Clement of Alexandria, writing from Egypt is 1 of the first ECF to speak of a sin inherited from Adam, though he did not have a full developed doctrine to explain it. See Fragments of Saint Clement of Alexandria found in Fragment from Eusebius History of the Church. Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon in France, writing around 180 AD has an early doctrine on original sin, but again not fully developed. In his work Against Heresies he states " Indeed, through the first Adam, we offended God by not observing his Command then saying because of the 2nd Adam (Christ) we are reconciled. Origin in his Commentaries of Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans says the Church received from the Apostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants for the Apostles new that in everyone there is the innate stains of sin. Saint Cyprian of Carthage writing to Fidus around 251 speaks of baptism and grace and again the need for infants to be baptized stating that infants have not sinned except that being born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of the old death from his being born....and states the sins being forgiven him are not his own but those of another. In summary, the earliest ECF on Original sin are from Saint Clement of Alexandria writing around 200 AD, Origen 244 AD, who would be in the Eastern Church with Saint Irenaeus writing around 180 AD and Saint Cyprian of Carthage 251 AD (West). So on what grounds do you say the Orthodox have the right view on Original Sin.

lol

For an old Catholic dog you’re sure good at typing!

catholics cannot be "dogs" Mt7:6, Rev22:15 etc

Jesus never said that infants or little children couldn't be baptized. He never mentioned the age, only that we must be baptized with water and the holy spirit. 😊

@po18guy even figures of speech can't be contrary to Scriptures where dogs are associated with impurity and heathen. You won't find a saint who ever practiced humility comparing or thinking of himself as a dog, even as a figure of apeech.

Many Protestants are never baptized yet consider themselves Christians. It's odd that they think you're only "partially Christian". You're either a Christian or not a Christian, there is no such thing as part of you goes to heaven and the rest stays behind. I was Evangelical before converting to Catholicism, and I was very judgemental towards Catholics. But I was wrong, not just for being judgemental, but for my own ignorance of what Catholics believe and why they believe it. Arguing with many Protestants is like arguing with "flat-earthers". Just because they're strongly convinced "the earth is flat" (that they believe whatever theology they believe) doesn't make the earth flat (or them right).

Thanks for letting me know. I always set the ads at least 10 minutes apart but it looks like KZfaq reset the timings on me. I've fixed them. You shouldn't be seeing that many ads!

@@TheCordialCatholicthank you for addressing this problem finally. I pointed it out weeks ago, and you dismissed my concerns. It’s especially frustrating when the ads contradict natural law or Church teachings. Again thank you.

Here you are again. Im pretty sure you didnt watch the podcast nor watch this video. You just despise anybody who converts to His Church and starts attacking them . These people were Born Again Christians before ,but it was not adequate and fulfilling ,so they decided to seek for full and authentic Christianity and found it in His church !

@po18guy By faith alone. That's what the scriptures say. Your popes first say anyone can be saved without faith in Jesus. It can be anyone that believes anything. Then they say only by the catholic 'church'. You should read what your false teachings say.

@@truthhurtsalways4u Not adequate? You deny what the scripture says. People who are born again don't need a wafer or a priest.

@@user-wk1li2cm5o you have a warped interpretation of that verse. The only one who can infallibly interpret Scripture verses is the Magisterium of the Catholic Church , not you nor me.Remember, the Bible came from the Catholic Church. Just to reiterate these Converts were former Born Again Christians. There are tons of books available at BN , Amazon authored by former Born Again Christians who are now Catholic. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions who were in your shoes before who are now Catholic. I myself was a Catholic became Born Again Christian but eventually reverted to His Catholic Church . Many Catholics who have became anti Catholic Born Again Christians , including some who became Pastors have also reverted to His Church .Just two days ago , i watcheda video of an ex Catholic , who became an anti Catholic Born Again Pastor, he and his family are now Catholic just last year. You should free your mind , read, read, read ancient Christian history and dig deeper!

​@@user-wk1li2cm5o Where does it say faith alone. Does the bible just stop there or did Jesus have other teachings. You're ignoring all of his other teachings. Is your bible a single sentence? Did Jesus say nothing else?

His channel, his personality. There are other Catholic channels you can listen to if you don't like his style. Many of us enjoy his way.

Hey Caleb! Good to hear from you. My first question in response would be what you mean by your question, because a truth can be contained in the Bible without being explicitly stated. For example, the word "Trinity" never appears in the Bible, but the truths and principles about the Trinity are, and when understood together we call this the doctrine of the Trinity. So if you're looking for a verse that says "practice indulgences" you won't find it, in the same way you won't find the words "everything we believe has to be explicitly stated in the Bible." That being said, here are verses that those doctrine can be found in: Indulgences - 2 Maccabees 12:43, 46 describes making an offering for the sins of the dead, which is what an indulgence is. In order to understand what that means though, you first have to understand the Catholic distinction between the eternal and temporal punishment for sins. Indulgences have to do with the temporal punishment (attachment to sin that I've already been forgiven for). The same principles are necessary for understanding purgatory correctly. I explained this somewhat in the video so I won't lay it all out again, but both of these are solidly built on biblical principles (see 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 for purgatory). For confessing sins to a priest, I think it's even more explicit in Scripture: see John 20:21-23. Jesus tells the apostles that by the power of the Holy Spirt they have the authority to forgive sins. To forgive another's sins assumes and demands those sins are being confessed. This authority was given to the apostles and their successors (bishops and priests). Of course God is the one actually forgiving, because he alone can forgive sins, but that doesn't mean God can't exercise that authority through human instruments if he desires, which he clearly does in this passage, and continues to do so in the Church today. Of course these passage and these interpretations can be debated - which is where the more fundamental question of authority comes in as I talked about in the video. It's not a question of the Bible vs. the Catholic Church, but a question of who is interpreting the Bible correctly. I can always send you stuff on this if you're interested. Hope you're well man!

Great response and explanation.

Well said!

@@ChrisKellam-yo3rg Great post. Regarding purgatory which is connected to prayers for the dead (as you note by citing 2 Maccabees 12:43-46), another passage that that I have really done more in-depth study on recently is 2 Timothy 1: 15-18. William Albrecht at Patristic Pillars did a presentation on this passage from Saint Paul and went through Saint John Chrysostom's Homily/commentary on this 2 Timothy (Homily 3 explains 2 Timothy 1: 15-18). While I have Catholic Bibles/Commentaries that indicate that Onesiphorus is likely is dead before Saint Paul wrote 2 Timothy thus indicating Saint Paul praying for the dead, and I think Chyrsostoms Homily 3 suggest that as well (I had not read that one in detail before), what William Albrecht did in that presentation is consult several protestant commentaries and note that also suggest that Onesiphorus is likely dead. Thus, Saint Paul praying for his friend here is called in these protestant commentaries a "pious wish"!!!. Kind of playing word games here it seems to me.

The word “ Bible” cannot be found in the Bible itself. When my Protestant hairdresser went to the Holy Land. He looked for KJV . He was out of luck as Palestinian traders just sell Catholic Bibles. Literally all of them consider Catholics as the only true Christians and others are Protestants.some of them do not even know the word Evangelicals or Protestant based on videos ,I watched here on YT.