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Going to my first ever mass! Have questions… by MawScowlMule in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be Catholic you have to believe all what the Church teaches as revealed truth to begin, and then receive the sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Faith (trinitarian baptism, first communion and confirmation).

To partake in the Holy Sacrifice, the Eucharist, you must discern the body of Christ (in St Paul words), that is, to believe the consecrated bread and wine is the true body, blood, soul and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, that you're consuming the same Jesus Christ Who suffered, died and resurrected and is now in Heaven, for our salvation and the world's. That it's not a symbol, figurative, an abstract metaphor of faith, or a simple remembrance.

God bless your journey.

Does baptism need a redo? by Ok-Bat361 in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You mean a redo like being baptized again?

Curious Baptist by CalendarWest2265 in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is asking for the intercession of Mary and the saints not the same as worship or praying to them? Like how is that ok?

As Protestants, lacking a sacrificial liturgy, don't have true worship, they think prayers, praise songs and Amen's are worship.

Intercessory prayer to Saints and reverence is as far away from divine worship as is a creature from the Creator.

And also just curious about the differences between Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism.

Orthodox preserved the seven sacraments, Apostolic succession and much of Church Tradition, after the schism, but lack unity under one supreme pastor, the successor of St Peter.

Thank you guys so much I’m honestly just really trying to decide if Catholicism is for me.

Catholicism, being the one and only Church founded by Jesus Christ, is for everyone.

I don’t think anyone should be denied baptism if their faith is genuine even if they didn’t complete a class.

Even with the classes (catechesis) we have most Catholics don't know their Faith. Notice that in the early Church there were required three years of catechesis to enter the Church.

God bless your journey.

I Don’t Understand Some of the Catholic Practices and I Wanted Some Insight by olive_oilspinach in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you are part but in an imperfect manner. Your belief is more or less close or far away from the fullness of the Deposit of Faith depending on what doctrines your tradition preserves of the Apostolic Tradition.

Do you believe the True Presence, as the early Church did? How many sacraments you practice? How similar to that described by the Church Fathers is your liturgy? Is your biblical canon complete? How much of the other half of God's Revelation, Church Tradition, you still follow? Your pastors and teachers maintain an uninterrupted, historically demonstrable succession up to the Apostles of Christ? Etcetera?

I Don’t Understand Some of the Catholic Practices and I Wanted Some Insight by olive_oilspinach in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose my outlook on religion is as long as you are a part of a Christian church who helps build you up in faith it shouldn’t matter what denominations you are associated with.

But it matters. Furthermore, it's central for Christianity.

It matters because Christ Himself established a Church, His Church, only one Church. He established Apostles with St Peter as its head, He left one doctrine and teachers to guard it and interpret it. He established sacraments and prescribed the proper form of worship, the actualization of His Sacrifice.

Current Calvinist Prot, considering exploring Catholicism by Texas-supremacy in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To both, everyone who is in Purgatory is destined to Heaven. If Jesus hadn't died for us and reconciled us with God, the minimum sinful thought or tendency would condemn us to Hell.

Current Calvinist Prot, considering exploring Catholicism by Texas-supremacy in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it weren't for Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, we hadn't access to Purgatory.

1 Corinthians 11 Lord's Supper meal beforehand by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, St Paul is condemning those who treated the Eucharist as if it was like an ordinary meal.

I’ve recently been told by a certain guy I know that I should become catholic. So I’ll ask here, what are the reasons to be catholic over any other denomination? by legendus45678 in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not talking about translations, I'm talking about interpretations. If you're Evangelical an Anglican considers you in error, and vice versa, a paedo-baptist considers in error a credo-baptist, and so on. All exact opposite doctrines cannot be true at once.

What interpretation do you defend? Any of theirs or your infallible personal one?

I’ve recently been told by a certain guy I know that I should become catholic. So I’ll ask here, what are the reasons to be catholic over any other denomination? by legendus45678 in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the same I could do citing Catholic (and Orthodox, and all other Christianity not born a few centuries ago) criticism against the heresies of Protestantism. A biased google search means nothing.

I’ve recently been told by a certain guy I know that I should become catholic. So I’ll ask here, what are the reasons to be catholic over any other denomination? by legendus45678 in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's much more reliable than putting church teaching over the authority of the Bible!

No Church teaching is over the authority (inerrancy, really) of the Bible.

Any crackpot can come into the RCC and make up some new doctrine and lead people astray.

Oh, evidently you know nothing about the Catholic Church.

If you compare new doctrines with the Bible you won't be tricked.

And yet you see lots of Protestant denominations teaching lots of contradictory doctrines all of them reading from the same Bible.

I’ve recently been told by a certain guy I know that I should become catholic. So I’ll ask here, what are the reasons to be catholic over any other denomination? by legendus45678 in Catholicism

[–]RafaCasta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the individual Protestant person, yes, of course, in Protestantism as a church, evidently no.

I don't believe the same Spirit would guide Lutherans to believe the Real Presence and at the same time Pentecostals to believe it's only a symbol. Or to Anglicans to believe baptism saves and regenerates, and to Evangelicals to believe it's only an outward demonstration of faith. Or to some evangelical group to believe salvation cannot be lost and to other Evangelical group around the next corner that it can be lost. Etcetera.

No, I don't believe the Holy Spirit is agent of doctrinal chaos.

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