How does St. John end the year? He tells us: “Be Catholic!”

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This is the last day of the year! What does St. John tell us to do?

Question 1: “Today is the last day of the year! How does St. John end the year?”

Answer: “St. John tells us: “Be Catholic”!

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Question 2: “Where does St. John tell us that?”

Answer: “1 Jn 2:18-21 begins with his warning! ‘Children, it is the last hour; . . .’

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Question 3: “Does St. John say what will happen in ‘the last hour’?

Answer: “Yes! ‘ . . and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared.’

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Question 4: “Who are those ‘anti-Christs’ who ‘have appeared’?”

Answer: “Those who are willfully against This Teaching from Christ are anti-Christ’! ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’

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Question 5: “Is St. John telling us that Willful Protestants are here to show us Catholics that ‘the last hour’ is near?”

Answer: “That is why he repeats ‘Thus we know this is the last hour.’!”

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Question 6: “Does St. John tell us that Willful Protestants have chosen to disobey Words of Jesus?”

Answer: “They made the wrong choice! ‘They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us.

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Question 7: “What does their failure to have ‘remained with us’, Christ’s obedient Disciples, show?”

Answer: “St. John again repeats a simple truth! ‘Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.’

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Question 8: “Does St. John tell us that obedient Catholics are closer to God than Willful Protestants?”

Answer: “Yes! ‘But you (obedient Catholics) have the anointing that comes from the Holy One, and you (obedient Catholics) all have knowledge.’

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Question 9: “Does St. John make it even clearer that obedient Catholics are closer to God than Willful Protestants?”

Answer: “Yes! ‘I write to you (obedient Catholics) not because you do not know the truth but because you (obedient Catholics) do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.’

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Question 10: “Does anyone need more reasons to be in The Only Church Spoken Into Being by Words of Jesus Christ, Himself?”

Answer: “St. John is clear that Catholics are blessed to know: ‘. . every lie is alien to The Truth.’

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Simple reasons to be Catholic. catholicfundamentalism.com

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