Today’s Reading has Wonderful Reasons to BE Catholic!
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Question 1: “How does Today’s Reading tell us to be Catholic?”
Answer: “Today’s Reading tells us that Jesus finds and calls His Catholic ‘friends’ to Heaven!’“
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Question 2: “What do His Catholic ‘friends’ do on earth?”
Answer: “They strive to be among those described in John, 15:14: ‘You are My friends if you obey My commands.’”
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Question 3: “Can we tell who His ‘friends’ are by what they do?”
Answer: “Today’s Psalm 145: 10-18, tells us! ‘Your friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of Your Kingdom. Your faithful ones bless You, they discourse of The Glory of Your Kingdom, and speak of Your Might. The Lord is near to all who call upon Him in Truth.’”
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Question 4: “Are Catholics the only people who ‘call on Him in Truth’?”
Answer: “Only Catholics are blessed to see and live by ‘The Truth’ in His Church-Creating Word to The First Catholic Pope! ‘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: “Does Jesus know and call His obedient ‘friends’ to Be Catholic?”
Answer: “John 1:45-51 is Today’s Gospel. Jesus ‘saw Nathaniel under the fig tree’, and he became known as Bartholemew, one of His Disciples, the First Catholic Bishops.”
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Question 6: “Why are His First Catholic Bishops so important?”
Answer: “Today’s Reading from Rev. 21:9-14, tells us that The City of God, God’s One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, is built on them! ‘The angel spoke to me, saying, ‘Come here. I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” He took me in spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.’”
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Question 7: “Where are The 12 Disciples, His First Catholic Bishops, mentioned?”
Answer: “‘The wall of the city had twelve courses of stones as its foundation,
on which were inscribed the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.’”
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God’s “friends make known the Glorious Splendor of His Kingdom”. We ask our beloved neighbors a simple question that opens many hearts and minds to being Catholic: “How can our soul get into Heaven if we reject the Foundation Stones of The City of God?”
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