my journey towards catholicism (so far) 

So long as they dont go past Constantinople where Catholicism was born

@@user-wz7fe2bq5c Orthodox? OK. But which? Eastern? Oriental? Greek? Ukrainian? Russian? Armenian? Ethiopian? They are fractured along geographic, national and cultural lines. The Metropolitans constantly bickering among themselves. Churches in isolation - for that sad reason, they are NOT universal and you can scarcely find them in the west. The unified Church was forever seated in Roma in the 1st century!

ahh yes, there is the quote i was looking for. thank you!

​@@user-wz7fe2bq5cblind of history 😅

@@juliepnicoleit’s a false quote. Watch DR GAVIN ORTLUND and fellow intelligent unbiased historians, to learn true church history, instead of tragic catholic propaganda :( Jesus is Lord ✝️❤️

I am sorry to hear that Isaiah. There are plenty of Pentecostal and Protestant-like that are very inlfuential and charismatic but are not entirely biblical. The secret really is for you to be strong in the Bible to avoid being misled. If you have been strong while you are young, you would have grown humble in learning while open to people’s views and opinions, and yet have the growing ability to filter out the incorrect views from others. If your foundation (hermeneutics) is proper and correct and you constantly seek understanding by continually praying to God and daily read the Bible, you will secure for yourself a strong faith that cannot be weathered by anyone or anything.

Lol. Pope is the false prophet. Good job

​@@deusx.machinaanime.3072he is doing what Francis cHan is doing to unite Catholics/protestants to form the one world religion led by the antichrist.

@@deusx.machinaanime.3072 I did join the Biblical church, but thank you for expressing your concern (:

@@deusx.machinaanime.3072 Respectfully, I did filter out the incorrect views, that is why I became Catholic.

New catholic here, too. Once I understood what the Eucharist truly is and that it was only available in the Catholic (and orthodox) church, I had to convert.

@@valwhelan3533 just claims they make..zero evidence for this

@@valwhelan3533Wow. They love to lie to you all. Oh look WE HAVE THE TRUTH AND ITS ONLY HERE!! Satan biggest lie SAY IT THE LOUDEST. And people fall for it😢. Satans mimic of Christianity.

Welcome home! God bless you

Welcome Home to the Church of Jesus Christ.

Oh dang, a priest. Wow. Love the Jedi pic

Welcome home! May God bless you and guide you!

😮 praise god

Congratulations!!! We need Priests now more than ever. GOD BLESS!

Thanks 🙏 be to God you heard his call. God bless you, now you can be Our Lord’s servant to saving many souls! You will be much more than the super friends. You Rock so much more, and cooler 😎 than any cool 😎 person could be in the entertainment industry. Our Lord will always pay you back 10 times more! Hopefully you can learn from Fr. Mitch Pacwa, and so many other Wonderful Priest’s that are here in America 🇺🇸. Plus all the wonderful Saint’s that have so much that we can learn from. A billion times more, thank you 🙏. 05/30/24.

God bless you in every step of your journey.

When I travel I refer to a website called Reverent Catholic Mass so I know where to try to attend. Thankfully it seems they are becoming more common over all. Much damage was done by modernists who tried to destroy the faith. But the gates of hell will not prevail. God bless you on your journey.

Praise God for your journey!

The Latin Mass will bring your love for Christ to a new level.

Here are some videos that are informing me and sustaining me in my return journey to the Catholic church as a "cradle Catholic". Main sticking points with most non-Catholic Christians on Catholic beliefs (devotion to Mary, Eucharistic Communion, and the Papacy): --ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0wzjAEHyizk.html --ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z4bIcU2JO4Y.html&pp=ygUkcGludHMgd2l0aCBhcXVpbmFzIGFuZCB0aGUgZXVjaGFyaXN0 --ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FUQKa1TgItA.html&pp=ygUucGludHMgd2l0aCBhcXVpbmFzIGFuZCBhcG9zdGFsaWMgcGFwYWN5IGRlYmF0ZQ%3D%3D

indeed a lot of religious nonsense..amen

johnpro2837, I can't help but wonder if your negative reaction to what she shared is (as her initial negative reaction to the Catholic Church was) because, at some deep level, the claims of the Catholic Church register as true.

seems strange to click on this and feel strongly enough to comment otherwise. not too long ago i may have heard something like this video and felt similarly - crazy to think about! praying for you john 🤍

@@johnpro2847it’s called STRONG DELUSIONS for a reason John. They are going to as the end nears. Bunch of foolishness. Hailing Mary and praying to dead people. I mean how can a woman have a fruitful womb IF SHE IS DUST AND in the ground. Only the soul goes back to God. The womb is dust. WHO PRAYED TO MARY in the New Testament??? No one and they all are so brainwashed and KEEP saying This is the real true. Faith. SHE IS LOST and you can tell easily to be persuaded. The worst.

Yes;:indeed. A LOT of lies straight from the pits of Hell! 😦

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Welcome home!

woooo! amazing, i can most definitely relate. on track to join RCIA myself! i pray your journey forward continues to be illuminated. God bless you 😇

All "Churches" branched out from the early Christian church described in the New Testament. None of them DIDN'T branch out from it.

The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (AD 787), Sess. 6: “Those who make war on the spiritual Jerusalem, that is, the Catholic Church, are like those who made war on the earthly Jerusalem: they themselves endeavor to use the language of the fathers, just as Rabshakeh once used the Hebrew language against Israel [4 Kings 18:28]. For these heretics direct the teaching of the fathers and the voice of the Church against the fathers and the Catholic Church.”

The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (AD 787), Sess. 6: “… for if he who cursed the old Israel is himself accursed and he who blessed it blessed [Num. 24:9], how much more showered with curses is the one who curses the new Israel that has a mental perception of God, namely, God’s church.”

The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (AD 787), Sess. 6: “… they attempt to curse the sanctified Church of God, being themselves deserving of a curse. For ‘those who bless her’, as divine scripture says, ‘are blessed and those who curse her are cursed’ [Num. 24:9].”

Pope Gregory IX, Considerantes Olim, March 17, 1238: “… we fear, with prescient deliberations, lest the aforesaid Greeks, whom the flood of schism swept from the Church of God into the synagogue of Satan, overwhelmed by its raging fury, will be hurled into the abyss of heretical depravity.”

You feel at peace but Jesus said think not I am come to bring peace but a sword because unlike you he doesnt compromise with evil.

@@user-wz7fe2bq5c Context is everything. Many Jews believed that immediately following the Messiah would be a great era of peace. Thus, many of who believed Jesus to be the Messiah would have expected that great era of peace to arrive very soon. Jesus was warning that being his follower was not going to be easy and that the messianic peace would not be as previously thought. Being faithful to the gospel would cause divisions within society and within people’s families. While it is true that following Christ brings peace, but this provokes opposition, and that opposition to Christ brings hatred, division, and discord. Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid". Jesus also says, "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world" St. John 14:27 Jesus's birth in the New Testament is announced as the arrival of a reign of Shalom, which is the Greek word for peace. The idea is that Jesus restored to wholeness the broken relationship between humans and their Creator. After his death and resurrection, Jesus used the greeting "peace be with you" three times when he met with his disciples (John 20:19-29). Us Christians of His Catholic Church feel at peace in Jesus Christ. Nobody ever said anything about compromising with evil.

John 14:27

@@user-wz7fe2bq5c Context is everything. Many Jews believed that immediately following the Messiah would be a great era of peace. Thus, many of who believed Jesus to be the Messiah would have expected that great era of peace to arrive very soon. Jesus was warning that being his follower was not going to be easy and that the messianic peace would not be as previously thought. Being faithful to the gospel would cause divisions within society and within people’s families. While it is true that following Christ brings peace, but this provokes opposition, and that opposition to Christ brings hatred, division, and discord. Jesus Christ: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." St. John 14:27 Catholics feel at peace by knowing Jesus Christ and His Church. We don't compromise with evil either.

@@richlopez5896 That is a lie. Context is not everything. Exegesis is what's important! It doesnt matter what people believed it ONLY matters what the truth is. What youre telling me is that if I tell the truth I am being hateful and Im not. Catholics FEEL peace but it isnt the peace of Christ Jesus it is simply the lack of being attacked by the devil, for he ALREADY has you. As far as John said I am not afraid not troubled telling me that I am is exaclty what paul was talking about in the book of Romans when he summarized chapter 1 in the first verse of chapter 2 namely :judge not lest ye be judged. Your peace is a lie because catholicism is of Satan, it was started in Constantinople LONG after Peter died. The claims of having an unbroken line from Peter to the present POOP are a lie and what does the BIBLE tell us about those who lie murder and steal , the Catholic Church has murdered MILLIONS of my fellow Christians . Its a fact of history, it is in Fox's book of martyrs the Albigenses Ostragoth and Vandals are just three i recall off the top of my head. Hitler is STILL in good standing with you false religion. Now context does play a role of import in some things but not in the way youre saying as if the Bible can be taken fast and loose because it cannot be, in fact it is so integrated in itself, each verse interlocked with one another that even the errors ( few there be) that have crept in can easily be corrected by the diligent. Your beliefs are false you worship ANOTHER Jesus even the title of the Pope replaces the Authority of Jesus Christ which was why the lying fake docs. about Peter were created. If you do not repent then you are lost, this is what the Bible says. you must worship in spirit and in truth. Jesus also says avoid vain repetition yet you recite hail Mary's and. you cannot pray to Mary THAT is breaking the first commandment which jesus has not abolished like you think he did when you say he fulfilled the law Fulfil doesnt mean its done it literally means filled to the full which he did and he did it so you and I are without excuse so that we fall upon his mercy and trust in him this is the difference between us I trust in Jesus you heed the doctrines of Men, it is ALL right ther ein your catechsim READ IT DUMMY! it contadicts the word of God and it tells you that you have to accept it.

yes, i'm learning that there is so much beauty in these things. i'm glad you've found that as well ❤️

I hate going to confession BUT it is so life changing. Some of my biggest break troughs & actual miraculous changes in my life happened because of it. The consequences of my honest , full, painfull confessions while being trully sorry & wanting those sins to stay away from me were far beyond my imagination.

practice Tithing to what you are already doing and you will grow even more.

So sad you're in an idolatrous place now

@@jasonbourne5142they were never truly born again and fully converted. It’s obvious the HOLY GHOST WOULD NEVER LET anyone go that far TO HELL

sorry - people who worship Jesus Christ within the original church are "in hell" to you...? im curious, why are you even watching this video, or taking the time to comment? nothing against you personally, as i'm sure you have good intentions...but that statement strikes me as severely warped and just completely and utterly bizarre.

​@@TriciaPerry-mz7tcyou are right. I discovered the same thing watching a lot of Catholic conversion testimonies. They never speak of encountering God in a life changing way (or born again)

​@@jeromepopiel388 Well, your exposure to such testimonials are really, really narrow. Why don't you check out The Coming Home Network or Catholics Come Home or EWTN's Journey Home. Be honest if you really want to knock Catholics.

Our grandparents are the remains of the past, in other words TRADITIONS, and it is our duty to convert to Catholicism to not to lose them. Let the Holy Spirit guide you. Good bless your grandma.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem “The Church is called Catholic, then, because it extends over the whole world, from end to end of the earth, and because it teaches universally and infallibly each and every doctrine which must come to the knowledge of men, concerning things visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly, and because it brings every race of men into subjection to godliness, governors and governed, learned and unlearned, and because it universally treats and heals every class of sins, those committed with the soul and those with the body, and it possesses within itself every conceivable form of virtue, in deeds and in words and in the spiritual gifts of every description” (Catechetical Lectures 18:23 [A.D. 350] “And if you ever are visiting in cities, do not inquire simply where the house of the Lord is-for the others, sects of the impious, attempt to call their dens ‘houses of the Lord’-nor ask merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the name peculiar to this holy Church, the mother of us all, which is the spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God” (ibid., 18:26).

Good, keep looking at it!

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If the Eucharist is exposed when you get to church we are supposed to genuflect with both knees down. The Church is in a bad state. I pray for the Universal Roman Catholic Church, The Bride of Christ, every day 🙏

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives… and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” (Denz. 714)

@@schlomotaysachstein5630 The Catechism paragraph 846 states the same and "[r]e-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his body".

You can just ask! Christ is the mediator... *not* the pope!

Read peter kreeft Socratic logic, handbook of Christian apologetics, Jesus shock, prayer the great conversation. So good.

“IF” you have not already, please consider going to Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament (also known as “Holy Hour”). Call your local parish and find out when they offer it. Then, just go and sit in silence in Christ’s Presence. Take your bible. Read scripture, pray, contemplate. Tell the Lord of your search for truth, of your doubts, worries, even fears. Then, be as patient with Him as He has been with you. When you receive the grace to know that HE IS THERE, you will be forever changed. Miracles occur in Christ’s presence - of that I can personally attest.

There's so much in the UK; Dr Gavin Ashenden who was an Anglican/the Queens Chaplain converted to Catholicism & has a great utoob channel. Also if you can F.S.S.P Liturgy or ICKSP theyre available throughout and offer a fascinating learning experience There are also Pilgrimages to Walsingham from where Thomas Beckett was beheaded & rich Historical encounters if you are near. Protestant Pastor who converted wrote a great book "Rome Sweet Home" His Conversion Story is excellent as is Dr John Bergsma (he has several books like "Jesus & the Dead Sea Scrolls" for an example) Convert testimony is amazing as it connects so much before us! The Holy Spirit is moving 🕊️ God Bless you on your Journey ☘️

wow, i bet your story is fascinating 🙏🏻

I'm rooting for you. St. Cyril of Jerusalem “The Church is called Catholic, then, because it extends over the whole world, from end to end of the earth, and because it teaches universally and infallibly each and every doctrine which must come to the knowledge of men, concerning things visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly, and because it brings every race of men into subjection to godliness, governors and governed, learned and unlearned, and because it universally treats and heals every class of sins, those committed with the soul and those with the body, and it possesses within itself every conceivable form of virtue, in deeds and in words and in the spiritual gifts of every description” (Catechetical Lectures 18:23 [A.D. 350]). “And if you ever are visiting in cities, do not inquire simply where the house of the Lord is-for the others, sects of the impious, attempt to call their dens ‘houses of the Lord’-nor ask merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the name peculiar to this holy Church, the mother of us all, which is the spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God” (ibid., 18:26).

thank you, i will 📿

@@juliepnicole I feel sorry for you then. youre lost and never were one of his. using a shibboleth and worshipping Mary is witchcraft!

@@user-wz7fe2bq5cwhile I may agree with you to an extent, this is not the way to do it. There is a reason why she is going through this journey. I know many people that went through the Latin Roman Church and became Protestant again. The Roman Church has sound teaching in it too. And biblical. They were built on the fundamentals of Christianity, it is in the later doctrines that were added over the years where we differ. That being said, let her go through her journey and learn the Roman tradition and doctrine. It is the Holy Spirit that guides you.

@@Jonathanhdz16 I know you think that and I used to agree to be "nice" about it but without understanding how downright evil and wrong this is she cant be able to come to Christ. JUST ( I use caps for emphasis not to yell) as you cannot be born again until you KNOW that you are a sinner and just how ugly that is. MANY false conversions occur because people don't realize REALLY know how they look in th eeyes of a HOLY GOD and instead dimly recognize that there is a problem but they themselves arent really THAT bad not like others, SO ya saying as harshly as possible ( and I wish I could be MORE harsh) is the kindest most loving thing that cant be done. I would spare her years of loss and pain if I could even if it makes me LOOK like the bad guy. I often wonder why people think the holy spirit is guiding them if they are not earnest in reaching and teaching and admonishing about Christ. That is what the holy spirit does thats ALL HE DOES. Watching someone fall into the false doctrine and be led by a spirit that makes her feel at peace and touchy feely and doesnt it just feel wonderful makes me feel distress. I am thinking now this is why I felt such yearning toward her. At first i thought I was attracted to her, well I am I mean I find her beautiful but usually that doesnt matter to me because I have Vcel ( voluntarily celibate) for decades and attractive women I would avoid, now I think it was because of this in hindsight. Look I have done all I could at this point I have turned her over to Satan to learn to not blasphemy nothing else can be done.

​@@Jonathanhdz16as a Catholic, I appreciate the kindness! But we differ in very very old doctrines like transubstantiation (the center of our faith, Jesus Christ in the Eucharist), baptismal regeneration, apostolic tradition, intercession of Mary and the saints, etc. All of these are proven by history to be veeery old traditions, way older than sola scriptura for example

See the website of Abbaye de St Madelaine du Barroux.

Ishtar huh? Thats a pagan holiday that originated in Babylon Semmiramus the whore consort to nimrod started Ishtar calling herself the moon goddess and they would hunt for her egg she came down from the moon in and whoever found her first was blessed and this tradition along with the other pagan traditions are what Catholcisim is all about. Congratz you went from obviously new age to undercover new age.

@@user-wz7fe2bq5c You mean you take Hislop's word for Gospel truth? I'm not sure you were in any other New Age, but you are kind of Denomination wise a New Age.

@@hglundahl You mean someone who diligently did research and painstakingly showed his work and it perfectly lines up with the word of God over the POOP? Yes I will truth is truth and by virtue of being the truth is it exclusive no mater where it comes from and it by being the truth is of Christ himself who is the way the truth and the life. Now you can in your twisted Cathlic way try to confuse people with your perverted sick view. As far as new age goes there is NOTHIGN new about it it comes from BHabylon whose traditions are carried out by the Unholy Roman Catholic Church: Yule log's are pagan Hot cross top buns cakes for the "queen of heaven" who catholicism has cleverly turned into Mary, those red easter eggs that comes from the tradition of murdering infants and dyeing the Ishtar eggs in their blood and to keep the blood flowing they'd engage women either willingly or not into temple prostitution and the children born to them were sacrificed. YOU and YOUR beliefs are new age and I have proof while you have nothing but whatever you want to say. All a lie does it postpone the truth child of the devil seed of satan! Go kiss the poops ring! I bet you were a booty busted altar boi. See I can make things up about you too. Facts are facts you cant make them up and the facts are catholics murdered Christians by the millions and then these days it gets blamed on Christians for what they have done but I am happy to tell you that God is just and you and they will not be getting away with it much longer.

Focus on Christ and the human drama fades into the background. Christ in the Eucharist.

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Welcome back home.

Welcome home, brother.

Praise God!

Congratulations on coming home to the Catholic Church! May God bless, guide and protect you always!

Here are some videos that are informing me and sustaining me in my return journey to the Catholic church as a "cradle Catholic". Main sticking points with most non-Catholic Christians on Catholic beliefs (devotion to Mary, Eucharistic Communion, and the Papacy): --ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0wzjAEHyizk.html --ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z4bIcU2JO4Y.html&pp=ygUkcGludHMgd2l0aCBhcXVpbmFzIGFuZCB0aGUgZXVjaGFyaXN0 --ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FUQKa1TgItA.html&pp=ygUucGludHMgd2l0aCBhcXVpbmFzIGFuZCBhcG9zdGFsaWMgcGFwYWN5IGRlYmF0ZQ%3D%3D

Amazing journey my friend ! I'm a craddle catholic and still learn many things everyday . If I can share something with you is to pray the rosary , the most important prayer after holy mass . Mary will guide you all the way to Jesus . 🙏🙏

May God Bless you and all of new Catholics in their faith journey🙏🏻

Your girlfriend? May I ask: you a man or woman?

@@ShamrockRagEll A guy

@@MotherSwifty Was confused by your nickname. ;) welcome home!

@@ShamrockRagEll I don't use my irl names on my emails, but thank you! I'm glad to be with God now^^

Welcome Home to the Church of Jesus Christ.

Welcome home!

@@dantelepanto thank you!

Welcome!!!

Yes, rosary is a very powerful prayer/weapon against evil.

See the website of Abbaye de St Madelaine du Barroux.

That's great!

thank you evan, i will consider doing that - and i appreciate your feedback! God bless you 😇

@DakotaDoc... Pray for the intercession of St.Monica. She prayed for her son St.Augustine who fell away for many years. Also, Mary will help. The Blessed Virgin brought me home to Christ and his church.

You just became a Catholic nine years ago, and you're already declaring, apparently, that only "Latin Mass Catholicism" is "true traditional authentic Catholicism"? The Latin Mass was a liturgical development from earlier Masses, which were also authentic, and the later Masses, in the vernacular, are authentic too. True, traditional Catholicism is not tied to the Mass being in Latin.

A belatedly Welcome Home to the Church of Jesus Christ.

@@christianman73 Latin was global that was the point... a service in Africa was the same as New Zealand..

@@blueeyes402 Of course, the Latin Mass was global. However, for a person to say (as the person to whom I was originally replying basically said), that *only the Latin Mass* represents "true, authentic, traditional Catholicism" is simply not accurate, according to history, and according to the Magisterium. There were earlier Masses, hundreds of years before the Latin Mass, that were in other languages, and those Masses were true, authentic, and traditional too. More than sixty years ago, with Vatican II, the Church authoritatively ruled that the Mass could be in the language of the people, anywhere in the world. In my experience as a Catholic, Latin Mass devotees sometimes speak as if the *only Masses* that are authentic, traditional, and truly Catholic, are Latin Masses, but that *simply has not been the ruling* of the Popes and the Magisterium since Vatican II. If one truly wants to be an authentic and traditional Catholic, one *must respect* the authoritative rulings of the Popes and the Magisterium, including at Church Councils, such as Vatican II. This is *non-negotiable* for Catholics, if we want to be authentic and traditional Catholics. Disparaging Masses that are not in Latin, by implying that only Latin Masses are authentic, traditional, and truly Catholic, is not being respectful of the Church, her teaching authority, and fellow Catholics, around the world, most of whom attend Mass in the vernacular.

Sorry but I meant the language itself.

Saint Ignatius is orthodox though. He didn't profess the filioque or salvation by submission to a Roman Pontiff. He would be horrified by the Novus Ordo mass and the pan-synchretism of the Roman doctrines since Vatican 2 and the modernist church architecture and art.

​@@Hope_Boat There was only Catholics back then.

@@StringofPearls55 Where? No filioque. No Roman Pontiff. No Pontifical State. No cardinals. No infaillability ex-cathedra. No Novus ordo either. If it looks like a orthoduck, swims like a orthodock, and quacks like a orthoduck, then it probably is a orthoduck.

@@Hope_Boat "Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church." St. Ignatius of Antioch 107AD in his Letter to the Smyrneans. Clement was the pope at the time. You say you're Orthodox, but you're angry like a Calvinist. Stop it. Peace be with you.

@@StringofPearls55 Peace be on your house too. I am very calm. Every time we orthodox profess the symbol of faith since it was adopted by the council of Constantinople in 381AD we say _I believe in one saint catholic and apostolic Church._ and all the orthodox saint fathers did as well. What's you point?

Why do Catholics say this when they split off as well? True question :)

@@bell5338 Split from what? We still hold the original dioceses and churches so how exactly did we split from ourselves? Read your history.

​​@@thesingingorganistelorgani5154 it literally will not let me respond to you what I wrote and I don't know why!!! Just read my post below lol

Linus of Antioch is recognized as St. Peter's successor, but it is important to remember that they were in communion with churches of other areas until the Great Schism, which was created due to increasing tensions of different churches who did not agree with what should be changed and acknowledged. Which Catholics absolutely did change a LOT of things during that time, and moreso after they got rid of authoritative competition (was this after the third convention?). Considering that popes have proven themselves to be utterly fallible, especially in this millenium, the "no, you cant excommunicate ME, I can excommunicate YOU" tantrum (that was supposed to get to the BOTTOM of what Christianity should be, not the power trip that it was) that led to the Great Schism is what made the Orthodox and Catholics permanently fall out of communion with one another. This is not me calling one side or the other correct. Sometimes men are just dumb. Any books you'd recommend on the matter I'd take, since Catholics are the absolute worst at giving any information on their history whatsoever in today's world. Unlock the doors to the Church. Calvinists (baptists; fundamentalists) and Lutherans said you're all wrong, so there's a lot to be discussed. But you cant say the falling out of communion never happened. We all say we are a part of one holy catholic and apostolic Church. Catholic doesnt mean Roman Catholic. The schism brought about first in Constantinople was the start of the true recognition of the Holy Roman Catholic papacy, in my understanding. That is the Roman Catholic Church now. Tl;Dr: Paul founded the Antioch AND Roman churches. Peter helped Paul in Rome, but was with James in Jerusalem. Mark in Alexandria. Andrew in Constantinople. Christianity was Protected by Constantine, but also by other generals, and Galerius through a change of heart. All of these churches (and ones I've forgotten possibly, sorry!!) tried to maintain communion with each other, until they began to meet, in Constantinople, a millenia later. It didnt work. Blood; battle; war; division followed.

​@@bell5338 contact knowledgeable Catholics like jimmy akin, scott hahn, trent horn or sam shamoun and then defend those claims and we will watch the Livestream. Contact us if you manage to reach them.

Catholic Answers and Shameless Popery.

I can vouch for Shameless Popery. Joe Heschmeyer is great! Also Suan Sonna over at Intellectual Catholicism is next level. His Peter-Eliakim typological argument for the papacy is amazingly detailed and researched.

i definitely would like to keep documenting as i go along. so your encouragement is much appreciated, thank you!

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I would strongly recommend ignoring the comment section generally. The kind of things being discussed are largely irrelevant to the average Christian and only serve to show how much damage the divisions in the whole church have served to injure our witness to the world. Pray, pray and pray some more as you continue to learn. But also, ask and seek help when you need it. You are not alone, but are now a part of a whole family of fellow Christian’s! ❤

Hilarious, I’m nearly done with this, but the section on your ancestry is pretty much my own! I’m also Spanish Irish 😂.

thank you for sharing your experience! fascinating, isn't it? i've heard other people describe it as a kind of hunger as well. and good advice, i think i may turn my comment notifications off tbh 😄 your encouragement is much appreciated, and God bless you 🙏🏻🤍

@@juliepnicole That's an beautiful experience that both of you shared. After I knew that I wanted to become Catholic, my main memory of the months I was spending in RCIA was how much I appreciated having that time to grow in hunger to receive the Eucharist at Mass. Even though I felt that I was ready to be fully received into the Church, God made good use of that time.

I think she'll love the Latin Mass, as well as the traditional eastern liturgies.

Points to ponder: Which is truly universal? Which is strongly tied to nationalities and nations/cultures? Which covers the earth? Which has the most complete theology? The Orthodox are beautiful, and a true Apostolic Church, but are fragmented.

@@HAL9000-su1mz who is truly universal? Not the orthodox, who are split on rebaptism and which Christian sects they anathematize. Which is stronger tied to nationalities? The Orthodox Church, who had many of their priests as KGB agents in Soviet Russia. That isn’t a good things. Which covers the earth? Not the orthodox, who has less believers than Protestantism and Catholicism. Who has the complete theology? Not the ones who rejected the entire west, forsakes the perfect love of the trinity, uses substance than Christ didn’t consecrate (leavened bread) and refer to it as his body, and the one who denies the Roman pontificate which is established both in scripture, tradition, and history. It’s a clean sweep for Catholics

Orthodoxy is united by faith when Roman Catholicism is united by authority. The variety of nations in the Church is scritural. Jesus announced that the hour of Glory came when Andrew and Philip announced th preseence of some Greeks. He then explained that the seed (he) had to fall on tjr soil and diein order to bring fruits. The hour had come because those Greeks were the soil he was waiting for. History has proven they were indeed. In the arable of the sower Jesus warned that other soils aree different, one of which is shallow over a rock. When the sun came it scorched the plants. Meaning when chrtianity is not deepy rooted in the nation's culture faith dies when tribulations come. We orthodox remained faithful despite Islamic and communist persecutions because we mixed ou iderntity with Christ. Greek = Chistians. Russian = Christian etc. Kyrie eleison

@@Hope_Boat Faith AND authority. It is never either/or, but both/and. The Orthodox are too geographic and too nationalistic for me. I am American, but recognize that for the limited identity it must be to a Christian. Far better if there is unity in faith, doctrine and obedience - discipline. Fortunately, on-going talks are directed precisely at that goal.

@@HAL9000-su1mz Luke 22:24+ Christ told us that the first among us must not lord it upon the nations and pretend to be a benefactor but rather be like the slaves who in antiquity washed the feet of the guests before they entered the house of their master.

Thanks for sharing a bit about your journey. Thanks be to God who gives His Church life through his creation!

Great comment, especially after this nonsense about “1000s” of Protestant denominations. The theology differences btwn Protestant denoms is RAZOR THIN!

Respect

@Dude... Come home!

So you are saying that babies that never got baptized deserve to be burning in hell for all eternity?

@@theephraimite I never said such a thing. And that is not the stance of the Catholic Church either. You might want to ask a Catholic Priest what the Catholic Church teaches before you just go and make up imaginary nonsense.

@@ThatBoomerDude56 my mom used to be catholic. I have catholic relatives. I’m pretty sure that what they told me. That is what is what I heard from other Catholics. Maybe I heard them wrong and you could correct me. But, to the best of my memory, that is what they say.

you need to be drawn towards the word of god

Real question is what is true.

@@realteamwall yes but there’s nothing wrong with being drawn towards the Orthodox Church.

@@realteamwall The Word of God, who is the Logos, Christ Jesus, is found in the Orthodox Catholic Church he established to tend and feed his flock. That's what the word of God records the Word of God having said at least.

I'm Byzantine Catholic. The beautiful icons and Divine Liturgy. We are also 100% Catholic and in union with the successor of St. Peter. “There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering”- St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (Letters 43[40]:5 [A.D. 253]

i've yet to explore this, sounds interesting.

Don’t forget the Pope, which every Catholic is yoked to, has to obey the Novus Ordo(New Order) from the Vatican council, your traditional Latin mass has been taken away and you are disobeying your Magisterium.

@@juliepnicole God bless you and keep you on your journey! As Jonathanhdz16 and several others in this comment section show, there's a lot of politics in all things in life, faith not excluded. Despite that, always seek the Truth and be honest about what you see. The Traditional Latin Mass is beautiful beyond measure and not, as suggested, "taken away' or disobedience to the Magisterium (quite the contrary), but unfortunately restricted due to politics. There are several online search tools that can help you find one nearby (search "find a Latin Mass near me"). The faith expressed through the Traditional Rite is from start to finish steeped in the Bible, Tradition, and faith - an absolute outpouring of God's grace in a most highly exalted form - heaven on earth.

​@@Jonathanhdz16 how wrong you are. The TLM is still being said every day in full communion with Rome. The Mass of the saints is not something to be mocked. It is a true well of grace. Don't spread lies about the holy sacrifice of the mass.

@@JulianNaremore don’t brand me as a liar, I understand you are currently in communication, but that does not mean that your pope, your magisterium, does not agree with keeping the Tridentine Mass. It is the traditional mass that was established to fight off Protestants like myself. But you know very well things have changed since the first and second Vatican council. You may be in communion but you know there is a schism and soon the Tridentine mass will be banned. And you won’t be able to do anything about it. Since it is your magisterium, your pope, your tradition that makes the final decision.