Comments on: Confession to a Priest

By: thor

thor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:48:59 +0000

ezekiel means he might actually die, not go to hell. Look at the hebrew.

1 John 5:13 , and 6:37-44 its pretty clear if you are truly saved you cannot lose it. But we need to test ourselves to make sure were truly saved from time to time.

To say you will go to hell if you die sinning is heresy, unless you were never saved to begin with. In that case it makes no difference if you were sinning or not.

By: bfhu

bfhu — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:37:36 +0000

Release from Purgatory is determined by God. When the soul is sufficiently purified for the Vision of God they are admitted to Heaven. No one knows when this occurs, unless God gives a special revelation, which is unusual.

By: Brighteyes

Brighteyes — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:15:24 +0000

how does one get out of purgatory?

By: bfhu

bfhu — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:59:02 +0000

No, we can be reasonably sure and at peace; as i said I was regarding my dad. Purgatory is on the way to Heaven. If you make it to Purgatory you know you will be in Heaven once you have been purified.

By: Brighteyes

Brighteyes — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:45:44 +0000

So you are telling me that when I as a protestant die my child & her family, catholic, can have no peace about where their mom/m-inlaw /grandmother will spend eternity?

By: bfhu

bfhu — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:28:11 +0000

For my mom that she would persevere to the end and for conversion to the Catholic Church. For my dad’s comfort/release from Purgatory.

By: Brighteyes

Brighteyes — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:50:11 +0000

Please explain to me why you “still” pray for them?

By: bfhu

bfhu — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:59:24 +0000

Dear Brighteyes,

Well, both of my parents were very committed “born again” Christians and my father died two years after I was received into the Catholic Church.

I pray(ed) for their conversion to the Catholic Church. Because it is the fullness of Truth and so beautiful and deeply satisfying. But they really didn’t want to hear about it. They were filled with misconceptions about the Catholic Church. They loved me and respected by decision but it grieved them. Nevertheless, they both came to the Easter Vigil at which I received my sacraments and was received into the Catholic Church. And they came again the next year when our four youngest children entered the Church. I feel confident of their salvation but I still pray for them. I trust them to the mercy of God and am at peace.

By: Brighteyes

Brighteyes — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:55:30 +0000

I want to ask you something. If you personally, as a Catholic, had parents who were born again practicing christians in a protestant church, how would you as a Catholic be praying for them ..and how would you handle their death?

By: bfhu

bfhu — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:59:15 +0000

I cannot say. The Church warns her children to avoid sin. I can only say what Scripture says about sin that is unto death I Jn and St. Paul in several lists of deadly sins. Did you read Ezekiel 18? The Catholic Church does not say anyone is in Hell or make that sort of judgment so neither will I.

But any born again Christian with a real relationship with Christ would be an even greater traitor,than your average Joe, if after a life of blessing and grace to willfully sin mortally. It would be slap in the face of Our Lord. But in the last instant of life you might receive a further grace from God to repent with your dying breath. We don’t teach what tickles the ear but the truth and leave all to the mercy of Jesus.