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Thank you. It's a truly a blessing to do this work.

Thank you. It was a lot of work but still very much a blessing to do the work.

He will be. Fortunately we have a new pastor made from the same mold.

Absolutely. Amen.

@@personallycatholic Jesus said, "Believe only, and she will be saved." (Luke 8:50) Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears the Word of God-whoever believes on Me has everlasting life. He shall never come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life." (John 5:24) Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes on Me has everlasting life." (John 6:47)

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Faustina is doing very well. She is in religious life with the Caritas Sisters of Jesus now.

@@personallycatholic I'm so glad! I will be praying for her!

Edward, I think you may misunderstand the use of artwork in the Catholic Church. Unless perhaps you oppose any religious painting or image or even wearing a cross as a necklace as a Christian. If you oppose wearing a cross, hanging a cross in your house, or having a painting of Jesus based on your reading of Exodus 20:4, then, yes, you would probably oppose Catholic thought on Christian artwork. However, in Catholic artwork there is absolutely no belief that the artwork holds any magical power; it simply helps us focus our thoughts on God. You could break the Commandments in Exodus 20 down to 17 commandments if you wanted. We follow Augustine's breakdown of the Commandments. Protestants follow Origen's breakdown. Catholics believe the condemnation of graven images is a condemnation of creating false gods with one's hands and then worshiping them. We don't do that as Catholics. We believe in just one God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If you ever want to chat on the phone or in person, I would be happy to. My email is dan@personallycatholic.com. Email me and we'll share information. I live in the Philadelphia area. I hope this helps. I do believe Catholics and Protestants are more one than we know and human sin in the form of pride and ego divides us more than theology -- even though I do respect that there are theological differences. Reach out, my friend. In Him, Dan Tarrant

Removing Gods Words of 2nd Commandment unacceptable@@personallycatholic

He did a great job sharing with the families at Saint Andrew.

Matt, yes. I agree to that. The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed in the 1990’s under Pope John Paul II agrees to that. Really. If you email me, I’ll send you a copy of my book on this that has the Imprimatur of the Catholic Church. I sincerely believe there is more unity on this than people know. There certainly are differences between Catholicism and some other approaches to Christianity. But this really isn’t one of them. It’s so sad that we are kept divided by false assumptions about the other side’s point of view.

As a Catholic I could simply never make the statement that a document approved by the Vatican is inconsistent with Catholic teaching. I also could never state that the appendix to a document signed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is inconsistent with Catholic teaching. I also couldn’t make those statements about a document approved under the Papacy of a Saint. That would be a complete lack of humility before the authority of the Church for me. There would need to be another answer. Anything short of a different answer would be profoundly inconsistent with Catholic teaching for me and make me the sole authority over my own Catholicism in my mind and be a truly protest approach to the Church. That is why I sought an Imprimatur in fact before sharing the book upon which much of this video is based. I don’t doubt the sincerity of your Catholicism or your walk with God, but to say texts with Vatican approval are inconsistent with Catholic teaching and a book with an Imprimatur from the Church is misrepresenting Church teaching has a boldness with which I would be uncomfortable no matter what my scholarly credentials are. Perhaps my scholarly credentials are not at the level yours are. I am humble enough to accept that. But if you say that an Imprimatur and Vatican approval is not enough to validate consistency with Church teaching… I really have no answer because that leaves you or you and a small handful of academics having greater authority over Church teaching than the Church itself. Again, I don’t doubt your walk with God or the sincerity of your Catholicism. I just couldn’t follow that logic myself in my personal relationship with God as a Catholic.

@@personallycatholic The JD has been consistently understood by Protestants to contradict Catholic teaching. The most thorough treatment by a Catholic understands it in the same way. Read Malloy's book. Trent is the authoritative teaching and you are misleading others by using the formula faith alone. Pope Benedict says that formula is only correct if understood to not exclude charity and Luther explicitly excluded charity. So there was not misunderstanding. This is going to be my dissertation topic at CUA and my professors include a scholar who worked on the JD as a Lutheran and then became Catholic after understanding the Church's teaching on merit. There are significant problems with the JD and Malloy's work captures this. Again you need to read it for a better understanding of what you are talking about.

@@personallycatholic Then Cardinal Ratzinger pointed out problems with the JD publicly and so did Pope JP II which is the entire reason there was an annex. In terms of humility, you should submit your intellect to Trent without selectively picking a few chapters to present and ignoring others and ignoring the anathemas. That would be true submission to the Church's actual teaching. Again the JD is not even authoritative much less infallible. If you understood the nature of the documents and how the Church classifies documents you would know that.

@@personallycatholic You have mentioned obtaining an imprimatur. Those aren't infallible either. And your teaching on this isn't authoritative just because your confusion found it's way into print.

Luther apparently said God declared the sinner righteous in the "imputed" sense of the word, putting much emphasis on the Greek word "logizomai" (translated "impute"). Catholicism and Trent put the emphasis on the process of "being made righteous" and what that would mean practically speaking, hence faith working through love (fides formata caritate). Luther and the Reformers would say that "faith working through love" would fall under the rubric of sanctification. Those who are truly justified by faith alone will move on to works by love that can be seen and observed. Hence, a man is justified by works and not by faith alone when it comes to being justified in the sight of others. For us Reformed, justification is like the light of God shining on us through our faith. It has an "outside of us but covering us" feel to it. Sanctification is the "inside part". Our heart is changed by the Word, Spirit, and Christian life under the rubric of sanctification.

If the Law of God contains all that is good and true in terms of the moral and ritual standards all works are included therein. “We are saved by faith alone apart from the moral and ceremonial works of the law” (St. Thomas Aquinas). Btw… the point of these videos and the book with the Imprimatur is not to attack the Catholic Church, it’s to show an entry point for Evangelicals who want it or at least a greater common ground between Catholics and Evangelicals. I am at Mass every Sunday and many weekdays and at Confession weekly. In no way is the intention to dispute anything with the Church… the intention is to show there is room for those may think there is no room for them or who may think there is nothing they have in common with Catholics. Maybe you didn’t watch the whole video. Be well, my friend.

"And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness." Romans 4:5 Looks like there it just says works.

Sorry, I was doing this on my phone and it had a glitch that caused a continual posting of this comment. The other comments have been erased.

My apologies, I’m just so used to people attacking the Church, that I sometimes respond unfairly. So sorry for this. Please forgive me if I offended you in anyway. God bless you and the work you are doing

I think we all get frustrated. Peace to you.

“Justification is not found in the moral and ceremonial works of the law but in faith alone.” - Saint Thomas Aquinas. Countless times Saints use “faith alone” and “apart from works” without linking these statements to stand exclusively in opposition to “temple sacrifices.” Saint Paul countless times says we are saved “apart from works” without adding “of the Law.” He does this in Ephesians, Romans and Galatians. I don’t think Aquinas or Paul or any of the Saints are woefully misrepresenting Church teaching. I also don’t think the book Christian and Catholic (which this video is based on) woefully misrepresents Church teaching. It has the Imprimatur signed by Archbishop Chaput (an extremely conservative bishop in the Church) and the Nihil Obstat from the Chancery of Philadelphia. I took great care in crafting that book to be faithful to the Church in every way - including humbly submitting it for the review process for the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur in our conservative archdiocese. To say these statements of the Saints, Trent, and Scripture about the “works” we are saved apart from only include the “ritual works of law” in every single statement about works in the lives of these Saints, Saint Paul, Trent, the Joint Declaration on Justification, and Pope Benedict XVI seems incongruent with reason and honesty about the texts. That position also seems an incomplete solution in harmonizing Paul and James in Scripture. The harmonization in the book referenced in the above video has the Imprimatur. To say it is not authentically Catholic means to deny the authenticity of the Chancery of Philadelphia and the Archbishop of Philadelphia as well as the authenticity of St. Thomas Aquinas’ statement mentioned earlier. Perhaps you find this approach in the video unhelpful to you. That is absolutely fine. But to claim it is a “woeful misrepresentation” of Trent and therefore Church teaching seems incompatible with the Church’s authority to give an Imprimatur and the theology of Aquinas. And please know I don’t mean this reply as an act of antagonism toward you, but as an act of clarification in humility for the sake of others who do find this approach helpful.

This 30 minute video pours through Session 6 of Trent point by point. Maybe it will help you see a close reading of Trent with this approach. Maybe you will still disagree, but I don’t think you’d say it is a woeful misrepresentation of Trent or the Church. Faith Alone and Trent: Have you read it? th-cam.com/video/EfTJxQrLdh0/w-d-xo.html

@@personallycatholic What you are doing is irresponsible and not representing Catholic teaching. Please stop.

@@SmovInfo1 In all humility, is the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification approved by the Vatican under Saint John Paul II irresponsible and not representing Catholic teaching? There is nothing in this video that is not also stated very directly in that document. There is also nothing in this video that does not have its origin in our book which has the Imprimatur. Are the Imprimatur and Vatican approval not enough to demonstrate responsibility and authenticity to the Catholic Church? It is fair to say "faith and works are intertwined with grace for justification" as you said. It's just the manner in which they are intertwined that one has to accept alternate approaches as valid like Augustine's approach when he wrote: "Grace is not given because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them." He is a doctor of the Church. That must be an acceptable statement for a Catholic to make. And I would add to Augustine's statement myself (as you likely would too): "... and when we do those good works they open us up to more grace not because they have any merit on their own but because they can open the faith in our hearts wider to the God who has alone merited our salvation on the cross and are only in that way meritorious." Trust me, I am in no way diminishing the importance of the Sacramental life or the Universal Call to Holiness. I am at Mass more than weekly and Confession weekly and I encourage others to do the same all the time. I am merely inviting Evangelicals who see God through a "faith alone" lens to see there is a door for them to walk through into the Catholic Church or at least into a relationship with Catholics that is positive, life-giving and not contrary to their reading of Saint Paul.

“We are saved by faith alone but faith is never alone.” - Martin Luther I can’t speak all of Luther’s heart for the duration of his life, but I do think there is more unity to be had on this no matter what dictionary we are using. And we live in a world where Christians need to be more one whenever possible while still fully respecting the differences. If you email me your address, I will personally mail you a free copy of Christian and Catholic with the Imprimatur.

@@personallycatholic according jesus faith is faithfull and obedient, that mean faith is work protestant use false dicotomy about faith and work. because faith is work itself so the problem not faith or work, but what kind of work we can be justified?

@@personallycatholic “We are saved by faith alone but faith is never alone.” - Martin Luther the most silly quote i ever read. why he said faith alone if faith never alone. it same like i believe jesus alone but jesus never alone there father and holy spirit with him oh man my brain hurt