all other religions are that way. when I was a teen, I looked into different pagan and mystic teachings, but they all seemed to basically be "here is how you get the universe to give you free stuff". compared to the church, very frivolous indeed
Thank you for speaking about this. It’s so important. All Catholics and just everyone should stay away from the New Age movement and the practices. Unfortunately, I have family members who are deep in these strange beliefs. I am concerned about the state of their soul. I hope one day they chose to follow God and stop practicing witchcraft and other satanic rituals/practices. God bless you brother. 🙏
I’ve witnessed Catholics and Protestants fall for wearing the “ evil eye “ icon. I only happy to know their Christian because they’re wearing those icons alongside Christian iconography. All we can do is pray, discern, and speak to them. May we accept the Grace of God in our lives! He’s only waiting for us to say yes!
Thank you so much. I love this channel. My husband and I and our 5 children are Catholic converts. We have been baptized Catholics for 1 year! My husband came from a Baptist background and I came from a Pentecostal background. My husband studied Catholicism for almost 3 years. He started off like Steve Ray. My husband was trying to find ways to win Catholics over. In fact, his plan failed and he was won over to the Catholic church thus leading me to the Catholic church as well. Your channel helps me learn so much more. My husband is a theologian type. I thank my husband for showing me the way, and other spiritual leaders and teachers such as you, Steve Ray and Scott Hauhn. I don't want to be mislead in to the new age beliefs. Thank you again!
Praise be to God! What a wonderful testimony. Thank you so much for sharing! So glad to hear it, and we're so glad you found our Channel. We hope we can continue to teach and inspire you in the faith!
This is so important. Too many are being deceived, including myself. Thank God, I figured it was all rubbish in the end. I read my way into it and out of it. Thanks for this, more needed.
Oprah is the reason I was deceived and got into all this nonsense, she promoted all these people and books. Thank God my eyes were opened and I returned to my Catholic faith. Thank you for spreading the word, people have no idea what they are getting onto. 🙏🏼
The sad thing is that when you stand up and speak Catholic truths you get branded, old school and outdated. Well I have had enough of new age stupidity.
So true. Even one retreat retreat I went to given by Fr. Michael Holleran, he said that true Catholicism, "EWTN" Catholicism was old and outdated Catholicism.
What an amazing video ! Thank you for warning us about Christian people and priests who have snuck in New Ageism into their teachings . I will continue to practice my Catholic faith and believe in my faith🙏🏼 Thank you for your hard work to provide us knowledge and the truth👏🏼💗
Thank you for this video. I've been seeing a lot of Protestants and Catholics talking about good vibes, universal energy, crystal powers, etc. It's very sad to see.
No one mentioned Baptists, but yes, they are Protestants. They are just another Protestant denomination started in 1607 by John Smyth in Amsterdam. And Catholic and Roman Catholic are the same thing. There's only one Catholic Church. Since this is a troll comment like all of your comments are, any further comments on this thread from you will be deleted unless they are on topic and you have watched the video.
We understand that Lutheran came out before Baptist. But we also understand what every history book and every encyclopedia will tell you, that lutherans are not the only product ends. They're not the only ones who are protesting the Catholic Church. Baptists were, Methodist, Presbyterians, all considered Protestants.
The Catholic church was started by Jesus, so the Catholic Church didn't come later as you claim. It's probably why you don't give any names, dates, who started the church, how long it took, and so on.
The Catholic Church never left her first love. She still loves Christ with all her heart. In fact, Jesus himself said he would be with the church until the end of time, and that he would send the holy spirit to guide it into all truth. All truth means all truth. So we have the promise of Jesus that is not going to go astray, especially since he said the gates of hell would not Prevail against the church.
Excuse the language but this is damn good! Thank you Bryan a real eye opener. I'm gonna make a lesson on this topic for 15 yr olds. Pray for me as I pray for you. The truth must be told to these young ones.
You can't make too many videos on this. Thank you. This was my very ugly path back to Catholicsm. A huge supporter of anyone debunking this. When I finally relented and read Genesis I couldn't believe my eyes. I wish I'd just listened to my parents and never went there and dabbled, but I did. I'm so grateful I made it back to GOD, but I wish I hadn't taken to loooooooooong, hellish road. A fantastic book that helped me on my way out was "The Great Divorce." A lot was relatable showing how manifestation and isolation is the path to hell. Stay away from the New Age.
We are not one with God , means we are not equal with God, we are inferior beings whereas God is the Superior and creator of the world. Only with His mercy and grace we are one as a family, but by power and might we are not one with Him. Catholic Church needs to understand this. 🙏
I've mentioned this before, but 2 good books on the New Age by Warren B. Smith are; 1. The Light That Was Dark: From New Age To Amazing Grace 2. Another Jesus Calling: How New Age Spirituality Is Infiltrating The Church Through Meditation And Contemplative Prayer Mr. Smith is a protestant however his books provide lots of insight into New Age Spirituality and it's infiltration of Christianity.
Thanks for the comment. We would be remiss if we didn't mention our own book on this subject as well here. :) "Counterfeit Spirituality: Exposing the False Gods." Our Sunday Visitor: bit.ly/3vtK63Z Amazon: amzn.to/3e1BqMk Also see Barnes & Nobles, etc.
Are you protestant? Catholics should stay away from protestants books not matter how good it sounds, look the subject contemplative prayer that is something to talk bad about the catholic church
@@matthewjunio Contemplative prayer is not bad. It's good! It's one of the highest forms of Prayer in the church. But there are some forms of counterfeit prayer, like centering prayer, which calls itself contemplative prayer, but it's not.
I would love to hear a conversation between you and Melissa Dougherty. She’s a former new ager who converted to Christianity and she has lots of videos warning people about new age practices within Christian churches. Granted she’s Protestant not catholic but she’s very well aware of these things.
Really well done video. I spent 30 years practicing Buddhism and studying all of the Indian gurus and all of that and I’ve finally made my way to the Truth of the Catholic Church and now in RCIA! If you know any books of conversion stories of people coming from the new age to Catholicism I’d like to read them!
Praise be to God! Thank you Jesus! We wrote a book against the new age, but we only know a few books of people coming out of the new age. Sharon Lee giganti might have a book, but she also has a CD set called Oprah, Televangelist of the New Age. She shares her story in that. Ransomed from Darkness by Moira Noonan.
Thank you. I started with messages from your angels by Doreen Virtue and then i read all her books then i did angelic reiki.and all self help books from hay house. Then i read kabbala yoga astrology crystals hindu mantras buddha mantras and the list goes on. I still did christian prayers and psalms too. I have thrown it all out now and do rosary daily
Interestingly, Doreen Virtue has renounced all of her former spiritual practices and products and is now a Christian. She speaks out about the New Age on her channel.
Great video!! The devil loves to give you half truths and gets you on that slippery slope of deception and next thing you know you are completely lost!!! It truly is by God’s grace that I was able to recognize this deception!
Hi Bryan - greetings from Ireland - could you do a video on the enneagram, as i have witnessed some Catholics, including priests, getting into this new age practice
Welcome to you from Ireland. I spoke in Ireland before covid and gave a weekend long retreat on the new age movemen to there. I very much enjoyed it. But do answer your question, yes, we are planning to make a video on that topic.
I wished that i found your channel sooner. Great work. Chaos among catholics is a fact. Knowing what is wrong and right is easy but for some lt seems to be not that easy. They are deceived by the devil.
What does it mean when new age practitioners speak of tapping into your divine feminine and divine masculine to channel your emotions ? What does that exactly mean? Thank you. Love what you are doing. God bless you ✝️🙏🏼
Thanks for your work on this subject. By any chance have you also given a response to Neale Donald Walsh’s trilogy “Conversations with God”? Years ago when I was into New Age I found his work (book 1) kind of cool, then by book 2 a bit weird, but then by book 3 downright creepy. I felt he gave the candy in book one, then really revealed the garbage by the end of the trilogy. Goofy stuff. Again, much appreciated that you’re dealing with this topic.
So many people are deceived to do whatever makes them feel good and take the easy wide gate path. Sister Lucia's Fatima vision of hell frightening and her salvation comment; "Many souls will be lost".
I love seeing Catholics talking about this. I see Protestants talking about the new age but they always say blasphemous and heretical things about Catholicism.
22:03 Minor correction: Jesus said there was only one way to get to Heaven. He didn't say there was only one road leading to Hell. There are in fact countless roads leading to Hell.
Philippians 2:5-6 "5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God"
Thank you for this video I'm looking for a video that actually explains WHY/HOW these things are false, in simple terms for a non- Catholic, and not just how to see that they are incompatible for Catholics.
Check the description section of this video. We have more videos that go into deeper details and information on the new age practices and why they are incompatible with God and christianity. And also how some of them can be harmful to us.
Thank you very much. I only skimmed through them but maybe I have to listen more carefully. May God bless you and your efforts to spread His Glory and Kingdom through the proclamation of the thruth and the salvation of souls
You did not mention Thomas Merton who also teaches or advocates centering prayer. He is associated with Thomas Keating, so I suppose is equally corrupt. Thank you very much for your videos. I really enjoy them and am in RCIA. Just had my first confession today (which I somehow survived), and am anticipating baptism and confirmation. Also, you have cleared up a few of the last issues I have had. Now I can face my baptism with assurance. Thank you again.
So happy for you to receive baptism and Confirmation and full entry into the church. Praise be to God. Thanks for watching and thanks for your comment. Prayers for you and your journey. God bless. And if you're interested me of a whole video on centering prayer.
Jesus said “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you” Luke 17; 20-21
Very impressed Bryan with your passion and clarity of teaching. Richard Rohr has done so much damage with his teaching, especially amongst priests within the Anglican (Church of England) Churches. I can pretty much guarantee that all of those leaders that have swallowed the purple pill of progressivism have one or many Richard Rohr books on their bookshelves. I destroyed mine several years ago when I realised just how false and damaging they are to the Gospel of Christ. I’m puzzled as to why the Catholic Church has not disciplined him! He has become THE guru for many other false teachers. Keep up the good work Bryan, and may God bless your family and your ministry. Jon
Thank you! We have the same question about why the Catholic Church hasn't disciplined him. Sadly, there are untouchables in the church it seems. Even in most dioceses, it is the faithful priests who get disciplined while the unfaithful ones never do. I priest told me recently that he wrote an article calling out another priest who was preaching homosexuality. That priest went to the bishop. The good priest was called in and asked to apologize. He said he wouldn't. He also mentioned that it was this other priest who was promoting non-Catholic teachings and morals that should be the one being disciplined. A sad sign of the times I guess. We made a kind of rant video, so to speak on the current situation in the church. If you're interested. God bless. th-cam.com/video/vqXELuqqkmQ/w-d-xo.html
@@CatholicTruthOfficial If you want to know why there's no discipline in the Church since Vatican II, look up the traditional rite of consecration for bishops and then compare it to the one promulgated by Paul VI. They removed the part about anathematizing every heresy that shall arise against the Church. That's why Rohr and the homosexual bishops of Germany can do whatever they want. The only evil in the eyes of the conciliar church is the traditional Catholic faith as it was always practiced.
I know that Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul called out a lot of these new-age heretics and condemned them, but I agree that it needs to be done more often. I think part of the problem is there are many bishops themselves who either don't want to deal with these people and the repercussions or are living liberal and modernist lifestyles themselves.
What about making a rebuttal video to gnosticism based on St. Irenaeus? It'd be great too to have a video on how the Early Church objected reincarnation. Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, Lactantius, Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, there are quotes from all of them against reincarnation.
I heard you mention enneagrams. I've heard other Catholics mention them also as not being inline with Church teachings. Would you be able to do a video on that subject, if you don't already have one? Thanks.
I just had a flyer in my mailbox, a woman in my neighborhood is offering "Shiatsu" consulting. It is described as an "energetic body theory, with harmonizing effects on body and soul", claiming to heal (typical civilizational) diseases like headache, back pain, joint pain, sleep disorders and more of this kind. Probably this therapy is rooted in the same wrong view of the world that you describe in this video. Do you have a separate article about Shiatsu?
I had people in my former catholic parish that bought into yoga and the new age heresies; how very sad and dangerous. A number would say to me that it didn't matter what you believe and all religions are the same. I just had to leave this parish and join a tradional catholic place of worship.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial I was shocked by this sort of thing as I only converted to the Catholic faith in 2015. I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing. It greatly discouraged me and so I started to study the orthodox teachings of the Catholic Church on my own as well as reading early writings of faithful Catholics from the past. I began attending the Latin Mass and have been receiving excellent instruction on the faith. Praise God!
Sadly this is across the Christian World, Catholic and Protestant. Many fall for it, fall for the counterfeit. Praise God that you studied your faith though, and the actual orthodox teachings of the Catholic church. That's why we wrote our book on the New Age movement so people can know what Jesus, the Bible, and the church actually teaches as opposed to these false counterfeit gurus.
I've unironically seen people assert that "the only reason christians don't want more eastern philosophy in their theology is because of racism" it cannot possibly be because greek philosophy was actually particularly close to Christian truth, it has to be that we are just a bunch of racists. lol
I think a lot has to do with ignorance of the Catholic Faith and not having a spiritual mentor that is grounded in truth. This is why catechesis is so important. God bless :)
Yes, novenas to saints are fine. That has nothing to do with santaria which is actually a pagan religion that uses Catholic statues in Other countries to disguise their own religion.
Yes, and more coming soon. In fact we have a video coming out Wednesday on the Catholic Bible versus the orthodox Bible. We also have the conversion of a former orthodox here on our channel and a recent Short that we did on orthodoxy.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial I attend a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and I am concerned that my priests and Bishops are more in favor of the Orthodox than the Catholic Church. It seems to me that pretty well everything we do, we do it like the Orthodox, minus the fact that we follow the pope. Even the articles they print in the weekly bulletin are often authored by Orthodox priests. I need to know if I’m in the right rite. I need help to discern.
I'm would like to ask you, have you ever saw Jesus or God. Because many of the people you mentioned said they have a very profound experience and they really felt they are just one with God. So you think that God is a "personification or being"?
Our opinion is that it's not Catholic or even Christian. It is talking about Hindu theology and how to find self-realization, which is really enlightenment or Hindu Nirvana. Finding this salvation is done through yoga, which of course has against Jesus and the Bible. There is only one way to Salvation and that is Jesus Christ. Hope that helps.
As someone who has read it, stay away. The Yogi talks about how he visited several Catholic saints or mystics and then tries to syncretise Christianity with Hinduism. If you don't have much knowledge about theology, then you will end up falling for it.
The Pentagram is what Satanists use whereas the Enneagram is a New Age symbol based on 9 personality types. We will make a video on the enneagram sometime soon.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial Thank you for telling me about that and I watch most of your late video about Ray Comfort and I know he is not the only one that lies about Catholicism man you got other preachers like John MacArthur,Allen Parr, Mike Winger and Spencer Smith they all got there own TH-cam channel and they all lie about Catholicism I mean they are sooo antiCatholic that it's unreal.
New Agers have entirely different meanings on these terms than the Saints. We have read both Theresa and John and they do not subscribe to this New Age line of thinking. Further, Catholics influenced by the New Age misquote them and try to appropriate them erroneously. God bless.
The most the Secret ever got me was some green lights & parking spots. Hail Christ & honor His Blessed Mother. I want to get my Salt Lamps blessed in the Old Rite next Epiphany. Blessed Negative Ions = Demon Repellant 😂
Brilliant, thanks , I've learnt a lot from your video. " At the name of "Jesus " every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord". Clearly this could not happen if any of these New Age " Christs" met Our Lord and Saviour, since why should one Christ bow the knee to another Christ. I'm sure treating Our Lord Jesus as an equal would be a gigantic spiritual mistake, and greatly hinder our progress towards Heaven. I would enjoy your videos more if their pace was slower, and more relaxed.
The new age movement philosophy is self defeating since it argues that everything is one, but then says some things are an illusion. If all things are one and therefore indistinguishable from each other, then so are the supposed illusions, since the illusions arise from the whole, the one, so how can the illusions not be a part of the whole? It's a completely self defeating philosophy at its core. It's ultimately a prideful and rebellious philosophy, since there is no deference or humility required, and no repentance, since you are God and there is no good or evil. It is a completely satanic philosophy.
I am Catholic, but I think a lot of this is simply restating new age positions and assuming the falsity without explaining why. For example, you say that they believe in monism, that everything is the same, and that nothing is "real" outside of our minds or a larger mind. You are conflating a number of different beliefs in that one statement. Monism =/= idealism. You can certainly be an idealist Catholic rather than a dualist Catholic. In a purely physical sense, everything *is* the same. The atoms that make up your body are no different than the atoms that make up a chair, or water, or anything else. Physically everything is the same. Subjective qualities only exist in the mind. Objects only exist in the mind. We can identify a chair because we have a mental conception of a chair based on the patterns of the atoms we are viewing (based on subjective qualities such as color and feeling). And when you get right down to it, the physical does not exist at all outside of your mind. But you exist in God's mind, so to speak. We all do. This is metaphysics and there is nothing new age-y about it. Berkeley addressed this hundreds of years ago and concluded that reality is mental and that the shared universe that we all inhabit is a mental creation of the mind of God. There is absolutely nothing new age or anti-Catholic about that. Also, good and bad do not exist except as mental concepts. But the important thing to remember is that, under idealism, the mental *is* reality. So the feeling or concept of "good" is just as real as the chair you are sitting on. Essentially, new age teachings say that you can choose to define your own personal "good." Which is true - God gave us free will and we can delude ourselves into thinking anything we want. But whatever we delude ourselves into thinking will never reach the ultimate Goodness that is God. In fact, much of the time it harms us.
Is the same in Latin America catholics have lost their mind you even have nuns and priest promoting stuff that are obvious new age and is sad to see the comments people claiming some weird stuff and none of the priest or nun calling them out but I don't blame them they can't correct them if they are as loss as those catholics, in spain is even more sad over there you have priest and nuns even bringing new age gurus to the church to give meditation exercises and more horrible stuff it is really sad
@@jeremiahong248 Hi, brother! Your recent message to me expresses your anger and frustration over the church leaders who instead of becoming God's instrument of leading people to Christ and holiness have become the cause of many catholics' departure from the Catholic Church and Its teachings. I understand what you feel. It's really heartbreaking! However, like I said to you, the members of the Church are US or WE are the Church. Our action, whether good or bad, really affects the entire Church or whole Mystical Body of Christ. If one member of the Church sins, it has negative effect on the whole Church. What ails a part, the whole suffers. And if a catholic in the state of grace offers his good action or endures pain patiently for the love of God and offers his suffering for the conversion of sinners, his good action has good effect on the whole Church as well. This good/holy person helps the rebuilding and strengthening of our Church. Our every unrepentant sin contributes to the deterioration and weakening of our Church while our every good deed or a suffering endured patiently for love of God and offered for the salvation of souls contributes to the rebuilding and strengthening of our Church. " If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it." - 1 Cor 12:26
@@marietav7342 Yes, that is the best we can do if we are not in the same region / country. We should also continue to bring attention to higher up. My friend has written a complaint letter to the Vatican who allegedly have responded positively to the complaint by issuing a warning to the clergy. So as we live out good discipleship we should also call out bad clergy to Vatican to take the necessary actions.
The Devil is soooo clever... his power is so attractive... can make anything seem good or seem holy.... to discern the small things we are attracted to and know to be aware is only possible via prayer to God.. to be honest... many a Christian have succumbed to what they thought was christianity only to be led away. from it.... BE CAREFUL.
St Michael the Archangel angel defend us in the hour of battle be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil May God rebuke him we humberly pray and do thou O Prince of the heavenly host by the power of God cast down into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.Amen
It's not a sin, and not necessarily wrong either. But do realize that new agers use crystals, and sometimes they can have Spirits attached to them. Even new agers "cleanse" their crystals if they were owned by someone else to get rid of any spiritual effects from another person that may have been attached to them.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial to further this analogy- What better place to cleans our crystals than at Mass? The deeper question might come is if the evil intent of the individual is more the issue than the evil within the crystal itself. I think we confuse/conflate those two. Peace!!!
I think so as long as you dont think of them as having powers or make them into idols. There are many gemologists who collect them. I was a Reiki & crystal healer and i had many many crystals. After i renounced all my practices, repented and went to confession, I blessed all my crystals with holy water and got rid of any ones that felt off from using in rituals or reminded me of my occult practices. Now what’s left look like pretty rocks to me and remind me of bible verses that I read that describe crystals in the kingdom of heaven. Revelation 21:10-27 ….I also spoke to my Pastor about it too.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial about four years 2016- 2020. I was born and raised Catholic but was looking to be more spiritual and got mixed up in the hype about reiki thinking I was doing Gods work. I fell away from the church at this time. But every time I tried to make my practice work I kept getting road blocks. I think God was steering me away from going too far down the wrong path! Then during Covid I had to shut down my practice just when it stated taking off. So I starting praying and reading the Bible and that’s when I realized Jesus was calling me out of the devils deception. I started finding videos on line like your reiki video to show me that I was going against God! I am so happy and grateful for people like you who are sharing the truth, I wish I’d known before I got into it because I never would have. So keep spreading the Word!!
If the prosperity gospel were true the apostles and early church fathers would have had a very comfortable socially accepted lives. Doesn’t take a lot of research to discover they didn't...
No, you really need to stop reading anti-catholic sources. This is a really terrible argument and so far from the truth that if you do your own research on it you will come to the same conclusion. Look it up in english, it does not mean anything to do with snake and no part of that word means snake. We already did a video on that here answering anti- Catholic objections from people who haven't done the research but make these claims. 10 Reasons Catholic Church is Satanic )part 2) th-cam.com/video/FXhjfQ51MVA/w-d-xo.html 10 Reasons Catholic churches satanic part 1 th-cam.com/video/5g4BZCNCD1g/w-d-xo.html We give incontrovertible proof on that.
I'll happily explain it. What you say is totally wrong ( actually stupid) and has been told to you and,rather than investigating it you have decided to go down the bigot road and accept it . This is because it meets your hatred of Catholicism even though I guarantee you haven't studied it. This is when guys like yourself lie and say that you were once an altar boy.
No Catholic can not do yoga as per my opinion as the original words of yoga invocate the name of Hindu God if you do yoga call the name of Jesus Christ then I agree with it.
A lot of Christians try to baptize yoga and just replace the things in it with Jesus, but it's more problematic than that, and there are so many Hindu and new-age parts of the practice of yoga, that they don't successfully remove all of these parts even though they might transform some. So dangerous still remain. There's no such thing as Christian Yoga. We recommend just doing the stretching on its own without calling it yoga or doing any of the spiritual practices of yoga. There is a Fitness program out there called Pietra Fitness and they do exercises while praying. Similar to what you were talking about above. :)
So you don't agree with Pope Francis who just stated we are all One and going to the same heaven.? Is this Catholicism? Are you saying the Pope is evil? Yet he is the most powerful authority to which you bow. Mmmuugh
Please quote the pope on that and the source. What people claims and what he actually says are most often to completely different things. Even if he did, which I doubt, and it's probably taken out of context, the Catholic Church teaches that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven and there is no other way. That cannot be changed because that's what Jesus himself taught.
It's bunk. New Age mumbo jumbo to be honest. If she is going to try to overturn 2000 years of Church teaching, then she needs facts, not just "it's a lie." She needs proof. There is no Christ-Consciousness from Jesus Christ. He never taught such a thing. There is no proof that he did. If she disagrees, she needs proof. th-cam.com/video/9EPdSsRW2XM/w-d-xo.html
You raise many valid points but it seems to me that you don‘t understand these teachings on a experiential, or a deeper level if you will. When simply looking at the words described in the New age, it obviously seems very different from catholic teaching but that is more so due to the faulty vehicle of language. The actual difference is rather minor. The spiritual side of reality, which for us Christian’s also matters most, is very different from the life of the flesh, and the Vatican II encourages us not only to have a dry intellectual understanding of God but a genuine experience of union, achieved through prayer, especially contemplative prayer which is virtually equal to meditation. I say we should remain humble to our degree of knowledge of the spiritual realm, after all we too say „the mystery of faith“ each time before receiving the holy sacrament, so let‘s listen to and love the only One that truly does know, Jesus. Thanks for your service! God bless, Nicholas
Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure if you know this, but the Catholic church has a document on the New Age movement, called "Jesus Christ The Bearer of the Waters of Life." It's a condemnation of the New Age movement and New Age ideas. Just so you know. Also, meditation and contemplation are not synonymous. Meditation takes place before contemplation and leads to it... God willing. Blessings.
I thought the difference was minor too and was heavily immersed experientially in New Age. Until the demonic roots were exposed to me experientially. Praise God that He is patient and loving and helped me to see just how wrong New Age is. I feel so blessed to have been saved from it. The Devil will masquerade as an angel of light.
@@nicksteini very long story involving all kinds of new age practices (yoga, meditation, divination, reiki etc) seeking spirituality thinking it was all based in God Cradle Catholic here that didn’t get a good catechism so not really familiar with the Bible on a deeper level. Had many negative experiences (sleep paralysis/nightmares/dark encounters). All that is behind me thank God. I think if you don’t go deep into New Age it’s easy to see some practices as harmless but they soften boundaries and before you know it you are opening up to other things. Yes there are mysteries in God but Satan has been trying to tempt us since the beginning letting us know that we can be like God/have the knowledge. That comes at a steep price. I stopped all the practices abruptly and have found so much peace. Finally reading my Bible. There are many New Age to Jesus testimonies on you tube. They will make you shudder. I will never slip into that again. God Bless 🙏🏻
We do not accept that the earth is only 6000 years old or that Genesis is referring to literal 24 hour days. We have a whole video on the Catholic Church and Science where we go more into this. If you're interested. th-cam.com/video/q9y40-1piTQ/w-d-xo.html
New age becomes quite frivolous when you come to know Christ.
100%! The real Jesus Christ! 🙏
all other religions are that way. when I was a teen, I looked into different pagan and mystic teachings, but they all seemed to basically be "here is how you get the universe to give you free stuff".
compared to the church, very frivolous indeed
Totally
Thank you! Very important issue!!! I was rescued from the new age by God but there are still many friends trapped…
Thank you for speaking about this. It’s so important. All Catholics and just everyone should stay away from the New Age movement and the practices. Unfortunately, I have family members who are deep in these strange beliefs. I am concerned about the state of their soul. I hope one day they chose to follow God and stop practicing witchcraft and other satanic rituals/practices. God bless you brother. 🙏
I’ve witnessed Catholics and Protestants fall for wearing the “ evil eye “ icon. I only happy to know their Christian because they’re wearing those icons alongside Christian iconography. All we can do is pray, discern, and speak to them. May we accept the Grace of God in our lives! He’s only waiting for us to say yes!
Thank you so much. I love this channel. My husband and I and our 5 children are Catholic converts. We have been baptized Catholics for 1 year!
My husband came from a Baptist background and I came from a Pentecostal background. My husband studied Catholicism for almost 3 years. He started off like Steve Ray. My husband was trying to find ways to win Catholics over. In fact, his plan failed and he was won over to the Catholic church thus leading me to the Catholic church as well.
Your channel helps me learn so much more. My husband is a theologian type. I thank my husband for showing me the way, and other spiritual leaders and teachers such as you, Steve Ray and Scott Hauhn. I don't want to be mislead in to the new age beliefs. Thank you again!
Praise be to God! What a wonderful testimony. Thank you so much for sharing! So glad to hear it, and we're so glad you found our Channel. We hope we can continue to teach and inspire you in the faith!
May God continue to lead and bless your family!
This is so important. Too many are being deceived, including myself. Thank God, I figured it was all rubbish in the end. I read my way into it and out of it. Thanks for this, more needed.
Hello Tess,
I am so happy to hear that you got out of this deceptive and dangerous movement. Praise be to God! We hope you have a great week!
@@CatholicTruthOfficial thank you for your kind words. I’ve just bought your book. God Bless.
Hope you enjoy it! God bless you.
Keep preaching. People are waking up. God bless and thank you!
Oprah is the reason I was deceived and got into all this nonsense, she promoted all these people and books. Thank God my eyes were opened and I returned to my Catholic faith. Thank you for spreading the word, people have no idea what they are getting onto. 🙏🏼
AMEN!! Praise our good Lord that your eyes were opened! Thank you Jesus!
Amen 🙏🏼 Praise Jesus! ♥
For those who are unaware, look into Oprah's friendship with Brazilian mystic the so-called "John of God". Really sick stuff.
For sure!
Amen!
The sad thing is that when you stand up and speak Catholic truths you get branded, old school and outdated. Well I have had enough of new age stupidity.
So true. Even one retreat retreat I went to given by Fr. Michael Holleran, he said that true Catholicism, "EWTN" Catholicism was old and outdated Catholicism.
What an amazing video ! Thank you for warning us about Christian people and priests who have snuck in New Ageism into their teachings .
I will continue to practice my Catholic faith and believe in my faith🙏🏼
Thank you for your hard work to provide us knowledge and the truth👏🏼💗
And thank you for watching. God bless you.
Thank you for this video. I've been seeing a lot of Protestants and Catholics talking about good vibes, universal energy, crystal powers, etc. It's very sad to see.
I agree Marci. Not good at all.
No one mentioned Baptists, but yes, they are Protestants. They are just another Protestant denomination started in 1607 by John Smyth in Amsterdam. And Catholic and Roman Catholic are the same thing. There's only one Catholic Church. Since this is a troll comment like all of your comments are, any further comments on this thread from you will be deleted unless they are on topic and you have watched the video.
We understand that Lutheran came out before Baptist. But we also understand what every history book and every encyclopedia will tell you, that lutherans are not the only product ends. They're not the only ones who are protesting the Catholic Church. Baptists were, Methodist, Presbyterians, all considered Protestants.
The Catholic church was started by Jesus, so the Catholic Church didn't come later as you claim. It's probably why you don't give any names, dates, who started the church, how long it took, and so on.
The Catholic Church never left her first love. She still loves Christ with all her heart. In fact, Jesus himself said he would be with the church until the end of time, and that he would send the holy spirit to guide it into all truth. All truth means all truth. So we have the promise of Jesus that is not going to go astray, especially since he said the gates of hell would not Prevail against the church.
You are my favourite Catholic channel on TH-cam, dang! Being a former yoga teacher, you just speak right to me, sir!
Yoga is satanic…
Thank you so much!! ❤
Excuse the language but this is damn good! Thank you Bryan a real eye opener. I'm gonna make a lesson on this topic for 15 yr olds. Pray for me as I pray for you. The truth must be told to these young ones.
Thanks so much! God bless you.🙌
You can't make too many videos on this. Thank you.
This was my very ugly path back to Catholicsm. A huge supporter of anyone debunking this. When I finally relented and read Genesis I couldn't believe my eyes. I wish I'd just listened to my parents and never went there and dabbled, but I did. I'm so grateful I made it back to GOD, but I wish I hadn't taken to loooooooooong, hellish road.
A fantastic book that helped me on my way out was "The Great Divorce." A lot was relatable showing how manifestation and isolation is the path to hell.
Stay away from the New Age.
So sorry you had such a long hell road, but I'm also so glad that you found your way back to the light. Many people don't. So praise God for that!
CS Lewis is great! Most of his books are available (audiobooks) via your local public library. Peace be with you!
I got into the new age. After my appendix ruptured. I found God. That was the first time I heard him.
Please pray for me I was led astray and decieved and duoed by new age false spirituality...
For sure! We will pray.
I got sucked into the new age when I was 13
We are not one with God , means we are not equal with God, we are inferior beings whereas God is the Superior and creator of the world. Only with His mercy and grace we are one as a family, but by power and might we are not one with Him. Catholic Church needs to understand this. 🙏
I've mentioned this before, but 2 good books on the New Age by Warren B. Smith are;
1. The Light That Was Dark: From New Age To Amazing Grace
2. Another Jesus Calling: How New Age Spirituality Is Infiltrating The Church Through Meditation And Contemplative Prayer
Mr. Smith is a protestant however his books provide lots of insight into New Age Spirituality and it's infiltration of Christianity.
Thanks for the comment. We would be remiss if we didn't mention our own book on this subject as well here. :)
"Counterfeit Spirituality: Exposing the False Gods."
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Also see Barnes & Nobles, etc.
Are you protestant? Catholics should stay away from protestants books not matter how good it sounds, look the subject contemplative prayer that is something to talk bad about the catholic church
I did not know that contemplative prayer is bad
@@matthewjunio Contemplative prayer is not bad. It's good! It's one of the highest forms of Prayer in the church. But there are some forms of counterfeit prayer, like centering prayer, which calls itself contemplative prayer, but it's not.
I would love to hear a conversation between you and Melissa Dougherty. She’s a former new ager who converted to Christianity and she has lots of videos warning people about new age practices within Christian churches. Granted she’s Protestant not catholic but she’s very well aware of these things.
Really well done video. I spent 30 years practicing Buddhism and studying all of the Indian gurus and all of that and I’ve finally made my way to the Truth of the Catholic Church and now in RCIA! If you know any books of conversion stories of people coming from the new age to Catholicism I’d like to read them!
Praise be to God! Thank you Jesus! We wrote a book against the new age, but we only know a few books of people coming out of the new age.
Sharon Lee giganti might have a book, but she also has a CD set called Oprah, Televangelist of the New Age. She shares her story in that.
Ransomed from Darkness by Moira Noonan.
Thank you. I started with messages from your angels by Doreen Virtue and then i read all her books then i did angelic reiki.and all self help books from hay house. Then i read kabbala yoga astrology crystals hindu mantras buddha mantras and the list goes on. I still did christian prayers and psalms too. I have thrown it all out now and do rosary daily
Amen!
Interestingly, Doreen Virtue has renounced all of her former spiritual practices and products and is now a Christian. She speaks out about the New Age on her channel.
Thanks Brian!
Great video!! The devil loves to give you half truths and gets you on that slippery slope of deception and next thing you know you are completely lost!!!
It truly is by God’s grace that I was able to recognize this deception!
Amen!
I appreciate you putting this video out!
@@henkaistudio yes, I have even seen this from priest trying to incorporate this practice into our faith.
Glad you enjoyed it and we appreciate you!
Hi Bryan - greetings from Ireland - could you do a video on the enneagram, as i have witnessed some Catholics, including priests, getting into this new age practice
Welcome to you from Ireland. I spoke in Ireland before covid and gave a weekend long retreat on the new age movemen to there. I very much enjoyed it.
But do answer your question, yes, we are planning to make a video on that topic.
I wished that i found your channel sooner. Great work. Chaos among catholics is a fact. Knowing what is wrong and right is easy but for some lt seems to be not that easy. They are deceived by the devil.
I'm glad you found our Channel. Welcome!
Some of that stuff is scary!!! I have come across some of these people. The road to damnation is wide the road to salvation is narrow.
People fall for this because it sounds nice to hear and if you don't know enough, you could fall for it.
Bingo!
@@triciaperry2234 You misspelled Protestantism pretty badly
What does it mean when new age practitioners speak of tapping into your divine feminine and divine masculine to channel your emotions ? What does that exactly mean? Thank you. Love what you are doing. God bless you ✝️🙏🏼
Very well explained.
Thanks for your work on this subject. By any chance have you also given a response to Neale Donald Walsh’s trilogy “Conversations with God”? Years ago when I was into New Age I found his work (book 1) kind of cool, then by book 2 a bit weird, but then by book 3 downright creepy. I felt he gave the candy in book one, then really revealed the garbage by the end of the trilogy. Goofy stuff. Again, much appreciated that you’re dealing with this topic.
So many people are deceived to do whatever makes them feel good and take the easy wide gate path. Sister Lucia's Fatima vision of hell frightening and her salvation comment; "Many souls will be lost".
Good job with this! Your spot on!
Glad you think so!
Welcome! And sure.
I love seeing Catholics talking about this. I see Protestants talking about the new age but they always say blasphemous and heretical things about Catholicism.
This was very interesting to listen to, thank you
22:03 Minor correction: Jesus said there was only one way to get to Heaven. He didn't say there was only one road leading to Hell. There are in fact countless roads leading to Hell.
Philippians 2:5-6 "5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God"
Thank you for this video
I'm looking for a video that actually explains WHY/HOW these things are false, in simple terms for a non- Catholic, and not just how to see that they are incompatible for Catholics.
Check the description section of this video. We have more videos that go into deeper details and information on the new age practices and why they are incompatible with God and christianity. And also how some of them can be harmful to us.
Thank you very much.
I only skimmed through them but maybe I have to listen more carefully.
May God bless you and your efforts to spread His Glory and Kingdom through the proclamation of the thruth and the salvation of souls
Thanks 🙏🏾 ❤
When I realized I was into new age, I went to confession. God is mercy. I cannot believe I bought into this new age stuff.
Praise God you got out of it though!
You did not mention Thomas Merton who also teaches or advocates centering prayer. He is associated with Thomas Keating, so I suppose is equally corrupt. Thank you very much for your videos. I really enjoy them and am in RCIA. Just had my first confession today (which I somehow survived), and am anticipating baptism and confirmation. Also, you have cleared up a few of the last issues I have had. Now I can face my baptism with assurance. Thank you again.
So happy for you to receive baptism and Confirmation and full entry into the church. Praise be to God. Thanks for watching and thanks for your comment. Prayers for you and your journey. God bless. And if you're interested me of a whole video on centering prayer.
Jesus said “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you” Luke 17; 20-21
Thank you needs to be spelled out because easy to fall into this stuff.
Great to watch you for the first time. What about the newest guru, Gregg Braden?
We can look into him. Thanks for watching.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial G Braden hooks people by presenting himself as a scientist, archaeologist, a NY Bestlseller fantasy writer, etc...
Very impressed Bryan with your passion and clarity of teaching. Richard Rohr has done so much damage with his teaching, especially amongst priests within the Anglican (Church of England) Churches. I can pretty much guarantee that all of those leaders that have swallowed the purple pill of progressivism have one or many Richard Rohr books on their bookshelves. I destroyed mine several years ago when I realised just how false and damaging they are to the Gospel of Christ. I’m puzzled as to why the Catholic Church has not disciplined him! He has become THE guru for many other false teachers. Keep up the good work Bryan, and may God bless your family and your ministry. Jon
Thank you! We have the same question about why the Catholic Church hasn't disciplined him. Sadly, there are untouchables in the church it seems. Even in most dioceses, it is the faithful priests who get disciplined while the unfaithful ones never do. I priest told me recently that he wrote an article calling out another priest who was preaching homosexuality. That priest went to the bishop. The good priest was called in and asked to apologize. He said he wouldn't. He also mentioned that it was this other priest who was promoting non-Catholic teachings and morals that should be the one being disciplined. A sad sign of the times I guess. We made a kind of rant video, so to speak on the current situation in the church. If you're interested. God bless. th-cam.com/video/vqXELuqqkmQ/w-d-xo.html
@@CatholicTruthOfficial If you want to know why there's no discipline in the Church since Vatican II, look up the traditional rite of consecration for bishops and then compare it to the one promulgated by Paul VI. They removed the part about anathematizing every heresy that shall arise against the Church. That's why Rohr and the homosexual bishops of Germany can do whatever they want. The only evil in the eyes of the conciliar church is the traditional Catholic faith as it was always practiced.
I know that Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul called out a lot of these new-age heretics and condemned them, but I agree that it needs to be done more often. I think part of the problem is there are many bishops themselves who either don't want to deal with these people and the repercussions or are living liberal and modernist lifestyles themselves.
One of Satan’s oldest lies “You will become God”
The devil is not resting to make us stumble.
What about making a rebuttal video to gnosticism based on St. Irenaeus?
It'd be great too to have a video on how the Early Church objected reincarnation. Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, Lactantius, Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, there are quotes from all of them against reincarnation.
Yes, that would be great material. Thank you and God bless!
@@CatholicTruthOfficial God bless you
New Age stuff sounds like the Serpent who tempted Eve to eat the fruit from the Tree Knowledge, “You’ll be like God.” The serpent deceived Eve.
when I listen to a new age person I swear I lose brain cells. Problem is, you can't convince them they are wrong.
That's so 100% true. And I know how crazy it is. You can't convince them they're wrong. It's very difficult.
Most people don’t believe their faith is wrong.
I heard you mention enneagrams. I've heard other Catholics mention them also as not being inline with Church teachings. Would you be able to do a video on that subject, if you don't already have one? Thanks.
Definitely!
I just had a flyer in my mailbox, a woman in my neighborhood is offering "Shiatsu" consulting. It is described as an "energetic body theory, with harmonizing effects on body and soul", claiming to heal (typical civilizational) diseases like headache, back pain, joint pain, sleep disorders and more of this kind. Probably this therapy is rooted in the same wrong view of the world that you describe in this video. Do you have a separate article about Shiatsu?
This sounds like Gnosticism, Pelagianism and Eastern Spirituality all mixed in one
I have never experience that being "dreaming in the waking day" thing.
What about Carnegie, Hill, Nightingale, Rohn... All vert materialistic, explaining laws of psychologue ? Where who to fond in catholic teachings ?
I had people in my former catholic parish that bought into yoga and the new age heresies; how very sad and dangerous. A number would say to me that it didn't matter what you believe and all religions are the same. I just had to leave this parish and join a tradional catholic place of worship.
Hi James, it is sad. A lot of Catholics buy into this stuff thinking that it won't negatively affect their spiritual life.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial I was shocked by this sort of thing as I only converted to the Catholic faith in 2015. I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing. It greatly discouraged me and so I started to study the orthodox teachings of the Catholic Church on my own as well as reading early writings of faithful Catholics from the past. I began attending the Latin Mass and have been receiving excellent instruction on the faith. Praise God!
Sadly this is across the Christian World, Catholic and Protestant. Many fall for it, fall for the counterfeit. Praise God that you studied your faith though, and the actual orthodox teachings of the Catholic church. That's why we wrote our book on the New Age movement so people can know what Jesus, the Bible, and the church actually teaches as opposed to these false counterfeit gurus.
I've unironically seen people assert that "the only reason christians don't want more eastern philosophy in their theology is because of racism"
it cannot possibly be because greek philosophy was actually particularly close to Christian truth, it has to be that we are just a bunch of racists. lol
Thats crazy!!, how do they do to make others believe that!!? 😣
I think a lot has to do with ignorance of the Catholic Faith and not having a spiritual mentor that is grounded in truth. This is why catechesis is so important. God bless :)
Is it ok to do novenas to saints or not. Whats the difference with santeria?
Yes, novenas to saints are fine. That has nothing to do with santaria which is actually a pagan religion that uses Catholic statues in Other countries to disguise their own religion.
Do you have any information on the Orthodox religion?
Yes, and more coming soon. In fact we have a video coming out Wednesday on the Catholic Bible versus the orthodox Bible. We also have the conversion of a former orthodox here on our channel and a recent Short that we did on orthodoxy.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial I attend a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and I am concerned that my priests and Bishops are more in favor of the Orthodox than the Catholic Church. It seems to me that pretty well everything we do, we do it like the Orthodox, minus the fact that we follow the pope. Even the articles they print in the weekly bulletin are often authored by Orthodox priests. I need to know if I’m in the right rite. I need help to discern.
How come you haven’t thrown out those New Age books though 🤔
Because we used them for research to write our boom debunking the New Age Movement and debunking these books too.
I'm would like to ask you, have you ever saw Jesus or God. Because many of the people you mentioned said they have a very profound experience and they really felt they are just one with God. So you think that God is a "personification or being"?
What’s your opinion on Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda?
As longer as it affects your spirituality and religious beliefs, LEAVE it please.
Our opinion is that it's not Catholic or even Christian. It is talking about Hindu theology and how to find self-realization, which is really enlightenment or Hindu Nirvana. Finding this salvation is done through yoga, which of course has against Jesus and the Bible. There is only one way to Salvation and that is Jesus Christ. Hope that helps.
As someone who has read it, stay away. The Yogi talks about how he visited several Catholic saints or mystics and then tries to syncretise Christianity with Hinduism. If you don't have much knowledge about theology, then you will end up falling for it.
I was taught from Catholics and fundamentalist Christians that the eneagram is the same as the pentagram
It's not. It's very different.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial then what is the difference between each one
The Pentagram is what Satanists use whereas the Enneagram is a New Age symbol based on 9 personality types. We will make a video on the enneagram sometime soon.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial Thank you for telling me about that and I watch most of your late video about Ray Comfort and I know he is not the only one that lies about Catholicism man you got other preachers like John MacArthur,Allen Parr, Mike Winger and Spencer Smith they all got there own TH-cam channel and they all lie about Catholicism I mean they are sooo antiCatholic that it's unreal.
Oneness or nonduality is not non-catholic. All catholic mystics, like St Theresa of Avilla or St John of the Cross, describe this state of existence
New Agers have entirely different meanings on these terms than the Saints. We have read both Theresa and John and they do not subscribe to this New Age line of thinking. Further, Catholics influenced by the New Age misquote them and try to appropriate them erroneously. God bless.
The most the Secret ever got me was some green lights & parking spots. Hail Christ & honor His Blessed Mother.
I want to get my Salt Lamps blessed in the Old Rite next Epiphany. Blessed Negative Ions = Demon Repellant 😂
Is the buring of sage to drive put spirits and good "vibes" new age or witchcraft?
Yes. We don't need to burn Sage to drive out demons or Spirits when God does that. It sounds superstitious to be honest.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial agreed. I have been seeing people doing that lately and it's disgusting.
But catholics can use holy water excorcized salt and st charbel oil. I believe
Brilliant, thanks , I've learnt a lot from your video.
" At the name of "Jesus " every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord". Clearly this could not happen if any of these New Age " Christs" met Our Lord and Saviour, since why should one Christ bow the knee to another Christ. I'm sure treating Our Lord Jesus as an equal would be a gigantic spiritual mistake, and greatly hinder our progress towards Heaven.
I would enjoy your videos more if their pace was slower, and more relaxed.
Glad you enjoyed our video! God bless :)
The new age movement philosophy is self defeating since it argues that everything is one, but then says some things are an illusion. If all things are one and therefore indistinguishable from each other, then so are the supposed illusions, since the illusions arise from the whole, the one, so how can the illusions not be a part of the whole? It's a completely self defeating philosophy at its core.
It's ultimately a prideful and rebellious philosophy, since there is no deference or humility required, and no repentance, since you are God and there is no good or evil. It is a completely satanic philosophy.
Right none of it even makes sense and contradicts itself!
I am Catholic, but I think a lot of this is simply restating new age positions and assuming the falsity without explaining why. For example, you say that they believe in monism, that everything is the same, and that nothing is "real" outside of our minds or a larger mind. You are conflating a number of different beliefs in that one statement. Monism =/= idealism. You can certainly be an idealist Catholic rather than a dualist Catholic. In a purely physical sense, everything *is* the same. The atoms that make up your body are no different than the atoms that make up a chair, or water, or anything else. Physically everything is the same. Subjective qualities only exist in the mind. Objects only exist in the mind. We can identify a chair because we have a mental conception of a chair based on the patterns of the atoms we are viewing (based on subjective qualities such as color and feeling). And when you get right down to it, the physical does not exist at all outside of your mind. But you exist in God's mind, so to speak. We all do.
This is metaphysics and there is nothing new age-y about it. Berkeley addressed this hundreds of years ago and concluded that reality is mental and that the shared universe that we all inhabit is a mental creation of the mind of God. There is absolutely nothing new age or anti-Catholic about that.
Also, good and bad do not exist except as mental concepts. But the important thing to remember is that, under idealism, the mental *is* reality. So the feeling or concept of "good" is just as real as the chair you are sitting on. Essentially, new age teachings say that you can choose to define your own personal "good." Which is true - God gave us free will and we can delude ourselves into thinking anything we want. But whatever we delude ourselves into thinking will never reach the ultimate Goodness that is God. In fact, much of the time it harms us.
It's Buddhism and Hinduism. These are completely different religions.
Like mother like daughter.
many of our students are ex-Catholicsm they just don't buy it. They also are fleeing the new-age stuff.
The devil 👿 is a lie!
Is the same in Latin America catholics have lost their mind you even have nuns and priest promoting stuff that are obvious new age and is sad to see the comments people claiming some weird stuff and none of the priest or nun calling them out but I don't blame them they can't correct them if they are as loss as those catholics, in spain is even more sad over there you have priest and nuns even bringing new age gurus to the church to give meditation exercises and more horrible stuff it is really sad
@Cafe Canela. Can you bring attention to the bishops for the sake of these wayward clergy?
@@jeremiahong248 The Bishops are the ones promoting this madness.
Traditional Bishops are actually being demoted.
@@jeremiahong248 Hi, brother! Your recent message to me expresses your anger and frustration over the church leaders who instead of becoming God's instrument of leading people to Christ and holiness have become the cause of many catholics' departure from the Catholic Church and Its teachings. I understand what you feel. It's really heartbreaking! However, like I said to you, the members of the Church are US or WE are the Church. Our action, whether good or bad, really affects the entire Church or whole Mystical Body of Christ. If one member of the Church sins, it has negative effect on the whole Church. What ails a part, the whole suffers. And if a catholic in the state of grace offers his good action or endures pain patiently for the love of God and offers his suffering for the conversion of sinners, his good action has good effect on the whole Church as well. This good/holy person helps the rebuilding and strengthening of our Church. Our every unrepentant sin contributes to the deterioration and weakening of our Church while our every good deed or a suffering endured patiently for love of God and offered for the salvation of souls contributes to the rebuilding and strengthening of our Church.
" If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it." - 1 Cor 12:26
@@marietav7342 Yes, that is the best we can do if we are not in the same region / country. We should also continue to bring attention to higher up. My friend has written a complaint letter to the Vatican who allegedly have responded positively to the complaint by issuing a warning to the clergy. So as we live out good discipleship we should also call out bad clergy to Vatican to take the necessary actions.
@@jeremiahong248 Yes, I agree with you. We need to take part in the cleansing and rebuilding of our Church.
Will Protestants Go To Heaven... If They Take Up Their Cross Deny Themselves And Follow Jesus🙏
The Devil is soooo clever... his power is so attractive... can make anything seem good or seem holy.... to discern the small things we are attracted to and know to be aware is only possible via prayer to God.. to be honest... many a Christian have succumbed to what they thought was christianity only to be led away. from it.... BE CAREFUL.
Bingo!
St Michael the Archangel angel defend us in the hour of battle be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil May God rebuke him we humberly pray and do thou O Prince of the heavenly host by the power of God cast down into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.Amen
Can you collect crystals because they look beautiful? Is that a sin and is it dangerous?
It's not a sin, and not necessarily wrong either. But do realize that new agers use crystals, and sometimes they can have Spirits attached to them. Even new agers "cleanse" their crystals if they were owned by someone else to get rid of any spiritual effects from another person that may have been attached to them.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial to further this analogy-
What better place to cleans our crystals than at Mass? The deeper question might come is if the evil intent of the individual is more the issue than the evil within the crystal itself. I think we confuse/conflate those two.
Peace!!!
I think so as long as you dont think of them as having powers or make them into idols. There are many gemologists who collect them. I was a Reiki & crystal healer and i had many many crystals. After i renounced all my practices, repented and went to confession, I blessed all my crystals with holy water and got rid of any ones that felt off from using in rituals or reminded me of my occult practices. Now what’s left look like pretty rocks to me and remind me of bible verses that I read that describe crystals in the kingdom of heaven. Revelation 21:10-27 ….I also spoke to my Pastor about it too.
How long did you practice Reiki for?
@@CatholicTruthOfficial about four years 2016- 2020. I was born and raised Catholic but was looking to be more spiritual and got mixed up in the hype about reiki thinking I was doing Gods work. I fell away from the church at this time. But every time I tried to make my practice work I kept getting road blocks. I think God was steering me away from going too far down the wrong path! Then during Covid I had to shut down my practice just when it stated taking off. So I starting praying and reading the Bible and that’s when I realized Jesus was calling me out of the devils deception. I started finding videos on line like your reiki video to show me that I was going against God! I am so happy and grateful for people like you who are sharing the truth, I wish I’d known before I got into it because I never would have. So keep spreading the Word!!
Also, the wickedness and evil of name it and claim it prosperity gospel false preachers like Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Myer, and others.
No, it is not new age. But it's similar to The Law of Attraction, which is a new age teaching, which we will be having a video on coming out tonight.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial yes, that is what my line of thinking was....law of attraction = new age.....
If the prosperity gospel were true the apostles and early church fathers would have had a very comfortable socially accepted lives. Doesn’t take a lot of research to discover they didn't...
If I am all intelligence, there is no hope lol
Not a very omnipotent and perfect god if we splintered ourself into endless versions of fake and sinful shards of non-reality…..
Exactly
Oh, *THIS* should be good! How, pray, does *our* action demonstrate that God is neither omnipotent or perfect?
@@tryingnottobeasmartass757 I’m referring to the New Age concept that WE are all God.
@@michaelrome3527, *that* I can see. (Yes, you gave a really good answer.)
L O V E ❤️
What does Vatican mean? Hint: Snake is part of it. Look at the snake building. Explain this
No, you really need to stop reading anti-catholic sources. This is a really terrible argument and so far from the truth that if you do your own research on it you will come to the same conclusion. Look it up in english, it does not mean anything to do with snake and no part of that word means snake. We already did a video on that here answering anti- Catholic objections from people who haven't done the research but make these claims.
10 Reasons Catholic Church is Satanic )part 2) th-cam.com/video/FXhjfQ51MVA/w-d-xo.html
10 Reasons Catholic churches satanic part 1 th-cam.com/video/5g4BZCNCD1g/w-d-xo.html
We give incontrovertible proof on that.
I'll happily explain it. What you say is totally wrong ( actually stupid) and has been told to you and,rather than investigating it you have decided to go down the bigot road and accept it . This is because it meets your hatred of Catholicism even though I guarantee you haven't studied it. This is when guys like yourself lie and say that you were once an altar boy.
No Catholic can not do yoga as per my opinion as the original words of yoga invocate the name of Hindu God if you do yoga call the name of Jesus Christ then I agree with it.
A lot of Christians try to baptize yoga and just replace the things in it with Jesus, but it's more problematic than that, and there are so many Hindu and new-age parts of the practice of yoga, that they don't successfully remove all of these parts even though they might transform some. So dangerous still remain. There's no such thing as Christian Yoga. We recommend just doing the stretching on its own without calling it yoga or doing any of the spiritual practices of yoga. There is a Fitness program out there called Pietra Fitness and they do exercises while praying. Similar to what you were talking about above. :)
So you don't agree with Pope Francis who just stated we are all One and going to the same heaven.? Is this Catholicism? Are you saying the Pope is evil? Yet he is the most powerful authority to which you bow. Mmmuugh
Please quote the pope on that and the source. What people claims and what he actually says are most often to completely different things. Even if he did, which I doubt, and it's probably taken out of context, the Catholic Church teaches that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven and there is no other way. That cannot be changed because that's what Jesus himself taught.
What is your opinion on so called “Christ Consciousness”? My mother says that this is real and what the church teaches is a lie.
It's bunk. New Age mumbo jumbo to be honest. If she is going to try to overturn 2000 years of Church teaching, then she needs facts, not just "it's a lie." She needs proof. There is no Christ-Consciousness from Jesus Christ. He never taught such a thing. There is no proof that he did. If she disagrees, she needs proof. th-cam.com/video/9EPdSsRW2XM/w-d-xo.html
You raise many valid points but it seems to me that you don‘t understand these teachings on a experiential, or a deeper level if you will. When simply looking at the words described in the New age, it obviously seems very different from catholic teaching but that is more so due to the faulty vehicle of language. The actual difference is rather minor. The spiritual side of reality, which for us Christian’s also matters most, is very different from the life of the flesh, and the Vatican II encourages us not only to have a dry intellectual understanding of God but a genuine experience of union, achieved through prayer, especially contemplative prayer which is virtually equal to meditation. I say we should remain humble to our degree of knowledge of the spiritual realm, after all we too say „the mystery of faith“ each time before receiving the holy sacrament, so let‘s listen to and love the only One that truly does know, Jesus.
Thanks for your service! God bless, Nicholas
Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure if you know this, but the Catholic church has a document on the New Age movement, called "Jesus Christ The Bearer of the Waters of Life." It's a condemnation of the New Age movement and New Age ideas. Just so you know. Also, meditation and contemplation are not synonymous. Meditation takes place before contemplation and leads to it... God willing. Blessings.
@@BryanMerc thanks! Looking forward to read
I thought the difference was minor too and was heavily immersed experientially in New Age. Until the demonic roots were exposed to me experientially. Praise God that He is patient and loving and helped me to see just how wrong New Age is. I feel so blessed to have been saved from it. The Devil will masquerade as an angel of light.
@@sally0404 would love to hear more about your testimony
@@nicksteini very long story involving all kinds of new age practices (yoga, meditation, divination, reiki etc) seeking spirituality thinking it was all based in God Cradle Catholic here that didn’t get a good catechism so not really familiar with the Bible on a deeper level. Had many negative experiences (sleep paralysis/nightmares/dark encounters). All that is behind me thank God. I think if you don’t go deep into New Age it’s easy to see some practices as harmless but they soften boundaries and before you know it you are opening up to other things. Yes there are mysteries in God but Satan has been trying to tempt us since the beginning letting us know that we can be like God/have the knowledge. That comes at a steep price. I stopped all the practices abruptly and have found so much peace. Finally reading my Bible. There are many New Age to Jesus testimonies on you tube. They will make you shudder. I will never slip into that again. God Bless 🙏🏻
Sounds like a civilian feel good book made for living in a gate community.
New Age books? For sure.
Do you accept the biological theory of evolution, or that the Earth and the Universe are definitely more than 6,000 years old?
We do not accept that the earth is only 6000 years old or that Genesis is referring to literal 24 hour days. We have a whole video on the Catholic Church and Science where we go more into this. If you're interested. th-cam.com/video/q9y40-1piTQ/w-d-xo.html
I threw out the new age junk during the pandemic
Awesome!
Thank you Brian
My pleasure!