Wow man, knocked it out of the park. I’m 20 and I’d say this was spot on. At the age of 19 I was a lukewarm Catholic at best but once I got some of the difficult questions answered I did a 180, or rather God caused the 180 inside of me, and I’ve never been the same. It’s been a year and some change of me denying myself, failing, going to confession, denying myself and so on until I’m finally able to get rid of whatever sin was plaguing me. I actually pray in my own home now and read the Bible. All because some difficult questions were answered. Keep up the good work!
Amen! Thank you for sharing your testimony. Praise God that he transformed you and helped you to do a 180. Keep living your faith and keep growing! God bless.
Same for me! A year ago I was blaspheming Our Lady and now I'm praying 15 decade rosaries almost every single day. I love Our Lady and am so grateful she's forgiving and doesn't hold a grudge... I could never relate to those people who exercise every day and feel bad if they miss a day, but i missed my rosary today and i feel so uncomfortable about it!
We will pray for her. If she is someone who has a lot of questions, you can call Catholic Truth and have her talk to Bryan. She can pepper him and ask him any questions she wants. Other parents have had their teens call and ask questions when they were struggling with faith in the youth found it helpful. Just a thought.
I'm still in the process of reverting back to Catholicism. Recently i remembered the thing that absolutely kicked the legs out from under my faith: a 9th grade (2001) public school history class that made us learn a completely one-sided version of the Protestant "Reformation". Our history book may as well have been written by Martin Luther himself, it was just so explicitly anti Catholic! I didn't have any ammunition to fight what were very biased and outrageous claims, and instead i came away from that class believing the Catholic Church was stupid, evil, and hypocritical.
So glad you are coming home! Thank you for sharing. If we can help you in your journey at all, please let us know. And our videos will give you all the animal you need against all the anti-catholics. :-)
@@CatholicTruthOfficial Bryan, you help A TON! Your channel has been there every step of the way to help keep me on the right path. I almost became a protestant, then I almost became a sedevacantist, but Catholic Truth was there to set me straight. I'm very grateful for all you do! I just gotta remember not to watch so late in the evening because your enthusiasm is infectious. I feel like i just drank a coffee!
Hello Ciro, my advice is just to question everything and research it for yourself, have faith but don’t follow everything blindly, there’s answers and make sure you read your Bible, equip yourself with the scriptures then use that knowledge to explore religion. Ps: I hope you fall in love with Jesus, remember that the Bible is a history book, not fiction. I suggest you start in the New Testament, one of the gospels (Mark is the fastest to read, and full of action) then the book of acts is the start of the Christian churches (churches that follow Jesus) and then jump around through the epistles because they are letters of correction sent to these churches. 🔥🕊❤️
@@undeadboris thank you! I was actually looking for advice like this about how to go about reading the Bible. I'm very busy and I'm a slow reader so I tend to spend my time listening to apologetics or praying, which i can do while I'm doing other things, but I've been wanting to read the Bible as well. I will follow the plan you laid out, thanks!
This is absolutely part of what pulled me away. Biased teachings on the reformation and on immoral pipes and priests having orgies in 9th grade history. I’m so happy to have learned the truth and to be home in the Church.
Thank you much for this! I am a Catholic evangelist and some of the first things you said are exactly what we teach. 1) Answer *their* questions. Until the point that the Lord convinces them, you need to give them *insurmountable* answers to their questions. There is no need to teach them about anything else until their issues have been resolved.
I had a friend who was raised Catholic but became agnostic as an adult. We talked about Catholicism all the time, and he told me if he’d known me when he was younger, he’d probably still be Catholic, and I’m by no means a theologian! He said in CCD, when he’d ask the nuns why Catholics did what we do, they’d answer “Just because!”
Many kids don’t have the solid religious background they need. Kids materialize this earth too much, they don’t look forward, they may be mad at God for taking their parents from them, they don’t realize this life is not our life, our new life in heaven with God is unexplainably beautiful
Wow! I was deeply moved and touched by your wonderful message Bryan More Merciful! I consider you a modern-day St. Francis de Sales. But I doubt if St. Francis used also reverse psychology in evangelizing people. ha ha ha! But in fairness, your using reverse psychology works for you and for the people you are ministering. ha ha. Keep doing the mission God has entrusted to you. I feel St. Francis de Sales is so happy with the way you serve the Lord through your neighbor! Thank you for inspiring and teaching me and so many people the things that we don't know about drawing people to God and the Church effectively! God bless you and your ministry, Bro. Bryan! 😊😇🙏❤
I think St Francis de Sales might be disappointed you compared me to him haha. But in all seriousness, thank you, and I'm glad the message moved you and touched your heart. Praise be to God for that.
Hello, Sister.. ✝️🙏📿❤️.. Our "Beast Friends" 👉 Milo & Tutik keep on commenting on me (Bryan's last topic about Bible alone), well not good, l just keep silent. Anyway , it's just a waste of time to answer them.
@@LuminousTwinHearts "Beast Friends". ha ha ha. You just don't know but some of your comments made me laugh! You are a funny person, brother! Yes, Milo energy drink still keeps saying things against you and me and other catholics. But it's better not to make "patol" to them or to fight them back lest we sin. If necessary, we should still refute them. God bless Milo, As Tutik and all anti-catholics! "Consider your enemies your best friends because they are giving you opportunity to acquire merit (or grace)." - St. Alphonsus de Liguori
@@LuminousTwinHearts Yes. Thank you for making me laugh! God bless you, too, brother! Be a saint or pray everyday to God to make you a saint and you will also draw multitude of people to God and the Church like Bryan does! 😊😇🙏❤
I was the classic case you talk about Bryan, given lacking “education” in CCD, my own mother taught it and when I had simple questions even she, the teacher, had no answers. I thought I knew everything about Catholicism and thought it was frail and weak because of the portrait I was given about it by my CCD and lack of support. It led me to a dark path of atheism but by the grace of God I have been led back. Now I realize I wasn’t the only one and I’m sad to learn there are so many kids who are like I was. I’m still a new revert to Catholicism but I would love to one day be strong enough in my faith to be a CCD teacher so I can save kids from falling away like I did. Actually have answers for their questions, teach them the fullness and truth of our faith. I can’t wait to keep learning about our amazing faith!
Well said! While I did grow up Catholic I always considered myself to be an agnostic until my junior year of high school, and then I kinda felt like a lukewarm Catholic that kinda contemplated falling away from the faith, it was quite honestly the worst period in my life, until I my 3rd year in college when I transferred schools I came across missionaries from a group called FOCUS and they played such a pitiful role in my life that I owe everything I have to them in playing a pivotal role in my reversion, had I not met them I quite honestly think I would be dead or still living the degenerate life I was living. I’m 24 now, in the process of joining the Third Order Dominicans and am on fire about the faith.
Pope Benedict said in Youcat that young people are not as superficial as you might suppose, they have serious questions. I have found this as a catechist teacher. We must deeply respect their curiosity and take the time and trouble to answer their questions.
Exactly. 100%. That was the subject of our 1st video in this series, that teens and young people have good questions and we must give them good answers to their good questions or they are going to walk away.
@@catholictruthreplies1333 besides breathing and work, all I do in life is tell protestants they're wrong 🤣 I wasted my whole life thinking God was pentecostal 😱
@@catholictruthreplies1333 - I'm about to try and troll Jay Dyer again. Divine energies of Eastern Orthodoxy is basically Eastern Mysticism 🤣 To deny the filioque means you're more of a weirdo than me... 😱🤣 Then I'm going to go tell protestants about Saint Ignatius of Antioch to ruin their Christmas again ... LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣 please love them, because I just beat them up with Catholic truth 🤣⚡😳
Thank you so much, just ordered the book did Jesus have a last name. Hoping it will help my nieces. Like many catholic families in Ireland they get baptised, first confession communion etc seeing it as a day for a party and gifys mainly but only go to church on what their mom calls special occasion. Their mom is very religious but going to mass weekly no. I help out in my local church, first was in the youth group (no longer exists) for 10 years from good Friday march 2000 then stayed on when the youth group ended. I am the only one out of all my siblings that goes to mass weekly and truly believes in my Catholic faith which breaks my heart. I wish my nieces had more opportunity to explore their faith. They are young.
Hi..I Hope you are doing well Mr @CatholicTruthOffical..I have a request.Could you please make a video explaining Rev12&Rev13 pretty-please Sir... would be highly obliged to hear your take on it.
Amazing video Brian! This has been on my mind a lot lately because I am a new catholic and I'm assisting in faith formation on Sunday's, everything you said is so true! The teens are SO lost these days and it breaks my heart cause these are some dark times we are in and so many of them are just depressed and confused. I definitely am learning from your approach and this video on how I can better help these kids because they truly need it. God bless!
So glad you enjoyed the video. I agree with you about the state of teens today, not just in the Catholic church but in general everywhere. It's really sad and difficult. We need good people to step up and teach religious education. So that's great. If you're interested, some people even show our videos to their class. :) Kind of long but... th-cam.com/video/-4gXW6PfWgs/w-d-xo.html Existence of God part 1 th-cam.com/video/fK2P_51EQu4/w-d-xo.html
The faith needs to be presented as something that guides every action of every day. Memorizing trivia and being able to regurgitate it on a test does not work. Kids need to have a solid foundation of biblical study and historical context to appreciate the faith and how it has come to grow. I can say from experience that after simply memorizing facts and not knowing how to apply them to the world, I didn't really care about the faith or growing in it. It wasn't until I started reading the Bible, making an effort to understand what was going on at Mass, and actually praying every day that things started to turn around.
Brian, my son and I are in rcia currently. He’s 17 and I find it very sad that out church doesn’t have an actual youth group for young people his age. There’s no Sunday school, nothing! It’s a small farming community so not sure if that’s why. Is this a common thing amongst most CCs?
@Kosmo77 - sorry for the delayed reply. I have been sick. Welcome to the Catholic Church. We are glad you are in RCIA but share your sorrow as well. What state do you live in? Small rural communities don't have much where others are flourishing, so it depends on the area and the church. Where we live up north, there are not many youth programs, then there are others where there are many. We would recommend starting a youth group, or Sunday school at your church. I have started several youth groups at various churches I have gone to which are still there today in many cases. We are the church after all, and we always say, if there is nothing, start something. If not, are there any other churches in your area that might have something? I bet there are other people who want what you want, and so once you get adjusted in the parish and start meeting people, you can find people of like mind. Thoughts? Bryan
Give them reverence and actually act like Jesus Christ is in the Eucharist...and get rid of the horrible contemporary music. It's just bad hokie music and can't compete with contemporary music. It becomes just bad music. Focus on offering the sacrifice to God the Father and not on us. Give us silence to hear the voice of God speak to us. And for the love of God please stop ending the Mass with announcements. Do it during before the homily!!
Da youts* need to understand the Holy Spirit is there whether His Presence can be felt or not. Archbishop Sheen once spoke about young people claiming to get nothing from going to Mass - but Sheen challenged them to bring something TO Mass; their hopes, problems, dreams, and most of all to bring a heart open to Christ. America’s young in particular are highly satiated with all kinds of social media and the Mass should, besides being the perfect form of prayer, be an escape from the world even if only for an hour or so. At Mass heaven and earth unite and that’s better than any entertainment in the universe. *Some “My Cousin Vinny” humor
Omnipotence paradox? A common modern version of the omnipotence paradox is expressed in the question: "Can [an omnipotent being] create a stone so heavy that it cannot lift it?" This question generates a dilemma. The being can either create a stone it cannot lift, or it cannot create a stone it cannot lift. If the being can create a stone that it cannot lift, then it is not omnipotent because there is a weight threshold beyond its own power to lift. If the being cannot create a stone it cannot lift, then there is something it cannot create, and is therefore not omnipotent. In either case, the being is not omnipotent. Then church will ague that God can only work within natural law, but that doesn't change anything about the argument ,and so that says he is bound my natural law then? ( he has his limits) but yet if you believe the mythos and stories he impregnated a woman without sex, and made a man out of clay ,and women out of a rib, I would say that's out of the realm of natural law. Or For instance - feeding a hungry person. Is this act moral in and of itself -- and God then understands or realizes this -- and thus commands us to feed the hungry? Or is it rather that feeding the hungry is morally neutral in and of itself - neither good nor bad -- but the act becomes moral only when and if God commands it? If you think it is the former, then that means that morality clearly exists independently of God, and derives its status from something other than God. And if this is indeed the case, then God is essentially irrelevant to the matter, for we can define or recognize the morality in a given action -- such as feeding a hungry person -- without any need of or reference to God. In this case, feeding a hungry person is moral because it alleviates the suffering of the person ; no God necessary to deem feeding a hungry person as a moral act. However, if you think it is the latter proposal -- that feeding a hungry person is a neutral act, neither moral nor immoral, but only becomes moral when and if God wills or commands it -- then what we call “morality” is nothing more than the unjustified whim and potentially unreasonable caprice of God. And this is a rather precarious position to accept, because it means that morality is simply whatever God says it is. Heck, God could command cruelty, and then by the logic of the argument, cruelty would be moral. But God would command cruelty ? Well, actually…God does. According to the Bible, God commands cruel and unjust things left and right. For example, God commands that we kill people who have sex outside of marriage (Leviticus 20:10) and he commands that we kill homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13), as well as people who work on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2). God even commands that entire peoples -- such as the Canaanites and Jebusites -- be exterminated (Joshua 1- 12). , “that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” Indeed, to provide a comprehensive list of all the heinous commandments God issues would entail the writing of an entire book in and of itself - then someone said after Jesus arrived , the old testament wasn't reverent? Then I said I guess that makes the 10 commandment ill relevant then?
Depends on the youth. Many youth don't like the Latin Mass, so I think it depends on the Mass and the youth. What they want whether it's Latin Mass or not it beauty, reverence and truth. :)
Teach your children to be sceptic, sceptic of the things that they are taught in school while teaching them the fundamentals of the faith. People today follow worldly orthodoxy like sheep, I taught my children to be sceptic of all those and question the teachers. Worldly orthodoxy like climate change, evolution, so called alternative life styles and sexual identity.
I did leave the catholic faith since of the scandals because of the scandals I did attend a home church when the pastor was speaking I can tell the pastor knew God he was a man of God unlike the priest at mass I couldn't believe hear what they were saying just nonsense not even how alcohol abuse is a sin
You got it right on spot, our teens today have so many questions and confused media.
Wow man, knocked it out of the park. I’m 20 and I’d say this was spot on. At the age of 19 I was a lukewarm Catholic at best but once I got some of the difficult questions answered I did a 180, or rather God caused the 180 inside of me, and I’ve never been the same. It’s been a year and some change of me denying myself, failing, going to confession, denying myself and so on until I’m finally able to get rid of whatever sin was plaguing me. I actually pray in my own home now and read the Bible. All because some difficult questions were answered.
Keep up the good work!
Amen! Thank you for sharing your testimony. Praise God that he transformed you and helped you to do a 180. Keep living your faith and keep growing! God bless.
It starts with praying together and reading them the Bible and answering their questions.
Rosaries are like lassos for lost souls. Trust me, it caught me and brought me back.
Same for me! A year ago I was blaspheming Our Lady and now I'm praying 15 decade rosaries almost every single day. I love Our Lady and am so grateful she's forgiving and doesn't hold a grudge... I could never relate to those people who exercise every day and feel bad if they miss a day, but i missed my rosary today and i feel so uncomfortable about it!
@@Heracleetus praise be to God for giving us our mother and the sacraments💜
Awesome! Please pray about someone I'm trying the same
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Was just saying something similar to my friend Yesterday! 🙏
Rosary and its emphasis is why young people are leaving the church!!!
Pray for my daughter Rachel Jimenez she's 16 and she is struggling with the faith. I do what I can as a Catholic Mother. God bless
We will pray for her. If she is someone who has a lot of questions, you can call Catholic Truth and have her talk to Bryan. She can pepper him and ask him any questions she wants. Other parents have had their teens call and ask questions when they were struggling with faith in the youth found it helpful. Just a thought.
I have the same issue with my daughter. What is Bryan's number?
I'm still in the process of reverting back to Catholicism. Recently i remembered the thing that absolutely kicked the legs out from under my faith: a 9th grade (2001) public school history class that made us learn a completely one-sided version of the Protestant "Reformation". Our history book may as well have been written by Martin Luther himself, it was just so explicitly anti Catholic! I didn't have any ammunition to fight what were very biased and outrageous claims, and instead i came away from that class believing the Catholic Church was stupid, evil, and hypocritical.
So glad you are coming home! Thank you for sharing. If we can help you in your journey at all, please let us know. And our videos will give you all the animal you need against all the anti-catholics. :-)
@@CatholicTruthOfficial Bryan, you help A TON! Your channel has been there every step of the way to help keep me on the right path. I almost became a protestant, then I almost became a sedevacantist, but Catholic Truth was there to set me straight. I'm very grateful for all you do!
I just gotta remember not to watch so late in the evening because your enthusiasm is infectious. I feel like i just drank a coffee!
Hello Ciro, my advice is just to question everything and research it for yourself, have faith but don’t follow everything blindly, there’s answers and make sure you read your Bible, equip yourself with the scriptures then use that knowledge to explore religion.
Ps: I hope you fall in love with Jesus, remember that the Bible is a history book, not fiction. I suggest you start in the New Testament, one of the gospels (Mark is the fastest to read, and full of action) then the book of acts is the start of the Christian churches (churches that follow Jesus) and then jump around through the epistles because they are letters of correction sent to these churches. 🔥🕊❤️
@@undeadboris thank you! I was actually looking for advice like this about how to go about reading the Bible. I'm very busy and I'm a slow reader so I tend to spend my time listening to apologetics or praying, which i can do while I'm doing other things, but I've been wanting to read the Bible as well. I will follow the plan you laid out, thanks!
This is absolutely part of what pulled me away. Biased teachings on the reformation and on immoral pipes and priests having orgies in 9th grade history. I’m so happy to have learned the truth and to be home in the Church.
Thank you much for this! I am a Catholic evangelist and some of the first things you said are exactly what we teach. 1) Answer *their* questions. Until the point that the Lord convinces them, you need to give them *insurmountable* answers to their questions. There is no need to teach them about anything else until their issues have been resolved.
I had a friend who was raised Catholic but became agnostic as an adult. We talked about Catholicism all the time, and he told me if he’d known me when he was younger, he’d probably still be Catholic, and I’m by no means a theologian! He said in CCD, when he’d ask the nuns why Catholics did what we do, they’d answer “Just because!”
Exactly. That's something I hope we are getting away from.
Many kids don’t have the solid religious background they need. Kids materialize this earth too much, they don’t look forward, they may be mad at God for taking their parents from them, they don’t realize this life is not our life, our new life in heaven with God is unexplainably beautiful
Wow! I was deeply moved and touched by your wonderful message Bryan More Merciful! I consider you a modern-day St. Francis de Sales. But I doubt if St. Francis used also reverse psychology in evangelizing people. ha ha ha! But in fairness, your using reverse psychology works for you and for the people you are ministering. ha ha. Keep doing the mission God has entrusted to you. I feel St. Francis de Sales is so happy with the way you serve the Lord through your neighbor! Thank you for inspiring and teaching me and so many people the things that we don't know about drawing people to God and the Church effectively! God bless you and your ministry, Bro. Bryan! 😊😇🙏❤
I think St Francis de Sales might be disappointed you compared me to him haha. But in all seriousness, thank you, and I'm glad the message moved you and touched your heart. Praise be to God for that.
Hello, Sister.. ✝️🙏📿❤️..
Our "Beast Friends" 👉 Milo & Tutik keep on commenting on me (Bryan's last topic about Bible alone), well not good, l just keep silent. Anyway , it's just a waste of time to answer them.
@@LuminousTwinHearts "Beast Friends". ha ha ha. You just don't know but some of your comments made me laugh! You are a funny person, brother! Yes, Milo energy drink still keeps saying things against you and me and other catholics. But it's better not to make "patol" to them or to fight them back lest we sin. If necessary, we should still refute them. God bless Milo, As Tutik and all anti-catholics!
"Consider your enemies your best friends because they are giving you opportunity to acquire merit (or grace)." - St. Alphonsus de Liguori
@@marietav7342 well at least l make you laugh.. ☺️☺️
God bless you sister.. 🙏📿❤️✝️
Just keep on praying to those who judge us.. Good day.. ☺️👍✌️
@@LuminousTwinHearts Yes. Thank you for making me laugh!
God bless you, too, brother!
Be a saint or pray everyday to God to make you a saint and you will also draw multitude of people to God and the Church like Bryan does! 😊😇🙏❤
Excelente! Gracias
De nada!
I was the classic case you talk about Bryan, given lacking “education” in CCD, my own mother taught it and when I had simple questions even she, the teacher, had no answers. I thought I knew everything about Catholicism and thought it was frail and weak because of the portrait I was given about it by my CCD and lack of support. It led me to a dark path of atheism but by the grace of God I have been led back. Now I realize I wasn’t the only one and I’m sad to learn there are so many kids who are like I was. I’m still a new revert to Catholicism but I would love to one day be strong enough in my faith to be a CCD teacher so I can save kids from falling away like I did. Actually have answers for their questions, teach them the fullness and truth of our faith. I can’t wait to keep learning about our amazing faith!
Well said! While I did grow up Catholic I always considered myself to be an agnostic until my junior year of high school, and then I kinda felt like a lukewarm Catholic that kinda contemplated falling away from the faith, it was quite honestly the worst period in my life, until I my 3rd year in college when I transferred schools I came across missionaries from a group called FOCUS and they played such a pitiful role in my life that I owe everything I have to them in playing a pivotal role in my reversion, had I not met them I quite honestly think I would be dead or still living the degenerate life I was living. I’m 24 now, in the process of joining the Third Order Dominicans and am on fire about the faith.
Pope Benedict said in Youcat that young people are not as superficial as you might suppose, they have serious questions. I have found this as a catechist teacher. We must deeply respect their curiosity and take the time and trouble to answer their questions.
Exactly. 100%. That was the subject of our 1st video in this series, that teens and young people have good questions and we must give them good answers to their good questions or they are going to walk away.
Any prayer for a lost prodigal person I am trying to convert is appreciated
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Would this person be willing to listen to one of our videos?
Of course. We will pray!
@@catholictruthreplies1333 besides breathing and work, all I do in life is tell protestants they're wrong 🤣
I wasted my whole life thinking God was pentecostal 😱
@@catholictruthreplies1333 - I'm about to try and troll Jay Dyer again.
Divine energies of Eastern Orthodoxy is basically Eastern Mysticism
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To deny the filioque means you're more of a weirdo than me... 😱🤣
Then I'm going to go tell protestants about Saint Ignatius of Antioch to ruin their Christmas again ...
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣
please love them, because I just beat them up with Catholic truth
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@@catholictruthreplies1333 I would die for Mary too
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Long story why
Thank you so much, just ordered the book did Jesus have a last name. Hoping it will help my nieces. Like many catholic families in Ireland they get baptised, first confession communion etc seeing it as a day for a party and gifys mainly but only go to church on what their mom calls special occasion. Their mom is very religious but going to mass weekly no.
I help out in my local church, first was in the youth group (no longer exists) for 10 years from good Friday march 2000 then stayed on when the youth group ended. I am the only one out of all my siblings that goes to mass weekly and truly believes in my Catholic faith which breaks my heart. I wish my nieces had more opportunity to explore their faith. They are young.
Hi..I Hope you are doing well Mr @CatholicTruthOffical..I have a request.Could you please make a video explaining Rev12&Rev13 pretty-please Sir... would be highly obliged to hear your take on it.
Thank you for the suggestion. We can add it to our list.
Amazing video Brian! This has been on my mind a lot lately because I am a new catholic and I'm assisting in faith formation on Sunday's, everything you said is so true! The teens are SO lost these days and it breaks my heart cause these are some dark times we are in and so many of them are just depressed and confused. I definitely am learning from your approach and this video on how I can better help these kids because they truly need it. God bless!
So glad you enjoyed the video. I agree with you about the state of teens today, not just in the Catholic church but in general everywhere. It's really sad and difficult.
We need good people to step up and teach religious education. So that's great. If you're interested, some people even show our videos to their class. :)
Kind of long but... th-cam.com/video/-4gXW6PfWgs/w-d-xo.html
Existence of God part 1 th-cam.com/video/fK2P_51EQu4/w-d-xo.html
The faith needs to be presented as something that guides every action of every day. Memorizing trivia and being able to regurgitate it on a test does not work. Kids need to have a solid foundation of biblical study and historical context to appreciate the faith and how it has come to grow. I can say from experience that after simply memorizing facts and not knowing how to apply them to the world, I didn't really care about the faith or growing in it. It wasn't until I started reading the Bible, making an effort to understand what was going on at Mass, and actually praying every day that things started to turn around.
Hey Brian will you be attending Seek this year?
I will not, but I hope to speak there in the future.
Brian, my son and I are in rcia currently. He’s 17 and I find it very sad that out church doesn’t have an actual youth group for young people his age. There’s no Sunday school, nothing! It’s a small farming community so not sure if that’s why. Is this a common thing amongst most CCs?
@Kosmo77 - sorry for the delayed reply. I have been sick. Welcome to the Catholic Church. We are glad you are in RCIA but share your sorrow as well. What state do you live in? Small rural communities don't have much where others are flourishing, so it depends on the area and the church. Where we live up north, there are not many youth programs, then there are others where there are many.
We would recommend starting a youth group, or Sunday school at your church. I have started several youth groups at various churches I have gone to which are still there today in many cases. We are the church after all, and we always say, if there is nothing, start something. If not, are there any other churches in your area that might have something? I bet there are other people who want what you want, and so once you get adjusted in the parish and start meeting people, you can find people of like mind.
Thoughts?
Bryan
Give them reverence and actually act like Jesus Christ is in the Eucharist...and get rid of the horrible contemporary music. It's just bad hokie music and can't compete with contemporary music. It becomes just bad music. Focus on offering the sacrifice to God the Father and not on us. Give us silence to hear the voice of God speak to us. And for the love of God please stop ending the Mass with announcements. Do it during before the homily!!
Yes! The Latin Mass - they love the it!
Da youts* need to understand the Holy Spirit is there whether His Presence can be felt or not. Archbishop Sheen once spoke about young people claiming to get nothing from going to Mass - but Sheen challenged them to bring something TO Mass; their hopes, problems, dreams, and most of all to bring a heart open to Christ.
America’s young in particular are highly satiated with all kinds of social media and the Mass should, besides being the perfect form of prayer, be an escape from the world even if only for an hour or so. At Mass heaven and earth unite and that’s better than any entertainment in the universe.
*Some “My Cousin Vinny” humor
Da youts😅
Well said!
The attitude toward youth at our parish is, "The kids need relationship (with Jesus) first. THEN we'll answer their questions." 🤦
🤦♂️🤦♂️ is right. How about both/and?
Omnipotence paradox? A common modern version of the omnipotence paradox is expressed in the question: "Can [an omnipotent being] create a stone so heavy that it cannot lift it?" This question generates a dilemma. The being can either create a stone it cannot lift, or it cannot create a stone it cannot lift. If the being can create a stone that it cannot lift, then it is not omnipotent because there is a weight threshold beyond its own power to lift. If the being cannot create a stone it cannot lift, then there is something it cannot create, and is therefore not omnipotent. In either case, the being is not omnipotent. Then church will ague that God can only work within natural law, but that doesn't change anything about the argument ,and so that says he is bound my natural law then? ( he has his limits) but yet if you believe the mythos and stories he impregnated a woman without sex, and made a man out of clay ,and women out of a rib, I would say that's out of the realm of natural law. Or
For instance - feeding a hungry person. Is this act moral in and of itself -- and God then understands or realizes this -- and thus commands us to feed the hungry? Or is it rather that feeding the hungry is morally neutral in and of itself - neither good nor bad -- but the act becomes moral only when and if God commands it? If you think it is the former, then that means that morality clearly exists independently of God, and derives its status from something other than God. And if this is indeed the case, then God is essentially irrelevant to the matter, for we can define or recognize the morality in a given action -- such as feeding a hungry person -- without any need of or reference to God. In this case, feeding a hungry person is moral because it alleviates the suffering of the person ; no God necessary to deem feeding a hungry person as a moral act.
However, if you think it is the latter proposal -- that feeding a hungry person is a neutral act, neither moral nor immoral, but only becomes moral when and if God wills or commands it -- then what we call “morality” is nothing more than the unjustified whim and potentially unreasonable caprice of God. And this is a rather precarious position to accept, because it means that morality is simply whatever God says it is. Heck, God could command cruelty, and then by the logic of the argument, cruelty would be moral.
But God would command cruelty ?
Well, actually…God does. According to the Bible, God commands cruel and unjust things left and right. For example, God commands that we kill people who have sex outside of marriage (Leviticus 20:10) and he commands that we kill homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13), as well as people who work on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2). God even commands that entire peoples -- such as the Canaanites and Jebusites -- be exterminated (Joshua 1- 12). , “that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” Indeed, to provide a comprehensive list of all the heinous commandments God issues would entail the writing of an entire book in and of itself - then someone said after Jesus arrived , the old testament wasn't reverent? Then I said I guess that makes the 10 commandment ill relevant then?
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The youth want the Latin Mass and tradition, not the cheesy Protestant-style "praise and worship" sessions.
Depends on the youth. Many youth don't like the Latin Mass, so I think it depends on the Mass and the youth. What they want whether it's Latin Mass or not it beauty, reverence and truth. :)
Teach your children to be sceptic, sceptic of the things that they are taught in school while teaching them the fundamentals of the faith.
People today follow worldly orthodoxy like sheep, I taught my children to be sceptic of all those and question the teachers.
Worldly orthodoxy like climate change, evolution, so called alternative life styles and sexual identity.
I did leave the catholic faith since of the scandals because of the scandals I did attend a home church when the pastor was speaking I can tell the pastor knew God he was a man of God unlike the priest at mass I couldn't believe hear what they were saying just nonsense not even how alcohol abuse is a sin