jessinoelw Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Mary was the hardest for me to accept. --Jessica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yiannii Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 [quote]Mary was the hardest for me to accept. --Jessica [/quote] Why are Protestants so against our veneration of Mary? It's ALWAYS the first thing that they bring up when I've had a debate. ..... The hardest thing for me to accept was the Real Presence. Still today I have problems with it, but I keep persisting and it's getting easier to accept. [i]"Lord I believe, help my unbelief"[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 [quote name='yiannii' date='Apr 14 2004, 03:34 AM'] Why are Protestants so against our veneration of Mary? It's ALWAYS the first thing that they bring up when I've had a debate. [/quote] They see it as worshipping Mary, as giving her the adoration due only to God, and therefore as idolatry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellenita Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 I struggled a little bit with the real Presence - I was really trying to understand it intellectually and logically, and I'm not entirely sure it's possible to do that with a Mystery! After some weeks of this I felt God was saying to me just trust and believe. Not long after that I went to pray before the Blessed Sacrament and I found myself crying, much to my surprise, and then had a amazing sense of calm and peace, and a [i]knowing [/i]that it's Truth..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yiannii Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 [quote name='Sojourner' date='Apr 14 2004, 11:18 PM'] They see it as worshipping Mary, as giving her the adoration due only to God, and therefore as idolatry. [/quote] But that's SOOO not true!!!! [i]"A lie that is repeated enough becomes a truth"[/i] I know there is a quote like that around, not sure if that's how it goes, regardless it's so true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 [quote name='yiannii' date='Apr 14 2004, 08:50 AM'] But that's SOOO not true!!!! [i]"A lie that is repeated enough becomes a truth"[/i] I know there is a quote like that around, not sure if that's how it goes, regardless it's so true. [/quote] I agree with you, but that's how many people see it from the outside looking in. Honestly, I think most people's problems with the Catholic church stem from faulty information and miscommunication. There [i]are[/i] very real points of difference, but so often discussions get mired in the stuff that simply a bad understanding of church teaching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted April 14, 2004 Author Share Posted April 14, 2004 And, unfortunately, there are Catholics who don't understand it either... I knew of someone who believed that you should only pray to Mary... leave "The Big Guy" alone. See, that kind of perversion of the truth is what sticks in people's minds. It makes her seem like a diety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Interestingly enough, what I found hardest to accept wasn't on faith, but on morals. I had great difficulty with the teachings against contraception, abortion, and ordaining women. I came from a liberal Protestant denomination that advocated all 3 of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdewolf2 Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 the INCARNATION !!! how can a MAN be GOD, or conversely, how can GOD be a MAN? besides, the INCARNATION inverts the whole heaven-earth, spirit-matter duality that is fundamental to the western view of reality furthermore, it is GROTESQUE! Not only does God have to eat, drink, sleep, and all that, but he also has to defecate and urinate. He even bleeds, cries, and expires. Now that is just too much for any sane mind to take in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marielapin Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 The Easiest: The Real Presence The Hardest: The Immaculate Conception Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassionistF Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Mary, The Virgin Mary and oh yeah ...... The Blessed Mother Mary. No problem now, read Scott Hahn's Hail Holy Queen as well as Father Lukefahr's [url="http://www.amm.org/chss.htm"]Mary, Christ's Mother and Ours.[/url] Peace, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 I've always been a catholic, but you know what Continues to be the hardest thing for me to believe is true . . . God's Mercy . . . I find it completely mind boggling that a God of perfect Justice can forgive a wretched human being like me . . . it's insane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 yeah... 'specially with all that "click on this website" stuff going on... But your point is well taken. God's endless love and mercy... Whoa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn_H Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 The hardest thing for me to accept, and the one I'm still having problems with is the teaching on sex. Not all of it, but aspects of it. I wont get specific as there are young persons reading this site. Funnily enough, the ones Protestants seem to have the most problems with, Mary, the Saints, the Real Presence, Episcopal authority, were the ones I found easiest and were in fact the things that most attracted me to Catholicism, especially devotion to Mary. And I came from a Baptist background! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin D Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 It was two things... [b]1.[/b] Trusting in Christ's words and what he said that the gates of hell shall not prevail over His Church. Therefore, submitting myself fully to the teachings of the Church, even those which I may not fully understand at first. [b]2.[/b] Contraception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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