salvation – Page 3 – Catholic Stand

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The Real Meaning of Lenten Penance

Christian Daru March 18, AD2018 2 Comments

We Catholics are familiar with Lent as a time of fasting and penance. We are told every year that during this time we ought to

Good Works or Once Saved, Always Saved?

Birgit Jones February 9, AD2018 4 Comments

As any Bible reading Christian knows, a frequent theme throughout scripture is doing good – not evil. From the Ten Commandments to the Beatitudes, there

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Our Salvation Journey: Once and Done is Just No Fun!

Mark C. McCann February 8, AD2018 1 Comment

What does salvation mean? For a good part of my life, this particular doctrine was the subject of countless hours of contemplation and spiritual struggle.

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Are You Saved ?

Melanie Jean Juneau November 1, AD2016 8 Comments

Forty years ago, when I was still a Protestant, I looked at Catholics with suspicion. Catholicism seemed like a cult that worshiped Mary and idolized

New Truth? Jesus’s Mistakes? God’s Errors?

Guy McClung October 12, AD2016 13 Comments

In the article “The Ideal and the Real” discussing the Exhortation, Amoris Latetia (Joshua J. McElwee, Nat’l Cath. Reporter April 22- May 5, 2016), what

Purgatory: Is It a Dead Issue?

Ray Sullivan July 28, AD2015 24 Comments

So where is purgatory in the Bible anyway? Glad you asked! Let’s take a look at a few of the Scriptural references to Purgatory. Let’s

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Breaking News: We Are All Going to Die!

Ray Sullivan July 16, AD2015 35 Comments

This just in . . .Everyone in the whole world will one day die! The only exception to this inevitable event is if we are alive at

How Salvation is Like Marriage

Victor Ajluni, MD December 16, AD2014 3 Comments

Salvation is like a perfect marriage. Ask yourself: “Is a perfect marriage a fifty-fifty proposition?” I would say the answer is positively not. Why should

Authentic Catholic: Livin’ La Vida Católica

Ray Sullivan June 23, AD2014 28 Comments

Sorry, folks! I don’t look or sing anything like Ricky Martin, so there will be no accompanying video to this article (for this, you should

Where Do I Stand After Holy Week?

Melanie Jean Juneau April 25, AD2014 5 Comments

Last week was Holy Week. Churches around the entire globe waited in prayerful vigil, with lights dimmed, all images covered with the congregation in respectful, somber

Suffering–a Catholic|Jewish Perspective*

Bob Kurland April 14, AD2014 7 Comments

Whether we will or not, we must suffer…There are two ways of suffering — to suffer with love, and to suffer without love. The saints

Making the Church Beautiful Starts At Home

Sherry Antonetti March 1, AD2014 4 Comments

It began because I\’d put off housecleaning. (It\’s bad for me spiritually to do this because then I get vexed by time constraints in addition

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Michelle Fritz December 25, AD2013 2 Comments

God rest ye merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay. Remember, Christ, our Savior Was born on Christmas day. To save us all from Satan\’s power

Is Baptism Really Necessary?

Godwin Delali Adadzie June 1, AD2013 6 Comments

I stumbled upon an interesting commentary about Saint John’s Gospel chapter 3 in Wiersbe Bible Commentary: New Testament by Warren W. Wiersbe while I was