ST. PETER PREACHING THE FAITH to Jews and Gentiles on Pentecost
Brothers and sisters our efforts to defend our faith with all our hearts to our schismatic born again bretheren is tiring and with all due honesty seems hopeless. They have made up their minds as anti-catholics and its draining my energy to show them biblical and early fathers truth. If we believe theyre christians and have the opportunity to be saved even with the false sola fide doctrine then why do we even bother trying our best to give them veritas which they will still wholeheartedly deny?
RESPONSE:
I would like to share an experience of mine. During my younger years as Catholic Faith Defender I frequently go the plaza to engage in debates with anti-Catholics. Sometimes our debate will bring us to the wee hours of the night and to the early hours of the morning of the following day. I have done this for months and years and I haven’t convince a single adversary to embrace the Catholic faith. Then work and married life has prevented me from going to the plaza for years until one day I decided to visit the place again just to see what has been happening after my long absence. To my surprise, one of my former adversary called my attention coz I did not recognize him at once and he was already wearing the Franciscan vestment. He told me that he left the Jesus Miracle Crusade and has returned to the Catholic Church and has decided to join the Franciscans. During his narration I was still in disbelief at his remarkable conversion. He told me that while he used to debate me with all his might and was hell-bent in defending his position he also confessed that when he was alone and far from the plaza he started to analyze and realize the force of the arguments for Catholicism. In prayer and in silence he felt that a silent voice is calling and urging him to come back to the Catholic Church.
