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UponThisRock retweeted
One point he just briefly touches on is a great one. And it's something a whole lot of people never realize.
TIME ITSELF was invented by the Catholic Church. What I mean is how we measure time by years was created by the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church set all time around the fixed moment of the Incarnation of Christ. Before that, time was measured in a wild variety of ways decided upon by each individual tribe or nation. It was usually set against the reign of a king or dynasty, so a particular year was "the 3rd year of the reign of King David/Xerxes/Darius/etc"
And that kept changing with new rulers and dynasties. But the Catholic Church changed all that by creating the Anno Domini system (in the year of Our Lord) to fix our time to the most pivotal moment in human history, when God Himself became man and came to Earth.
This is also why the atheists are so desperate to change AD & BC to CE and BCE. They want to eliminate our connection to Christianity.
UponThisRock retweeted
It's true, the "Bible alone" mentality yields a particularly insane kind of Christology.
Like God became Man, divinely inspired a Canon of Scriptures that wouldn't even be fully written for a century after His time nor assembled into a Canon for ~300 years, and then said:
"OK, I'm done talking now, and done with miracles, just figure it out. And because I'm omniscient I know all of you are gonna disagree, but since I definitely didn't give you any tools to prevent that, you're just gonna have to figure this one out on your own. Also: basically everyone who follows me for the first 1,500+ years is gonna get it wrong, so don't look to them for help."
This is a fundamentally insane idea of who Christ is.
It also situates the individual believer in a kind of "choose-your-own-adventure" game in which he is always winning, obtaining esoteric knowledge about God, etc.
UponThisRock retweeted
The Institution of the Church is more important than the Bible - even if the people of said Church are fallible & the Bible is not.
Protestants like to make the argument that the Bible, because it's infallible, is better... But that's just nonsense.
It's like arguing the tool of the craftsman who created or assembled it, say a hammer- is more important than the craftsman.
The hammer doesn't make mistakes & yet you can hurt yourself if you don't use it properly.
The craftsman created the tool and knows how to use it best.
Without the craftsman, the tool is just a lifeless object.
In the same way, the Church gave us the Bible and knows how to interpret it properly.
Without the Church, the Bible loses its full meaning and purpose.
It's just a dusty book that doesn't do anything absent a mind reads & interprets it.
The Church is essential because it not only assembled the Bible into existence but also ensures it is used correctly to guide us in faith.
Essentially, Catholics use the Bible with an instruction manual of history, tradition & detailed experience over thousands of years to know how to use it.
while Protestant just try to do it themselves arbitrarily & hope it works out.
UponThisRock retweeted
Every Catholic who wants to defend the faith, and every non-Catholic who is willing to hear the case for Catholicism, should have this book. Newly released, 500 pages. The ONLY modern English translation of the classic available now! - link.amazon/B02R7NUhi
UponThisRock retweeted
TAYLOR MARSHALL: “JUDEO-PROTESTANT WARMONGERING WON’T WIN THE MIDTERMS”
And he’s absolutely correct.
@TaylorRMarshall and I discussed this during our show yesterday: youtube.com/live/0xk1E5p6R9E…
UponThisRock retweeted
A growing number of Protestant churches are completely unable to provide answers to this. They lack that true worship, worship that is only given onto God, which is the Eucharist.
UponThisRock retweeted
Preview of the soon to be released papacy video that will dismantle the arguments of Ubi Petrus, Jay Dyer, Craig Truglia, Alex Sorin, Bryce J, Luigi, Cleave2Antiquity, and Father Stephen De Young.
UponThisRock retweeted
The Four Marks of the Church:
One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
The theological attributes of the Church founded by Christ
One
The Church is one because she possesses unity in faith, sacraments, and governance. This unity reflects the perfect oneness of the Most Holy Trinity.
Jesus prayed for this unity at the Last Supper:
“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” (John 17:20–21)
St. Paul echoes this reality:
“There is one body and one Spirit… one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all.” (Ephesians 4:4–6)
Holy
The Church is holy because she has been sanctified by Christ Himself. He promised to remain with His Church until the end of time (Matthew 28:20) and to send the Holy Spirit to guide her into all truth (John 16:13).
Although individual members may sin, the Church as a whole is made holy by Christ, “who loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her” (Ephesians 5:25–27). She is the Mystical Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12; Colossians 1:18, 24), indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and the ordinary means by which God sanctifies souls through the sacraments.
Holiness is both a present reality, given through grace, and an eschatological goal toward which the Church continually strives. As St. Peter says, the Church is “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9).
Catholic
The Church is catholic, a word that comes from the Greek katholikos, meaning “according to the whole” or “universal.”
She is catholic in two senses:
• She possesses the fullness of the faith, teaching the “whole” counsel of God without addition or subtraction.
• She is universal in mission and membership, embracing all peoples, nations, and cultures.
This fulfills the Great Commission: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…” (Matthew 28:19–20). The Gospel knows no ethnic, social, or geographic boundaries: “There is neither Jew nor Greek… for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). The Church is sent to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8) and will one day include people “from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9–10).
Apostolic
The Church is apostolic because she is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone (Ephesians 2:19–20).
She continues in the teaching, mission, and authority of the apostles. This continuity is preserved through apostolic succession—the unbroken line of bishops who succeed the apostles (see Acts 1:15–26; 2 Timothy 2:2). The Church faithfully guards the “deposit of faith” (1 Timothy 6:20; 2 Timothy 1:14), handing on both Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition (2 Thessalonians 2:15).
Historical Context
These four theological attributes — One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic — are deeply rooted in Sacred Scripture and the lived experience of the early Church. They appear in the writings of the Church Fathers as early as the second century. They were solemnly professed as a creedal summary in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, promulgated by the First Council of Constantinople in 381 AD, to defend the true identity of the Church founded by Christ against various heresies of the time.
UponThisRock retweeted
I’m watching a Protestant service on TV. So far There’s a rock band on. A preacher came out and asked the congregation for 10% of their money. Now there’s a smoke machine. Preacher is yelling at the congregation about tithing again. Now he’s reading one of Paul’s epistles. He butchering the interpretation. Now he’s doing an emotional manipulative altar call asking if you’ve accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and savior. My take: the gospel isn’t preached here. Just a bunch of modern rituals meant to get people to give them money. Seems more like a ponzi scheme than a church.
UponThisRock retweeted
This is how I became Catholic though, to be fair.
When Protestants display their ignorance about Catholicism and are corrected in the replies, people read them.
The lurkers are the target audience. Never forget how important they are. I became Catholic because of people correcting folks like Lizzie, James White, Mike Winger, etc. in the comments.
Don’t stop correcting Protestants. Do so with love (something I need to get better at). Because you can impact someone’s eternity without even realizing it.
UponThisRock retweeted
Pastor, your post rests on a claim Catholics do not make.
We do not say “I hope I’ve done enough.” The Church teaches that salvation is by grace, not by works (Ephesians 2:8–9; CCC 1996, 2010). No one earns heaven by accumulating sufficient merit. The sentence you placed in a Catholic’s mouth is not Catholic doctrine. It is a caricature.
You cite 1 John 5:13 as proof that a believer can know he has eternal life in an absolute, irreversible sense. The same letter qualifies that knowledge. 1 John 2:3–4 says the one who claims to know God but does not keep His commandments is a liar. 1 John 5:16–17 distinguishes sin that is deadly from sin that is not. John does not separate assurance from perseverance in obedience. Isolating 5:13 from those warnings is not reading the letter; it is extracting a proof-text.
The Council of Trent defined that justifying grace can be lost through mortal sin and restored through repentance and the sacrament of penance. The Catechism teaches that we may have confidence in God’s mercy without the presumption that we are incapable of turning away (CCC 2092). That is not a works-based gospel. It is the refusal to treat the gift of grace as something the recipient cannot reject.
If you are teaching that the Catholic position is “do enough good works and hope it is sufficient,” you are teaching something the Church has condemned. If you are teaching that 1 John 5:13 grants an assurance that cannot be lost by mortal sin, you are teaching something the same letter does not support and that the Church has defined against. A teacher is responsible for the accuracy of the claim he corrects.
UponThisRock retweeted
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UponThisRock retweeted
One of the greatest problems for Protestantism is that the closer you get to the Apostles, the less Christianity resembles Protestantism.
The earliest Christians believed in apostolic succession, baptismal regeneration, the Real Presence in the Eucharist, and the authority of the Church.
Protestantism requires you to believe that the Christians taught by the Apostles understood Christianity less accurately than men who came along 1,500 years later.
UponThisRock retweeted
When I was a Protestant, desperately trying to remain Protestant and resist the Catholic Church, I spent a lot of time trying to rationalize and defend Sola Scriptura.
But there was one glaring problem I could never overcome.
Nowhere does Scripture teach that Scripture alone is the Christian's only infallible rule of faith.
I watched countless Protestants, myself included, constantly demand that Catholics prove their doctrines from Scripture alone, while being unable to prove Sola Scriptura by that very same standard.
Instead, we would appeal to passages like 2 Timothy 3:16-17, which tells us that Scripture is God-breathed and profitable, so that the man of God may be complete and equipped for every good work.
But somehow, we turned that into Scripture ALONE is sufficient, Scripture ALONE equips the believer, and Scripture ALONE is the final authority.
We were reading words into the text that simply weren't there.
And we conveniently overlooked passages like Ephesians 4:11-12, where God gives the Church apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers for the very purpose of equipping the saints.
The more I studied Scripture, the more I realized that defending Sola Scriptura required me to impose something upon Scripture that Scripture itself never taught.
The foundational doctrine Protestants use to reject Catholic teaching cannot even pass the test they demand of Catholics.
UponThisRock retweeted
Unfortunately, her comments have been disabled due to offensive commentary, but this is what I was hoping to share with her:
Your experience reminds me of something that happened when I was still working outside the home. During a staff meeting, a fairly new coworker, a non-denominational Christian whom I had recently befriended, sat next to me. We started talking about human suffering and what it means to place all our faith and trust in God.
She received my perspective so warmly as I shared the Church’s teaching on redemptive suffering, and she was genuinely fascinated by it and wanted to know more. Then she asked, “Which church do you go to?”
I will never forget the look on her face when I answered, “St. Mary’s Catholic Church.”
“You’re Catholic?” she asked.
It was a quiet realization for me that my insights on the Christian life were welcome only as long as I wasn’t Catholic; she loved the beauty of Catholic truth right up until she learned where it came from. Sigh.
So, for now (and I could be gravely mistaken), maybe your approach of quietly sharing the richness of the faith without leading with labels is exactly the seed that needs to be planted.
God bless you and peace be with you ❤️🕯️
I’ve been participating in a “young Moms” Bible study at a non-denominational church I used to attend before I become Catholic. I have actually enjoyed the fellowship, catered breakfasts and contemporary music.
I have not yet divulged that I am Catholic. But something interesting has happened during our group discussions. We go around in a circle and share our views on a given topic. Everyone is encouraged to give a unique perspective. I’ve shared Catholic insight on suffering, sin and sanctification.
For example, one group question was “how can we get our children to reflect on their bad choices and encourage them to make better choices?” I shared that my children do an Examination of Conscience, rooted in a reflection of the Ten Commandments, and prayerfully consider their actions. They had never heard of such a thing and thought my idea was so original and helpful!
Since these ladies don’t explicitly realize I’m promoting Catholic theology and practices, they are open-minded. I always cite Scripture for my viewpoints. Rather than being defensive or combative, they seem genuinely interested!
I frame my comments by saying “my interpretation of this verse is…” or “I see it this way…” To be clear, they aren’t all agreeing with my perspective. But they think what I’m saying is reasonable. They can appreciate and understand where I’m coming from instead of dismissing it. As far as they’re concerned, I’m just another Protestant sharing my personal insight among a group of varying opinions.
So far it has been a blessing. I hope I can share more of my journey with them when the time is right, and continue feeling welcomed.
UponThisRock retweeted
🎃✝️ To my Protestant friends claiming Halloween is satanic, allow me to offer a little Catholic history.
Halloween literally means All Hallows’ Eve, the evening before All Saints’ Day, November 1.
For Catholics, it begins a season of remembering the saints, praying for the faithful departed, and reflecting on Christ’s victory over sin and death.
November 1: All Saints’ Day, when we honor those in heaven.
November 2: All Souls’ Day, when we pray for the souls of the faithful departed.
Together with Halloween, these observances are known as Allhallowtide.
Yes, Halloween has accumulated secular traditions, spooky costumes, and customs from various cultures. But dressing up as a ghost, carving a pumpkin, or handing out candy doesn’t constitute devil worship.
Catholics don’t worship death. We celebrate Christ’s victory over it.
The darkness doesn’t belong to Satan. Christ has already conquered it! 🎃✝️
UponThisRock retweeted
The idea that Catholicism is just blind obedience to the Pope is a caricature, it is not what our faith is.
Countless saints, leaders and Catholic heroes have disagreed with the Pope, and even died excommunicated. People have gone to war with the Papal States. Dante put Popes in hell.
To say to someone who disagrees with the Pope that “just become Protestant bro” or “this is why we had the reformation” or something along those lines, demonstrates a misunderstanding of our faith.
The concept of leaving the corporeal body of believers over opinionated disagreements with temporal leaders is something that only really showed up 3/4th of the way through Christian history.
UponThisRock retweeted
St. Peter's Basilica has a new Archpriest
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Vittorio Francesco Viola OFM, the current secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, and prime enforcer of Traditionis custodes, who famously wears the episcopal ring of Annibale Bugnini, as Vicar General of Vatican City State, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica and President of the Fabric of St. Peter.
UponThisRock retweeted
It is outrageous and absurd to claim that retributive justice (e.g., capital punishment for capital crimes) = returning evil for evil.
Whether they realize it or not, they’re essentially accusing God Himself of being evil, since He is the author of the death penalty (read the Bible).
As we mark again the World Day Against the Death Penalty, we call to mind God’s command: ‘do not repay anyone evil for evil.’ (Romans 12:17)
Amidst a culture that seems focused on death, we remember that no person is beyond God’s love, mercy and redemption, as Archbishop Shelton J Fabre, reminds us. The Church offers this message to all people - without exception. We mourn with victims’ families and also recognize that the death penalty only pulls us away from a culture of life.
Join us in prayer for an end to the use of the death penalty in our country and around the world, and for the conversion of all hearts and minds towards a culture of life.
@CMNEndtheDP @ArchLouKY