/lit/ - Literature

>>13007299
Are you American? I am, and i'm still staying in the CC but I have you know i'm Hispanic as well. There's nothing about Orthodoxy that pulls me to convert, no offense. The spirituality, the saints, and the Marian doctrines and apparitions make me stay like a rock. I have also have a personal belief that Mexico City is the holiest site in the Western Hemisphere. More Catholics visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe than the Vatican every year to see Our Lady.

>>12832788
Let me see, what will it take? the incorruptible bodies of the saints? The rigorously documented accounts of healings at Lourdes? The prophecies that have been scrupulously reported and have come true? The mystical experiences that people have had while wide awake?

>>12789764
>Should I follow one of these programs or just read the bible back to back in a linear manner?
Depends for what reason you're reading the Bible if it's for religious curiosity or you're thinking about converting I recommend front to back and taking your time with the New Testament simply because it's more important to Christianity. The Only Exception would be the Book of Job simply because you learn how God functions and acts in that book or at least that's what the Catholic priest told me.

(better yet go to a church and every week for two times a day read along with them)

Now when it comes to translations avoid the King James Bible simply because there's versus in it, that and it's a nightmare to digest like spoiled milk. I think esv, niv and nabre are fundamentally strong translations the only thing is the only thing I would watch out for is some people would argue that The New American Bible revised Edition is unreliable because it was translated by Catholics. I can't confirm if the Jerusalem bible is good I know though it was partially translated by JRR Tolkien The Man Who rote Lord of the Rings.

>ctrl+f "miraculous"
>0 of 0 results

Come on, guys, at least post some stuff that makes the atheists squirm. Use their own demands for physical evidence and documentation against them.

Reminder that today, the 12th, is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

>>12016862
You materialists, always trying to weasel out of things.

>>11940620
>incest

Sex isn't ritualized killing.

>executions

For criminal acts, not of the innocent (in the best case scenario).

The Aztecs deserved to be exterminated. God himself proved that only a few decades later when Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared and blessed the introduction of Christianity into Mexico.

>>11888748
>>11888935
Not that guy, but what about the tulpa of Juan Diego, with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on it?

What about Eucharistic miracles that have been photographed and videotaped?

What about documented instances of miraculous healings?

>>11811390
>Schizo

You'd like to think that, wouldn't you, materialist?

Read Aquinas' Five Proofs for God

Then read through the list of miracles, healings, and apparitions officially approved by the Catholic Church

Approach this from the positions of both the rational and the mystical, the natural and the miraculous. God's existence can be shown in both spheres, by both Faith and Reason.

>>11454506
If you think about it, Catholicism is a cross-board topic. You have /lit/ for literature, philosophy, and theology. You have /his/ for more all-encompassing religious discussion and apologetics. You have /pol/ for discussion of what's actually happening at the Vatican, and among actual Catholics worldwide. And you have /x/ for the 'spooky' side of Catholicism, the healings, miracles, and apparitions, which are more prevalent in it than in any other branch of Christianity. There's even a few anime that are Catholic-relevant, like Hellsing, so that's /a/ covered.

Catholicism truly is 4chan's ideal branch of Christianity.

>tfw God reveals himself through signs and wonders even in the present day, but most people are too blinded and bamboozled to realize it

>>11005616
In addition to everything else in this thread, you should also probably read up on the major Marian apparitions. The Catholic Church recognizes Lourdes, Guadalupe, Fatima, and a few others.

>>10493903
As a Catholic I long for the crippling and neutering of America. This disgusting country, high on materialism, positivism, and capitalism, has been an active foe of Jesus Christ for nearly its entire existence on the Earth. I long for the downfall of Protestant and atheist America, so that Our Lady of Guadalupe may take her rightful place as empress of both the American continents.

Did Christopher Hitchens ever comment on miraculous healings and apparitions?

>>10307477
>but also lies

lol, the atheist's delusion. It's quaint that behind all the rhetoric the atheist's basic argument is still "But it's OBVIOUSLY not real."

>>10197732
>implying

>>10121177
Why are you so quick to label the Marian apparitions superstition? Does it bother you to consider that they might be real?

>>10068087
/x/ isn't literate enough to talk about Catholicism in a serious way, though they are more amenable to miracles, healings, and apparitions.

>>10021395
Ah, but what if reality doesn't contradict it?

>>9884584
Well, I'm a Catholic and that means no premarital sex, so I'm doomed to disappoint her on that end.

>>9829003
Yeah, but that's not relevant to my original point, which is that certain religious events throughout history do have evidence. We have some pieces of them to this day.

>>9815795
The difference is that nobody ever claimed Socrates rose from the dead, while that claim is pretty ubiquitous with Jesus.

I take it you don't put much stock in the supernatural elements of Christianity--apparitions, healings, miracles, signs and wonders and so on. I feel this is a mistake on your part. The spooky stuff is the difference between a genuine religion and an ethical system.

>>9802777
>holy trips

Thanks be to God for the wonders worked in our midst even today, by which the spirits of the faithful are strengthened.