Time to Get Off Your Butt & Be Catholic

Catholics have many, many obligations, but they can all be categorized under two primary obligations: to become a saint, and to share the faith. Serious Catholics work on the becoming a saint part, as best they know how—absent any help from our hierarchy. Certainly you’re obligated to become a saint, but part of becoming a saint is to evangelize. You need to understand that Our Blessed Lord gave a command as He ascended to Heaven: It was to make disciples of all nations.

Translation: “Save the world.” 

That's right—the job of Catholics is just that simple. Save the world. In fact, our personal salvation depends on that single issue. If you’re not about saving the world, you'll be damned. It’s that straightforward.

Now, granted, Catholics haven’t had their Catholicism, their mission, presented to them in those terms in quite a while, thanks to loads of gay bishops and their modernist filth and perversion. But despite the failings of the U.S. hierarchy over the past 60 years to instill this mission into the hearts, the minds and the souls of Catholics, it remains our life’s work.

Put nicely by Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “The quickest way to Heaven is to take someone else's hand and lead them there.” Servant of God Father John Hardon was a little more direct: “He who is not about the business of evangelization might never entertain a serious hope of salvation.” 

Those are serious-sounding words for one reason—because it is serious. But the sad reality (thank you, bishops), is that most Catholics don’t even care about their own souls—not even on their radar—much less someone else’s soul.

Yet, every day, people die and are damned, regardless of what Church of Nice sycophants like Bishop Robert Barron falsely claim (“Everyone has a reasonable hope of salvation”—just the opposite of what Jesus said). Those weak men are perfectly content to let people be damned. 

They have no supernatural faith, they don't believe in the Deposit of Faith (some have said so), and they don't care about souls. They lie to you. They’re spiritual terrorists. 

Don’t listen to their lies—and that’s the least you can do. They leave you and your loved ones in the dark because they have no love for you, only for your money.

They won’t tell you that Catholics have the mission of saving the world. And they won’t tell you that because they don’t believe it themselves. Reject that message, and accept instead the message of Our Lord as He ascended to Heaven. Your eternal life depends on it.

Stop! Don’t give me that deer in the headlight look when I tell you that you have to save the world—to evangelize. You have no reasonable hope of attaining heaven if you don’t do everything Jesus commanded. He commanded evangelization.

If you’ve been reading my articles for very long, you know that I worked in prison apostolate for about twenty-five years. I always believed that the state offered nothing for rehabilitation, and that the Catholic Church offered the only thing for rehabilitation. Consequently, many converts were made. However, there were a lot of surprisingly good men I wasn’t able to interest in Catholicism. One of them had become a really close friend, and I’ve written him regularly since. After all, according to the corporal works of mercy, he’s another Jesus in prison.

This good friend has recently been told that he has a very aggressive form of cancer. He’s going to die, because the penal system won’t do anything to save him. It’s cheaper to let him die, and he’s just a convict after all. In a nation that kills babies, letting the scum of the earth die is easy.

He lives in a penal system that just last year figured out how to make money off of letting the convicts stay in touch with their family and friends by sending and receiving monitored emails.

I’ve begun using that email system to catechize him, until he tells me to stop. He knows he’s dying, so the presumption is that he’s more willing to listen than he was before. I send him little thumbnail lessons, about as long as these. I answer his questions, and I’m gradually leading him home to Rome. Please pray for that end.

This is just one example of what you can do to evangelize. Once you get over your fear of evangelizing, the possibilities are endless. I mention fear because just yesterday I had a conversation with a man who said he evangelizes by just praying for lost sinners. Unless his prayers are so powerful that he can part the Red Sea, I told him that he’ll actually have to talk to them about Catholic truth before his prayer can bear any fruit.

Here’s the bottom line: If you care anything at all about where you spend eternity, then you’re going to have to begin by evangelizing. And don’t come up with something weak like, “I evangelize by setting a good example.” No you don’t. You’re a sinner, just like the rest of us. You can’t set an example well enough to bring people into the Catholic Church that way and that way alone. You have to actually share Catholic truth with people. It’s scary. I get that. But it’s only scary until you actually begin.

Another thing about evangelization is that you can’t merely regurgitate the Church’s teachings. If you try that, you can almost hear minds slam shut. Every single doctrine and dogma of the Catholic Church can be proven. I read a priest’s article a year or two ago who said the faith can’t be proven. He was wrong. I should know because I’ve been proving it for thirty-plus years. That’s the reason for so many converts. Non-Catholics and, sadly, Catholics want proof that Catholic truth is indeed true. You have to learn how to give it to them. I’m going to begin teaching you how to share the faith and prove what it teaches in these articles. Then you’ll have no excuse for failing to perform a work that will make all the difference between eternity in heaven and eternity in hell.