Tony from Catechism Corner🇻🇦

Dear Catholic Converts! First and foremost, WELCOME. HOME! The below post prompted me to reply to him, but I wanted to quote it with my same thoughts to share for ALL! The one MAJOR thing missing from his post is Vocation or calling. We are NOT called to just sit in the pews, pray the Rosary, listen to Catholic Apologetics, or read the Bible or church fathers or other self centered acts. We can relate all of Sin to selfishness and that is the wall Jesus was trying to tear down! Want to know what you can do? Be in service to your local Parish! Here are some ideas... Join the choir. If you're a woman, join the CCW. If you're a man, join the Knights of Columbus. Have a knack for decorating, join Arts and Environment. Join the Ushers. Become a Eucharistic Minister that goes to the Hospitals. Become a Catechist and teach the Faith. (We have certified curriculum so you don't need to be a 10 year Theologian!) There is so much you can do for the Catholic church, but it starta with you going to your Pastor and saying FOUR words! "How can I help?" Repost and spread. #CatholicTwitter #CatholicX

Everyone needs to hear what’s happening in Idaho right now 😳

@LaNativePatriot Old Gen-Xer here, yeah I been playing my retro games more these days. The challenge was REAL! As for you video, it is likely Mario Maker game where people could make their owm levels. 😉

The video games today are SO forgiving compared to the ones we grew up with Now granted… I think this is modded footage, but if you go back and try to play these games today, it feels exactly like this Damn near impossible, even though I remember beating them as a child

STOP what you're doing and take this in. This man is a Muslim cleric in the United States. “Having s*x with a nine-year-old girl, if she can get pregnant, is not considered s*xual harassment and is permissible in Islam.” This is a religious justification for pedophilia, being preached openly in America. REPOST for widespread exposure! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

@MrCasey62 @BibleInContext1 These are people who have to attack Catholicism to be relevent. Think about all these "Pastors" and their following... The moment people walk out on them for Catholicism, their MONEY dries up!

Self-proclaimed “former Catholic” now believes in a God who doesn’t bother telling people where they’re going for eternity after they’re judged. He doesn’t know anything about God if he thinks God won’t make that perfectly clear.

@dumbledore221b @Cr7Godbrand Thank you for proving my post right... 🤣🤣🤣

@CatechismTony @Cr7Godbrand All of those things are because of gender equality and feminism. Every single one. This world is still terrible, yes, but is safer than it ever has been for women especially, and people live longer. That is not a coincidence

What opinion about women do you have that makes people feel like this?

@Jonnyinmd @MrCasey62 What is the difference between 1st degree murder and 2nd degree?

"And when first translated "worship" was used [describes how "worship" is used by people who speak English in 2026 A.D.]" I understand why some Catholic apologists tried to pretend "worship" had a narrower meaning that it does when they were being persecuted by the government for worshiping Mary But we have freedom of religion now. You don't have to pretend that "worship" has some narrower meaning that no one who uses English understand it to mean Just say that since "worship," as used in 2026 A.D., unambiguously includes dulia, that you worship Mary, as almost every Christian on Earth did for 1,500 years, & stop pretending it means anything else And don't forget how you lied about what I said at your next confession

Are Evangelicals dishonest or just low-IQ? St. Alphonsus didn’t write in English, but Italian: “Io vi venero”: “I venerate thee”. And when first translated, “worship” was used to include Latria AND Dulia. Typical Evangelical: thinks everything was written last week in English.

@MrCasey62 @residentreformr Just another engagement farmer that feels they have to say the common rhetoric... Kind of sad...

A simple Google search disproves this, but Evangelicals aren’t exactly known for their ability to research. 🤣

@NintendoAmerica If this is a the "BIG" anticipated announcement, then I suspect there will be a lot of disappointed people. Many are hoping for a new 3D world like Odyssey... Maybe later today would be an announcement, but I'm not holding my breath.

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@JesusSaves1500, As you can read in all of the Grok posts above, you fall within the same group that walked away as you describe... I hope and pray that the Grok posts illuminate your heart and mind to understand why our Eucharist is so important and why so many Eucharistic Miracles keep happening in the Catholic Church.

Transubstantiation is the Catholic doctrine explaining how, during the Mass, the bread and wine truly become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Their inner "substance" (what they fundamentally are) changes completely into Christ, while everything we can sense—their appearance, taste, texture—remains exactly like bread and wine. The prayer you quoted is the epiclesis: it asks the Holy Spirit to make that change happen, fulfilling Jesus' words "This is my body... this is my blood" at the Last Supper. It's not symbolic—Catholics believe it's real, by faith.

𝗜𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱… Why did the earliest Christians risk death to receive it? Something happened at the altar that Protestants rejected.

@grok Can you explain in simple terms what is Transubstantiation? Especially when understanding that during a Catholic Mass the Priest will invoke the words, "Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall, so that they may become for us the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ."...

Yes, that's a foundational Catholic interpretation. In John 6:35-58, Jesus' Bread of Life discourse uses explicit language—"eat my flesh and drink my blood" for eternal life—that directly prepares for and foreshadows the Last Supper, where He institutes the Eucharist (Mt 26:26-28; Lk 22:19-20) as the sacrament of His Real Presence. The early Church (Ignatius, Justin Martyr) understood it literally, not symbolically, preserving this belief unbroken for 2,000 years amid persecution.

@grok @JesusSaves1500 @Barbara31348920 @BillArnoldTeach @grok Is it safe to say that Jesus words in John 6:35-58 was Him foreshadowing the Last Supper where he enacted another Sacrament that has been upheld by the Catholic Church for 2,000 years now?

Yes, as the eternal Son of God (Jn 1:1-3; 5:19-20), Jesus shares the Father's full divine knowledge and sees the entire timeline of salvation—past, present, and future—in perfect union with the Father's will (Jn 6:38; 17:4-5). His repeated foreshadowing of the Passion (e.g., the "hour," the serpent, the grain of wheat) reveals this eternal perspective, even as His humanity experiences time progressively. This is the mystery of the hypostatic union.

@grok So when Jesus foreshadows something, could we "the reader" safely come to the conclusion that Jesus (being God) was in full constant view of the timeline being upheld by the Father's Will and thus could see the true events of the past, present, and future at any given moment?

In John's Gospel, Jesus foreshadows His death at least a dozen times (direct, via "lifted up"/"hour"/"little while," scriptural allusions like the serpent, or parables like the grain of wheat). Key examples: 2:19 (temple), 3:14 (serpent), 6:51 (flesh given), 8:28 & 12:32 (lifted up), 10:17-18 (lay down life), 12:7 (burial), 12:23-24 (grain dies), plus many in chs 12-17. This highlights the centrality of His sacrificial mission.

@grok @JesusSaves1500 @Barbara31348920 @BillArnoldTeach @grok How many times in the book of John alone did Jesus foreshadow his own death whether directly stating it or indirectly through a scriptural reference or parable?

Yes, that's historically accurate for the 2nd century (and rumors building in the late 1st). Pagan Romans slandered Christians as cannibals and incestuous for their "secret" Eucharistic meals—misunderstanding "eat my flesh, drink my blood" (Jn 6) as literal human consumption. Justin Martyr directly refuted it in his First Apology (c. 155 AD), clarifying the consecrated bread/wine become Christ's flesh/blood for spiritual nourishment, not common food. Similar defenses from Athenagoras and Tertullian. These accusations incited mobs and justified persecutions alongside refusals of emperor worship. The belief in Real Presence traces to the earliest Church.

@JesusSaves1500 @Barbara31348920 @BillArnoldTeach @grok Weren't the early 1st and 2nd century Christians being persecuted because it was thought that they "sought to be Cannibals" because of the belief in the Eucharist?

@Barbara31348920 @BillArnoldTeach They walked away because they thought they were. They misunderstood.

@DestinLabs @1776General_ Sure... We'll go with that too. 😉

@CatechismTony @1776General_ Is B for Billionaires? I am asking for all my Billionaire race friends.

Reporter: That's offensive. Boomer: Yes, that's why I said it. The Boomers have had enough.

This is 100000000% truth: youtube.com/watch?v=l7kwBn…

I remember seeing a video some years ago where an Imam was demonstrating how a man is "supposed" to beat his wife. He showed shoves, firm taps on the arm or should, the two finger poke on the head, and the common shake her into submission. Yeah, they might want to read St. Paul's description of Love a few times over. 😉

A Palestinian doctor at the Islamic University of Gaza advises Palestinian husbands not to seriously injure their wives, break their bones, or damage vital organs. He states that men have a right and duty to beat their wives, but “Wife-beating should be therapeutic, not vindictive.” Where are the white liberal women fighting for these women's rights? Oh yeah, I forgot they hate Trump more.

@SRimmerAZ @realMaalouf Hey, when you click the Grok symbol, you get the below explanation: x.com/i/grok/share/b…

A 9-year-old girl cries as she is sold by her own family and forced into an arranged marriage with a 60-year-old man. This is Sharia.

The Iran protests in New York City are bought and paid for, here it all is with proof. Watch how they load the signs into the car and at 3:10 the leader confronts me and I expose her salary. She celebrated october 7th, and got paid to do it. Best of luck @LaynaLazar.