Mike DELANEY

Most people will never know the name St. Zita. She is the patron saint of homemakers, domestic workers, and today happens to be her feast day! Let that sink in. A woman who cleaned, cooked, served others… is a SAINT. Meanwhile, our culture tells women that Life in the home is “less than” and that caring for others isn’t success. We’ve lost the plot. Holiness isn’t found in status. It’s found in love, sacrifice, and choosing Life every day. St. Zita, pray for us. catholic.org/saints/saint.p…

Meet the hidden heroes, The Grey Nuns. During the Irish famine in 1847 thousands of starving Irish immigrants washed up on Montreal's docks dying of typhus. The doctors fled, the priests hesitated and a mob tried to throw the sick into the river. Yet forty Catholic nuns walked in instead. They carried dying children in their arms, they nursed strangers and thirty of them caught the disease. Seven of them died, but they saved thousands yet nobody remembers them.

The Assisted Dying Bill has failed. And I am so glad. I’ve suffered with an eating disorder throughout my life. When I was 15, I was dangerously underweight. On an IV drip in hospital. My organs on the brink of failing. If I had been given the ‘choice’ to die, I would have taken it. MPs removed the parts of the Assisted Dying Bill that were meant to safeguard against coercion and protect vulnerable people. Assisted suicide isn’t only done “when the patient wants it”. Look no further than the countries that have already legalised it. In Spain, a girl who was gang raped and attempted to kill herself was offered euthanasia. She reportedly wanted to back out, but her organs had “already been reserved”. In the Netherlands, 40% of euthanasia deaths occur without patient consent. In Canada, it has been offered to Paralympians who asked for a mobility aid. If it happened there, it would happen here too. People would be killed against their will. The disabled. The mentally ill. Abuse victims. All have been killed by the State under the guise of “compassion”. When you are as mentally ill as I was then, you will do everything in your power to convince those around you that you are well enough to make your own decisions. When your organs are shutting down and every course of treatment has “failed” to fix you, death becomes an attractive option. If I had been given the choice to die, I would’ve taken it. No questions asked. And that’s why the Assisted Dying Bill terrified me. Because when you’re that mentally unwell, you don’t see hope. You see pain, and you want it to end. You’ll do anything to convince the people around you that you’re “of sound mind.” You’ll say whatever it takes to be left alone. But behind those words is an illness doing the talking. If this bill had existed when I was 15, I might not be here. Not because it was the right choice, but because I was sick and exhausted and desperate. I didn’t need a legal route to die. I needed someone to fight for me when I couldn’t. It tells people like the girl I was that death is the easiest option — to relieve your family, the NHS, and yourself of the burden of caring for you — instead of showing them that life can be worth the fight. I survived. I got better. But I may not have. Not if the law had made dying seem easier than recovering. The Assisted Dying Bill didn’t protect people like me. It wrote us off. It was abandonment dressed up as mercy. And I thank God that it failed.

@StuBreeze @BillArnoldTeach If that is truly what you think, you simply don’t understand Catholicism. You can just say, ‘I don’t understand it’

@MikeDelaneyFC @BillArnoldTeach 100% trying to replace Christ. That’s why they want you to pray to Mary. They want you to think she’s senseless and they want you to think you can pray to her to replace Jesus.

She doesn’t replace Christ. She points to Him. Even now.

@StuBreeze @BillArnoldTeach Only by the grace of God. Not replacing Christ at all

@BillArnoldTeach Except you say she is sinless. Replacing Christ and talking out both sides of the mouth.

@firewirenz @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 Were Adam and Eve born?

@MikeDelaneyFC @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 Oh? There’s another way to be born human?

What makes them think that calling upon Mary to intercede for them is better than going directly to Jesus himself? Is Jesus too busy?

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager @DrScottHahn @JeffCavins Truth based upon BOTH scripture and tradition. Not one at the expense of the other. When we look at how the early Church worshipped, the Mass is very close now to how it was then. We know that great importance was placed upon the Eucharist. If we love Christ, we love His Church

Truth based on what, exactly? Jesus said he is the Way, Truth and Life. In John 17 he says God's Word is true. Ergo, Jesus and Yahweh are one, so Jesus' word you must be born again to see the kingdom of God. John 3:3. I never understood it, just like Nicodemus. I do, now, by the Power of the Holy Spirit. 😉 You don't. Trust Jesus and not some man-made institution. He said wherever two or three are gathered I am there with them. You don't need a pope for that.

No institution in human history has done more for the salvation of souls and the good of mankind than the Catholic Church.

@firewirenz @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 God could have chosen any way to enter the world. He chose to do so through a woman

@MikeDelaneyFC @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 That doesn’t actually clarify anything. Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit.

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager I’m not sure how I can answer two long paragraphs. I was raised Catholic, came away and came back because I realised that the Catholic Church proclaimed the truth. @DrScottHahn @JeffCavins & many other Protestant pastors looked deeply into scripture and became Catholic

By The way, Who was james? One of Jesus' brothers, who along with Jude, wrote two of the books in the New Testament. Catholics believe Jesus didn't have any brothers yet there they are. I feel for you brother. Mark Twain said, paraphrasing, it's not the things in life that you don't know that get you, it's the things that you know for sure that just aren't so. I was a Catholic for 50 years and then I read the Bible. Judging by this conversation, I think you're in the same boat. Most Catholics are Catholic because they're catholic, not because they chose it. When you think it through, there is no path to heaven as a Catholic. That's what caused me to question everything because I couldn't figure out how, as a catholic, I could get to heaven. There is no path.

@firewirenz @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 I sincerely submit to the Church. Catholic answers explains the issue of Mary as Mother of God more succinctly than I can here

@MikeDelaneyFC @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 No you don’t. You submit to Mary who apparently is the mother of God. Which is false because God wasn’t created.

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager You are greatly mistaken. The doctrine of the Church is deeply rooted in scripture. The Protestant objections are relatively modern. The priesthood etc is all in the Bible. And yes, Catholics do believe everything the Church teaches. I’m guessing that you didn’t watch the video

You do. But, as a Catholic, if you don't believe everything else (all the non-biblical nonsense) you're anathema, meaning cursed and damned to hell. No Catholic believes everything the church teaches. Therefore... Christians believe Jesus only, saved by faith through grace, with sins being forgiven for all time by propitiation. That's what's in Scripture, not all the additional poppycock like Purgatory and priests, mortal and venial sin, transubstantiation, Mary's sinlessness and assumption, on and on, all non-biblical. You completely ignored my Council of Trent argument. I'm finished replying. The Catholic Church has deceived billions of people on purpose. You'll have to ask the Pope why for yourself.

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager Catholics believe in Christ as the way to salvation and we believe in the Holy Trinity. That worship is to God. But you don’t regard this as Christianity because of the Catholic interpretation of scripture?

@MikeDelaneyFC @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager Catholicism is not the same as Christianity

@firewirenz @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 Nope. Not my interpretation. I submit to the Holy Spirit which has guided the Church for 2000 years. Jesus’ own words in the scripture I provided

@MikeDelaneyFC @chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 While your interpretation of the Bible is badly defective.

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager This may or may not interest you. This man converted to Christianity from being atheist: youtu.be/EWDevlijGUI?si…

@MikeDelaneyFC @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager Ok. He said many. I hope you find peace. I'm out.

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager Yes, He is most likely saying that to the ones who walked away from the Eucharist as many disciples did in John 6. And those who think their sins are simply forgiven without trying to truly repent and change

@MikeDelaneyFC @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager Jesus said on that day there will be many who say Lord Lord and I will say get away from me you evildoers. I never knew you.

@Jaytex45 @TimothyMcGuire He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

@TimothyMcGuire They weren't dead when He told them that. That was a literal request, while they were alive. Divination is a sin.

@chizzyyoung345 @Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!

@Came2BelieveHim @ReformedToRome @Truth_matters20 Doesn't justify necromancy. Just pray to God directly, there's absolutely no need of going through someone incapable of hearing your prayers. The bible is against consulting the dead for any reason. Just pray to God directly, and stop angering God.

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager Why would I think that your perspective is more accurate than that of the Church which has stood for 2000 years since the time of Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit? How can I be lost if I have faith in Jesus Christ?

@MikeDelaneyFC @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager You're so lost

@hoop6363 @RealGreyrider @prayandfast2 @NetworksManager To die in a state of grace is the surest way of knowing that a soul is saved at the moment of death. But God is also not bound by the sacraments. What you described is not quite accurate. It’s only mortal sins which need to be confessed. The sacrament of reconciliation is a grace

That is exactly the difference between Catholicism and the bible. There is no possible way to die in a state of grace. Man is sinful and evil. 5 minutes after you walk out of confession and you think about some girl lustfully, curse, miss Mass and die before confession, buh bye. That is the question that Catholics can't answer except for some magical place called purgatory where you can be bailed out by donations to the church. Or you can believe Jesus and trust him instead of trusting man-made institutions. You still haven't answered the question about how a Catholic gets to heaven. Until you can answer that question there's not much else to discuss.

@Mikestanmann @PaulDel38395510 @SpiritOf_TheAge @oliverburdick This comment says more about you than scripture says about Our Blessed Mother

@PaulDel38395510 @SpiritOf_TheAge @oliverburdick She sinned and had lots of sex with Joseph.

Only one person has ever been sinless: Jesus Christ.