About
This website was started because in everyday conversations with fellow Catholics, I noticed a large gap between what the Catholic Church teaches about salvation and the understanding of many people.
I will continue to update this page as my own knowledge of salvation increases and share good salvation related links in the Resources section of this website.
I like what Father John Riccardo often talks about that we need both a relationship with Jesus Christ and to live deeply in the sacraments and teachings of the Catholic Church.
On the first point about a relationship with Christ, this quote from Deus Caritas Est by Pope Benedict XVI, is wonderful: “We have come to believe in God’s love: in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.”
On the second point that we need the Church, again from Deus Caritas Est, “Indeed, God is visible in a number of ways. In the love-story recounted by the Bible, he comes towards us, he seeks to win our hearts, all the way to the Last Supper, to the piercing of his heart on the Cross, to his appearances after the Resurrection and to the great deeds by which, through the activity of the Apostles, he guided the nascent Church along its path. Nor has the Lord been absent from subsequent Church history: he encounters us ever anew, in the men and women who reflect his presence, in his word, in the sacraments, and especially in the Eucharist. In the Church’s Liturgy, in her prayer, in the living community of believers, we experience the love of God, we perceive his presence and we thus learn to recognize that presence in our daily lives. He has loved us first and he continues to do so; we too, then, can respond with love.”
My death is coming. Your death is coming. In the Book of Revelation 20: 11-15, we must understand what we will eventually face:
Next I saw a large white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the sky fled from his presence and there was no place for them. I saw the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. Then another scroll was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls. The sea gave up its dead; then Death and Hades gave up their dead. All the dead were judged according to their deeds. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the pool of fire. (This pool of fire is the second death.) Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the pool of fire.
I hope that you will grow daily in prayer and in relationship with Christ, spend time in the Bible and learn more about his body the mystical church on earth via all the fantastic resources we have been given in books, podcasts and websites.