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| Welcome to the Christian Activist
Personal Development (CAPD) website. This website will show You how to store up Treasures in Heaven and to achieve the Reward of every True Christian who perseveres to the end - A Mansion in Heaven - but unless You read to the end You will miss completely the Gifts that God has in store for You. If you want to achieve success in this life as a Christian Activist or in any work of life you won't find a better means than to utilise the complete set of Paraliminal CD's which you can purchase from the link below for the amazingly low price of AUD $497.70. This is $100 below the normal retail price. My aim in slashing the price is to encourage Christians to become positively motivated and to set and achieve worthwhile goals so that we can start to build up the Body of Christ which was so sorely wounded following the Vatican Revolution of 1962-1965. Armed with a Firm Belief that you can achieve any worthwhile goal we (the Church Militant) will attract positive minded people to the True Faith. However we must get our priorities right as most of us are focussed on obtaining a
Mansion on Earth or on other
Earthly Desires and we forget the words of Jesus Christ
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What is a Christian? |
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Well, that is an easy question to answer: “A Christian is a Follower or Disciple of Jesus Christ". |
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Are Protestants Christians? |
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Now here is your first test! In their hearts many of them probably are. At least, as far as I can tell, many of the Protestants I communicate with seem to be persons acting "in good faith". Mind you, I have communicated with quite a few Protestants who display anything but 'Christian' tendencies. For a start many, if not most of them, seem to display a 'deep prejudice' against the Catholic Church. But I am sure that is not you as you want to become a Christian Activist. Hold on! Don't switch off!! Please read on!!! |
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What is a Christian Activist? |
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For the purposes of this website a Christian Activist is: • someone who has a deep-seated love of Our Lord Jesus Christ; • who is committed to the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ as written in The Holy Bible; • who practises the Traditional Catholic Faith; AND • who wants to share that Faith with others. There, now you know my definition of a Christian Activist. If you have read enough to know that the Traditional Catholic Faith is not for you then "I wish you good fortune" and "I pray that the Grace of God will descend upon you." But, you have missed a MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE if you are switching off! |
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| Then came the Vatican II Revolution of 1962-1965 and seemingly overnight the Catholic Church changed in extraordinary ways – first came the vernacular Mass, then the Novus Ordo Mass, then new Rites for all of the Seven Sacraments and then the remarkable exodus of religious (priests, nuns and brothers) from seminaries, convents and monasteries. | ||||||
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To assist you to become an effective Christian Activist this website will urge you to take two basic steps: |
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One of the first things you found out after coming to this site is that it is a site which is run by a Traditional Catholic. For some of you that will be a shock. After all haven’t you been taught to believe that Catholics are in league with the Anti-Christ! You have probably been told that the Pope is the Anti-Christ! That has been the catch-cry of many Protestants for almost five hundred years! |
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Almost five hundred years! |
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Almost five hundred years! If you are a Protestant that is how long your Faith … your Religion … has been in existence! |
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Common sense says that you if you follow Luther, or any of his disciples, you will follow them to disaster AND to the Loss of Your Soul. To some of you reading this for the first time the reaction will be of incredulity! How can this be? Well, you may remember the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ recorded in The Holy Bible as follows: Matthew 7:21: “Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Luke 13:24: "Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able." and Matthew 7:14: "How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!" If you take a tour of the website http://www.catholicapologetics.info you will come to a realization that “if you are to save your soul” you need to become a Practising Traditional Catholic. That means, you need to accept the Truths that Jesus Christ has revealed through the Catholic Church and which the Catholic Church has taught in the almost two thousand years (2,000 years) of its existence. |
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Almost two thousand years! |
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The Catholic Church has been in existence for almost two thousand years! |
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After the Crucifixion of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Apostles and Disciples were an intimidated and despairing group! Following His Resurrection Our Lord appeared to the Apostles and Disciples and they then gained Hope. After His Ascension into Heaven Our Lord sent the Paraclete. On the Day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost descended upon the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Apostles and Disciples and the Apostles and Disciples were inspired to convert three thousand people to the True Faith on that day alone. The Catholic Church has an impressive history of growth from that day forward. During those 2000 years it has been challenged by countless Heresies and the odd Schism BUT until the Disaster of Vatican II the Church had remained STRONG and CONFIDENT knowing that the Holy Ghost was present to guide her path! |
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• Where do we find the Catholic Faith these days? • Do we find it at Rome? • Do we find it at our local suburban ‘Catholic’ Church? |
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Until the Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' of Pope Benedict XVI on July 7 2007 it was clear to the well-informed observer that modern day Rome was no longer propagating the Catholic Faith. It was also clear to any Catholic who has a basic understanding of the Catholic Faith and who has attended a Novus Ordo Mass at his/her suburban ‘Catholic’ Church that the Catholic Faith was no longer propagated at that suburban Mass Centre! That person would most likely find ‘at best’ a pale shadow of a former Sacred Liturgical Rite. More than likely he/she would find what appears to be a ‘carbon copy’ of a Protestant Communion Service which had been promulgated in 1969 and imposed on the Catholic Church by Rome in 1970. How can this be? To a Traditional Catholic it is almost incomprehensible! Almost I say, but not completely incomprehensible! Jesus Christ alluded to the Last Days and the Bible Student will find many Bible prophecies of the Signs which are coming to pass in these present days. Jesus said: "But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?" (Luke 18:8) The clear implication is that when Jesus returns the Truth
Faith will be held by very FEW and the TRUE MASS
will be very SCARCE - Indeed! That is pretty much the
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Just be thankful
that you have found this website ... you have found a way |
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After you have read many of the articles on the Catholic Apologetics website you will come to a realization that to save your soul you MUST practice the Traditional Catholic Faith handed down by Jesus Christ to His Apostles and handed on by them to those that followed. St Peter was appointed by Jesus Christ Himself as the first Pope (see Matthew 16.18* & 19*) and there has been an unbroken line of Popes (some 266 in total) to this present day culminating in the Reign of Pope Benedict XVI. *Matthew 16.18: "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." *Matthew 16.19: "I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shalt be loosed also in heaven," As this website develops you will be able to access many Catholic aids which will enable you to grow and develop as a Christian Activist. Aids such as: |
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| For Heaven's Weapons available for the
UNITY, PEACE AND SALVATION FOR ALL MANKIND
see
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/library/prayers/Weapons.htm |
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What is a Christian? |
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Well, I answered that at the beginning of this website. |
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Are Protestants Christians? |
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Oh, they say that they are! I am sure they believe that they are! They even call themselves Christians when they are advertising their beliefs. However their beliefs are NOT Christian! Their beliefs do not include the Tradition which was handed down by Jesus Christ to St Peter and to the Apostles and faithfully protected by the Catholic Church. Tradition preceded the Bible by more than 300 years! Protestants are NOT Followers of Jesus Christ! They do NOT have the Catholic Faith! They do NOT recognize Tradition! They MAY be Followers of Martin Luther, King Henry VIII, John Smyth, John Wesley or any one of the myriad of other persons who started their own break-away religions BUT I don't believe they are Christians because they are NOT following the Faith handed down by Jesus Christ to St Peter (the First Pope) and to the Apostles and preserved by the Catholic Church and by a Succession of Popes right up until the present day. Most Protestants seem to think that all you have to do is accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour and you are saved. Well that is not supported by Scripture. Jesus Christ said: |
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Matthew 10:22: "And you shall be
hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere
unto the end, he shall be saved." Luke 10:16: "He that heareth you, heareth me, and he that despiseth you despiseth me." and John 12:48: "He that despiseth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." |
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| These statements by Jesus Christ should make it clear to any Protestant that you have to do more than just proclaim Jesus Christ as your Saviour if you expect to be saved. You must persevere unto the end! Your best chance of Saving Your Soul is to persevere as a Practising Catholic to the end! | ||||||
If you are a Protestant person you should realize that your Salvation depends on your accepting Jesus Christ as your Saviour AND by living and dying as a Practising Catholic! You can’t save your Soul by practising any Religion other than the Catholic Religion. Mind you, if you had been COMPLETELY UNAWARE of the fact that Jesus Christ established the Catholic Church as the means to work out your Salvation, it may have been possible for you to save your Soul due to INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE despite not being a Practising Catholic! However, having read the information on this website you can’t use that as a Defence! The Catholic Faith is built on the Twin Pillars of the BIBLE and TRADITION - however you should be aware that TRADITION preceded the BIBLE by over 300 YEARS! |
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| There is an excellent publication by Michael Müller, C.SS.R entitled
“The Catholic Dogma - Extra Ecclesiam
Nullus Omnino Salvatur" which means
"Out of the Church there is positively no Salvation"
and it should be read by every Protestant. It can be accessed at http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/ecumenism/muller.htm |
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| If you are a Protestant can you confidently state that you have
never heard of the Catholic Church and did not know that it preceded
the Protestant Religion by some 1500 years?
You can’t now! When you are before Jesus Christ on Judgment Day what would be your Defence (if the Justice of God permitted you such a thing) or your response to the Challenging questions He will put to you: |
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• “Why did you denigrate My Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary?” • “Why did you not respond to the Grace I sent you to become a Practising Traditional Catholic?” • “How many souls have you led to the True Faith, the Catholic Faith, that I handed on to St Peter and the Apostles?” • “Where are your Good Works? Did you take in strangers, visit the sick or the prisoners, feed the hungry, clothe the naked?” |
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| Of course, once you are Dead, the Time to take advantage of the
Mercy of God is finished and you now have to face the
Justice of God. Do you really want to
leave your Defence till you are before the Judgment Seat of Jesus
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“Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Matthew 25:34 or “Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels.” Matthew 25:41 There are so many passages in the Bible to substantiate the Catholic Faith that it is amazing that Protestants can’t find them or, if they do find them, that they don’t understand them. You can read these passages by referring to the Article “The Catholic Religion Proved by the Protestant Bible” which you can simply Click Here to Access. Another Article I recommend you read is “Bible Quizzes to a Street Preacher” which you can simply Click Here to Access. Other excellent Articles to read are from Bob Stanley’s Catholic Treasure Chest website which have been reproduced here by kind permission from Bob Stanley namely: “The Canon of Scripture” which you can simply Click Here to Access and “The Origin of The False Doctrine of Sola Scriptura” which you can simply Click Here to Access. So, basically, before you become a Christian Activist you have to make sure that you have become a Christian. That means you MUST become a Practising Traditional Catholic! |
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Prior to Vatican II the term ‘Traditional Catholic’ did not exist. Members of the Catholic Church were universally known as ‘Catholics’ or, as the Protestants like to call them, as ‘Roman Catholics’. Following Vatican II there was a rapid disintegration of the ‘once impregnable bastion’ – the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church fractured into many different groups – the two main ones being Novus Ordo Catholics who can more accurately be described as Roman Protestants and Traditional Catholics (previously known as ‘just plain’ Catholics). |
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Through the Mass and a daily prayer life I can obtain the graces and strength to lead a truly Catholic and Apostolic life. Everything that I do in this life must be done for the glory of God and I must preach the Catholic Faith to those outside the Catholic Church. I must take up my daily cross and go that extra mile to become a daily Catholic rather than just a Sunday Catholic. I can do this through my own daily prayer life, by leading a good Catholic life in the work place so as to be an example for others to follow, and through a public prayer life and some examples of this could be public processions of the Blessed Sacrament and Prayer vigils outside abortion clinics to pray for an end to the slaughter of the innocents. In a time when Paganism is becoming more and more prevalent and is being made to look harmless, we must speak out or many souls will be lost if we remain silent. I have known Laurie Myers for approximately a year and since first meeting him I have been greatly impressed and inspired by his evangelical zeal to reach out to Protestants and others outside the Catholic Church. I highly commend and support Laurie in his apostolate to reach out to those outside The Mystical Body of Christ through this Christian Activist site, the Catholic Apologetics website, and the promotion of the Douay-Rheims Bible. I hope and pray that his efforts through the Grace of God and the inspiration of The Holy Spirit will help save many souls from the fires of Hell. May God bless him! |
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Make contact with a Traditional Catholic Priest… preferably a Priest of the International Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) as you can be sure that they will have been formed as Priests correctly. You can contact them through their website at http://www.sspx.org and access the links on that website to find a Mass Centre near you. |
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Become - A Member of A Unique Fighting Force... A Soldier of Jesus Christ... A Member of The Church Militant |
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| Most Protestants pay lipservice to the Holy Bible – they profess
to read it and to follow it – but the simple reality is that they
read inferior and inaccurate translations when compared with the
Best English Translation of the Bible i.e. the Douay-Rheims Bible
– the Catholic Bible. Tragically, most modern day Catholics have NEVER read the Douay-Rheims Bible either! |
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| I gratefully acknowledge the permission of Mr Bob Stanley for
links to articles from his Catholic Treasure Chest website
and for his permission to reproduce much of the information below
which comes from the Article “The Canon of
Scripture…” which you can simply
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Access. You can find Bob Stanley’s Catholic Treasure Chest
website by accessing
http://www.catholicapologetics.info and
clicking on Contact Us then clicking on Links. The New Testament has about 350 quotations/citations from Old Testament verses. By careful examination scholars have determined that 300 of these quotations/citations are from the Septuagint and that only 50 are from the Hebrew Old Testament*. They have shown that Jesus Christ Himself, quoted from the Septuagint. * Dictionary of the Bible, John L McKenzie, pp. 119 & 787. |
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| The Septuagint is the Catholic Old
Testament. There are 46 books in the Catholic Old
Testament including the following seven books missing from
the Protestant Old Testament: Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Wisdom,
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), 1 and 2 Maccabees and parts of
Esther and Daniel. The Septuagint (sometimes abbreviated LXX) is the name given to the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures. The Septuagint has its origin in Alexandria, Egypt and was translated between 300-200 BC. The term "Septuagint" means seventy in Latin, and the text is so named to the credit of the 70-72 scholars who were commissioned to carry out the task of translation. Early Christians used the Septuagint to support Christian teachings. The Jews were upset that these new Christians were using their translation for Christian advantage. |
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| About 90-95 AD, or several decades after the beginning of Christianity, the Jews called a council to deal with the matter. In this council, called "The Council of Jamnia", Jewish Pharisees, who survived the devastating destruction of Jerusalem and of their temple in 70 AD, decided to remove books that were helpful to Christians. They removed the seven books (referred to previously) using various reasons as their "authorisation" to do so. | ||||||
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| For the first 300 years of Christianity, there was no Bible as
we know it today. Christians had the Septuagint and hundreds
of other books from which to choose. The
Catholic Church realized early on that she had to decide
which of these books were inspired and which ones weren’t. Much discussion was held between the Early Fathers of the Church as to which books comprised the New Testament. One of the most famous was between St Jerome, who felt the seven books referred to above were not canonical, and St Augustine who said they were. The Pope stepped in to settle the matter. In concurrence with the opinion of St Augustine, and being prompted by the Holy Spirit, Pope St Damasus I, at the Council of Rome in 382 AD, issued a decree appropriately, "The Decree of Damasus", in which he listed the canonical books of both the Old and New Testaments. He then asked St Jerome to use this canon and to write a new Bible translation which included an Old Testament (O.T.) of 46 books, the books of which were all in the Septuagint, and a New Testament (N.T.) of 27 books. These O.T. and N.T. books were reaffirmed at: • the Council of Hippo in 393 AD; • the Council of Carthage III in 397 AD; • the Council of Carthage IV in 419 AD; • the Council of Florence 1431-1445; and • the Council of Trent 1546-1565. |
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| St Jerome's translation which he commenced in 382 AD and
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| Martin Luther was a Catholic Priest of the Augustinian Order. He broke with Rome in 1521 and in 1534 issued his own Bible adopting the Hebrew O.T. He also removed 4 books (Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation) from the N.T. and put them in an appendix. He preferred the O.T. version approved by the Pharisees rather than the one used by Jesus Christ. | ||||||
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| A Christian follows Jesus Christ!!! |
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The Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB) of 1610 is the English translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible. The "Which Bible Should You Read?" booklet compares passages from the DRB with passages from 6 Protestant versions and 3 Modernist versions. |
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It is important to note: The New Testament was written in its entirety by Catholics. • St Peter, the first Pope of the Catholic Church, is the author of two of its epistles. • The Catholic Church determined the canon or list of books to constitute the New Testament. • The declaration of the Catholic Church that the books of the New Testament are all inspired by God constitute the sole authority for the universal belief of both Catholics and Protestants in their inspired character. • The Catholic Church existed before the New Testament. • The Catholic Church is the mother of the New Testament. • The Dead Sea Scrolls show the scientific evidence of the reliability of the Septuagint over the previously regarded "original" of Hebrew (which Protestant and Modernist translations rely on, heavily doctored by the anti-Christian Rabbis). • Only since the 1990's has the truth about the Scrolls support for Catholic Tradition been readily available! |
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| Only if you seek it as an end in itself! God has graced many a Great Saint throughout Recorded History with Great Wealth. Can you imagine how many Cathedrals, Monasteries, Convents etc… would have been built by the Catholic Church if persons with great wealth did not donate a large proportion of that wealth to the Church? It is when we become attached to our wealth to the detriment of the salvation of our souls that seeking wealth becomes dangerous. If we are sensible and use our wealth wisely it can be used to bring the Good News to countless multitudes of people who are seeking to Save their Souls! |
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Matthew 19:26: “And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.” Mark 9:22: “And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” Mark 10:27: “And Jesus looking on them, saith: With men it is impossible; but not with God: for all things are possible with God.” Luke 18:27: “He said to them: The things that are impossible with men, are possible with God.” |
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If you have questions about any of the above please send an email to info@capd.com.au for those questions to be answered. |
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| Despite there
being a number of conservative pockets within the Catholic Church,
our continued exposure to the Novus Ordo Mass made us realise the
stark contrast between pre- and post-Vatican II Catholicism. We
attended the Novus Ordo Mass for 20 years before encountering the
Latin Mass and the Society of Saint Pius X, whose work within the
Church is absolutely indispensable. By the Grace of God, I have been
a Traditional Catholic since 2003. As a secondary school teacher, I have a keen interest in pro-life and educational issues. Few people realise the sinister nature of contemporary education and it is my fervent desire that the system of education in Australia will eventually be exposed for what it truly is; a corrupting influence being used as a vehicle for social change, promoted by those who want to destroy the nuclear family and strip parents of their God-given right and privilege to educate their children in the Faith. A lot of my spare time is spent researching pedagogical practices, curriculum documents, government policy and educational changes in Australian schools, and writing articles to expose the hidden agenda of contemporary education. To this end, I find the Catholic Apologetics website to be a great source of information, with links to everything from Canon Law to Church Councils, from the history of the Church to the present crisis of Faith as well as a long list of Papal encyclicals. Too often, good people sit on the sidelines and content themselves with doing only what they must because they think that, as just one person, they cannot make a difference. But the Christian Activist MUST couple prayer with action. As Saint James reminds us: For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead. (James 2: 26) So take up the challenge of this website! Become a Soldier of Jesus Christ and Fight the Good Fight! |
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1. Become a Traditional Catholic and start practising the steps outlined under the heading “Traditional Catholics” above. 2. Obtain your FREE E-book "Which Bible Should You Read?" by sending an e-mail to info@capd.com.au – and when you have received it save it on your computer. 3. Place the following (or a similar) ad in your local newspaper (with or without the picture) with the contact details changed to reflect your details: |
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4. Send the FREE E-book to persons who e-mail you requesting it be sent. 5. Send an e-mail letter to those persons including as an attachment the brochure “Which Bible Should You Read?” which I will send to you by e-mail. 6. Encourage your friends and acquaintances to follows steps 1 to 6. Then let the Grace of God germinate in their souls. |
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| Q. To become a Christian Activist (CA)
must I purchase Personal Development (PD) products from the
http://www.claimyourlifetoday.com website? A. If you have a positive mindset then the answer must be "Yes". They are offered as a means for any person (Christian or Non-Christian) to set and achieve Goals. Many persons lack Self Belief and don’t think they have they have the ability to achieve anything worthwhile in their lives. The PD Paraliminal CD products are available as a link through the CAPD website so that Christian people who wish to become Christian Activists but who lack the confidence and the belief that they can become Achievers have available to them powerful tools which will enable them to overcome those barriers. The success of this project depends on the positive and enthusiastic support of Christian people with a healthy outlook. The http://www.claimyourlifetoday.com website will offer you personal development support products that will change your life and supercharge your mission as a Christian Activist. When you purchase a complete set of these products there is also a FREE DVD BONUS (see P.S. below) which will be sent to you. Caveat - Nothing worthwhile is achieved without there being a Cost! The Cost to you of a single Paraliminal CD is only AUD $39.97 plus shipping! The Benefits may be OUT OF THIS WORLD! |
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If you follow steps 1 to 6 above you will store up treasures in heaven: Matthew 6.19: “Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal.” Matthew 6.20: “But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal." Matthew 6:21: "For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." AND |
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| John 14:2 “In my Father's house
there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go
to prepare a place for you.” Congratulations on your decision to become a Christian Activist - you have an exciting journey ahead of you! |
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| Yours in the Names of Jesus and Mary |
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| P.S. As a Bonus when you access the
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website and purchase a complete set of these Paraliminal CD's I will
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