Patrick Madrid | Apologetics Techniques That Anyone Can Master

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  @thomasfolio4357 · 5 years ago

  My sister was estranged from our family for nearly 20 years. &nbsp;Her husband, who was a virulent Anti-Catholic had forbidden her from communicating with our family, or attending Mass. &nbsp;She wandered with him through Calvary Chapel and other Protestant sects, finding no true solace because something was missing. &nbsp;One day after moving to a new town, and driving by a Catholic parish on her way to work each day for three mos. she went into the Church, &nbsp;noted the Mass times, and started to attend Mass secretly. &nbsp;<br>A few months later, she told her husband that he had to put on some clothes, someone was coming over for dinner, and he could not hang out in his underwear. &nbsp;Well he refused, and when the Pastor of the parish showed up, and was introduced to him, he told the priest, &quot;I hate you for seducing my wife into returning to the Catholic Church, and I hate the Catholic Church because it teaches lies.&quot; &nbsp;Well Fr. asked him what he did not like about the Catholic Church, and after listening to a litany of horrible things, Fr. replied, &quot;You know I hate those things too. &nbsp;It&apos;s too bad none of them are actual Catholic teachings.&quot; &nbsp;<br>Five years later he joined my sister and a group of people in Rome for the ordination to the Diaconate of a neighbor. &nbsp;Before the private Mass celebrated by the same priest who came to dinner, my brother in law was baptized, confirmed, had his marriage to my sister con-validated, and began his life as a daily communicant. &nbsp;<br>Eight years later, he died, his last words, &quot;My Jesus, My Mercy.&quot; living his Catholic life crediting the Divine Mercy of Christ, and the Green Scapular I handed him with the statement, &quot;Don&apos;t tell me you are afraid of a piece of green felt.&quot; after he told me that I was a devil for tempting &nbsp;people to believe in a False Church, &nbsp;and as a priest must be a wicked man.

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  @unangelitoguardian · 6 years ago

  &quot;Let God do the heavy lifting, let him do the converting&quot;. So true. Thanks Pat.

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  @maehullana7831 · 4 years ago

  Wow! I learn a lot thank you 😃! God bless!!!

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  @HosannaInExcelsis · 6 years ago

  What an amazing talk. Really outstanding. I love apologectics but this is really one of the best talk I have heard. God bless Patrick, a great defender of the Faith

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  @normavalliant4927 · 4 years ago

  This was a great talk, Thank you for sharing it.

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  @thomasfolio4357 · 5 years ago

  The final story about Bob, reminds me of a joke a Baptist Pastor once told me. &nbsp;&quot;How can you tell the difference between a Methodist and a Baptist?&quot; &quot; A Methodist will say Hi to you in a Liquor Store, a Baptist will duck and hide.&quot; &nbsp;We are all sinners in need of Christ&apos;s Grace (to paraphrase Pope Francis first interview after his election) Pray for me a sinner.

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  @denisemullarkey5117 · 2 years ago

  I love Patrick , and Scott and Tim Staples😊

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  @tasfinye1850 · 4 years ago

  Thanks for your talk,i have learned a lot from you that will help me to continue defending Catholic faith,may Almighty God bless you Patrick

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  @annakareninnav2427 · 3 years ago

  Thank you so much for this! What an insightful talk! Love from the Philippines 🇵🇭

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  @JerpPin · 4 years ago

  I love hearing Patrick talk. Amazing video

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  @thanosdathug5776 · 4 years ago

  Very good points, you are watching a master at work.

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  @marigalvez296 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Hi Sir Patrick , my Name is Mari a cradle catholic. &nbsp; I think that you are right in saying&quot; let God do the heavy lifting&quot;. I have met a persian speaking (from Teheran, Iran ) woman with Islamisch faith &nbsp;here in Vienna ( can &nbsp;speak maybe 60% English and 10% Deutsch) &nbsp; in 2016 and i befriended here. Little by little i told her about &nbsp;God through my Roman catholic faith to the extent of inviting her to see inside one of the many &nbsp;churches in Vienna Austria. She refused bcus as she said she has no time. I said to God during one of my prayers...&quot; i have done my Part Lord, &nbsp;you do the rest. We havent &nbsp; seen almost a year and on Sept 2022 we met &nbsp;and i was informed by her that she is already a Christian. &quot;Oh&quot; ..i exclaimed and she furthered...in an evangelist- protestant church i was baptized. (In my mind, maybe God wanna starts her to allow to read more of the Scriptures thru a protestant mentor because i myself just read few verses and can hardly memorize them except Part of &nbsp;Ps 23 . <br>Before christmas we met again and i gave her a new Rosary and she was excited in accepting it. I think Mama Mary will do more of the conversion process.<br><br>After i watch your Video today 7.1.2023 i learn much from your and Scott Hahn&apos;s Videos. Gott behütet euch!

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