Saturday, September 13, 2014

All Things Catholic :: St. Marys Catholic Campus Ministry (Nacogdoches, TX)

All Things Catholic :: St. Marys Catholic Campus Ministry (Nacogdoches, TX)

Nacogdoches, TX- Home of Stephen F. Austin State University

211 East College St.
Nacogdoches, TX 75965
Phone: 936.564.0661
            
       
    All Things Catholic
                                                                                                    
    The Catholic Church is rich and beautiful in it's practices and beliefs. Sad thing is, many of us don't know what we're missing and may think one church is as good as another, not realizing what a treasure we have.

    Let us explore our faith together and see what God has for us!

    Right here! Right now!



    "Give me more Jesus! Through prayer. Through adoration. Through Communion. Through Confession. More more more more!"
    Porter Mann

    Catholics Come Home EPIC Commercial :60 (VIDEO)
    http://web.archive.org/web/20131128004301/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bmQS_DGe8M
    Published on Mar 6, 2012
    The CatholicsComeHome.org "Epic" national TV commercial, or Evangomercial (TM), features the history, beauty, spirituality, and accomplishments of the Catholic Church over the centuries. "Epic" is filled with religious images of the Mass and Sacraments, Catholic churches, Catholic schools and universities, Sacred Scripture and Tradition, the saints and popes of the Church, and much more, to evoke the expansive impact of Catholicism on the world and individuals souls throughout history and in the ages to come, and to invite fallen-away Catholic and non-Catholics to come home.

    The link below shows various Evangomercials from Catholics Come Home.
    http://www.catholicscomehome.org/how-we-help-your-diocese/
    The Factual Documentation Link below supports the claim made in the Evangomercials that are in the Catholics Come Home link above


    Catholics Come Home

    Factual Documentation



    When we can, we like to have CD's available for evangelism or faith growth in the back of the Chapel and in our library. You can help by donating in the little box beside the CD's or even signing up for Lighthouse Catholic's CD of the month (get the 5 or 10 pack) and giving extras away to friends, family & us! (If you sign up through us we even get credit for that also!)


      
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    PDF from the Factual Documentation link

    2000 Years of Faith: The Truth Behind Our Epic EvangomercialTM


    This document is a list of references supporting the claims made in the Epic EvangomercialTM.

    Epic (1:20) © 2008-2013, Catholics Come Home, Inc.




    Audio:
      
    1) Our family is made up of every race.
     
    World Fact Book
     
     
    2) We are young and old,

    See below:
     
    The Pew Forum: U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
     
     
    3) Rich and poor, men and women
     
    The Pew Forum: U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
     
     
    4) sinners and saints.
     

    St. Augustine: Sermon 38 on the New Testament



    5) Our family has spanned the centuries

    See the US Census Bureau fact page above for geographical distribution of Catholics; see
     

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01648b.htm for info on the 2000-year span of Catholic history.

    6) With Gods grace, we started hospitals



    to care for the sick.
     
    Catholic Encyclopedia
     
     
    7) We establish orphanages, and help the poor.
     
    Catholic Encyclopedia
     
     
    8) We are the largest charitable organization

    on the planet, bringing relief and comfort to those in need.
     
    http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/14/Revenue_1.html
     
     
    Just Catholic Charities, Food for the Poor, Catholic Relief Services, St. Jude's, and America's Second

    Harvest alone total $5,570,000,000, which is greater than #1 on the list for America. Keep going down

    the list and you find Father Flanagan's homes, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Covenant House, and

    more. Add the thousands of other charities, from Missionaries to the Poor, Amigos for Christ, soup

    kitchens, homeless shelters, to religious orders (like Missionaries of Charity) & individual parishes who

    often do their work in anonymity, and you will see some of the charitable works of the Catholic

    Church.
     
    Business Week

    Largest charity in Australia
     
     
    9) We educate more children than any other scholarly or religious institution.
     
    http://cara.georgetown.edu/CARAServices/requestedchurchstats.html
     
     

    Source: From How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Dr. Thomas Woods, page 94 and



    following:
     
    "Roger Bacon, a Franciscan who taught at Oxford, was admired for his work in mathematics and

    optics, and is considered to be a forerunner of modern scientific method."
     
     
    "Like Roger Bacon, Saint Albert [the Great] was careful to note the importance of direct observation in

    the acquisition of knowledge about the physical world. In De Mineralibus, he explained that the aim of

    natural science was 'not simply to accept the statements of others, that is, what is narrated by people,

    but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature for themselves.'"
     
    "Robert Grosseteste...bishop of Lincoln...has been called the first man ever to write down a

    complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment."
     
     
    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13598b.htm
     
     
    spite of its boldness the assertion is made, in order to save the appearance of consistency. The fact is,

    however, that up to the French Revolution, when Voltaire and Rousseau drew the last consequences

    from Atheism, the great scientists, almost to a man, speak with great reverence of God and of His

    wonderful Creation. Is it necessary to mention Copernicus, Kepler, Galilei, Tycho Brahe, Newton,

    Huyghens, Boyle, Haller, Mariotte, the Bernoullis, Euler, Linné, and many others? Since it is often the

    advocates of the glorious principles of 1789 that never tire of recounting the tragedy of Galilei, we beg

    to remind them of the great chemist Lavoisier, who died faithful to his Church under the guillotine,

    while the free-thinkers raised the cry: "Nous n'avous plus besoin de chimistes" [see "Etudes", cxxiii

    (Paris, 1910), 834 sqq.]. For the time after the French Revolution we find in Kneller's volume (see

    below) the names of a glorious array of believing scientists, taken only from the branch of natural

    sciences. According to Donat ("Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft", Innsbruck, 1910, p. 251) among the

    8847 scientists enumerated in Poggendorff's "Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch" (Leipzig,
     

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13598b.htm).



    See also:
     
    Notable Catholic scientists: http://www.catholicbook.com/AgredaCD/MyCatholicFaith/mcfc014a.htm



    "St. Albertus Magnus," D.J. Kennedy, Catholic Encyclopedia,
     
    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01264a.htm
     
     

    ert was assiduous in cultivating the natural sciences; he was an authority on physics, geography,

    astronomy, mineralogy, chemistry (alchimia), zoölogy, physiology, and even phrenology. On all these



    "Roger Bacon," Theolphilus Witzle, Catholic Encyclopedia,
     
    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13111b.htm
     
     
    11)
     

    Source: From How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Dr. Thomas Woods, page 187 and



    following:

    residue of religious attitudes and assumptions which historically found expression first

    in the liturgy and rituals and doctrines of the church and thereafter in the institutions and concepts
     

    ‟ ‟s work: Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal

    Tradition)



    Churc s canon law that the West saw the first example of a modern legal system,

    12) We founded the college (university) system.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Universities," Edward A. Pace,
     

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15188a.htm.



    Ibid., "Schools: in the Church," Wilfrid Ryan, Philippe Perrier, Michael Maher, Andrew Murphy, William
     
    Turner and J.A. Burns, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13554b.htm.



    13) We defend the dignity of all human life,

    and uphold marriage and family.

    Sources: Vatican
     

    Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from



    the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be

    recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent

    being to life.

    14) Cities were named after our revered saints,

    who navigated a sacred path before us.

    St. Louis, MO, St. Paul, MI, St. Augustine, FL, San Antonio, TX, etc.

    15) Guided by the Holy Spirit, we compiled the Bible [I.E. THE NEW TESTAMENT].

    We are transformed by sacred scripture and sacred Tradition,

    which have consistently guided us for 2,000 years.
     
    Source: Catholic Encyclopedia
     
     
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    with over one billion in our family

    sharing in the sacraments and fullness of Christian faith.

    Source: Adherents.com

    17) For centuries, we have prayed for you and our world,

    every hour of every day, whenever we celebrate the mass.

    Source: Catholic Encyclopedia

    18) Jesus, Himself, laid the foundation for our faith

    Source: Matthew 16:18-19
     
    Who Founded Your Church?
     
     
    19) For over 2,000 years, we have had an unbroken line of shepherds guiding the Catholic Church with

    love and truth, in a confused and hurting world.
     
    Source: Catholic Encyclopedia
     
     
    And in this world filled with chaos,

    hardship and pain,
     

    its comforting to know that some things remain



    consistent, true, and strong,

    our Catholic faith,

    and the eternal love that God has for all creation.
     
    we invite you to take another look.
     
    Visit CatholicsComeHome.org today.
    Ours is one family united in Jesus Christ,

    our Lord and Savior.
     
    We are Catholic. Welcome home.

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