On Tuesday, I invited my friend to give a presentation about C. S. Lewis' Four Loves. This event was open to students and staff from the university where I am working. As expected, all of the attendees were Christian Protestants, except me and my friend.
We had a very interesting discussion. About the 'building-blocks' of C. S. Lewis' Four Loves. In this book, he talked about affection, friendship, romantic love, and unconditional love. Before talking about these four loves, my friend explained about the 'need-love', 'gift-love' and 'appreciative-love'.
Anyway, the more interesting discussion happened over dinner. They asked us about things like "Why Catholics believe in Purgatory? Isn't Christ's crucifixion sufficient?", about the word "priest and pastor", and also about the Eucharist and transubstantiation. We really had an interesting friendly and deep discussion.
I really wish...that my circle of friends are as interested as the friends who attend the book discussion to know more about our Catholic faith. Sometimes it can be quite disappointing to see some people are 'resistant' about catechism or doctrinal formation (it's not about 'don't care', but 'resistant' in the sense 'against the idea of bringing catechism to community').
Anyway, pray harder :)
We had a very interesting discussion. About the 'building-blocks' of C. S. Lewis' Four Loves. In this book, he talked about affection, friendship, romantic love, and unconditional love. Before talking about these four loves, my friend explained about the 'need-love', 'gift-love' and 'appreciative-love'.
Anyway, the more interesting discussion happened over dinner. They asked us about things like "Why Catholics believe in Purgatory? Isn't Christ's crucifixion sufficient?", about the word "priest and pastor", and also about the Eucharist and transubstantiation. We really had an interesting friendly and deep discussion.
I really wish...that my circle of friends are as interested as the friends who attend the book discussion to know more about our Catholic faith. Sometimes it can be quite disappointing to see some people are 'resistant' about catechism or doctrinal formation (it's not about 'don't care', but 'resistant' in the sense 'against the idea of bringing catechism to community').
Anyway, pray harder :)
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