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1. Steve has provided writings and studies to answer many of the most common questions. Also his books, videos, and audio CD’s will answer many of the frequently asked questions.
2. Steve’s Discussion Board is a very helpful and personal resource. You can easily join many different forums with knowledgeable Catholics who are ready and willing to answer questions and help with understanding and defending the Catholic faith.
3. If you have specific questions about the Bible, the Catholic Church, or if you need personal guidance about the Catholic faith, there are many great apologetic and general Catholic sites listed on my Link’s page. Check out Biblical Evidence for Catholicism.
4. I would specifically recommend Catholic Answers with a marvelous set of resources and several Catholic apologists trained to answer inquiries about Catholicism. You can call their Apologist’s Line free of charge at 619-387-7200 (Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM, Pacific Time).
5. If you are considering converting to the Catholic faith, you can find compassionate and understanding guidance from The Coming Home Network.
6. Other great sources for information can be found here: Haydock Bible Commentary, Catholic Encyclopedia, Fathers writing on the Gospels, Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, Fr. Hardon’s Bible Dictionary, On-line Catechism, Vatican website, and EWTN.
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Dear Steve
I would love to bring you to New York for a Conference. We would like to know how much it would cost to bring you to New York. What will be the best time? What topic you have in your collection of conference would be good for a Parish that may need an intro to the Catholic faith. I would be inviting people from our cluster, and throughout of New York and possibly in New Jersey. Please Mr. Ray, we would like to bring to New York.
Please contact me at 718-392-0011/ 718-937-5174/ 347-901-3155.
You can also e-mail me
Thank you for reading my letter and blessed Advent and Christmas to you and your family.
Juan Rodriguez
Pastoral Associate
Dear Steve
Received a call from Mr. J. Ray. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CALL. As for the dates, I was looking on your site for dates, just to compare what does you would work for you and for us. Your e-calendar was giving me problems, it would malfunction.
The Months I would like to throw at you would be June, July, August, – Probably September or October to give us time to promote in our area, our cluster and throughout the New York area.
This would be the first time having this event, or in my experience my first time setting it up. Definitely will call to get more details. Your site gives me some leads. Did some research on the Hotel as the one you work with the most is just a 50 Blocks from our area – nearest to Laguardia Airport.
I am also connecting with my contacts to see if they will sponsor this event, so that we may provide the money in time for Steve’s visit.
Please send me an idea for Sept or Oct. that way I can present the plans to my Pastor. I am looking forward in hearing from you, and I hope before you get this email that I can call you.
God bless you and keep you safe.
Juan Rodriguez
I am interested in keeping in touch with this website and especially with you Steve Ray. I am a Catholic from a third world where Catholic faith is thriving but on milk. The materials and discussions on this and other Catholoc sites have really attracted my interest and keenness to learn more from them.
I hope I can keep in touch and learn more on the faith.
God Bless you all and Very Merry Christmas!!
STEVE ,
MERRY CHRISTMAS !
LUIZ CAMACHO ( BRAZIL )
OBS : I AM AT FACEBOOK AND TWITTER
Dear Mr. Steve Ray,
Good Day sir!
I have a thesis project and I have chosen this topic “Catholic beliefs on After Life” Is this topic okay?
Or is it disrespectful for our Catholic Faith?
- maybe because we shouldn’t talk about things beyond our knowledge or things which God is the only one who knew?
Any comments bad or good is very much welcomed. Your reply would be deeply appreciated. Thank You so much! More Power!
Sincerely yours,
Jamie
STEVE RAY HERE. THAT IS A PERFECTLY GOOD TOPIC. BE SURE TO QUOTS FROM THE CATECHISM.
Dear Steve
I just read your article on the Epiphany. Yes Luke’s Gospel account of the Nativity is Mary’s recollection of events. I was looking up the ‘Black Madonna’ ‘Our Lady of Poland’ – St. Luke painted the portrait of Our Lady on a tabletop fashioned by Jesus in his carpenter days and while he was painting her, she recounted the whole story to him.
Hi Mr. Ray!
Love your Footprints videos and your writings. Praying for the opportunity to go on a pilgrimage with you someday too! Recently my son shared a new YouTube video that has become frighteningly popular, in fact the idea it perpetuates has become popular too. It is “I hate religion, I love Jesus”. It suggests that Jesus hates religion too, and came to abolish religion!!! I would give you the link but I don’t want to give these ideas any more publicity… I am sure you could find it in a search, I just don’t want to give it free advertising on your website. I know that much of what the young poet says is false and based on an improper personal interpretation of the Bible, however, I wondered if you had any writings on this whole idea. We are surrounded with a very strong Protestant base of folks in our small town in Central California and this idea my sons friends are latching onto seems very dangerous. Any books, pamphlets,CDs or writings you have or could recommend on this topic would be great! Thank you and God Bless you and your work!!
Quick question..
is the Hebrew root word for sheep pen the same as for the Holy of Holies?
I tried to analyze the two words in Hebrew and got nowhere.
Thank you.
Wondering if enough money was raised to finish the dvd series.
Terri Padilla
Midland, TX
Check out this amazing website which shows the scale of the universe from the smallest things we know to the unimagineably large. This demonstrates the power of God and helps poor sinners like me rememeber that without God I am nothing but a specle of dust.
http://htwins.net/scale2/
Regards
Frank
sir, greetings , Iam watching the program in shalom TV It is really improving the catholic belives .
Steve
Scientifically this is big news and could be of interest to some of your readers. In the Jan 2012 edition of New Scientist (magazine) it was stated that scientists are now facing up to the problem of the universe having a beginning – until recently they could postulate that it was eternal and the main theories to support this were “eternal inflation” and “multiverses”. However, as the article reports, the problem (for them) is that the equations didnt work when tested and they are now back where they started with a creation event!
The New Scientist article is here (but you will need a log in so i have pasted the article in full below)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328474.400-why-physicists-cant-avoid-a-creation-event.html
Article in full
Why physicists can’t avoid a creation event
The big bang may not have been the beginning of everything – but new calculations suggest we still need a cosmic starter gun. You could call them the worst birthday presents ever. At themeeting of minds convened last week tohonour Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday- loftily titled “State of the Universe” – two bold proposals posed serious threats to our existing understanding of the cosmos.One shows that a problematic object called a naked singularity is a lot more likely to exist than previously assumed (see ” Naked black-hole hearts live in the fifth dimension”). The other suggests thatthe universe is not eternal, resurrecting the thorny question of how to kick-start the cosmos without the hand of a supernatural creator.
While many of us may be OK with the idea of the big bang simply starting everything, physicists,including Hawking, tend to shy away from cosmic genesis. “A point of creation would be a place where science broke down. One would have to appeal to religion and the hand of God,” Hawking told themeeting, at the University of Cambridge, in a pre-recorded speech. For a while it looked like it might be possible to dodge this problem, by relying on models such as an eternally inflating or cyclic universe, both of which seemed to continue infinitely in the past as well asthe future. Perhaps surprisingly, these were also both compatible with the big bang, the idea that theuniverse most likely burst forth from an extremely dense, hot state about 13.7 billion years ago.However, as cosmologist Alexander Vilenkinof Tufts University in Boston explained last week, that hope has been gradually fading and may now be dead. He showed that all these theories still demand a beginning. His first target was eternal inflation. Proposed byAlan Guthof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, inflationsays that in the few slivers of a second after the big bang, the universe doubled in size thousands of times before settling into the calmer expansion we see today. This helped to explain why parts of the universe so distant that they could never have communicated with each other look the same. Eternal inflation is essentially an expansion of Guth’s idea, and says that the universe grows at this breakneck pace forever, by constantly giving birth to smaller “bubble” universes within an ever-expandingmultiverse, each of which goes through its own initial period of inflation. Crucially, some versions of eternal inflation applied to time as well as space, with the bubbles forming both backward .But in 2003, a team including Vilenkin and Guth considered what eternal inflation would mean for the Hubble constant, which describes mathematically the expansion of the universe. They found that the equations didn’t work “You can’t construct a space-time with this property,” says Vilenkin. It turns out that the constant has a lower limit that prevents inflation in both time directions. “It can’t possibly be eternal in the past,” says Vilenkin.”There must be some kind of boundary.”
Steve,
I listen to you often on Relevant Radio and love listening to you talk about the saints as if they are your personal friends and family. For this reason I am contacting you for recommendations. My daughter’s class will be preparing for Confirmation next year. I know part of that is selecting a saint name. Many years ago when I was confirmed there was no guidance on selecting a name. I’d like to provide the kids with a book or two regarding saints that will get them thinking ahead for confirmation. My thought is to get the books to them this summer so they have time to read and reflect before classes start in the fall.
Can you recommend some books and also websites that discuss the saints?
Thanks very much for your help.
Blessings!
Jackie
Steve,
At this morning’s Mass at Holy Family in Orlando for the closing of the Fortnight we had all the priests (3 active and 1 retired) plus 2 Deacons celebrating. Awesome Mass! One of the deacons (a retired state appeals court judge) did the Homily and stressed how God is so centered in our nation and how important are this year’s elections are, (rare standing ovation after a homily). You would’ve love to have been there! Happy blessed 4th of July to you and your family. Thank you for all that you do!
God bless you,
David Mackin
Dear Mr. Ray
I am sorry to hear about your father! Lily, a lady from the Knoxville area, directed me to your site for the first time today. She said she has gone on a trip to the Holy Land with you, and send her prayers and best wishes.
Lily and I started talking when she was trying to set up Lighthouse CDs at her local Church. I have been giving them away, so her number was forwarded to me. You have just a few talks distributed by Lighthouse, and I was wondering, if I bought in quantity and then give them away free, could I receive a cheaper price? Depending on the price, I might be interested in 50 to 100 of many of your complete talk CDs. If you think of each talk/CD as a seed of faith being planted for eternal glory, together we can be a dandelions in God’s garden. I know I might not be the prettiest of God’s flowers, yet I love to plant seeds. Thank you for all you have done so far!
May God continue to bless us,
Christina
PEACE! “Therefore, in order to say a little about this dark night, I shall trust neither to experience nor to knowledge, since both may fail and deceive; but, while not omitting to make such use as I can of these two things, I shall avail myself, in all that, with the Divine favour, I have to say, or at the least, in that which is most important and dark to the understanding, of Divine Scripture; for, if we guide ourselves by this we shall be unable to stray, since He Who speaks therein is the Holy Spirit. And if in aught, I stray, whether through my imperfect understanding of that which is said in it or of matters unconnected with it, it is not my intention to depart from the sound sense and doctrine of our Holy Mother the Catholic Church; for in such a case I submit and resign myself wholly, not only to her command, but to whatever better judgment she may pronounce concerning it. (St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, Prologue, no. 2, p. I I in the E. Allison Peers translation, The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland.)
I loved Crossing the Tiber
is there a floating holy rock in Jerusalem? a rock that is floating in air?
Hi Steve,
I’m not sure if you keep up with boxing, but Manny Pacquiao, who was well known for being Catholic, was converted by Rick Warren. His conversion story from what I’ve seen, shows his lack of understanding of our faith and claims that Catholicism did not help him overcome his own sinfulness. Of course the media is eating this up and many anti-Catholics will be using this as ammunition.
The point I am getting to is that, I think that Catholicism doesn’t have enough of a strong influence in mainstream media, and the one Catholic who was very well known (for being Catholic) was converted. I would like to request that, maybe, you can approach him and talk to him like Rick Warren did. Manny, is after all, still a brother, and we cannot sit idly by while others like Rick Warren are converting Catholic celebrities.
Well, it’s only a request :D and I pray that God will guide you in your decision. God bless :)
Dear Mr. Ray,
My husband and I would like to go on a pilgrimage to Israel. My husband is an Evangelical. I was an Evangelical up until 2008 when I returned to the Catholic Faith with my husband’s blessings. He would tend toward going with someone like Joel Rosenburg. I ofcourse lean toward you. Have you had other Evangelicals on your pilgrimage and if so how does it work out for them?
God bless your ministry.
Peggy
Steve,
Just a comment about Petros/Petra. Maybe the Greek would approximate “You are Rochelle and on this rock …” when the gender slant would be more like ‘Rocky’ or ‘Rock’.
Bob Wait (a recent member of your Jan/Feb Pilgrimage)
Dear Steve,
Thank you for your wonderful and awesome ministry! You are inspiration to me, especially the love and cheerful passion you have when defending the Faith.
I have a quick question that occurred to me while listening to your talk about neopaganism at Franciscan University. Do you have any reference to writings about pagans during the Roman Empire in which they described the practices of the early church. This will be a great additional resource to fellow non-catholic christians that shows that the early christians where very Catholics.
Cheers and God Bless!
just finished breakfast with the family after Easter Sunday mass at our Lady of Victory Basilica. during mass i thought of you and the great pilgramage to the holy land and wanted to say A BIG THANK YOU for guiding us and so many to and through the holy land! Happy Easter to you and your family
Steve I just wanted to ask you about the letter you wrote to your father about becoming Catholic but being raised Baptist I was raised Baptist also and have become Catholic and my mother is against it so I would like to writ her a letter also to help her understand it Please help me to help her.
Thank you
Teresa White
Last night, I was lucky enough to be able to attend a talk that St John the Baptist in New Brighton offered where I could hear Steve in person. What a thrill! He lays the truth out about the Catholic Church being the One True Church in such a simple-to-express format that now I can tell anti-Catholics, friends who have questions, and my soon-to-be daughter-in-law who came into the Church at this years’s Easter Vigil (who I was sponsor for) additional information about how fortunate and blessed she is to be in Jesus’ true Church. Thank you, Steve, for your gift and sacrifices to witness and explain our beautiful faith in an easy-to-understand, picturesque explanations of the Holy Land, and love of the faith to all of us. What a gift you are! I live about 45 minutes from New Brighton and really wish my parish would look into having Steve talk at our church as well! God Bless always!
Peace be to You Steve,
May I know if when in Jacksonville (april 15th) will you have for sale your CD’s Born Again, Your Conversion Story (would this be the same story as on the CD Finding The Fullness of Faith by lighthouse) and other stuff?
God Bless and wish you a Peacefull and Safe trip,
Dr. Thomas
Dear Steve,
Small Question – Is there mention in the Scriptures about the Birth Of The Muslim Prophet Muhamad ?
Thanks n God Bless Hope to see u again in Mumbai.