#12384 How Can I Help a Friend Return to Faith? Eucharist and Conversion - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can I help a friend return to faith?” This episode explores effective ways to engage with those who have drifted from belief, including a discussion on the significance of the Eucharist and its real presence. Additionally, we delve into early Christian practices and the role of a priest in consecration, offering a comprehensive look at faith and conversion.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:00 – He also has a friend that grew up in the Catholic church but has fallen away and does not believe in God any longer, how can he talk to her to try and encourage her that there is a God?
- 14:01 – What does the real presence in the Eucharist mean and why is it important, does God not exist elsewhere in the world?
- 22:05 – Did the early Christians offer sacrifices at the Jewish temple?
- 29:11 – In OCIA, would like some advice on properly processing the mixed emotions he is experiencing through his conversion?
- 40:55 – If a protestant believes in the real presence how do I explain that it needs to be consecrated from a valid priest?
- 46:16 – Why does the Eucharist have to be consumed repeatedly in order to receive eternal life, “like our fathers who ate the manna in the desert?”
- 52:08 – Why does it have to be a priest to consecrate the Eucharist?
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| 0:32.0 | Dr. Carlo Roussard, our guest, and we're talking about the Eucharist. |
| 0:36.5 | And if you have questions, |
| 0:38.1 | we'll do our very best to get you an answer, wherever that question might come from, whatever |
| 0:41.7 | angle you're coming at it from. 8883187-884, 3184, 3187-884. I maybe didn't do the clock |
| 0:52.5 | perfectly, and I didn't give you a lot of time first hour |
| 0:55.7 | to answer Mo's question, but I think you got in, but he wanted to know if basically he had |
| 1:01.4 | received, or maybe I don't know if he or someone had received communion a couple times |
| 1:05.7 | outside the Catholic Church, and one of which was an Orthodox Church. Did you say, did I give you a chance to get to everything you wanted to get to? |
| 1:14.6 | Well, yeah, in essence, I, you know, I did articulate correctly the Church's permission for us as Catholics to receive Holy Communion in an Orthodox Church. |
| 1:24.6 | But there were a few things that I wanted to |
| 1:28.9 | get out there because there are some conditions that need to be met. So the directory for the |
| 1:34.0 | application of principles and norms on ecumenism in numbers 122 to 136 state or lay out a few |
| 1:42.4 | conditions. Number one, if it's the only, if it's the own, if one is |
| 1:47.8 | physically or morally, if it's physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister, |
| 1:52.6 | that would be one condition, and at the same time, both conditions will have to be met, |
| 1:57.3 | the danger of error or indifferentism is avoided. So assuming those two conditions |
| 2:03.0 | are met, and this was sort of implied in my statement of an extraordinary circumstances that would |
| 2:09.7 | map on with the physically or morally impossible part. But what I wanted to add was, and the danger of |
| 2:15.7 | error or indifferentism is avoided. And then there's one |
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