Keith Nester spent more than 20 years as a Protestant pastor. Today he explains why God has one plan of salvation for all mankind — and why that plan is the Catholic Church. Plus, on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: the Battle of Lepanto, October 7, 1571, and what happened when the sun came up.
Keith Nester served as a pastor and youth pastor in United Methodist, Assemblies of God and Evangelical Free churches for over two decades before he entered the Catholic Church. He now leads Down to Earth Ministries, leads The Rosary Crew, a daily livestreamed Rosary, and wrote The Convert’s Guide to Roman Catholicism. Joe asks him the question every convert eventually has to answer: if Christ founded one Church, what does that mean for everyone outside it?
Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, and most Catholics can’t tell you why. In Their Catholic Story, Joe tells it. Pope St. Pius V asked all of Christendom to pray the Rosary, and on the morning of October 7, 1571, the fleet of the Holy League under Don John of Austria met the Ottoman fleet off Lepanto. By most accounts, more Christians were set free that evening — galley slaves chained to the Turkish oars — than died in the battle. Pius V gave thanks with a feast of Our Lady of Victory; Gregory XIII renamed it the Feast of the Holy Rosary in 1573.
SCRIPTURE (Douay-Rheims):
– 1 Timothy 2:4 — “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
– Acts 4:12 — “Neither is there salvation in any other.”
– John 10:16 — “And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.”
– Ephesians 4:5 — “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
– Matthew 16:18 — “Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
– Psalm 123:7 — “The snare is broken, and we are delivered.”
FURTHER READING:
– Catechism of the Catholic Church 846-848 — “Outside the Church there is no salvation”
– Council of Florence, Cantate Domino (1442)
– Pope Pius IX, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore (1863)
– Holy Office, Letter to the Archbishop of Boston (1949)
– Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus (2000)
KEITH NESTER:
– YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KeithNester
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