Nothing is impossible with God. I believe, even more so now, that if a person desires to be baptized, to be Catholic, then God will provide.
.......So if I must accept Baptism of Desire, show me this declaration and I will accept it. Otherwise, I remain convinced in my above stated opinion.
Beautiful CathMomof7, thank you very much for sharing. Your post alone is sufficient proof that those who sincerely desire the sacrament will indeed receive the sacrament - God will provide - always.
Your "two cents" sums up the Doctrine of God's Divine Providence in just a paragraph or two. This is the doctrine that gets explicitly rejected by those who preach salvation via no sacrament at all, which they call "a BOD".
I just skimmed the rest of this thread and as per usual, not one of the NSAAers even acknowledged your awesome post, rather, one of the chief sacrament despisers (who has the gall to call himself "Lover of Truth"), continues to defend the heresy that there is no need for the sacraments at all, and that the Church teaches this heresy.
You (and certainly your dear mother) have received a very great blessing! Deo Gratias!
There is no one about to die in the state of justification whom God cannot secure Baptism for, and indeed, Baptism of Water. The schemes concerning salvation, I leave to the skeptics. The clear truths of salvation, I am preaching to you. - Bread of Life by Fr. Feeney