How are you going to tell your family that they're sinning if you don't talk to them?
Isn't that the point of the Catholic Church - to save souls? We laymen are a part of that if we can convince someone to repent and that their sins will lead them to eternal damnation. And God will surely bless us if we do just that.
I mean the grace of repentance is always being given from God. No doubt, the more sin there is the more grace of repentance, which is not limited to the sacraments.
But sometimes sinners who are hard of heart need holy people to help them get out of their sinful lifestyles. They need people to talk to them, to encourage them towards the truth, to use Reason (which as we know from Vatican I is not against the Faith) to show the truth of God's fatherly love.
Yes, i get that, i was referring to people you have already said something to. I of course believe that you have to evangelize and preach to people, im not saying you have to shun them all from the start. I just meant after you said something and then rejected it, what do you do from then.
The thing is that i think that before Vatican 2 everyone knew what was bad and what was sinful, but now it is all upside-down and evil is good and good is evil.
Before Vatican 2 adultery was considered bad by everybody, but now it isn't; before immodesty was sinful, and now it isn't; effeminacy, sodomy, heresy, fornication, all these things were thought of as really bad and the ones that did them sure knew they were doing bad and being "rebels".
Now what you get is "DON'T JUDGE! NOBODY CAN JUDGE!" and on top of that, these things aren't hell-damning sins anymore.
Immodesty is a sin against the 6th commandment but now it is considered "normal" and women wearing pants was an abomination condemned by Deutoronomy 22:5 but now it is the norm as well.
So now we are in a totally different ball game.
You think i haven't told them they are in sin? Of course i have. But they of course think im crazy.
The thing is, i have a big family, and they are 90 something % Novus Ordo and some are Protestants. All the girls and women dress immodestly and wear pants. I have 2 siblings and some cousins living in fornication and living a hedonistic lifestyle. There are many living in adultery. There is one sodomite and one effeminate and some other things. They all accept each other and they all live in peace with each other and they all think things are just grand.
So my question is, suppose my parents or at least one of them were to convert, what in the world would they do? Would they have to tell them all that they are all on the road to Hell and in a very bad situation? Would they have to start avoiding them when they can and not socializing with them like nothing's going on?
What happens to sins of omission? To appearing to approve of sin?
You know that everytime they all gather together and everytime they socialize, they all take the name of God in vain, they are all in heresy and apostasy and say heretical and apostate things, they have bad and impure conversations and say bad things and all that kind of stuff. Nobody cares about modesty. You know there is no way that a traditional Catholic can have a regular or good conversation with people like them. Everytime they talk to me or ask me things i get anxious because 99% of the time they say something bad or ask me bad things. Just with 1 person i get a little on edge. And now, imagine being in a room full of these people?