Do Catholics believe in a relationship?

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Tx3bro said:
Do Catholics believe in a relationship with god?
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Yes, of course, relationship is what the New Covenant is all about. Adam broke communion with God and mankind has been lost ever since. Jesus re-establishes communion with God.
 
That is what the sacraments are all about. The eucharist especially, but all of them, and prayer. There are all sorts of prayers. Adoration at the chapel is not just for you to talk with God, but to allow you to sit and listen to what God is telling you. Yes, as a catholic, I have a much closer relationship with God than I ever did when I practiced protestantism.
 
We have the most intense, personal, one-on-one relationship that has ever existed on earth. By the Sacraments, our sins are forgiven, and grace flows from God to man. We can go to our parish and sit in the true presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. As He commanded at the last supper, we eat His Body and drink His Blood so that we remain in Him and He in us. It can bring tears to your eyes - it should bring tears of gratitude and joy. It is the most profound spiritual and physical relationship imaginable. A miracle occurs at each mass - heaven descends to earth and time stands still as we are brought to the foot of the cross; we are in the upper room at the last supper. We are peering into the empty tomb and discovering that He is risen! This is not hype, it is fact. It is the bestt-kept secret in all of Christianity. And, it is as misunderstood as Christ was.

How many denominations demand a “personal relationship” with Christ, but cannot sit in His presence, cannot eat or drink His Body or Blood? This is very ironic - those who demand the most of believers have doctrines that offer far less to believers. The Catholic Church has the bible - even more bible - the original bible. It has the practices of the Apostles that have been handed on to us. You may attend mass in any nation on earth. It has answers to any and all moral or faith questions, and that answer is guaranteed by the Holy Spirit, not just someone’s opinion.

Oh yes, it’s very personal!
 
As Catholics we believe that baptism incorporates us into the personhood of Christ - we are his body. And as such, we are caught up in the inter-relationship of the community of God. We are free, to an extent, to exerience this subjectively, so long as the experience does not itself become an object of false worship. But we can rely on the objectivity of our faith, too. Thus, the sacraments & the teaching authority of the Church, can lead us to where we should be going regardless of what we ‘feel’ (positive or negative) at any given moment, and allows us the satisfaction of knowing that whilst we reside within the body, we are “up close & personal” to Chirst, through whom is the Father.
 
teachccd said:
What would make you think that we don’t?
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This is my question too…Tx3bro…Could you please explain what this is supposed to mean - and why anyone would think that Catholics don’t believe in a relationship with God?

I know that you are young and that your parents object to your interest in the Catholic Church…Is this something that they brought up?

I just wonder where people get this idea…

Thanks

Peace
James
 
Tx3bro said:
Do Catholics believe in a relationship with god?
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Tx,

You are entering RCIA…this suggests that you were other than Catholic.

You ask a question about “relationship”…

What prompted you to ask this question?

What is your understanding of this notion of relationship that preceeded your entrance to RCIA?

How did your understanding of “relationship with God” originate?
 
Tx3bro said:
Do Catholics believe in a relationship with god?
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Yes of course.

This relationship that God calls us into is not just about our relationship with Jesus. It is so much more. And, its a relationship that develops over time. For example, God choose to go thru Mary to give us Jesus which He did not have to do, so this relationship is not just about Jesus.

First, children, hopefully, learn from their parents about who God is. Then around the age of 6 or 7 we enter into formal religious education where we help to prepare the children to receive Jesus into their hearts when they make their First Holy Communion (sort of like in the protestant churches when children are baptized when they are at that “age of reason” and can decide to want Jesus to come into their hearts).

Then they continue with their religious education and they learn more about the Church and the Holy Spirit and they prepare to make their Confirmation where they are sealed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Hopefully their parents are bringing them to Mass to worship God. The Mass is so beautiful because God calls us to participate in our worship of God not to be mere spectators.

Unfortunately, in alot of churches, the Sacrament of Confirmation is looked upon as an end to formal religious education and they fall into the thinking that “yeah I’m done”, and “yeah, I don’t have to go to church anymore”, which is sad because that is the age when the prince of lies attacks and many fall away from their faith.

I came across this site on this site yesterday and is worth taking a look at and only a couple of minutes long:

youtube.com/watch?v=EXIWMh7v3Kg
 
JRKH said:
This is my question too…Tx3bro…Could you please explain what this is supposed to mean - and why anyone would think that Catholics don’t believe in a relationship with God? Peace James
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Well, you know, James, it’s all that worship of Mary, praying to the dead and bowing and scraping before a piece of bread thst takes our eyes off of God. :rolleyes: I mean, those old stereotypes, rumors and lies never seem to stop. In fact, like taxes, they only increase.

Yet, if we worshipped Mary, why aren’t the Priests female? :hmmm:
 
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