Do you feel alienated?

[Psalm45_9]

Domine Deus:

I have been a practising Catholic for over fifty years, but recently I have become a devout Catholic. I am consumed with my love for Jesus and the Church, I think of Jesus all the time, with Mary and the saints but unfortunately I am alone in my devotion. That is why I come here, to talk to people who feel the same way. My friends and relatives don’t understand the change in me, they think I’m going through a faze and I will come to my senses. I’m trying to be a good Catholic and follow the teachings of the Church by trying to show them many things that are wrong with the world, abortion, homosexual marriages, etc, but they don’t get it. I have nothing in common with these people anymore, my life has changed and Jesus and the Church are my whole life now. I will keep trying to help my family and friends understand the importance of Jesus in all our lives. I might add most of these people are Catholics which is frustrating, because they should know how I feel but just consider me a “religious nut”. I was wondering if anyone else here feels alienated in this way.

You’re not the only one, I go to a very secular college. My tution goes to the pro-choice film festival and the rainbow alliances’ national coming out day festival. Thankfully there is Neumann center with an orthodox priest. Unfortunatley, the students who go there are what I like to call, “Sunday only Catholics.” I do not fit in there at all and it has been Hell for the last 2 1/2 years. I have felt isolated the entire time, thankfully I will be doing my internship this semester and I will not be returning to campus ever again. The chaplin asked me what I can I do about that, I told him, “Nothing.” I’m not anti-social, it’s just I don’t have really anything in common with the other students. I despise contact sports and my taste in music is different. As for clubs, one I do not have the time for them. Two, none of them interest me, even the Neumann club.

 

[Meggie]

I am fortuate to go to a Catholic college, Niagara U, that offers Daily Mass me and about 5 others go to Daily Mass regularly, as well as about 10-15 faculity…

I grew up with my family of “Sunday only Catholics” and I have made many sacrifices to be able to go to Mass Daily. My parents still hate it.

Being Catholic isn’t easy, no one ever said it was. It means sacrificing yourself more than you ever thought. At college plan my classes around going to Daily Mass, even if it means that I would get a worse professor.

Fellowship is the key. Find a youth group you could help with where you can connect with other adults your age. There are many ministries rising to help Catholics connect.

And about your friends and family calling it a phaze. Two and a half years ago I began my “phaze” (praying more) but it tured out only to be phaze one. A year and a half ago, became phaze two going to Mass twice a week…and soon to be a year ago I began my third phaze…Daily Mass…im not going to sugar coat it, I have sacrificed ALOT to go but I don’t think I have ever been more well off then since I began.

 

[cainem]

jtnova:

You should start attending the Traditional Mass either St Pius V or St Pius X chapels, where sin is spoken about, Love is not repeated 100 times but just enough, souls are meant to be saved, and rock singers, disco dancers, clowns, old ladies who think by doing a reading from the Bible they are better off than you and will get to heaven faster and then give you the body of our Lord in your hand which is Protestant and denies the Lords true presence. At a Traditional Chapel, we worship as the church once did for 1962 years, until a Pope named John XXIII, weak at heart, speculated to be a Mason, and pushed for by his liberal wing called a Council which was hijcked by the left wing of the party.

At Traditional chapels, people worship God and not eachother, no one needs to shake hands to prove they Love eachother, and we do not have the liturgical abuses that go on in the Novus Ordo.

If you need contact numbers please let me know, as you will feel like a new person being in a church where the kids in the back are not gossiping, wearing AC/DC shirts with Devil horns, and people actually acknowledge the true substantiation taking place, kneel, take our Lord in their mouth, and genuflect every time they pass the tabernacle, which has been taken away from the Novus Ordo churces, instead the priest bows to the LAITY and NOT God…a shame

God bless

here we go again, the novus ordo mass is a wholly holy mass the lord our god does not shun the novus ordo neither should you, i will admit there is a place for tlm but not at the expense of the n,o mass, are you more qualified than johnXXIII who was guided by the holy spirit, (yes tlm folks the pope is guided by the holy spirit to change and rule the church as the spirit sees fit), so please show god the respect that is due to him and his n,o mass as it is a truly catholic mass and stop refering to it as protestant as you insult god his church and catholics world wide who recognise all the pontiffs have and always will be guided by the spirit, after all the gates of hell shall not prevail, or do you not recognise himas the successor to peter ?

 

[ThornGenX]

The last time I let the opinions and influences of the world concern me too much, I ended up wandering away from the True Faith and in a nutshell ended up in misery. When I first joined the Catholic Church in the early 90s (via RCIA), I felt very drawn to the Church going to daily mass and daily rosary even before my first confession, confirmation and first communion.

The death of the maternal grandfather who raised me a couple years later and some just plain stupid decisions about my personal life (which I may share someday but am not ready to now) lead me away from the my faith.

A couple years ago, I decided to come back to the church and went to a program at my local parish called “Re-Membering” for fallen away Catholics to rejoin the church. The classes lasted about a month, and after that I went to confession and am now building my faith up again. While my life is far from perfect (and I am still trying to undo some damage from the years I strayed), I know I am going in the right direction again as a devoutly practicing Catholic.

In short, at this point I know what’s left of my family that I have contact with (an aunt and uncle in Idaho and some cousins in my town, also Fresno, CA and Porterville CA) probably would think I’m “overdoing it” by going to church everyday and discerning a religious vocation. None of them are Catholic and from what I can see (mostly of family members in town) they do not seem to practice much spiritually at all.

My main concern centers on building my life (and preparing for the life after this one) on a solid foundation by hanging on tight to the True Faith, with the Lord’s help, though all the ups and downs that come my way. When I do start to feel alienated, I remind myself how bad my life became when I alienated myself from The Lord and His Church and outside opinions matter much less then.

Just my :twocents: