Do you use "good works" to judge yourself as a good person and catholic?

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What personal behaviors do you do to reinforce your catholic faith.?

Do you use good work’s to judge yourself as a good person and catholic.?
 
[But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works]
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What personal behaviors do you do to reinforce your catholic faith.?

Do you use good work’s to judge yourself as a good person and catholic.?
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You must understand your faith first in order to accomplish works; thus, building the kingdom of God. I read books when I can and more often research online. This doesn’t make me a better person necessarily; however, it ensures I’m not being ensnared and fooled by the world. I don’t debate the Church or engage in senseless religious politics. I do follow the precepts of the Church and attend Mass weekly. This doesn’t mean I’m “Good”! I’m imperfect and on that long Highway to Heaven.
 
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What personal behaviors do you do to reinforce your catholic faith.?
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I listen. Mostly to priests and bishops. They give homilies at Mass, they write and speak in various mediums (including CAF), they give guidance in the confessional, and I can talk to them personally.
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Do you use good work’s to judge yourself as a good person and catholic.?
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“Works” has a pretty broad definition. But if you can identify them, they can be an indicator of your faith. But, judging oneself? No, that’s not really a good way of putting it. It’s more like an indication of faith.
 
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We keep trying the best we can to love God by our actions and choices, and to be fair, honest, kind and generous in prayer, word and deed to other people in our daily lives.
Judging ourselves can lead to depression or can lead to pride
God is our judge and He sees even in us, things we don’t see, both good and not good.
However, we need to examine our conscience with sincerity and humility.
 
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Strictly speaking, I don’t look at good works so much as how my actions are driven by a love for God. All men do good things, but it is only when we act from faith that we truly conform ourselves to Christ.

Does that make we a good person? I don’t know, it is only for God to judge.
 
I learned a long time ago that the good works God gives us to do are not to be done for selfish reasons (ie: wanting to be seen as “good” or to get into Heaven). They are to be done to bring honor and glory to Him.

Only God is good. Any good that we have within us was placed there by Him. It isn’t our own doing. So we should not judge ourselves as being “good” or “good Catholics.” Easier to use the Ten Commandments to examine our consciences. That’s what I do.
 
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God forbid I consider myself a good person.

I am a sinner in need of salvation. Nothing I do makes me a good person. Only God is good, and the only reason I will see him is by his own grace and goodness, not my own.
 
I know the more im thinking of others as much as me. I’m progressing. Ican only know this through some work. Some extension of my hand, so to speak. Spiritual or corporeal.
 
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What we consider not having done much may be a lot to the one you did it for. It’s not the quantity of the things you do but the quality and the love you put into it.
 
FREQUENT Mass & Communion [Jesus in Person} and Sacramental Confession 1 John 5:16-17 & 20:1923

Supported by a GREAT MANY PRAYERS and charity when given the opportunity.

“Good works” are life’s and God’s expectations, so I don’t track them, just do them as the NORM of life’s expectations.

We Catholics DO NOT belief that we can work our way into heaven; we ALSO believe that no-one will attain heaven without the practice of Charity.

God Bless you,
Pattrick
 
Not the word “good”, more “state of disposition”. I always wonder how I stand with God. I occupy myself with my performance, or from God’s point of view, my job description, that is “what should I have done, what should I do”. “good” is reserved to Him who that assessment is reserved.

The first part of my life was focused on what I did good or even bad, but as I got older, and being my worst critic(fooling no one, Ah!), I felt that was too reassuring and unsafe a posture for me. My esteem did not drop, it’s more a self realization of my place in the Divine scheme of things.

My day is one caught up mostly with duties and my relation to my wife and family in the context of my community. Now you can see why "good’ fades, as all of my day is a backdrop designed by God, with all of the billions of variations and choices I could make in this setting already known. The day has ready for me the next assignment and I could only do my best insuring the good is given to the one assigned to me, and that is why I cannot have it.

So I know now what the Book meant, “all is vanity”. I didn’t get it until I was older, and now I am content knowing I at least completed a task to the perfection expected of me. However it does feel “good” to have God as a friend.
 
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Do you use good work’s to judge yourself as a good person and catholic.?
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No:
1 Corinthians 4:
3 It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself; 4 I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord.
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But Jesus does. Matthew 16:27:
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.
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Wow that was “good” explanation of intellectual and spiritual growth …maturing as we get older.

Does “sometimes” occur
 
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