I Feel Like I am Living a Double Life

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Is the naz Church you speak is this one: the Nazarene Church?
http://www.thenaz.org/nazarene-beliefs

If I remember well, Is that the former Church of our wife, @(name removed by moderator)? Can you confirm? and said something about this to the Op, if my information is correct?

@Jovian90, I suggest you, whereas you decide to leave the group, or to stay in it, to form you on your Catholic beliefs and the rhetoric and arguments used by Evangelical Christians.
They are better than us, Catholics to make news members. See the mondial expension of Evangelical Christianity in the world, in “Catholic” countries, such as Brazil. It is good that they are do an active ministry (what we somewhat lack, as Catholics), but we should be well prepared to resists to their attraction, otherwise many of us could converts.

I suggest you, If you are enough fluent in English (doesn’t sound a problem, when I read yours replies), or in your mative language if there is any traduction, the book of Karl Keating (founder of Catholic Answers), Evangelical and Catholicism, the attack on Romanism by Bible Christians, 1988. It was written in a context of more anti-Catholicism that you may experience yourself, but you would know what their faith stands are, and what the answers of your own faith.

ultimately, it is up to you to decide if you want to stay with them… (we hope you will not convert, but it is your path).
 
The Catholic Church has everything I need and was founded by Jesus himself. So I don’t attend any Evangelical gatherings. I work full time and my free time is limited. Others may have more time and may pursue such things in the spirit of research or ecumenism.
 
Usually universities has a Catholic chaplaincy. This group may stand on the campus or in another place. The differents place of studying of a city/or an area (depend on the vitality of Catholicism and the student’s population) can have a single place of gathering or chaplaincy.

In some areas, group mixed young professionals/adults with students.

It is very likely that your diocese has at least something for students, even if it not very dynamic. Or a young diocesan ministry.
 
I hope I do not offend anyone with the long delay between posting, I just need to think things through and it takes a while.
 
No problem! You are answers (and not slowly!), that’s what is matter!

I is a burden to feel that we are a representation of something, more of Catholicism to the outside world! we can feel that if we are not good enough, charitable, etc, they will have a bad opinion of every Catholic or of the entire Church!
 
I have not read all the other posts, but how do you think you can improve?
 
Thanks you (name removed by moderator)!

Does that means that Nazarenes and Wesleyan are more close on the theology of salvation and repentance of the catholicism than others branch of Protestantism? In what precisley?
 
You were born from above by water and the Spirit. John 3. Tough situation, but you could, at the right time, let them know that to become Christian, one must be born “from above” just as Jesus said. He used the same language when He told Pilate that Pilate would have no power over Him unless it were given “from above.”

If they only knew!

And, this so-called "personal relationship with Christ? They have no idea at all! Spending time in our Lord’s presence; receiving Him - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist is the most intensely personal relationship that one may have this side of heaven.

If they only knew…

Perhaps that is why you have been placed in their midst, exactly as Jesus sat in the midst of those who needed to hear the Gospel.

Implore the Holy Spirit for the grace to preach the Gospel boldly - just as the Apostles did on that first Pentecost.
 
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You could, but that might take a while 😉

No, seriously. It is a lot easier to set a specific goal. In your shoes, someone might say, I feel less than honest because the people at the Christian group do not know I am Catholic. What can I do to fix that?

As others said, it’s ok for you to hang out with this group, but you don’t want them to persuade you tthat Catholicism is wrong. Since you also seemed a little unclear about what the Church teaches, may I recommend a book that is very easy to read that tells a lot about the Catholic faith, and which brought me back into the Church, is Home Sweet Rome by Scott and Kimberly Hahn. Since they had been Protestant, there is a lot of information about how to explain Catholic teaching in there.

Or you could start another thread and ask for more recent sources of information, and probably get info about online resources like YouTube videos.
 
Actually they do know I am Catholic, they just don’t seem to care and I have been trying to educate myself about Catholicism, by reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church but the problem is that it is a really long read.
 
Oh, yes, it certainly is! And altho others found it easy to understand, I always found it difficult.

I do know there is a compendium of the CCC, which is at least easier, and there are easier catechisms, such as the Baltimore. Here’s another long source, but imo, easier and also more directly to counter Protestant thought: *Radio Replies..
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I just looked up "Catholic Catechism " and there are a lot of interesting sites.

You also want to remember to pray, because you want to have a balance in the practice of Catholicism.
 
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Yes! There are many in my community. They apparently have a friendly, but serious competition among them to “win” believers, and they seem to get extra Brownie points from their associates, complete with cheering and clapping if the believer is a diverted Catholic. Amazing!
 
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