Is your faith increasing or decreasing lately?

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My faith is ever on the rise, so none of the questions applies to me.
 
I’d say CAF AND this Lent season are both helping 😃

Nice to have more than one string to the old bow …
 
I am a busybody church lady and I hope I do what my job calls for, helping to bring children closer to Jesus Christ and faith in Him, and pray to God daily that I do nothing to damage the love for Him that God has planted in their hearts.
 
In a sense, my faith seems to be more contemplative, which I can only assume means that it’s getting deeper.
 
As a child I was given the gift of faith. It is enormous and immeasurable - and my perception of it is so limited I cannot judge properly its size, and I don’t think I can presume to understand its dimensions.

I can only comment on my emotional state and my sanctity from time to time… but this is no proper gauge of an increase of decrease of faith.
 
Mine’s just been bouncing all over the place. One day I’ll be on fire for God, the next I’ll have horrible spiritual dryness. It’s been like this for the past year, I think it has a lot to do with procrastinating. When I don’t put off Bible reading or rosaries or whatever, It’s increasing, but when I have too much work to do, it decreases horribly
 
Lent is helpful. I started off very well, I was going to do spiritual reading each day, but I haven’t done so.

In reading the questions, I didn’t know whether I was in the spiritual doldrums or not, but surely I am not that bad I thought, I go to Mass each day with my wife, although recently I haven’t been concentrating when in Church. Time seems to pass like a dream and today I dreamed all the way through it. I was mesmerized into receiving Communion as if I was a motivated robot. Don’t know what is bothering me to be honest.

I must try harder for the remaining part of Lent.
 
its definetly increasing, especailly since i have been on this forum!

I went through a faze, where the only thing that kept me believing was the blind hope that God was real, and the fact that its the only thing that keeps me waking up everyday.

It saved me from suicide, so i could never give it up anyway. Believing in God has helped me so much, i have given up addictions, it also is helping me to give up a really shamefull self abusive addiction that i have at the moment. Im finding it very difficult to give up this addiction, but i would not be able to go with out it for one day! if it wasnt for God.

ive been going through some serious spirtual wars that have almost destroyed my faith :banghead: :crying: , But since i been on these forums and sites i feel alot more confident, and i have less panic attacks( i have them when i feel that my faith is compromised or when doubt or sombodys ignorant ideology attacks my heart). After what ive read hear and else where, i feel that God is trully present in are reality. :cool: God bless :amen: :gopray2: :gopray: :getholy:
 
Increasing!!! many reasons…devout spouse to pray and share with, Great Adventure Bible Study, Lent, Good Pastor, CAF, Always wanted to know more, Kids that share what they learn, Good boss and his wife to go to mass with on weekdays, God has truly Blest me with abundant faith and an inquisitive nature, Wow…so much more!!!
 
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Increasing!!! many reasons…devout spouse to pray and share with, Great Adventure Bible Study, Lent, Good Pastor, CAF, Always wanted to know more, Kids that share what they learn, Good boss and his wife to go to mass with on weekdays, God has truly Blest me with abundant faith and an inquisitive nature, Wow…so much more!!!
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Thats exactly what i need, then i will be complete. The idea i could share God with sombody makes me smile at the thought. I hope im as lucky as you one day!
 
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Thats exactly what i need, then i will be complete. The idea i could share God with sombody makes me smile at the thought. I hope im as lucky as you one day!
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I hope you are too, it has made such a huge difference in my life! Be discerning…I made up my mind that if I ever got married again it would only be to a man that would pray with me. Actually, as funny as it may sound, I made a list of “must haves” if I ever got remarried and that was pretty much very close to the top of the list! Number one was Catholic, #2 was faithful to God first then me…I think 3 was prayer life.
 
I came back to Christ and Mother Church late last year after more than a decade away, and my initial leap of faith has been rewarded by a gift of more faith at each step along the way. My old parish, to which I’ve returned, has an outstanding young priest who is doing wonderful things.

I found these forums just before the start of Lent, and I’ve been lurking here without posting (until today) ever since. I’d like to thank the many wonderful people here for posting heartfelt and intimate accounts of their own spiritual battles and periods of dryness, especially those other re-verts to the Faith that have posted their experiences. God bless you all, you’ve been of great help to me.

I’ve also been fortunate to discover the benefits of daily Mass, and of changing the television dial from ESPN to EWTN. 🙂 This Lent, my first since returning, has been a time of deepening devotion and reflection for me, and yes, I have felt more and more what it means to place all of one’s trust in the Lord.
 
My Faith has been increasing rapidly for the past two years. Lent is a time when I step it up a notch and really try to grow closer to the Lord. Fastng, Sacrifice things that I normally do and study the faith. Increasing for sure!
 
Increasing - Great Adventure Bible Study (who else LOVES Jeff Cavins!!??), this forum (I can’t begin to tell you how much you have all helped me - thank you so much), a devout spouse who is fabulous in every way, kids who love to learn about God and are proud of their Catholic faith, going to daily Mass a couple times a week, and several close Fundamentalist friends who keep me on my Catholic toes! Not to mention my favorite time of the liturgical year coming up - the Triduum.

I only hope I can have some influence on my parish, which does get me down from time to time in several ways.
 
I am in a constant battle to increase my faith. It is a battle I will not give up on. Primarily for the same reason Richard Gere would not quit the academy in the movie An Officer and Gentleman. Because as he said, “I have no place else to go”.

However there are way too many unanswered, inadequetly answered and troubling issues that make this battle a very difficult one indeed.
 
I posted about the church ladies not sure if that was right as there really wasnt a “decreasing” answer to give…

or a decreasing to almost totally gone answer
 
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