Jesus as our Personal Savior?

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How does a Catholic become saved? How do you have Jesus as your Savior? I realized these topics weren’t covered in RCIA and homilies never address them. Thank you for thoughtful answers!
 
Your RCIA never covered salvation? That’s the whole point!

In short, we are saved by dying in a state of grace. God brings us into a state of grace through baptism, sustained us in grace through the Blessed Sacrament, and returns us to the state of grace through the sacrament of confession, and gives us grace for the end in the last rites. God also wills us to accept everything that He teaches us through His Church, and the Church holds us to follow her precepts.

Precepts of the Church
To go to Mass and refrain from servile work on Sundays and holy days
To go to Confession at least once a year (traditionally done during Lent)
To receive the Eucharist at least once a year, during the Easter Season (known as the “Easter duty”)
To observe the days of fasting and abstinence
To help to provide for the needs of the Church according to one’s abilities and station in life
To obey the marriage laws of the Church
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The phase “personal relationship with Jesus” is most often used by evangelical Protestants who disdain the idea that Christ established a Church to teach and minister in His name. We Catholic have a relationship with God through the sacraments and personal prayer.
 
Some Protestant denominations teach that you must be “born again” by “accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.” This is a concept that was developed by certain denominations – but not all – in or after the 16th century. It is definitely not the teaching of the Apostles.

Catholics “accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior” every time we receive Holy Communion. How much more personal can our relationship be with Him than to receive Him – Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity – into our very being in Holy Communion? We can receive Him daily.

Your question: “How do you have Jesus as your savior?” is troubling, since you list your religion as Catholic. I don’t wish to offend you, but your education as a Catholic appears to have been insufficient. Can we help you?
 
Say this:
  1. You were Baptized and
  2. You receive Jesus’ Body and Blood in the Holy Eucharist at Mass…you can’t get more personal than that!👍
 
Sandalwood said:
How does a Catholic become saved? How do you have Jesus as your Savior? I realized these topics weren’t covered in RCIA and homilies never address them. Thank you for thoughtful answers!
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We’re saved because Jesus died and rose for us, and through our baptism.

At some point in our life we should/will make an adult affirmation of faith and act out our Baptism in a positive manner rather than just passively.

An awareness that we are receiving the Body and Blood of Christ at Communion is the best way to make that affirmation.

You don’t need to be slain in the spirit or speak in tongues however.
 
thank you for your answers. this has been a long discussion with several friends and I was wondering what your take was on all this. No, my RCIA didn’t cover much of anything.
 
An offense against God is an infinite offense because he is infinite.
Only an infinite sacrifice can pay back the offense.
So Jesus who is God was sacrificed for our sake. Having taken up a human nature he became one of us and we all share in his sacrifice.

EWTN’s Father Goeschel has said that God could have said “You’re all redeemed” and we would be all redeemed. But it was better to bring about our salvation the way it was done.
How much spirituality would we have if we didn’t have to be spiritual to be saved?
 
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An offense against God is an infinite offense because he is infinite.
Only an infinite sacrifice can pay back the offense.
So Jesus who is God was sacrificed for our sake. Having taken up a human nature he became one of us and we all share in his sacrifice.

EWTN’s Father Goeschel has said that God could have said “You’re all redeemed” and we would be all redeemed. But it was better to bring about our salvation the way it was done.
How much spirituality would we have if we didn’t have to be spiritual to be saved?
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I’m sorry, but I don’t understand what that has to do with my question. ?
 
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