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Well I go to a Catholic school, so the majority of my friends are Catholic. However, I only have 3 friends (one of them is my best-friend) who even cares about God. I don’t know its slightly depressing.

Whats more is that I kinda get the weird look if I do something to suggest that I do care about the faith. We had an Easter mass at school. I started to sing but my friend started laughing. As well the whole idea of abstinance is a joke to them, but I’m seen as old fashioned for it. Even my teachers some of don’t care. My Non-Catholic friends are more respectful of my choices and beliefs.

I suppose we all experience this. Any advice?
 
Well, my friend, ignore their complaints and criticism. I know it’s simple advice, but it works. Tell them, be brave, and tell them you do not like it. You’re non-Catholic friends are doing the right thing. They respect you, and think what you’re doing is great, and thats wonderful!

Maybe, some of the teachers at your school are a bit progressive. Just remember, abide by what the Church teaches, and don’t listen to the teachers if they teach something that contradicts and is in opposition to the church.

I hope I have helped! God Bless You!
 
When you honor the Church’s teachings, you honor Christ. Imagine how you would feel if someone endured insults or slights as a result of his caring for you. Then consider that God is infinitely loving, and how much more must He care! Our devotion to Him deepens when we offer it to Him in spite of antagonism or insult, and these are the times that we truly give ourselves up as “living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God,” as St. Paul calls on us to do. These are times when we truly are holy lights shining in Christ’s Kingdom and in the world.

You probably should also pray for your friends’ souls, especially to Jesus, the Virgin Mary, St. Michael the Archangel, and the Guardian Angels of your friends’ souls.
 
Flame4 said:
Well I go to a Catholic school, so the majority of my friends are Catholic. However, I only have 3 friends (one of them is my best-friend) who even cares about God. I don’t know its slightly depressing.

Whats more is that I kinda get the weird look if I do something to suggest that I do care about the faith. We had an Easter mass at school. I started to sing but my friend started laughing. As well the whole idea of abstinance is a joke to them, but I’m seen as old fashioned for it. Even my teachers some of don’t care. My Non-Catholic friends are more respectful of my choices and beliefs.

I suppose we all experience this. Any advice?
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I can Identify with you as I was a bit of an “outsider” at school. My interests were not “popular” ones and so I was ridiculed a bit. My desire for popularity led me to make some poor decisions that I now look back on and regret.

Try to remember that your firends are influenced by so many things in todays culture that are drawing them away from God. You have the opportunity to be a “rock” of faith for them. Something that is surely lacking in many places. This does not mean you have to be “prudish” or anything, but just be proud of your faith and of your Love for God.
Contemplate on the delicate balancing act that Christ must have walked when he “dined with sinners” and upset the priests etc. What did Christ say? I have come to dall sinners. he walked with them, talked with them, laughed (appropriately) with them, and drew them toward His goodness. What He did not do was to compromise with evil. He treated these people with love and respect, but remained firmly the “Son of God”.
This is what we must do too. Respect your friends, have fun with them, laugh with them, but remain firmly a Child of God.

Peace
James
 
Flame4 said:
Well I go to a Catholic school, so the majority of my friends are Catholic. However, I only have 3 friends (one of them is my best-friend) who even cares about God. I don’t know its slightly depressing.

Whats more is that I kinda get the weird look if I do something to suggest that I do care about the faith. We had an Easter mass at school. I started to sing but my friend started laughing. As well the whole idea of abstinance is a joke to them, but I’m seen as old fashioned for it. Even my teachers some of don’t care. My Non-Catholic friends are more respectful of my choices and beliefs.

I suppose we all experience this. Any advice?
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I was about to say “get new friends” but instead will say “evangelize your Catholic friends.” You are the only Christ they may see right now, if they have closed themselves off from church, Mass, CCD, their religion teachers etc. Practice giving a “look” when they laugh, and just go on singing, kneeling, praying, wearing your cross, or whatever. You will become the “go-to” person when when of them sincerely wants to change. God has put you here for a reason, work with him on this. God bless you. He sees you and knows every detail of what you are going through, and you will become closer to him because of it.

\had a wonderful story from a Confirmation candidate Sunday, actually 2, one has dissuaded a friend in public school from having an abortion, and her family is helping the girl through this time, and helping the girl’s extended family as well. Another, in Catholic school, was shown a video with a “Catholic” speaker who stated something not true, not Catholic teaching. The student challenged the teacher after class (not disrespectfully during class) and went to the principal, and the teacher explained where and why the video was wrong the next day. That is evangelization. Speaking up, and acting when necessary.
 
Your post is a breath of fresh air for me. I am tired of hearing that all of the kids do this or that. They don’t ALL do it. You don’t.

We know that the path is narrow and that few will make it. Stay on the path. Hopefully more will join you.

Be proud of your faith.
 
Thank you everyone for your advice. Please pray for me. I will pray for you also!
God Bless:angel1:
 
Boy, that’s tough, Flame. God bless you for hanging in there. I was in a similar situation in high school – many years ago. The priest who taught one of the religion classes said, in front of the class, that in senior year, I’d be voted “most likely to collect holy pictures.” He got a big chuckle from the class. I survived.

As you know, these friends will come and go and ultimately, God will always be there. After I wandered away during my college years, He drew me back stronger than ever. So hang in there and keep praying – for yourself, for your friends and family, and for those whom you have a hard time liking.

God bless,
Dan
 
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