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Hello everyone!

I live in Turkey and I’ll be a Turkish Catholic when I finished my catechism classes. So I don’t know if it’s early to name myself as “Catholic”, but I think I’m kind of Catholic anyway.

Living as a Christian in Turkey is very hard. At least for me.

When I was protestant , my Muslim parents found out that I became Christian. They were mad at me. Whenever I go out on sunday, they’d follow me to see where I was going. So I couldn’t handle with pressure and quitted going to church for a long time.

Even though I didn’t go to church I still believed in Christ. They forced me to go to mosque and they caused my depression. They still force me to go to mosque but they don’t follow me in these days. Maybe it’s because I’m 28 years old and I didn’t go to church for 10 years. They think I’m muslim.

Last spring, I decided to go to Catholic Church. I go on wednesdays and sundays. But still I can’t tell them I go to church. All I say is “I’m going to meet my friend”.

Yes I’m 28 years old and I live with my parents. Because I can’t find job. Also because of my depression I don’t have any success at life. I graduated from Japanese language&literature last summer, but I can’t find job still…

I don’t have my own life, even though I want to have my own life. I pray to God always but I always feel rejected. I can’t focus on novenas also.

Having not my own life causes envy. I found out that I envy people always. When I see pictures of married couples I envy them. When I see couples when I go out I envy them. Even though I know envy is sin.

I pray everyday and ask help from God.

What should I do to fix my life? Will I always sit in my room?
 
Hi @TurkishCatholic welcome to the forums.
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Yes I’m 28 years old and I live with my parents.
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The vast majority of youth finishing graduation (in Europe or Japan) live with their parents. And 28 yo is very young!! You have your life ahead of you.
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I graduated from Japanese language&literature last summer, but I can’t find job still…
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That’s a brilliant area for a young Turkish person to get a degree in. Hey, keep trying sending CV’s and going to interviews. Even if you end up working outside your expertise your graduation has worth in the labor market. Remember, work dignifies!! The objective of any job is to make money and make a living. You’ll get a job.
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Having not my own life causes envy.
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You have a life, but right now it is not exactly as you wish it to be. It will be. This is not envy, you are not diminished by others having their life, what you have is sorrow for not having the things you want, a companion, a friend, someone with whom you are discerning your way to constituting your family.
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What should I do to fix my life? Will I always sit in my room?
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Have hope, have faith. And continue searching for a job and be flexible.

(Oh and you are the only Turkish Catholic member of this forum, and Japanese graduate, I know off. So you just innovated this community at all levels 🙂 )

God bless.
 
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Read the bible


This is one of my favorite Psalms

It is about a man who is in a land of hostile people and longs for the sanctuary he prays the psalm with confidence that one day he will go to the Altar of God.

A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

2 For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

3 Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

4 And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

5 To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

6 Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
 
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My husband encourages you to pray for a miracle for your family for their conversion. There is a thing called a Miraculous Metal which worked for our son after I placed it in between his mattress & box spring and within a month he decided to be a Catholic and received First Holy Communion this past Sunday when less than a month ago he refused to attend Catholic Church after rejecting it about 7 yrs ago.

I was single for 44 yrs before I met and married my husband. I don’t know how long you have left to be single, but I would suggest you spend most of your time outside your bedroom by finding a ministry you can be involved in, like feeding the hungry, fostering a child in need, bring Eucharist to the sick, or just any way you can serve God by serving others. You might even find helping others will help elevate some depression symptoms?

When you see couples and instinctively become envious, remember to quickly say a prayer for that couple that God will bless their marriage.
 
Welcome! You might find some encouragement from reading the book of Psalms - a collection of “songs” written by several men (not just King David) over times of fear, danger, and celebration in their lives. You’ll find every human emotion expressed - and these songs are prayer to God. Find one (or more) that you can identify with and use that to pray. Side note: my ex-husband was stationed in Turkey back in the early 70s.
 
Maybe you can remind your parents that Turkey used to be Christian! yes it’s been many years but the Apostle St John lived and died there and the house of the Blessed Virgin Mary is near Ephesus. Lots of early Christian history in Turkey.
 
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