Not sure If I still want to be a catholic?

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I recently coverted to the catholic faith about three months ago. At that time I became so infatuated with the religion that I wanted to become a priest to, but now I am having second thoughts.

I have a hard time making up my mind which religion I want to follow, they all have an appeal to me.I was born gnostic, but have changed religons so many times my friends never can keep track.

gnostic up until I was 18
budism/yoga 6 months
zorastarism 1 year
muslim 4 years
pentecostal 1 years
presbyterian 3 years
Lutheran 2 years
Mormon 1 year
Catholic presently

and now I have been an offical catholic for a few months now. It was so exciting taking all the classes to become a catholic, going through initation, and being babtised by a catholic priest. I have enjoyed participating in the eucharist. Unfortunately now going to church seems to much like a routine and I am becoming bored with the catholic faith, my heart is begining to look at other religions.

The last couple weeks I have become obsessed with Jehovah witnesses, completely absorbed in everything I read about them.
 
Why don’t you try sticking with something for longer than a year or two? Perhaps you are simply addicted to change.
 
Just pray and relax. Don’t worry and let Christ’s love just envelop you. Spiritual dryness is a normal thing.
 
mattjtayl said:
I recently coverted to the catholic faith about three months ago. At that time I became so infatuated with the religion that I wanted to become a priest to, but now I am having second thoughts.

I have a hard time making up my mind which religion I want to follow, they all have an appeal to me.I was born gnostic, but have changed religons so many times my friends never can keep track.

gnostic up until I was 18
budism/yoga 6 months
zorastarism 1 year
muslim 4 years
pentecostal 1 years
presbyterian 3 years
Lutheran 2 years
Mormon 1 year
Catholic presently

and now I have been an offical catholic for a few months now. It was so exciting taking all the classes to become a catholic, going through initation, and being babtised by a catholic priest. I have enjoyed participating in the eucharist. Unfortunately now going to church seems to much like a routine and I am becoming bored with the catholic faith, my heart is begining to look at other religions.

The last couple weeks I have become obsessed with Jehovah witnesses, completely absorbed in everything I read about them.
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What are you looking for and why is Catholicism not the answer?
 
It seems to me that you may be seeking a depth of faith that you haven’t managed to find yet. One of the beauties of Catholicism is that there is that depth to it, if you only look. I’m sure you learned a fair bit about the faith just in going through RCIA, but there is so much more there. Have you ever sat down and read the CCC? It’s amazing! And it’s even more amazing to sit down with a bible and the CCC and look at the references. The depth of that book is astounding. Also, you may want to read some encyclicals (sp?). There is so much amazing Catholic literature out there. The only way your Catholic faith could ever fall into something that is “just routine” is if you stop studying it. There are many people who devote their life to Catholic theology and still don’t know/understand/comprehend half of the amazing things things that God has told us through the Bible and through sacred Tradition. Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
 
It seems as though you are addicted to the “high” of conversion. Unfortunately, real life, including the day to day of spiritual life, is made up mostly of boring routines - good thing, too, or else we’d never get any work done. 😉

But you have still only scratched the surface of the Catholic faith - there is a lot of richness and depth yet to be explored. Don’t worry about being bored, but look for God even in the daily routine and unexciting stuff - you might be amazed at what you find.
 
I completely understand where you are coming from.

I do it with hobbies as you do with religion. I so absorb myself in every aspect of a new hobby that after a short while I feel I have learned or did everything I can do with that hobby and it does not interest me anymore.

I feel you are doing the same with religion as certain aspects really interest you and you get so into it, but now you fell you learned everything you can so you get bored.

So I have just two pieces of advice for you.
  1. Anything in life you are interested in, slow down. I know for myself when I a interested in something I go 110% learning about it so I have to tell myself to slow down as I do not want to get bored with something I enjoy.
  2. Religion is more than just a hobby, it is a spiritual journey. I think it’s awesome you know so much about so many different sects and religions, but it seems as you are just jumping from religion to religion but not choosing a religion by what you truly believe in your heart. If religion and spirituality is truly important to you, sit down for a day and think about what you believe in your heart and that should show you what is truly for you.
But either way, it is good you want to allow God into your heart and I just hope you find what you are looking for.
 
mattjtayl said:
I recently coverted to the catholic faith about three months ago. At that time I became so infatuated with the religion that I wanted to become a priest to, but now I am having second thoughts.

I have a hard time making up my mind which religion I want to follow, they all have an appeal to me.I was born gnostic, but have changed religons so many times my friends never can keep track.

gnostic up until I was 18
budism/yoga 6 months
zorastarism 1 year
muslim 4 years
pentecostal 1 years
presbyterian 3 years
Lutheran 2 years
Mormon 1 year
Catholic presently

and now I have been an offical catholic for a few months now. It was so exciting taking all the classes to become a catholic, going through initation, and being babtised by a catholic priest. I have enjoyed participating in the eucharist. Unfortunately now going to church seems to much like a routine and I am becoming bored with the catholic faith, my heart is begining to look at other religions.

The last couple weeks I have become obsessed with Jehovah witnesses, completely absorbed in everything I read about them.
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JW preached false doctrines. They claim the Pope is the Anti-Christ.

You should pray more and ponder if you don’t want to received Holy Communion anymore. Do you not know that Jesus is the Eucharist?

If you leave, you won’t received Jesus anymore. There is no Eucharist, or the Real Presence with the JW.

Jehovah Witness is a false religion.
 
mattjtayl said:
I recently coverted to the catholic faith about three months ago. At that time I became so infatuated with the religion that I wanted to become a priest to, but now I am having second thoughts.
I have a hard time making up my mind which religion I want to follow, they all have an appeal to me.I was born gnostic, but have changed religons so many times my friends never can keep track.

gnostic up until I was 18
budism/yoga 6 months
zorastarism 1 year
muslim 4 years
pentecostal 1 years
presbyterian 3 years
Lutheran 2 years
Mormon 1 year
Catholic presently

and now I have been an offical catholic for a few months now. It was so exciting taking all the classes to become a catholic, going through initation, and being babtised by a catholic priest. I have enjoyed participating in the eucharist. Unfortunately now going to church seems to much like a routine and I am becoming bored with the catholic faith, my heart is begining to look at other religions.

The last couple weeks I have become obsessed with Jehovah witnesses, completely absorbed in everything I read about them.
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You’re playing games. If you were baptized Catholic you would not be making these statements:

“I recently converted to the Catholic faith about three months ago,”

and

“I have enjoyed participating in the eucharist.”

Catholics are baptized into the Church and we don’t “participate in the eucharist,” we take Holy Communion.

You’re either woefully out of touch with what you were supposed to learn in RCIA (you do know what that means, don’t you?) or you think you are being funny on a religious website.

I think you’re not serious and of doubtful integrity.

By the way, it’s AGNOSTIC not GNOSTIC.
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The last couple weeks I have become obsessed with Jehovah witnesses, completely absorbed in everything I read about them.
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You really should visit my website www.catholicxjw.com

Make sure you read the conversion stories. Hopefully, this will convince you NOT to mess with the JWs. The JWs destroy lives and endanger one’s eternal life as well.

Jeff S.
www.catholicxjw.com
 
JonathanKinsman said:
You’re playing games. If you were baptized Catholic you would not be making these statements:

“I recently converted to the Catholic faith about three months ago,”
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Yes, that was confusing to me, too, since the last adult Baptisms would have been held at last year’s Easter Vigil, which was about 8 months ago, give or take.
 
mattjtayl said:
I Unfortunately now going to church seems to much like a routine and I am becoming bored with the catholic faith, my heart is begining to look at other religions.

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it appears, judging only by what you have posted, that in yoru search for religions you are looking for emotional experiences and satisfaction, not true inward conversion of mind and heart, that you are interested in entertainment and enjoyable events, rather than a relationship with Jesus Christ. Try and get some spiritual direction, even psychological counselling if that is indicated, to get to the root of what you are looking for and why.
 
puzzleannie said:
it appears, judging only by what you have posted, that in yoru search for religions you are looking for emotional experiences and satisfaction, not true inward conversion of mind and heart, that you are interested in entertainment and enjoyable events, rather than a relationship with Jesus Christ. Try and get some spiritual direction, even psychological counselling if that is indicated, to get to the root of what you are looking for and why.
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Base on his past experience, he seem to join from one religion to the next. He is lacking spiritual direction. I think he is better find a spiritual director.
 
mattjtayl said:
I recently coverted to the catholic faith about three months ago. At that time I became so infatuated with the religion that I wanted to become a priest to, but now I am having second thoughts.

I have a hard time making up my mind which religion I want to follow, they all have an appeal to me.I was born gnostic, but have changed religons so many times my friends never can keep track.

gnostic up until I was 18
budism/yoga 6 months
zorastarism 1 year
muslim 4 years
pentecostal 1 years
presbyterian 3 years
Lutheran 2 years
Mormon 1 year
Catholic presently

and now I have been an offical catholic for a few months now. It was so exciting taking all the classes to become a catholic, going through initation, and being babtised by a catholic priest. I have enjoyed participating in the eucharist. Unfortunately now going to church seems to much like a routine and I am becoming bored with the catholic faith, my heart is begining to look at other religions.

The last couple weeks I have become obsessed with Jehovah witnesses, completely absorbed in everything I read about them.
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Have you ever been tested for ADD?
 
You’re playing games. If you were baptized Catholic you would not be making these statements
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Why wouldn’t I? In order to become Catholic I had to be babtized by the church. I was already babtised as a kid, but that didn’t count I quess. My step dad is the one who urged me to join his catholic church, my mother recently converted to the catholic faith so she could marry my step dad in a catholic church.

Ok communion thats what I meant.
By the way, it’s AGNOSTIC not GNOSTIC.
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your wrong two seperate religons my friend. Gnostics are christians and believe in secret knowledge of God only they posses, while agnostics believe in just a supreme being.
 
Mannyfit75 said:
What’s ADD?
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“Attention Deficit Disorder.” Typically a person with this condition has a hard time sitting still or being in one place for a long period of time. It also affects the memory; people with severe ADD have little or no long-term memory.
 
mattjtayl said:
Why wouldn’t I? In order to become Catholic I had to be babtized by the church. I was already babtised as a kid, but that didn’t count I quess. My step dad is the one who urged me to join his catholic church, my mother recently converted to the catholic faith so she could marry my step dad in a catholic church.

Ok communion thats what I meant.

your wrong two seperate religons my friend. Gnostics are christians and believe in secret knowledge of God only they posses, while agnostics believe in just a supreme being.
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Gnostics are not Christians. They believe the material world is evil. They deny, the resurrection, and they don’t know the secret knowledge of God. Gnostic is the enemy of Christianity. You can’t mix both.

St. Paul condemned Gnosticism during the infancy of the Church.

geocities.com/Athens/Crete/6111/pneumatikos/gnostic.htm
 
mattjtayl said:
Why wouldn’t I? In order to become Catholic I had to be babtized by the church. I was already babtised as a kid, but that didn’t count I quess.
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How were you able to be Lutheran and Presbyterian without being baptized?
your wrong two seperate religons my friend. Gnostics are christians and believe in secret knowledge of God only they posses, while agnostics believe in just a supreme being.
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That’s a pretty esoteric religion to bring up a child in; what sort of Sunday School did you attend? What did they call their meeting place? Did your childhood baptism take place in this organization, or somewhere else? What was the name of the organization?
 
I can sort of relate to you because I went through a number of different faiths before I finally found, by the grace of God, the Catholic Church. I would urge you to really study our faith - RCIA barely skims the surface and I do believe you could spend you entire life learning about the Catholic Faith and never cover it all.

Having said that, I would assume that when you became a pentecostal you began to believe that Jesus was God who died on the cross for your sins and that you’d hope to spend eternity in heaven with Him? If you’ve read the JW literature, you must know that they don’t believe that Jesus is God. Are you willing to accept that - that Jesus was an angel? That all religion is false - not a bit of it true excpept for Jehovah’s Witnesses? And that all religious people you know, your mom, step dad, all the Pastors you ever knew, your Priest, the good people from RCIA, ALL of them are serving Satan? Are you willing to swallow all of that?

If you are looking for the TRUE religion, you will not find it in the made up fantasies of the Watchtower Society.

Go back to your Priest and your RCIA team and tell them what you’ve told us. They can help you.

God Bless.
 
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