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So this is the situation:
I am a traditional Catholic, and I believe in everything the church teaches. I know that I follow the truth, and I am so happy Chirst has led me to where I am. My parents however, are a whole different story.
I don’t mean to tittle-tattle what they have said and not said, but I think it is important to say.
My mother doesnt believe in everything the chruch teaches, saying things like: "Jesus didn’t make the church, man did. He never made a church that had collection baskets… "blabla and so on…
She is, for some reason, also opposed to the concept of Heaven and Hell, saying “No one has ever been to Heaven or Hell and returned to be able to tell how it looks like. How can you know that Heaven is a place full of clouds…”. The problems seems to be that she is bogged with the human imagination of Heaven and Hell. I try to explain to her that the point is not how it looks like, but that it exists. She keeps insisting that should Heaven exist, her now dead mother would have shown her a sign, because “She promised me that she would show me a sign”.
Shen I ask her why she is opposed to the churches teachings, she says that she is a “thinking individual”. The problem seems to be, in many cases, that she is misunderstanding our faith. She never goes to confession either, since she has sins she “cannot regret”.
One thing that annoys me is that she thinks that I have a problem with sexuality, because I don’t want to “be close” to girls. I am 19 years old and I am trying to be chaste. I fall very easily into sexual sin unless I am not careful. It’s my choice to be chaste. When I said that I won’t have sex until marriage, she looked at me as if i were stupid and said: “In that case you will probably never find anyone, and I will not have grand children”. I got annoyed and asked: What, do you want me to use condoms and have sex with girls at this age?" To that she replied: “If you like someone it’s alright”.
I haven’t spoken to my father much about this, but I know that he more or less shares the same liberal view of the faith. I try to pray for them, but I still feel remorse because I don’t know if I should do more than that. As I said, I have tried to speak to mo mother about this, but she rejects me with saying “You can’t force your beliefs on me”.
Please pray for my parents that they will find Christ, and that they not continue to walk the path they are on now. I don’t know if I can live with the knowledge of them probably burning in Hell. I don’t know what more I should do more for them. It feels like it’s my responsibility to make sure they become good Catholics. Both my mother and father are very good parents and I love them. I just wish they would walk the right path.
I am a traditional Catholic, and I believe in everything the church teaches. I know that I follow the truth, and I am so happy Chirst has led me to where I am. My parents however, are a whole different story.
I don’t mean to tittle-tattle what they have said and not said, but I think it is important to say.
My mother doesnt believe in everything the chruch teaches, saying things like: "Jesus didn’t make the church, man did. He never made a church that had collection baskets… "blabla and so on…
She is, for some reason, also opposed to the concept of Heaven and Hell, saying “No one has ever been to Heaven or Hell and returned to be able to tell how it looks like. How can you know that Heaven is a place full of clouds…”. The problems seems to be that she is bogged with the human imagination of Heaven and Hell. I try to explain to her that the point is not how it looks like, but that it exists. She keeps insisting that should Heaven exist, her now dead mother would have shown her a sign, because “She promised me that she would show me a sign”.
Shen I ask her why she is opposed to the churches teachings, she says that she is a “thinking individual”. The problem seems to be, in many cases, that she is misunderstanding our faith. She never goes to confession either, since she has sins she “cannot regret”.
One thing that annoys me is that she thinks that I have a problem with sexuality, because I don’t want to “be close” to girls. I am 19 years old and I am trying to be chaste. I fall very easily into sexual sin unless I am not careful. It’s my choice to be chaste. When I said that I won’t have sex until marriage, she looked at me as if i were stupid and said: “In that case you will probably never find anyone, and I will not have grand children”. I got annoyed and asked: What, do you want me to use condoms and have sex with girls at this age?" To that she replied: “If you like someone it’s alright”.
I haven’t spoken to my father much about this, but I know that he more or less shares the same liberal view of the faith. I try to pray for them, but I still feel remorse because I don’t know if I should do more than that. As I said, I have tried to speak to mo mother about this, but she rejects me with saying “You can’t force your beliefs on me”.
Please pray for my parents that they will find Christ, and that they not continue to walk the path they are on now. I don’t know if I can live with the knowledge of them probably burning in Hell. I don’t know what more I should do more for them. It feels like it’s my responsibility to make sure they become good Catholics. Both my mother and father are very good parents and I love them. I just wish they would walk the right path.