I left my methodist church before christmas and I joined my roman catholic church only seven weeks ago. Does that help you?
I left my methodist church before christmas and I joined my roman catholic church only seven weeks ago. Does that help you?
P.S. Don’t worry about yourself being unsure of me, I wont be offended if you ask me interrigating questions, I may sound inconsistant some times, but that is because i feel lost about myself.
Lost or not there's no understanding drivel like the following,:tsktsk: CarlanBut it is true!
I am apparently never going to become a catholic just because i refuse to believe that christ becomes a wafer and needs to be eaten!G’day!But it is true!
You think that I am just being mean don’t you? :snowing: I am not trying to hurt you Carlan…
A few hundred years ago you and me would have gotten a nice warm spot up on a podium… at that stake with an invitation to our own BBQ…
What does this mean, Janet? Are you saying that the Catholic church would have executed me for not believing in the Eucharist!? I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they did…
They did alot of horrible things besides sexually abusing minor boys. Hard to imagine this being the one true Church established by Christ isn’t it? Think about it, do you really believe that Christ would condone this and all other horrible atrocities in his Church (I mean his REAL Church. The Church spoken of in Matthew).
i didn’t know there was no sin in your church! how are you a member of a sinless church? i thought jesus said there would be tares with the wheat, in his kingdom of God, until the end. I would be careful about joining a church with no sin.
Welcome Thumper. it is great to have you with us, You will like being here, I have learned so much in the short I’ve been posting.
CarlanIt is not ritual that makes worship empty, but lack of faith. When a person’s heart is not right with God, no amount of ritual will be of any avail. It is practicing a form of godliness, without the power thereof.
Welcome to CAF newbear. I am sure CAF will assist you in your quest.
No it is not enough!
I left my methodist church and joined a catholic church but now I am being told that I wont be catholic, and this is all just because I don’t believe that a wafer is jesus??? WTF!?
You have just testified that participation in Catholic “rituals” in your opinion is empty
Can you see why people think you are just trolling? Do you understand why these statements would seem contradictory?Just go to a catholic church, its great there, I am in a catholic church too!
And here, you are giving support to someone who believes that Catholic Church is corrupt.You have got my vote!
Hold up here, slow down. Christ becomes present in the host. You are not “consuming” Christ, meaning “eating him up”, you are partaking in Him at mass. As he directed. He said, “This is my body, this is my blood” and directed us to have communion with him by partaking in the feast. That’s a strange and hard doctrine that cost him a lot of followers, too. “Who has ears to hear this?” was the lament.But it is true!
Try to observe some decorum, Zundrah. If you cannot take Jesus at His word, then you are not ready to become Catholic.No it is not enough!
I left my methodist church and joined a catholic church but now I am being told that I wont be catholic, and this is all just because I don’t believe that a wafer is jesus??? WTF!?
Well, Zundrah, I think it is a bit premature to decide what you “will never believe”. A year ago, you would never have seen yourself where you are now! The mystery of the eucharist is the most profound of our faith. It is not realistic to have an expectation that you will understand it. At this point, it is important for you to have the faith that Peter did. He did not understand what Jesus meant when He commanded “eat my flesh” and “drink my blood”, but he accepted that Jesus’ words are spirit and life. He trusted Jesus enough to believe that understanding would come later.But it is true!
No, the Church teaches that participation in the life of Christ is voluntary, cannot, and should not, be coerced. There have been many men and women throughout history, calling themselves Catholic, who have not followed the teachings of Christ. Some of these conflated the kingdoms of this world with the kingdom that is not of this world. In confusing temporal authority with eternal, they mistakenly believed that a person who espoused heresy was a traitor. People were then executed for being traitors. I know, it is hard for us, looking back in our more enlightened age, to appreciate such thinking.