Regarding my Recent Gripes

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I typed up a document recently, and well…

I’m currently on psychotropic drugs, and they often severely limit my emotions and their expressions internally. So from this new vantage point of the human person who is somewhat handicapped, though still a whole person as observed by my individual soul, I’ve had a completely new opinion on philosophy and the Church.

Some of it is negative and microscopic, while other parts are trying to make sense of saint’s works and little quips. One thing that got my attention was when I was reading St. Alphonsus de Liguori’s Uniformity with God’s Will, “A single act of uniformity with the divine will suffices to make a saint.”

I was recently studying predestination, meaning that one action, if done perfectly, would be sufficient to predestine a person’s soul for heaven. I’ve seen people that seem to be completely unaffected by the world at large, and can command thousands of people without stilt or affect to demeanor–something I used to think was impossible. Kripparrian (a pseudonym) showed me otherwise. Basically, what St. Alphonsus said as taking the world in and being unaffected by it: not in ecstasy over good, or in dismay over bad–part of what makes a saint.

This, and the rest, is found in my 3-page, 1 1/2 spaced, document. Apologies for the title, but it was what came to mind at first. I am curious to see if someone can redeem my opinion and fervor for the Catholic Church by any sufficient argument. I know people can’t literally change others, but I can at least study your responses hopefully for the betterment of discussion.

Maybe a few good ol’ ideas will spark.

circleprefect.com/upload/Treatise%20Against%20Catholicism.doc

Blessed be God,
Baroux
 
Maybe I’m missing something, but the treatise did’t really seem anti-Catholic. Maybe I, or you, have some misunderstandings about Catholicism.
 
The article is somewhat pointing to
oneself, BUT we are MADE for community,
so that if one part suffers a state of
fallen from Grace, we ALL suffer to
some extent, that is where PRAYER
comes in, as in the prayer at the
beginning of some masses:
“I confess to Almighty God that I have
greatly sinned… and I ask Mary, ever
Virgin, all the angels and saints and
YOU MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
to pray for me to the Lord our God”
We watch out for one another, be kind
to the fearful, be helpful to the needy
to admonish those who stray!!
THAT is why Jesus’ only oft repeated
command is that WE LOVE EACH
OTHER in the community of believers!!
“If one of you is trapped in a sin, those
who are spiritual should pull him out…
Bear one another’s burdens and so
fulfill the Law of Christ”
see Galatians 6:1-2
 
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