Share your personal relationship with Christ

[Blessedwithfive]

All good information but I just want to caution you about the three year cycle in the Catholic Church. If you attend Mass everyday for three years you WILL NOT hear the entire Bible. Actually you will hear very little of the Old Testament. (17% I think) and about 80% of the New Testament. Some books you will never here. I always wonder why they are not proclaimed as they are all considered divinely inspired word of God.

 

[goout]

Could someone PLEASE tell me what a “personal relationship with Christ” is. Do you have one? And how did you get one?

The sharing could be endless. All these are applicable to Christ in the fullest way:

Persons are a reflection to one another. Unlike a pond or a mirror wherein we see our own reflection, another person provides a living reference point for us.
“This is who I am in relation to another.” If we do not have others, we have a warped sense of ourselves. We find our full sense of identity and meaning only in relation to others.
Actually JP2 has a profound reflection on this in Theology of the Body when he discusses the creation of Adam and Eve, and mankind finding his full meaning only in relation to another person.

So, persons change one another by nature. It is the nature of a relationship to learn from another and be changed by another.

Persons communicate with one another. We are drawn to share ourselves with others.

Persons are drawn to love one another. We hopefully desire what is good for another person and act in response to that desire.

All these apply to Christ in the fullest way, who is the Second Person of the Trinity and the word made flesh, fully human. God is personal in Christ.
If we have a healthy sense that Christ is alive and active in our lives, we can delve into this most holy and fulfilling of relationships.

Praying, repenting, converting to Him, loving Him and others.
I find that it takes work like any other relationship, and the more I immerse myself in Christ the more I experience Him personally.

 

[Reuben_J]

Reuben_J:

You cannot, if you do (have a good prayer life), do not have a relationship with Jesus. It is knowing what Jesus wants you to do and don’t. It is faithfully following His will. It is being a friend with him. It is having him as Brother, Lord and Savior, in a tangible way.

Yea, that is the $100,000 question. What does he want from me? It just seems like I pray and follow the “rules” but, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what he wants and I NEVER feel a presence or hear anything…

I do receive communion regular, and confession as well but I just don’t feel His presence which so many of my friends tell me they feel. I shouldn’t compare my life to others but it just feels like I am missing something.

That’s a very valid question. I have a brother (in Christ) asked that too.

You are a very blessed person, perhaps much more than me. Many a times my spiritual life is really a struggle. You have done what is required.

My suggestion to answer your question is - to do the right thing in your present life situation. Five children? Thanks be to God. That is a tremendously blessed opportunity in a life of a Christian to bring up children.

Serving in the liturgy? Glory be to God. It is really a privilege to be servants of God, and more, in His heavenly banquet. Not everyone is accorded that privilege.

Do not have to look far. Live the life that you have, and enjoy/bask in every minute of it; for it it the day that the Lord has made. Be strong, always be alert and try to stay away from the Evil One’s way.