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JoyToBeCatholic
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Do I have a problem with my view of the church?
Correct me if I’m wrong, and no, I don’t know the personal or spiritual lives of every person in my parish, but, most people are Sunday church-goers and, of those I know well, my family included, give little thought to taking it any further than that. Confession is not a well sought after sacrament where I am, and I worry about this complacency that many seem to hold. And what is worse, are the priests who give poor advice in confession - advice contrary to the teachings of the magisterium. We have lukewarm priests and lukewarm catholics that make up a large portion of the body of christ. Christ said He would “spew thee out of thy mouth” if one was lukewarm. What ever happened to “you may know a tree by it’s fruit”. One look in my parish and any other in my large city and there is very little fruit. It’s so bad I can’t even bring myself to go anymore. My children are exposed to more immodesty, irreverence and indifference to God in the church environment than I allow in any other area of their lives.
Are we, or are we not, all called to be holy? Why then does the church permit this? What about immodest dress? Many dressed inappropriately even for mass. Not a thought. And not a word said from the pastor. What about irreverent reception of communion? I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
Now again, correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that if someone isn’t interested in growing in their relationship with/conformity to - Christ, the church is okay with that. And for those who feel so called (which is an incorrect understanding IMO, b/c we are all called to holiness) there are religious orders and confraternities and such, but for the most part, the church is ok with the sort of luke-warm people (to use a more polite term) who regularly attend.
I think I don’t understand this. I am frustrated, but I feel like I have a wrong view of this. I explained it as best I could and would appreciate any insight anyone has. Does the church truly call us all to be holy? When do they admonish people for doing wrong? Why does it/she allow so much corruption to remain within? Am I being too judgemental? Is this not the place of the church? And yes, I am aware that in the past the church has gone to the other extreme, but today the catholic church is barely recognizable as God’s church with the exception of the religious orders.
Sincerely,
~donna
Correct me if I’m wrong, and no, I don’t know the personal or spiritual lives of every person in my parish, but, most people are Sunday church-goers and, of those I know well, my family included, give little thought to taking it any further than that. Confession is not a well sought after sacrament where I am, and I worry about this complacency that many seem to hold. And what is worse, are the priests who give poor advice in confession - advice contrary to the teachings of the magisterium. We have lukewarm priests and lukewarm catholics that make up a large portion of the body of christ. Christ said He would “spew thee out of thy mouth” if one was lukewarm. What ever happened to “you may know a tree by it’s fruit”. One look in my parish and any other in my large city and there is very little fruit. It’s so bad I can’t even bring myself to go anymore. My children are exposed to more immodesty, irreverence and indifference to God in the church environment than I allow in any other area of their lives.
Are we, or are we not, all called to be holy? Why then does the church permit this? What about immodest dress? Many dressed inappropriately even for mass. Not a thought. And not a word said from the pastor. What about irreverent reception of communion? I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
Now again, correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that if someone isn’t interested in growing in their relationship with/conformity to - Christ, the church is okay with that. And for those who feel so called (which is an incorrect understanding IMO, b/c we are all called to holiness) there are religious orders and confraternities and such, but for the most part, the church is ok with the sort of luke-warm people (to use a more polite term) who regularly attend.
I think I don’t understand this. I am frustrated, but I feel like I have a wrong view of this. I explained it as best I could and would appreciate any insight anyone has. Does the church truly call us all to be holy? When do they admonish people for doing wrong? Why does it/she allow so much corruption to remain within? Am I being too judgemental? Is this not the place of the church? And yes, I am aware that in the past the church has gone to the other extreme, but today the catholic church is barely recognizable as God’s church with the exception of the religious orders.
Sincerely,
~donna