What I like about the Church

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lucybeebee said:
The fact that after wallowing in a world in which ugliness, stupidity, cruelty, and banality is celebrated, I can go to Mass on Sunday and be surrounded by Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. I like that the Catholic Church is truly universal, not just for this group or that group. Most of all, I love the Sacraments and the fact that the Catholic Church is the True Church.
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My sentiments exactly! No matter what I’ve had to face in the world all week, I know that I will find peace, serenity and beauty when I walk into our chapel. I know I will find the support of good and holy Priests in the Confessional. I know that I will find guidance in the sermon and the readings. And most importantly, I know I will receive my Lord in Holy Communion.

You can’t do better than that anywhere…
 
As so many have said, there just aren’t enough words to express what I love about our holy Church.

He is the Alpha and the Omega. How can one ever say in words what it means to enter into His holy place of worship, see and feel his presence everywhere, be washed free of sins through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, unite with Him in the closest possible way during the Sacrament of Holy Communion, be humbled by adoring Him during benediction…one could go on and on and on.

With all my heart, I give thanks to Christ for giving us His Church and the opportunity and means to know Him and to follow His teachings through it.

God bless you. 🙂
 
Deacon - what a great thread:D!

I am going to say a big [sign]DITTO[/sign] to everything that has already been said and then add - Holy Mother Church in her Wisdom has given us many forms to worship in from the the Eastern Churches to the Latin Rites vernacular and Latin EF Masses.

I love the good holy Priests and Religious; both men and women. I love the good holy people around me both here on fora like CAF and those IRL.

God promised that the Gates of Hell would not prevail and although they have been sorely tested many times throughout the centuries they have not prevailed!

Brenda V.
 
Baptism, where my wife, kids, and myself became new creations.

Confirmation, where my wife and I became soldiers for Christ.

The Holy Eucharist where we are fed the true spiritual Manna, and we won’t die like our fathers in the wilderness.

Holy Confession/Penance, it sure beats $150/hr for therapy.👍

Holy Matrimony, where my wife and I became one flesh.

Holy Anointing, where real healing happens (ask me!) 👍

Holy Orders, (I haven’t received that one yet) but I know it’s where a man becomes something better than himself.

And…

Knowing that I have 1,100,000,000 brothers and sisters out there!👍
 
What I like about the Church ?
It is the will of Christ.

And I agree with this post…
lucybeebee said:
The fact that after wallowing in a world in which ugliness, stupidity, cruelty, and banality is celebrated, I can go to Mass on Sunday and be surrounded by Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. I like that the Catholic Church is truly universal, not just for this group or that group. Most of all, I love the Sacraments and the fact that the Catholic Church is the True Church.
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It’s not so much what I like about the Church. It’s more of how I despise this world. Holy Mother Church is the answer to the will of Satan.
 
This thread should be a lot longer by now, at least 36 pages! I guess what some people like about the Catholic Church is that they are free to complain about the things they don’t like and no one will say boo to them (in the Protestant church, a complainer will be asked to stop creating factions, or leave and start their own church).

I like Reconciliation. It’s icky and I wish I didn’t have to go because I wish I didn’t sin, but once I’m there, it’s just what my soul needs. Every time I go, I want to peek behind the curtain because I am convinced that Jesus is actually sitting there. I think that of five sacraments that the Protestants threw out, this is the one that they need back the most, along with Matrimony, of course. Many Christians aren’t married (e.g., children, teenagers, the elderly), but all Christians sin.
 
I love being able to go to the Church down the street every Sunday (hopefully every day once I go off to college) and experience Christ’s Eternal Sacrifice on the Cross. To kneel at the foot of Calvary, and then receive the flesh that was “crushed for our transgressions, wounded for our iniquities” is a privilege that none of us will ever comprehend until we enter Heaven. The Mass is truly “the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven,” whether chanted or spoken, in English or in Latin, in the Tridentine or the Pauline rite (or the Byzantine Rite, or the Mennonite Rite, etc., etc.)

Plus, that hat that the Pope wears - awesome 👍
 
kimaz said:
From someone who left and came back, I cannot even begin. I love all the things you can’t get anywhere else: The Real Prescence of the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary, the saints (esp. my patron saint), the Angels, Confession, my upcoming Confirmation, the Pope, the priests, and all the people I have come to know since coming back who have helped me grow in my faith.
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I agree completely. I hope and pray that all of my Protestant friends (and my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, etc., etc.) will one day experience what we have here in the Catholic Church, the only religion ever founded by Christ!

By the way, love your JPII quote 👍
 
I love that I have found a shelter, a place of rest from all the chaos of conflicting doctrines that have everyone on the outside of these walls running to and fro in complete confusion! If only her members would understand the peace that can be found in resting in the assurance of her steadfastness!

And even in this rest, yet not too much rest, but a place that encourages a steady journey toward eternity and maximum spiritual growth!

I love that I have found the richness of true spirituality in many forms, like no where else on earth or I dare say in heaven! What a treasure is here, and barely looked upon! All bejeweled, how she sparkles! 😃
 
I am a convert and I was so struck byt the beauty of the liturgy…I also got lots of things when I became a catholic, the saints , Our Lady, the sacraments…

It was like seeing the world in color instead of black and white…I don’t like Protestant services, all they were to me was a lecture hall…just as few songs and a sermon that went on forever
 
I want to say that if you read the book of Revelation, the description of the New Jerusalem, the walls of jewels with gates of pearls, the streets of gold and precious stones, the beauty everywhere that can hardly be described let alone comprehended; and then you look at the Catholic Church, what she has grown to become through the ages, the beauty of her doctrines, her liturgies, her spirituality in all it’s forms, her countless members and all their gifts, the Sacraments and the Graces that flow out from her to the world.

Just so much. Breathtaking!
 
Mickey_Jackson said:
I agree completely. I hope and pray that all of my Protestant friends (and my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, etc., etc.) will one day experience what we have here in the Catholic Church, the only religion ever founded by Christ!

By the way, love your JPII quote 👍
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Yes, most of my friends are Protestant, I pray for them that they just accept we are Christian. Its impossible, however, to even begin to describe the beauty of the Catholic Faith to them.

And I found that JPII quote by complete accident, but it struck me as brilliant.🙂 Theres another thing I love about the Church, Pope’s like John Paul II and Pope Pius XII.
 
It accepts, approves and supports the broadest range of spirituality of any Christian denomination. We have everything from Charismatic Prayer Meetings to the Grand Silence of Cistercian Monasteries, from Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to processions carrying icons of saints, from the sign of the cross to the rosary. And somewhere in there we should have liturgical dance to match the singing. We need all of it to properly serve the variety of humanity that God has been pleased to create.

Matthew
 
The beauty and grandeur of the Mass. The fullness of Christ found in the Eucharist. The fact that I am home.
 
kimaz said:
Yes, most of my friends are Protestant, I pray for them that they just accept we are Christian. Its impossible, however, to even begin to describe the beauty of the Catholic Faith to them.

And I found that JPII quote by complete accident, but it struck me as brilliant.🙂 Theres another thing I love about the Church, Pope’s like John Paul II and Pope Pius XII.
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Yes, we’ve had some giants in the past few years, beginning with St. Pius X and continuing through Benedict XVI. Each of them brought something unique to the Church, but all were united by a true love of the Faith that Christ left us.

Of course, we’ve also had a few who, ahem, knew how to party! Alexander VI comes to mind 😉
 
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