What keeps you Catholic?

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For me, a friend does. it’s hard to explain the influence he has on me but he’s such a genuinely good person even when I’m doubting he keeps me faithful.
 
The reason I am Catholic is because I believe it’s the true religion. I think God is really calling us in this time to repent, even look at the Fatima miracle for example and the call to conversion and to live a more moral life from Our Lady there. God Bless you!
 
The sacraments. My RCIA catechist taught us that it is through the sacraments that God himself reaches down from heaven and touches us.
 
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Right now in my life it’s a thin thread: Lord, to whom shall we go?
 
I’m a cradle Catholic. I was well indoctrinated as a kid. I couldn’t imagine being any other faith
 
Many reasons.
  • Fear of losing my salvation if I should ever separate from her, or abandon what she teaches to be true (extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
  • The Mass, the Real Presence, and all seven sacraments
  • In my heart, I know that what the Catholic Church teaches is true, and I would be a hypocrite in any other church
  • It is the only religion that totally makes sense, and whose doctrines have an “internal integrity” (my term) to them — disbelieve in one doctrine, and the rest just doesn’t fit together right
  • The appeal to objective truth, and wishing to see the world, and reality itself, as it truly exists
  • The intellectual rigor and “culturedness” that comes with it — it is an educated, humane, sensitive, sophisticated, and I would even say “urbane” religion, there is nothing crude, coarse, ignorant, or unintelligent about it
  • Its recognition of the dignity of all human persons and utter lack of racism
  • And even though the Faith is not European in its essence, and did not originate there, the Catholic Faith is the pinnacle, summit, and the ultimate perfection of European society and culture, and as a person of European heritage, I take great pride and comfort in this fact (obviously, that same Faith could perfect, and has perfected, other societies as well, I just speak of my own heritage — any society is at its best when it is Catholic)
 
I could write much here; but this prayer intoned by the deacon following Communion at the Divine Liturgy says it beautifully:
Stand aright! Having received the divine, holy, immaculate, immortal, heavenly, and life-giving, awesome Mysteries of Christ, let us rightly give thanks to the Lord.
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I have sinned without number,
Deacon Christopher
 
I was raised a Protestant. Throughout my 20s, I felt God calling me to the Church. I was received into the Church 30 years. I couldn’t leave even if I wanted to.
 
That’s interesting. I was confirmed at 24. Raised Lutheran. I’ve felt called away numerous times.
 
Any time I ever have doubts or questions, the Church and the saints have answers full of truth and beauty.
 
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Hope for eternal life, which is the beginning and end of our faith.
 
First of all, I’m a cradle Catholic, indoctrinated by a devout mother and twelve good years of Catholic school, so I’m blessed with a good faith foundation. More recently, as an adult, my study of other religions, or the option of no religion at all, has only affirmed my belief that the Catholic Church contains the fullness of truth. Our Church has what I consider to be the most acceptable answers to life’s most important questions.
 
Where else would I go? If I were not Catholic, I would be an atheist.
 
I firmly believe Catholicism is the truth. I love the Eucharist and the Sacraments. The Mass is amazing. I love Our Lady so much. We have the saints and the Magisterium. I felt the Holy Spirit calling me to the Church.
 
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