Why do you love about the Catholic Church?

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The title says it all.

The Eucharist, the Real Presence of Jesus.

and second, Mary…My spiritual Mother.
 
Unity.
“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord”
 
It is just perfect, everything is perfect
  • the real presence of Jesus in Eucharist - true Blood and true Flesh - transubstantiation
  • Catholic answers (Apologetic) destroys all other religions, everything has as an answer, even polemic issues
  • I can trace the history of Catholic church back to Jesus
  • The miracles over the world, like our Lady of Fatima ( Portugal )
  • the true image of Jesus in people like JP2 and Madre Teresa Calcuta
For me the Roman Catholic is the most perfect of all, then the Orthodox ( oriental catholic church )
 
I like seeing the Church hold its ground on moral issues in the face of so much ridicule for doing so.
 
I love that God has called me to Her.

I love that is it the Church that Christ founded while on earth.

There isn’t enough space to type the loves I have for His Church.
 
Gregorian chant, gargoyles, classical Requiem masses, Renaissance art, but most of all the vast and incredibly deep scholastic tradition.

Pity all of that is rather hard to find nowadays… 😦
 
I, too, love everything about the Catholic faith. I am a convert, and I am so totally convinced that this Church is God’s Kingdom on earth. I never felt so convinced as a protestant. My sister, a Born-again, is forever studying to find the “true meaning” of this verse or that. I believe it is fine to study the Bible, but if you are truly sincere in your quest for truth, you have to at least ***consider ***the claims of the Catholic Church. I feel like as a protestant, I was forever trying to reinvent the wheel. As a Catholic, I can trust that 2000 years of the greatest theological minds of history have already figured this out, digested it, and have given me a guide to live it (the Catechism!) Not that we shouldn’t read the Bible or “hide it in our hearts,” believe me, I do! But not with the thought that MY interpretation will lead to new theological truths, or “truths” that are true for me but not someone else. The Church doesn’t apologize for its teachings that are not popular… doesn’t feel it needs to bend to the whims of an increasingly Godless culture just to keep people in the pews. The Church is not afraid to be complicated… it hasn’t watered down the faith to just “Jesus and me” like many churches have… It isn’t afraid to tell people that something is expected of them. It is what it is because Jesus made it that way. Whether people like it or not is their problem. I love the sacraments… God reaching through the veil between heaven and earth to touch us physically and convey grace in a tangible way (because He knows our human nature! We are creatures!) I love the eucharist! I love the witness of the early Church Fathers… who could read their writings and doubt that the earliest Christians were Catholic? All in all, there is nothing that I do not love about the Catholic faith. If I could change anything, it would be the lukewarmness of many my fellow Catholics, who take much for granted and scandalize the Church. And believe me, I am trying to do this on a daily basis!🙂
 
For me it is walking in to a catholic church (most of them) and the feeling and smelling of home… it just being peace over me.🤷
At least to me…
 
b_justb said:
I love that God has called me to Her.

I love that is it the Church that Christ founded while on earth.

There isn’t enough space to type the loves I have for His Church.
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Just a Q. Why do you call god her?
 
Jedda said:
Just a Q. Why do you call god her?
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I think b was referring to the Church – as in, called to the Church, which gets either a feminine or neuter pronoun depending on how flowery you want to get 😉
 
Mirdath said:
I think b was referring to the Church – as in, called to the Church, which gets either a feminine or neuter pronoun depending on how flowery you want to get 😉
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The Church is referred to as “she/her” in the same manner as ships are referred to as “she/her”. For instance, both the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the USS Ronald Reagan would be called “she” since they are ships, even though the USS Ronald Reagan is named after a man.
 
I love that for the first time in my religious life, I have found a home, and religion isn’t a Sunday obligation. It has completely transformed my life.
I have never felt anything so powerful.
 
Just a few things (as a non-Catholic!) out of many I could cite:
  1. Courageous and balanced social teaching
  2. Ethnic universality
  3. Union of great profundity with an appeal to ordinary people
  4. A rich profusion of sacramentals, devotions, etc., surrounding the basic sacraments (which I believe–though of course the Catholics here will disagree–are available to me in the Episcopal Church)
  5. Daily Mass (some Episcopal churches have it, but my current parish church does not–it’s a small parish with a part-time priest who comes to town on weekends).
  6. Devotion to the saints, especially the Blessed Mother
  7. Catholics do not have to invent their own orthodoxy (though many on this board try to do it anyway)
  8. Independence vis-a-vis the state (see pt. 1)
  9. The loyalty of lay Catholics who stick with the Church even if they find Her earthly structures frustrating and even corrupt
  10. Specific figures who could only have been Catholic: St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, Flannery O’Connor, the last two Popes. . . .
Edwin
 
What I love about it is how absolutely huge it is, and how deep it is, and how wide it is.

I thought it was big before I was Catholic - when I got inside, I realized that I had only been looking at the front porch, so to speak (my own local parish).

One. 👍 Holy. 👍 Catholic. 👍 Apostolic. 👍
 
Contarini said:
  1. The loyalty of lay Catholics who stick with the Church even if they find Her earthly structures frustrating and even corrupt
Edwin
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I am loyalty to the Church because of the good structure. 😉 I have not seen anyone being loyal to the Church and thinks that the structure is corrupt.
 
water said:
I am loyalty to the Church because of the good structure. 😉 I have not seen anyone being loyal to the Church and thinks that the structure is corrupt.
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Well, I think your loyalty is too fragile. One of these days you’re going to encounter reality, as many of your fellow Catholics have already done.

You may have misunderstood what I meant by “structures.” I meant the mechanisms by which the Church works from day to day. I was not making a criticism of basic structures such as apostolic succession, the essential concept of the Papacy, etc.

Edwin
 
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