Young People Will Not Leave the Church

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It’s not really that you’ve offended me or Bear. It’s more that your tone represents a view about these things that isn’t helpful to your own growth in virtue and the spiritual life.
 
I did not mean to sound so stuck up. I was trying to say that I find it hard to have a spiritual life and do homework. I of course have free time. Otherwise I wouldn’t spend so much time here.

I understand you are all concerned. I promise I didn’t try to brag or seem stuck up and prideful. For that is the root of all sin.

I think if I was trying to say that it is hard to be disciplined when others are not and that although I oftentimes don’t like it I do it for Christ. I was not saying I have no free time! I was just saying that some free time I would have does not exist as I have to have at least some spiritual time.

God Bless.
 
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Young people who act like one has to spend all of one’s time in religious or spiritual pursuits, or that “not leaving the Church” means you do stuff like this and don’t have a normal social life or normal interactions with others, actually may turn some others away from the Church.
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I always teach my son, do not try to fit in by trying to do things just similar to others, so just to be seen as “normal”. Nobody is “normal”. Each and everyone are unique.

If one decides to read the bible and pray all day, it does not mean he/ she is showing off holier than thou attitude. And nobody need to apologize for doing so.

No apology needed for being oneself.

All people are allowed to choose what they need to do in a day. If one have many friends, that’s good. If one has no friends, that is okay too. I say, it’s better to have no friends, than to have friends who drag you to bad things. With this, be strong and don’t let this world tell you what is normal/ not normal. Do not merely follow the majority. Many times what people regard as “normal” are the wrong things to do.

So have your own filter and standards. Do not be affraid to appear different.
 
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No need to apologize. Just make sure you’re approaching the faith in a healthy and balanced way for you. Other people likewise have to find a balance that works for them.
 
I think I and the other posters addressed this sufficiently with the OP, who is young.
I don’t think it’s necessary to debate what I said further, especially with some adult.
 
Father, in Judaism, some say that the most mundane and secular experience, such as eating a meal, laughing with friends, reading a good book, or (even) watching baseball games, can be made holy by the joyous attitude one experiences while having it. Does Catholicism believe something similar?
 
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Oh very much so. It flows from the doctrine of the Incarnation. Since Christ is God, everything he did in life, even the mundane, becomes a point of contact with him.

You should check out the late Fr Schall’s book Reasonable Pleasures: The Strange Coherences of Catholicism.
 
I meant to say I opposed the bad things about modern society. I do not spend all my time praying and studying. I do have a lot of free time.

I was trying to point out that I have discipline to avoid free time sometimes so that I might attend to my spiritual life.
 
Those are encouraging words. My sister went to visit her boyfriend in Atlanta, and took one of my other sisters with her. This was on a Sunday. Now, my other sister is my next to youngest, and she kept telling my older sister “we need to go to church”, and they never did. (I explained to my little sister that she did nothing wrong, it was impossible for her to get there). My sister is 16. Our slightly younger sister (who is 15) doesn’t seem to be as into it, but they both know going to Mass is important. Your words are very encouraging.
 
Yes, I know, but we generally ask people who post in a foreign language here to post in English. This is an English-speaking forum.
I am just following what we have done before when people post in a foreign language.
We have had people post here before in Chinese, Filipino etc and we ask them to post in English.
 
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Yes if you see my reply to him I told him (in Italian) that people here post in English.
 
That is encouraging to hear. I was concerned that you were spending all your life either studying or spending time in religious devotion. It’s good to know that you also make time to relax and do things that you enjoy.
 
@HopkinsReb Aaaaah! I see that you’ve changed your profile, although I don’t know how recently. Welcome! Welcome! His arms—and ours—are open wide! May God always bless you and yours!
 
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