I am “born again” every time I am with Lord Jesus during the Eucharist. Any man or woman that would walk away from the Eucharist never believed in the Real Presence. It is unconscionable to think that anyone could abandon Christ. Lack of faith is the reason. It is always the reason. It has been going for 2,000 years, starting with the apostles. You didn’t believe, therefore your left. I will say a special prayer for these lost souls at Mass.
I firmly believe that if a person sincerely prays and studies, God will direct him to the Christian congregation in which he will best do God's work. For many sincere Christians this church will be the Catholic Church. I support them in their decision.
Nothing would please me more than to have every Catholic in this nation **fully** and completely practicing their faith and voting accordingly. Imagine how much more prosperous and healthy all of us would be.
This is the reason my husband and I left:
My husband and I attended a cumulative 31 years of Catholic schooling ( K-12 and university). If we failed to fully understand Catholic doctrine in that amount of time, then it is the fault of the Catholic education system since we fully did our part and our grades prove this.
We rejected the Marxist influence of the priests in our local parishes and our college professors. For nearly a decade we rejected all religion as being false. Then in our early thirties we felt impressed to reestablish our relationship with Christ and returned to Catholic mass at my husband's university. We attended for several months. After Mass there was coffee and donuts. What we saw at this after-mass gathering was nothing but a homosexual “meet and greet” club with the priest as the queen bee. The reactivation classes were nothing more than Marxism filtered through Liberation Theology.
Finally, on Christmas morning we attended Mass with my husband's relatives in his home state. On the drive home both of us simultaneously looked at each other and said, “This will never work!” Both of us had had such a dark feeling while attending the mass that we **knew** that this was not the direction we should be taking.
On returning to our home state, I looked up the local church of a professor that my husband admired. I realize now that we “knew” him by his “fruits”. After 6 months of careful study. serious prayer, and the Holy Spirit's undeniable confirmation, we formally joined this church.
All of our children have married spouses of this denomination, and all are firmly active and are raising our 12 grandchildren ( and now 3 great grandchildren) in this church. The wholesome fruits of our decision is plainly evident for all to see in these thriving families.
I **know** that my husband and I made the correct decision. To deny this would be denying the testimony given to us ( on many occasions) by the Holy Ghost. To act contrary to this sure knowledge would be a grave sin.
Gee! I miscalculated. It was **33** combined years of Catholic schooling. I forgot to add my husband’s two years getting a masters degree.
That is absurd, as besides being Biblically "born again" (Jn. 3:3) being that which occurs in conversion, (Acts 15:9; 1Pt. 1:3, 23; Ja. 1:8) and is not a repeatable event (go find even official RC teaching that says it is), considering the spiritual deadness of Catholics or blind cultic zeal, it makes a mockery of Biblical regeneration. As does infant baptism.
And instead, it is characteristically those who do not believe in the real presence and the gospel of Rome but are born again by personal repentance and faith to save them as damned+destitute sinners, and hold Scripture as supreme, that most manifest evidences of regeneration.
The more you attempt to argue for your idol, in your blind zeal for her, the more she is impugned.