I wouldn’t go back to the Catholic Church on a bet! I stopped being a Catholic when I realized the travesty that the Catholic church had become! That was 38 yrs ago. I assume you’re saying there are no ex-catholics just as the Muslims say to their forced converts that they’ll always be Muslims? Fortunatly,I found my Saviour, Jesus Christ, and began a relationship with Him, rather than cling to a faction(or order) of priest. When I was young,I was forbidden to read the Scriptures on my own. You quasi-spirituals are so full of the “institution” of religion that you’re missing the Man who died for your sins! Salvation is not belonging to a Club by birth or Baptism...it’s giving upi your life to live as Christ lived. He is the object of our Affection and the Ruler of our lives! If you miss this..your ‘good works’ and vain machinations will be for naught!
&&You quasi-spirituals are so full of the “institution” of religion that you’re missing the Man who died for your sins!**
I beg to paprdon with you, but the Mass is full of Scripture. Have you ever looked at a Sacramentary — the book that the priest uses during Mass. Chock full of Scripture. We are not missing Jesus Christ at all.
**Salvation is not belonging to a Club by birth or Baptism...it’s giving upi your life to live as Christ lived.**
And many Catholics choose to live as Christ lived and many others choose to die as Christ died. I would hope you notice all the Optional Memorials and Memorials and Feasts of Saints.
Why do you have such a hard heart against your Catholic Church? Something had to happen somewhere.
(And regardless of what that is, we would welcome you back with Open Arms.)
Sounds like you might have even missed the presence of Christ in ALL the Sacraments. You might consider re-categizing yourself.
AMEN. My husband was Catholic and is no longer. His heart has been given to the Lord and he would never go back. Thank God.
VERY WELL PUT.
I found this fellow . . . CURRY BLAKE . . . in addition to sounding like a long list of my relatives . . .
is fiercely against RELIGION and wholesale for Biblical RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
and . . . as Vineyard founder . . . can’t think of his name . . . graduated from this life from falling in the shower . . . anyway—DOING THE BIBLICAL STUFF—APPLYING IT SIMPLY, STRAIGHTFORWARDLY, MATTER OF FACTLY.
NO RELIGION.
I need to concoct a gif NO RELIGION.
Here’s the link to his (Curry Blake’s) MP3 files.
Curry Blake (John G. Lake disciple)
http://spiritlessons.com/Documents/Healing/JGL/JGL_Ministries.htm
I love it when folks teach plain Bible and RELATIONSHIP
vs
RELIGION—INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION tends to be dreadfully deadly.
And the older it is, the more deadly it tends to be.