I found Jesus and did it and am free. HE made me free and whom the Son sets free is free indeed. (John 8:36)
I trust God enough to take Him at His word and do not need a *priest* to tell me so I can be sure. It's a sure sign that someone does not trust God when they have to rely on people to tell them.
Why believe it when a priest tells you but not when God tells you? THAT is a lack of faith.
I went to Church and was “born again” like all good evengelicals. Then for the next 45 years or so I would go to church, sing and shout, and go home and listen to Hank Williams gospel music and get drunk. I was a heathen in every sense of the word. But no one could tell me that because I would say I knew Jesus because “I was born again”,
and I could do what I wanted to do because me and Jesus had a good thing going and I didn’t need anybody to tell me what it was all about.
Well I didn’t know Jesus, and it was not until I became a Catholic in 2008 that I know how ignorant I really had been of our Lord and Savior. I became Catholic and finally knew I had found a home and after looking all my life for Jesus I had finally found him. And the precious Eucharist is where I find my strength. Praise God. I am finally at home in the loving arms of my savior. He strengths me and with him at my side all things are possible.