I have never blogged before, which may become painfully obvious soon. Not sure if I have anything to say that will interest other people, and that's OK. Don't agree with anything I write? That's OK too. This can just be my sounding board. Sometimes I have things I'd like to post on Facebook or Twitter that are way too long, and I can put them here without abbreviation. I also may not post very often, since I work full time. Just happen to have a day off in the middle of the week, so here goes!
The older I have gotten the more I have discovered what truly is important in life. That is our relationship with God our creator. I have stumbled through most of my life without giving a second thought to why I am here, or how I got here. And sadly enough, I was raised in a Catholic family and went to Catholic schools. You can be surrounded by truth and not know or care. I think that's the case in most young people, who are trying to go with the flow and be accepted. Then after getting married you have so much going on, with kids, work and the stress of life in general. Not much time left for God, or at least that's the way it was for me. I went to church sporadically, daydreaming through it, ready to get out of there and on to the "important" things. Some of my family members knew better, and I'm sure their prayers helped get me back on track. It took awhile though, and I feel like I have missed much and wasted way too much time! So I've been working on it for the last 7 years or so, reading and praying, step by step. So much to learn, so little time left......
I am Catholic!
I AM A CATHOLIC ... Because the founder of the Catholic Church is the God-Man Jesus Christ, Who was foretold by the prophets, and Who proved the divine character of His mission and teaching by wonderful miracles, especially by His Own Resurrection from the dead; Because Christ established upon Peter and the Apostles the Church, one, holy, universal, apostolic, with which He declared He would remain all days to the consummation of the world, and against which the gates of Hell would not prevail; Because Christ gave this society certain well defined doctrines which all men everywhere must believe under pain of damnation, to which they may not add or from which they may not subtract; Because Christ the Author of all holiness, promised to guard this society from error and preserve it until the end of time; Because the Catholic Church possesses all marks of this Church established by Christ: The Catholic Church is ONE because she everywhere professes the same faith, has the same sacrifice and sacraments, and is governed by one and the same visible head, the Pope. All non-Catholic sects lack unity. Because of the principles of private judgment they are conditionally splitting and subdividing. They have no central authority to hold them together. Their doctrines and practices are changing from day to day. The Catholic Church is HOLY because its Founder, Jesus Christ, is all-holy; because its doctrines are holy; because its means of sanctification, the sacraments, are holy; because it produces holy, saintly men and women. The Catholic Church is UNIVERSAL because it subsists throughout the ages, teaches all nations, and maintains all the truths given to it by Christ. The sects are not spread over the whole world but rather localized, nor do they they teach everything that Our Lord taught the Apostles. The Catholic Church is APOSTOLIC because it was founded on Christ's Apostles, because it is governed by their doctrines through their lawful successors, and because it never ceases to teach their doctrine. The sects cannot trace their origin to Christ or to the Apostles. I am a Catholic, finally, because God Who is Supreme Truth and Holiness could not possibly be the Author of the countless sects with their mutually destructive and contradictory teachings and practices.
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