Catholics of Jow Forums tell me about your faith struggles

I'm 18, and was baptized as a Catholic before I was even a year old. I've been raised by a single mother my entire life, we actually had a really good life up until I was about 12. Then my Mom starting falling and unfortunately alcoholism consumed her. I lost my childhood home and almost everything in it, and ended up living with her ex husband(not my Dad). He is a very strong Catholic, and his wife is too. I was going to church every Sunday, and it was fine. I was never bored or anything and the priest was one of the smartest people I've ever met.

Anyways, I now am back into a bad state and haven't been going to church at all. I have always had trouble believing in heaven and hell. I just can't grasp that it actually exists, maybe it's because I am a teenager and this is just a phase. I have been extremely angry at the world and have been pretty persuaded that (((they))) are the cause of all of the bad stuff happening to the Caucasian race, and don't want to always be like this.

At this point in time I'm agnostic, but that will probably change. Pray for me Catholics of Jow Forums.

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I'm still with the church, but hate this pretender Pope. I don't recognise him. As far as I'm concerned Benedict is still the pontiff.
I'll come back to the flock when the useless sjw Argentine has passed.

Imagine thinking Jesus Christ wasn't a SJW

Pray the Rosary once a day and ask Mary to guide you to Jesus, your life will sync up with the divine will of God and you will be protected and everything will be OK. Start going to Mass and confession too. I will offer up intentions for you in my next rosary.

It isn't your place to decide who whether a Pope is valid or not, your place is to support the papacy - God will take care of the rest. Even if Satan himself should become the Pope, your role is obedience and trust in God, and you can trust that God has put him there for a higher purpose for the good of his true and faithful children.

Blame the jews all you want for your own deficiencies. Blame your molther. Blame your step parents. Blame God. This will get you nowhere.

You need to look within and find that which is really setting you back. Be willing to face the darkness within, the root of all troubles, and take action.

Don't depend on others' prayers to solve your problems, do your own reading, reflection and, if you will, praying.

The doctrine and philosophy is about the only thing I enjoy about it. I haven't been to mass outside of Christmas with the family in years.
Idk how to describe myself. I guess I'm lazy or uninterested.
The community drives me away.
My local priests just blather on with some stupid story and pretend it's somehow related to God. The community of parishioners is full of boomer liberals who all vote Democrat despite it directly contradicting their so called faith.
Or full blown Mexican parishes that have mass in the big beautiful church my parents were married in and have turned it in to a no english zone.

My catholic philosophy professors are the only reason I even reconsidered my relationship with this religion. Our so called leaders are a joke, catholic school is useless, catechism is nothing but prayer memorization.

I get the feeling no one truly appreciates the theology for what it is. I feel like I'm surrounded by NPCs who are just going through the motions and taking a vague postmodernist interpretation of it memeing about love or "Christian values" because it's easy to accept everyone and everything and difficult and unpopular to discern between the righteous and the sinful.

He wasn't. SJWs are the Jews Marxist footsoldiers. Jesus hated Jews.

God doesn't like you. He doesn't much like the world so don't sweat it.

This based Australian bro is absolutely right. Pray the Rosary every single day. You won't know how to do it at first, but there are guides on the internet that will help you.

I was raised Catholic, but I was only kind of casual about it, even though I went to Mass every Sunday. It was only when I began to pray the Rosary every day that my mindset totally changed, and I felt that I was on fire for God and for the Church.

Remember that Our Lady of Fatima specifically requested that Catholics pray the Rosary every single day. And the Fatima apparitions are some of the most incredible things to happen in the last 200 years. The Miracle of the Sun was seen by thousands, even by atheists. The Rosary is powerful and it will transform you. I encourage every single Catholic to pray it.

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Idol worship

you're not wrong the synagogue of satan has taken over our world largely .. for now. the father and the son love a good fight and you're a soldier in it, most of us get down in the dumps I'd be flat out lying if I said the weight of it all and the seeming pointlessness of it all didn't get to me at times but I'm dug in. our lives are a fight and what God wants from you he'll get .. or you won't give it that's up to you. soldier on even when faith seems far away because I promise you there will be moments especially when you're at the bottom when he will intervene. I was a petty criminal and drunk from my late teens to mid 20s, I made it out of a number of ridiculous situations unscathed and out of trouble with the law that should never have happened .. I know that was him.

I'll pray for you my dude just stay strong even when it feels like you can't or you see no point in everything.

Pray to mary.
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me" is one of the Ten Commandments
Maybe mary will wave at you from heaven while youre in hell?

I'm Catholic, but it seems like most of my peers are only in it to be part of a club. They call themselves Catholic, but then they support sex outside of marriage and other such nonsense. Thankfully, I met my two best friends on the basis that we all took our faith seriously.

I have mixed views regarding my parish. The priests are good, but the building itself is so fucking ugly. Additionally, the Mass isn't even the proper Novus Ordo Mass, it's been changed so much.

But, none of this has impacted my faith negatively. In fact, it makes me feel more inclined to to Catholicism seriously. So, yeah. Funny how that works.

Don't worry about any of the material aspects you are mentioning, seek comfort in the spiritual relationship with God through prayer. Seek Jesus, ask the help of Mary. All the benevolent spirits (angels and saints) are on your side if you truly give yourself to the good and seek it in prayer.

Sorry I don't argue with those who blaspheme against Queen of Heaven.

Christian Standard Bible
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell
Do you use rosary to keep count? Or pray to it?

Pray the Rosary (a prayer to God) and ask Mary to guide you to Jesus i.e. to God i.e. look to God =/= pray to Mary?

Maybe if you opened your eyes you could ask those in Heaven to help your pathetic sinful ass

Are you talking about the protestant obsession with israel?

This guy gets it.

wat

So wait, are the Jews greedy capitalists or Marxist socialists now?

Citation of queen of heaven?
Also citation of where you pray to her? I assume theirs a catholic special bible with additional things we other bible readers dont see?

You must be actually retarded

Pathetic. Sinful ass. Youre true catholic id coming out hahaha. Only took two posts to show youre true colors as a believer in "christ" ie mary. What a joke of a catholic.

This isn't your blog you fatherless bastard.

Blahblahblah single mother this, faggot shit that.

Shut the fuck up.

Oh no. Praying to the saints or mary. Is idol worship.

Dude youre the one making claims. If i said jhon the babtist is judge of heaven id cite my beliefs.

Ask her to help you and to show you herself. Either you will receive help from Satan pretending to be Mary but for some reason guiding you only to virtue, holiness, to Jesus and to God, or you will in fact be dealing with Mary, true and present, helping you from Heaven.

I personally think her miracle at Fatima in front of over 100,000 people, confirming proofs of the Rosary and bringing mass conversions to God, is enough to prove everything about saints intercession and her status as Queen of Heaven and the title of Mother of God. I'm sure if it was incorrect, God would give some other great sign dismissing it or correcting us.

Since no negative has ever come from looking to Mary, but protties continue to lick tranny buttholes, it is clear from the fruits that you are guided by the evil one.

>tell me about your faith struggles
The bible says do not kill but to punish those who've killed you have to kill and to prevent those who will kill you have to kill.

why can't jealous, empty meta jew prods just stay out of our spaces? you're like the evil, empty women and lesser thans that force themselves into hobbies people enjoy because they're incapable of creating or having fun themselves. maybe you realize on some level you're a rejecter of Christ and his church?

I like all the traditions and such involved with Catholicism. I also hate protestants. But i really cant get myself to believe in any of the spiritual shit.

Oh i wont. As i dont worship other Gods as the bible states. Praying to anyone or anything other than Jesus / god is blasphemy. And even the ten Commandments states not to do it.
For anyone to think its ok to pray to mary when nOt once has Jesus ever stated to do so is blasphemy. To ask her for forgiveness is blasphemy. And youre bo better than the jews who killed christ

What? Can you find the verse?
Do not kill innocent or righteous.

>god

alright jew boy. have fun with your " worship " pop rock and usury

Safe spaces? Im Christian. Not jew.

And i reject christ by saying only pray to christ?

Any answer for literal miracles from God through the saints, and marian apparitions in front of 100,000 people which are confirmed and verifiable?

Of course not, because you're a filthy blasphemer who wouldn't open his eyes is Jesus himself came down and told him to.

Its that because i didnt caps the g in God? Youre nit picking a text error idc about to prove your point? High 5 bro

you reject the infrastructure he left behind to exist for that purpose. you can't comprehend that asking Christ's mother to help your prayers along isn't worshiping her. the funny thing about the sola scriptura you follow is .. it isn't in the bible. the founding of the one true church however is.

Move to Malibu and attend Mel Gibson's rebel Catholic mass.

Satan has power too bro. What better way than to get "Christians" to pray to idols of saints and mary.
Right now. Prove me wrong. Quote scripture to say its ok to pray to idols. Or other gods. Ill wait.

The traditions are the least believable parts. The truth lies in the spiritual existence of God and the spirits, and in spiritually having a relationship with Jesus/God, and participating n the communion of Saints. The traditions and communal acts are ways of strengthening your individual spiritual practice and spreading it throughout communities.

Catholics don't pray to anyone except God/Christ, we ASK for intercession, i.e. we humbly ask those who are above us to pray on our behalf and join our prayers in presenting our petitions to God.

Praying TO the saints/Mary and attributing the success TO them instead of to God is indeed idolatry.

It isn't OK to pray to idols.

A real Saint is not an idol, nor are we praying to them, but to God, beside them.

Please leave.

imagine missing the obvious reality that evil can only do what God allows not only is this obvious in scripture but it shows obvious cognitive dissonance about God's power in your mind. lemme guess the diabolical is under your bed giving you nightmares too eh prod?

I can comprehend how blasphemy works man. And how one indoctrinated into it cant see past it. I just enjoy posting biblical quotes proving youre wrong as catholics and watching you hace nothing but name calling as an answer. Or some pagan ideals. The newest saint was made because a wonan had a dream about a random guy in the bible. Her son was cured of ?cancer i think. Boom. Saint.

39 here user, every day I have to contend with people my age who think its fine to eat up their spare time with degenerate shit like getting tatts, smoking weed and fucking randos off Tinder and social media and bar hopping while I am engaged with my Catholic gf who just finished her doctorate and tie the knot and have kids just like the Lord wants. It's so bullshit you have to itemize to people around WHY you have little to nothing to do with them outside of work and circumstantial contexts as you understand aimless casual sex, drug use, and other scummy shit like hustling welfare are moral and figurative dead ends

Woman walks up to statue of mary. Dear mary make pol believe in you. Leaves statue.
Idol worship.
Christian Standard Bible
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell

Holds coin of of saint in hand. Dear saint john. Please make pol pray to you. Puts coin back in pocket.
Christian Standard Bible
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell

Baptized, raised, took communion as a Catholic. Somewhere between baptism and communion I stopped believing in God. Not just doubt, but I'm pretty sure I've proven to myself He's not real. Trying to figure out how to keep from jumping off a bridge into an expressway every day.

What insult is prod. Ive never heard someone say that before?
And no. Through Christs protection we believers are saved. Not your wooden idol of mary.

life is a dead end, how you spend it has no bearing on that final outcome, it will end

and you bringing children into a world of 7bn humans is an act of extreme faith in the face of 7bn pieces of evidence why it's both unnecessary and harmful to the continuation of the species

good job, user

Who decides who is innocent or righteous?
All sides will claim they are. And they are not wrong. They are all right from their perspective.

I dont think tats are wrong. Old testy. No names of the dead. Specifically says. I have 0. But it days your body is a temple. So i mean crosses would be ok imo?

Oh my goodness Jow Forumsprottard just demolished thousands of years of theology, philosophy, writings of saints, scholars, church fathers, practice of saints, priests, bishops, popes, with his new and original masterpiece of critical thinking.

Get your head of of the material worlds ass and join the rest of us in the spiritual Hearts of Christ and Mary.

you literally never did that and you've avoided point after point against you lol if you'd like to go back and come up with honest, thoughtful rebuttals that would be great but I don't think that's going to happen with you. you're welcome to project some more prod but it won't change that you're a heretic or that you think a holy man can plow his wife saturday night then preach to you the next day, you're all carnal followers of luther afterall.

But good job man! You have your mind / life together. Im 31 and lost almost all my friends due to not living the party life and regecting degeneracy. Married and 1 kid. =D glad to see others are living Christian lifestyle.

Same, I am Catholic but I only go into Church off hours to pray in the chapel and light a candle for when I or someone I know have a struggle that needs some more oomph for seeing their way through. I live by what God wants far more so than parishioners who live wretched unscrupulous lives most of the week but think they are exempt from answering for it since they sit through Mass for 90 minutes on Sunday

Man id suggest looking at some non catholic info. Like AOC network i think its called. Guy is on point with bible study!

Well i think/hope God will put it on your heart mind to know. Is some guy raping someone? = not innocent.

They play both sides. Lurk moar

>Pray the Rosary once a day and ask Mary to guide you to Jesus,
nope mary can't do anything you have to ask the lord to guide you , mary had a mission that's it she is not devine in any way

You think im the first to say this? No catholics just dgaf. I mean to go against Gods word/10c's i wouldnt do. But then again theres a loooot the catholics do thats wrong.

I would never touch faggot protestant bullshit.

DO they play both sides? or have they always used fascists and right-wingers as their tools, and convinced them it's actually the other way around and it's the leftists who are to blame, because they're far easier to convince, what with being retarded and uneducated and barely literate and predisposed to authoritarian systems and listening to "those in charge" (who is them)?

Christian Standard Bible
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell

10 commandments

No where does it say biblically to pray to mary or saints.

Thoes are my points dense-user

Watching the Catholic and Protestant debate is kind of humorous.

based and Christpilled

Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
But muh mary. But muh saints. How do you read the bible. Like this verse. Then think in anyway shape or form its good to pray. Worship. Give offering like candles. To saints or mary

=D fact

again you've completely ignored who Christ left in charge of his church and you choose to be a renegade. you're also ignoring the various points against you in this thread and rambling on about the same crap. you also can't comprehend that every denomination outside of Catholic and Orthodox are carnally inclined imposters who are essentially just jews. you reject Christ and the body of Christendom he left behind. where in the bible is your sola scriptura? you have heard THAT before right?

Why insult Mary and her true status as Queen of all saints and men and women, when she is literally the mother of Jesus, when God himself saw her worthy to host the Incarnate Word? Do you think the woman just stopped existing at some point as is no longer active in the world? Do you ignore the Book of Revelations, and the actual revelations that have continued through God's servants, his priests, his Saints, in the past 2000 years? Do you believe holy people and spirits are inferior to your 'interpretations' despite their evident holiness, support for Christ and demonstration of miracles and supernatural appearances?

Ohhh the bible? I believe you ;) youd never touch a bible. :)

Just watch where the hate flows user. You can see who is christ filled and who prays to idols =]

it's amazing you think asking other people to pray for you or with you is somehow different than us essentially asking the same of Christ's mother or that you or other prods are on equal footing. protestantism is one long ego trip man you have some issue with authority that you can't help but muddy the holy with.

He left his people. Not priests. Not the pope. But all of his believers bro. You need not ask a priest to talk to god on your behalf for forgiveness. Just pray to god directly.
Stop with your idol worship. Mary was Jesus mother. Not a god. Shes not one you pray to. Serriously stop with your catholic elitists hatred to others. Save your soul. Read the bible yourself!

different smiley faces doesn't hide that you're eternally assblasted with us. notice we didn't come to the prod thread you had to come to ours and again go on an ego trip instead of offering much of anything to OP who needs help and came to ask his brothers for it.

Also Chirstians were before catholics. Catholics ermerged from christianity. Ie Christ. Ie Christian.
I could be wrong on this its just my assumption. Or Jesus would have been Jesus Catholic not Jesus Christ.

we're not insulting he she is not devine = she is not a god she doesn't have any power because Mary is a human who god deemed worthy to carry out its mission , she is not active in the world because again she is A HUMAN ,
>Do you ignore the Book of Revelations, and the actual revelations that have continued through God's servants, his priests, his Saints, in the past 2000 years? Do you believe holy people and spirits are inferior to your 'interpretations' despite their evident holiness
no i don't
dude the only one who can save you is Jesus Christ he's the only one who can do something , the only way to get to heaven is through Jesus Christ not the Saints or Mary

I dont insult her. I insult your blasphemy for praying to her.
Again see all biblical verses posted above :)

do you know nothing of the passion or Saint Peter?

I honestly don't respect any of the Abrahamic faiths.

>not a god

fucking prods just can't but let it slip out

catholics took some of their rite from the pagan for exemple burning incense is a pagan thing

Ohhhhhh i see what youre saying. You dont pray to mary but with mary...? Even though you/others litterally pray to mary.
"Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."
You pray to her. To pray for you.
Pray to her
Idol worship.

you do know that early Christian intellectuals expanded upon pagan philosophy that was an honest attempt at man understanding existence right?

Whats a prod thread? And a publuc forum i can go where i please? Sorry if youre offended with biblical scrpiture proving youre wrong. Care to link any proving your right? Like a shred of scripture? Ill evrn take something out of context if you want at this point.

You obviously haven't really looked into and of Ratzingers positions. He was as much a heretic as Bergoglio.

Sorry to hear of your hardship user. God bless you. It sounds like you've come out of it as a functioning adult... My relationship with God is hard to describe, but let me just say that I didn't go to church as a kid and I regret that now. Church is the form of community native to these parts. It's how people meet each other. It's how people syncronize their values with their neighbors. Whether or not you believe in heaven or hell, the usefullness of religion is indisputable. If you are okay with having a more personal relationship with God (i.e. separate from the church), then I'd say that's probably healthy for an adult who is still coming of age. Trust God. Trust love. You are not just one of God's moons. Allow him to mold you into a better person. Become the person you were always meant to be. You can do this with or without The Church, as long as you maintain at least a personal tradition of Faith.

But again I wasn't raised religious so my words are pretty meaningless in a thread like this.

lol you just said we ask for her to pray for us, how is that idol worship you mong? also nice blasphemy there bud though that's the usual for you apparently

I honestly dont. But i love to learn.

oh my oh my , the catholic reveal himself as an idol worshiper ahaha you think that Mary is a god what's wrong with you , read your bible fren the only god is Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ only

Thats ok. As a Christian i honestly value you stranger even if you dont return it.

what do you mean by expanded ?

You are insulting her guiding role and superiority over us. She is our mother and loves us dearly. You are insulting the saints, who are in heaven and are in the presence of God, united with him through Christ. In doing so, you are blaspheming against Christ and ALL of his works, and putting yourself above those who are truly following him and have truly lived and died in his name, and are eternally singing his praises and praying for his church in Heaven. This is especially bad against his mother, since as I mention again, she certainly does hold a place of honor, just as the apostles do, just as martyrs do, just as the forefathers do, just as the prophets do, but even all these saints and characters in Heaven honor Mary, because God himself honored her to an extent that he has never honored anybody else, nor will ever honor anybody else, which makes her by definition the Queen. Her immaculate conception and the validity of the honorific title of Queen of Heaven is confirmed by God through miracles and apparitions and through the living tradition and guidance of the Church and the Gospels. By denying these facts, you are turning your back on Jesus Christ and refusing his help and that of his true Church and Saints, and worshipping false idols by worshipping your Self, your Reason, your Interpretation, and your false church and belief and priests.

That's pretty rich coming from some prod who had to form their own church so you could pick and choose what you wanted to observe

you ignored that Job's story is a clear example of the devil only being able to operate within God's will for one or that your idea of evil was clear doubt of God's power

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Lol i just got it prodistant. Prods. Lol.

I was pointing out that you implied there could multiple Gods you tard

Do you believe mary is a god? And why?

Ive read some stuff. Like similar to silver crosses. Holy water being made. Stuff like that too.

I just can't get behind worshiping a Jew. Zarathustra was half-white and not schizophrenic like Muhammad or Jesus, and he never asked to be worshiped. Jesus was literally a desert kike.