One thing I’ve been reflecting on this week:
Jesus knew the Father’s will, but still wrestled in the process (especially in Gethsemane).
It makes me wonder…
Is it normal that even when we’re trying to follow God, we still feel uncertain or conflicted?
How do you personally deal with that tension
I missed mass on Palm Sunday. I very rarely miss Sunday mass. My child had a sporting event and none of us could attend.
Do I need to confess? If I attended, I would have missed her event. It was a 3 day competition in another town with limited mass options.
Edit - to clarify, when I say sporting
I am a 32 year-old man. The last 6 months of my life have been probably the most difficult of my life. In part, what makes the ordeal so crushing is the painful knowledge that it is largely through my own actions, choices and cowardly shortcomings that I am in my current predicament. I have looked b
I’m in OCIA, and tonight we are having a practice for the Easter vigil, a retreat, and first reconciliation. I have really bad anxiety, so can anyone tell me an idea of how this might go? Especially the retreat. I don’t know what to expect. Thanks.
Is this something that was created to prevent people from talking before mass? I generally don't pray when I enter my pew, but I also have 3 kids I'm settling, but I do encourage everyone with me to just sit in silence at the very least.
came across this question in other Catholic page but there were no comments, so decided to ask here, just in case.
Is there any difference between the material world and the physical world? If animals have material souls, does that mean that they have physical souls?
As far as I know, in my opinion, neuroscience has the full destructive potential of a personal and communicative God with each of us; probably all the experiences we have had throughout history can be explained.
Furthermore, through this field of science it has been discovered that life after death
Howdy, y'all. I'm a Catechumen (not getting baptized on Sunday, sadly) and former Protestant. I had some questions regarding heresy.
Paraphrasing what the Catechism states in para. 2089, heresy occurs when a baptized Christian refuses to believe something the church has defined. Interestingly, this
ill keep it short, but I am still in high school and I am not able to commute to church everyday in my situation. I was raised secular and I’ve been pursuing faith in Christ, specifically Catholicism for a little under about 6-8 months but I have not gone to church once and I have not been baptised.
Recently after confession last week my confessor assigned my penance as to reflect and create a plan for Holy Week. I did that however I have not been perfect on doing what I planned for Holy Week, would that mean I did not do my penance properly
Hello, I know this is a Catholic sub reddit, but I wanted to ask specifically what the Catholic teaching on this issue is. I was wondering when in a Protestant Church, the pastor says "I forgive you all your sins in the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit," does that actually
is this a true statistic? I here people like trent horn almost dismiss the amount of people entering the church as if it doesn't really matter because so many people are leaving. I understand the amount of people leaving is still far to many, however is this really an accurate number?
This has been happening for the last two years or so. Everytime I go to the church and specifically during sundays I always get so nauseas or dizzy and always have a hard time to . stand. But when I go home after mass, the sick feeling is always gone. I've told my family about this multiple times an
Hello all,
Unfortunately, I have procrastinated my confession. I haven’t been to confession in over 6 years and I’ve recently been called to be reunited with the Church.
I’ve wanted to go to confession for a couple of weeks now but kept putting it off because of my busy schedule - which is anothe
Hello all. I was raised southern Baptist and have nothing but love for my southern Baptist brothers in Christ but as of recent have been longing for a scholarly appreciation of the Bible that I find only in the Catholic and Orthodox Church. I plan to do mass this weekend as it is resurrection Sunday
This might be a FAQ so I apologize if it is, but I’m curious because I’ve gotten many conflicting responses, if Protestants will make it to heaven. While I have a del distain for Protestantism I think a lot of Protestants are good people who don’t understand the concept of the Church and have false
I was raised Catholic my entire life and have gone through Catholic for most of my childhood. I know the teachings of the church and the stories in the bible. (Though I have not read the bible.) I go to confession when I remember to. Maybe 3-5 times a year. I’m a teen and hormones are high, so I str
My ex. She basically ruined my life, and has no remorse. She even had smear campaign against me despite being at fault... and will keep doing it any chance she gets. It tells you enough that she was violent towards her own mother, to the point she was arrested for domestic violence. Addictions, viol
Ive always known some people don't hold Martin Scorcese in high regard because of his movie The Last Temptation of Christ and I was never real familiar with his work, but his adaptation of the book Silence, a story about two Jesuits priests who travel to japan during the Christian persecutions of th
Answer is falling in love.
Article mentions some conversion stories of people falling in love as part of journey towards faith. Or their faith journey could be described as falling in love with faith.
As I said last time, most of my sins are sexual, especially regarding my addiction to masturbation and the things it has led me to do.
I’ve heard that if you have extenuating circumstances you are not expected to attend church every Sunday/holidays. However I’m curious what an extenuating circumstance would be considered.
Obviously, disability would be considered. In the case of my family, we simply do not make time to go. My hus
I'll give you some context. I'm still a minor, but I feel very grown up and behind in some things. I'm new to Christianity, and honestly, I feel like I've fallen in love with it and with God, even though I still have a lot to learn. I haven't been to confession yet, and my parents didn't baptize me
I know this is dumb, but I come from a Protestant background and have fully accept the Catholic Church, but for some reason didn’t know that the Catholic Church views baptism as necessary for salvation. That kinda messed me up, because I always think to the thief in the cross. What about him? He was
We opted for the atom bomb of just letting everyone know all at once that my wife is being confirmed this Easter rather than the slow burn of letting people know she’s been in OCIA this whole year. It’s enough of a secret that only my dad, her sponsor, and my father in law know on even my side of th
I understand the true love and relationship with god is what is needed, and actions outside of that mean nothing. But frankly I don’t always feel particularly close to God and I really don’t necessarily even hate my own sin half the time. I do attend mass every Sunday, go to confession, serve the po
i have been asking more and more questions about the existence of God and how he works recently. too many questions seem unanswered and too many answers just seem so illogical. i’ve been catholic my whole life and went to catholic school my whole life. i’m trying to hold on but i cant. i want to bel
I've noticed some abbeys allow oblates to join online and meet via zoom.
my country has no abbeys, joining online would be my only option.
however many of the online options require annual retreats at the abbey or similar committments. international travel is far outside my budget and will be for
Hi! I’m currently trying to learn Italian. I just started.
I usually pray the Rosary once a day, obviously in the language I speak. If I pray the rosary in English in the morning and pray it in Italian at night to memorize the prayers and get it down, does it still count, since I technically don’t
I’ve had a catholic background growing up but was never baptized. When I was 18 I decided it was something I wanted to do and embraced it. I am not the best catholic at times and over the years I’ve grown worse. I used to pray nightly before bed and stopped. I stopped going to church and when I wou
I just saw this video which was posted yesterday.
https://youtu.be/2eShTU8Ylso?si=CgdtJLx_5xkG7wOb
This well known exorcist is saying that masonic oaths incur a curse on future generations. I believe my great grandfather on the non-catholic side
I'm a 15-year-old boy. This Palm Sunday was the first real Mass I've ever attended, and it was fantastic. After Mass, I went to the priest (whom I didn't know) and asked him how I could get baptized, since my parents hadn't been baptized. He explained to me that there will be a process and I'll be b
This distinction, although insignificant to some, is one that we must take into account in these times when there is an attempt to have women enter holy orders.
A "Female deacon" would be a woman with the full faculties of the diaconate, which is what certain progressive groups want, faculties that
So, I began reading the Bible (front-to-back) a little while ago, and I have a bible study notebook to make notes on each book of the Bible (important messages, verses, etc.).
However, I'm now beginning the process of converting to Catholicism (I used to be protestant/non-denominational), and I wan
hello everyone hope you’re having a blessed Holy Week so with all the news and craziness of the Epstein files along with the revealing of what seems to be the elite I’ve been seeing a lot of instagram videos talking about it and two videos I saw interestingly enough mentioned Catholicism and a bunc
I can only do either the stations of the cross or the commemoration of the Lord’s passion.
What one should I prioritise?
I go to confession on a regular basis. (Let’s just say I struggle with a lot of things.) I live in the northeast US, so there are a lot of Catholic Churches nearby. The problem is, most of them make it very difficult to give a confession. They say they offer confessions at 3pm on Saturdays, then you
Hello everyone, I hope all is well with you. I am in a dilemma. I am a first generation Caribbean-American living in central Connecticut. My parents grew up Catholic but left the faith before they got married; they became Baptist and my father became an ordained minister in the Baptist tradition. Ad
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I've been a convert for a couple years and it's always been a struggle. I've lived my christian life as if I had full faith, believing that "fake it until you make it" would happen. I've grown up in a completely atheistic family so it was really counter intuitive and still
This Holy Week has been feeling a little different, for us at least.
My cord on one of my two pieces of cloth separated. I was going to just run it under the sewing machine stitch it right back on.
lots of sources online saying just get a new one.
Seems kind of wasteful? There's nothing preventing me from doing this right? the version I got happens to have a pouch
I have found such comfort and peace in Mary during my spiritual correcting. Even in adoration, I really enjoy using the rosary to connect through her to Jesus.
This year I decided to buy a rosary for all my close friends and my family and it has been really rewarding. Try the rosary if you haven’t
To start, I was a firm atheist up until the age of around 15 where I got deep into history and philosophy. I’ve been questioning as too whether God exists or not, studying the New Testament, the history of the Church… the reformation so on and so forth. I’ve read the writings of Saint Augustine of H
