Sometimes we think that just our acknowledgement that there is a God will save us.
This new chart from Pew shows that nearly 50 percent of Catholics don’t pray daily.
I’m always wary of polls like this because people lie to pollsters and who the heck answers polls anymore? But anyway, I think any time you do something like this you should have a breakout of Catholics who attend Mass and those who don’t. They split up the protestant by asking if they’re “born again” or evangelical” or not evangelical.
Catholics don’t get that…mainly because we’re Catholic and there aren’t “denominations.”
But my main point is that if you’re not praying often and attending Mass you’re not really getting this whole Catholicism thing. You can’t look at it like “Ugh. I have to go to Mass.” It should be “I get to go to Mass.”
It should be gratitude, so much gratitude that you don’t know where to put it all.
January 1, 2022 at 8:29 am
I used to attend daily and enjoyed starting my day thanking our loving and wonderful Lord. Now I struggle as I see the silence from our bishops and the literal and figurative muzzles placed on our clergy. Just seeing Biden, Pelosi, Cuomo and so many others who call themselves Catholic yet promote abortion, same sex marriage and LBGTQ society while our bishops are silent make me SICK.
The Church institution has muzzled us all for pc and continued government money. They even close the churches and collect billions in PPP money from our tax dollars and have the nerve to ask for more! They collect for CCHD or CRS knowing full well they support antichrist groups shows their indifference to evil. Revelation tells us what God does to those who are lukewarm. Perhaps, we are experiencing what lukewarm Catholicism/Christianity offers in society…chaos, the tower of Babel. God leaves us to ourselves and our prideful leaders and civilization is undone.
Teaching that Catholicism is just being nice and feeding the poor while being tolerant to evil is not Catholicism but Modernism. So, going to my Modernist church is difficult now. I’m comforted in knowing God is in control but uneasy knowing He has left us to take a stand and few are willing. Money and human respect enslaves most and it’s really disheartening when you see it in most of our clergy.
God keeps asking us all to chose and most chose the world. Why am I upset when He has told us there is only a remnant? Because division within my own church and family is so apparent now. My joy is in the Lord and His promises but I sorrow that our once free society has been taken over through propaganda. Worse, is that both government and the Vatican are holding hands to destroy Christian civilization for their NWO utopia!
January 2, 2022 at 9:28 am
Amen!