The Lord be with you readers! This is a blog created for Electronic Bloggers and readers who are also Catholic or are interested in the Catholic faith. The topic I would like to open with is a common misconception about the Catholic Church. The stereotype goes as the following: If you do not do what God or the Church commands, you go to hell, and that's that. What the truth is, is that we, as a Catholic people, are nothing like that. One of the things we teach that we quote from Our Lord Jesus Christ is that, "God did not send his Only Son, the Messiah, down to earth to condemn all its people, but rather to save them." Each person, I believe as a strong Catholic has their own unique relationship with God, therefore also having their own style of worship and conversation. There is no particular way to pray or worship, but rather, a specific type that can only be found in each individual. What the Church is made up of is a force of imperfect sinners, but through the mystery of the Holy Eucharist is transformed into the Body of Christ. The Catholic Church is not a harsh or strict force that commands you to worship very precisely in a specific manner, but a force of modern day shepherds present to guide us, as the sheep, to the True Lord God Almighty, and help our relationships grow closer to Him. A thing I was taught through personal experience in a very fast manner is that prayer is not just rambling endlessly in the darkness to air, but rather, a simple prayer that acts as a conversation. It has been quoted in Holy Scripture that, "You are to pray simple and from the heart, as Your Lord In Heaven knows already what you need and what you seek." If we apply this to true life, we are not to just talk to ourselves in a long spiel of meaningless words, but rather pray to the Lord, and open our hearts, minds, and spirits for a response. We are not alone, and there is a God. If you say otherwise, I say very respectively, I beg to differ.
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