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/his/ - Can you be christian without going to mass
Anonymous No.17929680
I'm in a place right now where I can't really call myself a member of the Catholic Church. I believe in the theology and intellectual tradition of Catholicism, but have never been able to find fellowship and community within the actual organization. My experience has been similar to OP's (apart from his far-right rantings). Everybody in Mass just seems like they are there to "eat their cracker" and go home. I've been to services where people don't even turn and offer each other peace, rather a family of four will hug each other and ignore everyone else.

I'm currently trying to get involved in a Bible study group, but it has the problem of being one big already-established group where newcomers are just sort of ignored. Like the kind of people who say to you "Hey how's it going" and then immediately turn their back to go make inside jokes with a friend. No structure or anything to it.

Christianity explicitly calls for fellowship and service, yet I feel more drawn towards practicing it as a hermit and just forgoing organized religion as a whole. Because I'm starting to feel like "What's the point?", might as well pursue an inner spiritual journey than keep trying to force myself into a sense of community.
/his/ - Thread 17785806
Anonymous No.17785920
>>17785806
Literally just live a sacramental life. Get baptized, receive communion, confess your sins, perform good works. Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. Flee from sin and immorality. That's it.

The whole "works vs. grace" argument has always seemed to be a silly exercise in semantics. Yes, no matter what you do you'll never be able to merit salvation on your own, which is why the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ. And yes, you can't just call yourself a Christian and continue to live a sinful, immoral, selfish life thinking "Hey if I don't sin, Jesus died for nothing!" You need both good works, and faith in the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ.

Honestly, prots and catlickers should stop arguing over minor theological differences and focus on solving the apostasy crisis going on