Tom, did you ever read "the Hound of Heaven? You will like it...

Tom, how true! I walked away and he welcomed me back.

@@lp28487 I’m still waiting for that to happen for me

your history, its my history too, THANK YOU JESUS I´M BACK🙂

Same here 🙏

Awesome!

Don’t feel that way about lost time. Yes you have guilt and sorrow of for it but remember Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel with the parable of the vineyard worker! It doesn’t matter when you start but to come to Jesus even near the end of your life and have a relationship with him doing the good works he prepared for us to do ahead of time. The heart of God is all sinners and souls to be saved even those Catholics who Jesus tells the Pharisees in the parables of the 2 sons both prodigal son in Luke and the obedient and disobedient son whom the disobedient son said no at first but changes his mind and does the will of God and repents.

Me too hoping I still have time

Me too! I hope there is time for me. ❤🙏🏼

I also was raised Catholic, then stopped in my late teens, early 20's. I came back at age 69, now I understand what I was missing.

So was I 🙏now I can't imagine life without Him🙏

Don’t let the crazy people use politics to wreck the norms, disciplines, and sacraments of the Church.

❤God definitely answered your begging...know that❤ LOVE YOUR MOM 💞🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💞

@@karenlamorie63 thank you 🙏🏼 I never take a moment for granted with her. I make time to spend with her all the time whether it’s shopping or breakfast etc. cherish every moment with loved ones 🙏🏼

Praise be to God!

Relationship with Jesus is possible. I have seen him come to me in dreams and speak to me along with the still small quiet peaceful joyful whispers of the Holy Spirit to clear up the doubt you went through. Read the parable of the prodigal sons today and see that you are Jesus’s prodigal daughter whom he knew would go and waited for the day for you to come back and return so that the Father Himself came come to meet you when you decided to come back to him. It is very much possible to hear the voice of Jesus and the Holy Spirit as we are his sheep but we must be seeking him and desiring holiness so that we can drown out all the different voices of the world and focus on Him.

So sorry you have been through so much. Living in this world can be awful. I have been through many things myself, perhaps not as traumatizing as your's but I do know God is there even if it takes years to experience justice to a situation. I just experienced an amazing justice to a years long traumatic situation. I cannot describe my awe or how thankful I am. Stay strong with Christ. He makes all things right in His time.

You have been blessed by God, in turn you bless us who read your words ... ♡

I hear ya, my heart breaks and my eyes fill with tears…running from and running towards, and so much pain and suffering and confusion. God bless and have Mercy on us all.

Thank you for blessing us with your story. God bless you! ❤

Do you know why? I want to learn. Sorry, im still new and feel like thats the situation im in. Thanks.

⁠@@erikestrada8141I always think of Mary at the wedding feast of Cana when she said, “Do whatever He tells you”-in other words Mary always points us to Jesus. Also, Jesus on the cross gave her to us as our spiritual Mother. There are so many ways to Jesus and God is so generous in providing these “ways” in the Church to draw us close. When I was drawn to the Church after years of searching and reading but somehow didn’t have Faith a priest I spoke with told me “ go to Mass- because Jesus is present.” I thought well that’s something I can do and - blessedly! - I did receive faith. It was so wonderful and I was so grateful ! I could also remember the spiritual loneliness of not having faith so I have always cherished the gift and been careful to stay close to the Mass and the Sacraments so I would never lose it by drifting away. God bless you,Eric- keep searching and Jesus, his Mother,and “the Cloud of Witnesses” (the proclaimers of his truth) will bring you Home! You are loved! ❤️🙏❤️

@@erikestrada8141 the Virgin Mary is the mother of God! She is holy and loves humanity.

As it is said, when you think that you are closing the door to Jesus and His Church, His mother is always opening a window! God bless you!

@@rosiegirl2485 I like that!

You left the Methodist CULT. ONLY Jesus can found a Church

Amen welcome home!

@@simonslater9024 just out of curiosity, how is the Methodist Church a cult? I was raised to believe in the Holy Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. We say the Apostle’s Creed which is similar to the Apostle’s Creed in the Catholic Church. I never felt like I was in a cult and still have several friends who are still Methodist. It just wasn’t for me anymore and I found my home in the Catholic Church.

This is me, too! ❤

Amen

This ^^. I had doubts along the way but I still went to church, to keep that door open. It helped. 🙏🏼

I think that it’s beautiful of you to be honest about. I think we all struggle with this sometimes. I’ll be praying for you! I would encourage you to pray from you’re at, ask: “Lord, help me to want to surrender to you” “Lord, help me to to want to want to do your will” “Lord, give me the courage to want to live the Christian life” 😊

I feel the same as you, Antonio. Let's pray for each other.

I think we all feel this way sometimes and for some most of the time. Take heart and let's keep praying for each other ...all of us

Read Luke’s account of Jesus’s Agony in the Garden and also pray the Rosary for the motherly love and help of Mary. In Luke’s account there is a key description of you and Peter being the same: sleeping from the pain and sorrow of the heart failing to act and keep watch for the Devil and sin. Now also read all 4 Gospels of Jesus’s agony of being afraid and sorrowful to do the Will of God and be brutally killed, suffer, die, and tortured to pay the price of all our sins. Keep this in mind how God knows our humanity and made it so that we can pray like Jesus and give everything on our hearts and minds over to Him and receive his Divine Love and Support in return. What does Jesus mean I am the Way, The Truth, and the Life? He means that not only is he the path into Heaven but also the perfect example of what Heaven is and how to enter into unity with God’s Divine Spirit like him with our flawed and broken humanity coming together to be made clean and perfect.

I'm in a similar situation - I'm scared to death of what I think God calls me to do sometimes - so I recently started praying the Litany of Trust and it helps lighten my fears when I pray it contemplatively

Permit me to ask, did you leave because of the divorce? I want to you know, divorce does not separate you from the church. There's so much at stake for leaving the one true faith.

@@ronaldaj-w7989 Yes, I felt quite divided from the church, luckily I feel that God is understanding and more forgiving than the church is. God is to love as Church is to rules.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR POSITIVE WORDS! The Church of the 1960's was so different. But there has always been an empty part of my life. I believe I have found a Parish and a Community and my own wandering has a goal, Fr, Mike & the Internet would have made such a difference way back them...

God bless

You have the holy Catholic Church. You have 48,000 protestant CULTS including the Pentecostal CULT and Lutheran CULT.

Prayers

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

So nice today you smelled the roses. You're lucky.

Thank you for sharing this my sibling in Christ and it pleases me to know God is answering my prayers for all the faithful souls of the Catholic Church, especially those who have gone astray, to come back together again without me even knowing it. I am glad you came back as you need to submit to the Spirit and ask wisdom, understanding, and knowledge for why is Francis doing these things and how do they not contradict the Scriptures (Fuducia Supplicnas and Infinite Dignity of the Human person doctrinal releases.)? That’s a question only God and WILL answer as he did for me and you also need to pray to God for helping you to hear his voice as he does speak like Jesus tells us as the Good Shepherd.

@@Justyouraverageguy172 I actually watched a good video, if I can find it I will post it. It's not someone that I watch a lot only because I am subscribed to a lot of channels on here, so I can't remember the name of the channel. That being written, he said that Satan is trying to divide the Church with all of this, and to keep going and not give in to the Devil's Whims, or something like that.

I’m so glad you came back 🙏🏻 please do not let one person take you away from our faith; that’s the issue with a lot of people, they get upset with a particular priest, clergy person or pope and decide to flee. They are all human and therefore can make mistakes. Put your trust in Jesus alone and in his word, and of course the Catholic Church. but understand that we cannot fully put our trust in any person, only Jesus. I say this to myself as well. God bless you sister. The greatest gift is to be Catholic🙏🏻

@@juliealbright5191YES! Satan is infecting the Catholic Church with his evil nature of pride both rainbow pride and the vice of intellectual and ego based pride

You walked away but he didn't 😊

Why do you think that you should "get" something? Don't you know that Eucharist is the greatest gift that you can possibly get? And that Christ is waiting for you to give Himself in Sacrament of Eucharist? The question that is more appropriate is "what can you give Jesus? Did Jesus feel loved by you? and if why do you reject his greatest gift - Eucharist that is in the Catholic Church, who can give you a greatest gift. As Catholics we need to find consolation in Jesus and not in people. People are not God. People can't give something they don't have. What did you give Jesus?

I have some words of encouragement for you and see if what I have spoken is true and resonates with you. As someone who actually heard the voice of God and the Holy Spirit you need to know that God does not want to hide himself from us but it is us who often hide ourselves from him like Jonah. Deep down you are still questioning God why “did you take my husband away from me. He was everything to me.” You expected sympathy and love from your fellow parishioners but received not an ounce of compassion or understanding. You then took that so deeply that you felt betrayed and left the Church because of what you experienced and others in your ears temping you listening to their voices “there is no God. If God was good then why did he let your husband die?” Now you feel so betrayed that you can’t trust Catholics anymore or anyone else to open up about this and deep down you want to come back but are afraid, doubtful, and unsure about Jesus. Why did Jesus weep in John’s Gospel and the others? God KNOWS your pain and sorrow and our suffering. That is what the Compassion of God is. God was not forced to work the healings, miracles, and works of raising those who died from the dead like Lazarus to his grieving friends of Mary and Martha. Jesus as God cried with us and grieved with us and chose to answer Martha and Mary’s request however he pleased to deepen their faith as well and all those who witnessed it foreseeing that God will get the praise and glory from their lips working those 4 long hard days instead of coming immediately. God’s will is that you pray and give to Him anything that’s on your mind and heart including our pain and sadness. Because he experienced all our human pain, all our human suffering and loss so that nothing can be lost anymore to the Devil. God is still human like us! Rejoice in that Jesus never casted off our humanity when he ascended back into Heaven and is still praying for us before the Father and our Mother Mary.

I understand your sentiment most lonely I felt was and still in the church. So much for so called fellowship all we do is gestures towards each other because said so otherwise would never bother to and still wouldn't know who is who by name and empty words but ultimately Jesus never intends it to be that way but sometimes it is - that's no fault of anyone but our own collective selfishnes to an extend. We are all flawed, the world we are in is even more flawed. People don't got time to looking out for others when they barely have time for themselves! But alas we go to church for Jesus and receive graces to have the strength to survive another week, be protected from things we never get to see in hindsight at the moment. We are weak in everything related to life w.o his grace. Yet he gives it to us freely that's how merciful he is. Open your heart to receive him at his home as he as called us to but don't look around for anyone else to show up for you. For he alone is enough for us. One lit candle lights many others more. Let's be our best to be as we are called for even though there might not be much example around us. He is waiting to receive you with open arms, whenever your ready. God bless

selfish, humanist, classic boomer ethos. you deserve nothing. you are not entitled to “get” anything from God or His Church. Yet he gave everything for you and by his death and resurrection has elevated you to be worthy of salvation. and you can’t even be bothered to go to church on sunday because it just doesn’t do it for ya? Give God the worship He is due. Go to confession, participate in the holy sacrifice of the Mass, pray, and change the focus of your life from yourself to God.