Do you listen to secular music? & Lukewarmness, advice?
Jul 16, 2020 23:01:12 GMT -5
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Post by Butterfly3 on Jul 16, 2020 23:01:12 GMT -5
I was curious what everyone else listens to on a daily basis? Do you listen to secular music? I've never really thought too much about what the lyrics said in popular music, but lately I have a tad bit. I guess my actual question is, if you're a convert, have you ever had a hard time... transitioning from protestantism to Traditional Catholicism? Sometimes, I'm pretty bad at being "Catholic". I feel horrible saying it, but I have no idea how I'm going to be Catholic. It is pretty strict, and a lot different than I NO definitely. It's not a bad thing, just sometimes I have issues (I wouldn't call it bad) with authority and other things. I can't think on how to say what I want to say -.-
In my head, to be a Traditional Catholic you have to do this check list and I've not really started on that "list". Like some of the checklist is, wear the brown scapular, pray in the morning, noon, and night time before bed, pray the rosary daily, say the 15-decade rosary daily, get the correct missal, get books and read them, listen to holy music all the time, etc.
I've done some of them, but the fasting on Friday. I should be doing that, but sometimes I eat meat on Friday, because of excuses, mainly. Soon, I'll be conditional baptized and out of the blue once, I thought, "well I don't really have to do any of this stuff, I can just wait until I get baptized and confession, Eucharist". That is horrible to say, that's like I'm not even trying. A lot has happened in the past two years.
I think I know where it comes from though, sorta. I do have patterns of just researching and being in something and I guess getting bored with it and/or my zeal is gone and burnt out on it and it gets trying to do everything. Like failing everyday, because you didn't say the rosary, because you didn't want to or wasn't even thinking about it. That's bad, so that's guilt. And, it's a learned guilt. I say it like that because often times people say guilt is from God. We learn what is guilty from society and sometimes Religion.
I definitely want to be Catholic, I believe in what I've read and studied so far. I believe it was the first christian church(well Catholic, but the word wasn't even in existence yet)... Sorry I'm all over the place, that's just me. I just have no idea how I can be as holy as these people that are friends and online catholics that I've talked to for awhile. They are where I would love to be, they have strong faith and they are genuinely happy. I don't think that they would ever question the existence of God, because they know.
I have deleted that group within the last month, but I've been on FB a lot and in a debate group for atheists and christian... I should've never joined that group. I seem to think that if you answer an atheists question fully, completely. They will become Christian. I don't think that's realistic, though you hear about it in the media. But from joining that group, I doubt a bit more and I question a bit more not in a good way. When I first started to study which I thought was catholicism I studied it in a way that I was trying to disprove it. After that group, I joined a Ask the Rabbi, which you ask a Jewish teacher a question and he answers it. I only joined it for a couple questions based off of what a couple atheist were saying, because they don't really lie when it comes to certain things. I guess I should leave that group too. But Jesus was a Jew and I'm learning about what they view. That's part of my past, studying all these different religions. I used to have thousands of books, but a friend told me that I should throw all of them away that deal with other religions, and not approved catholic bibles, and just everything to do with anything not catholic. So, I threw out a LOT of books. I actually cried over it, because some of it was sentimental and I've never thrown away books!~ I'm a bookworm.~ I should've sold those books instead but they said that you shouldn't, because reselling someone those books that are fake, it would be like a double sin or something. I don't even understand that still to this day. I did keep some book sets though, because I just couldn't throw them away. I just bought it first off. Would you of thrown out all those old books of yours?
I'm babbling, sorry again. The saints as we are supposed to be like, what I've read about them when they converted, they dropped everything. I really have no idea how to do that. It's just not that easy. If you don't understand anything I say, please say something and I'll try to explain further. Thanks.
In my head, to be a Traditional Catholic you have to do this check list and I've not really started on that "list". Like some of the checklist is, wear the brown scapular, pray in the morning, noon, and night time before bed, pray the rosary daily, say the 15-decade rosary daily, get the correct missal, get books and read them, listen to holy music all the time, etc.
I've done some of them, but the fasting on Friday. I should be doing that, but sometimes I eat meat on Friday, because of excuses, mainly. Soon, I'll be conditional baptized and out of the blue once, I thought, "well I don't really have to do any of this stuff, I can just wait until I get baptized and confession, Eucharist". That is horrible to say, that's like I'm not even trying. A lot has happened in the past two years.
I think I know where it comes from though, sorta. I do have patterns of just researching and being in something and I guess getting bored with it and/or my zeal is gone and burnt out on it and it gets trying to do everything. Like failing everyday, because you didn't say the rosary, because you didn't want to or wasn't even thinking about it. That's bad, so that's guilt. And, it's a learned guilt. I say it like that because often times people say guilt is from God. We learn what is guilty from society and sometimes Religion.
I definitely want to be Catholic, I believe in what I've read and studied so far. I believe it was the first christian church(well Catholic, but the word wasn't even in existence yet)... Sorry I'm all over the place, that's just me. I just have no idea how I can be as holy as these people that are friends and online catholics that I've talked to for awhile. They are where I would love to be, they have strong faith and they are genuinely happy. I don't think that they would ever question the existence of God, because they know.
I have deleted that group within the last month, but I've been on FB a lot and in a debate group for atheists and christian... I should've never joined that group. I seem to think that if you answer an atheists question fully, completely. They will become Christian. I don't think that's realistic, though you hear about it in the media. But from joining that group, I doubt a bit more and I question a bit more not in a good way. When I first started to study which I thought was catholicism I studied it in a way that I was trying to disprove it. After that group, I joined a Ask the Rabbi, which you ask a Jewish teacher a question and he answers it. I only joined it for a couple questions based off of what a couple atheist were saying, because they don't really lie when it comes to certain things. I guess I should leave that group too. But Jesus was a Jew and I'm learning about what they view. That's part of my past, studying all these different religions. I used to have thousands of books, but a friend told me that I should throw all of them away that deal with other religions, and not approved catholic bibles, and just everything to do with anything not catholic. So, I threw out a LOT of books. I actually cried over it, because some of it was sentimental and I've never thrown away books!~ I'm a bookworm.~ I should've sold those books instead but they said that you shouldn't, because reselling someone those books that are fake, it would be like a double sin or something. I don't even understand that still to this day. I did keep some book sets though, because I just couldn't throw them away. I just bought it first off. Would you of thrown out all those old books of yours?
I'm babbling, sorry again. The saints as we are supposed to be like, what I've read about them when they converted, they dropped everything. I really have no idea how to do that. It's just not that easy. If you don't understand anything I say, please say something and I'll try to explain further. Thanks.