2007-02-21 03:23:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I gave up Catholicism permanently.
2007-02-21 03:28:37 · answer #1 · answered by Sookie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would be missing point a bit.
The Catholic Church and many other Christians Churches follow the Biblical practice of Jesus Christ and the Jews in setting aside days where the entire Church fasts and prays as one in a attitude of constant renewal.
By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert and in spiritual preparation for the celebration of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.
This season of penance is an intense moments of the Church's penitential practice and are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and charitable and missionary works.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-22 01:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off, it is better to enter Heaven without your hand than to suffer eternal fire.
I think Jesus had first hand knowledge of this. I think several people who were baptized into the body of Christ who loved to sin were cut off. We might think we "give up" Catholicism but, I think it is more like he has cut us off. When you think about it, the human body looses thousands of skin cells all the time.
The Apostles said it best though when they said "because they have left us, is proof they were never with us"
2007-02-21 11:38:09 · answer #3 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol, ur funny
2007-02-21 12:06:37 · answer #4 · answered by Eryn v 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋