I'm a Catholic teacher having an existential crisis....

Wow.



This is like...disturbing father.

Catholic teacher using the word "fucking" FAIL.

What exactly jades you OP?

Jinkies, were you born on anther planet...many catholic/Christian teachers say it, do it and many smoke something, but not behind the school shed.

A lot of Christian teachers I know would knock your socks of with what they do behind closed doors.

Not believing is just a natural progression to freedom, its hard but it has to happen.

When you speak to the children OP, you can add a disclaimer at the end like...You need to make up your own mind, do your own research...etc

That little bit may make you feel better

I'd feel like God was distant and unreal too if I had only Catholic doctrine to go on...

WOW! I am so sorry you feel this way right now.

Things get hard for everyone.

It is time for you to give yourself a break and give some time to do lovely stuff. Like go watch animals playing in the wild. Plan a holiday to Everest or whatever turns you on. Go skydiving or cliff climbing or painting flower pots.

Whatever gives you a bit of joy, do. You need to balance the work and drudgery with exciting fun stuff. Get back some balance.

Read the Fatima story. We're not here for personal success, but to have a relationship with God.

I have zero relationship with God.

And that scares me.

I TRY to believe like I used to, but I just don't.

This world is a hell-hole. And I'm supposed to believe there's a ''God?''

I am struggling with this so much that it hurts my heart.

I am not who I used to be.

I don't have a relationship with god

I don't have a mental illness and I live a very average life

Its not like god has forsaken me, its more like I ignore silly rubbish that fucks with peoples heads.

The eyes are the window of the soul. Why look at ugly parts of the world to for him...these are the parts that have fallen away and corrupted themselves from him? Where did you think that would lead...closer or further away?

But what about the beautiful things in the world? What about them?

Catholic simply Means Universal

So my question for folks to chew on:

is The Roman Universal Church uplifted more or less than any other Church by The Scriptures?
(which contain Christ and the Apostles Words)

And why is it that most people You meet from Catholic denomination Don't believe in God or Believe Whats written in The Bible?

anyway Rome is the Fourth kingdom (THE Beast system)

(they are Lucifer worshipers in disguise)

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There is No Relationship With God in the Roman
(Wide Road) Universal System........

i would recommend reading this entire article.

[link to theschoolofchrist.org]

That's because as Christians, we need to be born again. (see John 3:3)....we become new again when that happens, and God fills us with the Holy Spirit....that's when we develop a personal one-on-one relationship with Him that satisfies us deeply....that big void in humans that people fill with alcohol, drugs, porn, sex, gambling,over-eating, etc, that void is suppose to be filled with Him instead....that's what is the cause of people feeling so lonely and empty in this world today, I believe....
I will pray for you, that you seek Him with all your heart....and find Him....
God bless you

Watch Caesars Messiah5 on You Tube
Now honestly look into the religion of your ancestors before the coming of fictional Jesus. Consider becoming a follower of the religion of your ancestors.

stop spreading lies.. the man everyone calls jesus existed and walked this earth.

period.

Don't you listen to the pope? If you love this world, then you do not love Christ. Let go of your material desires.

Liar! Jesus is a composit of Moses and Titus. Jesus is fiction!

I hear you Canada. May I be the first to offer you a Do OVER. We get a fresh one every day. but you especially in this time. So you Faith is frazzled, sounds awful, beeeep do over, frazzled Faith is a good thing. Try again and come closer.

Catholicism IS in fact a validation crap shoot. You are caught up in it like one of the Fish. Just let that go. You have a nice teaching job, you work with nice kids, impart the best of yourself.

IN the next year or so figure out how to use the best of your skills and feel great about it. The State of Arizona is crying for qualified teachers. Same for Indonesia, only don't go there, you don't have to be in all that. but you see what i mean. Reframe yourself focusing on what you Can do and what you DO have. And what you CAN give.

Now go have a piece of chocolate.

Not religious myself but I do appreciate ALL religions take on love and respect of fellow living beings.

Just draw on those and live in Christ consciousness! Isn't that what 'God' would want anyway?

Don't be sad, just be true.

Make use of the "grace" of the Sacraments OP. Go make a
good Confession this Saturday, then, receive Our Lord in
the most Holy Eucharist.

All this God's "grace" will help you.

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit will watch over you, haven't they always?

You're experiencing a dark night of the soul. Persevere
in your faith.


God bless you,


Mary

For a good time call Martha.

you got it right.

there ain't no fricking God.

onward thru the fog!!!!

OP do you ever feel worn out from trying to accept & internalize externalized 'beliefs' and disheartened from not formulating and following your own? In other words, does your spirit feel stifled that you've been trying to conform to something that's been presented to you rather than blazing your own path of self-discovery and exploration?

You fail idiot.
You think Christians don't swear?

Crap.He is just tired of pretending to believe in the ridiculous fairy tale called the bible.Sooner or later common sense prevails.

There is an exciting vid going around about Jesus being a Ronan invention. That could help clear the air. Oh and god is energy...

Totally understand. My mother was raised in an orphanage (st. Patrick's Catholic Orphanage) and though she never talked about it, after research, I realize that due to charitable donations needed from community, the real truth about the orphanages was kept a secret (how the older kids took care of young, favoritism, bullying, harsh punishment, slave labor). They were referred to as inmates. This was in 1926 to 1947. The kids turned mean. If you had living parents, you were in one group, dead parents in another, the out-of-wed or produced via rape children were ostracized and taunted. The kids were shipped to places to work during harvest, trains typically though England sent children here by the ship fulls. It surely gets quite darker when the lights went out or the doors were closed. I am writing a story of my mother's life and I can see why she never attended church. You should do the same (secretly).

Caesars Messiah5 on you tube. Pass it on. No more Christian lies!

what about the current life ?

actually Jesus of Nazareth was a Buddhist gay guy who
liked to hang out with his buddies all the time, and
go on fishing trips and stuff, and do a lot of water skiing.

and the Elders of the community got all pissed off
at him one day and nailed him to the cross (as was the custom of that period)
and, of course... and then people started telling a lot
of wild stories about him, and, well, as you can see, 2000 years later: things just got a little out of hand...