I am very ill and I am able to go to church because my condition isn’t that debilitating, but I am thinking it might be prudential not to because old people and families make up like 80% of my parish and I am afraid I may infect them which would obviously not be good.
Do I attend mass still??
I obsessed over a girl for a year and a half and I never spoke to her but I embarrassed myself on multiple occasions and I’m fairly certain she knows of my existence. we attended the same college and now it’s been a year since then.
is there any first message I can send her which does not make me look so creepy??? Or is the situation unsalvageable.
I was invited last week to join some Catholic charismatic event with guest speakers like priests and even an abbot. there was also ‘praise and worship’ and I find all of it quite disturbing, I know many people hold the idea that as long as there’s fidelity to Catholic doctrine then it’s okay, but is that seriously how low the bar is??
I think the danger is that it’s smuggling Pentecostal forms of ‘worship’ into Catholicism and it could lead to indifferentism in those who take part, like the lines between sacraments and this low level praise will be blurred and they just become different expressions of the same thing. likewise, there’s an emphasis on ‘spiritual highs’ which is really just confusing emotion with grace, replacing substance with experiences and this can lead people to desiring inauthentic spiritual experiences and replaces god with themselves as the focus of their spiritual life.
all in all, I seriously don’t like it. What do other people think??