Why are you catholic

[Snowcatpa]

[quote name='catholicmomof4' date='Jun 14 2005, 03:46 PM']I was just asked this yesterday by a friend that was just "astonished" that we would convert to Catholisism ! This is how I explained it to her....

I told her that if I came to her extremely thirsty, I would want her to give me a FULL glass of water with ice not a half empty cup of lukewarm water. I want something cold and wet to quench that thirst !

Well, churches are the same. We go to church to quench a need, a thirst for Christ and I want a church that will fill my entire need and quench the thirst I have for our Lord ! Most (and I said most) protestant churches teach "truth" but it is only part of the truth. You can only find the fullness of truth in the Catholic Church. No other church offers the real and physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist. I want that! I want to recieve the Lord EVERYDAY ! You can not find that anywhere else !

Thanks and glory be to God forever !
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I LOVE that. That is a great metaphor for how other churches have truth and can help quench your thirst, but they're never going to fill it because only Catholicism is the one true faith.

[ilovechrist]

i agree, that metaphor is quite useful.

i've simply told them that there isn't any religion out there that can answer the questions to life like Catholicism can. it gives you all the answers you need (i've never gotten a question unanswered by a layperson or religious)... and gives you more gifts than any other belief can.

[philothea]

I would probably be too stunned to answer if anyone asked me why I was Catholic. It's too fundamental... like asking me why I prefer to breathe an oxygen-based atmosphere.

Nothing else works...?

[Old_Joe]

JPII once said, "It is the innate vocation of every human being to love."
Also, It was either St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas who said this about our relationship with God, "Every person has a God shaped hole in their soul, and only God can fill it." Of course when I brought this up in my Bible study, one of the guys pictured something like Bugs Bunny running through a wall leaving an outline of himself.

[let_go_let_God]

The Catholic church is so full and beautiful in faith. The Catholic Church is the church that Jesus founded. Even though most Protestant churches separated from the Catholic Church, this is where I love to be. There is also the fullness of the sacraments, from natural conception to natural death.

Look at the Eucharist. "This is my Body" "This is my Blood" everyone that was following Jesus at that time left him except the Apostles. When they left him Jesus didn't recant and say "No, no come back it was only a metaphore! You don't really have to eat me! Come back, is wine and bread good enough!?" Jesus stood and watched them leave humbly. When he saw the Apostles there still he asked if they were going to leave him too. The Apostles said just what I want to say. "But Lord, to whom shall we go?" I don't want to go anywhere else. In the Catholic Church I am complete.

God bless-
LGLG

[melporcristo]

well wayyy back in the day, i would probably say because it's what my parent's raised me in.

NOW I would definately say the Sacraments and most importantly THE MASS -- heck yeah!!

[Noel's angel]

God made me do it....

[Cure of Ars]

Because of all the genuflecting…its good for the glutes...and upon this rock I will build my Church....

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Edited June 17, 2005 by Cure of Ars

[Keharitomeni Theotokos]

I think being Catholic is a gift - a grace from God.

I would respond with a question. "Why are you a living person?"

Just as being a living person is a GIFT so being a Catholic is a GIFT.

I am a Catholic because I have been given the greatest gift of all - God in his fullness!

[dUSt]

Because if Catholicism isn't true, then Chrstianity has no foundation, and Jesus Christ is a lie.