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Faith is not a "feel", it's gifted by the Holy Ghost.

How much do you read your Bible?

>>804097

I have felt the grace of god recently. I don’t know how to describe it.

I have started reading Genesis. I’ve read part of st. Anthony’s biography and the ladder of divine ascent.

>>804102

>I have felt the grace of god recently. I don’t know how to describe it.

A divine presence in the heart, always there.

>I have started reading Genesis.

You did the right thing, Anon, the truth in Genesis is your key to deep and strong faith, that's why it is the most viciously attacked part of the Bible.

Once you established your connection the living God, let the Holy Ghost lead you to the right parish.

>>804102

to me, grace is that feeling of knowing that your sin is disgusting and the clarity of knowing that only Christ saves

trust me, you might not feel anything, I sometimes don't when I go for my communion, I wish I was more zealous or moved to tears, but I'm not

but the fact that I'm there means a lot, I know that it is all true and my intellect knows I am recieving Christ into me through communion, weather I am moved by this matters not, it still feels good to me and helps me in my spiritual warfare against Satan, the communion we recieve helps us

Have you tried a Latin mass anon? I too don't always feel things, but when I do it's usually at Latin Mass! It's quite peaceful. Don't feel depressed by it, sometimes these things takes time. I was thinking today in church how that do I really have a "relationship with Jesus?". I was thinking about how they say you have to encounter Jesus, and I guess I was thinking that I don't know if I ever did. And then I just remembered like, as silly as this might sound, just reading some nice comments online, of people being nice to each other and maybe that is Jesus. That kindness. I know it's sort of hard to explain what I mean.

I guess I'm just trying to say that maybe these things take time. I know some churches have to be a lot harder to be in an area to even feel God or get your mind thinking about things. I went to a Hillsong typeish worship thing once and while the music part was fairly nice the preaching was so long and just sounded like a self-help thing, so I know that would be hard for me to think about God.

Hang in there anon!

Feelings mean nothing; Is what I find me telling myself often. Sometimes I have emotions that compel me to do or believe something against my faith. That is when I tell myself that.

>>804268

Umm you have the greatest and deepest relationship with Christ, it's so intimate more than others claim to have. You eat him, you consume him, you are one with him, in the Eucharist he is truly there, body, blood, soul, and divinity. The quicker you believe that and accept that, your life will change. You will allow him to change you.

i feel something in church fear

>>804300

Of what?

>>804308

I have a fear of people putting free money on my lawn