Author Topic: Do You as a Catholic Find Yourself Losing Interest in Life (Read 1065 times)

Truth is Eternal · « **on:** August 16, 2011, 07:52:18 PM »

With society as a whole having rebelled against God for so long it is getting even more difficult for me as a Traditional Catholic to find my true vocation and I suspect there are many more Traditional Catholics with this same dilemma I have.

The farther society drifts or runs away from God the more dissatisfied I become with my life in general having to deal with so many people trying so desperately to prolong their unrealistic way of life for as long as possible without any thought of God's will for their life.

In the last several months I have become even more aware of how far away from reality modern society has become which makes me long for my true vocation even more as I find myself losing interest in this life and focusing more on Eternal Heaven.

I am thinking a global economic collapse might be needed to wake up many people trying to continue to live in an unreal way of life without God.

Do you as a Catholic find yourself losing interest in life as unrealistic modern society begins to collapse around us and also close in on us Traditional Catholics?

Anna1959 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2011, 07:55:01 PM »

Quote from: Truth is Eternal

With society as a whole having rebelled against God for so long it is getting even more difficult for me as a Traditional Catholic to find my true vocation and I suspect there are many more Traditional Catholics with this same dilemma I have.

The farther society drifts or runs away from God the more dissatisfied I become with my life in general having to deal with so many people trying so desperately to prolong their unrealistic way of life for as long as possible without any thought of God's will for their life.

In the last several months I have become even more aware of how far away from reality modern society has become which makes me long for my true vocation even more as I find myself losing interest in this life and focusing more on Eternal Heaven.

I am thinking a global economic collapse might be needed to wake up many people trying to continue to live in an unreal way of life without God.

Do you as a Catholic find yourself losing interest in life as unrealistic modern society begins to collapse around us and also close in on us Traditional Catholics?

EXACTLY how I feel too.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2011, 09:57:40 PM »

Quote from: Truth is Eternal

Do you as a Catholic find yourself losing interest in life as unrealistic modern society begins to collapse around us and also close in on us Traditional Catholics?

YES! YES! YES!

Wow! Are you my unauthorized biographer!? Your sentiments are identical to mine!

We are merely pilgrims in this world, so a Catholic is supposed to have such sentiments, no matter what age it is. This is why our first Pope wrote, "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul" (I St. Peter ch. ii., 11). Heaven is our only true fatherland, and the vexations and distresses of the present age ought to remind us to yearn all the more for our heavenly fatherland, as St. Paul had written to the Romans, "For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us" (Rom. ch. viii., 18). Yearning for heaven should be our motivation to detach ourselves from all created things, especially self, in order to be worthy of the glories of heaven, which St. Paul beautifully describes, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him" (I Cor. ch. ii., 9).

However, whether we like it or not, we are alive in the world, so we must cultivate an interior life worthy of our Baptismal vows and the graces we receive by Holy Mass and the Sacraments, that we may advance in the exercise of virtue and become ourselves an eloquent refutation, suffused with the harmony of celestial grace, against the cacophonous sirens that are the evils and perversions of the modern day. This is why St. Peter went on to write, "Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works, which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation" (op. cit.., 12).

Acting thusly, we not only shun this wicked world, but perhaps become an occasion for others to see the goodness of God and His holy grace, and they can thus begin their conversion to true religion and abandon the world. All pamphlets and preaching cannot do what an edifying example can, with the help of holy grace.

herbert · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2011, 10:05:07 PM »

catholic who are sure in their faith are enviable. the most attractive catholics are the one who give up the world. i suppose for those who dont beleive, giving up on the world means ѕυιcιdє.

Darcy · « **Reply #4 on:** August 17, 2011, 10:13:50 PM »

Does God want us to be depressed? So full of despair for the current condition of the world that we don't want to live?

I know the world is getting worse but does God want us to want to die just to get to Heaven? Is that selfish?
Why did he make us then as living beings and not just make all of us Angels instead?

I think about this a lot because conditions make me sad too.

But perhaps this is a nudge to get out and help somebody or if people are not your forte, plant a tree.

:farmer:

Emerentiana · « **Reply #5 on:** August 19, 2011, 07:18:52 PM »

Quote from: Truth is Eternal

With society as a whole having rebelled against God for so long it is getting even more difficult for me as a Traditional Catholic to find my true vocation and I suspect there are many more Traditional Catholics with this same dilemma I have.

The farther society drifts or runs away from God the more dissatisfied I become with my life in general having to deal with so many people trying so desperately to prolong their unrealistic way of life for as long as possible without any thought of God's will for their life.

In the last several months I have become even more aware of how far away from reality modern society has become which makes me long for my true vocation even more as I find myself losing interest in this life and focusing more on Eternal Heaven.

I am thinking a global economic collapse might be needed to wake up many people trying to continue to live in an unreal way of life without God.

Do you as a Catholic find yourself losing interest in life as unrealistic modern society begins to collapse around us and also close in on us Traditional Catholics?

YES YES YES

Sigismund · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2011, 08:39:44 PM »

I am still as much in love with life as I ever was.