That's people, that's us. People of God, the Christian community, call it whatever you want. In my language we call it a meeting.
We learn to forgive and hope, and not live with intense guilt.
Find a healthy spirituality. Not acting weird and self denial, but a way to be comfortable in your own skin. That's who we are. Whoever created us, who cares, that's who we are.
I was very broken, and on this odyssey I began to question, I questioned the sacraments. Do I believe bread and wine that's Jesus, no. Do I believe when we get together and talk about our lives in Christ and share bread and wine, that's a Higher Power, yes I believe in that.
I'm just sharing my examples.
When I stopped all that magical thinking, I began to feel the real feeling of love.
The church is what the people make it to be.
It may be painful, it is scary, to accept responsibility for your own spirituality. Examine the toxic beliefs one by one, with others, with a friend, but do not be afraid.
I want to be as far away from that toxic structure as I possibly can and I want to take as many people with me as possible. We can share that wonderful gift, serenity. Thank you.
AFTER STANDING OVATION:
The national review board do they have any practical purpose, do they do anything for us?
They as an institution cannot respond or make amends because they are afflicted with narcissism which is a pathological worshipping of oneself.
One of the healthier things we can do is look at them realistically and lower our expectations. The only way they will respond is to a power higher than themselves.
Catholic hierarchy is a monarchy and as such it cannot treat you and I as equals and it never will.
It should treat you as equals, as that's what Christ would want, but the nature of the beast is they are a self perpetuating monarchy
ON THE CHALLENGE OF TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR OWN SPIRITUALITY
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