TradCatKnight: Joel 2:13 Rend Your Hearts Not Your Garments

Contrition for sin is not going through the motions.  Some have the notion that if I simply show up to Mass “it is all good”.  This is like taking the invite of the neighbor over to diner than constantly being on the phone or looking out the window during the dialogue before the meal.  It offends God.   You must “show up” in prayer to God.  Reciting the words of a prayer does not mean your heart is behind it.  Many will rend their garments in public because their hearts wont be bent to God’s Will.  How many get upset because God doesn’t follow their plan? How many will go through the vicious cycle of mortally offending God being forgiven in Confession only to come back the following week to complete the cycle?  The process of moving away from self is brutal.  It is the hardest thing you will ever do and this is why there are so few saints so few eagles.  Structure is good do not get me wrong but if we turn into some sort of robot reciting prayers without any heart involved than what good is the prayer?  

 

 

Lip service.  Could you imagine your significant other giving you the same excuse over and over again for their infidelity to you in the relationship?  We are just human beings and assuredly we will not accept this lip service.  How much more will the “just God” not accept it if He is the reader of hearts and supposed to be the Bridegroom of your soul?  Over and over we read from Catholicism how the Jews had uncircumcised hearts and were a stiff-necked people therefore do you want to be considered the same? You go through the motions and want to to be seen but your heart is far away from the Sacred Heart.  You say you care about the Faith but you put very little time into knowing it in general and even worse no time in trying to understand this Church crisis.