The Coping Catholic

Thank God for everything that helps relieve our suffering!

[tuxankhamun]

This may ruffle some feathers, but I generally prefer light themes to dark ones

[woolandflax]

I am with you brother

There is enough darkness in this world already

[caffeinatedrosary]

Do you think that the Blessed Virgin Mary asks Jesus in Heaven to become a baby sometimes so she can hold him in her arms again? Or that He does it unprompted because He wants to? Or that he lays His head on her lap and she caresses His hair while saying softly, "My beloved," "My baby boy?"

[o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]

Suppose a Tumblr user has fifty mutuals and one logs off for Lent. Doesn’t she spent 40 days bemoaning her lost mutual, even as she prays for her to be edified by her fasting? And when the mutual logs back in, she messages her other mutuals and posts and says, “Rejoice with me; my beloved mutual has returned!” In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

[copingcatholic]

If you want to know why the Christian or specifically Catholic spiritual life is so hard if you live in Asia, Pacifica, or the Americas: quite simply, it is because we are on the frontier. The corporal-spiritual "civilization" exists in the middle east, north Africa, western Asia, and Europe. Hence why pilgramiges have happened for centuries or millenia in other regions. Centuries of spiritual community is available there. There's history. We live on the outskirts. Some spiritual communities where we are begin with us and, that is a difficult burden. His Word extends to the farthest ends of the Earth. And we are called to be that Word.

[acatholicrose]

[copingcatholic]

Would you all please pray for me and my family? My parents, siblings and myself are all having significant financial troubles and there's a good likelihood that we'll be all scattered around the country soon. Please pray for a solution for all of us that allows us to stay close to each other and get out of our debts, as well as peace and trust amid the stress. Thanks

[copingcatholic]

With Lent coming up, I want to say something. While Exodus 90 and similar [challenge] programs are great for getting people to participate, I think you should be a MAN and choose a real penance for yourself that you know you ought to do--and don't be coward.

[nachosforfree]

For me, censorship laws are a lot like the death penalty. There are people I wish would die, but I don't want the government to have any say over who lives or dies (because then they can stretch laws out to justify killing someone they dont like). There are stories that I think are reprehensible and should have never been written, but I don't want the government to have any say over which stories are reprehensible (because then they can stretch out what they deem wrong out to fit anything they don't like)

[eternal-echoes]

Oh, Lord, deliver us from the sin we rationalize the most.

[irishironclad]

Happy Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary Otherwise known as Ottomans get fucking DUNKED on day

[sl33p-walk]

Actually, community is a huge part of Christianity. If you wouldn’t go the extra mile for your brother and sister in Christ; repent, rinse, repeat.

[queen-esther-deactivated2022021]

When the day comes for you to stand before the Lord and receive your judgment, I promise you the form of Mass you attended is not going to be at the top of the list of God’s priorities in things to address.

[why-bless-your-heart]

It's literally so bizarre to me that a non-zero subset of Christians just straight-up deny the necessity of baptism. St. Paul would like a word or ten.

[why-bless-your-heart]

Anyway we have a word for those who believe and profess the truths of the Christian faith but have not been baptized. It's catechumen. Not christian. They may be following Christ, but they are not sharing in His life.

[copingcatholic]

Everyone has to convert at some point. Or else forfeit life. Cradle Catholics don't just live the Christian worldview from the getgo. Sure they have an advantage, but if you talk to any Catholic baptized as an infant(especially practicing) , they will attest 2 things. 1 that at some point in their life, they made the decision to live the Christian life. (For me I was 16 and had a great deal of suffering and exploration of other religions or spiritualities that lead to that decision.) 2, is that spiritual attacks will occur no matter your personal situation if you are brought into Christianity with less than warlike struggle(like an infant or child baptism).

I experienced the demonic at many times during my spiritual development--including during my childhood, though the most distressing were during adulthood. [It may be easier to notice spiritual attacks and influences after baptism, but I wouldn't know being baptized at a month old. All I know is that anyone who choses to live out the Faith Jesus has asked us to will experience opposition from both the spiritual realm, from demons, and from men (often influenced by the demonic, both obviously and not) on numerous occasions both prior to conversion and when freshly of the determination to live that life with greater fervor than those established firmly with many spiritual battles.

Once you are accustomed to such violent attacks, you will be able to repel them with much more ease but beware that the attacks will get much more specific with your own personal weaknesses.

I pray for all of you. We are a new generation and a new age of the Faith. We stand together. God is with us in it all.

[weirdlandtv]

Dutch artist, Redmer Hoekstra.

[nimmenstjer]

Ooooh, because “path” and “toad” are written and pronounced the same way in Dutch!

Pad en pad.

Een paddenpaadje.

A road of toads.

[lorax177]

I trode on the toad road

[iridescentoracle]

[impresively-large-swan]

@kianf1sh

[kianf1sh]

Exquisite

[copingcatholic]

Where I live, the toads will sometimes bury themselves in the lawn. Well, I once was walking through the yard to the mailbox, and I heard the sound very much like a dog squeaky toy. So, not knowing what could have made that sound since the neighborhood children like to play in my yard, I continued to step through the grass, trying to find where it came from. Eventually it squeaked at me again, and I looked closely where the sound came from. It was a massive toad (for my area). I had trode on the toad. I apologized to the toad and got my mail.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[caffeinatedrosary]

If you're avoiding your spiritual life and obligations because you feel empty, step up. Show up. Offer God even your emptiness. He'll fill you.

You might not feel it right away, you might not feel it for a while. That's okay--our religion is not about feelings. As long as we persevere one day at a time with our trust in Him, we will prevail. Amen? Amen.