Jesus is the Church and the Church teachs with His authority.
With all due respect, the reason you do not hear God is you do not appear to have, yet, stooped to the same humility the Theotokos modeled for us as an example.
Saul, why do you persecute me
He that heareth you, heareth me
*With all due respect, brother, I really do not find it convincing that each protestant approaches Holy Writ with an open mind. Most protestants have been reared by protestants parents who have, knowingly or not, been recipients of an oral protestant tradition predicated on opposition to the Church Jesus established.
I have read the entire Catholic catechism, and while I don't object to any of it, I also feel no personal need for much of it. Maybe others, with different sorts of minds than mine, need that, but I feel that the Apostle's creed is a clear enough statement of belief for me. With that, my prayers, the bible, and the direct guidance of the Holy Spirit in my life, I am content. I read the bible daily (I'm just about to finish my second trip through the whole thing) but don't pretend to understand much of it, or to understand the significance of much of the rest. I do it as a discipline, because I do believe that if left to our own devices, we will unconsciously read only the parts we like and ignore the parts we don't, which is how I believe people go wrong and end up creating a God more to their liking than the God that exists. Once again, however, I figure if there's something in it I need to understand, God will clarify it for me. I guess I'm just simple-minded.
And, I don't try to read the bible with an open mind, I try to read it with an empty mind-- to understand what is truly there, and not to impose upon it my own preferences. God is who He is, and He has revealed Himself in history and scripture. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."