***Do you really believe that the endless cycle of sacramental forgiveness to which you will now commit yourself can provide you the peace that the perfect righteousness of Christ can not?***
Jumping through hoops is for circus animals, not the saints of God.
Jumping through hoops is for circus animals, not the saints of God.”
It is sad to see such a sad, shallow, and ignorant view of the sacraments in this statement.
Another example of a non-Catholic Christian who thinks they need to justify their inability to ever partake of the sacraments.
Catholics really do not care to argue the complete lack of the sacraments in Protestant sects and they do not need to defend their Church's teaching of the Sacraments. The fact is, the Catholic Church simply never abandoned what was taught, by the apostles themselves, from the 1st centuries regarding the sacraments. The Eucharist is a perfect example of this. And just because you cannot partake of it outside of the Catholic Church is no reason to attack it from the outside.
Funny how these non-Catholic protestants attack the unmerited grace attained through the sacraments in the Catholic Church, but in the same sentence, will defend their system of “Baptism” which requires not God's Grace alone to infuse the soul, but rather the work of the individual to decide when he or she becomes “Christian”. I thought that God chose us, not us who decides when we choose him.
The Sacraments are Biblical through and through. The only offer required by a Catholic to partake of any Sacrament is FAITH in Jesus Christ alone. If you find yourself in a Church devoid of the Sacraments, there is a very good reason for that - you belong to a faith that severed itself from the one Church and Priesthood that could ever administer the Sacraments. If that is your choosing, great, but please avoid attempting to discredit something which will continue to the end of time in the Catholic Church only because you have denied yourself of these teachings.