**nor do I remember being invited to have/develop a personal relationship with Him during my sojourn there.**
I am truly sorry about this. I wish you could hear my priest preach — you would not remain separated from the church of your birth for long. He constantly urges us all to form that personal relationship with Christ and not the modern day world.
You posted: I am truly sorry about this.
Thanks, but all to often it is still the same in Catholic churches today. Most Catholics I know (not all) do not demonstrate a “personal” faith in Christ, but think they are saved by the external actions of the church/priest, while their hearts lives do not reflect submission to biblical principles or Christian love/servive.
Thankfully, there are some exceptions, and most of these, in my experience, are those who expand their “religious” activity outside the bounds of Roman Catholicism into fellowship with “other” Christian believers.
BTW, “Salvation,” did you want to respond to substantive posts (62 and 64) rejecting your assertions of Peter’s position according to Catholic mythology, or are you just going to ignore them as they are based on the Bible and history, not “after the fact” fantasy.