[ealgeone]

Like I said before being Catholic is not for sissies.

Yeah....we see the bragging about how hard it is to be a catholic.

Yet Jesus said, "28“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. (Matt 11:28-30)”

[NKP_Vet]

Not easy living according to the tenants of the faith and not easy being Catholic when protestants and muslims have been trying to destroy the faith for hundreds of years.

[Grateful2God]

"For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

For a committed Catholic, the "rules," "hoops to jump through", "man-made laws" etc. referred to by our non-Catholic brethren, and can be tough to follow. That's not boasting, it's fact. The yoke is easy because it is carried out of love.

[metmom]

Luke 18:9-14 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”