I am with you that we all need to recognize that we belong to
Christ and we are all brothers and sisters in the Lord. But please
realize that Catholic spirituality is centered on Christ and Christ
alone, and any honor we give to Mary or the saints is really honor
that we give to God. I really appreciate how you expressed your
love for Jesus and that you go to him alone. I now challenge you to
study the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist. You see, when I
go to Holy Mass every day, I am as close to Jesus as possible this
side of heaven, because I receive His Body and Blood in the
Eucharist. This is the greatest gift the Father has given to us.
This is the eternal covenant between God and man, partaking of the
divine nature by consuming Jesus Christ, the true bread from
heaven. You can only receive this sacrament of the Lord's body and
blood, in union with Peter and his successors, within the Catholic
Church. You cannot receive this sacrament in Protestant churches,
because they do not have valid holy orders.
If you really love Jesus, and I know you do, I believe it behooves
you to investigate what the Church has taught and believed for
2,000 years (but what Martin Luther decided to reject in 1514).
Yes, we are all brothers and sisters in Christ, but the fullness of
Christ and His truth subsists in the Catholic Church. For Christ
only has one Bride, not many.
Christ instituted one truth and not many. The Catholic Church ( and
every christian for the first 15 centuries) must be wrong for a
Protestant to be correct. I cannot contend the fact that Christ
left us without a Sheperd to guide us to the Truth.
