It's certainly possible to encounter God in our work, but my point was more that following Jesus often involves doing precisely what you talked about in your original comment: rather that sitting around and waiting for a miracle, we have to cooperate with God through our good works.
Everything you describe sounds very similar to what Christians believe when it comes to living in the world. Ephesians 4 : 17-32 speaks about this sort of self improvement. Christians are called to die to sin and rise in Christ, who is the image of human perfection.
Though a key difference would be that while Christ was of the Jews, He didn't work only for the salvation of His people, but for all of us.
It's almost like politicians don't actually care about the people they're elected to "represent."
Hmmm.
You raise a fair point about the necessity of works, but we Christians (and Catholics especially) don't believe in sitting around and praying for our work to be done for us. Matthew 7:21 specifically warns against this, and James 2:26 clearly warns that faith without work is like a body without a soul: dead.
literally who
Blackout
Lights are on
Livestream's up
Uuuhhh... what.
... because it's night?
I don't get it.
It certainly is. It's their bloodless (so far) Night of Long Knives.
Ooh, Lorn as background music.
Nice.
"as an american, im here to tell you, you cant practice catholicism."
So you're saying the faith is rebellious?
Now I'm definitely doing it just because you said I couldn't.
'Murica.
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"We are now slaves"
No. Grab that little bastard thought by the neck and bash it's head against the wall until it stops twitching right now.
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God will provide, but we still have to work with every fiber of our beings to cooperate with Him.
Jesus didn't create wine in empty jars. Mortal men had to stop partying and fill them to the brim in an era before running water before He revealed His nature.
Pray. Discern. Act.
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"I need to consooOOOmm!!"
hahaha hyperdulia for the mother of God go brrrrrrrrr
Happy to say my parish never shut down, never stopped offering the Mass.
Caesar comes and Caesar goes, but Christ lives and reigns eternal.
Aliums are just angels for atheists.
Change my mind.
"Where is your veil, slave?"
White House looks abandoned, the flag's in tatters, Trump's got an exaggeratedly petulant expression, and the Earth is breaking up in Jesus' hand.
I'm not sure I like this piece.
edit: Also, is that even Jesus? My Lord kept His scars.
Fun fact: the Bible actually is extremely harmful.
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To Satan.