{"id":26710,"date":"2011-10-26T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/catholics-cant-ignore-personal\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T00:23:15","slug":"catholics-cant-ignore-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/catholics-cant-ignore-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholics can&#8217;t ignore personal piety: forming others to be religious and spiritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you think mainline Christians take the personal piety of others? How frequently do we take someone who says &#8220;I am spiritual but not religious&#8221;? &#8220;Not very often&#8221; is the best answer to offer. Saying that one is spiritual and not religious lacks a certain seriousness of belief and unbelief. Catholics in the USA number circa 65-70 million and in the world Catholics number just over a billion this notion of being spiritual and not religious gaining currency. Why? Because a personal relationship with Jesus is lacking. There is no encounter with the living Messiah, Jesus is an abstraction.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last week someone asked me what I thought of being spiritual but not religious. I simply said, to hold that belief is to lack a certain convergence of faith and reality; while understandable from the point of view that many professed Christians lack a true conviction of faith in Jesus Christ both from the point of doctrine but also in practice.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>David Briggs has an article that is to be read: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thearda.com\/trend\/featured\/religious-but-not-spiritual-the-high-costs-of-ignoring-personal-piety\/\">Religious but not spiritual: The high costs of ignoring personal piety<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Instead of jumping to a negative conclusion, why not ask the question of what you are doing to work on your own education in the Faith and its practice? Adherence to Christ is a life of love, but it is also an ongoing work.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you think mainline Christians take the personal piety of others? How frequently do we take someone who says &#8220;I am spiritual but not religious&#8221;? &#8220;Not very often&#8221; is the best answer to offer. Saying that one is spiritual and not religious lacks a certain seriousness of belief and unbelief. Catholics in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/catholics-cant-ignore-personal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catholics can&#8217;t ignore personal piety: forming others to be religious and spiritual<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,38],"tags":[1968,1922,2407,2881,2864],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}