I am Catholic because I believe the words of Christ. "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." John 6:29
"I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out. For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:35-40
Everyone who sees the Son and believes. How do we "see" the Son and how do we believe?
I have seen the Son through his Church yet how do I believe? Many deciples walked away from Jesus because they could not accept his words. They could not eat his flesh and drink his blood, and yet our Lord said:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." John 6:53-55
Why am I Catholic? Where else can I receive this gift, the real presence of our Lord. Where else can I consume him body, blood and soul. Where else can I receive the fullness of His teaching.
If the Catholic Church is wrong, if it is not the Church built by Jesus Christ himself then Christianity is false. If Christianity is false I can not be a Christian.
Why am I Catholic? Because I believe the words of Christ.
