/clg/ - Catholic Literature General

I put a rubber band around my wrist and whenever I have bad thoughts I pull it and release.

>tfw love Christ but also love Blacked.com

What do I do guys??

get a big, black rubber band

You stop believing in your magical friend in the sky that does fucking nothing, and watch some of dat BBC action.

Bumping with some good tunes
youtube.com/watch?v=DTT8O_LslzQ

Skimming some of the Buddhist threads active right now, I wonder if Christianity could even properly debate it.
Christian theology, requires faith in a very specific set of truths on which its logic is built, whereas Buddhist logic strives for internal consistency with as little faith as necessary. I don't see how a Christian could successively win a debate like this. Any suggestions my brothers?

What debate is there to be had? That Western buddhists enjoy self gratifying meditation and remove elements alien to our culture from it?

I guess the writings of Marcel Lefebvre? Or Iota Unum for a more advanced one.

Anyone know how old the oldest complete New Testament is? Could be compiled, so not everything has to be from the same time period but when compiling a complete text, obviously the date is set at the latest papyri added to complete the entire work.

Music links from pastebin:
First is modern music, then hymns.

>Marvin Gaye's "God is Love"
youtube.com/watch?v=nA7C815I104
>Woven Hand's "My Russia"
youtube.com/watch?v=vbUXbMn2zfc
>Woven Hand's "Consecration"
youtube.com/watch?v=xcwCK8pFZ0M
>Om's Pilgrimage Album
youtube.com/watch?v=IK6wJUNirbs
>Sufjan Steven's "No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross"
youtube.com/watch?v=qx1s_3CF07k
>mewithoutyou - Sun and Moon
youtube.com/watch?v=9Mor7syiTSE
>Young Oceans - ONLY YOU
youtube.com/watch?v=imEvd1ck4fs
>Bobby McFerrin's Joshua
youtube.com/watch?v=7DRketdk07o
>Psalter's Lord's Prayer
youtube.com/watch?v=L3rT8YVJERk
>Janelle Monae's Victory
youtube.com/watch?v=mJ6wkOO_MEA
>Johnny Cash's God's Gonna Cut You Down
youtube.com/watch?v=ht7mxF9XZiA
>Nick Drake - Pink Moon
youtube.com/watch?v=CPbWMvQwroo
>Mary Lou Williams - Anima Christi
youtube.com/watch?v=4fv14RFfRLA
>Dr. C.J. Johnson's "You Better Run"
youtube.com/watch?v=bchmhIdZgys
>Judee Sill's Heart Food
youtube.com/watch?v=KI7sOZQaSkI
>Dave Bixby's "Free Indeed"
youtube.com/watch?v=JhHBGRr2XDE
>The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus' "Beauty After the Fall"
youtube.com/watch?v=mcbJFvje29A
>Podnieś Mnie Jezu
youtube.com/watch?v=JbhIHF3SHm0
>Baba Yetu
youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A
>Audrey Assad's "Restless"
youtube.com/watch?v=UuhYZrn4flo

Traditional Music

>Veni Veni Emmanuel
youtube.com/watch?v=xRi1GDoaQu4
>Agni Parthene
youtube.com/watch?v=Mw8XE3j_c0U
>Je Nai Nan
youtube.com/watch?v=vL1lxH7s3Cw
>Come Now Font of Every Blessing
youtube.com/watch?v=b1bSlS6OWTs
>A nice collection of South Pacific Island hymns from the movie The Thin Red Line
youtube.com/watch?v=7A1Z5CEXDM4
>Hail Mary in Latin, done in song.
youtube.com/watch?v=ihNVhFA_X3I
>Hallelujah Chorus done suddenly in the public
youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU
>Heyr himna smiður
youtube.com/watch?v=e4dT8FJ2GE0
>Jezu Chryste Panie Miły
youtube.com/watch?v=dymL1-ckMwg
>Ludu mój ludu
youtube.com/watch?v=orZo6JesM_E
>Cидить Mикoлaй y кoнeць cтoлa
youtube.com/watch?v=FbGwaO0ZVzM
>Fiez-vous en lui
youtube.com/watch?v=vJCl6ylgwCU
>Mass in D major, Op.123 "Missa solemnis"
youtube.com/watch?v=WFor50sjEaw
>Krzyżu Święty
youtube.com/watch?v=DlIG5gNa-Oo
>Taize Alleluia
youtube.com/watch?v=e-jOgH0PP2I
>O Dniu Radosny
youtube.com/watch?v=MROPDOKkKd0
>Dies Irae
youtube.com/watch?v=Dlr90NLDp-0
>Deum Verum
youtube.com/watch?v=kK5AohCMX0U
>NON NOBIS DOMINE, SED NOMINI TUO DA GLORIAM
youtube.com/watch?v=bb9ro4IQqi8

>since becoming Catholic I've had four girls hitting on me
>two of them have been underage
>been wanting to make the joke but I know I shouldn't

Well first you should probably familiarize yourself with the worldview. I'd suggest Edward Feser's "Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction" as an introduction to the worldview and response to modern criticisms.

>Christian theology, requires faith in a very specific set of truths on which its logic is built, whereas Buddhist logic strives for internal consistency with as little faith as necessary. I don't see how a Christian could successively win a debate like this. Any suggestions my brothers?

I would be happy to discuss it with them. I think you picture Christian faith all wrong. Catholicism is entirely rationally consistent. There is no leaps of faith about it, though I'm sure some people do this.

When people speak of Christian faith it is a faith in God rather than a faith of God. The worldview is prior to faith beginning and deals with remaining and uniting with the will of God despite hardship and self-interest. And in terms of articles of dogma, that also rests as rationally based as if the church authority is defended as authoritative then its pronouncements are correct.

What is there to debate specifically? To my knowledge, many Buddhist groups do not claim a cosmological view.

Bump

Gotta say, it's pretty cool seeing this general, and seeing it stick around. I'm a Catholic convert, baptized last year, and it's really encouraging to see the faith growing like this, and especially to see people taking it seriously.

Keep doing what you're doing. God bless.

a theology thread should go in

No philosophy belongs here too. Theology is a subset of it. Read the sticky.

oh my gosh
please everyone post some more comfy Christian lit to read

since when are you catholic? i thought you're orthodox

Always been Catholic since I stopped being atheist, m8

I've got a few for you:

The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe is a comfy read about an American teenager transported into a fantasy world, where he strives to become a great and honorable knight. There's an interesting hierarchy of good and evil, and watching Able righteously turn down fiery wenches never gets old. And if you know anything about Gene Wolfe, you know that this book is filled with Catholic influences. Be warned though, it does get a little risque at some parts. Nothing pornographic, but if you're like me, and you're a weak man who needs to avoid anything even relatively sexual, read this in public.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (by Walter M. Miller, Jr.) is a masterpiece, and the first parts are especially comfy (I remember one user describing it as "cute monks doing cute things"). Going to be rereading it soon, might post an update. In fact, I'll be rereading all of these soon.

There's also the Lord of the Rings, obviously, and related works like the Silmarillion. But I would recommend Tolkien's short story "Leaf by Niggle." It follows a man trying to make a great painting, while being interrupted by other things because no one around him appreciates art. It's an interesting exploration of Tolkien's ideas on creation, artistry, and heaven.

I would also recommend The Once and Future King. Though neither the book nor the author is exactly Catholic, reading about Catholic knights fighting the good fight is a blast. I especially recommend the part in the middle, about the different knights seeking the holy grail. It plays out like a series of parables, and I really enjoyed it.

More than anything though, I would recommend The Man Who was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. It's a weird kind of mystery novel (described sometimes as a "metaphysical thriller") where everything is symbolic of something else. It's hilariously writen, and moves at a lightning pace. I considered summarizing how it starts, to give an idea of how fun the book is, but I don't want to spoil anything. Just read it.

Are you lads anticipating the centennial of the Miracle of the Sun? It's this Friday.

Take your shitstained microphallus and go back to .

Perhaps God is calling you, through feelings of dissatisfaction with life, or some other means. Perhaps He is calling you to a more meaningful life. Perhaps he is calling you to the priesthood.

youtube.com/watch?v=Df50rvxXe1w

>Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew depicts five men sitting round their usual table, telling stories, gossiping, boasting of what one day they will do, counting money. The room is dimly lit. Suddenly the door is flung open. The two figures who enter are still part of the violent noise and light of the invasion. (Berenson wrote that Christ comes in like a police inspector to make an arrest.)

>Two of Matthew's colleagues refuse to look up, the other two younger ones stare at the strangers with a mixture of curiosity and condescension. Why is he proposing something so mad? Who's protecting him, the thin one who does all the talking? And Matthew, the tax-collector with a shifty conscience which has made him more unreasonable than most of his colleagues, points at himself and asks:

>Is it really I who must go? Is it really I?

>How many thousands of decisions to leave have resembled Christ's hand here! The hand is held out towards the one who has to decide, yet it is ungraspable because so fluid. It orders the way, yet offers no direct support. Matthew will get up and follow the thin stranger from the room, down the narrow streets, out of the district. He will write his gospel, he will travel to Ethiopia and the South Caspian and Persia. Probably he will be murdered.

>And behind the drama of this moment of decision is a window, giving onto the outside world. In painting, up to then, windows were treated either as sources of light, or as frames framing nature or an exemplary event outside. Not so this window. No light enters. The window is opaque. We see nothing. Mercifully we see nothing because what is outside is threatening. It is a window through which only the worst news can come; distance and solitude.
-John Berger

New Christian here, I'm struggling to understand the idea of God's plan. Is it like a literal script, where every minute step is planned out ahead of time ... or is it like this dynamic process where God has a particular end in mind, and the choices that people make, along with natural processes, are manipulated through grace to work towards that end? Like I imagine it kind of like if you accidentally drove off a road into a forest and then God cleared a path in the forest for you to drive back onto the road ... do you get what I mean?

It's one of the great mysteries of God and free will. There is bound to be writing on the subject, but to put it simply there is your answer.

I like to think its both, where we have free will, but God knows exactly how to manipulate all of his creation to make sure his end is attained. Like he knows what it will take to spur us to a certain action

I didn't even realize it. Something to look forward to.

God exists from a position of eternity, creating reality with a single act of creation. This plays out for us in time and as such the common view is that God sustains creation in every moment of time. To understand God in relation to causation, please look into Concurrentism.
In terms of God's plan, this is mainly understood as mystery with no doctrinal answer for precisely how it's understood. However the go-to answer given by theologians is understanding God's will in two respects: Ordained and permissive will. What is ordained is the innate purpose of all things and specific events for salvation and what is permissive is what provides freedom necessary to their good, despite whether they use it for their good at all. However the extent of both and how to make sense of specific events is impossible and leads to the Problem of Evil.

sound pretty comfy man! no proddy lit to add?

Cheers lads
>God exists from a position of eternity, creating reality with a single act of creation
I hadn't thought of that

>I'm struggling to understand the idea of God's plan. Is it like a literal script, where every minute step is planned out ahead of time ... or is it like this dynamic process where God has a particular end in mind, and the choices that people make, along with natural processes, are manipulated through grace to work towards that end?

I think it's more along the lines of a dynamic process. Here's how Thomas Merton put it:

>God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself. (New Seeds of Contemplation, p. 37)

In our life, in our choices, in our prayers, in what we do and do not do, we, in cooperation with God's grace, over the duration of our lives, complete that partial word that God uttered when He brought us into existence.

Of course, Jesus is *the* Word of God. But so too are we, in our dignity as human creatures baptized into Christ's death, and adopted as the children of God. Over time, we complete the word God uttered -- and we will bring its final form with us into eternity; indeed, we will *be* that word. Thus God honors us in allowing us to fully collaborate with him in giving the partial word He spoke a final and complete form.

I have yet to get around to them, but these sound good
George MacDonald - Phantastes and Lilith seem to be his most popular books for adults, while Princess and the Goblin is his most influential for children's literature.
>George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle.C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence".
Charles Williams - Descent into Hell and The Place of the Lion

As a general advice I really would recommend reading a lot of Plato, Aristote, Augustine and the Church Fathers in getting the feeling of how God acts/exists, to separate him as much as you can from any kind of divine personalism that plagues contemporary Christianity.

All the more reason to read Merton. I love how the mystics can bring this stuff to life in a practical way more so than most theology can.
Will do man, I already got The Republic and one of those little Oxford Introductions to Plato ready to go.
>divine personalism
One of my professors who I'm friends with is a devout Catholic of Franciscan bent, so he teaches me all about how to avoid this stuff. Just the other day he explained to me that the Trinity itself is the image of God, which I hadn't known before, and that a direct representation of God is impossible.

Why did the phenomenon of Catholic fiction in the world virtually disappear after 1965? Why hasn't there been a new generation of authors?

>Why did the phenomenon of Catholic fiction in the world virtually disappear after 1965?
Vatican II for one but it didn't really. It just became very mundane, feminine, and boring.

bump

>tfw your goal is to create great Catholic literature

It's my primary motivation as a writer. I want to write things that glorify God and show the goodness of the created order. I hope I've been able to achieve that, to some degree.

More people should read this

Sounds pretty bad, why should I pick it over any number of primary sources on the natural law?

If you ever get the opportunity, you should read Alfeyev, particularly Volume IV of Orthodox Christianity, which explains that "academic" theology is estranged from the liturgy, since liturgical theology is catholic whereas purely "academic" theology is by and for expert specialists.

That's a false dilemma. You can read primary sources and secondary sources.

What are some works I could read alongside scripture, like St. Gregory's Moralia in Job?

That may be so, but it still doesn't answer why I should read it at all.
Aquinas did commentaries on each of the Gospels and in general he's a brilliant commentator. Justin Martyr in Discourse with Trifun also provides valuable insight.

>That may be so, but it still doesn't answer why I should read it at all.

Because I think its interesting. If you don't that's fine. I don't know why you're sperging out over this.

Hi Catholics, Protestant here. Whats up with those indulgences? Has the Catholic church commented on the practice?

Dumb agnostic here. Do you guys actually believe the Resurrection and other miracles actually happened? Is there any lit that elaborates on stuff like this?

Sorry if this is a dumb question I just understand there are people who do believe in these events literally and I don't understand the reasoning.

Hi, Protestant. You all still believe (in 2017) in Sola Scriptura- can you comment on 1 Timothy 4:1, 6-7?

I made a list to help atheists find the photons of hope and to eventually evangelize for Christianity. This masterpiece has never failed.

Biblical miracles lose there significance if they didn't actually happen, so they need to be believed.

But other miracles, like Fatima or saint healings, are optional to believe.

what are you implying?

An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church.

Sin has two consequences: guilt and punishment. Punishment can be eternal or temporal. When God forgives sins, he removes the guilt and the eternal punishment, but the temporal punishment may remain. An indulgence removes this temporal punishment. Therefore, an indulgence is called partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin. The distinction between eternal and temporal punishment is evident in connection with Original Sin. When it is forgiven a temporal punishment remains. We will all die.

It is the essence of the doctrine of indulgences that Jesus in his mercy uses the Church he founded to forgive sins and to remove the temporal penalties due sins. The biblical basis for this teaching is found in the power Jesus promised his Church through Peter and his Successors "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Mt 16:19)

The traditional opposition to indulgences at the time of the Reformation came from the abuse of indulgences that bordered on superstition, and from the evil practice of selling indulgences. Today that opposition is rooted in the rejection of the Church's authority, and defective notions of justification that has God doing everything and humans doing nothing.

The purpose of granting indulgences is to spur Christians to perform "works of devotion, penance, and charity." (CCC 1478) In this way the Church brings God's mercy to sinners in another way, as she encourages her members to pray for the dead and to offer prayers and penances for them.

The most common forms of penance are prayers, fasting, and almsgiving. These three pious acts diminish or eliminate pride, disordered appetites, and excessive attachment to and desire for things. Jesus recommended prayer, fasting, and almsgiving during the Sermon on the Mount.

To gain a plenary indulgence, a person must receive the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist seven days before or after performing the indulgenced work. The person must pray for the intention of the Pope. The customary prayers include one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be. Finally, the person must be free from any attachment to sin, even venial sin. If any of these conditions are absent, the indulgence will be partial.

Any questions?

>he can defend indulgences

Tfw on my third day of no fap. Not going to lie I'm in a bad place mentally.

I'm kind of all over the place on this chart.

How so man?

Are there any contemporary arguments for the reality of stigmata?

How is one supposed to keep their sanity in the modern world? Not necessarily from a catholic point of view, but from one that believes in God. All around me I see sin and debauchery and the complete moral bankruptcy inherent in our modern society.

How the fuck does one even function in this world, knowing how pointless the worldly is in the grand scheme of things? How the fuck is one supposed to be " successful " in the context of society if society in an of itself revolts anyone with a semblance of spirituality/faith in God?

Help me not lose my mind Christbros

If anything, this simply affirms the Christian worldview. People are fallen! And they actually revel in being distant from the Lord in satanic glee.

Pray the rosary, study scripture, focus deeply on the meaning of the Sacrifice of the Mass and all of this will be taken care of.

This is not the first era of paganism that Christianity that Holy Mother Church has survived and it is not going to be the last.

I agree with you when it comes to the study of theology. However my question pertains more to the worldly aspect of life in society. How and why should we live in a " normal " manner in society when it is utterly pointless.

Why go to work every day and do something that ultimately holds no greater meaning or value? Why should I go to my job tomorrow? Why should I keep paying off my home? Why? Why shouldn't I just sell everything tomorrow, buy a plane ticket to some third world country, and wander the earth? What's the point, modern society is utterly devoid of meaning, I don't want to play its fucking game anymore. I don't give a shit about success or what my peers think of me. I just want some kind of happiness and purpose.

I trust that everyone is fundamentally good, and that the only problem is that society as it is prevents people from learning how to cultivate that goodness. We all have that impulse to goodness, but we see it as the conception we've been handed, which, in most cases today, is liberal "individual rights". Everyone takes it for granted and doesn't realise how meaningless talk of "equal rights" really is.

In short, I think of us all as children of God lost in a hurricane.

The only think we can do is find strength in God to simplify, thereby bolstering ourselves against the onslaught of modern life.

I totally get that and thats why I'm asking, I'm wondering how you rationalize believing in the supernatural though. How do you get the faith to just believe something like that happened when all signs point in the opposite direction (besides some historical testimony I think).

I get that frustration, I really do.

Without knowing the specifics of your situation, could you discern a calling to the religious life? Perhaps the Lord is calling you to a monastic life, or a life among the Dominicans...who knows? Or maybe your vocation really does lie with a kind of extreme hermeticism, wandering the country in contemplation.

Who knows if any of this is right for you, but if you are not married and do not have children, there is an outlet in the Church.

I suppose you just have to ask yourself, Why is it easier to believe in God than it is to believe in miracles? Ultimately, what makes some supernatural fact more believable than another.

>rationalize believing in the supernatural

Because it's real. Why rationalize it if it actually happened and still happens? It's like saying you have to "rationalize" believing that the sun rises in the east.

*blocks your path of urban garbage, insults you in an obsolete vernacular, then prays Our Lady of la Salette with fierce devotion*

heh...its personal, swine

I know this feel. One thing that disturbs me is how easy it is to get pornography now because of our technology. And girls are easier than ever because of birth control. I've corrupted myself countless times with fornication and masturbation.

Some might laugh at me for saying this, but I think men in our age are fighting a harder battle to resist lust than previous generations. The industrial age has been incredibly brutal on virtue.

I was thinking of reading him in French. Is his prose very difficult? The hardest I've read is Maupassant, which I know is not saying much but it's a bit better than L'Etranger or Le Petit Prince.

So it's real because you say so? Because you feel that it has to be? I can observe the sun rising in the east but I don't see what supports people rising from the dead.

I only feel the truth of religious belief in a metaphorical sense really. I believe in the idea of God but the idea that a God literally exists externally from my mind and created everything for real isn't really working for me.

Why be Christian instead of Muslim or Jewish or anything else?

I'm level four but missing some of those traits.

Before I reformed my degenerate ways I used to bang a couple Jewesses and learned their culture is degenerate. Muslim women tend to be ugly so I never messed with them, not to mention their culture and civilization is both degenerate and barbaric. At least Hebrews gave us such great and virtuous men as Moses, David, Elijah, and so on... Jews on the other hand gave us Barabus.

3rd or 4th century AD IIRC but there may have been still earlier copies or manuscripts lost.

the historicity of Jesus is more accurate in the NT than in the Qur'an. and I think Jesus miraculous resurrection is the most historically reliable miracle ever, other than the creation of the universe itself.

...

You do have to rationalize believing that the sun will rise in the east. But there are plenty of observations to support that hypothesis.

Less so for the supernatural.

Leave the others to God. Perform your work, be quiet in your daily activities, not quick to laughter or boisterous. Fix your mind on God, and every day this world will seem more and more as a temporal, passing place. Your house will seem more like a momentary resting place. You will feel more love for people, even though their sinful nature is dreadfully apparent, because they are all your brothers and sisters in this world, and fellow sufferers, but all children of God. You will abhor fleshly things, for instance, sex will appear to you as a beastly, filthy thing, and this will actually allow you to treat people better, because you stop envying others, or judging people based on the shape of their flesh, and it will seem silly to you that you ever worried about your appearance in the first place. Your body is a strange, delicate thing, and you don't even recognize your own hand anymore, it appearing to you as an alien thing from some archaic place and time.

Pray to God, remembering always that there is no true rest in this life, that it truly is work and pain and struggle, but that, as in the staircase in the Purgatorio, the load seems lighter the higher you ascend.

It's not real because I say so, it's real because it happens in documented, observable ways. It's a matter of faith and reason working together. Statues weep, Eucharists bleed, the sun dances in the sky. Why? Because God is at work in the world.

Now, other religions have their fair share of supernatural happenings, so it doesn't exclusively prove Christianity's truth. But it is one component among many which, I feel, together establish Christianity as ultimately true.

Guys I need help. I've been regularly attending mass for two years now after a very long time of not going at all. Problem is, I've been going and receiving communion despite having not said confession since I started going again.
What do I do? I haven't confessed since I was a kid and I don't really even remember what to do. I also don't want to confess at my regular church out of embarrassment.

You can confess at any church, it doesn't have to be your local one. Make sure to confess and tell them how long it's been and that you've taken communion without confessing. They'll understand and might even offer advice

I hadn't confessed in over a decade and went. I confessed to pornography, masturbation, fornication. It wasn't that big of deal considering an eternity in hell is at stake. To me, it seems as if you should confess at your Church because you need to learn humility.

Pray for me brothers. I am a man who is trying to return back to the faith after some years of Atheism and find it hard to do so. I do want to believe and have prayed, I've even gone to Confession (but not Mass) and I want to believe, but a large part of me feels silly and as though nothing is happening. I think it is a spiritual dryness.

I am also wondering if the Orthodox have a point, also if I am LARPing. I will say though, I did feel something after I went to Confession for the first time in years. Please, pray for me.

Christian but not catholic. Lately I've been feeling like God doesn't care. Like maybe he exists, but that he has no vested interest in us :(

youtube.com/watch?v=cvl_J_Qn5JM

here is a translation of st teresa's full poem:

Let nothing disturb thee,
Let nothing dismay thee,
All things pass:
God never changes.

Patience
Attains all things;
Whoever has God lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.

Elevate your thoughts
towards heaven;
Let nothing dismay thee,
Let nothing disturb thee.

Follow Jesus Christ
With your head held high,
And, come what may,
Let nothing dismay thee.

Do you see the glory of this world?
It is but vainglory;
None of it is everlasting:
All things pass.

Yearn for the Kingdom of God,
Which is everlasting;
Faithful and rich in promises,
God never changes.

Love it the way you should
Immense goodness;
but there is no fine love
Without patience.

Trust and living faith
Maintain the soul;
Whosoever believes
Attains all things.

Although harassed by hell
one may see himself,
Will escape its flames
Whoever has God.

Facing helplessness,
crosses, and misfortunes;
He lacks nothing,
For the Lord is his treasure.

Go, therefore, earthly pleasures;
And said vainglories,
Although he lose it all,
God alone suffices.

He doesn't care because he's a jewish made up diety that some retarded desert cultists thought of

I feel this way at times, and usually what helps me is to think to myself "why am I really feeling this way?" and if theres some specific reason, I'll try to work my way through it. Usually its just some personal reason, like God's plan isn't coinciding with my own plan, in which case I need to realize that intellectually it isn't honest for me to be unfaithful to God only because I'm dissatisfied with certain events in life. It helps further to reflect on the lives of Biblical figures like Paul or Christ himself.
If theres some other specific reason you could be feeling this way, feel free to share if you'd like to talk about it

Did it? Could you give examples?

To be fair, pretty much copy/pasted the Catechism.

Yeah, definitely.
As for literature, in terms of the worldview to contend the Naturalist criticism I'd suggest Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction by Edward Feser. I suppose I could give a summary of the main point to get across but this book does far more and with far better elaboration.

As for the New Testament miracles I'd recommend Miracles: A Catholic View by Ralph McInery as introduction.

The Ignatius Study Bible is very valuable, I feel.

Because the accuracy of the Christian worldview as opposed to the other two.

Where did you get this full version?

I do not know. I suppose this is because I struggle with this too. I find to be wise advice but I would say that this poster is too rejecting of the flesh. Do not become alien to your own body, nor seek to fully master it via the will. Reason and the will are to control the desires but innate desires are in no way wrong. They all need be given their proper place.

Modern society seems very focused on a competition of attempting to satisfy your desires (if they are actually satiable at all) so the best you could do is center yourself on what is truly good and let that illuminate your path. As rightly says, the capacity to indulge in desires is incredibly strong in modern western society - likely moreso that previous generations - so staying the path on what is good is no easy task. What is considered successful by modern standards is largely material in nature but with age it is more apparent that "success" is and has always been centered in virtue. Careers are no better than another in virtue - they all serve to aid the whole in different respects. Money is fleeting and treasures quickly lead to decadence. Don't be dissuaded by struggles in society as through faith we overcome them and through overcoming them we gain strength that others without struggles may lack and they to you.

But do pray. Through prayer, in its various forms, we seek to become closer to virtue in our lives. It is always helpful.

I suppose that's the best answer I could give.

There is an app called Laudate on phones that has an confessional app. It basically walks you through your examination of conscience and tells you what is accurate to say to get the basics down.

You need to be at confession.

I no doubt will. However, what holds you back? How are you viewing things?