Church crisis

Pope Francis sees the root cause in the clericalism. Pope Benedict   thinks that the crisis hit the church  at the time when after the Second Vatican Council, when a large part of priests and theologians have confused the word aggiornamento opening up to the world take likeness  the world. However,, Georg Weigl points out, that even Benedict’s explanation does  not explain everything. So, where is  the cause? We can’t answer  with the sentence. The Church is a community of  Christians. A Christian is a  person, who has been filled with the Spirit  of God and  as  a result his life has reached a  whole new level. Christian is the man who  fully enjoys new  life and even external  obstacles  cannot take it  away  from  the  joy of  the  new  life. Romans 8 , 35-37. The pagans watch in amazement at the  lives of early Christians and longed live  to like them. Compare Acts  5,12-14.Can we say   that  today the life  of Christians is fundamentally  different from that of  no- Christians? The new life  of Christians begins  with  his  conversion, that is  by changing his  mind by  complete transforming  his personality that  turns his view of God into the world   into life.In short everything. Religion is then an instrument of  growth in this new  spiritual  life. It has no value in itself, as St. Paul explains./ Galatians  6,15/. Somewhere deep in  the past, the  church  has  been  internally divided. The priest and the religious became spirituel, and they are  called to  spiritual life, and  others- laity to spirituel life have neither the ability the means nor the time. Christianity is  no  more about turning a new life into receiving the  Holy  Spirit. But if  the layman and increasingly the  priest and  religious are  longer expected to be  converted  what in  the  identity of the  Christian. Spirituality  was  replaced  by  religion Christianity was  replaced by  religion. From now on a Christian  is  a person who performs religious acts. Living spiritually means  engaging in religious activities. The church was then transformed into an  Institution. The Church has Always been an Institution. But this was  just the  skeleton on which  the spirituel was fixed. But now  institutionally has become is foundation. It has become like a ,,machine” that processes lay  people into good  Catholics. Baptism after birth, first holy  communion at  the  age of  eight, confirmation at  14 years, churchly married, churchly  buried. Everything is OK. Everything  is  fulfilled. Today there are many people who were received in the  holy communion. On confirmation, but  they don’t have  God’s  life  in them. Have not turned. Many baptized and  confirmed  live  outside the Church. However,  statistics only  show  the  number.  And then, in a parish  that has  6,000 baptized Catholics, About  100 People, mostly  advanced  ages, come  to  church on Sunday. Whereas  these  so-called Christians do not  attend  church, do not  meet, of Course they  do not form  a  community. And  the church  is  a community  of  believers. If the  believers do not  meet, there will  be  no church. This is evidenced  by several extinct parishes  in the  Netherlands, Germany. Which parishes seem but only because they have turned  into leisure Centers. Parishes organize Various mini Football tournaments tours, meets, lecture, worship. Much of it is good and excellent, though. Activity however there is  no life the church is not an organization that organizes activities. If  we replace the parish life with them, we resemble the  legendary Potemkin. We  construct  the  attractive and quasi Living facade, but  there is only a big void  behind it. Spiritual life cannot be  replaced by t heather or sport. As I said, we do not lead people to  spiritual life to conversion. All we do is Focus on form. Young  people need special catechism, depicted by special  characters. In the church they need audible guitar and drums. We are looking for  new ways of new forms. Format prevails over content  and  result. It does not work. Anywhere else to have  had a church in a large  Institution of Events if literature, magazines, on  television  all, and result. Decline and fall. Why? Because ours problem is not in cover but in content. The form will not help if the content is missing and the gospel. The parishes  just don’t work. They are no longer the place of God’s Family. The parish is no longer  a place where it leads to the  holiness  and  the divine of live. We are not  able to show People the way to  Christ and  go on this journey with them. The parish is no  longer a place  where we with others walk towards holiness. If the parish is an assembly of formal unconverted not very religious people. These people will not conform to the priest and his preaching. Just as teenager ignores his parents and adapts to his peers, so the parishioner does not conform to the priest and sermons, but to the other parishioners and becomes as normal  a Catholic as everyone else. Recovery  is not possible through  mass preaching, but only through relationships and  personal guidance in small communities. But since with small communities we are as we are. The  result is what  it is. The  second  problem is that we are replacing God’s life by  keeping the  commandments and norms. Thus, conversion  understood not as a change of thought, but we’re confusing it with  reform. We moralize  we urge  people to her  better and  star to  live  according  to the  commandments. But that is impossible. That’s wanting a beggar  to behave like a millionaire. A beggar must first become a millionaire and  then without a problem  he will live as a millionaire. The Gospel is the lifestyle of God’s sons  and daughters.For them,m this is natural.light and self-evident, but for the   unconverted man this lifestyle is alien, crazy unreasonable and to live virtually impossible according to him. This stone  is of great value  for  you  that  believe but for those who not  believe. The stone, which the builders  rejected as  worthless turned  out to be  the  most important  of  all. And another scripture  says. This is  the  stone  that will make them fall. He stumbled   because they did  not  believe in the  word, such was God’s will  for them. 1Peter 2,7-8. Seeing the crisis in the  church we  priest alienate them  from God. We don’t  trust  God’s power. As we could . We haven’t  seen her. So, we don’t rely on it  either. We rely on our forces. We must ask if a conviction in the church the result of our laziness. The  crisis in the  church stops when Christian start   to live   according  the  gospel.