“There are baptized Catholics (not properly Christian Catholics, but Christianized), who, although they are Catholics according to their baptismal certificate, live a life that is not at all Christian. They are the dry branches on the tree of the Church.*
There are Sunday Catholics, who are only Catholics on Sundays when they go to Mass, but the rest of the week they cease to be, and hardly anyone notices. They are the sickly shoots.
Thank God, there is a third group: the everyday Catholics, who not only go to church on Sundays, but are so every day of the week, and (know their faith) and try to always do God's will, pray for a while every morning and go to confession frequently. They are the ones who go to bed at night with this thought: Lord, have I lived today as I should? Are you pleased with me?"
Bishop Tihamér Tóth. Christ the King
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*Many of them do not know their faith, nor do they even know the doctrine and morals of the Church.
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