Many Catholics are scared of Jesus.
A reflection of Catholic workers.

Pre-Christmas mass, we want to dedicate this article to the Nativity. The Divine person who participated in His own creation. We will write what we have found in many Catholics we coached and mentored in our Venture Catholic incubator.

Christmas, Joyful Season?

Christmas is a season of hope & happiness. We heard joyful songs. Our priests are talking about the joy of welcoming our King. We should rejoice!

Yes! Everyone goes to mass with family and friends or online this year. We can feel happy because the communal Spirit in others makes us happy and forget about everything else.

Our Counseling Session

Some of us who read the bible are probably aware of this verse.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. ~ 1 John 4

I think this is easy to digest, but this is not what is surprising.

In our Catholicer movement, we focus on helping entrepreneurs and professionals finding spiritual healing. We are not psychologists and have no intention to label ourselves with any certification, but we went through lots of hell and crucifixion. I mean, really. Our experience to survive hell had been the core offering for our entrepreneurs to find holiness and mindset how to serve God as genuine and as perfect as possible. We wrote about the perfection of souls in the other article of any of our readers are interested.

On many occasions, like any contemplative prayers, we counseled our incubated founders by overcoming their fear so they can move on in their faithpreneur or entrepreneurship. I don’t want to get into too much detail about our one-hour long session to let them move forward. Rather, I want to let everyone know that these people have devoted Catholics who serve the Church. They dedicate themselves somewhat to God.

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise.

When we sense any of the 9 deadly sins in their words or behaviors, we usually ask them what has happened. We encourage them to look for a memory that comes up in the past. We work with them to untangle the false belief, confusion, or hurt. Not surprisingly, some of these memories are their biggest pains in life. Once they try to straighten their mind to God based on Spirituality, Saints, Theology, etc. We pray with them and ask them to imagine looking at Jesus’ face. Then Look at His eyes.

BoOM!

While there are plenty of healthy reactions out of this, but

It is not uncommon for a person to testify that they could not see His eyes, because they fear Him. They are angry at Him. They don’t like Him. Yet, they go to mass happily.

Physical manifestation also often occurs as this simple practice opens up the stressed muscles in our brain; it releases depression. However, it is not so for those who are angry with God for something small that has evolved into our existential identity.

It is time for them to truly choose their free-will like in Gethsemane. It is weak, so weak.

No brain-trick will make it better. We are naked in the eyes of God, having to choose something that we truly do not want.

Many of us are familiar with faith learning, we are encouraged to go against our body, but this is not.

This is pure and simple fear, without a complicated structure.

This is the opportunity that makes a person so great in the eyes of heaven, to will it so strong to still say yes to Him regardless of what. Thank God, we’ve got two suggestions for those who are aware of their own similar situation. St. Therese of Lisieux taught us how she would choose to fly to Jesus regardless of how sinful she feels. St. Francis of Assisi said, if it were His will that he went to hell, he would go there.

The key is humility, remove the control of our own destiny and safety, even on our everlasting destination.

This might not be the most fun article for Christmas, but for those facing unconscious fear, perhaps, this is the best time to go back to Christ peacefully, first through contemplation, then through confession.

Merry Christmas to all of you.
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