I used to belong to a church choir. Not sure how, but I fell out with the central clique, a group of laissez-faire Catholic women who believed in gay marriage and spoke often of lascivious behavior. I suppose the final straw came when I noticed that they took a cigarette break during the homily.
How do I forgive these people? I am but slightly more reformed than they are and that by the hard knocks of life. When I saw their behavior going unchecked, I quit the choir. Talking to them, or debating them, doesn't seem to work. I feel a nasty streak in me just waiting to have at it whenever I run into them. It's even keeping me from church.
Response :
Never give another human being the power to keep you from Christ. If you cannot worship in peace at the church you've been attending, then find another parish, but do not abandon Christ or allow these people to rob you of your spiritual peace.
Catholic apologist Frank Sheed once said:
We are not baptized into the hierarchy; do not receive the cardinals sacramentally; will not spend an eternity in the beatific vision of the pope. Christ is the point. I, myself, admire the present pope, but even if I criticized him as harshly as some do, even if his successor proved to be as bad as some of those who have gone before, even if I find the Church, as I have to live with it, a pain in the neck, I should still say that nothing that a pope (or a priest) could do or say would make me wish to leave the Church, although I might well wish that they would leave.
Source : http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=382248
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