Go To Church!

Here is a question that I was just asked by some one. If I identify as a Catholic Christian but don't go to church am I still a Catholic Christian? Since the Last supper we have had the Mass, and being a Christian has not been a private thing. It is a very public thing. We as Christians are called to be Christians together; while we can and should engage in the private worship of God throughout the week (reading the bible, prayer, and spending time meditating.),  our primary form of worship is public and communal, which is why Sunday Mass is so important. It is the highest form of prayer that we have, it is meant to bring use closer to God, the heart of the mass has not changed ever! It started at the last supper when Christ said this is my Body this is my Blood, that gives us the ability to literally receive Christ in your Body. To then become a living tabernacle. There is nothing greater than that. Being Catholic I don't just go to Mass because it is just a thing to do. In my younger years that is how I saw it, I didn't see the point to go to Mass it was boring and not fun. I would of rather sat at how and watched Pokemon trying to see if Ash would ever "Catch them All".  As a grew older, my family quite going to Mass, and pretty much anything Church related. It wasn't in my top things to worry about I much rather not be apart of the whole "Church thing". I felt a little empty but I filled it with other things. People would say "God loves you" I would say "So, what that doesn't make me special God loves every one. I wasn't until I truly felt God's love that I knew what they meant.  It was 2005 when I felt the Mass really work in my life, it was on a retreat and I never had felt so full of God's love. It was at the Mass, that I said wow this just changed my life. I just experienced real community, I remember the sign of peace every one "peaced"  every one in the room. I had never seen that, over 50 people showing that they cared about each other. That was a community I could believe in, that is when I realized that Catholicism was true and exactly what I needed to follow.  So that is when I committed my self to Christ, it was about serving God and not serving me. I wanted to follow Christ and the best way to do that, to me was go to go Mass. It was to believe with other believers, and be very public. The anwser is no you aren't really Catholic, because you aren't fully buying in to the our most important form of worship.