There is spiritual complacency, weakness, cowardliness, moments of vanity, and spiritual pride, and despair.

Why does it have to be this hard to be Catholic?

Constant self-examination, guilt, being an exemplary Catholic, enduring other people and situations with patience, choosing to forgive and accept rather than hate or resent

I thought Jesus said his yoke is light but then he tells us "Pick your cross"

Now I am whining