Which Religion Is About Relationships?

Which Religion Is About Relationships? February 5, 2025

Which Religion Is About Relationships
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Relationship is not something that may first come to mind when we speak about religion. What the world associates with it includes things like rules, rituals and judgement. The traditional view of religion today is all about compliance with commandments and a strict code of conduct with corresponding rewards and punishments.

As a result, people who crave for something other than materialism and a secular life pursue what is commonly known as “spirituality”. It seems more agreeable today to be called spiritual rather than religious. Spirituality is in while religiosity is out.

Hence, the person who strives to be good also attempt to be spiritual. And this spirituality includes values like compassion, kindness, respect and inclusivity.

But for all that it’s worth, this type of spirituality can also be individualistic. One can simply pick whatever beliefs one would like to hold about this life and the life beyond this one. There is no need anymore to attend obligatory community gatherings, so one can simply stay in the comfort of one’s room, pray and be spiritual.

It is very easy to stay calm when you’re by yourself and not being bothered by the demands and expectations of the people around you. It is very easy to feel that you are at one with everyone when you can hardly be in harmony with just one person you have to live with in real life.

On the other hand, a religion that is truly about relationships teaches us to be in touch with real people in the real world. Instead of closing in on oneself, it invites us to open ourselves and reach out to others in true acts of kindness and love.

It is not that those who pursue this type of spirituality aren’t capable of doing so. Many are truly compassionate and care deeply about others.

However, if we want to find a religion that can bring us to the fullness of love, we must look elsewhere. We must look at belief systems that enable people to be in touch with each other while growing together in holiness. We must also look for a religion that can set the right standards of what this love should mean. Otherwise, how do you know that you are loving someone?

There are many religions that can provide these things in some way. Beliefs that bring people together and nourish our relationships.

But if we want to look for the fullness of this, we must start to learn more about Catholicism.

Catholicism is the religion that is all about relationships. It isn’t merely a formal institution that survives on rituals and rules. It is first and foremost, a religion of relationships.

Let us start with the greatest commandments given by God in the Scriptures:

“’Teacher,which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it:You shall love your neighbor as yourself.The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.’” – Matthew 22:36-40 (NABRE)

Catholicism is all about relationships whether it be about God or about other people. It is the foundation of the law. It is the very heart of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Where else can you find a religion that allows us to call God our Father? Where else do you look if you want to have the Blessed Virgin Mary as your Mother?

We are not just subjects obliged to obey the rules of a king. We are considered His children, and we are brothers and sisters in Christ!

Catholics do not worship a distant God but a personal, intimate and loving one. He is not a mere force in the universe but someone that we can have a deep and beautiful relationship with for all eternity.

And while all of these can be found in Christianity as a whole, Catholicism extends it further such that we are not at any moment separated even from our loved ones who have passed away.

In Catholicism, those who have died live on. We can pray for them, and they can pray for us.

We are part of one big family that includes those who are still pilgrims on earth, those who are in purgatory and those who are already in heaven. All of the heavenly hosts watch over us and the saints lift up our prayers to God. We even have a relationship with the angels the protect us and help us.

The very foundation of Catholicism is about relationships, our relationship with God Himself and our relationship with one another, whether we still walk in this world or we have already passed on to the next life.

We were not meant to be alone, even in the vastness of our own universe. We were meant to love and to be loved in the truest sense of the word. Catholicism values family and community, and we were meant to be a part of all these, starting from the people closest to us to those in the farthest reaches of the world.

Catholicism is all about love. God is love, and He desires us to abide always in Him.


You may also want to read “4 Reasons Why We May Feel So Lonely Today”.

Jocelyn Soriano writes about relationships and the Catholic faith at Single Catholic Writer. She is the author of 366 Days of Compassion, To Love an Invisible God and Mend My Broken Heart.

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About Jocelyn Soriano
Jocelyn Soriano is an author, poet, and book reviewer. She is an introvert who enjoys a cup of coffee and listening to the cello ****** while working.

She wrote the books To Love an Invisible God, Defending My Catholic Faith and Mend My Broken Heart. She also wrote books on poetry including Poems of Love and Letting Go and Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief. She has published more than 15 books and developed her own Android applications including God’s Promises and Catholic Answers and Apologetics.

She writes about relationships and common questions about God and the Catholic faith at Single Catholic Writer. She is currently single and happy and she would like everyone to know how happy we can be by drawing close to the love of God!

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