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It may be sort of alluded to in their name. Wesley and his fellow worshippers were known to be very methodical in the practice of their faith, and while it's not clear that a fixed para-liturgy was part of this, it would not be contradictory to their other habits of prayer and Bible study. It...

Father Santa is right, scrupulosity (at least in a case such as yours) has a psychological cause, and is not pride. Please work with your doctor regarding the OCD.

I went to a Methodist church occasionally (and not very often, we weren't churchgoers) as a child. There is a framework for their worship but I don't think it is strictly prescribed. Like most Protestant churches, the emphasis is upon prayer, hymns, and the sermon, because that's really all...

Well, a psychiatrist is a doctor of medicine, so he or she should be able to help you. Keep working together and think positively.

Please seek medical help as soon as possible. I couldn't possibly be more emphatic about this. Your scrupulosity appears to be the OCD with which you struggle, spilling over into the realm of morality. I cannot recommend marijuana except for medicinal purposes, and this, too, needs to be...

Relax, you will most certainly wake up Catholic. Please work with your spiritual director and your psychiatrist. You're doing the right thing.

It almost sounds like these people have some kind of mental problem, or are possibly even under demonic influence. Actually, when you think about it, there is probably far more Scripture used in a Catholic Mass than in a typical Protestant service. In the latter, they tend to rivet upon...

If they were never properly catechized, or had been told these things but forgot, it is entirely possible that they didn't know. That wouldn't explain the anger, though. A lot of people leave the Church because of some trauma or mistreatment they incurred within the Church, or because the...

I didn't think of that. Very sad indeed.

It's hard to imagine how Pentecostals would even know about transubstantiation, let alone try to get a Catholic to think their "Lord's Supper" possesses it. So far as I am aware, they treat it solely as a memorial, and are simply obeying Scripture as they perceive it.

In their defense, they perform the "Lord's Supper" because Christ said to, "do this in memory of Me". St Paul also warns against receiving the Body of Christ unworthily, which implies that this ordinance is to be done time and again among Christians. Denominations vary widely as to how often...

Yes, lacking the Eucharistic sacrifice and the Real Presence, music and preaching is about all they have. Their churches rise and fall upon how good both of these are perceived as being. OTOH, in the Catholic Church, the music could be awful and the sermon could be utterly uninspiring, but it...

Anglicans are all over the place in their relative resemblance to Catholicism. Some Anglican liturgies are very close to the TLM if it were in English. Their 1928 BCP contains a Eucharistic liturgy that has a very stern warning about receiving the Body and Blood unworthily. If there had to...

The Church teaches that it is one and the same Mass, but that said, it was radically overhauled. The TLM is available under diocesan auspices in many places, and it is the Mass that I normally attend on Sundays. Here is a directory that shows approved TLM locations: https://www.latinmassdir.org/

If you did pursue a career as a teacher, your sincerity and conscientiousness alone are evidence that you would not be the kind of person to whom the term "millstone" applies. This Scripture passage refers to people who are teaching others to sin. You obviously wouldn't be doing that. Your...