Baptists and Catholics?

[khmsct99]

Good to hear. I did it pretty much alone and have just trusted God to help me make new friends and connections. I didn’t even know for a few weeks after my epiphany, that I HAD to join the Church, that my current church existed. The other church is more visible to those driving by, and my current church is tucked away. It’s also much closer. I have continued to run into neighbors at church that I had never seen there before. I have become so close with so many new people as well as neighbors I rarely saw. RCIA and CRHP (a non coed parish retreat) have been incredible experiences and burst open doors and forged lifelong friendships faster than I thought possible. I also had several months of the same confessor even when I went out of my way to find someone who didn’t know me!

My husband and children softened quickly to the idea of church when they began to enjoy some of the new and improved me. I’m still not perfect of course. Getting better with time. My mom has not yet returned to the Church (attending a baptist church I think), and I’m hoping I can get my dad to come to his grandkids’ first communion mass. I don’t know if he’s ever been to a mass! Other family members are glad we’re attending church. Maybe they don’t agree with Catholic teachings or the history of the Church but I am determined to at least soften their views and stop hatin’. All in good time though.

Thank you I know this is the correct thing for me to do though. I understand… others may not understand, I know people around my area would not.

 

[khmsct99]

Another question would be is… what is Lent? Is it (from what I have heard) where you give something up… starting from Ash Wednesday and lasting for 40 days because of Jesus and the 40 days and 40 nights. Correct?

 

[JustaServant]

Another question would be is… what is Lent? Is it (from what I have heard) where you give something up… starting from Ash Wednesday and lasting for 40 days because of Jesus and the 40 days and 40 nights. Correct?

You might want to start a new thread for that, maybe in Apologetics.

 

[JRKH]

Another question would be is… what is Lent? Is it (from what I have heard) where you give something up… starting from Ash Wednesday and lasting for 40 days because of Jesus and the 40 days and 40 nights. Correct?

You might want to start a new thread for that, maybe in Apologetics.

Lent is a time of preparation, of penance, prayer, fasting, and mediation on our sinful condition. It prepares us for the great Joy that comes at Easter when we celebrate our Lord conquering death for us all.
It is a way for us to share in the passion, death and resurrection of Christ.

That might not be the best explanation, but I hope it helps.
As already mentioned "what is lent can be a thread all to itself.

Peace
James