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MaryEstelle2
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Be careful with your advise and keep in mind that she was raised in a strict Pentcostel home and atmosphere. Do not encourage defiance or disobedience at this time.
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Roseeurekacross
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Angel, I am going to put a link in from your earlier thread.
Converting from Pentecostal to Catholicism Spirituality
We in Australia have lots of non white religious and clergy.
The Catholic Church in a decade or two will be majority Latin American, Asian and African , not European, nor American.
Nuns and religious don’t have a monopoly on meanness, it’s a condition of human nature , and one we all have to overcome.
If I were you, I would sign up for RCIA and gently but firmly tell your family you are doing this. Tell your mum and family you love and respect them and that won’t be changing. This is just what you need to do. Concentrate on the RCIA process and maybe keep discussion of joining religious orders on the back burner. One step at a time with your family. You are young and have plenty of time.
God is everywhere, for everyone. The Catholic Church teaches this. It would be beneficial for you to start reading a few of the documents on non catholic and inter religious dialogue.
St Pope Paul V1 wrote a great one Evangelii Nuntiandii
The first step is for you to start RCIA and go through that process. Are you a legal adult in your country?
We in Australia have lots of non white religious and clergy.
The Catholic Church in a decade or two will be majority Latin American, Asian and African , not European, nor American.
Nuns and religious don’t have a monopoly on meanness, it’s a condition of human nature , and one we all have to overcome.
If I were you, I would sign up for RCIA and gently but firmly tell your family you are doing this. Tell your mum and family you love and respect them and that won’t be changing. This is just what you need to do. Concentrate on the RCIA process and maybe keep discussion of joining religious orders on the back burner. One step at a time with your family. You are young and have plenty of time.
God is everywhere, for everyone. The Catholic Church teaches this. It would be beneficial for you to start reading a few of the documents on non catholic and inter religious dialogue.
St Pope Paul V1 wrote a great one Evangelii Nuntiandii
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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Your mom loves you very much and she’s scared.
Scared of you going to Hell and she’ll lose you for all eternity.
She’s throwing all the weapons at her disposal your way to save you from Hell.
That’s where she’s coming from.
But just because she’s scared, doesn’t mean she’s correct.
So you have the harder job.
You have to show your family that your conversion has made you a better person. Somebody who is genuinely kind and charitable and patient.
This is a tall order for a new convert, who is also learning this spiritual path and probably has faults of their own.
Pray for your dear mother and your entire family every day.
Answer their questions authentically.
Keep learning everything you can about Catholicism.
I’ll pray for you all
Scared of you going to Hell and she’ll lose you for all eternity.
She’s throwing all the weapons at her disposal your way to save you from Hell.
That’s where she’s coming from.
But just because she’s scared, doesn’t mean she’s correct.
So you have the harder job.
You have to show your family that your conversion has made you a better person. Somebody who is genuinely kind and charitable and patient.
This is a tall order for a new convert, who is also learning this spiritual path and probably has faults of their own.
Pray for your dear mother and your entire family every day.
Answer their questions authentically.
Keep learning everything you can about Catholicism.
I’ll pray for you all
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Roseeurekacross
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Angel has not yet converted. That’s the first step. And it’s going to be a biggie, going to RCIA.
She needs our prayers for herself and her family
She needs our prayers for herself and her family
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angel6288
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I have as I mentioned I’m very active in my parish and a really good friend of mine is a nun who has been helping but, it’s hard when you’re mom is controlling watches your phone/internet usage, threatens to put you out, expects you to clean the entire house after everyone else messes it up, and treats you like your four not to mention forces you to be the parent in the house because she works a lot. She has already said I was selfish because she told me to stop hiding the fact I wanted to be Catholic and to start going on Sundays so, she got mad at me and told me to cut out the nonsense and I needed to be more concerned about my family’s salvation and not my own. She has already said consistently she wants to wait until she’s financially stable before attending church so, she doesn’t even go but gets mad at me for doing what I love and what I know to be right. Anything I do she says it’s because I’m unhappy with myself and I’m trying to be someone or something I’m not. (i.e White and rich because that’s what she thinks all Catholics are or anything I do is for whites only)
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There are six black Catholics up for canonization right now. St. Martin de Porres, for whom our Southern Dominican Province is named, was very poor and black. (I’m wanting to say he was Mulatto). His mother would beat him after he gave her earnings to the poor he met on the way back home.
I was a Southern Baptist the first 16 years of my life. Catholics moved in next door, and since our town was 56% Catholic, Our Lord was “in the air” (along with distillery mash). Thomas Merton taught me the first part of the Hail Mary when he and other monks came into our store to have keys made for the Abbey. I had a personal experience with Our Lady as a child, and 10 years later, became Catholic. Even transferred high schools.
The family was upset, of course, and went through all the usual arguments – like yours. I simply kept my focus, and was determined to be as charitable as possible. Praying FOR them, and not AGAINST them worked wonders. Mom began to realize that my rosary-praying obtained small miracles. She began to say I had a pipeline to Heaven. When she was dying of brain cancer, I had a local priest anoint her. Then she said she was ready to go.
What I’m beginning to do when I encounter situations such as yours, is to offer this link: http://savior.org/ and invite the person in question to bring that page up (on a laptop or computer – won’t work on phones) without the other party knowing what they’re doing. Then see what their reaction is.
The difference between them and us is the True Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. If they don’t believe in that, they shouldn’t be Catholic.
I even gave that link to the grandmother of a non-verbal autistic 2 year-old. She said she brought up the site, and the granddaughter became very still.
I was a Southern Baptist the first 16 years of my life. Catholics moved in next door, and since our town was 56% Catholic, Our Lord was “in the air” (along with distillery mash). Thomas Merton taught me the first part of the Hail Mary when he and other monks came into our store to have keys made for the Abbey. I had a personal experience with Our Lady as a child, and 10 years later, became Catholic. Even transferred high schools.
The family was upset, of course, and went through all the usual arguments – like yours. I simply kept my focus, and was determined to be as charitable as possible. Praying FOR them, and not AGAINST them worked wonders. Mom began to realize that my rosary-praying obtained small miracles. She began to say I had a pipeline to Heaven. When she was dying of brain cancer, I had a local priest anoint her. Then she said she was ready to go.
What I’m beginning to do when I encounter situations such as yours, is to offer this link: http://savior.org/ and invite the person in question to bring that page up (on a laptop or computer – won’t work on phones) without the other party knowing what they’re doing. Then see what their reaction is.
The difference between them and us is the True Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. If they don’t believe in that, they shouldn’t be Catholic.
I even gave that link to the grandmother of a non-verbal autistic 2 year-old. She said she brought up the site, and the granddaughter became very still.
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