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Os2Hugh
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Firstly, I ask for you to pray for me and my family. Prayer as I have learned is 1st and foremost any good catholics life, or for any Christian for that matter. I feel I am more the exception to the general rule when it comes to the catholic family demographic. I am a young male (20's) who has been blessed by both the catechumenate and Cursillo (De Colores) as much as I struggle with sin, faith is an important part of my life, and to be without it is inconceivable. Even though both my parents were baptized and brought up (confirmed) as catholics me and my sister were never baptized. They claimed to us when we were young, that the church didn't baptize children of parents who were married via a justice of the peace (which of course is not true; I found this out years later).
Anyway me and my younger sister both went through the RCIA program, and received our sacraments (although my sister has not embraced the faith nearly as much as me). My mother grew up in a Irish-Polish American catholic family and was at a young age considering a vocation to the religious life. My father's parents were a protestant convert and a devout Irish catholic mother. My parents were children of the 1960's (ie they graduated high school then) and I have often wondered if them coming of age then had an effect on their negativity/apathy toward catholicism.
In my fathers case (though he'd probably never admit it) his faith I think died with the loss of his mother to breat cancer at age 11 in 1959. She and her family were very devout and I think my father blames God or rather thinks "well if being devout and religious gets you this...well then I'm done with this". My late paternal grandfather dealing with the stress of being a single parent and with his alcoholic tendancies never enforced religious orthodoxy among my father or his younger sister. Sure they were confirmed, but it was not a religious household.
My mother on the other hand would be a more receptive type, she doesn't reject religion as a whole, but she seems to reject a lot of her catholicism. In recent months she has befriended a woman (whom I knew socially and is a nice lady) who is a Jehovah's witness. So you can see my quandry as a family. My dad could care less about religion and God, my mother although searching is falling under the sway of JW's please pray for me and my family especially my parents.
Any advice or particular saints to ask prayers from would be appreciated.