Can someone please tell me what the Tiber swim team is?

[YADA]

It’s funny, because I became Catholic almost 2 years ago, and at first I was not sure about using the term convert because I was already a committed and baptized Christian.

I’m not uncomfortable with using that term anymore, even if it technically may be incorrect, because I have in a sense had a conversion of thought, of reason, if that makes sense. The fog of doctrinal confusion has lifted and I think much more clearly now. It was like being “born again” - again.

Seriously, I know exactly what you mean and I can identify with the carity of thought and a conversion of heart about the church… I often wonder if this use for the term ‘convert’ arose amongst some of the various denominations [non catholic christian] who do not recognize the catholic church as being christian … ergo, people were seen as converts …

Less seriously [sort of] We use language fairly loosely [at least it seems so to me] and words can have strict definitions but assume various other definitions via ‘popular’ usage … after all who would think that ROF means “roll on the floor” I did not think it was even a word!

So we know that Hello is a greeting but we articulate that word as Hi. We know that ain’t is not in the dictionary [at least it was not when I went to school] but we know that ain’t means Is Not

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We tend to do the same things with reigious words … but this becomes dangerous as meanings can then also change dramatically so and Truth be lost …

 

[jmcrae]

So we know that Hello is a greeting but we articulate that word as Hi. We know that ain’t is not in the dictionary [at least it was not when I went to school] but we know that ain’t means Is Not

Nit-picking field trip:

Actually, it means “am not.” So, “I ain’t” is actually grammatically correct, even though it’s not common usage (and definitely not “business English”).

We tend to do the same things with reigious words … but this becomes dangerous as meanings can then also change dramatically so and Truth be lost …

True - which is why we need to be careful of our use of language, and make certain that we are actually saying what we mean to be saying.

 

[RAR]

WELCOM to the Tiber Team … I’d never heard the phrase until seeing the TAG lines here at CAF … it is really sweet …

RAR, you did technically convert if you received Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist [your First Holy Communion] … the Rites of Inititation becoming a Christian … converting from being a non initiated christian to the faith of and in Jesus …

If you had already been Baptized in another Christian denomination but made a ‘profession of faith’ receiving Confirmation and Eucharist, then technically you would not be a ‘convert’ [already being a ‘christian’ by virtue of your baptism] but would have just completed the initiation process within the catholic faith …

Lots of times christians will speak of conversion as the process by which you move from being [for example] Baptist or Methodist to Catholic … but Technically, they are not converts …

Conversion is a turning away from sin and embracing the Gospel bcoming one with Christ … so to speak …

Again, welcome Did you realize that this EASTER will be your Tenth Anniversary

Will ou be doning something special to celebrate?

Nice! Thanks for the background info and no, I hadn’t realized that this would be my 10 year anniversary… I think I’ll treat me!

RAR

 

[Jeanette_L]

Nice! Thanks for the background info and no, I hadn’t realized that this would be my 10 year anniversary… I think I’ll treat me!

RAR

Have a piece of cake!

 

[newbetx]

Nice! Thanks for the background info and no, I hadn’t realized that this would be my 10 year anniversary… I think I’ll treat me!

RAR

This will be my 20th! WOO HOO!

 

[NMJenny]

I hadn’t realized that this would be my 10 year anniversary… I think I’ll treat me! RAR

Reading your post RAR, I did a lilttle calculation of my own–good heavens, this year will be my 33rd anniversary…:clapping:

 

[YADA]

Nit-picking field trip:

Actually, it means “am not.” So, “I ain’t” is actually grammatically correct, even though it’s not common usage (and definitely not “business English”).

True - which is why we need to be careful of our use of language, and make certain that we are actually saying what we mean to be saying.

Thanks, of course you are right about the “Am Not”

I am so old we were never allowed to persist in the use of the contraction … for me it was never “in the dictionary” so how could I know what it really is …

Language is such a fluid thing … I remember when gay meant being happy and care free …

and there was some flap in the 1980’s over newspaper editorial that used a word that meant being stingy but contained the same letters of a racial slur … what a controversy that insued …

We American’s though are notorious for slang … and what is all this LOL, etc …

And I am the engineering type … Pythagorus was my friend, I bearly knew Thesaurus