Can you get reconfirmed under or with a new saint?

[Anne1964]

“Sometimes I’m simply not sure about returning to the church due to the fact that my personality just may not be a match in this situation. I’m not sure if I view things in the “correct” manner any longer to be a Catholic. I get sort of nervous thinking about it.”

You sound a lot like me when I first thought about returning to the Church. There were many teachings I disagreed with but the call to return was so strong. One day I decided to go to a weekday Mass and I was underwhelmed when I left. It felt so strange to be at Mass after having been away for so many years. Several weeks later I went to Mass again and it seemed a little better. This went on for awhile until I finally decided to go to a Sunday Mass and I really liked that one.

I began going to Mass regularly and reading about the Church teachings I disagreed with and the more I read the more I realized that I had not understood why the Church teaches certain things.

Returning to the Church was a process and it took me a few months to make the decision to stay once I began going to Mass again.

 

[Blue_Rose]

I was quite devoted to St Joan of Arc when I was young, because I related to her when I was around that age. She was fearlesss and trusted God in all situations which inspired me at the time. Joan saw St Michael in a vision who instructed her to lead the French armies.

Now she died when she was 19 so as I got older I related to saints who were around my age.
Since then I’ve had a lot more devotions over the years. At certain times I relate to certain saints but they don’t have to be your patron down in writing to be able to pray to them or to relate to them!
I had a strong devotion to Saint Gemma when I was in my early twenties, I was sick and isolated and could relate to her story and admired her love for Jesus. I believe she was a great help during that time.

When I worked in health care I had St Raphael the Archangel as my unofficial patron since he is the patron of healthcare workers.

and I’ve prayed to many many saints for whatever reason, depending on the cause! They are all there to help us!

 

[e_c]

Growing up Catholic, and going to a Catholic school, I was a person very dedicated to faith. I wanted to be a nun. Faith was something that I excelled at. I was very happy in church, and to this day I still have dreams about entering church, and hearing choirs of angelic voices singing familiar hymns and feeling at ease.

Faith is something that is done only with the help of God. When we begin to think that we “excel” at it, that is when we are most liable to fall. Watch Peter in the Gospels. If we are really excelling, we are committed to stay by the Lord when He is least attractive… When He sits in the dark and the cold in prison, do we go to be near Him, or do we go to the fire to warm ourselves? When He is on the Cross, are we willing to associate with Him, knowing that it could mean trouble for us later? Etc.

As for the question, “How has the Holy Spirit worked in your (my) life?” The honest answer is that I don’t know. These days, I tend to say “The Universe is watching my back”, since my faith practice consists of broad spirituality. I never imagined that the Holy Spirit would be paying any attention to me at all, since I decided to walk away from Christianity.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no atheist. It’s not that I don’t believe in angels, the concept of God, the divine, and divine miracles-- in fact, I believe very strongly in these things still. I depend on divine blessings (Or, as I’ve heard it from one minister, “God’s arrangements”) on the regular, and I know it! I still pray and enjoy a simple spiritual life. But… in terms of the Holy Spirit? I haven’t thought about that concept in a long time.

Here is a hard truth: the universe doesn’t care about you.

Here is an easier truth: God cares about you. The Holy Spirit - Who is God, a Person, not a mere concept - cares about you. The Father and the Son (Who are also God) care about you. Yes, St. Michael cares about you too, but that can’t be compared with the love of God, from Whom all other love comes. And all of them want you to “flip” and not “flop,” to come back into the Church.

I have no idea what led you here in material means, but surely God has personally willed for you to be thinking about these things and to find an invitation to return to the Faith. There is no “personality requirement” to be part of the universal Church which God has willed to be the means of salvation. If you are a human being, you are called to it.

So c’mon back.