Catholic in Training - Your Strangest Fear

[TeresTala]

This thread is a chance for Catholics-in-Training (and former CITs) to share and maybe to have a little chuckle at ourselves. What is/was your strangest fear as you joined the Catholic Church.

I’ll tell you mine:

“… but deliver us from evil. FOR THINE IS THE…” whoops!

(For all you lifelong Catholics, that’s how the Protestants finish up the Lord’s Prayer… I mean the Our Father!)

TeresTala

 

[mercygate]

This thread is a chance for Catholics-in-Training (and former CITs) to share and maybe to have a little chuckle at ourselves. What is/was your strangest fear as you joined the Catholic Church.

I’ll tell you mine:

“… but deliver us from evil. FOR THINE IS THE…” whoops!

(For all you lifelong Catholics, that’s how the Protestants finish up the Lord’s Prayer… I mean the Our Father!)

TeresTala

I was a SUPER High Church Episcopalian. My confessor was the Canon Pastor at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC. I would show up, walk the 3 blocks down the aisle to the apse (the place is HUGE), where Fr. King would meet me, fully vested in cassock, surplice and violet stole. He would lead me to one of the apsidal chapels, unlock the iron gate, and we would proceed to the communion rail, where he knelt beside me to receive my confession. He always assigned penances that were incredibly apt, and pointed to healing the particular sin that was the keynote of the particular confession.

My biggest dread in becoming Catholic was having to show up between the hours of X and Y on Saturday, take my place in line, get in there with a strange priest, be quick about it, be told to pray one Our Father and be on my way.

Turns out, within 5 months of coming into the Church, a really GREAT priest agreed to hear my confessions by appointment, and I have been going to him monthly ever since! So my worst fear did not come to fruition at all.

Now, adjusting to the execrable music on Sunday mornings – maybe that will NEVER happen!

 

[pixie]

My best friend who joined the Church 2 years ago for some reason thought that part of confirmation would be an exam and she would have to remember the names of All the saints and their feast days.

 

[Joannm]

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Now, adjusting to the execrable music on Sunday mornings – maybe that will NEVER happen!

Coming from St John the Divine I can see how that would be a problem for you. The music there is exquisit.

 

[Rawb]

I was certain that something would come up that would prevent me from being Catholic. Deacon would call me or come up to me one day and say something like “I just found out that you’re only 18, we’d like you to wait a bit…” or “I’m sorry, we don’t allow people who’s parents were Catholic to become Catholic…”.

Or that I would have to suffer through a “I’m OK, you’re OK, we’re all cosmic children of the universe” RCIA (which also didn’t happen).

 

[IrishAm]

My greatest fear is that my grandparents are still spinning in their graves.

 

[Pani_Rose]

My greatest fear is that my grandparents are still spinning in their graves.

Ahh, think of the song Faith of Our Fathers. I searched mine out, they all have the Cross of the Crusades on the family crest. :bounce::dancing:I am home :extrahappy: the Catholic Church is the faith of my fathers - my family just got wayleighed (however that word is spealled) for a few centuries. So I figure the prayers :byzsoc: of my gandma’s out there sometime in our families history were heard loud and clear.

 

[LeahInancsi]

My biggest fear was that I was going to be the only adult baptized with a bunch of children at Easter Vigil. About two months before Easter Vigil, I asked one of the RCIA leaders if I was going to be the only one and she said “no”. It turned out that there were three others.

When Easter Vigil arrived, all my fears were gone. I had faith that nothing would happen that I couldn’t handle.

One thing that happened that I hadn’t feared was that I had a coughing attack during the Gospel reading. I was sitting on the front row and had to run halfway down the long aisle to where my mother was sitting to get a drink of her bottled water.

 

[Jennifer_G]

This thread is a chance for Catholics-in-Training (and former CITs) to share and maybe to have a little chuckle at ourselves. What is/was your strangest fear as you joined the Catholic Church.

I’ll tell you mine:

“… but deliver us from evil. FOR THINE IS THE…” whoops!

I still do that on occasions at Mass. I just wait until the priest finishes his short prayer before the entire congregation says it. Although, I still say “For thine is the power and the glory, for ever and ever, amen”, rather than “for the kingdom, the power and the glory…”.

I still half expect to sing things like “Glory to God in the highest” using the Lutheran melody instead of the Catholic one. (The Catholic version sounds a little more festive compared to the Lutheran one. )