Converts: Your No. 1 stumbling block to conversion?

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Dear abcdef:

It’s a minor thing but, strictly speaking, “adultery” involves a married person having sexual relations with a person other than his/her spouse.

Unless all or nearly all college students are married nowadays, you must have meant promiscuous? 😉
 
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. Even though I love Rosaries and have about 10 of them----I haven’t been able to bring myself to either learn how to pray with them or been taught yet their beauty. I hope to however.
Blessings Friends~~
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The rosary is an extended guided meditation on the gospels, done in union with Mary, Mother of Jesus, Mother of God.

get hold of a booklet with a Scriptural Rosary, there are several, but Franciscan University Press has a good one. Pray the rosary with the Apostles Creed at the beginning, and the Our Father at the beginning of each decade, and for each bead a scripture verse. The purpose of the beads is not only to “keep track” but to measure progress. You are meditating on the meaning of the scripture, and you stay on each bead as long as the verse is still “speaking” to you, then you move on to the next.

Catholics who have been praying the rosary properly for a long time have the scriptures memorized, and the Hail Mary is a union of their meditation with that of Mary, who perpetually beholds the face of her Son, as we will do someday. It is definitely not blah blah, any more than the angels continually repeating hosannahs, alleluias and glorias in heaven is “blah blah”.

If you can’t find a scriptural rosary book, just open Luke’s gospel and use a verse at a time. if you are a good Protestant or evangelical you already have large chunks of this memorized, and are ready to roll.
 
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RNRobert:
Conclusion…

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The Holocaust: The Church was not responsible for that atrocity. Could it have done more? Perhaps, but then so could some of the secular leaders who had an idea of what was happening, but chose to look away.
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as a historical note, most Catholic bishops and priests who preached vigorously against the Nazi agenda and rise to power were silenced in the thirties through threats, house arrest, or incarceration in concentration camps. Blessed Fr. Rupert Mayer is one example. This also happened to courageous Protestant clergy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer being the most prominent example. the Pope tried to get word of the Nazi plans for the “Jewish Problem” as he learned of them out through diplomatice and sub rosa channels to Roosevelt and other world leaders, but was rebuffed by State Department and others who were approached. As a virtual prisoner in the Vatican after the accession of Mussolini, he was extremely limited in practical terms of what he could do, but did his utmost including preaching and houseing thousands of Jews, and urging and supporting other Italians to do the same. the fault of the US, England and other allied powers who knew of the final solution early on and failed to act, when they had the power and the means, and failed to accept the Jewish refugees who did escape, is a far greater guilt, as will be judged by history.
 
As a convert from Southern Baptist, Mary was my biggest block. The baptist ministers had taught me to follow the bible and all it said. When I had questions that the baptist minister could not answer, he told me to see if any religion did ALL of what the bible taught. My wife was a cradle catholic so that is were I started. I was in rcia by myself with the priest and the discussions were long and very scriptual. I was catholic for 5 years before I started to pray to Mary. She has always answered my prayers by asking her son, our Lord for a answer for me. This subject just came up in the rcia program that I help out in. This is one stumbling block that cradle catholics just do not understand. That is one reason I was asked to help out in the rcia program. 👋
 
Mary was the biggest obstacle for me, however catholics i had met in the past gave me the impression that all were nominal christians. on a lower level I also had problems with purgatory and sacrament of reconciliation.
 
Hmmm … an old thread suddenly springs to life. For former Anglicans the biggest obstacle is the loss of the Book of Common Prayer.
 
For me, the ONLY thing was “birth control”. Seeing families that cannot afford to feed 2 children have 6 or 7 or 8 all running around-really was hard and still is. I am willing to accept it though, and now I have finally embraced the Church’s teaching on it and would totally do things differently if I was young again. I now see that every life is precious, such a gift from God with a special purpose, and now I actually feel quite the opposite. That God has a plan for each and every life born, but that’s easy to say when you have enough money to feed your family, still a bit hard, when you see children suffering, deprived, and even starving in parts of the world. But I know God’s plan is always best, not man’s.!!!
 
It’s so funny, I saw my response 8 months ago saying The Rosary was my biggest stumbling block, now that’s totally untrue. I adore the prayerful rosary now!!! And just bought a CD praying the rosary for some guidance in saying it. I look forward to a lifetime of saying the rosary now as a new Catholic.
 
Hi, Everyone!👋

The biggest stumbling block for me was the whole praying to Mary and the Catholic view of Mary. I needed some kind of proof that she was who the Catholic Church said she was. I asked God forgiveness if what I was bout to do was wrong, and I asked Mary to prove to me that she is who the Church says that she is. I asked what for seemed truly impossible at the time.

My parents had left the RCC when I was 3 and joined an independant evangelical church. The thought of me “going Catholic” was devistating for them:bigyikes: . So, I asked Mary for parental blessings for me to join the RCC. I had asked this impossible task in the morning, and by the afternoon the request had been granted!:extrahappy:

I was teaching at a non-denominational christian school and a Catholic parent had given me a book. On my way home from school that day, I pulled over at a gas station to skim through the book. I came across a section about baptism. I remembered that I had godparents that my parents had chosen for me when they had baptized me in the RCC.:doh2:

When I got home I called my estranged godfather to find out that they consistantly offer masses for me. My godfather was in tears as he told me that as we were speaking, my godmother was on a plane to my state. There was my parental blessing!:crossrc:

I hope that this encourages anyone else who may still consider Mary to be a stumbling block.
:blessyou: Snowy
 
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