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Anima_Christi
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What are some of your favorite things about being a member of the one true church? This is especially for converts, but everyone is encouraged to share their thoughts.
Wow, your list is amazing. I agree with you 100%. I’m also glad you mentioned the statues and icons. I would also add our heroes, the Saints, whose lives we can only try and emulate.I love being a member of the universal church and knowing that the readings I hear at mass each Sunday are the same ones being heard by Catholics all over the world.
I love belonging to the authentic and original church established by Christ (and who can trace the Popes all the way back to St. Peter.) Why would anyone want to belong to a copy of the real thing when the authentic, true church is available?
I love knowing Catholic “stuff.”
I love experiencing Lent (Ash Wednesday, fasting and abstinence, Friday Stations of the Cross, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil as well as Lenten spiritual practices) instead of Lent being just a word printed on a calendar (as I knew it before I converted to Catholicism).
I love incense and holy water. I love kneeling to pray before and after communion.
I love holy days. Protestants miss out on a lot!
I love having devotions like the Rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet. I love praying the Divine Office.
I love the celibate priesthood because I know that the holy priests have given their lives to Christ in the service of the Church. The parishioners become the family of the priest and the priest in turn becomes a father figure for all of us. (I always give our priest a father’s day card because he really is a father for the whole church.)
I love knowing that the priest represents Christ to us…persona Christi.
I love the fact that there are convents and monasteries for women and men who decide to give their lives to God and serve Him in various apostolates.
I love cloistered nuns and monks who offer their prayers without ceasing for the world.
I love the physical beauty of the Church. I love the alter, the crucifix, the tabernacle. I love statues and icons.
I love the fact that we have Mary to venerate as the Blessed Mother and that she is a role model for women.
I love the Pope! I love having an orthodox spiritual leader who guides the Church with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Most of all, I love receiving the real body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist!
I know I can think of more but I think I’ve hit the high points.
I’m agree…all these things…and more…are wonderful. I have to say, though that I love the Eucharist, and the sacrament of reconciliation. I LOVE the feeling I have after confession…So free and clean.Wow, your list is amazing. I agree with you 100%. I’m also glad you mentioned the statues and icons. I would also add our heroes, the Saints, whose lives we can only try and emulate.