Favorite time period to live as a Catholic

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What’s your favorite time period to be Catholic? I like 1940-1965 and 1978-2005 because the first period had nice ethnic parishes, a colorful Latin Mass, community togetherness, and vibrant liturgies and the second one had PJPII in it, which included a new catechism, a renewed sense of orthodoxy post Vatican II, a fight against Communism, and an opening to the world.
 
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Right now, because this is the time period where God put me, so he obviously wants me to be doing something here and now rather than in 1945.
"Here I am Lord, I come to do your will. " - Psalm 40
 
Today, this is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.
 
Fortunately, I kinda span both of those periods. I kinda agree that where I am time wise is where I belong.

Sometimes, I wonder how I’d respond, living in the first century, in the middle east.
 
My top three choices, not counting my own time period:
  1. The distant future
  2. 1st century Palestine
  3. 17th century, Catholic Counter Reformation
 
I cannot occur with 75-05. Much if that time was a difficult time to be a Catholic, at least where I lived. During the first 29 years of that time period, we were practically told not to pray the rosary (it was just a tote prayer), there was no benedictions, adorations,. Confessions were only offered once a week, my home town went through a period of standing during the Eucharistic prayer, vocations were way down, ugly churches were being built. I could go on and on. I will grant you it was really special to live through JP IIs pontificate.

As yo the answer to your question, perhaps the 1st century.
 
30 AD because maybe I could have met Christ. 30 AD in Israel that is. I often wonder if… I was a Jew in Israel during Christ’s earthly life, what would I have thought of Him? Would I have believed in Him? Would I have not cared? What kind of woman would I had been?
I also would love to had met St John the Baptist. And the Apostles…
 
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Mary888 said:
I was a Jew in Israel during Christ’s earthly life, what would I have thought of Him? Would I have believed in Him?
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I’m always afraid I would have been one of the many who left when he started up with the “eat my flesh and drink my blood” stuff. I fear I would have said, “This man is insane”.
 
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eat my flesh and drink my blood” stuff. I fear I would have said, “This man is insane”.
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That was in private at the Last Supper, with the Apostles. Neither of us would have been there because that was a male-only-dinner. 😃
 
If you believe the words now as you read them in the bible and hear them from a priest, why do you doubt you would believe them if you heard them from His own mouth?

I would think it would only be easier to believe back then. Especially considering the extreme persecution everyone went through as they flocked to the truth, the truth must have been pretty evident. Back then a whole empire was converted and everyone was joining the Church. I think it’s much harder for most to believe now that everyone is leaving. It is to God’s immense credit that any of us still has faith in this nihilistic world.
 
That’s true, but when Jesus made the comment initially (John chapter 6), it was to a large mixed group of followers, and Scripture says many of them stopped following him.
It wasn’t just that it sounded like cannibalism, but also, observant Jewish people never consumed blood.

He asked the Twelve if they were going to leave also, and Peter said, “Lord, where would we go?”
 
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Absolutely the 4th century before legalization. Not because I think it’s better but just because I’m so curious what the church and being a Christian was like before it was legal. I’d also be really interested in any time between about 800 and 1200 when monasteries still had a strong relationship with the average church in the West.
 
I would only want to live during the time padre pio was alive and in his prime, then I would just become one of his female laity followers and go to his masses.
 
I have to admit, now. We have the most access to Carholic writings in all of history! And hot water heaters!
 
I’m pretty sure they used to hold mass in catacombs before legalization.
 
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