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obvious_ron
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What most helped you in your journey to the Catholic Church? What about your previous state started you to seek conversion to a different faith? What keeps you anchored in the Church today?
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7_Sorrows
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I had been raised in the Episcopal church and left religion for the most part in 1970.
Off and on I would return to the Episcopal church, but saw many changes I did not like. I pretty much avoided religion and church for 20-30 years. I attended for the first time with friends protestant non denominational services various times which only enforced my love for a liturgy and holy communion which they did not have so I began looking into Catholicism
(my dad supposedly was from a Catholic family, but only his sister actually practiced identified as Catholic).
Finally, I was received into the Catholic church at 56. I see there is division, but I also see the benefit of having an authority figure, the Pope and the magesterium to hold the faith together which the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal church do not have and thus you can believe any number of things.
I pray I never see what happened in the Episcopal church/Anglican communion happen in the Catholic Church.
Off and on I would return to the Episcopal church, but saw many changes I did not like. I pretty much avoided religion and church for 20-30 years. I attended for the first time with friends protestant non denominational services various times which only enforced my love for a liturgy and holy communion which they did not have so I began looking into Catholicism
(my dad supposedly was from a Catholic family, but only his sister actually practiced identified as Catholic).
Finally, I was received into the Catholic church at 56. I see there is division, but I also see the benefit of having an authority figure, the Pope and the magesterium to hold the faith together which the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal church do not have and thus you can believe any number of things.
I pray I never see what happened in the Episcopal church/Anglican communion happen in the Catholic Church.
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obvious_ron
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What about your faith in Christ? Was there anything in the Episcopal church that hindered that relationship or anything in the Catholic Church that helped it? Do you believe that the Episcopal church has true liturgy and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist?
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I see the Episcopal church as very Protestant. Growing up I tried to deceive
myself believing the Episcopal church was close enough to being Catholic and i had the best of both worlds - I did not have to submit to the Pope! It was with humility, that i did come to believe the Catholic Church is the One and True church started by Jesus Christ and Peter was the first leader of the Catholic flock. I do believe my faith in Christ has strengthened and I do believe in the Real Presence and I
participate in Perpetual Adoration.
myself believing the Episcopal church was close enough to being Catholic and i had the best of both worlds - I did not have to submit to the Pope! It was with humility, that i did come to believe the Catholic Church is the One and True church started by Jesus Christ and Peter was the first leader of the Catholic flock. I do believe my faith in Christ has strengthened and I do believe in the Real Presence and I
participate in Perpetual Adoration.
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obvious_ron
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Thanks for explaining a bit more.
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7_Sorrows
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My journey in the Catholic faith has not been free of struggles. I have faced many challenges the past 10 years which really made me question my faith in God. I have known despair and felt hopeless at times, but I have gone yo church more in these past 10 years than I ever did the first 56 years of my life! So that says something
I guess. Hope I answered your questions.
I guess. Hope I answered your questions.
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tad
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o?I converted to Catholicism out of the blue. Prior to that I had no faith tradition and knew very little about Christianity in spite of being baptized in a Methodist church as an infant.
My RCIA program was really weak, so the thing that helped me out as a catechumen and a new Catholic was attending daily mass. That’s the treasure of the Church. Other faith traditions have programs, but we have the daily mass. There’s nothing like it.
What keeps me anchored is simply, in the words of St. Peter, ;“To whom shall I go?”
Up until recently I was an altar server at my parish both on Sunday’s and daily mass. That’s all dwindled away but for the greater part of my life as a Catholic that kept me tethered to my faith community.
I also had the great blessing of marrying a cradle Catholic 24 years ago. Her 12 years of Catholic education is serving us both well.
My RCIA program was really weak, so the thing that helped me out as a catechumen and a new Catholic was attending daily mass. That’s the treasure of the Church. Other faith traditions have programs, but we have the daily mass. There’s nothing like it.
What keeps me anchored is simply, in the words of St. Peter, ;“To whom shall I go?”
Up until recently I was an altar server at my parish both on Sunday’s and daily mass. That’s all dwindled away but for the greater part of my life as a Catholic that kept me tethered to my faith community.
I also had the great blessing of marrying a cradle Catholic 24 years ago. Her 12 years of Catholic education is serving us both well.
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