Have any Non-Catholics here read the Catechism of the Catholic Church?

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gcnuss said:
I have been to Catholic masses – usually in conjunction with weddings or funerals. However, my introduction to the Mass came in a music history course. We were studying the Mass as a musical form and I was reading an LP album cover which had the Latin text and an English translation. As I read down through the Kyrie, the Gloria Patri, the Gloria, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei. I was rather surprised to find that the translations of the texts were identical to what I experienced in our Lutheran worship. (I really didn’t know much about Catholic worship back in those days.) Even today, some of the liturgical music we use is virtually the same as I have heard in the Catholic Mass.

The “Kyrie” is actually the Greek which remained in the Liturgy when the Catholic Church began using Latin in it’s Masses.

I have never been to an Easter Rite Catholic mass although I have had the opportunity to attend an Orthodox Easter service which was quite interesting (and filled with incense).

If you visited the Orthodox Easter Service, then you have witnessed exactly what happens at an Eastern Rite Catholic Church on Easter! The Liturgies are identical, except one thing, during the prayers when the priest prays for the Pope, Patriarches, Bishops, etc., the Orthodox Liturgy leaves out the prayer for the Pope. Unless you are really focused the entire time, you wouldn’t even notice the difference. That difference in Theology comes out in the Prayers of the Liturgy.

Does the Lutheran Church in it’s Liturgy pray for the Pope?
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SSTeacher said:
But if the Orthodox did have a Truth Society the chances are it would be autocephalous!

:dancing:Autocephalous Truth Society Member

Oh well, back to reading the Catechism.

Informatively,
Mick
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Ok, Mick, I bite. What does “autocephalous” mean? Breaking it down it seems to me to be “self headed” which seems nonsensical.
 
DCD said:
Anything of Father Hardon’s you can put under your pillow.😃 Do you need the CCC? pm if you do.

Pax,
David
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It was one of the things that convinced me to become a Catholic along with Father Corapi’s TV lectures about it on EWTN.
 
OriginalJS said:
Ok, Mick, I bite. What does “autocephalous” mean? Breaking it down it seems to me to be “self headed” which seems nonsensical.
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While I don’t know the exact meaning of the word, I am familiar with it because many Orthodox Church’s have added it to their name when they have separated themselves from the main body - example: Autocephalous Russian Orthodox Church which separated itself from the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia also known as ROCOR when ROCOR began talking about coming back in union with the Russian Orthodox Church under the Russian Patriarch.

“Self-Headed” makes sense as a definition as the Autocephalous Churches have separated themselves from the Head of the Orthodox Church they are separating from - in this case, Russian Orthodox Patriarch, so that they are now “self-headed” rather than “headed” by their Patriarch.
 
As a very active “evangelical Christian”, when my daughter married a Catholic and converted, I wanted to know exactly what that meant, so I went and studied at the source of all learning - Amazon. 😉 - and ordered The Catechism. When it came and I started reading, I could hardly put it down. The beautiful language, the explanations and connections, the fullness of authority with gentle care - it stunned me. All the dots that never completely connected for me as a Protestant, connected in the whole of that magnificent work, and I knew I was Catholic at heart. Now I am Catholic in experience as well (2 years now!) and it was The Catechism that brought me here.

I read the whole thing, and I think that makes a huge difference as it connects and re-connects to itself over and over. A piecemeal or subject reading gives such an incomplete picture. I go back to it over and over.

Somebody asked about reading the Catechism in the 1979 Episcopal prayer book? Yes, I have read that. I grew up Episcopalian. The question/answer format seems to copy the Baltimore formula. There is a Presbyterian one that’s similar, too.

The Catechism is an amazing gift to the Church. I love it.
 
eggplant911 said:
As a very active “evangelical Christian”, when my daughter married a Catholic and converted, I wanted to know exactly what that meant, so I went and studied at the source of all learning - Amazon. 😉 - and ordered The Catechism. When it came and I started reading, I could hardly put it down. The beautiful language, the explanations and connections, the fullness of authority with gentle care - it stunned me. All the dots that never completely connected for me as a Protestant, connected in the whole of that magnificent work, and I knew I was Catholic at heart. Now I am Catholic in experience as well (2 years now!) and it was The Catechism that brought me here.

I read the whole thing, and I think that makes a huge difference as it connects and re-connects to itself over and over. A piecemeal or subject reading gives such an incomplete picture. I go back to it over and over.

Somebody asked about reading the Catechism in the 1979 Episcopal prayer book? Yes, I have read that. I grew up Episcopalian. The question/answer format seems to copy the Baltimore formula. There is a Presbyterian one that’s similar, too.

The Catechism is an amazing gift to the Church. I love it.
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That is a beautiful testimony! I am so happy for you. That is very exciting and inspiring! Thank you for sharing.
 
SingleMomMonica said:
If any Non-Catholic has read the Catechism of the Catholic Church please answer 2 questions.
  1. please tell us if you read it in it’s entirety or have read parts (if in part, which part(s))?
  2. and please say what you liked and disliked about its teachings
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Before I answer, please answer a question of mine:
Do you really want to know, or are you trying to set a trap for us like in your other thread?
 
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