Help for Evangelical Converts to Catholicism

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Thanks for replying Tis_Bearself, I have to set up a meeting with the pastor, who’s also the Sr. priest at my local church. I’m very close to God, and since I was forced into retirement 6 yrs ago I’ve become even closer to God. There is 1 problem I’ve always had with any church since 1980 and that is I get my eyes too much on the other people instead of God. This is 1 reason I haven’t belonged to any church for very long. I’m not just retired I’m also disabled, in fact that’s why I had to retire. I’m only 66 and I’d prefer to still be working. But I have so many health problems all I might be able to do is a job where I sit at my PC or something similar. I think I do alright with God alone but recently God made me know one thing missing He wants me to add on. I never practice the Lord’s Supper not in the Catholic way or the protestant way. Remember, the only church I can get to is a St. Ignatius Martyr RCC. The building is large but the congregation is small - medium because there are 3 RCC’s in this 1 town. But I like that. I also like the fact that they have some kind of activities for adults who seem to be mostly Sr. Citizens like me. I was part of the Baby Boom generation and now that we’ve reached 60+ most towns don’t know what to do with us. They assume we have family but I don’t.
As I said earlier I’m extremely unhappy with all the evangelical people and denominations I know. I see many problems with the evangelicals that they won’t even consider. However, I also see problems in the CC but I think they’re a little more willing to realize this. Evangelicals did away with confessing sins even though the Bible says to do it. They had to eliminate confession because there’s no one anyone can trust. But confessing one’s sins has several benefits. First of all it make you aware of what you’re doing against God. Secondly confessing has a good psychological effect because you get to confide in another human. Even the people who became saints after death valued having a confessor. It’s necessary. This is 1 of my arguments with evangelicals they say they want to obey the Bible but when the Bible tells them to do something they don’t like they make empty excuses.
All I have for TV is an antenna but 4 yrs ago I had Verizon TV. Part of the service included EWTN and 1 other Catholic station who’s name I forgot. I saw many things have changed in the CC since I was 18. One is many young Catholics now read the Bible. I think this is good but it will bring about changes. They are needed.
I’ll end with this, Protestants have to stop disliking Catholics and thinking they’re all going to hell and Catholics likewise have to stop disliking Protestants. This has to happen. After all, we all believe our sins can be forgiven only because Jesus died for us. The 2 groups have different details but we all call on Jesus for salvation.

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I don’t like most people either and it’s often a challenge for me to try to be friendly and social, but I work on it with Jesus’ help. I think every age group feels a bit isolated and lately there is so much emphasis on youth ministry that simply was not there when I was young, that it’s hard for me sometimes not to feel like my needs were ignored when I was young and they’re being ignored now. Like you I also have almost no family left (All my loved ones died and my husband and I didn’t have kids when he was alive, mostly because of medical issues) so when they start up about the importance of family I often have to steel myself and just work on reaching out more to others who like me may be alone. When in a bad mood I often feel like the Church simply doesn’t want people like me, but Jesus made me this way so I guess he has a reason for putting me here and now and in this spot and I have to figure out what he wants me to do and live my daily life in Him.

I try to focus on the Litany of Humility and “offering it up” in such situations and remember that Jesus, Mary and Joseph are my family and that if my deceased loved ones are indeed in Heaven (I have good reason to think so) then they’re probably quite close to me in a different way.

I certainly don’t hate Protestants given that the only grandparent who lived long enough for me to know her was Baptist / Methodist and my husband and his parents were all Presbyterian. However, recognizing that Protestants are often good people striving to get close to Jesus the best way they know how and that they might even have some useful things to teach me in life doesn’t mean I think their religion is fine and dandy. I would be very happy for them all to return to the Catholic Church. I’ll leave it at that.
 
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