I'm Think About Becoming Catholic or Orthodox In The Future... But I'm Still Living In My Parents' House. What Should I Do?

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Hello brothers and sisters!

So, I’m in a dilemma…
I’m starting to agree with the Catholic church and I’m considering converting when I’m older. Right now I still live in my Protestant parents’ house, I can’t drive, and I don’t have any Catholic friends so Mass isn’t an option. I’ve actually never been to Mass before. I also can’t get a rosary or anything like that either, you know, assuming I’d ever want to pray it. Don’t get your hopes up, okay?! 😉 All jokes aside, the point of this post was that I wanted to know how to live my life out in a Catholic way right now. Not just several years from now. I’m observing Lent currently and my family knows that, but that’s something that some Protestants do also so they aren’t thinking twice about it. I’ve also mostly been avoiding meat on Fridays. So, besides that, what suggestions do you have? Resources for further research would be helpful as well. 😀

God bless! ❤️
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You can research about RC and EC and EO online. Pray some prayers for illumination and softening of heart of your parents. Don’t argue with them directly there is no point.
@(name removed by moderator) may help maybe?
 
I’d say just read the Catholic Bible, especially the New Testament, and the Catechism.

If you want to pray a rosary, God gave you ten fingers, you can use those, or use a virtual rosary online.

You might also enjoy reading some lives of the saints. ICN and Catholic Culture websites have Saint of the Day calendars. If a saint seems interesting to you, then you can look him or her up on Wikipedia.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions! I don’t want anyone to get me wrong, the Methodist church is amazing (especially mine) and loving. I just observed a service this morning on how earthly things are meaningless in the long run and it useless to use them to fill the void that only God can truly fill. It actually is the first sermon in my memory to make me emotional. The thing is, I’m starting to really question my beliefs. It confuses me why we (Protestants) would leave one of the first churches established by an apostle and come up with our own thing. If it was established by an apostle, then I think the ancient (but still applicable) teachings must be correct.
 
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Is there a public library near where you live? There might be some good books there by Scott Hahn and other converts to the Catholic faith in the “Religion” shelves. See what you can find and ask us about the titles and authors.

The Coming home network has a serie called Journey Home in which converts and reverts are interviewed.
 
Our library has very few Catholic books
:cry: And not a huge number of Protestant books either.

But that’s ok, because there are so many online for free! There are threads with book recommendations. I like Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis de Sales, and Peace and Light by Fr Quadrupani. Both are on Gutenberg Project and Librivox (audio).

You can also listen to EWTN and other Catholic radio online.

And even watch Mass on YouTube or EWTN 🙂

But the main thing to do is to pray. There are lots of sites with Catholic prayers both old and new.

It is wonderful that you are being obedient to your parents at this stage in your life. Pray for them as well.
 
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GrowingInTheFaith said:
It confuses me why we (Protestants) would leave one of the first churches established by an apostle and come up with our own thing.
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This has always confused me about Protestants also. I could understand Martin Luther questioning some of the corrupt practices of the Church such as selling indulgences; the Church leaders knew these things were wrong too but had decided to look the other way. But the starting of new churches always seemed very political to me and more about civil matters like who has power in Europe. A Lutheran once told my aunt that the Lutherans left the Catholic Church because the Pope was no good and my aunt said, “Well we have a new Pope now, so why don’t you come back?” Just seems to me that they threw the baby out with the bath water so to speak.
 
First of all, I am in the exact same position as you are. I hate my church and really want to convert. I recommend watching the mass online,that’s what I do. Keep observing Lent and pray whenever you can. I live right by a Catholic church and I walk to adoration,so maybe that’s possible for you. Read the catechism and Lifeteen might also be a good website for you,depending on how old you are. Lizzie Reezay has an amazing youtube channel that you can watch to get answers to some of your questions. God Bless you and I will pray for you. Please pray for me.
 
@(name removed by moderator) was in your situation. Care to offer advice Agatha?
 
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hanks for the suggestions! I don’t want anyone to get me wrong, the Methodist church is amazing (especially mine) and loving
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Ohhh, cool!

One of my favorite books about the Rosary is written by a Methodist minister:


One year I gave it and a handmade rosary to my Methodist Grand MIL.

The Ave Maria and other Marian Hymns can be found in most classic Methodist Hymnals.

For free options, you can read Robert Hugh Benson’s work on Librivox IIRC. Good novels and non-fiction works.
 
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It confuses me why we (Protestants) would leave one of the first churches established by an apostle and come up with our own thing. If it was established by an apostle, then I think the ancient (but still applicable) teachings must be correct.
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Their argument initially was that the Catholic Church had really, really lost its way and needed major reform (and I don’t mean just things like “selling indulgences is open to way too much abuse”, we’re talking major overhauls of doctrines). However, it became readily apparent that they were not going to be able to effect that reform from within. So the only choice was to leave the church and start up one that held fast to the true Christian faith. From the viewpoint that the Catholic Church went wayward, it all made perfect sense.

Unfortunately, as was shown, while the Protestant leaders easily agreed that the Catholic Church had gone wayward from the true Christian faith, they had a lot of trouble agreeing on what that true Christian faith actually was, resulting in fractures occurring pretty early on and then fractures within those fractures occurring subsequently and still happening in the present day.

It’s an interesting contrast to the Great Schism, where even though the church split into two, neither the Catholic Church nor the Orthodox Church immediately starting splitting up among themselves.
 
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Pray for the virtue of patience. Learn more about the true faith and the sacraments. When the time is right, you will be prepared.
 
Also feel free to come on here for support and discussion of any doctrines or practices you are struggling with. I would also suggest thinking about attending a Catholic University when it’s time for you to attend College - if that is something you are planning on.

Franciscan University of Steubenville is a campus alive for Christ. I know one of the professors there and he moved to Steubenville from another country with his four children. He said it was a wonderful place for devout, on fire young adult Catholics to find each other. His eldest daughter met her husband there
 
LizzieAnswers, yes I love her channel! I found her after I started looking into Catholicism and I’m subscribed with the notification bell.

Thank you for your prayers, I hope we can make our way to the truth, wherever that may be. I will keep you in my prayers. <3
 
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