Question for converts: What's your story?

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Jerry,

Do you know anything about the Catholic church in Kyrzygstan?

There is a priest there who is constructing a shrine to. I think, Our Lady of Lourdes, and the workers are Muslim, and have a great respect for our Blessed Mother. If you know thiis priest’s name, please let me know, as I would like to pray for him.
 
marcylee said:
Jerry,

Do you know anything about the Catholic church in Kyrzygstan?

There is a priest there who is constructing a shrine to. I think, Our Lady of Lourdes, and the workers are Muslim, and have a great respect for our Blessed Mother. If you know thiis priest’s name, please let me know, as I would like to pray for him.
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The reason that Muslims have a reverence for Mary is one of her titles is our Lady of Fatima and Fatima is the name of one of Muhammad’s children.
 
LegoGE1947 said:
The reason that Muslims have a reverence for Mary is one of her titles is our Lady of Fatima and Fatima is the name of one of Muhammad’s children.
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Thanks Lego, that is what I was thinking of, Our Lady of Fatima.
I was mistaken.
 
LegoGE1947 said:
The reason that Muslims have a reverence for Mary is one of her titles is our Lady of Fatima and Fatima is the name of one of Muhammad’s children.
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They had a reverence for Mary long before Our Lady appeared at Fatima. The town of Fatima was named after a Muslim lady who became Catholic. I hope and pray that Our lady can help convert them thru their devotion to Her. Maybe like she did at Guadalupe for the Aztex. God Bless, Memaw
 
moen said:
To Jerry Parker:
You could write a book!----I watched “The Other Holy Land” (Turkey) and it had references to the Muslim respect for Mary, for sure! Very interesting. They also said that a small stone ruins of a home was where Mary spent her last days, but then others say she spent them in Jerusalem, so there’s a debate there. But they said St. John’s tomb is there, I believe…?

Memaw, your point of “where were the siblings when Jesus died” is a very valid one…I never thought of that, and will mention that to the next of my friends persecuting Mary/CC. 😃 I will still add tho that we are Sarah’s daughters (“if we don’t give way to fear”), because that’s what Peter himself said in his NT letter.🙂

On another subject: I know I cannot be confirmed in CC w/o being baptized Catholic, but I was baptized and confirmed a Lutheran…as well as took RCIA 2 years ago, but didn’t do the very end portion, obviously. I went to a new church this AM and loved it. They spoke of a catechumen class and a separate confirmation class going on. (IE I don’t fit either group)

It’s hard to pin the right person down it seems regarding the path to follow in this church becuase they’re a part of a much larger parish church (confusing, I know:( . The priest is really hard of hearing and I couldn’t take a long time this morning to ask him after service. My son was with me and it was awkward. The sweet church is where I would love to follow through…🙂 Anyone else walked out this journey.:confused:
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Being Baptized in the Lutheran Church is no obstacle to becoming Catholic. The Catholic Church recognizes their Baptism as valid, but you will have to be confirmed , as only a, (validly ordained) Catholic Bishop (or priest so designated), can Confirm a Catholic. You should be able to go to the RCIA class, when a new one begins, usually in the Fall, and then be Confirmed at Easter Vigil.
Prayers and God Bless, Memaw
 
I was asked if I knew how to contact the priest, who is erecting a Marian shrine, in a Central Asia republic that I have not visited. I am fairly familiar with Kurdistan, due to my long-time activism for (and in) Kurdistan, and I have familiarity with the situation in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and a bit more skitchily, Iran, due to the presence of Kurds in those countries, whose borders engulfed the former semi-autonomous Ottoman province of Kurdistan, alas, due to the blindness to long-term consequences (Kurish, Arabic, and Persian) of those who drew up the Treaty of Lausanne at the conclusion of the First World War, but I really do not know so much as I would wish to know about some of the other new C.I.S. nations which have become independent since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Any of these areas is very isolated from us in North America, so, please excuse my inability to help to make that contact. I still am much more in contact with Lutherans in the region, where Kurds live, than with Eastern Catholics, Nestorians, or Eastern Orthodox there.

Yes, the Muslims do have a very strong devotion to Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, due to her prominent place in the Qur’an as a prophet, the only woman, in fact, amongst the Qur’anic prophets of Islam. Her place in Islam, as well as that of Our Lord, Jesus, is the reason why Peter Kreeft is so hopeful for the oecumenical role that Our Lady will play in reconciling Christianity with Islam.

Good luck in making that contact to those who are trying!

Jerry Parker
 
Memaw said:
Being Baptized in the Lutheran Church is no obstacle to becoming Catholic. The Catholic Church recognizes their Baptism as valid, but you will have to be confirmed , as only a, (validly ordained) Catholic Bishop (or priest so designated), can Confirm a Catholic. You should be able to go to the RCIA class, when a new one begins, usually in the Fall, and then be Confirmed at Easter Vigil.
Prayers and God Bless, Memaw
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Memaw, I found that the protocol is different for someone who is not baptized and someone who is. I found the answer on “TeamRcia” website, quoting code of canon law. (it’s long:eek: ):
Should you celebrate the rite of reception at the Easter Vigil? Some points to ponder:
Anything that would equate candidates for reception with those who are catechumens is to be absolutely avoided. (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, 477)
The commentary on The Code of Canon Law, commenting on canon 206 regarding catechumens, makes these distinctions between candidates and catechumens:
“aptized non-Catholics who seek full communion with the Catholic Church are not catechumens or ‘converts,’ although they are moved by the Spirit and have an explicit will to join the Church.”
“They are not, however, to be exorcised or to receive other elements of the liturgical rites involved in baptism, since they are already baptized.”
“No greater burdens are to be imposed on them than are necessary for them to come into full communion.”
Back to the initiation documents…
Those who have already been baptized in another Church or ecclesial community should not be treated as catechumens or so designated. Their doctrinal and spiritual preparation for reception into full Catholic communion should be determined according to the individual case, that is, it should depend on the extent to which the baptized person has led a Christian life within a community of faith and been appropriately catechized to deepen his or her inner adherence to the Church (”National Statutes for the Catechumenate,” 30)
This means that a baptized Christian who wants to become Catholic and has been faithfully participating in a Christian community (not necessarily a Catholic community), who lives a Christian (not necessarily Catholic) lifestyle, and who has been catechized in order to deepen his or her resolve to live as a Christian disciple in the Catholic Church is ready to celebrate the Rite of Reception into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church.
When could reception take place then?
The reception of candidates into the communion of the Catholic Church should ordinarily take place at the Sunday Eucharist of the parish community, in such a way that it is understood that they are indeed Christian believers who have already shared in the sacramental life of the Church and are now welcomed into the Catholic eucharistic community upon their profession of faith and confirmation, if they have not been confirmed, before receiving the eucharist. (”National Statutes for the Catechumenate,” 32)
Further…
It is preferable that reception into full communion not take place at the Easter Vigil lest there be any confusion of such baptized Christians with the candidates for baptism, possible misunderstanding of or even reflection upon the sacrament of baptism celebrated in another Church or ecclesial community, or any perceived triumphalism in the liturgical welcome into the Catholic eucharistic community. (”National Statutes for the Catechumenate,” 33)
In other words, if a baptized Christian is faithfully participating in the Sunday assembly of the Catholic Church, is living a Christian lifestyle, and is adhering to the Catholic teaching, they may be received into full communion as soon as possible—even at the next possible Sunday celebration. They need not wait until the Easter Vigil to be received.
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Eric Sammons,

Thanks for the testimony of your growth in the Holy Catholic Faith which you provided on the link of your message. What you worte quite touched me.

Yeah, I know what you mean about garden-variety Arminian sectaries (Methodists, Mennonites, Baptists, Pentecostalists, Campbellites, *et al.) *and even, for that matter, real Protestants (Presbyterian-Reformed, Lutheran, Anglican), having a deep but narrow understanding of Bible exegesis, theology, and so forth. The narrowness comes from the blinders that we such were wearing! How much more comprehensive yet universal and full, how much more deely human and historic, the faith is of Roman and Eastern Catholics and of the Eastern Orthodox!

Flirting with pro-abortion is horrendous and self-polluting. When I first became aware of the “controversy” in the early 1970s, I took a non-committal attitude – but only for about six months! Just how brutal and satanic abortion is struck me forcefully rather quickly, and I rapidlyly came to detest the “feminist” defense of this abomination, indeed the detestability of the rebelliously anti-human feminist ideology in general.

The sheer instability of Protestantism, its fickleness and inability “to tow the same line” for more than two generations or less, its obsessive susceptibility to fads and trends, not to mention the even greater waverings of non-credal and non-confessional sectarianism, comes to distress anyone, too, who values the objectivity of God’s revelation of Himself in the Holy Scriptures and in the history and sacred tradition, the “consensus of the faithful”, of truly Catholic faith.

I always felt repelled and appalled by the attitude of such sectaries (or of Protestants) as my Baptist paternal aunt, who approved of almost anything so long as it was not Roman Catholic or Mormon (or, probably, Jehovah’s Witness), because of their lack of supposed “respectability”! Such prudish social-consensus-driven attitudes simply seem irrelevant for one who thirsts for the truth.

Yup! Those are common (and precious!) elements in what has led so many of us Protestants and sectaries to the historic Catholic faith of the R.C. Church and of Eastern Orthodoxy!

Jerry Parker
 
moen said:
The commentary on The Code of Canon Law, commenting on canon 206 regarding catechumens, makes these distinctions between candidates and catechumens:
“aptized non-Catholics who seek full communion with the Catholic Church are not catechumens or ‘converts,’ although they are moved by the Spirit and have an explicit will to join the Church.”
“Those who have already been baptized in another Church or ecclesial community should not be treated as catechumens or so designated. Their doctrinal and spiritual preparation for reception into full Catholic communion should be determined according to the individual case, that is, it should depend on the extent to which the baptized person has led a Christian life within a community of faith and been appropriately catechized to deepen his or her inner adherence to the Church (”National Statutes for the Catechumenate,” 30)
This means that a baptized Christian who wants to become Catholic and has been faithfully participating in a Christian community (not necessarily a Catholic community), who lives a Christian (not necessarily Catholic) lifestyle, and who has been catechized in order to deepen his or her resolve to live as a Christian disciple in the Catholic Church is ready to celebrate the Rite of Reception into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church.
Further…
It is preferable that reception into full communion not take place at the Easter Vigil lest there be any confusion of such baptized Christians with the candidates for baptism…:

Moen, I appreciate your providing this information! It clears up some things for me. I was baptized by immersion in 1983 by a pastor of an “independent” church which was under the umbrella of United Evangelical Churches. I was 33 years old. I understood what was taking place and what was expected of me from then on. It was a joy to endeavor to live a Christian life.

I continued to attend “Jesus movement” type churches until last Christmas when I finally made the break to the Catholic Church. (It felt like I literally broke and ran!) Based on these facts it would seem I might be a candidate rather than a convert, but I am going to let the Church decide. By the way, I imagine Jerry P. would call me a sectary rather than a Protestant because I have attended churches such as Calvary Chapel. I really don’t care what I’m called, I just want to eat and drink worthily. I have turned my education over to our wonderful priest, and must await the Matrimonial Court ruling on our annulment petitions, which may take some time.

However, I’m grateful for the information you provided, because my husband and I have never thought much of re-baptism, and multiple baptisms of the same person. He thinks the implication is that it didn’t “take” the first time.

Rejoicing in hope, L.H.
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Hello My name is Moni,
I have read some of your stories and have found them very inspirational. My journey to become catholic has taken me about 20 years. I am at the end of my journey and have found my church home at sacred heart.
I was adopted by a German family who were church of Christ. My people were Spanish and of course catholic. The nature of my adoption had alot to do with my grandparents influence. Being adopted by a family who was non-catholic made things akward for me, but I loved them and being a young child excepted my fate, but I always knew that upon reaching 18 I could begin to make my own choices in life.
My influence on my adopted family was strong in regards to my belief that the Roman Catholic Church is the true church.
When I was 12, that influence came to a head. One sunday morning (attending the Church of christ) my father was up for eldership. The preacher pulled a chalk board into the isle and asked everyone to move back in the pews. Of course the church of christ elders and deacons became unsure and began to argue whether or not it was scriptural to have a chalk board apart of Sunday Service. This caused alot of chaos. This affected me greatly. The previous sunday the preacher spoke on " judge not, lest ye be judge." I remember it like it was yesterday. When things settled down, the preacher drew an image of satan on the chalk board. Then drew an arrow and out beside the arrow the word CATHOLIC in bold letters. The holy spirit filled me and I could not take anymore, so I stood up among the attendants and questioned him saying," Last week you taught on judge not, lest ye be judged? Your saying the catholics are demons. I told him if you cut a catholic they will bleed red just like a prodestant." It was a release in me that was needed since I was introduced to the church of christ teachings. I knew this wasn’t right and I knew this circumstance was the divine Trinity communicating to me that the right path was the Holy Catholic Church.
Immediately after I spoke, I, my father, mother, and brother stood up and left the church. For a month no one spoke in my fathers household. Then one day at dinnertime my father spoke. He thanked me for standing up and speaking the truth and that it was a release for him. Much later in years my father came to me and told me that he believed that the Roman Catholic Church was the true church. I just sat down and cried and prayed giving thanks to God, that my father understood and believed. Unfortunately he died 2 weeks later.
For the last 20 years I have been researching the catholic faith, but because of marriages (2) in my life to men that were not christian (a decision they both made after marriage. I have no idea why) kept me from becoming the one true thing I know I was born to be and that was catholic.
I’m now a single mom who is in RCIA and my children are in RCIC.
I have been baptised in the presence of the holy trinity already. The first day in class it was annouced in class that I was already baptised and am taking my class to reach my final state of mind to receive communion.
The one thing I can say to anyone who wishes to follow the catholic faith is to be true to your calling, because our heavenly father does call us. His plan for us is much bigger than the plans we have for ourselves, because we’re suppose to walk in his light, and do his will. If there were people in my life that dissaproved of my decision to follow my calling and there most definitely were; I have learned that through daily prayer and applying the mysteries to my life and doing my best to walk the path he wants me to walk,especially for me, concentrating on sins of ommission, all of those who were against me are now currently supportive of me, including my adoptive mother who in times passed was very angry about my decision. I have met in the distant passed a gentleman who is from birth a Roman Catholic but had not gone to confession for 26 years. I’ve never judged him, but always inquired as to whether he had gone to mass here and there when we will talk. He recently scheduled time with his priests and he currently has confessional scheduled, which does my heart good. Living by example works. I know it does because its how I influence others in my walk. Well that’s my story. Thank you for taking the time to read it. God Bless you. And sorry for the misspelled words. Typing isn’t my bag.
Moni
 
Luminous Hope,

You wrote: By the way, I imagine Jerry P. would call me a sectary rather than a Protestant because I have attended churches such as Calvary Chapel.

Yes, that is so, i.e. that you have been a sectary rather than a genuine Protestant. Those who are Protestants are aligned with Christian denominations which, at least historically, are not only Trinitarian but also believe that the sacraments of Holy Baptism and of the Eucharist are more than mere badges of personal piety with no objective capacity to convey God’s grace. This is the matter of the Big Divide between Protestantism and the sects; this distinction, however, does not apply to the cults (J.W.s, L.D.S. Mormons, and the like) who reject the Holy Trinity, hence fall altogether outside of the Christian fold.

However, what does it all really matter all that much, in the last resort, compared to the importance and joy of seizing hold of the Holy Catholic Faith (or, rather, of the Holy Spirit compelling us to take hold thereof), as a member of the Roman or Eastern Catholic Church or of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which fully are churches, not mere denominations? The devolution of Protestantism into liberal unbelief, on the one hand, and all too often of the aping of the pop sects, on the other, makes the distinction less important than it used to be.

Jerry Parker
 
Hi, Moni,

Wow! What a great testimony it is that you bear of how God led you to renounce sectarianism (and the Church of Christ, the Campbellite group, I assume, is one of the nastiest little narrow-mindedly foolish sects of them all!) and to claim your Roman Catholic heritage! You make me want to run, not walk, to the conclusion of my own spiritual trajectory (from Lutheranism Godwards)!

Jerry Parker
 
Jerry_Parker said:
Luminous Hope,

You wrote: By the way, I imagine Jerry P. would call me a sectary rather than a Protestant because I have attended churches such as Calvary Chapel.

Yes, that is so, i.e. that you have been a sectary rather than a genuine Protestant. Those who are Protestants are aligned with Christian denominations which, at least historically, are not only Trinitarian but also believe that the sacraments of Holy Baptism and of the Eucharist are more than mere badges of personal piety with no objective capacity to convey God’s grace. This is the matter of the Big Divide between Protestantism and the sects; this distinction, however, does not apply to the cults (J.W.s, L.D.S. Mormons, and the like) who reject the Holy Trinity, hence fall altogether outside of the Christian fold.

However, what does it all really matter all that much, in the last resort, compared to the importance and joy of seizing hold of the Holy Catholic Faith (or, rather, of the Holy Spirit compelling us to take hold thereof), as a member of the Roman or Eastern Catholic Church or of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which fully are churches, not mere denominations? The devolution of Protestantism into liberal unbelief, on the one hand, and all too often of the aping of the pop sects, on the other, makes the distinction less important than it used to be.

Jerry Parker
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So since my wife and I have been attending Rock Church which is an independent “Jesus Movement” group we would be called “Sectaries” rather than Protestants? This is a new thing to me.
 
LegoGE1947,

You wrote: So since my wife and I have been attending Rock Church which is an independent “Jesus Movement” group we would be called “Sectaries” rather than Protestants? This is a new thing to me.

Well, this is how I understand there to be such a distinction. Perhaps the viewpoint is more Lutheran than anything else. Anyway, the sects and the Protestants, from whom the sects hived off, are both in the wrong camp vis-a-vis Catholicism (Roman and Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)!

Jerry Parker
 
Hello Jerry,
Thank you for your acknowledgement.
Yes, please do run. And keep in mind that the devil is very real. He can insert negative thoughts in your mind because he knows your faults. Its what he does best. When your questioning your conversion from what you’ve always known to what is leading you towards the Trinity and doubt creeps in try to take a new perspective.
An example is my son. He’s 15 and very advanced dealing with adult issues currently. He’s in the RCIC and yesterday he started to cry and told me he didn’t want to go to Ash Wednesday before class. After alot of patience, he finally told me it was because he didn’t want to hang around a particular group of catholic kids at school. Granted there are alot of catholic kids in my sons High School, so he can pick and choose. But what he is referring to is a young hispanic girl who welcomed him to her group of friends when she found out he was in RCIC. When he told me about thier religious discussion during school, I told him that friends can come in ways that you never expect and that it would be good if he communicated more with this group because they seem in tune with thier religious responsibilities.
Now my sons short comings as too his reasons for not wanting to go to Ash Wednesday service had to do with his fear of society. What other humans think about oneanother. And I realize 15 years of age is a trying time. BUT, when he sat before me, I looked very discerning at him and said," Oh, I remember you." “Leave my son so he can be at peace with his new found knowledge and make his own choices.” My son immediately said, "Mom a weight just lifted from me and his entire demeanor change for the better.
Just be discerning when it comes to your conversion. Acknowledge when there is a much more ominous force at work to keep you from the Holy Trinity and communion.
Everyone we come in contact with is apart of his purpose. Even if that person thinks that they are not religious. More than one person from the Catholic faith has guided me over the years regarding the devils interference in our path. Please make sure that all of your debate and pondering regarding conversion isn’t the negative influence that can cloud our judgement and keep us from what we most need. Communion with the Holy Trinity. I will add you to my prayers. thank you for writing me. Moni
 
Moni, what a life story you have had! Hurray for you and wishing you every spiritual blessing. Love in Christ, L.H.
 
luminoushope said:
Moen, I appreciate your providing this information! It clears up some things for me. I was baptized by immersion in 1983 by a pastor of an “independent” church which was under the umbrella of United Evangelical Churches. I was 33 years old. I understood what was taking place and what was expected of me from then on. It was a joy to endeavor to live a Christian life.

I continued to attend “Jesus movement” type churches until last Christmas when I finally made the break to the Catholic Church. (It felt like I literally broke and ran!) Based on these facts it would seem I might be a candidate rather than a convert, but I am going to let the Church decide. By the way, I imagine Jerry P. would call me a sectary rather than a Protestant because I have attended churches such as Calvary Chapel. I really don’t care what I’m called, I just want to eat and drink worthily. I have turned my education over to our wonderful priest, and must await the Matrimonial Court ruling on our annulment petitions, which may take some time.

However, I’m grateful for the information you provided, because my husband and I have never thought much of re-baptism, and multiple baptisms of the same person. He thinks the implication is that it didn’t “take” the first time.

Rejoicing in hope, L.H.
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If you were baptized with the Trinitarian formula (unless you were baptized into a church such as the Mormon church, who do not hold the traditional Christian understanding of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) you are validly baptized in the eyes of the CC. If you were baptized in the name of Jesus only (as happens in the Oneness Pentecostal churches), or were baptized in any formula other than in the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost), you need to be baptized into the Catholic Church. However, the CC requires a record of your Baptism, and some Protestant churches do not keep a record of this. In that case, you would be “conditionally” baptized. Catholics do not rebaptize a validly baptized person from Protestant denominations. There is no such thing as a rebaptism in the Catholic Church.

You will need to obtain a copy of your Baptismal record, and the priest will go from there.

Welcome to the Church! I have found, in my experience, that those who have converted to the Church are some of the most enthusiastic and faithful Catholics, and add so much to parish life and to the faith life of others. Along with those who have left and come back. They seem to appreciate so much what cradle Catholics often take for granted. I am on our RCIA team, and have found that many of them are very knowledgeable about Catholicism because they have taken the time to study the faith, and are often far more familiar with the Bible, but we are starting to catch up on that;) We have one Pentecostal lady as a candidate, and she is keeping us on our toes in that regard.😃
 
Moni09 said:
Hello My name is Moni,
I have read some of your stories and have found them very inspirational. My journey to become catholic has taken me about 20 years. I am at the end of my journey and have found my church home at sacred heart.
I was adopted by a German family who were church of Christ. My people were Spanish and of course catholic. The nature of my adoption had alot to do with my grandparents influence. Being adopted by a family who was non-catholic made things akward for me, but I loved them and being a young child excepted my fate, but I always knew that upon reaching 18 I could begin to make my own choices in life.
My influence on my adopted family was strong in regards to my belief that the Roman Catholic Church is the true church.
When I was 12, that influence came to a head. One sunday morning (attending the Church of christ) my father was up for eldership. The preacher pulled a chalk board into the isle and asked everyone to move back in the pews. Of course the church of christ elders and deacons became unsure and began to argue whether or not it was scriptural to have a chalk board apart of Sunday Service. This caused alot of chaos. This affected me greatly. The previous sunday the preacher spoke on " judge not, lest ye be judge." I remember it like it was yesterday. When things settled down, the preacher drew an image of satan on the chalk board. Then drew an arrow and out beside the arrow the word CATHOLIC in bold letters. The holy spirit filled me and I could not take anymore, so I stood up among the attendants and questioned him saying," Last week you taught on judge not, lest ye be judged? Your saying the catholics are demons. I told him if you cut a catholic they will bleed red just like a prodestant." It was a release in me that was needed since I was introduced to the church of christ teachings. I knew this wasn’t right and I knew this circumstance was the divine Trinity communicating to me that the right path was the Holy Catholic Church.
Immediately after I spoke, I, my father, mother, and brother stood up and left the church. For a month no one spoke in my fathers household. Then one day at dinnertime my father spoke. He thanked me for standing up and speaking the truth and that it was a release for him. Much later in years my father came to me and told me that he believed that the Roman Catholic Church was the true church. I just sat down and cried and prayed giving thanks to God, that my father understood and believed. Unfortunately he died 2 weeks later.
For the last 20 years I have been researching the catholic faith, but because of marriages (2) in my life to men that were not christian (a decision they both made after marriage. I have no idea why) kept me from becoming the one true thing I know I was born to be and that was catholic.
I’m now a single mom who is in RCIA and my children are in RCIC.
I have been baptised in the presence of the holy trinity already. The first day in class it was annouced in class that I was already baptised and am taking my class to reach my final state of mind to receive communion.
The one thing I can say to anyone who wishes to follow the catholic faith is to be true to your calling, because our heavenly father does call us. His plan for us is much bigger than the plans we have for ourselves, because we’re suppose to walk in his light, and do his will. If there were people in my life that dissaproved of my decision to follow my calling and there most definitely were; I have learned that through daily prayer and applying the mysteries to my life and doing my best to walk the path he wants me to walk,especially for me, concentrating on sins of ommission, all of those who were against me are now currently supportive of me, including my adoptive mother who in times passed was very angry about my decision. I have met in the distant passed a gentleman who is from birth a Roman Catholic but had not gone to confession for 26 years. I’ve never judged him, but always inquired as to whether he had gone to mass here and there when we will talk. He recently scheduled time with his priests and he currently has confessional scheduled, which does my heart good. Living by example works. I know it does because its how I influence others in my walk. Well that’s my story. Thank you for taking the time to read it. God Bless you. And sorry for the misspelled words. Typing isn’t my bag.
Moni
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This is a very beautiful testimony–you are a very brave lady.
 
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