Question on returning to the Church

[leah_laf]

He had said something along the lines of a story he heard of a man who continued sinning but faithfully prayed the rosary everyday, and Our Lady appeared to him and showed him a bowl of fruit that was rotted, and how it offended her that this man offered a beautiful rosary, (crown for her) and it was rotted like his soul and morals. That story threw me off a bit.

Thank you very much for your replies. I’ll be contacting a priest this weekend.

Leah

 

[Tomb54]

When we got married I was Catholic, I wasn’t a practicing Catholic. I had quit going to Church and didn’t care much about my faith or any of the rules associated with it. I believed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Blessed Mother, Angels and Saints, but didn’t practice my faith. I didn’t care what faith my husband was because mine wasn’t important to me at the time.

He is a baptised protestant, he isn’t a church-goer and he doesn’t care to be one.

He has agree’d to have our marriage blessed and has desired to do so in the Church, but not for the spiritual aspects of it. For the societial proper way to do it, walking down the isle type of thing.

We are in the process of having our marriage blessed/validated in the Church for the sake of me, really. He is coming to the classes though and learning about why this needs to be done and what it means to have a Sacramental Marriage. For this I am thankful because he has never talked to a Catholic Priest so I am hoping this will plant some seeds.

It could be the seed he needs for the future. I am my dads godparent so you can see how long it took him. My daughter was married by the JOP because she was pregant and her priest was hit by a Semi just before her catholic wedding. It took almost a year for him to recover and she insisted on him. She had it blessed 1 year exactly from her JOP wedding so she can celibrate her wedding the same day.