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snowman10
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Well, I believe this story needs told in this to be told for the simple purpose of God’s presence in your life.
I am now 19 and grew up mostly with my Mom, a two-time divorcee, and my Gram and Pap, devout evangleicals, United Methodist to be exact. When my mom divorced my dad, an atheist, we moved back to her hometown. I made good friends with her high school girlfriends son, whose family were Catholic. I went with them to Mass one time and asked about communion, curious about all the strange smells, bells, and whistles. I asked if I could take it and they said yes. Mind you now that I was about 9 and Methodist. Now, I am in college and am dating a wonderful Catholic girl, who my family likes but not her faith. I used to be incredibly anti-catholic and now I have done alot of research and prayer and desire to come home to Rome.
I tell this story to show how even when I did not understand the Real Presence and was protestant, and as I grew became anti-catholic, Christ still loved me enough to provide me someone to lead me home, even if indirectly (she never wanted me to and never mentioned it, it was actually a mix of things). I look back now and can see that it is so ironic that I took something I didn’t understand (Eucharist) and made it fit my wants and image. Then I took Catholicism and turned it into my own little anti-christ.
My pap once said “don’t make fun of those Catholics”. He said it to show they were people of true faith, in fact his family was mostly Irish Catholic. So to all you out there who question your faith or where you are going in life, Christ will provide, in usually mysterious ways.
Open your heart to the Church, and you open your heart to Christ.
DU…:dancing:
I am now 19 and grew up mostly with my Mom, a two-time divorcee, and my Gram and Pap, devout evangleicals, United Methodist to be exact. When my mom divorced my dad, an atheist, we moved back to her hometown. I made good friends with her high school girlfriends son, whose family were Catholic. I went with them to Mass one time and asked about communion, curious about all the strange smells, bells, and whistles. I asked if I could take it and they said yes. Mind you now that I was about 9 and Methodist. Now, I am in college and am dating a wonderful Catholic girl, who my family likes but not her faith. I used to be incredibly anti-catholic and now I have done alot of research and prayer and desire to come home to Rome.
I tell this story to show how even when I did not understand the Real Presence and was protestant, and as I grew became anti-catholic, Christ still loved me enough to provide me someone to lead me home, even if indirectly (she never wanted me to and never mentioned it, it was actually a mix of things). I look back now and can see that it is so ironic that I took something I didn’t understand (Eucharist) and made it fit my wants and image. Then I took Catholicism and turned it into my own little anti-christ.
My pap once said “don’t make fun of those Catholics”. He said it to show they were people of true faith, in fact his family was mostly Irish Catholic. So to all you out there who question your faith or where you are going in life, Christ will provide, in usually mysterious ways.
Open your heart to the Church, and you open your heart to Christ.
DU…:dancing: