Glory to Jesus Christ!
I went West to East (RC to BC).
Ten years ago, my parents were travelling with a Greek Orthodox associate in California, and they went up to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic monastary on Mt Tabor in Redwood, CA, ans stayed there for a few days. They wre taken with the Liturgy, especially my father, at the recitation of the Precommunion prayer of St John Chrysostom that is commonly said during Liturgy. There was a Byz Cath. church behind the church we were going to Saturday morning Mass. We went once a month for a long time. At the end of my Junior year of HS, my folks moved away, i stayed to finish. From that point i went every Sunday and feast i could (by that time, it became very much home). I went off to school then, and moved two hours from church (my BC home parish, the nearest to where i went to school), and made the treck twice a month. At the end of my Freshman year, i was in town for a friends confirmation, and i invited my Fiancee and best friend to church (she was Nazarene, he was RLDS)-we were all going to the confirmation, but i do not like late Eucharistic Liturgies outside of fasts, so we went to my church. It was Pentacost Sunday. For a while, both were contemplating entering the Church, but hedged at it. They went, we had Liturgy and the Kneeling prayers from Vespers, and a Baptism, the Chruch’s birthday dinner, and the baptism dinner-so they had a full first experience of our particular Church. My fiancee came into the Church the following January, right before we were married, and my best friend came in the following Pascha, into the BCC. I went and applied for change of Rite, but my initial letter was deemed unnecessary, as the new code of Canon Law had changed the process, so that the change could be reciprocated. Previously, a RC woman who married a Catholic of another Rite could simply declare a change of Rite, and it was entered into the parish books, but it did not work the other way-the man had to apply to Rome for a transfer. The new Code allows for the man to make a simple declaration, and so i did that. That was the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, 7510 (2001 on the civil calendar). We have for three years made the 2 or 2.5 hour treck almost weekly, that our children may know our Church, and we keep our spiritual sanity. We just recently moved to Steubenville, OH., so we are now closer churches, and we have been avisiting them.
That is about the sum of the journey to date.
In Christ,
Adam
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