Tiber Swim Team 2009

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It’s official - you are now Catholic!!! Congratulations and Happy Easter to all of you!!! :highprayer::highprayer:

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I still have to realize it. It’s so new for me. :blushing:
 
Congratulations and may God bless your journey. Happy, Happy, Happy Easter
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My wife joined the team last night !!! :dancing::clapping::love:

Paul
 
Thank you!!!
I am so excited and so happy…I could have floated home from Easter Vigil!

*Stella
 
As an ‘already Catholic’ (Tiber Swim Team 2006) I want to say Thank You to all of you who came home to the Church last night. It means a lot to us, as members of the Church, to see all of you come into the Church. New members are a source of strength and renewal for the Church. Also, the Vigil wouldn’t be the same without you! 😃
 
As i said in another thread!
What about those who will have to wait until next year, maybe none of you knows but there are those who is currently accepted as catechumens and will not be able to join until easter next year, at the earliest.

In my country they are welcomed into the church at the rite of acceptance even though they are not yet being able to participate in the sacraments.

I know you all means well but some people can understand it wrongly so i just wanna clarify, not correct.
 
I still can’t believe I’m finally Catholic. It was so worth the wait, and I hated EVERYONE who told me how worth it the wait was. 😃

I do want to send a huge thank you to Catholic Answers Forums. It was here that I had questioned answered and was pointed to people like Scott Hahn and Karl Keating, where book titles were mentioned, and I bought them and read them like a starved maniac. It was here that I become uncomfortable when I read the Bible, for it no longer made sense through my non-Catholic eyes. Here is where I silently lurked and watched debate after debate, some of them awesome, some of them silly. It was here that the Holy Spirit first snagged me and began to flirt, concerning the Catholic Church. Thank you so much.

But guess what Ron and Michael and Manny!! I’m ONE OF YOU PEOPLE NOW! muahahahahahah!!!
 
joamy said:
It’s official - you are now Catholic!!! Congratulations and Happy Easter to all of you!!! :highprayer::highprayer:

:extrahappy::bounce::extrahappy:
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Thank you so much! Becoming Confirmed and finally receiving the Eucharist last night at Easter Vigil was one of the most beautiful and amazing experiences imaginable.

Congrats to all who officially came into the Church last night, and Happy Easter to everyone!
 
I had already shared catholic beliefs for some years before. But now I can feel deep inside that there is still a big difference between thinking like a Catholic and actually being a Catholic. 👍

Chrissi
 
Thank you – will tell you short of holding my adopted son in my arms the first time, last night was the high point of my life. Baptism was wonderful, confirmation was wonderful, receiving our Lord was amazing. By the time I was back in my seat I was crying my heart out with joy to my Heavenly Father who had brought me safe to that moment.

Praise God – my joy knows no limits – now it’s time to roll up my sleeves and get to work!
 
anjoh66 said:
As i said in another thread!
What about those who will have to wait until next year, maybe none of you knows but there are those who is currently accepted as catechumens and will not be able to join until easter next year, at the earliest.

In my country they are welcomed into the church at the rite of acceptance even though they are not yet being able to participate in the sacraments.

I know you all means well but some people can understand it wrongly so i just wanna clarify, not correct.
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My Parish in my country welcomes the new people at the Rite of Acceptance also. Being baptized and becoming ready for Sacraments is a process. It only took me since 1985 to get there – and at times I felt in a hurry, but our Heavenly Father and his representative His Church know it is best for there to be a process – and that takes some time. The important thing is that they are supported and taught as they should be in that process
 
Congratulations, and welcome home, to all of our neophytes.
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Happy Easter!
 
Junebug999 said:
My Parish in my country welcomes the new people at the Rite of Acceptance also. Being baptized and becoming ready for Sacraments is a process. It only took me since 1985 to get there – and at times I felt in a hurry, but our Heavenly Father and his representative His Church know it is best for there to be a process – and that takes some time. The important thing is that they are supported and taught as they should be in that process
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What i mean is that in the eyes of the Lord, the most important moment is when someone say their personal yes to become a follower of Him, and NOT at the rites conducted at easter vigil.

Easter vigil rites is important as they signify that they are now in full communion with the church.

I am against the “Tiber swim team of year so and so” as it creates a we and them situation and that was not what the lord wanted.

A person should be welcomed home at the time of his/hers sincere desire to follow the right path, not at the time of the rites at easter vigil. This sends false signals to those who has not been able to join this year and we should NOT create that we and them situation as it might be hurting and a way of feeling set aside to those who couldnt join this year.

The Lord welcomes everybody with a sincere heart, not if they passed the easter vigil rites or not.

The thief on the cross is the best example, he had no possibility of passing any easter rites, getting baptized or confirmed, all he could do was to repent and that sufficed him in a way far more than any of us, as he was assured paradise that very same day by the mouth of the Lord himself.

So please my brothers and sisters, be careful and think about what you are saying, i know people who feel very bad about this, that they couldnt join this year but are in the process and i know that the Lord accepts them just as much as any baptized person.

It is all a matter of intention, NOT the rites.
 
Paul2274 said:
My wife joined the team last night !!! :dancing::clapping::love:

Paul
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So you mean that before she was set aside???
That she inspite of loving the lord and his church was not a part of his team?
Until she passed some rites at easter vigil???

Cant you all see, this is what i am against, this we and them situation.
 
anjoh66 said:
So you mean that before she was set aside???
That she inspite of loving the lord and his church was not a part of his team?
Until she passed some rites at easter vigil???

Cant you all see, this is what i am against, this we and them situation.
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I think you are taking this way too seriously IMHO. It all goes back to the joke-saying that people who become Catholic are “swimming the Tiber”. Thus, people who “swim the Tiber” are part of the Tiber Swim Team.
 
nsper7 said:
I think you are taking this way too seriously IMHO. It all goes back to the joke-saying that people who become Catholic are “swimming the Tiber”. Thus, people who “swim the Tiber” are part of the Tiber Swim Team.
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No i dont think im taking it too seriously, it might create a lot of confusion amongst those who are in the process but could not yet join.

I do have examples of that, people feel they are not welcome and that creates a we and them situation that the Lord never intended.

The thief on the cross was never a part of any “swim team” yet he was assured paradise in a far better way than any of us will ever be.
 
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