I was both baptized (as an infant) and confirmed according to the Roman rite of the Catholic Church but honestly when confirmed at age 10, I didn’t know what I was getting into. At age 10 back then my main focus leading up to Confirmation was what Confirmation name I was going to choose. In retrospect I think that was too early of an age for Catholic kids to be confirmed back then. But as I matured I got to the place where the Catholic faith was not for me. That has been reinforced more over the yrs even as I informed my conscience of why the Catholic Church teaches what it does, and still knew I did not believe in it enough or have faith enough in the CC to abide by teachings or practice the faith. It got to the point where my favorite thing was that I liked how many different scheduled times Catholics have for Mass. Catholic churches near me can have 2 Saturday vigils at 4 and 530. And on Sundays as many as 5 or 6 scheduled times between very early Sun morning and Sun evening. I also liked the fact that I knew what I could expect with the order of the Mass being the same each wk. That is one reason why for a mainline denomination I might have familiarity in TEC or maybe ELCA. ** But mainly for the mainline-progressive churches, the openness including open Communion and their greater celebration of and acceptance of diversity are things I especially love about them.** Which opens the doors for me to TEC but to a church such as UCC as well. And perhaps a few inbetween.
