Why so long to become Baptized?

[davleemye]

I am simply a believer of Jesus all my adult life. Acceptance of Jesus as Savior and attend evangelical services at a Bible church. I know Catholic faith very well and believe in the “Real Presence of Jesus” and accept the faith all inclusive. My wife does not want me becoming Catholic but is OK with a Catholic Baptism because of my insistence that this leads to salvation. I’m told it takes up to two years and I am not free to attend mass every week because I go to the church here with my family. I would be Baptized by desire if I could do that.

 

[Fauken]

I know Catholic faith very well and believe in the “Real Presence of Jesus” and accept the faith all inclusive.

Why is the Real Presence in quotes?

I am simply a believer of Jesus all my adult life. Acceptance of Jesus as Savior and attend evangelical services at a Bible church.

If you “accept the faith all inclusive”, why are you attending services at an Evangelical church?

I’m told it takes up to two years

It took me nine months. Where’d you hear two years?

I am not free to attend mass every week because I go to the church here with my family.

Again, why are you going to an Evangelical church? Is it because your family is Evangelical? Why can’t they let you go to Mass?

I would be Baptized by desire if I could do that.

What do you think that is?

 

[IdaCatholic]

The very first thing you should do is make an appointment with the priest at your future parish. You have several misconceptions and that can be cleared up and talked about with your pastor.

 

[BartholomewB]

I am not free to attend mass every week because I go to the church here with my family.

When you say “my family”, I suppose you mean your wife and children, is that correct?

I remember an earlier thread about the difficulties you faced in your attempt to worship in a Catholic Church. How did that work out?

Attending Church, Entering a Church, Kindness Apologetics

I can’t find an answer anywhere. I am not Catholic but Christian not churched. I attended an perpetual adoration for over a year. I am a married man, a senior, very moral, and I would sit nearby my neighbor and her friends who are women there. My friend begged me to go there. Because the monstrance is usually covered and out of reverence I would wait to enter with others or the group. After that period, I became to be admonished and told to go alone or not wait for others. Then people I had sat…

 

[davleemye]

Thank You. I am being shunned and a few turn their backs. Talked with the pastor and I am unsure of what he did about this.
I am trying alpha at a different church, but I desire Baptism. I have a evangelical church I can try and all is great there. Lost and confused I don’t know what to do. My heart was there in that chapel. The priest told me I can sit in church anywhere I would like.
I am a caregiver, married with no kids. A stroke survivor. At the chapel I was extremely careful to remain silent, encourage others, learn the prayers and the songs.

 

[davleemye]

I’m going to try alpha. You are right. I had a very bad experience in the past and I lack trust because I want to belong to a place where is some level of fellowship.

 

[davleemye]

I agree 100%. I’m a Christian since age 17 and read my bible and watch church on livestream. My wife is bipolar and I try to keep her home vs facility so I’m pretty busy. I honor my promise to attend church with her Sunday’s. That’s about twice a month though. I’m a stroke survivor and it’s hard completing things especially over a year to get into the faith. If you read my history here, I was falsely accused by a guy running the adoration chapel of walking our dogs and mentoring.
Excuses, excuses… I’m simply to worn down, tired and discouraged. Our Bible church will baptize me, but I like the forgiveness of previous sin and the structure of Catholic baptism. Non catholic friends think I’m crazy.

I can gain the catholic faith and lose my family. I’ve mainly only gone to adoration chapel, music and lay prayer group there. It’s all women except the leader and he prohibits my neighbor who is family friend from all fellowship with me. Don’t really have what you call a friend in that faith.

I’m trying Alpha, but it’s kind of simply universal stuff.

You are right though…

 

[mythbuster1]

If you have believed in the Savior all your adult life, why were you never baptized?

 

[davleemye]

That’s a great question and I’ll do my best. My parents left the church in 1937 when they married. They were just mid teenagers who stayed married for 74 years. My first church ever was at age 10. I was invited to play the accordion on WCDL as a child. A man asked if he could take me to church with his son. I sang there and had fun. Being a ham radio operator I would listen to HCJB in Ecuador and grew an interest in religious programming. There was also a famous program called “unshackled” and one Sunday morning I accepted Jesus as savior. I was saved, and I became a very moral person and read the bible often. It did change my life and my school grades went up greatly. My friends were not religious and church was seldom attended.

In 1971 I found a missing college student half buried in an abandoned steam shovel saving his life and I was invited to speak at the local Christian academy about that. So I started going to a Baptist church so I could get up to smarter about the religion. They did Baptisms down in the basement of that church Saturday mornings, but I didn’t think about it much. I got married at age 45 in a bible church and when we were attended the little training class before marriage, Baptism never came up. I never gave it much thought at all. I was saved, loved The Lord and all was good. I was never a church member. I was never in a Catholic church for anything but perhaps a funeral once. I felt that the evangelical preaching was much better then the Catholic homily which seemed difficult to understand. Somehow though I always loved angels and I loved the beautiful Catholic church nearby. I thought about those Catholics sometimes and I liked those little statues in the front lawns. I did have a great Catholic friend though but he never mentioned much to me. He would simply go every week.

Troubles showed eventually and life became difficult. My parents died in three months period from dementia and I lost my job caring for them. My wife became Bi-polar and it was not good. I got very stressed out.

I’ll stop the story here, but this is why I didn’t get Baptized over the years. I didn’t know it’s value, and no one ever invited me to do this!

God Bless

 

[davleemye]

Thanks. I sent a long response, but unsure if it went through?
I simply believed it was not needed. No one really ever asked.