You know you are a Roman Catholic when

[Opie90]

You are sitting in the Reformation class you are auditing at a Reformed Protestant seminary and out of habit almost make the sign of the cross when the professor says “lets open with a word of prayer” which would ruin your intention of keeping a low profile in order to focus all your attention on gaining a better understanding and realize that this probably is not the best idea/most respectful in a room full of iconoclasts who may have theological objections to making the sign of the cross.

 

[OldYoungGuy]

You get passed by multiple 15 passenger vans and can recognize every family.

 

[Shatterpoint]

Here in the Philippines, you’ll know if one is Catholic if you find the images of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart (printed on ceramic tiles) hanging near the gate of the house.

I think the majority of people back home are Catholic, are they not?

Anyways, I was watching the Karl Keating vs. Iglesia ni Cristo (Jose Ventilacion) debate on Google Videos and managed to stick it out for the 2+ hours of the video. Fascinating stuff.

You know you’re Catholic when all your friends are out clubbing and you’re at home watching apologetics videos.

 

[Seamus_L]

… it truly saddens you that you can’t keep the all night candle vigil of All Saints-All Souls inside the cemetery like they still do in a few places in the world.

 

[DarkLight]

You go straight from All Saint’s Day Mass to hanging out at the bar talking philosophy with your friends. That is what you do after Mass, right?

 

[Crescentinus]

I think the majority of people back home are Catholic, are they not?

Anyways, I was watching the Karl Keating vs. Iglesia ni Cristo (Jose Ventilacion) debate on Google Videos and managed to stick it out for the 2+ hours of the video. Fascinating stuff.

You know you’re Catholic when all your friends are out clubbing and you’re at home watching apologetics videos.

Yes, you are right about that.

 

[odile53]

When you wish you could have seen Father Mulcahy on MASH offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass rather than the Ecumenical clap trap to which he was reduced.

The cool thing about it, though, was whenever Father Mulcahy on MAS*H was in one of the operating room scenes, he always had a stole worn over the surgical cover gown, prepared to give Extreme Unction, even if sometime he had to hold a retractor or a suction tip for one of the surgeons.

And I don’t know if anyone caught it, but in the original movie, in the ending scene, Father Mulcahy was blessing a jeep and sprinkling it with holy water!

 

[thebigbang]

…you attend the family Mass at your local parish and the pastor is holding a puppet. Of course, you’re hearing what he has to say when another puppet yells, “Complain! Complain! All you do is complain!”

 

[Rich_C]

You go straight from All Saint’s Day Mass to hanging out at the bar talking philosophy with your friends. That is what you do after Mass, right?

That’s what I did this year.

It was better than last year when it did those in reverse.

 

[loozcannon]

“Just having a conversation with God, you should know He can be funny too.”

Precisely! Look at the platypus!

 

[lparcel]

You cringe while watching TV or a movie and hear the ‘priest’ call someone “my son”

 

[LEMAITRE]

You have the pictures of Popes JPII and Benedict XVI next to your Bishop in your entrance hallway.

 

[teenphilo1]

You never have the right textbooks but you always have a copy of Dom Lorenzo Scupoli’s Spiritual Combat. Always.

 

[Regina_Love]

You are sitting in the Reformation class you are auditing at a Reformed Protestant seminary and out of habit almost make the sign of the cross when the professor says “lets open with a word of prayer” which would ruin your intention of keeping a low profile in order to focus all your attention on gaining a better understanding and realize that this probably is not the best idea/most respectful in a room full of iconoclasts who may have theological objections to making the sign of the cross.

 

[Regina_Love]

When you still wish people a blessed Christmas! A week after the 24th, cause it’s still Christmas on the Church Calendar.

 

[Regina_Love]

A group of Christians say we are all in Bible based churches right? And you get that funny look on your face, and say, “not exactly” Our Church existed before the new testament. It’s the diary of our Church. The Bible is more the fruit of our tree. And there is a stunned silence as their world view tilts…

 

[teenphilo1]

A group of Christians say we are all in Bible based churches right? And you get that funny look on your face, and say, “not exactly” Our Church existed before the new testament. It’s the diary of our Church. The Bible is more the fruit of our tree. And there is a stunned silence as their world view tilts…

That’s great! So true!

Or when you occasionally pray in Latin and freak them out. [What is this sorcery!?!? ]

 

[zaginme]

… you know you are not alone in your struggle. You have a whole communion of saints praying for you! :extrahappy:

 

[filiaecclesia]

. . . your kids know that Santa Claus (St. Nicholas) IS real!

. . . you must fight the urge to genuflect before taking your seat at a concert or the movies.

. . . you voted against Question 6 in Maryland (ugh).

 

[janetg06]

Oh how much I needed a laugh this week!! Thanks for this thread!!

You know you are a Roman Catholic when:

you have a statue of the child Jesus on the dashboard of your car and your non catholic friend gets in the car starts behaving all weird

when your nursing clinical instructor hates you and always tries to put you on the spot because you “dare” to say that you are against abortion and contraception.

when you are the only one praying and making the sign of the cross before you start eating and they all look at you funny (some are curious, some just think you are crazy)

when you are the only one making the sign of the cross in the middle of the class before you start an exam and you also do the sign of the cross on the exam paper

when after your lapsed catholic professor starts criticizing the Church leaders, and how some of them have done bad things and that there are bad people in the Church, etc…and you can’t help that you are burning inside and you jump into the conversation and start doing apologetics in the middle of the nurse’s lounge in front of everybody and speaking (passionately) about how you don’t leave St. Peter because of Judas, that look at all of the apostles how they abandoned Jesus, and that Jesus himself, God on earth, chose them, etc… and when you finish there is complete silence in the room and they change the topic.