You know you are a Roman Catholic when

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Oneofthewomen said:
or you wake up in the morning with it still wrapped around your hand from the night before!! 😃
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I’m actually thinking of designing and making a wrist rosary loop shaped lanyard that can be clipped to a rosary and worn around the user’s wrist. I generally pray the rosary daily while I’m awake, but additionally started to pray it when I went to bed at night after I hurt my back, and now that I’ve had my back surgery. Prayer seemed to help me get a decent night’s sleep even better than pain medication did, and when someone on a forum disapproved of the idea of falling asleep while praying the rosary, I asked my confessor about it, and he said it was a great idea, as long as I was offering my pain to God as well as my prayers. He liked the image of falling asleep with Mary and the angels as my spiritual “nurses.”

Problem has been that when I first got hurt, we had an old-fashioned wood frame waterbed, the rosary would fall out of my hand and between the mattress and the frame sometime during the night, which made the morning hunting expedition painful to go bending and sloshing all that water aside until I found the rosary. We bought a traditional innerspring mattress shortly after that, and now it ends up on the floor. Now I have to hunt with my grabber!

So I’m going to make a couple of beaded lanyards as soon as I can find some lobster-claw clasps so that I can keep the rosary attached to my wrist, kind of like a strap on a ski pole. If I come up with a suitable and usable design, I’ll let people know about it.🙂

Now that I’ve had my surgery, the neurosurgeon said that the best thing for me to be doing is to be walking as much as possible. So I started by walking up and down the hospital corridors, saying one decade of the rosary. I’m up to five decades now, as I walk around the house or outside if the weather is fair and the pavement isn’t slippery. I can’t quite manage walking and praying the Liturgy of the Hours (have to keep an eye open for uneven pavement and obstacles,) but have been doing mental prayer as well while walking. It’s nice to know that I have the heavenly host as part of my spiritual rehab team, and I have to comment about this: Even two weeks postop, my surgeon is impressed with my progress.
 
You hastily scarf down your Sunday breakfast so you can make the 1-hour communion fast in time.
 
odile53 said:
I’m actually thinking of designing and making a wrist rosary loop shaped lanyard that can be clipped to a rosary and worn around the user’s wrist. I generally pray the rosary daily while I’m awake, but additionally started to pray it when I went to bed at night after I hurt my back, and now that I’ve had my back surgery. Prayer seemed to help me get a decent night’s sleep even better than pain medication did, and when someone on a forum disapproved of the idea of falling asleep while praying the rosary, I asked my confessor about it, and he said it was a great idea, as long as I was offering my pain to God as well as my prayers. He liked the image of falling asleep with Mary and the angels as my spiritual “nurses.”

Problem has been that when I first got hurt, we had an old-fashioned wood frame waterbed, the rosary would fall out of my hand and between the mattress and the frame sometime during the night, which made the morning hunting expedition painful to go bending and sloshing all that water aside until I found the rosary. We bought a traditional innerspring mattress shortly after that, and now it ends up on the floor. Now I have to hunt with my grabber!

So I’m going to make a couple of beaded lanyards as soon as I can find some lobster-claw clasps so that I can keep the rosary attached to my wrist, kind of like a strap on a ski pole. If I come up with a suitable and usable design, I’ll let people know about it.🙂

Now that I’ve had my surgery, the neurosurgeon said that the best thing for me to be doing is to be walking as much as possible. So I started by walking up and down the hospital corridors, saying one decade of the rosary. I’m up to five decades now, as I walk around the house or outside if the weather is fair and the pavement isn’t slippery. I can’t quite manage walking and praying the Liturgy of the Hours (have to keep an eye open for uneven pavement and obstacles,) but have been doing mental prayer as well while walking. It’s nice to know that I have the heavenly host as part of my spiritual rehab team, and I have to comment about this: Even two weeks postop, my surgeon is impressed with my progress.
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All praise be to God that things are going well for you post-op!

A friend once told me that you can ask your guardian angel to finish your rosary if you happen to fall asleep while praying it.

cj
 
Your wife asks if you want to watch a DVD and you suggest “the Song of Bernadette”
 
jhyer said:
When you completely rearrange a business trip to attend a Holyday of Obligation while you are in RCIA and are not technically obliged to attend…
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You’re a breath of fresh air. Welcome! 👍
 
You know you are a Roman Catholic when…

Your vacation travel material includes several pages printed from masstimes.org listing the addresses and Mass times for all the churches you’ll be near.
 
Georgia said:
You know you are a Roman Catholic when…

Your vacation travel material includes several pages printed from masstimes.org listing the addresses and Mass times for all the churches you’ll be near.
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Or when your free time on your business trip in San Francisco is spent finding all the Roman Catholic Churches downtown…and viewing all the architechture…and you are so pleased when you actually find one open for adoration in the evening!

and

When you plan your work day and doctor’s appointments around daily Mass. I like to get my doctor’s appointments as close as possible…so that I can go to daily Mass at my home parish instead of the one downtown.
 
You give your slightly anti-Catholic Baptist MIL a Rosary bracelet (blessed), a small Catholic book on wrapping yourself in Scripture, and a blessed bible carrier.

Your children know more hymns than nursery rhymes.

Your children can say all the prayers on your prayer cube by the time they’re 3 & 4.

You explain NFP, abstinence, and chastity on one of your first dates with a non-Catholic.

You convert said non-Catholic pro-choice boyfriend to Catholic & staunchly pro-life husband.

You have a credit-line account with the local Catholic bookstore.

Your book wish list on Amazon is completely full of Catholic books on apologetics, Church History, and the saints.

When having surgery for cancer you demand that the surgical staff let you keep your cotton ball with oil from St Peregrine on you, even though its attached with a safety pin.

Before having your ovaries and uterus removed as a precaution against cancer, you not only seek guidance from several priests, but also with a devout Catholic gynecologist.

You constantly direct non-Catholics with gynecological/fertility issues to Pope Paul the VI Institute and the Creighton Model of NFP.

Your tractor crazy son wants to be a farmer priest & drives tractors wearing a play pope/bishop mitre.

You research Catholic things for fun.

You completely reject your undergraduate research position with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute because your afraid it’ll be used as embryonic stem cell research on humans. (I got reassigned to microbiology/virology)

You have a bible study with biologists in college consisting of a self-proclaimed minister/pastor, a Greek Orthodox Catholic from Cyprus, a fallen-away Catholic & although you’re the youngest (and only female) you direct most of the discussion.

You spend more time studying Catholicism to answer questions from your bible study group (from the previous statement) than you do for Calculus 3, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology combined.

You refuse any type of contraceptive after chemotherapy for breast cancer while pregnant even though you’re terrified to lose any more babies or get pregnant & be re-diagnosed with cancer.

You prepare packets of medical research proving links between abortion & contraceptives with breast cancer, the lack of actual benefit for the use of contraceptives for ‘treating’ endometriosis or any other gyn issue, and the reliability of NFP to give to your doctors – even those in well-respected hospitals like MD Anderson.

You have a rosary steering wheel cover in your vehicle that you use every day to commute to work.

You kneel at your desk when the daily Novena reminder comes up on your phone regardless of what you re doing before.

You bring Holy Water to work and try to think of subtle ways to sprinkle your combative bosses.

You think the problems her having at work are caused by the devil trying to poison your soul. You wonder if workman’s comp will cover exorcism & reimburse mileage for Confessions and Spiritual Direction.

Your children sprinkle themselves with Holy Water & practically take a bath in it.

There are 3 Catholic Churches within 5 miles of your home way out in the country & your children know the difference in traditionalism of them all by ages 3 & 4.

You are offended when someone tells you you’re lucky that you only have 2 children & had medical reasons to have a hysterectomy/oophorectomy. Then you try to convert them to thinking of having more children themselves.

Your 3 & 4 year old are trying to evangelize their non-Catholic grandparents.

Your non-Catholic co-workers know that on Fridays you don’t eat meat.

Your 4 year old can sing all the responses at Mass & also sometimes says the priest’s parts during Mass – including the Consecration.

You coordinate not only your clothing to liturgical colors, but also your veil.

You have so many holy medals that you’ve made charm bracelets and bought beads to make a medal bracelet for every day of the month.

Instead of a Pandora bracelet, you get your mom the Respect Life Rosary bracelet for Christmas & she loves it more than the idea of a Pandora bracelet.

You stay up all night & well into the morning (its about 4 am as I write this) bc you’re reading CAF & or other Catholic information and you can’t stop even though you’re exhausted.

You are a charter contributor to a Catholic blog titled Catholic Sistas (CatholicSistas.com) & consider it one of your greatest accomplishments.

You’d more than willingly take a 50% pay-cut to work at yr local pro-life group and revert it back to mostly Catholic. However, you willingly accept God’s will in not giving you the job.

The greatest compliment you’ve ever received was when someone told you that you exuded strength and joy of Faith and that you lived it so well it made you glow from within.

That compliment made you strive to learn even more about the Faith and live it even more fully. And you feel guilty bc you know all the times you doubted and/or fell from grace.
 
You sleep with your Roman Catholic Bible next to sometimes with your arm around it…embarrassing lol
 
BiologyBrain said:
You give your slightly anti-Catholic Baptist MIL a Rosary bracelet (blessed), a small Catholic book on wrapping yourself in Scripture, and a blessed bible carrier.

Your children know more hymns than nursery rhymes.

Your children can say all the prayers on your prayer cube by the time they’re 3 & 4.

You explain NFP, abstinence, and chastity on one of your first dates with a non-Catholic.

You convert said non-Catholic pro-choice boyfriend to Catholic & staunchly pro-life husband.

You have a credit-line account with the local Catholic bookstore.

Your book wish list on Amazon is completely full of Catholic books on apologetics, Church History, and the saints.

When having surgery for cancer you demand that the surgical staff let you keep your cotton ball with oil from St Peregrine on you, even though its attached with a safety pin.

Before having your ovaries and uterus removed as a precaution against cancer, you not only seek guidance from several priests, but also with a devout Catholic gynecologist.

You constantly direct non-Catholics with gynecological/fertility issues to Pope Paul the VI Institute and the Creighton Model of NFP.

Your tractor crazy son wants to be a farmer priest & drives tractors wearing a play pope/bishop mitre.

You research Catholic things for fun.

You completely reject your undergraduate research position with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute because your afraid it’ll be used as embryonic stem cell research on humans. (I got reassigned to microbiology/virology)

You have a bible study with biologists in college consisting of a self-proclaimed minister/pastor, a Greek Orthodox Catholic from Cyprus, a fallen-away Catholic & although you’re the youngest (and only female) you direct most of the discussion.

You spend more time studying Catholicism to answer questions from your bible study group (from the previous statement) than you do for Calculus 3, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology combined.

You refuse any type of contraceptive after chemotherapy for breast cancer while pregnant even though you’re terrified to lose any more babies or get pregnant & be re-diagnosed with cancer.

You prepare packets of medical research proving links between abortion & contraceptives with breast cancer, the lack of actual benefit for the use of contraceptives for ‘treating’ endometriosis or any other gyn issue, and the reliability of NFP to give to your doctors – even those in well-respected hospitals like MD Anderson.

You have a rosary steering wheel cover in your vehicle that you use every day to commute to work.

You kneel at your desk when the daily Novena reminder comes up on your phone regardless of what you re doing before.

You bring Holy Water to work and try to think of subtle ways to sprinkle your combative bosses.

You think the problems her having at work are caused by the devil trying to poison your soul. You wonder if workman’s comp will cover exorcism & reimburse mileage for Confessions and Spiritual Direction.

Your children sprinkle themselves with Holy Water & practically take a bath in it.

There are 3 Catholic Churches within 5 miles of your home way out in the country & your children know the difference in traditionalism of them all by ages 3 & 4.

You are offended when someone tells you you’re lucky that you only have 2 children & had medical reasons to have a hysterectomy/oophorectomy. Then you try to convert them to thinking of having more children themselves.

Your 3 & 4 year old are trying to evangelize their non-Catholic grandparents.

Your non-Catholic co-workers know that on Fridays you don’t eat meat.

Your 4 year old can sing all the responses at Mass & also sometimes says the priest’s parts during Mass – including the Consecration.

You coordinate not only your clothing to liturgical colors, but also your veil.

You have so many holy medals that you’ve made charm bracelets and bought beads to make a medal bracelet for every day of the month.

Instead of a Pandora bracelet, you get your mom the Respect Life Rosary bracelet for Christmas & she loves it more than the idea of a Pandora bracelet.

You stay up all night & well into the morning (its about 4 am as I write this) bc you’re reading CAF & or other Catholic information and you can’t stop even though you’re exhausted.

You are a charter contributor to a Catholic blog titled Catholic Sistas (CatholicSistas.com) & consider it one of your greatest accomplishments.

You’d more than willingly take a 50% pay-cut to work at yr local pro-life group and revert it back to mostly Catholic. However, you willingly accept God’s will in not giving you the job.

The greatest compliment you’ve ever received was when someone told you that you exuded strength and joy of Faith and that you lived it so well it made you glow from within.

That compliment made you strive to learn even more about the Faith and live it even more fully. And you feel guilty bc you know all the times you doubted and/or fell from grace.
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Oh my goodness. I enjoyed reading this! I almost yelled out “yes!” to many of your points.

cj
 
Schatzl said:
😃

You know you’re Catholic when you’ve ever timed the priest during his homily or the Mass in general.
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This one reminds me -

Catholic when - you have nicknames for various priests / deacons related to their mannerisms.

We currently have a Deacon Monotone Molasses. During the homily, get a pillow, many good but tone-dead words. Communion, get in the other line, if you ever want to stop standing in line.

He does provide for ample prayer time after communion if the priest’s let him do the altar clean-up.

I suppose I should note - It doesn’t appear his slow ways are due to any injury or condition.

I and my wife may not notice as much if we weren’t wrestling little lions every mass.

I love it, wouldn’t change it for a moment.
 
…you are talking to your academic advisor at college and you almost blurt out that the college algebra is such a severe penance.

…one of the first things you tell the vet you will be working with that day is you’re Catholic, so you can’t have meat in your lunch, since it’s Friday.

…you pray to St. Joseph of Cupertino before every exam, and of course you try to get others in your secular state university to do so too. They just don’t see how helpful he is. Let them complain about their scores then.
 
Sharron said:
you accidently answer the phone “Hail Mary” !!
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😛 This reminds me of when I was saying my Christmas Novena (from November 30th to Christmas Eve), at times I flubbed and said “Hail Mary” (sometimes I went as far as “blessed is the fruit of thy womb”) instead of “Hail, and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God is born…”
 
Dfpennington said:
You sleep with your Roman Catholic Bible next to sometimes with your arm around it…embarrassing lol
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amen you can’t find your pillow but see your bible and are willing to use it as one. I have though of that.
 
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