You know you are a Roman Catholic when

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RubyT said:
I love this, sounds like you are doing a great job raising those kids! :clapping:
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I love it too.

You know you’re Catholic when you pick up your daughter from the airport, she sees a priest in the terminal, and assumes you’re the one who brought him.
 
bearer said:
…when your husband/wife bumps you in your sleep and you mumble, “…Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.”
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When your husband tells you in the morning that you spent a period of time during the night telling someone to “Trust in Jesus”.

I have no clue what I was dreaming about…
 
Your entire “bucket list” consists of:
  1. Going to Rome and the Vatican (getting an audience with the Pope would be the best!)
and
  1. Going to the Holy Land.
 
…the cashier tries to hand you your change and you stick out your tounge.

😛

-Tim-
 
TheRealJuliane said:
Your entire “bucket list” consists of:
  1. Going to Rome and the Vatican (getting an audience with the Pope would be the best!)
and
  1. Going to the Holy Land.
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OH MY GOODNESS…I THOUGHT i WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH THAT “BUCKET LIST!”:extrahappy::amen:
 
Tantum_ergo said:
You say a prayer (and you really mean it) for the souls of those who think Catholics are deluded and lacking in reality --because you know those poor people are the ones who are really deluded and ‘know not what they are doing’. May God bring them all to faith and understanding through His Divine Son and Lord and His Holy Catholic Church.
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👍
 
my two cents:

(by the way, I wondered if using the term “Roman” in front of the word Catholic is a derogatory way to describe Catholics)

-it’s normal to go to weekly confession

-security guards with guns in their holsters keep a steady eye on the group you’re with while you all say the Divine Mercy Chaplet in front of an abortion mill

-you tell the Catholic bookstore owner about new titles she doesn’t have yet - and she gets them

-you have to leave so many of your failings for God to fix because your attempts don’t work

-you yell “Way to go!” out loud when one of the EWTN/Catholic Answers radio apologists really defend the faith well and with intensity

-you realize that that could have been you when you hear about terrorists killing people inside a church - a Catholic church (happened in the Mideast) - and get dejected about all your serious, entrenched sins and then realize you’re just going to have to do what you can and trust God with the rest

-you didn’t know there were any other websites other than Catholic Answers, EWTN, New Advent and Life Site News on the internet

-you get feverishly excited when you find a new, faithful Catholic website on the internet

-you wish you’d mind your own sins more instead of other people’s because you know your worse sin is that darned pride

-and then back to confession with your rascally self

-you tell people your dog and your parakeet are Catholic

-you tell your dog not to commit doggy sins but to have compassion for the parakeet

-you can’t go to bed unless you’ve said the daily Rosary

-all radios in the house are tuned to the Relevant Radio/EWTN channel

-you go to a cafeteria and hope the people there aren’t Cafeteria Catholics
 
crenfro said:
my two cents:

(by the way, I wondered if using the term “Roman” in front of the word Catholic is a derogatory way to describe Catholics)
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Nope, not derogatory - just a reference to Rome. You could also say “Latin Rite” Catholic, as opposed to “Eastern Rite”.
 
You know you are Catholic when you hear “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” from the next aisle at the supermarket and you know someone’s kids are acting up.
 
You get a call from the HR department for an interview for a job you applied for, and rather than going over sample interview questions to prepare yourself, the first things you do are head to daily Mass, go to Confession, and light an entire row of candles for all your various intentions including:

-Being detached from the position you’re applying for
-Receiving the graces to remain humble and not prideful throughout your interview
-That St. Anthony intercede on your behalf so that you find the place you’re interview is at and that you find a parking spot
-That all the other applicants have good interviews
-And that you get the position, but not by your will, but God’s will

And when you’re asked during the interview what you do when you experience stress at work you tell them “I offer it up and recite 3 Ave Marias for whatever or whomever it is that is causing me stress, and then get back to work.”​

 
The pre-employment polygraph test you have to take to become a police officer doesn’t make you the slightest bit nervous because you’re so used to confessing sins already. In fact, you already confessed everything that was in your pre-employment polygraph questionnaire booklet last night, along with things far more embarrassing to a guy you see at least every Sunday. Pre-employment polygraph test? Pffft! Bring it on!👍
 
LemonAndLime said:
When you refuse to believe that latin is a dead language.
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Or when you’re asked on an application form which languages you’re fluent in and put, English and Latin, but completely hopeless in your country’s second official language, French.

When you say “mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa” to someone after doing something majorly wrong, you actually mean it and beat your breast thrice while saying it.

You have a small sense of pride when you’re watching some old history movie in class set in the 1600s and the priest is speaking in Latin and are the only person in the entire class who knows what he’s saying. Or, when the priest is whipping himself with a tree branch reciting the Confiteor in Latin, and your classmates are uber confused and disturbed, you know exactly why he’s doing what he’s doing and what he’s doing. Then feel guilty for being proud.

You get tired and annoyed of all the “sexual abuse” scenarios in your law class involving Catholic priests, and write a complaint letter to the Dean.

When some poorly formed Catholic in your traffic enforcement class asks if Catholics can use the defense for impaired driving after Mass that the wine wasn’t actually wine, but Jesus’ blood, you consider it your Catholic duty to “instruct the ignorant” and give the person, as well as the rest of the class, an impromptu theology lesson on transubstantiation and why Catholics can’t use transubstantiation as an excuse for impaired driving. :o
 
DexUK said:
Tell the TV commentator (fruitlessly of course) to SHUT UP when watching a televised Mass: Check.
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Or tell the TV cameraman at a Papal mass to hurry and focus back on the Pope when it’s time for the Papal blessing.
 
crenfro said:
my two cents:
you tell your dog not to commit doggy sins but to have compassion for the parakeet
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This is so true. We tell our doggies not to commit doggie sins or lead the cats into temptation. Do you think there is such a things as doggy confession? After all, God did make all of the animals and if you spell God backwards it spells dog. 🙂 In our case, it is having compassion for the other one. We have a boy and girl doggie. And, it is overwhelming at times. Anyways, not to get off topic…

You know you are Catholic when…you make almost all of the music you transpose Liturgical, you love reading about the Lives of the Saints, you make sure that you schedule regular time for God and pray for the lives of our children even if they are someone elses. You can’t stray away from the Catholic Forums to see what is new and has been come up with. :):angel1:
 
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