The Christian Thread

In the true spirit of the original post of this thread, which was not supposed to be debates and challenges, i share that I have come home to my traditional Catholic roots in a big way.  It feels wonderful.  30 years adrift, lost and lonely, looking for things but coming up empty.  Then I mostly gave up on faith until it found me. 
I have found some good pre-Vatican 2 mass options nearby so I can attend our true mass, the Latin "extraordinary form" mass, how the church practiced prior to the unfortunate V2 changes..  They actually have a high mass on some days that is sung with a full choir and classical musicians, very nice.  The simpler masses are fine too, some have Gregorian chant.  But all in all it has been a wonderful reunion for me and Rob is one of the people I need to thank...I was pretty hostile to faith for many years and he helped me without even knowing it i suspect.  Then when Dad passed some things happened that were mysterious and that's all I'll say about it.  My heart opened a bit more...and here we are.   I love the old school Catholic church again and I am home for good, I hope. 

Just wanted to share that one post.....I'm not a big talker about these things.  Pax!
Jim

Finnforest wrote: Robert, I'm assuming this must be a friend or rellie of yours....sorry to hear this news.  I will pray my next rosary for her.

I actually don't know her personally.

We were out of church because of the sniffles and then we went to Florida for Christmas.  We hadn't met this new couple who started attending.

So it was surprise that she would come forward as she did and talk about her illness.  She explained that because of the tumors against her eyes, she couldn't be a paramedic anymore.  She expressed a wish that we not pity her, that we could just love her and help her feel normal.  She was quite medicated as she spoke- she even said so, but still.  She moved me.

And that moment I said to myself,  "I am going to spend every night praying for this woman and her family."

I'm going to pray for her- every night no matter what.


Edited by Epignosis - January 06 2014 at 22:47

Padraic wrote: Great story Jim - I'm trying to "come home" a bit myself (Catholic as well), through the process of my kid preparing for first communion.  Not there yet, maybe will never get there, but I feel I owe it to myself to give it a shot.

That is great Pat....I'd like to share some more on this but I think I will PM you when I have time instead. 




Rob, that is very sweet of you.




Moogtron, I like your post a lot.  That sounds like a great way to spend family time.  I wish more people would eat together as a family with no TVs or phones allowed anywhere near the table.  Talking, prayers, and good food. 

This last Semester I studied the book of Ruth and that's what my Cru college Bible study went over too. So much relevance to our lives today (not that all Scripture is not), and foreshadowing of Christ. I love that small book and the Almighty has used it so much in my life with some situations and everything. So cool how He works like that. Highly recommend it. Plan on doing a Precepts study next on Esther. Knocking out the only two books named after women in the Bible.

Great picture Ivan.  Couple of fine looking young lads you have for nephews.  Like your sister, I also have two sons.

Ivan, wonderful photo my friend!

Thanks Moogtron, Finn and Padraic.

The funny thing is that my father and myself have an exact photo in the exact place, because we all made our first communion in the same school.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 09 2014 at 10:45

Finnforest wrote: Cool, I'd love to see that one too Ivan if you can find it I'm not sure if I have a communion photo, I'll have to look

Nice photos from both Jim and Ivan

I'm a lapsed Catholic (though I'm not sure I ever sincerely "believed"), and I can't imagine any event that would bring me back to it (or any other religion).  Haven't been to church since age 19 (now 44).