Greetings from southern USA

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DyingGaul

December 11, 2021, 12:20:16 AM
Hello all, I've been reading your forum for some months now and finally decided to register.  I will go ahead and tell my story and please understand: All things begin in ignorance.  I'm married with 3 kids (3 under 3, youngest is 1 month) and went through RCIA and was confirmed into the church this year (2021).  I am from southern USA so Southern Baptist, Church of God, and Evangelical prots reign supreme here.  We were previously attending an evangelical prot church called "church of christ" (Campbellites are their real name but they get mad if you point that out).  I apparently asked the preacher too many questions and he eventually ghosted me.  This benefited me though, because it made me reflect on things, such as basic questions that the preacher couldn't confidently answer like 'why is it acceptable to you that the Deuterocanon was official canon for 1500 years and suddenly it was no longer?'  He could only provide fluff answers to everything.  One day I noticed a Catholic church while out walking my 2 year old and asked myself why I'd never considered them as an option (mainly because they are practically non-existent where I grew up).  I then decided to start reading, and from there my journey began which lead me to joining RCIA.  One thing I noticed right away was that the majority of people attending Mass at the first parish I started with were almost all entirely over 55.  There were very few families with children.  As you can guess, this was an NO mass performing parish.  I was ignorant at the time so I had no idea that this form of "mass" had only been created in the 1960's.  It was through further reading that I learned about the TLM, and found out that a local Basilica with an extremely devout priest towards history and tradition actually still performed the Latin Mass.  to note: This priest even replaced the "boy" scouts/girl scouts with Trail Life/Heritage Girls unlike my NO parish that literally hosts the "boy" scouts.  To sum it up, we've been attending the Latin Mass at the Basilica weekly now and I'm likely to go ahead and change my registration away from my old parish.  There are tons of young families with 5+ children at the TLM parish so we feel right at home there.  I honor the NO parish for allowing me to find the Church itself, but once you've seen the light its impossible to go back.  One thing in hindsight that rubbed me the wrong way at the NO parish, was one of my sponsors (a lady at the church) gave me a copy of Fr. James Martin's books at my confirmation.  I knew already in advance of his blasphemy and was a bit offended that someone would hand me such smut.  This helped further along my resolve in leaving that parish.  Anyways, that's the majority of my story,  I hope everyone is doing well and thank you for having me. 

Jayne

#1
December 11, 2021, 05:12:56 AM
Welcome to the forum.  I could really relate to a lot of your story.  I attended a Campbellite church for a few years before making my way to Catholicism.  I too now look back at my RCIA and recognize that I was being taught errors. 

I have a temptation to dwell on my resentment of how much I was misled in the NO, so I make a point to focus on gratitude that I finally discovered the richness of Catholic tradition.  It took me 30 years to get to the point where you are now, so I am a tiny bit jealous.  But mostly I am happy for you and happy to have you here.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.

Bernadette

#2
December 11, 2021, 07:24:26 AM
Hello! I''m also in the South. Hope you enjoy your time here.
My Lord and my God.
Ven. Matt Talbot, pray for Tom.

Heinrich

#3
December 11, 2021, 07:25:08 AM
Welcome. Together, we will restore all things to Christ and raise the South again.

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mikemac

#4
December 11, 2021, 01:11:46 PM
 :toth:  Welcome to the Faith, tradition and the forum.
Like John Vennari (RIP) said "Why not just do it?  What would it hurt?"
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red solo cup

#5
December 12, 2021, 11:28:25 AM
 :toth: from SD's resident copperhead.
Death created time to grow the things it will kill - Rust Cohle

GiftOfGod

#6
December 12, 2021, 02:13:29 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 12, 2021, 11:28:25 AM
:toth: from SD's resident copperhead.
No, no. Copper, in the form of pipes, carries water. But copper is not water.
Quote from: Maximilian on December 30, 2021, 11:15:48 AM
Quote from: Goldfinch on December 30, 2021, 10:36:10 AM
Quote from: Innocent Smith on December 30, 2021, 10:25:55 AM
If attending Mass, the ordinary form as celebrated everyday around the world be sinful, then the Church no longer exists. Period.
Rather, if the NOM were the lex credendi of the Church, then the Church would no longer exist. However, the true mass and the true sacraments still exist and will hold the candle of faith until Our Lord steps in to restore His Bride to her glory.
We could compare ourselves to the Catholics in England at the time of the Reformation. Was it sinful for them to attend Cranmer's service?
We have to remind ourselves that all the machinery of the "Church" continued in place. They had priests, bishops, churches, cathedrals. But all of them were using the new "Book of Common Prayer" instead of the Catholic Mass. Ordinary lay people could see with their own eyes an enormous entity that called itself the "Church," but did the true Church still exist in that situation? Meanwhile, in small hiding places in certain homes were a handful of true priests offering the true Mass at the risk of imprisonment, torture and death.

Lynne

#7
December 12, 2021, 04:47:03 PM
Welcome!
In conclusion, I can leave you with no better advice than that given after every sermon by Msgr Vincent Giammarino, who was pastor of St Michael's Church in Atlantic City in the 1950s:

    "My dear good people: Do what you have to do, When you're supposed to do it, The best way you can do it,   For the Love of God. Amen"

MaximGun

#8
December 12, 2021, 05:11:09 PM
3 kids under 3 and calling James Martin smut.  You are going to fit in well here I believe.  Like a glove.

Melkor

#9
December 12, 2021, 08:00:36 PM
Welcome sir, inspiring story!
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

"Am I not here, I who am your mother?" Mary to Juan Diego

"Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented." G.K. Chesterton

"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill." Jesus Christ

GiftOfGod

#10
December 12, 2021, 08:13:13 PM
Welcome. My advice to all converts (from X to NO to trad. Catholicism) is to forget everything RCIA taught you. Get basic traditional catechism books such as Penny or Baltimore and memorize them. Make notes on what you don't understand so you can ask your trad priest.
Quote from: Maximilian on December 30, 2021, 11:15:48 AM
Quote from: Goldfinch on December 30, 2021, 10:36:10 AM
Quote from: Innocent Smith on December 30, 2021, 10:25:55 AM
If attending Mass, the ordinary form as celebrated everyday around the world be sinful, then the Church no longer exists. Period.
Rather, if the NOM were the lex credendi of the Church, then the Church would no longer exist. However, the true mass and the true sacraments still exist and will hold the candle of faith until Our Lord steps in to restore His Bride to her glory.
We could compare ourselves to the Catholics in England at the time of the Reformation. Was it sinful for them to attend Cranmer's service?
We have to remind ourselves that all the machinery of the "Church" continued in place. They had priests, bishops, churches, cathedrals. But all of them were using the new "Book of Common Prayer" instead of the Catholic Mass. Ordinary lay people could see with their own eyes an enormous entity that called itself the "Church," but did the true Church still exist in that situation? Meanwhile, in small hiding places in certain homes were a handful of true priests offering the true Mass at the risk of imprisonment, torture and death.

LausTibiChriste

#11
December 13, 2021, 02:49:32 AM
Howdy!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Have Mercy On Me A Sinner

Christina_S

#12
December 13, 2021, 08:45:59 AM
Quote from: GiftOfGod on December 12, 2021, 08:13:13 PM
Welcome. My advice to all converts (from X to NO to trad. Catholicism) is to forget everything RCIA taught you. Get basic traditional catechism books such as Penny or Baltimore and memorize them. Make notes on what you don't understand so you can ask your trad priest.
100%.

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Christe Eleison

#13
December 13, 2021, 09:09:38 AM
Great story! Welcome to the forum, Sir  :toth:
Welcome to the FAITH  :pray1:

clau clau

#14
December 13, 2021, 09:16:47 AM
@DyingGaul, you have the highest thanked:post ratio on the forum.  Well done.

"You must be mad," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here" - Lewis Carroll

But when he's dumb and no more here,
Nineteen hundred years or near,
Clau-Clau-Claudius shall speak clear.
(https://completeandunabridged.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-claudius.html)
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