TrueHeart
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I used to be a Methodist.I would very much like to convert to Catholicism, which freaks out my Protestant friends, but I'm fairly determined.
I used to be a Methodist.I would very much like to convert to Catholicism, which freaks out my Protestant friends, but I'm fairly determined.
I heard that Catholic style weddings are the rage in Japan, but they do it just for the visuals.
I found the whole going to church experience incredibly drab. Some of the longest hours of my life. I went to a black church a couple times, now that is an entirely different experience.
I love the mass because it's a whole sensory experience--the icons, the music, the incense, the movement, the tastes of the elements...
And I love the notion of a kind of ... bringing the past (all the angels, archangels, company of heaven) into the present to be part of this large "body." I'm a sucker for the collective, I guess. Mass is ALL ABOUT the collective. I FREAKIN' LOVE IT.
I didn't know you were Catholic, EffEm. I've been thinking about going back too.
That's called boredom.
Well, I don't actually go all that often. But I still say I'm Catholic because I think to an extent it's as much ethnic/cultural as religious, kinda like Judaism. Besides, if I ever broke ties, my aunt the nun would kill me![]()
I used to be a Methodist.
I love the mass because it's a whole sensory experience--the icons, the music, the incense, the movement, the tastes of the elements...
And I love the notion of a kind of ... bringing the past (all the angels, archangels, company of heaven) into the present to be part of this large "body." I'm a sucker for the collective, I guess. Mass is ALL ABOUT the collective. I FREAKIN' LOVE IT.
I confess I would love to see a nun attack you.Can that be arranged?
I'm not your dancing bear! But seriously, I'm sure you could get some assistance from my family. They'd love to see it. Do I get a yardstick too, or am I unarmed?
If you're not my dancing bear, then why are you completely covered in hair, wearing a tutu and pedaling a tiny bike?!
If I remember correctly, nuns pack heat in the form of rulers and pieces of chalk. So you may have one piece of chalk. And each of your family members may have billyclubs. I think that's reasonable.
I would very much like to convert to Catholicism, which freaks out my Protestant friends, but I'm fairly determined.
We'd love to have you. You know, we get to drink wine at church!
So do some Protestant sects. Lutherans actually give communion in individual glasses, which hilariously makes it look like they're drinking shot glasses.
I've attended a few Protestant services, and they certainly are beautiful in their own unique ways. I just can't stand the sermons!
But in the end, it confirms my decision to be a Catholic.
What bothered me growing up in Protestantism is the lack of history, the lack of a past that the movement has. It was intended to expose corruption within the Catholic church, which was overdue - there was an absolute necessity for the church to be laid open and for the corrupt practices to be exposed. But we never should have stayed apart. It feels like a divorce to me, for some reason. The Catholic church has the history and ancientness that I really need. I see the Omniscience of God reflected back to me in the traditions of Mass. Something bigger and greater than myself.
Good luck on that endeavor. It's always nice to hear such stories.
So do some Protestant sects. Lutherans actually give communion in individual glasses, which hilariously makes it look like they're drinking shot glasses.
I've attended a few Protestant services, and they certainly are beautiful in their own unique ways. I just can't stand the sermons!
But in the end, it confirms my decision to be a Catholic.
Lutheran churches usually have a chalice and offer individual cup as an option.
I told you never to ask me about my work.
Wait, I have to fight ALL of them? And they ALL get billyclubs? Just cause they're all Irish doesn't mean they're all cops! Can I at least have a shield?
I was baptized when I was three months old in the Methodist church that my parents had been married in. I joined the Catholic Church when I was seventeen.Were you raised Methodist, or did you join later in life?
The Methodist churches I know about use glasses that do indeed look like shot glasses.So do some Protestant sects. Lutherans actually give communion in individual glasses, which hilariously makes it look like they're drinking shot glasses.
Fr. Louis Bouyer argues pretty much the same thing in his Spirit and Forms of Protestantism.Ironically, the great Protestant theologian Karl Barth remarked that the Catholic Church was more true to the teachings of the Reformers than the Protestant churches themselves(since they long degenerated due to liberal theology).