Tema: Advice for a future Catholic.

Praise the Lord All Mighty! There's some splendid news! One more soul to trail the path of salvation, for there's no salvation out of the Church! Now you'll gonna have to earn it every day on; don't lose faith! Way to go, Annuit ! God bless you!

Here's some good old apologetic speech from G. K. Chesterton, to inspire you in this new and decisive step you're gonna take:




Regarding the concern you expressed here:

Iniciado por Annuit Coeptis

Thanks!

I wouldn't know where to find a traditionalist priest in the area where I live, I'm afraid- I got in contact with the local parish and spoke with the coordinator of the RCIA program. I also am not sure what catechism would be appropriate- while I've got access to the revised catechism, the newest one, I don't know of any other.

Well, that's the major problem with almost every catholic interested in the traditional ways of his/her faith; no parish to attend traditional mass on Sundays, no traditional priests to perform the traditional ministry. This shouldn't prevent you to do the right thing! Better to receive sacraments from a non-traditional priest that none at all! Learn all you can about what Catholicism actually is and what have constantly been though the centuries, stand your ground and never let anyone to talk you out of it, no matter who and what they say!

Well, that's the major problem with almost every catholic interested in the traditional ways of his/her faith; no parish to attend traditional mass on Sundays, no traditional priests to perform the traditional ministry. This shouldn't prevent you to do the right thing! Better to receive sacraments from a non-traditional priest that none at all! Learn all you can about what Catholicism actually is and what have constantly been though the centuries, stand your ground and never let anyone to talk you out of it, no matter who and what they say!

It's partly due to the Reformation and partly due to the mainstream liberalization of the Church that so many Christians are misguided. I think it's better to be, say, a doubting Catholic who has a connection to the Church than a misguided Protestant who engages in such heretical ideas as Zionism or an "interfaith dialogue" with Islam. I've got my particular doubts, of course, and some private beliefs, which I'm sensible enough to keep to myself- but I think that any Christian worthy of respect, and who respects Christian civilization, ought to belong to the Church. This choice doesn't come lightly but after long reflection over a number of years. I'll "take what I can get" for now; the local parish is mainstream and I don't know of any other parishes around that're more conservative in orientation. I'm not expecting immediate success in anything and I'm sure the process of de-Protestantizing might take a number of years (but I'll keep in mind the good portions of Protestantism that I like, i.e. the sermons of John Wesley, etc.). For Protestants Christianity begins largely with Luther with the previous 15 centuries being irrelevant.


Chesteron is good; I got a copy of his book "Orthodoxy."

I snapped some quick pics with my phone of the effigy of my parish's namesake St. Rose of Lima. I was going to get some others- a wooden effigy of St. Thomas Aquinas and one of the Lord- and some of the stained-glass windows- but I was getting curious looks from some of the other parishioners.