I didn’t grow up with the Sacraments. Yes, I was baptized and received Communion (as often as it was offered, which was about once a month. The focal point of a Protestant worship service is not the Eucharist.) but I don’t recall them ever being called Sacraments. They were symbols. I was also married in …
Long before I even considered becoming Catholic, I found that on moral issues I was in the Catholic camp more often than not. For some reason, in my own Protestant churches, I could not find a lot of common ground on some things I considered very important. Such as: the indissolubility of marriage, abortion, birth …
I read Brother Lawrence’s The Practice of the Presence of God when I was a seventeen, I think. It quickly became one of my treasured books. I read A Man For All Seasons and watched the movie. St. Thomas More was the man! I read Tolkein and Lewis. At my wedding my Bridesmaids carried the …
Here’s the first video that broke my heart:
“So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. Continue reading
How often have I heard the following: Christianity isn’t a religion, it’s a relationship. It has several variations. But the gist is the same. Religion = bad. And everything gets lumped in there. If it is liturgical, ritual, sacramental, well…..that’s just legalistic, man-made and…religious.
reconciling things 