My poor computer. On Friday 22 May, my computer went into a start up loop that sent it to PC Doc. On Thursday 28 May, I received my computer once again, and being so happy to have it, began a Marathon game session of Colonization. I lost, but I will play again the moment I finish this entry.
Today is the third anniversary of my conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. It's still hard for me to believe that I did such a thing, but honestly, I feel like I've been a Catholic all my life. I skipped RCIA since the very thought of a year long of going over everything I already knew -- not bragging, I really did already know it -- just wasn't going to cut it for me. Luckily, I found Fr. Chris Allegra who after about four Monday meetings said, when do you want to do this?
What have I learned? I'm not sure I've learned anything that would surprise any regular reader of this blog, except perhaps how fractured the RCC really is, although it loves to say "we are a unity." Unity schmunity. The Protestants have nothing on the fractures of the RCC. Anyway, who cares about that? What I care about is how since I've made the switch, I've learned a lot about what I will, and will not accept. For instance, this discussion going on of making Mary Co-Redemtrix on a par, but subject to(?) Christ. Explain that one if you've got the nerve.
I will never accept that as a dogma of faith. I do not think the Holy Mother herself wants such a title. I think a lot of superstitious people want this title. RCC is not fully free of superstition, there is a type of snake handling mentality very much alive in the church. That disturbs me, and to be honest it shakes my faith in the structure of the RCC, but NOT in my conversion.
To be clear, I believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary (perpetual virginity if you like), as the Second Person of the Trinity, and the Trinity itself is God, then Christ is God. Hence, when Christ emptied himself of God-ness to be born of the Virgin Mary, she was indeed the Mother of God. I believe in Christ crucified, died, resurrected, ascended in heaven. etc. Oh, and I do believe in the Roman Catholic Church. I would be Orthodox, but that is just too ethnic for me. Besides, I like organs in church.
So that's my entry for today. What is your faith?
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2 comments:
Steve for those new to your blog can you tell why you choose to be identified as RC and what was before?
As to me I guess this sums up what I believe but as to how I live my life I fall well short:-
I believe in one God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
And of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,
Begotten of his Father before all worlds,
God of God, Light of Light,
Very God of very God,
Begotten, not made,
Being of one substance with the Father,
By whom all things were made;
Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven,
And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary,
And was made man,
And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and was buried,
And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures,
And ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of the Father.
And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead:
Whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost,
The Lord and giver of life,
Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son,
Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified,
Who spake by the Prophets.
And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church.
I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins.
And I look for the Resurrection of the dead,
And the life of the world to come.
Amen.
I was a member of the Episcopal Church.
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