After years of being Protestants, yesterday my wife and I joined into full communion with the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on The Feast of the Assumption. Our hearts are full.
Deo Gratias.
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32 responses to “I Gave Up”
In what sense is this “giving up”? Not implying that I have an opinion on this (I don’t), I just don’t get the context because this sounds like you’ve been taken hostage more than you did a thing on your own volition.
I could see that. That’s funny. “Please, we are being treated well here in Rome. They are feeding us and we are not being tortured.”
We gave up fighting against the Original Church, is what I mean. I have to eat a lot of crow, as I had previously argued against Catholicism in many private conversations.
I understand this could be private, but what was it that persuaded you?
Was it the (reference to abuse – edited by DG)
Sorry, had to do it. Hoping you’re light-hearted enough to receive it as the friendly poke it’s intended to be.
That is not friendly. In fact, it is a perverse thing for you to have said.
Well sorry, guess we have different standards for what is perverse. I don’t find any reference to actual events as perverse.
I don’t mean any offense, as I mentioned. And I apologize if I did offend you. But I think the actions themselves are abhorrent (and the subsequent obfuscation of them perhaps even moreso). If you care to elaborate on why you found it fitting to describe what I said as “perverse”, especially given it was far from explicit, I would be curious to hear. I don’t think anything I said was “contrary to what is right or good” in the least.
Guess it’s the protestant in me? Might as well have deleted the comment though, as you didn’t answer the truly important question, only responded to the comment which was made-in-jest.
Claiming that I might have been persuaded to join a church because there has been child abuse practiced there is a direct insult. That is not just against the evil – which is abhorrent, as you say – but is against myself.
Seriously – think about it. Why would I answer an insult with a good faith reply justifying what I believe? A question that is basically “Did you join because you like child abuse?” would be like asking a police officer “did you decide to go into a law enforcement career because you like suffocating black people?”
However, I will give you an answer.
I was persuaded by the reading the history and some of the documents from the Early Church that there was only one church, and I was not in it. Therefore I left off being a schismatic and rejoined the original stream of the faith.
And yes, the RCC has been plagued with evil leaders and priests. As illustrated by Christ, wheat and tares are together in the church.
Thank you for the reply. I thought the question was so absurd so as to be obviously a joke.
One embedded with what could be considered an argument against catholicism. I know online arguments do not lead to anything, so I do not intend to do that.
Again, I deeply apologize. I really meant no harm, but without the normal means of communication God intended, there is likely false-intimacy I have with your persona that you do not have with me. Your recent post acknowledging interdenominal mockery, as well as the poor timing of my comment, likely combined for a magnificently bad comment.
Forgive me, Brother.
Any means of honoring Christ, I endorse. Soli Deo Gloria.
Hey – no problem – thank you. That’s big of you. I realize how weird it can be to talk via text, and sometimes we do not come across correctly.
I know you, Peter, from you being here, and harbor no ill-will. No harm taken.
And yes, I forgive you. I have said much worse things and regularly stick my foot in my mouth.
Ah, this and your other replies do make sense. :)
It does appeal to go back to the roots, but I would think that a protestant carries the protestant atoms of belief with him like a weird accent, so the result would be a mix, a view of catholicism through a different lens. Maybe it’s just not the time, yet.
Uh, for me, that is (:
It is possible, Christian.
Welcome home brother!
Thank you, Brian.
Congrats! That’s awesome. Did you end up entering through an sspx chapel?
Basically, yes.
Deo gratias! Such wonderful news! Prayers for your family.
Thank you, Alex.
Deo gratias! Congratulations, David, and welcome home! I was praying for you at Mass on Tuesday. Funny enough, I thought you sounded awfully catholic when I found you on YouTube a couple of years ago, and now you’re a full-blown big-C Catholic — a fellow TLM-goer, even. I feel like my small world just got a little bit bigger.
Thank you very much, John. That is amazing. On Tuesday!
Congratulations! May God bless you on your journey.
Thank you.
I know that you did not make this decision lightly. May God bless you as you and Rachel go forward.
Thank you, Mark. It was with great fear and trepidation.
Life has been very hectic for me lately and I haven’t been able to read your blog in a long time. This was the first article that I opened and it makes me smile. I’m a struggling/lapse Catholic and we’ve recently started going back to church trying and trying to get something out of it. Pray is constant work to say but knowing other people probably struggle with how to practice their faith and even where to go to church inspires me to keep going. Wish you and your family the best on your faith journey.
You might go to confession, then seek out a faithful Latin Mass. I find nothing in the Novus Ordo but modernism and confusion. Thank you very much, Court.
Also, I will pray for you!
wow. big decision. Curious, does this mean you no longer believe in The Rapture as a thing? and believe now in the infallibility of the pope? or the intercession of the saints? the confession to priests….. also, have you read much ann barnhardt? i have often gotten echoes of her in your articles so was wondering if you’ve read her much. (annbarnhardt.biz)
I haven’t believed in the Rapture since I was about twenty (at least the Dispensationalist version of it) once I traced back the evolution of the doctrine to John Nelson Darby, then Scoffield, and then, its late great promulgator, Hal Lindsay.
I do not believe the pope is infallible unless he speaks ex cathedra. I accept the authority of the church, though am not a fan of the current crop of modernists. I do believe in the intercession of saints, as that is an ancient doctrine. Also the confession to priests. I have read Ann, and have corresponded with her.
Have you ever read Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther or The Bondage of the Will also by Martin Luther? Those are both available for free on the internet.
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Psalm 118
I have read a good bit of Luther. If I followed him, instead of the Church which Christ established, I would be trusting in man.
Also:
“…the Lutheran claim is a claim of the right to rebel against the teaching authority of the Church, on the grounds that the Church is apostate. Unfortunately, the sole witness for the apostasy of the Church is an alleged disagreement between Church teachings and the scriptures on which the Church relies for those teachings.
But the sole witness for the validity, canonicity, historicity, and divinity of those selfsame scriptures is the authority of the Church whose members wrote them, gathered, sanctified, protected, promulgated and canonized them.” – John C. Wright.