Posted on 05/01/2007 9:13:13 AM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey
Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey, if you wish to change this to a “LCMS/Catholic Caucus” please let me know.
That's about the way it works here. Part of the team is meeting with the neophytes and others are meeting with the inquirers so there's two different groups going until after Pentecost.
I became engaged one August years ago and went straight into an RCIA program just a couple of weeks later. The time commitment was actually pretty minimal, as I recall. I didn’t attend every week, and with my wife (then fiancee’) as my sponsor, it was actually very fun to participate and reflect from meeting to meeting. When Easter came I felt a real sense of accomplishment.
One gripe I still carry to this day though is that I wasn’t taught much of the real nuts and bolts of Catholicism, and have had to learn most of it since then. But I understood then and now that, with people from all sorts of varied backgrounds and religions, the RCIA program I went through had to devote most of its time with basics of Christianity and similarities with other religions.
But the part that makes me most proud is to be labeled a convert. I’ve known far too many “cradle Catholics” who are extremely disobedient to the faith to consider that label a badge of honor. In fact, most people I’ve come across since RCIA recognize that converts are very likely to be obedient Catholics deserving of considerable respect and even gratitude. I’ve learned more from cradle Catholics, both bad and good, than others, but I wouldn’t shy away from the convert label one bit.
Good luck and best wishes.
If it’s difficult to understand, maybe you’re going the wrong way.
It's my understanding Lutherans, like all other Protestants, have two sacraments, the Lord's Supper and baptism, because those are the only two sacraments instituted by Jesus Christ.
Please see post #88 and you will be enlightened!
RE: the marriage - I think the explanation is that the church wants to have your marriage blessed in the church in a sacramental way. Yes, the church recognizes that you are married, but only in a legal sense.
hi. 5 years on, how has it been?
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