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Welcome Home, Fellow Converts, and May Truth Sustain You Always!
NC Register ^ | March 26, 2016 | SCOTT ERIC ALT

Posted on 03/27/2016 1:45:24 PM PDT by NYer

I extend a very happy “Wel­come Home” to all those who will be received into full com­mu­nion with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil Sat­ur­day evening. As an RCIA team member, I have lis­tened to the emo­tions of new Catholics, after the Vigil, as they recalled mak­ing their first Eucharist. In them there is one feel­ing, unmis­tak­able and com­mon to them all: joy, often to the point of tears that would not be refused. I have not met, in my years working with RCIA and after, the Catholic con­vert who does not expe­ri­ence that same joy. Nor have I met the con­vert who, even after many years, does not get a glim­mer of that same joy in their eyes when recall­ing their own con­ver­sion story.

When I received the Eucharist for the first time, a brand-​new con­vert, on April 23, 2011, I had no clue what I should pray when I returned to my pew to kneel. I had heard the sto­ries of con­verts who broke down in tears of joy; I had heard the sto­ries of con­verts who had got­ten lost in pro­found med­i­ta­tion. But at the moment I had no tears nor pro­found med­i­ta­tions; I merely gave in to the irre­sistible urge to whis­per “Thank you” over and over again. I think it was Meis­ter Eck­hart who said, “If the only prayer you say in your whole life is Thank you, that is enough.” So I trust that my first prayer as a Catholic was enough.

For a while after­ward, when­ever I would return to my pew after receiv­ing the Eucharist, I would have no spe­cific prayer, but I would med­i­tate on Gala­tians 2:20: “Now it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”

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1 posted on 03/27/2016 1:45:24 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
The Real Pres­ence mat­ters. It is the one thing that sets us most apart. When the good feel­ings and the peak expe­ri­ence start to fade, find refuge in the sacra­ment. Find refuge in the Eucharist; find refuge in Ado­ra­tion. These aren’t magic bul­lets that will sud­denly make you feel a surge of eupho­ria, but they will keep you focused on the one thing that mat­ters: Truth; for Christ is Truth.

Easter ping!

2 posted on 03/27/2016 1:46:49 PM PDT by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: NYer; Mrs. Don-o

We had a nice group receiving the Sacraments last night, including representatives of some our Hispanic clans. They’re not “converts” in the sense that I am, but cultural Catholics who had missed the Sacraments due to factors like life in El Salvador.

I thought of Mrs. Don-o, who is RCIA coordinator at her parish, and wished them all a blessed night.

DP and I joined the Church in 1993. Today is our daughter Anoreth’s 25th birthday. She was Catholic before we were!


3 posted on 03/27/2016 1:52:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: NYer

Congrats and God Bless the new converts.


4 posted on 03/27/2016 2:35:42 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: NYer

There are plenty outside the RC that recognize the real presence of Christ in His sacrament


5 posted on 03/27/2016 2:51:02 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD
There are plenty outside the RC that recognize the real presence of Christ in His sacrament

Yeah I thought that too, before my reversion. Thankfully I was smart enough to listen to God's call to come back to the Catholic faith.

6 posted on 03/27/2016 3:11:51 PM PDT by verga (Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley.)
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To: Mom MD

That is true of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Orthodox. If someone in the Church of England believes in the Real Presence, he is at sea vis-à-vis his own church’s doctrine.


7 posted on 03/27/2016 3:23:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: Tax-chick

There are also many Protestants and nondemoninationals who believe what Christ says about His Supper


8 posted on 03/27/2016 3:43:44 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

I believe you, although I cannot say from personal experience. The Presbyterian Church, in which I grew up, recognized only a recollection of the events of the Last Supper.


9 posted on 03/27/2016 3:47:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: Tax-chick

The Missouri synod Lutherans teach the real presence I have several nondenominational friends who hold the same beliefs...


10 posted on 03/27/2016 3:56:16 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Tax-chick

Actually not trying to start an arguement just dispelling the myth that the RC church is the only one that recognizes the real presence On this we agree...


11 posted on 03/27/2016 3:57:37 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

I understand. Nobody except the individual can say what he or she believes, irrespective of the church they attend. Plenty of people attending Catholic Churches do not actually believe in the Real Presence, according to surveys.


12 posted on 03/27/2016 4:01:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: NYer

Reported that Mother Angelica has died on Easter Sunday

RIP Mother and condolences to us all


13 posted on 03/27/2016 5:04:57 PM PDT by aimee5291
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To: NYer

I liked this line:

**dif­fer­ently than that, let’s get that set­tled before we do any­thing else.

If I would impress any­thing upon your minds, it would be that Truth alone mat­ters, and Truth is not an emo­tion (how­ever beau­ti­ful it may be) but a Per­son.**


14 posted on 03/27/2016 5:12:17 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: aimee5291

I just checked the EWTN news page, it’s confirmed.

I made her laugh once.


15 posted on 03/27/2016 5:14:22 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: NYer

Thanks for posting. This is my eighth Easter as a Catholic.


16 posted on 03/27/2016 5:18:50 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: Mom MD; Tax-chick
There are also many Protestants and nondemoninationals who believe what Christ says about His Supper

Believing does not make it so. Jesus is made present in the Eucharist through the ministerial priesthood that was given to the Apostles at the Last Supper and passed on to their successors, through the laying on of hands. Only the Catholic and Orthodox Churches trace their origin to that event.

17 posted on 03/27/2016 5:18:59 PM PDT by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: aimee5291

Well, now dear Mother Angelica is with the Lord whom she served so well. May Perpetual Light shine upon her.


18 posted on 03/27/2016 5:22:14 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: Not gonna take it anymore

That is wonderful. Easter blessings to you.


19 posted on 03/27/2016 5:23:09 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: NYer

Wrong wrong and wrong But neither of us will convince the other instead I wish you a blessed Easter


20 posted on 03/27/2016 5:26:09 PM PDT by Mom MD
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