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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Easter ping!
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!
Congrats and God Bless the new converts.
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.
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.
There are also many Protestants and nondemoninationals who believe what Christ says about His Supper
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.
The Missouri synod Lutherans teach the real presence I have several nondenominational friends who hold the same beliefs...
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...
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.
Reported that Mother Angelica has died on Easter Sunday
RIP Mother and condolences to us all
I liked this line:
**differently than that, lets 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.**
I just checked the EWTN news page, it’s confirmed.
I made her laugh once.
Thanks for posting. This is my eighth Easter as a Catholic.
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.
Well, now dear Mother Angelica is with the Lord whom she served so well. May Perpetual Light shine upon her.
That is wonderful. Easter blessings to you.
Wrong wrong and wrong But neither of us will convince the other instead I wish you a blessed Easter
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