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Sunday, April 25, 2004
A Degenerate Finds God, Part II
After my "born again" experience, I began to get involved in my local Catholic Parish. I became a lector and a CCD teacher. At this point, my knowledge of the Faith was not great, but I was eager to learn. I would not go to confession. I tried to justify this intellectually, but now I know it was just a stubborn refusal to submit myself to the authority of Christ that is in the Church.
Wanting to learn, but having little recourse to Catholic material, I began finding and absorbing non-Catholic material. It starting with Christian(read Protestant) radio. Soon I was watching Pat Robertson's 700Club and other Protestant T.V. ministers. So what started out as a refusal to accept one of the Church's teachings, Confession, quickly led me, with the help of Protestant T.V. and radio shows, to question many of the other Church teachings. It was the usual suspects, Mary's role in the Church, Purgatory, works salvation etc. Eventually I was not attending Mass, I was arguing with my wife about religion, and I started attending a "non-denominational, Bible" Church. This lasted for a month or two.
During this time, even though much in my life changed, there were certain stubborn sins that remained. I thought that attending a "real" church would make me feel better and help me deal with these sins. It did not. One night while on a business trip, I became depressed. I felt God urging me to return to my Catholic Faith that I was so eager to disregard. I knew that if I did, it would have to be whole-hearted, accepting ALL of the Church's teachings. I did this, starting with a general confession. I have not looked back since.
At this point the Internet was really taking off, and I began to discover a wealth of good, solid, Catholic material on the Web. This has helped tremendously. It not only has given me resources for learning the Faith, but has connected me with a virtual community of faithful Catholics. And now I am starting my own Catholic blog, to do what I can to increase the presence of faithful Catholics on the internet.
After my "born again" experience, I began to get involved in my local Catholic Parish. I became a lector and a CCD teacher. At this point, my knowledge of the Faith was not great, but I was eager to learn. I would not go to confession. I tried to justify this intellectually, but now I know it was just a stubborn refusal to submit myself to the authority of Christ that is in the Church.
Wanting to learn, but having little recourse to Catholic material, I began finding and absorbing non-Catholic material. It starting with Christian(read Protestant) radio. Soon I was watching Pat Robertson's 700Club and other Protestant T.V. ministers. So what started out as a refusal to accept one of the Church's teachings, Confession, quickly led me, with the help of Protestant T.V. and radio shows, to question many of the other Church teachings. It was the usual suspects, Mary's role in the Church, Purgatory, works salvation etc. Eventually I was not attending Mass, I was arguing with my wife about religion, and I started attending a "non-denominational, Bible" Church. This lasted for a month or two.
During this time, even though much in my life changed, there were certain stubborn sins that remained. I thought that attending a "real" church would make me feel better and help me deal with these sins. It did not. One night while on a business trip, I became depressed. I felt God urging me to return to my Catholic Faith that I was so eager to disregard. I knew that if I did, it would have to be whole-hearted, accepting ALL of the Church's teachings. I did this, starting with a general confession. I have not looked back since.
At this point the Internet was really taking off, and I began to discover a wealth of good, solid, Catholic material on the Web. This has helped tremendously. It not only has given me resources for learning the Faith, but has connected me with a virtual community of faithful Catholics. And now I am starting my own Catholic blog, to do what I can to increase the presence of faithful Catholics on the internet.
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