Catholic Study Bible

[Bugaboo]

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How funny...my mother-in-law was my sponsor too. I had thought and prayed about joining the Church for a long time, even before I got married. When I told her and my husband's grandmother they burst into happy tears. Surprised the heck out of me! How is your RCIA going? I got sooooo much from it.

[psigna]

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It is going well. I have been three times already, or maybe four, can't recall.

I have always gone to church, not as much since I have been grown as I should, but have never really spent much time reading the Bible, so I am learning a lot of history, which is interesting to me, suprisingly enough.

I have not specifically said "I am converting", but I feel in my heart that I will. I want to make an informed decision, and pray about it enough so that when I do tell my parents, I can come across as sincere and let her know that I have asked God about it and have not just jumped into this. I don't plan on telling her for a while. I hope that does not sound deceptive, because I don't mean it to be, but I know she will take it badly, and I want to be prepared. I come from a long line of Protestant Pentecostals. I have several Uncles that are preachers.

What is important to me is that my family (me, my daughters, and my husband) worship together as a family. My father beleives, but he only went to church with us on Christmas, and then sometimes not even then. My husband will NEVER conver to Pentecostal, or I can't ever see it happening. I am willing to expolre this for my family. We already send our girls to Catholic school, but our public school system is terrible and they would go to public if it were decent.

I don't think that you can ever fully lose what you are brought up with, so I know that I will still have those beliefs, I am just adding new ones. As you probably know, a lot of people don't understand the Catholic Faith (or other faiths for that matter). I know that I was brought up thinking things about the Catholic religion that I have found not to be true since I have been married to my husband.

What has made the difference this time from all of the other times when they send out the letters to tell you about RCIA classes? I don't really know. Perhaps it was the hand written portion in the note from the Priest that was never there before, in 19 years. One of the nuns, my daughter's math teacher, told me that it was a gift from God. All I know is that in 19 years, I have never really given it much thought until this time. I asked my husband what I shold do, and he would not tell me. He told me that I had to decide this for myself. I love him for that. I have never been pressured, not even asked, to convert, in all that time. We were married in my church, by my pastor, but a priest was present.

[2big4mysize]

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wow. I will pray for you in "hearing" what God has planned for you. of course you already know as a member of ADBB that communion must be an acceptable food as your Atkins is your WOL and arriving at goal in a state of spiritual starvation isn't acceptable.