[Future Snake Eater]

My soon-to-be wife is the exact same way. She was raised Catholic but grew very disenfranchised with the whole thing. I've been to Catholic Mass a few times, just to see what it was about (I've been to pretty much ever denomination there is), and it felt depressing.

I know a lot of Catholics were up in arms over the movie "Dogma" but there was a line in it that I saw to be true, "Catholics don't celebrate their faith, they mourn it." The same seemed to be true at a Methodist service I just went to not too long ago.

Why go to church to be depressed or to recite aphorisms time and time again? Why not actually learn what the Bible says? Why not get excited about the opportunities that lie before us as Christians?

It's not that I dislike our Catholic brothers and sisters, but I sure don't understand where they're coming from.

[jtminton]

Find a Calvary Chapel.

[CWW]

Wow, you've been to Mass a few times and so now you're an expert on Catholicism and can make sweeping pronouncements such as "Catholics mourn their faith."

How enlightened.

I guess what I have been doing for 42 years has all been a facade. All of that joy and wonder brought to me by my participation in the Mass and through Church activities must have just been false hope.