13 years of Roman-Catholic school. 9 of which was in a German-catholic orphanage run by Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ nuns and Diocesan priests and later Franciscan Brothers.
Mass every day - sometimes twice and every now an then 3 times a day...Epistle and Gospel readings - no context.
Religion was a required class.
They hid the bible on us.
The message came from the Baltimore Catechism or their own warped sense of whatever...
I personally couldn’t “hear” the message for hate\fear of the messengers.
Wow!
Seriously. Understood.
Good account, 19, of an awful story.
I learned the Church is infiltrated.. initially by learning of that 1950’s congressional testimony of the former communist, Bella Whatshername, who said she was herself (there were others) was responsible for somehow training men or moving 1500 👄 seminarians into the Church, for seeking eventual access to positions of power and influence in the Roman Catholic Church.
(She became a convert.)
I forget all of the time references, but the patience and method of communist infiltration was certain, confident and Announced.
*See the Khruschev shoe banging speech at the UN.
Certainly the devil was stirring in the Church before that, both during and after WW II, for those seminarians to be enabled to infiltrate in such numbers.
They could have been deterred were there only more faith filled, pious and discerning bishops.
There slowly became less and less and less value made truthfully understood, or appreciable, about Anything regarding The Holy Mother Church, lest it dare keep phenomenal growth around the world.
Boy, did that all that suppression work!
Communists were boldly saying that they were particularly after the young and any disgruntled adult Americans. Divide and conquer inside the Church was key, and remains in full flair now. (Honestly, that is how I see why the devil is after the Church of the Ages.)
The Patience of communists is almost epic!
Notable to see how that strategy for patience and plodding destruction of enemy combatants is the Russian style of warfare— as old as Russia itself, I believe from well before communism took them over. To rather leave no survivor.
How biblical. The Russians were Orthodox, after all.
I’ve supposed they were they thinking of the same instruction given by GOD, before His people entered “the land of milk and honey”. Some soldiers disobeyed GOD and favored their own sympathy, or some bargain, and left a survivor or a unit, and there were grave consequences brought upon the people.
Taking ground is not the goal, but first comes annihilation of all combatants, leaving no one behind to keep it.
I’m not saying your experience with sour sisters or nuns was directly due to such shaping influences, as I know nothing of the times or decade(s) you were subjected to such poor treatment and sorely deprived of finer teaching, but it is suspect, given the history and intel that has since emerged, relevant in the Church today.
It is a terrible situation for me, too. Today, for to speak of the Holy Church to a non-Catholic, I can’t even hope to recommend that there is a Traditional Catholc Church left available to them! It’s a bare remnant in the USA, made more bare every year. Although the Traditional liturgical-Latin speaking fraternities & societies lead the Church in having more priestly vocations!
It’s of great importance mportant they keep us kilt off and tombed off.😁
I consider it “wholly” a holy miracle that I was received into the Church in 2001! I didn’t know anything about Vatican II. It was not particularly mentioned. But, being “on fire”, I sure quickly detected the fiasco of the New Missal and eventually found my way out of the NO Catholic Mass, fairly fleeing to a Traditional remnant, hours and hours away. I did of course have to move.
Anyway, quite enuf already from me about that.😬 I appreciate your story a lot.🤗
Had no idea.
Rita