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To: colorcountry

I’m gladdened to hear it. :^D May God guide you to the truth.

This might smug or triumphantalist in that context, so let me start a new context:

Have you ever attended the Catholic Church? Particularly one of the ancient rites (Byzantine, etc.) might be especially appealing.


332 posted on 10/11/2007 9:09:28 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

I was being educated by a Catholic Freeper. He was banned for his anti-Mormon sentiment.

I was born and raised in a area with NO Catholic Churches (Panguitch, Utah). When I was in High School there was a circuit Priest who covered a 200 Mile radius each Sunday in order to administer sacraments.

My FIL was born an Hispanic Catholic (an converted to Mormonism when he was in his 30’s). I have attended family funerals in Catholic Churches, but they have been administered in Spanish.

My son is actually Catholic. He converted (in name only) when he married his wife. (She too is a Spanish speaking Catholic).

There is much I do not know about Catholicism. I have a tendency to reject it’s pomp and ceremony because it reminds me of the LDS rites. There is one thing I truly believe. We will be judged by what is in our hearts, period. God knows us, he knows our hearts and he knows if we belong to Him or not. There are no amounts of ceremonies or ordinances that will make this any different, and so I think I would fall outside mainstream Catholic belief. (I however, do not have any idea if this is so or not)


334 posted on 10/11/2007 9:24:04 AM PDT by colorcountry (If the plain sense makes sense, seek no other sense, lest you get nonsense! ~ J. Vernon McGee)
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