[Carpe Cerevisi]

You're all missing my point.I was born in '48 and all through the 50's and 60's I had no explanation of anything ... and chances are ... neither did you.

No, I'm not missing anything. I'm simply try to charitably point out your errors. I am a convert and came into the Catholic church thirteen years ago yesterday; unfortunately instruction of the faith has been has been regretfully less than stellar the last 40 years or so, if not longer.

[knarf]

" .. unfortunately instruction of the faith has been has been regretfully less than stellar the last 40 years or so, if not longer."

Perhaps because there was a willing congregation uninterested in what may be true or not, and lived blindly because "that's the way it's always been"

I DID question authority.

I DID turn on, tune in and drop out.

I DID survive and I found salvation in Jesus alone by grace, through faith without doing ANYthing except asking Him to save me.

My prayer for salvation was hardly eloquent, but it was sincere .. not because I had been taught or indoctrinated, rather ... because all teaching and indoctrination had failed me.

Lord have mercy on me ... a sinner.