If only they would go.
Posted on 06/14/2002 8:24:23 AM PDT by Romulus
Yesterday's thread on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Summer Plenary Session. turned up a lot of Catholic FReepers suggesting that it's time for the faithful laity to get more visible and active in pressing for a restoration of right order in the Church. To that end, I've decided to develop and maintain a list of Catholic FReepers, sorted by state, as a resource for future activism. Some of us will wish to collaborate on future projects; others may simply find the list handy for purposes of fellowship. If you want to be on this list, please post your state (or overseas country) on this thread. I'll collate whatever comes in, and Askel5 will post the results on the ConSpiratio web site.
In posting your FR handle and location, you're not volunteering for anything except the chance of being contacted in the future. Whatever activism you then undertake is entirely up to you. For the record, I have no specific plan for this list, nor am I aware of anyone else's. It seems like something that needs to be done, however, and I'll wager the very existence of a good list will generate fruitful ideas.
If you prefer not to post your location, please bump the thread anyway. Thanks!
Y'all have a huge job of work. For some reason the task of cleaning the Agean stables comes to mind.
Mrs. don-o, the RC in the family, wrote a fine letter on the subject that was faxed to the Bishops.
Freepmail with your e-mail addy if you would like a copy.
I believe that the Holy Spirit is working overtime. I have always considered myself conservative and religious, even though I didn't go to church. I obeyed most (not all) of the teachings of the church. But I was missing something in my life. There was a void, an emptyness. When I was pregnant with my third child, I started going back to church every Sunday. The void was filled, and I felt that God had touched me. I went to confession for the first time since I received Holy Communion when I was seven. I went during Advent, and again during Lent, but obviously the first one was the hardest because I had a lot of sins to ask forgiveness for.
I can honestly say that I left church that November feeling like a weight I didn't know was on my heart had been lifted. I look forward to Mass every week, and by Friday I feel like I really need it. Mass is an hour, but I always wish it were longer.
I don't think any of us know our faith as well as we should. I have not read every book in the bible, though I intend to. I've read most of the NT and parts of the OT. It's exciting going to Mass and listening to the readings and saying to myself, hey, I read that the other week!
I really, really believe that the Holy Spirit is rallying the faithful back to the faith, bringing everyone He cans for what purpose He has that we do not know. Perhaps it is to strengthen the church during this crisis, perhaps it is for something else, but whatever it is, I hope to grow in my faith and love of the Lord each and every day of my life.
God bless.
(I was raised in Rochester New York and Moved to Kansas in 1980. I'm glad to be 1200 miles away from Rochester's Bishop Matthew Clark. That Diocese was much better off when Fulton J. Sheen was the Bishop there.)
God bless.
If only they would go.
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