?
Oh, do please excuse me. It's just that as a Catholic student at a large university I was advised by my "denominational counselor" to leave the Catholic Church because the way I believed "wasn't Catholic" while the Pelosis, the Kennedys, the Morans, and the Sibelius' go their merry way taking communion week after week because, having been born in the Catholic Church, they can't possibly be un-Catholic.
Excuse me also for getting fed up with the hypocrisy that believes in magical babies and heavenly women playing basketball with the sun (drying people's clothes in the process) but who can't stomach the first eleven chapters of Genesis because "we don't want to be confused with that white trash" (an attitude impossible to defend considering Catholics depend on Fundamentalist Protestants to do so much of the heavy lifting in the culture war while they take pot shots at "Bible-thumpers" and "brain-dead bibliolators." Nice to see such pan-chr*stian love on display.
And pardon me if I get tired of hearing how the Catholic faith "has never changed once in two thousand years" while the church fathers are written off as scientific ignoramuses because "they didn't know what we know today."
Do you or did you believe that the afore mentioned "denominational counselor" or for that matter any collection of lay persons or clergy could establish or revise Church doctrine and dogma?
However, it sounds to me that if you held and expressed the position of believing that the virgin birth was "magic babies" or that the assumption of Mary was akin to "celestial women's basketball" the advice given you was pretty good.
OK FRiend. I am sorry, I did not realize what you were going through.
Our faith gets tested. Badly, sometimes. Yet every single day.
I am not one who thinks he has the only way. It took me years to find my way - and that is pretty much normal from what I have seen.
May the Lord guide you and keep you - no matter what path you choose to the Truth. You need to talk, we are here. Both to talk AND to listen.
My priest and my heart both say that God speaks to us all individually. My preference is for a fairly rigid way of worship. I am a hierarchical person.
Know yourself, right?
No problem. Except for a long non sequitur. If there was an answer to the question in there and I missed it, please… excuse me.
:)