Any Catholic's out there????
By green3mama
@green3mama (39)
United States
December 2, 2008 7:46pm CST
Hi, looking for online Catholic friends! I'm currently doing a free "correspondence course" on Prayer and another at www.salvationhistory.org. I'm also reading Matthew Lickona's book, Swimming with Scapulars which is really good. I homeschool my 3 boys, work at home, and have a wonderful loving husband who is a firefighter. I'm interested in discussing Catholic issues, maybe issues we have with the Church we attend or the community we attend with. I'm currently a Church hopper because we pulled our children from Catholic school and have been "shunned" by many former friends for not supporting the school. It affects me only in as much as it hurts my children!
3 responses
@tumenoa (58)
• Uganda
3 Dec 08
Hello, don't worry, i am a Catholic and am currently doing philosophy course. Am in my first year, but i feel i can help in one way or another. Am being trained to be a priest in the holy cross congregation. I can give advise to your catholic question. Am in a community and the answer i give would be well discussed with my fellow catholics here. see you.
@green3mama (39)
• United States
5 Dec 08
Well, we pulled our boys out of the Catholic school because they were being exposed to things that we didn't want them to be exposed to, plus they were failing. Since I'm a certified teacher I now homeschool them. We are very Catholic and I love my Church but we get shunned by former friends, offended that we pulled out and no longer support the school. This is really hard on my oldest who is 12 because he only has a couple friends now. I'm considering switching my affiliation to a "homeschool friendly" Church (I Church hop Masses alot. We're going to attend a Latin Mass the third Sunday in Advent. Our Church has no Bible Study/Prayer group so I attend these at other Church's.) Anyway, I feel I'm being vindictive, leaving this Church, but it actually has become uncomfortable going to Mass and getting the cold shoulder which then inspires some very un-Christian feelings in me and makes me want to approach them and ask them, How can you call yourself Catholic? Because you go through the motions, attend a Catholic School? I'm looking at one Church in particular that has a Family Faith Formation that meets once a month. I'm just not sure I'm leaving for the right reason. (I'm obviously staying Catholic, I'm just switching parishes.)
Well, that's my dilemma at the moment.
@tumenoa (58)
• Uganda
5 Dec 08
You deserve to be thanked for your devotion towards the church. Your are really a parent who knows how to raise the children especially in this morally decaying society that we live in. we need to raise children on the right path of religion. I feel you will have to go through unnecessary disturbances but i believe they will be worth doing.
@jlamela (4898)
• Philippines
5 Dec 08
Hello there,
I am a devoted Catholic, and you can ask me anything and I will try my best to answer all your doubts and confusion. My father is a long serving Eucharistic minister and a pre-cana lecturer in our place and I was raised to be a strict Roman Catholic.
I have so many books about our faith, example the Vatican II which explains everyting about Catholicism and answers all the questions regarding the universal church.
@tumenoa (58)
• Uganda
5 Dec 08
It makes me happy to see that even with such society where there is so much unbelief in God, there are still many catholics. I for one i have read extensively the books on the catholic church. Books like the history of the catholic church, catholicism and catechism of the catholic church, are very useful especially to our understanding of the catholic church doctrines. you would wish to try them out.
@won4All (7)
• United States
12 Feb 09
So you are Catholic, right? I am too! I would love to get to know other Catholics online. I am also a homeschooling mom, and my in-laws are hopping mad that I insisted that we pull our kids out of Catholic school. The school was undermining Catholicism and Christianity. It was horrible.
