tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post5806410696566473287..comments2012-07-06T18:23:21.094-07:00Comments on jogger mom: Why I'm Catholicjogger momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15146770997635475165noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-1280252686630559582008-01-01T11:11:00.000-08:002008-01-01T11:11:00.000-08:00Congratulations on crossing the Tiber. Woderful st...Congratulations on crossing the Tiber. Woderful story. Conversion stories like your teach "cradle" Catholics like myself how and what to talk about with non-Catholics.Timothyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06992217665437521336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-57913136018708876382008-01-01T11:04:00.000-08:002008-01-01T11:04:00.000-08:00To ultracrepidarian...Great comment! Thank you! :...To ultracrepidarian...<BR/><BR/>Great comment! Thank you! : ) Tired to connect to your blog but wasn't able to do so. Hope I can sometime in the future. PAXJoyful Catholicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04679219610479684642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-67525500890280717742008-01-01T10:57:00.000-08:002008-01-01T10:57:00.000-08:00"All my life, I'd been focusing on my individual r..."All my life, I'd been focusing on my individual relationship with God and wasn't excited about the idea of anyone having spiritual authority over me - they're all just my 'brothers and sisters in Christ', right?"<BR/><BR/>I can relate to that!<BR/><BR/>Welcome Home! I truly converted 3 years ago and it's been amazing! No regrets except that I do wish I'd not "loved thee so late." But better late than never!<BR/><BR/>PAX,<BR/>susieJoyful Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16763631591924925063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-80627317790347039692007-12-07T12:28:00.001-08:002007-12-07T12:28:00.001-08:00TO ONIONBOY-wow, a bold move-God must have really ...TO ONIONBOY-<BR/><BR/>wow, a bold move-God must have really wanted you to become Catholic:) It's always cool to hear about Protestants who convert to Catholicism...I had no idea this was done with such frequency until I started considering it myself, so thanks for telling a bit of your story.<BR/><BR/>elissa<BR/>(sorry to respond in this confusing way, I didn't have comment moderation enabled until today)jogger momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15146770997635475165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-31566423691735127252007-12-07T12:28:00.000-08:002007-12-07T12:28:00.000-08:00TO ULTRACREPIDARIAN:'the word of God is first and ...TO ULTRACREPIDARIAN:<BR/>'the word of God is first and foremost Christ, even more than it is the Bible' -YES, such a simple way to put the truth. JESUS is the ultimate revelation of truth, and how do we know about Jesus? We know about him through the Bible, and we know about him through his apostles. And there is the Catholic position. <BR/><BR/>To be charitable, I think most evangelicals today have inherited the view point that they are living just the way Christ wants them to –and for the most part do a great job of that, and are not trying to reinvent morality like some mainline denominations, which involves unforgivable ‘man handling’ of the Bible. As well, it's true as you say that the Church 'cannot possibly be wrong' when it comes to official teaching, but as history has shown, its leaders have done evil things...the reality of human leaders. I take the time to say this because too many people look at the Church and judge how true it is based on what (often little) they know about its flaws, rather than judging it by what Jesus said about it and without considering how Jesus set up his authority to be passed to the hierarchy in the Church. I guess I used to be one of those people...I once tried to find an answer on how I could accept that the 'right' books got put in the Bible, but I never found my answer ('til now) because I didn't ask the right questions and I didn't understand that completely trustable authority was dismantled at the reformation (on the Protestant side). It's funny looking back, because even then I just knew that if the Bible still had not been canonized today, it wouldn't work to have a council of Christians from a number of different denominations to decide it. Can you imagine? Ha! So I just didn't get how it could have worked back then because I didn't understand that the Catholic church only works because it's completely under God's authority. Which yes, is something to shout about!<BR/><BR/>-elissajogger momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15146770997635475165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-60933186288880419572007-12-06T07:38:00.000-08:002007-12-06T07:38:00.000-08:00I'm flattered, Aimee. Glad you found something to ...I'm flattered, Aimee. Glad you found something to read. <BR/>elissajogger momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15146770997635475165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-5327912745438301042007-12-05T10:55:00.000-08:002007-12-05T10:55:00.000-08:00Great story, Jogger Mom! I noted it on my own blo...Great story, Jogger Mom! I noted it on my own blog yesterday, <A HREF="http://aimeemilburn.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/12/jogger-mom-trus.html" REL="nofollow">Historical Christian</A>. Thanks for sharing it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-51521378747919847102007-12-04T16:21:00.000-08:002007-12-04T16:21:00.000-08:00Welcome Home! I am a former protestant minister of...Welcome Home! I am a former protestant minister of about 20 years who converted along with my whole family in January of '05. Unemployment and many other things followed but I would do it all again, though I won't have too :)<BR/><BR/>To be truly open to the teachings of the early Fathers and sacred scripture is to take ones first steps on the journey home.<BR/><BR/>Even when the honeymoon wears off, and it does, it's still worth it!<BR/><BR/> <BR/>O ::thrive <A HREF="http://luminousmiseries.ca" REL="nofollow">luminousmiseries</A> || <A HREF="http://onionboy.ca" REL="nofollow">onionboy.ca</A><BR/><BR/>P.S.<BR/>Hey, neat to note that the other commentor on this post is a fellow Canadian and blogger I know.owenswainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540186205959897960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240416711332375034.post-47950767254762962612007-12-04T14:19:00.000-08:002007-12-04T14:19:00.000-08:00Welcome home!I'm a convert too.Yesterday I was rea...Welcome home!<BR/><BR/>I'm a convert too.<BR/><BR/>Yesterday I was reading some conservative old-school evangelicals (you know, the ones I try not to call fundamentalists), and it occurs to me today, that though they would call your breakthrough (trusting the church) a bad thing, and claim you are now "trusting in MAN", Scripture itself says otherwise. Scripture says The Church itself cannot fail; that Hell cannot prevail against it. Basically, it cannot possibly be wrong. And when it comes down to defining your terms, it's the protestant evangelicals who have man-handled the words and redefined them to mean exactly what they want them to mean. The Church is the Church. It's that simple. It's pretty big, and it had nowhere to hide, but in plain sight. It is the Roman Catholic Church, and it is easier to to dissemble and deny that Christ is a real historical figure than to deny that Peter and the other Apostles founded one church, which was historically one, and historically under the authority of the apostles and their successors, and that Scripture itself speaks of Peter as the rock. This, and the passage where the Bible itself says that the Church (not the Bible) is "the pillar and foundation of truth", and you're either Catholic or you're being Unbiblical. Ironic, isn't it?<BR/><BR/>When God's word goes forth it does not return to him void. That goes for the written word of God, the Bible, and the unwritten word of God, every word, spoken to the apostles.<BR/><BR/>Another way to put it is that the Word of God is first and foremost Christ, even more than it is the Bible. We have Christ, his real presence, and the presence of the Word within the Bible, and the presence of the Word within the Body of Christ, which is his bride the Church. We are so blessed!<BR/>Praise be to God!<BR/><BR/>WarrenWarrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053407632823479165noreply@blogger.com