Welcome Home!

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Was just curious to find out if any of our dozen readers or so out there were received into the Church this weekend. If so, welcome home! Also feel free to leave a note in the combox.

I know more than a few of our regular combox warriors as well as (a majority?) of our contributors made that journey - some in just the past several years. For them, how long have you been Catholic?

Anyone picking out swim apparel and eyeing the Tiber for next year out there?

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12 Responses to “Welcome Home!”

  1. Jason S Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    My wife and I were received into full communion on the Easter Vigil of 2006.

  2. Irenaeus Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    You know my situation. Maybe, maybe, possibly next year, but I suspect down the road a few.

  3. PMG Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    This was my 1st anniversary. I crossed at the Easter Vigil last year (2007). I got to see it as a participant/communicant, as compared to being “on stage,” so to speak.

  4. Kat Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    Happy anniversary to Steve (one year), to me (3 years), PMG & Jason. Did you hear about the moslem convert baptised by the pope this easter?

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3606109.ece

  5. asimplesinner Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    You do remain in our prayers Irenaeus. Keep praying.

  6. Kat Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    well a scroll down just answered my question… I guess you don’t live under a rock. ;-P

  7. ben mann Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    i now formally belong to the smallest segment of the largest church: the Russian Byzantine Catholics!

    http://benjaminmann.livejournal.com/82028.html

    “as you’re coming into the Church, just remember– at one time in history there were only about a dozen non-arian bishops in the world.”
    – a former professor of mine, giving ‘fair warning’

    “don’t leave peter just because of judas.”
    – tim staples, on some ewtn show last summer

    seriously, though, i’m psyched. what i wanted was to be Orthodox and Catholic simultaneously, as the whole Church once formally was and still truly is; and God has gratiously given me this opportunity.

    i professed my Faith in “all that the Holy Catholic Church teaches, believes and proclaims”, during a liturgy that commemorated “all you Orthodox Christians, now and ever and unto ages of ages.”

    given the wounds that still exist in the Church, this seems to me to be the best situation possible.

    Slava Isusu Christu! Laudatus Jesus Christus!

  8. Ruth Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    I was baptized, confirmed, and received Holy Communion at this year’s Easter Vigil.

    I’m still floating ;-)

    Iraneus, I will keep you in my prayers.

    Howdy to everybody else!

    Pax,

    Ruth

  9. asimplesinner Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Welcome Home Ruth & Ben!

  10. Rob Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    I am shocked at all these people coming into the Church! Don’t you know how old-fashioned and unpopular we are!

  11. asimplesinner Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    A Catholic Answers booklet put it best:

    “Always attractive, never popular.”

    How true.

  12. Dr. Acula Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    My beautiful wife, Amber entered the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church on the Easter Vigil of 2001. We were married the next Saturday!

    Me, I swam the Tiber in my neonatal diapers the day I was born as I was in danger of death. I was preemee before it was safe to be so.

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