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lobelia321There's a thing most of you don't know about me. *g*
I've been going to Catholic mass regularly for about a year now and I've just come back from my first session on 'How to be a Catholic'. I am not baptised and I'm thinking of becoming a Catholic.
omg (literally this time)
Prepare to be bored by the zeal of the newly-converted. ;-)
I've been going to Catholic mass regularly for about a year now and I've just come back from my first session on 'How to be a Catholic'. I am not baptised and I'm thinking of becoming a Catholic.
omg (literally this time)
Prepare to be bored by the zeal of the newly-converted. ;-)
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Date: 2006-09-13 10:31 pm (UTC)Pray for me, okay :0)
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Date: 2006-09-14 06:07 am (UTC)b.x :D
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Date: 2006-09-14 10:44 am (UTC)Okay, let's not go there, though. :-(
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Date: 2006-09-13 11:27 pm (UTC)Well. There have been stranger things.
I guess.
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Date: 2006-09-14 10:39 am (UTC)Hm, I could see my way round Jesus/John His Favourite Disciple... *cackles blasphemonically*
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Date: 2006-09-14 06:06 am (UTC)i kind of like all the trappings of catholicism, but not the ideology.
b.x :)
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Date: 2006-09-14 10:36 am (UTC)Will you tell us more? I may, I may.
I love the trappings of Catholicism. Who could not as an art historian? Stupid C of E with its iconoclastic zeal. The German Lutherans, too, with their bare churches. I'm totally in it for the trappings. And, when the waters go deep, I will let you have my very Protestant thoughts about the spiritual advantages of trappings and rites over inwardness and guilt.
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Date: 2006-09-14 04:17 pm (UTC)b.x :)
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Date: 2006-09-14 05:28 pm (UTC)Then I married a Catholic. You can see where that got me. We didn't get married in a Catholic church, though; we got married in the college church where the minister (or whatever their name is) didn't care if I was baptised or not.
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Date: 2006-09-14 07:23 pm (UTC)anyway - i have some great bible mosaic pics from my hols that i will share soon(ish), which i am sure you will enjoy! i love churches, saints, iconography, all o'that - i just can't subscribe to the beliefs.
b.x :)
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Date: 2006-09-15 08:45 am (UTC)Cardinal: Ah, your Holiness, the afflictions of the flesh are once again assailing me.
Pope: Kiss my ring and the hem of my papal fanon.
P.S. The fanon is papal canon!!!
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Date: 2006-09-15 02:47 pm (UTC)b.x :D
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Date: 2006-09-15 07:29 pm (UTC)Anyway, to get back to some of your earlier questions.
Feminism? Ah, *sighs*. I called myself a feminist in the 80s and now I don't know. I certainly am a former feminist but I don't even know what feminism is about these days, exactly. But also I'm not sure how Catholicism wouldn't square itself with feminism? I find the whole male-dominated atmosphere quite sweet, and there's a certain frisson in the woman-priest thing (I'm just reading the very, very anti-clerical 19th-C. novel La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas about a woman who has an affair with a priest). In Germany, the women who are mistresses of priests have formed their own registered associations (that's Germany for you, *g*). Anyway, clearly these are side issues and not the reasons I am 'drawn' to the Catholic church. I may make another post about this, spurred on by your questions. It will come in 3 parts: why religion at all? why Christianity? and why Catholicism?
But I am not the type to buy into anything wholesale. So we will see whether I go the whole hog and do the baptism thing. Although t'h says that my very prevarication is highly Protestant and that a Catholic (such as he) would just get on with it and not angst so much. Which is precisely what I like about Catholicism, *g*.
My seminal experience was attending Easter mass at the tiny church of Duino in 1983. I went there with a friend who loved Rilke and his poems 'Duineser Elegien' about Duino. In the confessional near the entrance, I noticed a young boy in a suit, perusing a Playboy magazine. Come time to take communion, he tucked the magazine under his coat and trundled up to the altar, along with his smartly-dressed family. That sums up something for me.
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Date: 2006-09-14 03:45 pm (UTC)Hee. Aren't those Anglicans?
*waits for ranty quotations*
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Date: 2006-09-14 05:11 pm (UTC)Meheheheh, that is so true! :)
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Date: 2006-09-14 05:30 pm (UTC)Hm, not that German churches aren't state churches; they even get you to pay a church tax straight to the government. Well, I dislike that, too. The Catholic church is kind of its own state; I prefer that.
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Date: 2006-09-18 05:25 pm (UTC)i'm truly sorry to hear about your friend.
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