Category: rcia

  • Second Birthday

    +JMJ+ Two years ago today, with the helpful n of my fraternity Brother Joe on my shoulder, Fr Michael officially welcomed me into communion with the Roman Catholic Church. By her own teaching, I’ve been Catholic since 2002 when Fr Victor gave me the sacrament of Chrismation, but I was “not in full communion”. While…

  • Late have I loved thee

    +JMJ+ Catch me now while I’m still in the crazy, honeymoon phase, but I think of 2002, when I was leaving ECUSA and didn’t want to go RC, because they were just on the edge of chaos, or so I felt. 15 years later I could see that American Orthodoxy and American Catholicism were not…

  • The Luminous Mysteries: the Broken Road

    Antiphon: God, bless the broken road that led me straight to you. In your baptism, O Christ, our God, you opened the pathway of initiation for us, into your Mysteries. I thank you for all who have moved me along this path, awkward and jerking though I have been. I’ve been on my way in…

  • This happened…

    Preparing to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ on Saturday Night, gathered in one room, not knowing it about each other, were: A Fraternity Brother whom I’ve known for 30 years. A Coworker whom I hadn’t met yet. A Goddaughter from the Orthodox Church, and her husband, now returned home. A musician with enough Anglican History…

  • Holy Things for the Holy

    At RCIA we discussed sex and sexuality.  What an interesting thing, in the context of (Adult and Teen) confirmation class, to have an entire session devoted to sex. I say interesting because I think in 12 years I’ve heard the topic come up only a couple of times, and never as the main topic of…