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Hi - I'm using this username on here because I got new rosary beads, and my family is baptist. Dominican rosary beads + baptist = Dominic Baptiste. When I was a kid, my mom took me and my siblings to a large United Methodist Church. My family are historically baptist and some pentecostal, which I think in the Southern United States are closely related. One of my sixth great grandfathers was an evangelist from a French protestant family living in colonial Virginia who had joined the Anglican Church, and he was among the first men to preach in the state of Tennessee as a baptist, and he founded a church in South Carolina as well. My genealogy reads like a history of the baptists. But like I said, my mom took us to the methodist church. When I was in second grade, I was selected to sing in the Chattanooga Boys Choir, which at that time was under the direction of an Episcopalian Choirmaster. Each year, we sang our spring concert at the now "Minor Basilica" Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Chattanooga, TN. In the summers, we practiced at the University of the South on Monte Eagle Mountain, and I distinctly remember my first communion in the beautiful All Saints Chapel (Episcopalian) there because back at the Methodist Church, we had grape juice and not the wine that burned down my throat that day. Denominationaly confused is how I feel now. As an adult I've worked mostly in food service and manufacturing, and I've learned from friends who are transplants from other parts of the country practices from Roman Catholicism, which goes against my family history, but I like it anyway. I have membership in a methodist church still, but I only visit it and other churches from time to time, and I pray at home and watch online ministries of various kinds more than I do attend services in person. I took an online class about Spiritual Formation about a year ago, and the main point of it was to walk continually towards Jesus and all that he represents, while practicing the spiritual diciplines, some of which include: prayer, fasting, reading scripture, and corporate forms of worship. There are more of them, but those are a start. I am currently resisting the urge to change denominations because I have known people who seem to constantly be searching for something new, and I think I should make the best of where I currently am, but we will see. -DB (The picture is of All Saints Chapel at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and some food I had after visiting the service at Blue Chair Cafe. The service was an early one with no music, so I will put a link to some Southern Gospel, just to liven it up some:
This is a link to the readings from the service: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/lectionary/nineteenth-sunday-after-pentecost-2. The other picture I found online of how to pray the rosary.)
