Catholic Christian. Latin (Roman) Rite. After a 40 year cycle of trying on other shoes, with only truth as a yardstick, spending the most of this time swimming through what is collectively referred to as the "new age", where we essentially invent our own religion or follow some human leader's vision of what religion ought to be, spending the longest single stretch with Jodo Shinshu Western Pure Land Buddhism mixed with the "spiritualism" of Jane Roberts, The spirit "Seth", the spirit "Thavis", T. Lobsang Rhampa, The Urantia Book, Carlos Castaneda, L. Ron Hubbard, and Ayn Rand, (which was at odds with Buddhism and the first thing dropped). During all this time a patient Jesus Christ called to me and drew me into His Christian baptism in my teens, placed me in His Lutheran, then Baptist, then Methodist fold, I had a real life, honest to goodness mystical "come to Jesus" conversion experience beginning on a drive across country in 2004, and culminating with Confirmation and first Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church on the Easter Vigil of 2006. I am now fully grounded in Christianity, and am a member of the mystical body of Christ. It is who I AM. It forms my world view. My character, personality, music and movie tastes, my actions, priorities, and everything else. I can say the person I was, is no more. I am not the same person who was born to my parents in 1957. I was born a second time of water, and finally a third time (or a delayed continuation of my second birth), of the spirit, when I was sealed with the Holy Spirit at that glorious Easter Vigil mass. I realize now that there is a single moral truth. One way to the Father. And one light which enlightens every man, (who let's it in). The answer to all of these is Christ Jesus. THE way; THE truth; THE light. Praise be to God, from whom all good things flow.
Peace,
Steven (Steve is fine)
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If you have any questions about Catholic Christianity, or if you have a conversion or reversion story to the Catholic Church that you'd like to share, or if you are a Christian, but there is something holding you back from the fullness of Catholic Christianity. Or if you are an atheist or agnostic, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Urantian, Scientologist, "spiritual but not religious", or anything else, and want to know more about the Christian faith in general, or Catholicism in particular, I'd love to hear from you. Please E-mail me at
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