Posted in Faith Journey, Franciscan, tagged Catholic, Franciscan, Gospel, Secular Franciscan, SFO, Vocation on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Luke 9
The photo above is from the King James version of the Bible I was using prior to my conversion. Protestants have many flavors of the Bible. Most of my pastors taught from this one. My point with this is regarding “red letter” editions. In red letter editions, the four gospels use red type [...]
Posted in Faith Journey, tagged Catholic, Conversion, Crucifixion, Sacred Heart on July 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
If you have read my post of July 13th, my conversion story, I made a mention of having written this article. This was written about 9 years prior to my entering the RCIA program. I believe our Neophyte Mass was held at this parish. Amazingly, in the summer of 1999, this is also the same parish [...]
Posted in Faith Journey, tagged Catachumenate, Catholic, Communion, Convert, Eucharist, Mass on July 13, 2008 | 11 Comments »
As a Baptist, my baptism at the age of nine allowed me to begin participating in the Lord’s Supper. We observed this ordinance once a quarter and it was always at a Sunday evening candlelight worship service. The Pastor would say things at the beginning I did not understand. He would begin by saying some [...]
Posted in My Life on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hope everyone had a blessed July 4th weekend. I spent all day Friday at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia. I went with my sister and 8 year old nephew. It was a wonderful day. My nephew got to play Marco the Lion Tamer in their Backyard Circus. We saw the Rock N Roll Country [...]
Posted in Faith Journey, Prayer Request, tagged Intercessory, Liturgy, Prayer on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, the plumber’s web site had a 10% discount for submitting the service request on-line. That was last Thursday night and no follow up call. I’m still praying over the deal but am mostly distracted by family issues.
I’m single and generally things are going well in my life. Lately I’ve found that I’ve spent a [...]
