tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post6321323696096361356..comments2024-01-18T22:58:49.172-06:00Comments on Dust of the Time: Fallen-Away CatholicsDust I Amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17214613587456861583noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-78265467401405194732012-01-31T17:53:26.136-06:002012-01-31T17:53:26.136-06:00"No one is being hurt." - you have destr..."No one is being hurt." - you have destroyed other people lives forever, you bastards!<br /><br />C TorresAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-28071099798737992112011-03-04T07:30:35.166-06:002011-03-04T07:30:35.166-06:00I found your site because I want to create a new A...I found your site because I want to create a new Apostolate involving unhealed,hurt,confused,<br />damaged,and fallen-away Catholics.<br /><br />Your story, here, of forgiveness is truly a model of what Christ taught while here on earth.<br /><br />I, myself, am a "Revert" who left the church after the eighth grade in Catholic School. I lived a secular life without having God in it. In 2006 my Methodist wife wanted to become a Catholic, so she and I attended R.C.I.A and returned home. I will be 75 this August. <br /><br />Father was kind, I was to confess my sins from the time I joined the Methodist Church which was about 10 years before. So,the 47 years of having turned away from God was forgiven. That's forgiveness!<br /><br />Now it's my time to give back to our Lord what I received by helping others find their way back home, to Rome.<br /><br />Thank you for your effort here to to save some more of the lost sheep.<br /><br />Charlie CourtoisCharlie Courtoishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15767115569253275841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-8460232536176926992010-11-01T17:53:00.014-05:002010-11-01T17:53:00.014-05:00I don't think people lose their Faith in God. ...I don't think people lose their Faith in God. They lose their religion. I worked for the church for 35 years and I have lost my religion and with what is going on there now, I don't think I'll find my religion anytime soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-28326573614145545052009-01-15T22:07:00.000-06:002009-01-15T22:07:00.000-06:00I encourage you all to read my new novel CHEST PAI...I encourage you all to read my new novel CHEST PAINS. Middle-aged music professor Gordon Clay thinks he has heart problems, when in reality he is suffering a crisis of faith. He is a fallen-away nonbeliever, while his student Cecilia, a marathon-running nun, is an ardent convert. Writing the novel helped me work through my thoughts and feelings about my Catholic childhood and doubting adulthood. I’ve included a stigmata, something that has held my fascination my entire life and an unique way to get blood on the pate! Library Journal calls my novel “promising...light-hearted...memorable.” I’d like to know what you think. --Janet Nichols LynchJanet Nichols Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17922367258940838790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-69451448352178473422007-08-11T10:12:00.000-05:002007-08-11T10:12:00.000-05:00Thank you very much for a beautiful story. Would ...Thank you very much for a beautiful story. Would you please answer/clarify a few questions I have concerning Mr. & Mrs. M.<BR/><BR/>1. When you say that their original spouses were both living, are you saying that both Mr. M and Mrs. M were divorced?<BR/><BR/>2. Now that they are divorced and living together, are they not able to marry because they were not both able to get their previous marriage annulled by the Catholic Church?<BR/><BR/>If I have #1 and #2 understood correctly, I think I understand their situation. That indeed is a difficult life to lead. And as your previous commenters have pointed out, it is a story that highlights the beauty of Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Reconciliation and Penance (Raeconciliatio Et Paenitentia).<BR/><BR/>As you yourself have done in your story, though, I would also like to highlight the fact that this couple *responded* to the Catholic Church's teachings on their situation, and to their priest's teachings on their situation.<BR/><BR/>So often it is the case that people say that they don't want to involve the Catholic Church into their situation at home; or that the Catholic Church has no business passing judgement on their relationship with their spouse. The Catholic Church is here to help us with our salvation; and its Sacraments are the Keys to Heaven -- no matter what our situation in life happens to be.<BR/><BR/>So, I applaud Mr. & Mrs. M! They are indeed saints for our times.<BR/><BR/><BR/>ErickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-24811639714425465322007-08-06T16:48:00.000-05:002007-08-06T16:48:00.000-05:00Thanks for this PostIts just what I needed todayThanks for this Post<BR/>Its just what I needed todayChristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12736124377852558323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-20701966883020042912007-08-06T00:38:00.000-05:002007-08-06T00:38:00.000-05:00That is really a great story. I love it because i...That is really a great story. I love it because it is an example of what Pope John Paul II suggested in his second encyclical on Reconciliation and Penance. The priest and the couple involved are a concrete example of what he outlines for such a hard case. Your post actually made me go re-read the encyclical after many years of it sitting on the shelf.<BR/>I love where JPII describes the two principles. The first, "whereby the Church as the continuer in history of Christ's presence and work, not wishing the death of the sinner but that the sinner should be converted and live; and careful not to break the bruised reed or to quench the dimly burning wick, ever seeks to offer, as far as possible, the path of return to God and of reconciliation with him." He goes on to say with the other principle of "truth and consistnecy, where by the Chruch does not agree to call good evil and evil good . . .The Chruch can only invite her children who find themselves in these painful situations to approach the Divine Mercy by otherways, not however through the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist, unil such time as they have attained the requred dispositions."<BR/>You were blessed with a wise priest in your parish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com