Catholic conversion?

Question

I am looking for anyone who can help steer me in the right direction on converting to the catholic religion.

Answer 1

Congratulations on finding your way home, as over a million adults did last year. Joining the True Church is simple enough. Call any parish rectory (where the priests live) and ask to speak to a priest. Tell him your interest and he will be happy to help you get into an RCIA course, where all the essential teachings and practices of the True Christian faith will be explained to you in an informal setting where you can ask questions, learn, and make your final decision about entering Christ's Holy Church.

If you do decide to convert, at the end of the course you will be baptized if you are not already validly baptized, and then receive Our Lord's Body and Blood in the Most Holy Eucharist, and also the sacrament of Confirmation. Most Protestant baptisms are recognized by the Catholic Church, so if you were baptized in a Protestant church you probably will not have to be baptized.

I hope that you will find the RCIA (Rites of Christian Initiation for Adults) enjoyable and informative (my wife and I teach the course in our parish). This is a good time to get involved since RCIA in most parishes runs from Fall through Spring. We just started two weeks ago. And I know you will never regret finding and entering the One True Church Jesus Christ founded for all mankind. Peace!

Answer 2

I think having good Catholic references is essential. I recommend the following: Pocket Catholic Dictionary by Fr. Hardin; The Baltimore Catechism; The Catechism of the Catholic Church on cd by Harmony Publications; An Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis; and a Catholic Bible.

There are also many good movies based upon actual historical events. These movies will provide historical background, inspiration, and quick realization of how divine providence has made the Roman CatholicChurch the largest religion in the world. I recommend the following movies:

SONG OF BERNADETTE;
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY;
THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK;
FATIMA.

If you took a Bible course and discovered what SCRIPTURAL TYPOLOGY is you would be amazed. If you knew what SALVATION HISTORY was in the Bible you would understand. If you recognized DIVINE AUTHORITY you would know that there has to be someone in authority to reveal the "secret" truths God has given. If you research all those phrases you will begin a journey of discovery that will last a life time.

We have a saying in Catholicism: the New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old is revealed in the New. There are many mysteries contained in the Bible that I have been amazed at discovering for the past 20 years and there is a whole lot more. St. Jerome said: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. The whole Bible is about our SALVATION: Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ fulfilled over 300 prophesies in the Old Testament about the Messiah you can discover 50 of them in cd's IT IS WRITTEN.

WHEN YOU HAVE BEGUN TO DISCOVER THESE THINGS YOU WILL KNOW IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MAN. Jesus (a historical figure along with others in the Bible that are not fictitional characters) by fulfilling just 50 prophesies makes the odds of doing that 10X135 power! An astronomical figure that could not have been achieved by human means.

The thing that might shock you and others is that SATAN used scripture to tempt Jesus. So, too Satan will use scripture to trip us up from following the true faith. This is why there has to be DIVINE AUTHORITY that passes from the Old Testament to APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION in the New Testament. This is why someone cannot Authoritatively pick up a Bible and correctly interpret it nor can there be millions of interpretors to HOLY SCRIPTURE. There can only be one!

You are about to embark on a wonderful journey of discovery.

Answer 3

What aspect are you question?

If you want to convert, you go to the priest and he will help you through a class of RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) were a church layperson will be your guide in studying and discussing Christ in the classes.

There are a lot of people who convert to either the Roman Catholic or the Greek Orthodox Catholic churches. And there are a lot of websites that help explain the process and/or personal testimonials about making the conversion.

The primary thing that you should do is pray and read your Bible daily to see where God will lead you. As for myself, I did marry a very active practicing Catholic woman. I did tell her from the start that I would not convert, however I would go with her to church every week. I even attended RCIA with her.

For me, being a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran (very conservative and sometimes called the closest thing to being Catholic without being Catholic), I sense Christ in my life and do follow that lead.

I would like to read the Bible more than I really do, but as I get older, I am finding that I am praying more and more for guidance. I enjoy going to my own church and worshiping there as well as going with my wife’s church to sing praise to God.

For you, seek Christ first. Then look at which group of people you seem to cherish more in the continued praising of our Savior. Then join in fellowship with them.

Pease Be With You (Pax TeCum)

Answer 4

The right direction would be away from doing what you are thinking of doing. I was raised catholic and I can tell you that catholic teachings are little more than a lie about God.

Avoid being caught up in this lie at any cost.

No good can come of it.

There are far better ways to become closer to God.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 5

If you are interested in joining or just learning more about the Catholic Church, contact your local parish and ask about information about their RCIA Inquiry group.

You can go and ask any questions you want.

This is the first step in RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) but you can stop at any time.

There is no obligation to become a Catholic.

With love and prayers in Christ.

Answer 6

You can convert from Protestant to Catholic by multiplying by 9/5 and adding 32.

Or is that celsius to fahreneit?
I always get the two mixed up......

Answer 7

The Nicean Creed isn't a good thing.

those of the church who come from this world having an idea of three Divine beings cannot be admitted into heaven,
since their thought wanders from one Divine being to another; and it is not allowable there to think three and say one.{1} Because in heaven everyone speaks from his thought, since speech there is the immediate product of the thought, or the thought speaking. Consequently, those in this world who have divided the Divine into three, and have adopted a different idea of each, and have not made that idea one and centered it in the Lord, cannot be received into heaven, because in heaven there is a sharing of all thoughts, and therefore if any one came thinking three and saying one, he would be at once found out and rejected. But let it be known that all those who have not separated what is true from what is good, or faith from love, accept in the other life, when they have been taught, the heavenly idea of the Lord, that He is the God of the universe. It is otherwise with those who have separated faith from life, that is, who have not lived according to the precepts of true faith (Heaven and Hell n.2).

Answer 8

My cousin converted to Catholicism after she got married but before they had kids. It was a lot of work. She went to classes three times a week for two hours as a time. It is a really big commitment, not like joining a protestant church.

If you have a church you like, talk to a priest or other church elder.

Answer 9

sure, i'm a working in the direction of Catholic. I do sense undesirable whilst, at Christmas and Easter, all those "two times a year" Catholics come out - yet then I comprehend that it would desire to be worse. it would desire to ok be accessible they don't come out in any respect. it rather is common for somebody, who attends Church a week, to circulate to Mass on Christmas, Easter, and Holy Days of criminal duty. I generally ask your self in simple terms how lots harder it rather is for persons, who do not attend Mass oftentimes, to get out and circulate to Mass some time according to year. we can't think of it, because of the fact all of us understand what we'd be lacking. i don't think of those "two times a year" varieties can completely get exhilaration from what it rather is that they are lacking. in the event that they did, that they had be at Mass better than two times a year. i'm proud to be Catholic, so it rather is each and every of the extra disappointing when I see human beings taking an "oh hum: recommendations-set in the direction of their vocation as lay Catholics. All we can rather do approximately it rather is pray, and desire that they occasion we set will, sometime, inspire them to commence residing the Catholic life form all year around.

Answer 10

My advice to you is to run, do not walk in the other direction from catholic religion, use your brain, think for yourself. and don't follow a man made religion based a 2000 + year old fairytale book that no one even knows who wrote it.