My long journey back to the tradition
Oct 23, 2020 8:50:38 GMT -5
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Post by cfernandomaciel on Oct 23, 2020 8:50:38 GMT -5
My name is Fernando Maciel, I'm 40 years old, and live in Southern Brazil.
I'm a revert to the Catholic Church. Although I was born a Catholic, had my first communion in the Church, my family evaded the faith by the time I was 13, to the Mormon faith.
I spent my teenage and early adult life as a Mormon. Did everything: served a mission in The USA ( I was there in Worcester Mass when the sex abuse scandals started ), married a Mormon girl, then I went to college. During college years I was confronted with reality, within Mormonism one doesn't have much of it. I'm graduated in Physics and Computer Science, so my field of research greatly conflicted with the meta-reality I lived in at the Mormon religion; so, it didn't take long until I left the faith.
The problem is that when one loses his faith in the Mormon church, it's very easy to lose his faith in God Himself. The Mormon God is a very contradictory being, and I didn't have much of the Catholic understanding of God when I started questioning religion. So I became an atheist ( a militant one ) for almost 2 decades.
It was after a huge crisis of understanding the underlying problems in my country (the left is everywhere) that I decided that if I didn't employ myself in a huge task of understanding the world around me (historically, politically and economically) I would spend the rest of my life being made a fool of ideologies. See, here in Brazil, the conservative movement is a fairly new thing. As the fish which does not notice the water it is swimming into, Brazilians do not notice socialism impregnated in just about every layer of culture, society, economy, etc.
It's a recent thing that we have begun to have what I would call: a conservative aurora, here in Brazil.
To make this part of the history short, I started studying economy, then politics, then I realized that there were just so many other requisites, such as history and philosophy that I didn't have so I could really start making heads and tails of what was going on in my country. So, philosophy took me to theology, and the rest is history. I was introduced to a whole new concept of God, which I didn't have the ghost of an idea that it even existed.
I was taken by Saint Agustine's confession. So, after a couple of years of intensive studies in Theology and Philosophy I was intellectually converted to the Catholic Church.
It didn't take too long until I had a simple, but very beautiful confirmation from God, that He had been taking care of my entire life, that although I took a different path than He had planned to me, still He made my life take me all the way to the Catholic Church. It was my spiritual conversion.
I am deeply in love with the tradition, with the teachings of the Saints, with the doctrine of The Church, and above all, with the sacraments.
Theology of Liberation is eroding our Catholic Church. In the beginning I used to think that it was a local problem, a Brazilian cultural problem. It didn't take long until we began to be constantly embarrassed by Bergogio's statements, and now, this Fratelli Tutti Encyclical.
Being born in 1980 makes me a Post Concil child, thus, I couldn't so easily spot the problems by just looking at the many mistakes in the Novus Ordus Mass, as many people here in their introductions point out. I suffered for many days, because, as you all know, we are taught to absolutely never question the Saint Father, the Pope.
It was after reading some history on the Church's crisis throughout history that the obvious thing came to my mind (and put my heart at ease): the saints, Priests, and laymen in the past have confronted their contemporary Popes, they have done it courageously so, whenever they were in Heresy. Also, the main part: we have had many heretic Popes in the past (I knew that before of course), and YES, Popes can fall into Heresy.
After I could finally get past that guilt trip that I was the one being a Schismatic, and not the Pope, it opened my mind to research throughout the internet for people like me, who were in deep pain because of the Church's current crisis. That's when I found many people living in a kind of "resistance", living their Orthodox Faith in the Catholic Church, and I learned many things about it.
The rest is history. I'm here. I'm happy, because, down in the end, nothing really changes. I mean, I'm a faithful Catholic, I have decided to stick to the deposit fidei, to the Church's tradition. The post vatican II council Pope aren't Catholics.
What before used to be a bunch of thin-foil hat talk to me, it all makes sense, that this Second Vatican Council is actually globalism infiltrated inside the Church of Jesus Christ, acting as if they were the one's in authority to speak in behalf of Jesus Christ. All makes sense to me now, the main reason why one can these days question just about anything, except for one thing: The Second Vatican Council. All is subject to free interpretation: the scriptures, the Doctors of the Church, the Deposit Fidei, EXCEPT for The Second Vatican Council.
I'm happy to be here. Now, there is a long road to be taken. Latin Mass is far from here, and it happens only once a month. My wife and I are planning on moving out, closer to where we can have Latin Mass.
Please, forgive my long rants and my English mistakes.
God bless you all.
I'm a revert to the Catholic Church. Although I was born a Catholic, had my first communion in the Church, my family evaded the faith by the time I was 13, to the Mormon faith.
I spent my teenage and early adult life as a Mormon. Did everything: served a mission in The USA ( I was there in Worcester Mass when the sex abuse scandals started ), married a Mormon girl, then I went to college. During college years I was confronted with reality, within Mormonism one doesn't have much of it. I'm graduated in Physics and Computer Science, so my field of research greatly conflicted with the meta-reality I lived in at the Mormon religion; so, it didn't take long until I left the faith.
The problem is that when one loses his faith in the Mormon church, it's very easy to lose his faith in God Himself. The Mormon God is a very contradictory being, and I didn't have much of the Catholic understanding of God when I started questioning religion. So I became an atheist ( a militant one ) for almost 2 decades.
It was after a huge crisis of understanding the underlying problems in my country (the left is everywhere) that I decided that if I didn't employ myself in a huge task of understanding the world around me (historically, politically and economically) I would spend the rest of my life being made a fool of ideologies. See, here in Brazil, the conservative movement is a fairly new thing. As the fish which does not notice the water it is swimming into, Brazilians do not notice socialism impregnated in just about every layer of culture, society, economy, etc.
It's a recent thing that we have begun to have what I would call: a conservative aurora, here in Brazil.
To make this part of the history short, I started studying economy, then politics, then I realized that there were just so many other requisites, such as history and philosophy that I didn't have so I could really start making heads and tails of what was going on in my country. So, philosophy took me to theology, and the rest is history. I was introduced to a whole new concept of God, which I didn't have the ghost of an idea that it even existed.
I was taken by Saint Agustine's confession. So, after a couple of years of intensive studies in Theology and Philosophy I was intellectually converted to the Catholic Church.
It didn't take too long until I had a simple, but very beautiful confirmation from God, that He had been taking care of my entire life, that although I took a different path than He had planned to me, still He made my life take me all the way to the Catholic Church. It was my spiritual conversion.
I am deeply in love with the tradition, with the teachings of the Saints, with the doctrine of The Church, and above all, with the sacraments.
Theology of Liberation is eroding our Catholic Church. In the beginning I used to think that it was a local problem, a Brazilian cultural problem. It didn't take long until we began to be constantly embarrassed by Bergogio's statements, and now, this Fratelli Tutti Encyclical.
Being born in 1980 makes me a Post Concil child, thus, I couldn't so easily spot the problems by just looking at the many mistakes in the Novus Ordus Mass, as many people here in their introductions point out. I suffered for many days, because, as you all know, we are taught to absolutely never question the Saint Father, the Pope.
It was after reading some history on the Church's crisis throughout history that the obvious thing came to my mind (and put my heart at ease): the saints, Priests, and laymen in the past have confronted their contemporary Popes, they have done it courageously so, whenever they were in Heresy. Also, the main part: we have had many heretic Popes in the past (I knew that before of course), and YES, Popes can fall into Heresy.
After I could finally get past that guilt trip that I was the one being a Schismatic, and not the Pope, it opened my mind to research throughout the internet for people like me, who were in deep pain because of the Church's current crisis. That's when I found many people living in a kind of "resistance", living their Orthodox Faith in the Catholic Church, and I learned many things about it.
The rest is history. I'm here. I'm happy, because, down in the end, nothing really changes. I mean, I'm a faithful Catholic, I have decided to stick to the deposit fidei, to the Church's tradition. The post vatican II council Pope aren't Catholics.
What before used to be a bunch of thin-foil hat talk to me, it all makes sense, that this Second Vatican Council is actually globalism infiltrated inside the Church of Jesus Christ, acting as if they were the one's in authority to speak in behalf of Jesus Christ. All makes sense to me now, the main reason why one can these days question just about anything, except for one thing: The Second Vatican Council. All is subject to free interpretation: the scriptures, the Doctors of the Church, the Deposit Fidei, EXCEPT for The Second Vatican Council.
I'm happy to be here. Now, there is a long road to be taken. Latin Mass is far from here, and it happens only once a month. My wife and I are planning on moving out, closer to where we can have Latin Mass.
Please, forgive my long rants and my English mistakes.
God bless you all.