February 4, 2008
Story of a Tiber-jumper - Introduction
Greetings and welcome to my story. I wanted to take a brief moment to introduce myself, and to set the stage for how I’m going to tell my tale. Each of our stories is unique, but in one particular way, mine is different. Of the four of us writing, I’m the only one who has decided to go Roman Catholic, the rest deciding to commune with the various Orthodox churches. However, even though we’re taking different paths backwards towards ancient faith, we all share the same underlying desire to return to the roots of Christianity and of the Church.
My journey is one that’s taken a long time, almost five years for me to finally realize where God was calling me. I won’t bore everyone with all the sorted details, but I do want to spend some time sharing where I have been and how it affected where I’m going. For me, this journey has meant a great deal, since it was while I was on my path towards becoming a pastor that God steered me in a different direction. It’s been a long and sometimes difficult path, and hopefully my story will help to encourage others to examine where they feel God is calling them.
In the next few weeks I’ll be posting my main story in three parts. First I want to examine where I’ve been in the Protestant church. Then I’ll talk about what it is that brought me to seek communion with Rome. Finally, I’m going to spend some time talking about why I made the choice for Catholicism and not for Eastern Orthodox, like many of my friends here. I do that, not to try and lift one above the other, but to simply explain what it is about Rome that I felt fit better with me than with the Eastern faiths.
I look forward to writing these posts over the next few weeks, and then sharing where I’m at in my journey as I move closer to communion this Easter.
Written and posted by Jamison on February 4, 2008, 12:20 am.
Filed under: Catholicism, General Discussion, Our Roots
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Tito said,
February 4, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
Jamison,
God bless you and your peers. Growing and living in our beautiful Catholic faith will only bring you closer to Jesus and his treasure (our Church) on earth.
You can read and study Catholicism 24/7 the rest of your life and you will only scratch about 1% of it. Catholicism is such a rich and deep faith that you will only enrich yourself and those around you as you continue on your path to His Church.
Being a Christian and actually practicing it is essential in order to live alter Christus.
You are (or already are) discovering the many gifts of spirituality, theology, scripture, patristics, and so many more aspects of Christianity.
Ora et labora,
Tito of Custos Fidei