I suppose we have to realize this is the internet. I know I have to. Everybody is getting mad and annoyed, and so am I.
So I am not scared to say it: I love the Virgin Mary.
And I hope you can love me despite that.
And I love the communion of saints.
The saints I turn to most in asking for intercession: St. Mary, St. Joseph, St. Benedict and St. Francis of Assisi.
I am joyfully entering into full communion with the Catholic Church.
I am confident that I’ve had a relationship with Christ the past two years, but I am super confident that he is bringing me into the Catholic Church. I resisted it for awhile but I realized I had let myself become indoctrinated as an Evangelical to believe the Catholic Church had a “works-based” mentality and view on salvation… and I always assumed I knew everything about Catholicism. I did not, though I read a whole lot on several apologetic websites and on Wikipedia and found out a bunch of terms and reasons on why Catholicism could not possible be biblical… and then a beautiful paradigm shift happened that has changed my life.
I am glad that my life has changed.
I am also very glad I have such beautiful brothers and sisters who are Reformed, Pentecostal, Eastern Orthodox, Baptist, etc. And I wish we would not make harsh assumptions and not try to understand each other. I see the point in staying away from bad doctrine and rebuking harmful ones, but please be more sensitive, loving, and understanding. I will try my best to do the same.
In the mean time, I will ask my beautiful Mother Mary to pray for us, okay?
Add Elisabeth of Hungary and Elisabeth of Portugal to that list. And Mary MacKillop.