u/BaronVonSternberg

What should I do?

Hello, I am 15 years old and soon to be 16. I was raised in a protestant house. I first felt the calling to orthodoxy mid to late 2024. The more I prayed and read the lives of the saints the more I felt a divine fulfilment of Chrisitanity in this seemingly foreign ethnic denomination. There were two large orthodox churches near where I lived and every time I went passed them I felt I had to go in but I wasn't allowed to by my family. I started to read Fr seraphim rose as well as many of the lives of the contemporary saints. One of my friends was catholic and he invited me to mass with him. For the next many months I was jumping in between becoming catholic and becoming orthodox. My parents weren't completely opposed to me becoming catholic for some reason and I contacted a priest. For the next year, I attended mass and read the lives of catholic saints. I was very disappointed as I didn't quite find that same spirit within them as I did with the orthodox saints, and I ended up knowingly just becoming catholic on the off chance that it was right even though I knew deep down orthodoxy was the fullness of Gods revelation. A couple weeks before I was received into the catholic church via confirmation, I stumbled passed a tiny ROCOR parish on my walk. The doors were open and I looked inside. It was probably 7 or so meters away from me and I smelt some sort of extremely nice fragrance and saw the icons glimmering with the sunlight. It was a very different experience, but it felt like home. I was rather sad afterwards because I knew I had never experienced something like that in catholicism. The less orthodox and the more catholic content I consumed the more spiritualy dry I felt. And one 2 months ago I was sitting on the bus and I finnaly snapped, I got with my senses and realised that orthodoxy is so obviously true and it is definitely where God is leading me. Recently I told my parents about all of this and they had less than welcoming reactions. My father who is a universalist basically devolved the discussion into a shouting match about how I always think I'm right about things, and keeps on telling me that it doesn't matter what denomination I'm in but I better not become orthodox and that he wouldn't even let me go to a liturgy with him. Earlier today he came into my room and argued with me about how I must go to protestant youth groups and insulted me on the fact that I have icons in my room. He never challenged me this much on catholicism but is extremely angry with the fact that I want to become orthodox. I even told him that I was fine to wait until I turned 18 and then became orthodox, but he still argues with me about it for some reason. What should I do for the mean time until I turn 18?

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u/BaronVonSternberg — 14 hours ago