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I don’t want to post a pic of them, but they are 4 years old and 9 months, and they were so cute! It’s now my turn in next year on Easter to “get baptized” into the Holy Catholic Church even though I’m already baptized after OCIA! 🙏

Glory be to God Almighty!! ❤️🇻🇦

I’m not really sure if I’m the only one who has thought about this, matter of fact I know I’m not, but I just wanted to share maybe I’m just on about nothing… who knows.

Hi, I’m a precatechumen coming from non-denom, and a once Anti-Mary Protestant I didn’t really give her the respect or honor that she really deserves.

If Protestants are sola scriptura right, and the Bible is the ultimate authority, and God gave us the Ten Commandments through Moses, why don’t we even look deeper into Commandment 5, Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother.

Jesus is perfect, not a liar, and not confused. He followed the Ten Commandments perfectly. So if Jesus in his human nature, followed the Ten Commandments perfectly, and he Honors his Father in heaven, why on Gods green earth would he not honor his mother? 100% divine 100% human, honors the woman who gave birth to him, so why wouldn’t we honor that same woman with the highest of honor that he did like he did/does his father?

We got married in a Presbyterian church. My wife is Catholic, but at the time she didn’t actively partake in the sacraments nor attended Mass, I was non-denominational Protestant, I’m a pre-catechumen now.

The Father at our local parish said we’re good, but I saw a video about con-validation on social media and began to research. It said it isn’t seen valid in the eyes of the church since she was/is Catholic and it wasn’t in front of a bishop or deacon.

I play with scavenger for the time loot boost with the ping but I still have to double tap everything and I play on an iPhone.

And auto loot pickup setting is turned on but doesn’t work.

So I have multiple parishes locally within .10 miles.

I have only attended a basilica within 8 miles and there’s a cathedral that I definitely want to attend that’s within about the same distance.

I’m not really sure if you’re supposed to “feel” something rather than just appreciating the mass anywhere you go, but the basilica I went to I could barely hear, even when there wasn’t a large amount of people and didn’t really get the things being recited down pat.

Me and my wife (with our two boys) want to find community around our age. And eventually try to make friends and be apart of the family.

So as the title says is it encouraged to just to attend local to your residence, or could I travel to a bigger parish with a bigger congregation?

There is a picnic coming up that I want to attend and get to meet some parishioners and also the Father of the local parish.

In my hemisphere (non-denom), calling upon the name of the Lord is just the standard, other than having family/friends intercede for you.

I’m getting more into the intercession of the Saints whom I’ve been more open to now. I call on St. Ant to intercede on my lost things, and St. Raphael to intercede for my wife’s health (which is a story I didn’t think she’d get strengthened and healthier in the way I thought).

How do I know who and when to call on them vs call upon Our Lord Jesus Christ? When do I have them intercede for me vs Jesus being my mediator?

I did hear that it’s like a CEO (Jesus/God) and a manager (Saints) relationship. You’re not going to go to the CEO (Jesus/God) about the trivial things you go to your manager (Interceding of the Saints) can anyone actually verify this is a church wide viewpoint or was this a personal opinion?

Thank you so much!