Author Topic: Leaving the Catholic Church (Read 1537 times)

jhfromsf68 · « **on:** January 21, 2017, 03:20:02 AM »

Hello forum,

I'm curious if there is anyone here has ever left the Catholic Church to join a heretical Christian sect like Evangelical Protestant or Pentecostal or Mormonism?

If so what brought you back to the Traditional Catholic faith? Why did you leave in the first place?

Do these groups have anything that Catholicism is lacking when it comes spiritual fellowship or building friendships with other believers.?

Thank you
James

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2017, 01:17:48 PM »

I left when i was very young and clueless (redundancy there?). I was never catechized,

so, it was being uncatechized that led me away, and being catechized that "made me" stay.

I studied the faith

and i have a Protestant to thank for that: One time this ex-Catholic who had married outside the Church (there ya go) was ranting and raving about the Catholic Church and why she left..blah blah blah-- kept bringing up the topic of the Church no doubt due to guilt -- b/c no one listening (group of about 5) was even talking about the RCC most of the time but she would bring it up. So anyway, one time she started in and something kinda snapped w/in and I got really ticked, but didn't say much. I think i said I got something from the RCC that i didn't get in other "churches" So right then and there i made up my mind to study Catholicism (so i could better defend it .. you know how it goes.. Protesters dont get Catholicism..) This weird thing happend as i left that mtg.. was walking along and it seemed God himself was telling me that i would not like what i found in my studying... not that i learned anything nefarious but I believe He was telling me that there were "things" in the Church that would deeply disturb me. That "feeling" definitely came true.. in spades.

So that proves it wasn't just "feelings" but God Himself... but anyway... where was I??

hmmmm
Oh.. yeh. . well, disturbed or not, I am a Roman Catholic. Jesus, working through the Church, did for me what no one else, no other "church" could do.. and I will never let go of that.. Protestants are wasting their time w/ me.. which is not to say there aren't many disturbing "things" in the Church... but that's just... humans.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2017, 05:24:08 PM »

I am grateful that I was granted the grace never to be anything but novus ordo and then traditional, never turning back afterwards.

I think that the biggest thing is that anyone who tries to need a devout life is tormented by the devil much more than those who don't put in the effort. The devil likes to make the lives of those who are not Catholic more pleasant in order to keep them in the dark and not make them look for answers.

The struggle is real, but ever so worth it! :-)

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2017, 07:46:27 PM »

Why did you leave in the first place? I was removed from the church when the Vatican II changes occured. I was a child, raised Catholic but outside the church.

Anyone here has ever left the Catholic Church to join a heretical Christian sect like Evangelical Protestant or Pentecostal or Mormonism? As a teen I went back to the church only to find it had changed, dramatically. Not understanding the changes and not receiving any help, I guess, I did formally walk away from it but not from God

If so what brought you back to the Traditional Catholic faith? . Well, the person who started my journey back to attending church was a Baptist friend who learned I was a Christian without a church home. Then through God's continued mercy in my efforts to know Him more I wandered the Christian landscape, first stop Southern Baptist, married a Pentacostal, raised my kids non denominational, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox. It was the EO priest that reminded me of my cradle faith that I found so elusive. My husband converted to Eastern Catholicism and I transferred rites. This is the faith I was nurtured in my youth and what I learned in years of studying the Bible.

4. Do these groups have anything that Catholicism is lacking when it comes spiritual fellowship or building friendships with other believers.? In my travels, I found Roman Catholicism is dead. They do not know the faith, and what ever they know, they do not share. I have since learned there are many true, faithful Catholics online.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2017, 04:29:42 PM »

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I am grateful that I was granted the grace never to be anything but novus ordo and then traditional, never turning back afterwards.

I think that the biggest thing is that anyone who tries to need a devout life is tormented by the devil much more than those who don't put in the effort. The devil likes to make the lives of those who are not Catholic more pleasant in order to keep them in the dark and not make them look for answers.

The struggle is real, but ever so worth it! :-)

couldnt agree more. Yes, you are far more fortunate than you could possibly realize if you can say you never left the Catholic Church, meaning left officially OR left just by being stupid, as was the case w/ me.. but i wasn't so much stupid as ignorant, and uncatechized. That was not my fault, but i sure paid for it!

se la vie

we are always paying 4 others' sins as well as our own

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2017, 04:32:09 PM »

i went to all kinds of noncatholic churches (so called churches) when i was lost and outside the Church.

I was always unsatisfied/dissatisfied

never knew why.. until i returned to the One True Faith

ermylaw · « **Reply #6 on:** January 26, 2017, 02:41:06 PM »

I left and joined the Orthodox for a very short period of time. I left due a lot of misconceptions on my part about history (especially the papacy) and the situation with the crisis in the Church.

Ultimately, I came back due to the prayers of my wife and when we found out we were having our first child. I couldn't imagine my child not being Catholic.

When I came back, I did so with the resolve to make a clean break from the Novus Ordo -- I had been walking a fence prior to leaving the Catholic Church due to my perception that I needed to meet the Sunday obligation by suffering through it.

Thank God, the scales fell from my eyes, and I came back as a resolved traditional Catholic. Ultimately, we relocated so we could be near the traditional Mass.

There's more to the story, of course.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #7 on:** January 26, 2017, 04:25:59 PM »

I've seen people go from Conciliar Church to the (traditional) Catholic Church back to Conciliar Church.

saintbosco13 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 03, 2017, 09:45:32 PM »

Quote from: jhfromsf68

Hello forum,

I'm curious if there is anyone here has ever left the Catholic Church to join a heretical Christian sect like Evangelical Protestant or Pentecostal or Mormonism?

If so what brought you back to the Traditional Catholic faith? Why did you leave in the first place?

Do these groups have anything that Catholicism is lacking when it comes spiritual fellowship or building friendships with other believers.?

Thank you
James

Why would you admit those sects are heretical and then in the same breath ask if they have something that Catholicism is lacking? If they are heretical, they are 100% bad and entirely to be avoided if you are Catholic!

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2017, 11:26:47 PM »

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[which is not to say there aren't many disturbing "things" in the Church... but that's just... humans.

No, that's just Original Sin.

TKGS · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2017, 06:45:05 AM »

I can't tell you my story, but my older sister left the Church shortly after moving out of the house when the Mass started being said in English. We lived in Seattle which started using the Cranmer's Table in the late '50s and early '60s. Before the Council was over, they were already using the "all-English" Mass with "Missalettes", monthly editions of the Missal because no one had missals with the new and improved translations. And, of course, the congregation made all the English responses. She told me she stop going to Mass because everything that she had always been taught was unchangeable was changed.

Fast forward almost 50 years. She decided she should return to the sacraments and started attending the nearby Conciliar church. She sat in the back and suffered through what she discovered was a "charismatic" service for the largely Filipino congregation. She suffered through this for about five years.

During an email conversation I was having with her (we live in different parts of the country) I mentioned the SSPX chapel near her that has a monthly Mass. She was skeptical because the priest at her Novus Ordo parish had actually warned the people not to attend that chapel because they were "outside the Church". It took a while, but I convinced her to check it out.

She wrote that Sunday afternoon that she arrived as the people were leaving the early Mass (which was a High Mass) and waited for most of the people to clear out before going in. She immediately noticed that it actually looked like a Church and it was quiet. After a short time, she heard a bell ring which startled her and she stood up along with the congregation. She say the priest and servers walk in and take their place at the foot of the altar. When she saw them make the Sign of the Cross and the priest said, "Introibo ad altare Dei", she told me that all the memories of her youth flooded back. After Mass, she ordered a Missal from the bookstore the chapel had. For two months she went to the Novus Ordo in between the monthly services but then realized that she just couldn't stomach the Novus Ordo anymore. She now exclusively attends the traditional Mass with the SSPX.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2017, 09:44:29 AM »

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She wrote that Sunday afternoon that she arrived as the people were leaving the early Mass (which was a High Mass) and waited for most of the people to clear out before going in. She immediately noticed that it actually looked like a Church and it was quiet. After a short time, she heard a bell ring which startled her and she stood up along with the congregation. She say the priest and servers walk in and take their place at the foot of the altar. When she saw them make the Sign of the Cross and the priest said, "Introibo ad altare Dei", she told me that all the memories of her youth flooded back. After Mass, she ordered a Missal from the bookstore the chapel had. For two months she went to the Novus Ordo in between the monthly services but then realized that she just couldn't stomach the Novus Ordo anymore. She now exclusively attends the traditional Mass with the SSPX.

Thank you for sharing this.

I have attended one such Mass, with a very holy priest who has since been transferred out of the country by the local ordinary (he was sent packing to further his studies :furtive: )

I was also transported, to my mother's knee, at Mass! I cried throughout the whole Mass.

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