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Offline Tiffany

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Non - Catholic Husband
« Reply #30 on: June 08, 2013, 08:16:01 AM »
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  • Many people who were raised in a religion, maybe not completely reject it but don't stay  so devout while a young adult, suddenly get more serious about their faith or moral living when their first child is born.  

    I wasn't rejecting the religion I was raised in, but I  couldn't stop crying so much the morning I was married to where I was late because I was trying to stop myself crying. At my age now I would have called it off but that young I felt obligated for different reasons and also I was raised not to go back on my word. It was just something you didn't do. Last I felt  bad and knew he would be hurt and disappointed. I was somewhat naive but  even being naive something was giving me a bad feeling making me cry to where I couldn't stop.


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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #31 on: September 16, 2018, 12:07:01 AM »
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  • So today, Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, my husband officially enters the Holy Catholic Church. I can barely believe that I am actually typing this and it is not a dream. His conversion can only be attributed to a true miracle of Divine Grace.

    Praise be to God!

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    Luke 15: And he spoke to them this parable, saying: 4What man of you that hath an hundred sheep: and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was lost, until he find it? 5And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing: 6And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost? 7I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance.

    The angels truly rejoice in Heaven over a single soul converting. I think the heartfelt prayer of our children helped the miracle! We have 2 new baby additions since the original post, so 5 children now, and hoping for more  :baby: .


    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.


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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #32 on: September 16, 2018, 12:32:36 AM »
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  • Yes, Praise be to God!

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #33 on: September 16, 2018, 12:42:02 AM »
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  • I can't believe what you wrote, it is as if I wrote this myself.  You described exactly my husband when we married over 50 years ago.

    He would even tell me someday, he will write a book and title it; "Dennis M. vs. the Catholic Church".   Why did I marry him?  He too was a good man, very honest, promised he would not, and he did not interfere with the children being raised Catholic.  Was extremely generous with his money toward the Church.  We married at the beginning of the end, 1961, I was already losing grace.  

    Each time I went to Mass, I would complain to him, that the Church was changing and did not reflect the teachings anymore that I was taught.  Well to make a long story short, he is the one who found the Traditional Chapel for me via the newspaper, he clipped out an ad, that invited Catholics to come hear a lecture about the changes in the church, that was in 1981.

    After I quite the NO, and only attended the Traditional way of life, my husband slowly, very slowly converted, so slow I didn't even notice at first.  He started going to Mass with me, started reading a little here and there.  Finally my Traditional priest asked him when he was going to be baptised and he said, "I need a Godfather, will you be my Godfather?"

    My husband passed away 7 months ago, a Traditional Catholic, he had the kind of death we all pray for.  Had a priest there as he took his last breath, the family praying the 15 decade of the rosary, the night before he had the Last Rites, and Apostolic blessing, He was quite aware as he took his last breath, pointing upward and saying..."hurry up", just minutes prior to his end of the world.
    Wow! Praise the Lord. Glorify Him.
    Lord have mercy.

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #34 on: September 16, 2018, 12:52:58 AM »
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  • So today, Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, my husband officially enters the Holy Catholic Church. I can barely believe that I am actually typing this and it is not a dream. His conversion can only be attributed to a true miracle of Divine Grace.

    Praise be to God!

    The angels truly rejoice in Heaven over a single soul converting. I think the heartfelt prayer of our children helped the miracle! We have 2 new baby additions since the original post, so 5 children now, and hoping for more  :baby: .


    WOW!

    Praise the Lord. Glorify Him forever.
    Lord have mercy.


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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #35 on: September 16, 2018, 01:16:02 AM »
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  • That is a wonderful gift from God. May he and you grow every day more in love with God.  :incense:
    Help of Christians, guard our land from assault or inward stain,
    Let it be what God has planned, His new Eden where You reign.

    Offline JezusDeKoning

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #36 on: September 16, 2018, 05:45:35 AM »
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  • Deo gratias!
    Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary...

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #37 on: September 16, 2018, 07:08:03 AM »
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  • I never knew your husband was not Catholic.  This update is such good news to hear.  So happy for you, your husband and your family!! 
    For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. (Matthew 24:24)


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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #38 on: September 16, 2018, 12:46:49 PM »
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  • Mine also converted after almost 20 yrs. Thanks be to God.

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #39 on: September 16, 2018, 01:20:58 PM »
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  • Mine also converted after almost 20 yrs. Thanks be to God.
    Mine converted about a month prior to our wedding, on the feast of St. Dominic (old calendar, August 4).
    He received three sacraments in one day.
    The intensity of it wiped him out. He went home and slept like a baby for the rest of the afternoon.
    Lord have mercy.

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #40 on: September 16, 2018, 02:55:50 PM »
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  • So today, Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, my husband officially enters the Holy Catholic Church. I can barely believe that I am actually typing this and it is not a dream. His conversion can only be attributed to a true miracle of Divine Grace.

    Praise be to God!

    That's great news, Cantarella.  Congratulations (in the original Latin sense of the word, "I rejoice with you").


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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #41 on: September 16, 2018, 03:01:58 PM »
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  • What should I do? Is there anyway I can help my husband convert? or should I just accept my mistake, bear my cross, give up and accept that there will never be real unity in our home?

    I just re-read your original post.  Obviously, first of all, nothing is impossible with God ... so you never give up.  That's the lesson of St Monica, perseverance and hope.

    Secondly, you should never imply that your spouse is a mistake.  Even if you did not use sound Catholic judgment in all your decision-making, God allows even these judgments for a reason, and you're with the person He willed you to be with.  It's like people refer to children born out of wedlock as "mistakes", but no child is a mistake (even if the decisions leading up to them weren't the best); God willed the creation of these children.  If your husband was a mistake, then your children are mistakes, right?  But that has never been the case.  Water under the bridge now of course.

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #42 on: September 17, 2018, 05:59:46 AM »
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  • So today, Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, my husband officially enters the Holy Catholic Church. I can barely believe that I am actually typing this and it is not a dream. His conversion can only be attributed to a true miracle of Divine Grace.

    Praise be to God!

    The angels truly rejoice in Heaven over a single soul converting. I think the heartfelt prayer of our children helped the miracle! We have 2 new baby additions since the original post, so 5 children now, and hoping for more  :baby: .
    Deo Gratias Cantarella and way to go!  :pray:

    And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not, and he consent to dwell with her, let her not put away her husband. [14]For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy. - 1 Corinthians 7:13,14

    [14] "Is sanctified": The meaning is not, that the faith of the husband or the wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace and salvation; but that it is very often an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true faith.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #43 on: September 18, 2018, 11:14:25 AM »
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  • Deo Gratias Cantarella and way to go!  :pray:

    And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not, and he consent to dwell with her, let her not put away her husband. [14]For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy. - 1 Corinthians 7:13,14

    [14] "Is sanctified": The meaning is not, that the faith of the husband or the wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace and salvation; but that it is very often an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true faith.
    This was EXACTLY what I was going to post until I saw it already was!  
    Praying for all of you traditional Catholics whose spouses are not Catholic...
    Keep fighting the good fight!
    He who persevereth unto the end shall be saved!  :-)
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    Re: Non - Catholic Husband
    « Reply #44 on: October 06, 2018, 01:35:17 PM »
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  • I never knew your husband was not Catholic.  This update is such good news to hear.  So happy for you, your husband and your family!!

    It also reveals the integrity of Cantarella's belief in, and promulgation of, the Catholic Faith. She had no personal bias throughout her tenure on this forum. She stuck to her guns about the absolute necessity of being in the Bosom of the Catholic Church and water baptism for salvation, notwithstanding her husband wasn't even a Catholic.

    Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, and love and triumph to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for Cantarella's husband's conversion to the only true Faith.
    From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die. ~ Ecclesiasticus 25:33

    International Women's Day is a day we all celebrate Eve's rebellion at the Tree and our plummet into sin.