Author Topic: How were you raised? (Read 3450 times)

Biz · « **on:** May 31, 2013, 04:59:25 PM »

I am just curious how the majority of you were raised? As I read some of these replies to some of the posts I am a little surprised at your approach. But for you all this all seems very normal. It makes me wonder if you were raised this way or did you convert into it? If you converted into Traditional Catholicism, what lead you there?

Myself, I was a fundamental protestant and came into the Church about 7 years ago. I go to daily Mass at a NO Parish and have gone to a few FSSP parish a couple times, but didn't "get it" really. So I guess I am just trying to understand where you are coming from. I would love to hear a bit of your stories.

LaramieHirsch · « **Reply #1 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:05:33 PM »

Public schooled in some bad schools.

No religious involvement from the folks. I was raising myself as Baptist until the age of 20. Then I converted. Started understanding Traditional Catholicism when I was between 23 and 26.

magdalena · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:16:07 PM »

Welcome, Biz. I was raised Traditional because I was confirmed before Vatican II. The Church swiftly changed after my confirmation so that my younger brother and sister received their confirmation according to the new rite. I never cared for the Protestant-like changes in the Mass and always found myself searching for what I thought was a lost Catholicism. I finally found it in Tradition--more specifically, within the SSPX--which is why I am so deeply concerned that our birthright not be taken from us again. God bless.

Matto · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:17:19 PM »

I was raised in the Novus Ordo but lost interest early. I went to public school for most of my early life. When it was time for my confirmation, I didn't want to do it, but my mother made me. When I got older I stopped going to Mass. I went to a state university. After I graduated from college I found out about Ron Paul's presidential campaign and was interested. I supported him for a while and while reading about his presidential campaign I found out about traditional Catholic websites, including the Most Holy Family Monastery website. After reading about traditional Catholicism for a while, I was convinced and I converted and I wanted to start going to Mass. I found out about an SSPX chapel near me and went to Mass there and thought it was wonderful. Then lots of other things happened . . . but that's enough for you to get the picture. :cheers:

Seraphia · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:31:38 PM »

I was raised in several different countries due to my father's job. I went to special International Schools that were set up to serve the children of diplomats. That said my parents were devout N.O. Catholics. Family rosary everyday, went to the Vatican Embassy for Mass, mother taught me through the Baltimore Catechism. I remember wondering why she was making me learn all this 'old stuff'. It wasn't till I had children of my own and I did my masters thesis on Canon Law, then 'BAM' my eyes were opened. I relate as if my guardian angel was finally fed up with me and smacked me on the back of the head saying 'wake up'! I gave my parents that final 'push' to convert to Traditionalism and leave Vatican II behind. That was eight years ago. Once my father died, my mother and I moved closer to the SSPX. That was two years ago. We are now part of the Resistance.

Marlelar · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:59:32 PM »

Let me first say that I am a slow learner.

I was raised Catholic in name only, I returned to being active in the NO at 23.

After reading dozens of biographies of the saints I came to realized that their "church" was different from my "church", that their faith was different from the faith I was being taught in the NO.

I spent the next 20 years reading, and praying, and reading, and praying. I was trying to figure what had happened and kept searching for the Church and the faith the saints had. (told you I was a slow learner :) It was a long time before I heard of the TLM and even longer before our diocese had one. I then went from a diocese indult to FSSP to SSPX but all the while I kept reading and praying. Reading books by the saints like Augustine, Aquinas, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Ignatius, et al will point you in the right direction.

God does answer prayers! He will lead, all you have to do is follow.

Marsha

Matthew · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:05:58 PM »

The thing to remember is that God does not change.

And, generally speaking, the Liturgy shouldn't be changing drastically either. What happened at Vatican II was completely unprecedented -- I strongly encourage you to learn about it. Read the accounts of what happened there -- I recommend "The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber".

Adding the Last Gospel (which was basically part of the priest's post-communion thanksgiving) to the end of the Mass is one thing. Converting the Tridentine Mass into something indistinguishable from a protestant service is something completely different!

Catholicism is inherently traditional. We use the term "traditional Catholic" to distinguish Catholics who are "awake" to the dangers of post-Vatican II Catholicism, which is like a new Faith. Every element of the Faith has been tampered with or changed, and in the most insidious manner possible.

By the way, Seraphia mentioned the "Resistance", so you might be wondering what that is. Basically, as the SSPX (one of the strong supporters of Catholic Tradition, resisting changes of Vatican II) proceeds to "lose it" by selling out to Modernism, liberalism, and Vatican II, the Resistance is a group of SSPX Catholics who are staying faithful to the original cause.

It's hard to keep up the fight for years, apparently. It takes patience, prayer, and courage.

Traditional Guy 20 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:28:13 PM »

Alright I've only told this story to namely 3 people (PerEvangelicaDicta, PR18, and alaric) but my story is that my parents couldn't take care of themselves let alone me because of their drug lifestyle so they pretty much gave me up. Luckily my guardians were middle-class folks so besides that instance I've had a good life during childhood. Unluckily they were not Catholic, being Calvinist and Methodist, and so I went to public schools all of my life and did not know Catholicism. They were also very Republican so they always talked about how they hated unions, loved business, were all gung-ho about Iraq, etc.

Luckily for me I shrunk back into the working-class so it relieved me of a lot of the Republican/liberal/capitalist nonsense I was told and came to believe.

When I was 14 years old I finally walked into a Catholic Church and something just felt right about it. When I became 18 I finally found the Traditional Latin Mass and have never left it since.

1st Mansion Tenant · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:59:37 PM »

My parents were older, they were both Protestant but didn't attend anywhere. My parents sacrificed to send me to Catholic school in our small town for the educational benefit. They encouraged me to listen to the nuns. It worked.

Kazimierz · « **Reply #9 on:** May 31, 2013, 07:25:52 PM »

Cradle Catholic..born post V2 detonation. Survived the fallout thanks to good Polish Catholic parents. When the TLM returned in these liturgically ravaged parts, there we went and the Newmess was left far behind.
Still hoping I will die in a good monastery, but Mexico methinks I could not handle.

MyrnaM · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2013, 07:46:31 PM »

Believe it or not, but this is the truth! Born in 1940 and attended Catholic school my entire life.

Raised in NOT the best neighborhood in Chicago, and attended a Catholic high school, with very old nuns, while my friends managed to take a bus to a more modern Catholic school with young nuns. I wondered “why me”.

These old nuns would tell us stories of the Saints, and Catholic traditions most of the time instead of teaching us “reading, writing, and arithmetic” but we did get about 10 minutes of it, or what was left of a 45 minute class after the Catholic stories.

We were told how we would be the generation to see the Mass taken away, believe it or not, these old nuns told us what to expect. They also told us, that the pope can not be a pope if he leads the laity into heresy.

So when Vatican II happened, I was a young mother, having babies and very busy but wondered what was going on with the Church. Once my eyes were opened, and I remembered what the nuns told us, everything came together like a puzzle for me. I realized we were living in the time of Anti-Christ and I became very afraid for the world. I could not wait to get out of the harlot, but didn't know where to go. THE ROSARY, I remembered the nuns saying over and over again, pray the rosary. I started to pray the daily rosary and put my brown scapular around my neck, and still God did not show me a Traditional Church for another 5 years, then I found CMRI.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2013, 08:19:10 PM »

I was raised NO but given a Baltimore Catechism in sixth grade.

Terrible religious instruction in school, but probably better than today.

My mother was born in the late 40s and grew up in a small town of about 3000 that was almost entirely Catholic and overwhelmingly German American. There was no public school, and $1 a year of tax for public schools. The town's parish is a beautiful basilica the twin spires of which are seen for miles around.

Her mother's mother was very much against the New Mass when it came out. She died in the early 80s.

Biz · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2013, 08:38:25 PM »

Thank you for sharing a bit of your stories! It was very interesting. God bless.

Zeitun · « **Reply #13 on:** May 31, 2013, 11:00:58 PM »

Raised in a pagan feminist home. Never baptized. I was converted by the Blessed Virgin Mary. I entered the NO Church as that was the only one I was aware of at the time. A year after my conversion I began looking for something "real". I found the indult. That was about 10 years ago. I found tradition about 2 years ago. I now live a traditional lifestyle. It's not been easy.

Sigismund · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2013, 11:14:22 PM »

Born in 1954. Catholic schools from grade school through college.