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CathMomof7 · « **Reply #65 on:** May 25, 2010, 06:44:51 PM »

Hello everyone. I thought I should introduce myself first before I start engaging in discussions. I don't want anyone to think I'm a troll. I've been reading here for about 6 months. I think I like it better here than FE and AQ. Not sure if I should say that or not. Anyway, a bit about myself....I am 43 and a convert originally to NO Mass about 15 years ago. My husband was baptized a Catholic but that was about it. We both went through RCIA at the same time. Our Catholic life has been varied and, at times, tumultous. We've moved around quite a bit and we have a lot of experience with the various types of NO Masses. Some of those experiences led us to leave Catholicism on more than one occasion. About 12 years ago, we suffered greatly in our marriage and separated. We eventually divorced and remained so for 3 years. It was during that time that I had a real spiritual conversion. I returned to Church and was blessed with a fairly traditional priest who became my confessor. It was through him and St. Joseph's intercession that I was able to be reconciled to my husband. Since our reconciliation, my husband and I have had so many blessings and graces. 6 years ago, we moved from our fairly traditional Novus Ordo parish in the South to the Northeast. I need not mention that things are not very traditional here. It has been painful, but through the process we have grown in a more traditional direction. 2 years ago over the summer we began to attend an FSSP Mass in our diocese. It was about a 2 1/2 drive for us, so it wasn't something we were always able to do. We found another TLM closer to our home in another diocese. We attended that for quite awhile but that Mass was discontinued. We were at a loss for a long time, but we recently made the decision that we could no longer, in good conscience, attend another Novus Ordo Mass. So right after Easter, we began attending an SSPX chapel about 40 minutes from our house. I'll say we are a bit confused some of the time but we have already many graces. I hope to find some support here as well as answers to questions when they arise.

Cindy

Oh, I would like to mention--we are expecting our 7th child in November. Please pray for us.

Thursday · « **Reply #66 on:** June 01, 2010, 10:02:20 AM »

Hi all, I'm a 35 year old married with two kids Catholic. Kids are 1 and 3, both girls.

Grew up in the NO, 4 years ago I heard an interview with Hutton Gibson about the V2 takeover and been trying to become fully Catholic since.

Like the person above me I prefer this site to FE, not that there aren't a lot of decent folks over there.

Don't get much time to post but hopefully I'll be able to contribute something.

Anyone here think we could get the Legion of Decency up and running again? I'd just love to shut down holiwood, comedy central, Borat,etc

Alexandria · « **Reply #67 on:** June 01, 2010, 11:58:47 AM »

Welcome, Thursday!

Are you an American living in Korea? And I assume it is the south.

P.S. Keep that picture of you-know-who dusted at all times! :pop:

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #68 on:** June 08, 2010, 09:30:41 PM »

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and sedevacantist.

why did you go this route?

For several years I studied everything I could find pro and con, and finally concluded that sedevacantism is the Catholic position. It is not feasible to expound the arguments in a forum, but I would say that Rama Coomaraswamy's book "The Destruction of Christian Tradition" is the most comprehensive and clear on this subject, and probably was the most convincing for me.

I am not a sedevacanist, but I do respect sedevacanists. Most of them really understand why Vatican II was a bad council and what has gone wrong in the Church since Vatican II. Really, most sedevacanists are Traditional Catholics. They aren't the "terrible people" the modern-day Catholic world depicts them as. Before I joined this forum I was on another Catholic forum (wished I had joined this one to begin with) and the people on there would always ask the Traditionals if they were sedevacanists, as if they were horrible people if they were.

I feel Traditional Catholicism (the true Catholic faith) is the true position that we were robbed of thanks to Vatican II. The Church may be a remnant, but the good news is that is still exists.

Matto · « **Reply #69 on:** June 17, 2010, 12:06:31 PM »

Hello. My name is Matthew. I am new here, although I have been lurking for a while. I feel alone in the world because I do not know any people who agree with me about things. I am in my late twenties. I do not know much about Catholicism because when I was growing up they never taught me anything at all about it. When I learned about it a couple of years ago I realized it was true, which was very scary because almost nobody has the faith anymore which means that almost everyone I ever knew is destined for Hell, unless God works miracles to convert them. I recently started going to a SSPX chapel and I like it there.

My favorite pope is Pius IX because when he was first pope he was poisoned by evil liberal ideas, but then he repented and changed his ways. I read an old book about him called Cross upon Cross that I liked very much. I started liking Pope Pius IX when I read his Syllabus of Errors which I liked very much and thought was one of the greatest things I had ever read. I hope that our current pope has a similar conversion like Pope Pius IX had. I know some people here think that Benedict XVI is not really pope because he does bad things and some people think that he is our pope even though he does bad things. I am undecided and would not be surprised either way, but if, against all odds, he started doing stuff like condemning Vatican II and banning the New Mass I would be very happy and would probably follow him.