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Posted: Mon Mar 26th, 2007 03:55 pm |
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Welcome Prayererie Pal. Wow, you sure are "on fire." Yeah, I know, a Protestant term.  But what's wrong with that? Protestants seem to think they have a market on zeal. And they have for so long. But we know that's changing. There is a new zeal coming into the Catholic Church. Watch out for all those Pope John Paul II Catholics. It's time for no holds barred.
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Yeah, Keith was a great guy, and I had all of his albums. I wept like a little girl for days and days when I'd heard the news. I admired so much about him, but when I think now of how much he contributed to my "anti-Catholicism" it makes me very sad. I even had a dream about him a few months after he died, and it was the MOST VIVID of dreams I've ever had to this day. I even wrote to Melody, his wife, and heard back from her! I'd wanted to go be a part of LDM so much! I kept hoping, but it never came to be. In a way, now, I'm glad it didn't.
Wow, a gal after my own heart. I loved Keith Green. A number of months ago I sung one of his songs in church as a solo. I never knew until recently that he was anti-Catholic. I did hear though, that Last Days stopped printing the anti-Catholic tracts. I was very impressed with their anti-abortion tracts. I also wanted to move to Lyndale, Texas and become a part of his ministry. Our children loved his music. His zeal for Jesus and his love for proclaiming the gospel is what drew me.
Eventhough we were wandering the desert trails, like a couple of lost sheep, God did remaing faithful, while we were 'allured' by more "hip" worship fellowships, with "powerful messages" preached by dynamic and sometimes flambouyant ministers. The most charismatic of all was Pastor Rob Thompson...in Fresno Ca. at Rock Fellowhip. He was ex-Catholic, ex-Seventh Day Adventist pastor, and founded Rock Fellowship....and then it fell apart...and many were so devasted, including me. Hurt, torn apart, angry, sad, the complete gamut of emotion. We'd been very close and in the "inner circle" so to speak. It was a horrible time. So many then left without a faith community.
Tell me about it! Those "hip" fellowships thought/think they had/have the goods on the truth. I belonged to one of those "hip" fellowships, which eventually became a full-blown cult. One of our tracts began with the line, "We're into doing what the churches should be doing but aren't." One of our tracts said, "Come over to our fellowship and party with us." Of course, we weren't partying. It was just a means to get the teenagers and college kids to visit the fellowship house.
How SAFE now to be IN THE CHURCH JESUS FOUNDED and not have to worry about it ever "fallling apart!"
I agree, I've been angry and hurt and certainly don't want to be a Prostestant basher in return, so I have to keep my temper in line, as my heart races at times in debates. But it is very amazing to see them "leave the room" with that 'deer in the headlights' look about them now when I bring up anything CC related.
I better get off to work again. Thanks for inviting me here. I'm going to enjoy this forum very much, as Paul Mac said,..."I've got a feeling" I thought the Beatles said that.
Come back and visit us often. BTW, I have met with your friend PD a few times already. Perhaps the three of us could meet together soon. I would enjoy hearing more about your conversion "in person."
Love in Christ,
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Prayerie Pal
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 09:35 pm |
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Well, with such accolades and such a generous invitation, I can't refuse! Thanks. Yep, Keith was a special man. He did have a heart for Jesus, most surely. He wrote some absolutely beautiful songs. I loved his sense of humor, too. I was a real "groupie" to use the term that doesn't fit at all, but can't think of another one....fan, devotee...., "disciple" might be better.(?)
I cried and cried when I'd heard he was killed in that plane crash. My Catholic Mother in law, however, called and told me that "God had 'nipped that ministry in the bud." That seemed soooo harsh to me! I was so hurt, so sad, and I thought what she said was mean....however, she was also watching me lead her son to another "church" and I now can understand the lens she was seeing things through. She was 41 when she'd had my husband and his twin sister, and was Catholic as can be. She was faithful, but without all the resources that we have at our fingertips, her attempts to try to tell me anything positive about the CC fell on deaf ears, and heels planted firmly in the ground, I wasn't going to budge!
Ah, how the maturing process and passing of time and years changes one's perspective! God rest her precious, dear, MOTHER's soul!
Now my "heroes" are cradle Catholics, who never left the Church, who stayed through all the sloppy theology in the 70's and prayed their rosaries, and their devotions and were left out of the "hip and with it" flow of their younger brothers and sisters who were busy crafting felt banners with "flower power" spiritual phrases to hang in the Cathedrals and RUIN the ambience and craftsman ship of loyal Catholics who had labored hours on end to build a glorious "house of God" only to have daisies and "I'm okay, You're Okay" hanging in the narthexes around town! I cringe to this day when I go into a lovely Catholic Church and see banners, and "Jesus Movement jargon" ..... It had it's time....LET IT GO! Can I hear an "amen" out there?
My carpal tunnel is acting up. I'll be right back after I "cut my wrist off at the knees."
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Prayerie Pal
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 09:55 pm |
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Darlene, I'd love to meet with you in person, but I'm not in PA, but NE. Omaha to be precise. Nebraska prayerie gal. I met PD and TJ, (Dobrodoc) on line last June when he wrote me an email after discovering our RECON blog.
Then I wrote back.
Then he wrote.
Then I wrote.
And the rest is history as they say.
They're GREAT people, and I admire them both. They've helped me grow in my love and longing for a "Faith Fire" to spread on blogs and the internet to inform the ignorant...as I once was, of the inexpressible beauty of the Catholic Faith. It's beyone words, and yet I can't stop writing about Holy Mother Church and Mary and the Saints and the wonder of it all!!!!
I'd love for you to stop by our blogs. They're where I spend a lot of time.
I keep thinking that it would be swell if we (who's ever interested) could figure out a time maybe next year to plan a pilgrimage to EWTN and Our Lady of Angels Monastery in Alabama. I have a dear dear bosom friend, who has a daughter who professed her vows as a Poor Clare nun in the Fall of 2005...and I'd LOVE to just meet Mother Angelica and thank her from the bottom of my prodigal heart for her vigilant, unwavering faith to build an "Empire" over the airwaves for Christ and HIS CHURCH! Even if she's unable to talk, I'd just love to smile at her, to look into those eyes to the window of a HOLY SOUL, and say "thank you." Her efforts are what has helped keep the fire in me burning! The embers were almost out, but EWTN and all the books now, and all the Raydio hosts on Catholic Raydio are parts of my life, my NEW LIFE in Christ and HIS CHURCH! Yes, I'm the one who coined radio as Raydio....for Dr. Ray Guarendi. We've been emailing for 2 years now, and he's been a dear friend to me. He was kind enough to not delete my emails, but read them and read them....all 100 per week for a while! (not really....I exagerate) but other than my confessor, he knows my checkered past like the back of his softball glove. He even read 3 of my poems last summer in 3 consecutive weeks and I was so touched. I'd never heard anyone read anything of mine out loud before and then to hear it on the air was so moving for me, it made me so thankful to think that God might have something to say through this little prayerie podunk! I have the clip of him reading PASTEL GOD on my poetry blog. We met him in Omaha in Sept. 2005 and trust me, it was a "first for him" as well!
Anyway, those people are my heroes now, EWTN and Catholic Radio people who have hearts for God and His Church and for souls! To be part of this New Evangelizaton of our beloved Papa JPII is the most incredibly wonderful way to live out the rest of my life on this earth than I ever dreamed! There were some great 'messages' and sermons in those churches we were part of, but NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING compares to the TABLE OF LIFE, where CHRIST FEEDS US HIS BODY and BLOOD. True food and True drink for a famished and parched soul! No pastor's commentary gives LIFE like CHRIST HIMSELF!
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CajunRick
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 10:15 pm |
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Prayerie Pal wrote: Now my "heroes" are cradle Catholics, who never left the Church, who stayed through all the sloppy theology in the 70's and prayed their rosaries, and their devotions and were left out of the "hip and with it" flow of their younger brothers and sisters who were busy crafting felt banners with "flower power" spiritual phrases to hang in the Cathedrals and RUIN the ambience and craftsman ship of loyal Catholics who had labored hours on end to build a glorious "house of God" only to have daisies and "I'm okay, You're Okay" hanging in the narthexes around town!
Since the nature of our forum does not appeal to cradle Catholics who have never left the Church (I may be the only one around), I thank you on our behalf. I've never been someone's hero before! 
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:27 pm |
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Prayerie Pal
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:27 pm |
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Unsung Heroes
they're everywhere around us doing most heroic things like staying in a loveless marriage when they could just "spread their wings" maybe caring for a sick parent or a child too ill to speak not seeking any credit just doing "the next thing" not requesting recognition or anyone's applause they're too busy being heroes and helping "just because" the sports stars making millions while playing games these days and self-absorbed celebrities most often steal their praise but unsung heroes just don't care they're too busy . . . being brave
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Dr. Ray read this one July, 06, 2006. IT was written with Terri Schaivo's parents and family in mind, as well as our soldiers and other 'ordinary joes' or "Cajunricks" out there, living their lives as honestly and bravely as they can. So Cajunrick, consider yourself one of my "unsung heroes" for being a faithful cradle Catholic when many weren't. You stayed and remained loyal to Holy Mother Church enough to stay with Her, and pray for all us "wandering sheep" out bulping "fast food" when the Lord's Supper was right down the street. A much more satisfying feast than any sermon, no matter how glibly or eloquently spoken, or how it tickled itching ears..., the "gut of the soul" was to remain craving the Bread of Heaven. Oh, and....to you and all your faithful Cradle Catholic friends, "you're welcome." And to every old lady who sat in the back of the church while the rest of the "mod squad" made banners, thank you, thank you, thank you! You all saved a myriad of souls, I truly believe it! God rest your souls, now, as most of you are across the veil, cheering us fools on this side on..... fools for Christ now, hopefully, and not 'self-made' fools any longer.
BTW, my hubby and I and a friend, Jan, are going to be interviewed on http://www.kvss.com on Friday...this Friday, March 30 at 1:00 or 1:15ish. We'll be talking about how Catholic raydio, especially KVSS has impacted our lives. It has mine in a BIG WAY, as I've already alluded to above. You can listen live on line and or pray for us, that we'll get the word out succinctly in a very short time. I'm a volunteer at KVSS, and also at the Holy Family Shrine, on I - 80 between Omaha and Lincoln. Come see us if you're ever out this way!
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:29 pm |
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I see the poem came out as a paragraph. I'm a greenhorn on this thread stuff.
DOH 
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:31 pm |
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dobrodoc wrote: You are our hero Rick!
There are actually more than a billion of us, but since we're rather scarce around here, I'll take all the credit!
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:37 pm |
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Hey Susie:
Can you tape the show ?
I will be at a medical conference in florida and will miss it, unless they archive it.
Have a blast!
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:40 pm |
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Prayerie Pal wrote: BTW, my hubby and I and a friend, Jan, are going to be interviewed on http://www.kvss.com on Friday...this Friday, March 30 at 1:00 or 1:15ish. We'll be talking about how Catholic raydio, especially KVSS has impacted our lives.
Can we call in and heckle?
BTW, you didn't list your location in your profile, but I notice you said you were from Nebraska. My son-in-law is from the western part of the state (Sidney), and we've gotten to know his parents pretty well. The only obnoxious thing is those big red "N's" he has to put everywhere.
I went to Haiti in 2001, and we visited an AIDS hospice staffed by Mother Teresa's order, and I'll be darned if one of the kids there wasn't wearing a Cornhuskers T-shirt! My son-in-law said that proved Nebraska fans are everywhere. I said it proved someone donated an old shirt.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:43 pm |
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Hey Cajunrick....I was born in Lake Charles. Guess that makes me a "Nebrascajun" now, huh?
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:54 pm |
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Yeah, I know....the "N's" get outta hand. I used to 'worship' at the stadium now and then when it only sat 70,000 in my football lovin' days. I just don't get the same "ooo ahh" experience there anymore. The "good ol' days" of the 70's & 80's spoiled me. After Tom Osborn left, it went down hill in my book. (The 70's was sure a rough time in the Church - but it was "kickin hiney'" on the turf! I saw the play of the century, Live...1971 Johnny Rodgers...he...could...go... all ...the... way! And he did!
Now, I'm so in love with Jesus and His Church and meeting other Catholics who inspire the fire, I don't much care to spend my time in front of the tube on a Sat. Well, that's not entirely true. I'm infront of another tube....this monitor, which I hope will one day turn into a flat screen....:?
I don't think you can call in and heckle or jeckle, but you can call in and donate $$ or prayer...we'll take any size gift, because KVSS is the "template" of many a Catholic Raydio station! Our staff is tremendous! All left lucrative careers to take a risk on CR and they've lasted 8 years now! Praise GOD!
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 11:56 pm |
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There's a little bit of difference between a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and the Lodgepole Creek Founder's Day parade, isn't there?
Here's that picture I was talking about:
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 12:04 am |
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HI TJ.... I'll be sure to bug the program director, Bruce, for a c.d. Or I'll threaten to not be a volunteer no' mo! Then again, that might not be the biggest threat.... yeah, I'll see if I can get a c.d. and send it to you. OR they might archive it. They do archive all the rest of the shows/interviews.
My boss got my email about our interview and today he wrote a generous check and gave it to me to take to the station Thursday when I go to answer phones in the afternoon.
Soooo, if you want, you all could call in and maybe end up talking to me. Last Fall, our oldest son called from the Smithsonian in D.C. and I didn't recognize his voice and he didn't know mine, and we talked and talked and I took his info down and asked his name, and heard "Justin" and STILL didn't know who he was until he said and began to spell our last name. Then I said, "So, you're my son then?" And...he says, "You're my mom?" Then I asked for his phone number and he said "what do you want that for, you old bat? Are you guys gonna come after me for this donation?" It was hilarious....
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 12:13 am |
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Prayerie Pal wrote: I don't think you can call in and heckle or jeckle, but you can call in and donate $$
Sorry, Easter Sunday will make seven months of unemployment, so no $$ from me!
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 12:30 am |
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We'll pray for you, Cajunrick. Been there, too. But, if it comes to mind, please offer some prayers our way for the station, okay?
"My Deliverer is coming My deliverer is standing by He will never break His promise. He has written it upon the sky. My Deliverer is coming My Deliverer is standing by."
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Dear Susie, what a crackerjack you are! I'm glad to meet you in the forum and also welcome you to CHN. Thanks for sharing so much of your story in your posts. Yes! We Catholics have the best reason of all to be on fire!
I live in Minnesota and travel to Western Colorado to see my family, so I know NE like the back of my hand. Last summer I had to stop at the Holy Family Shrine, an experience that took my breath away. Then, after having several "heated" discussions with my anti-Catholic mother, I ran back to the Shrine because I needed peace and tranquility to soothe my agitated soul. I could have camped out there and never leave -- it is one amazing place, and being there confirmed to me that yes, it is right and good to be Catholic.
Again, welcome.
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PS: My forum name, Susiedear, comes from my daughter Susan, who is a whipper-snapper in her own right!
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 12:59 am |
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Thank you Susiedear...
Maybe we've met already at the HFS?? I have a brother in Burnsville. Well, Minneapolis now. It's a sad situation.....divorcing, drinking, etc. But we were just up there in October and went to brunch with Jeff Cavins and his wife and assistant Carol and her husband Dan! That was a BIG highlight and such a blessing! Have you been to hear him speak? He's one CRACKERJACKANDAHALF!
It's interesting how it all came about, but too long to write here and now. I've got to get to bed and pray.....
Maybe we'll meet at the Shrine sometime. It's lovely there in all seasons, but with the flowers in Spring....it's the best! It was one of the Holy Spirit ''nudges'' that we went there the year before returning Home, and I KNOW that Our Lady was there....she's there and now, I KNOW JPII THE GREAT is, too!
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sweet dreams to all and may St Michael and your Guardian Angels stand watch over you.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 01:45 am |
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Prayerie Pal wrote: Thank you Susiedear...
Maybe we've met already at the HFS?? I have a brother in Burnsville. Well, Minneapolis now. It's a sad situation.....divorcing, drinking, etc. But we were just up there in October and went to brunch with Jeff Cavins and his wife and assistant Carol and her husband Dan! That was a BIG highlight and such a blessing! Have you been to hear him speak? He's one CRACKERJACKANDAHALF!
It's interesting how it all came about, but too long to write here and now. I've got to get to bed and pray.....
Maybe we'll meet at the Shrine sometime. It's lovely there in all seasons, but with the flowers in Spring....it's the best! It was one of the Holy Spirit ''nudges'' that we went there the year before returning Home, and I KNOW that Our Lady was there....she's there and now, I KNOW JPII THE GREAT is, too!
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sweet dreams to all and may St Michael and your Guardian Angels stand watch over you.
Prayerie Pal,
Jeff Cavins was one of the first people I saw on EWTN. He offended my Protestant sensibilities at the time. How could someone, who had been an Evangelical become Catholic, I thought. Also Ralph Martin and of course Mother Angelica were two Catholics that I would "catch" on EWTN from time to time. I would only watch for a few minutes cuz that's about all I could handle of the truth at that time. Now I can't get enough of EWTN. Problem is, my husband's Protestant sensibilities are offended. So when he is around, I try not to watch the Catholic network. But I do read Catholic books and participate on this forum in his presence. It's gonna take some doing for him to come around to considering the R C's are the Church Christ founded.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 08:09 am |
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Good morning! Scott Hahn was the first one I ever saw on EWTN....back in 92 or 93. I thought: "Hmm, this guy, for being a Catholic, seems to have a grasp on Christianity!" ha ha ha What a DOOFUS I was! I'd watch him sometimes when I came home from work for lunch....so thank you, you've made me recall yet another of those "nudges" a little "shove of the Dove" so to speak. I wrote a poem after hearing Jeff's c.d. called "I'm Not Being Fed"....I listened to that c.d. about 15+ times in a month shortly after our return back in Jan. 2005. I could not get enough of that, and his Rebel Returns to the Catholic Faith c.d. His powerful way with words, and just his incredible testimony assured me that "yeah, we're doing the 'right thing' by coming back." I knew it,but "BOY HOW I KNEW IT" after listening to Jeff!
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| Location: | Omaha, Nebraska USA |
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| First Name: | susie | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | Presbyterian,Methodist, Charismatic Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical, and now Truly Catholic |
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 08:24 am |
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My poem that I sent to Jeff, is here:
http://underthepoetree.blogspot.com/2007/02/go-where-youre-fed.html
I sent it, and received the sweetest email in reply from his assistant, Carol. She wrote: "Be assured Jeff will see this!" And then she and I started our 'email friendship' and within a little over a year we were meeting in person and I was sitting next to Jeff, telling him what an influence his story had on me, while sipping coffee and eating eggs Benedict! What a LOVING GOD, what a LOVING FATHER we have! Now, in May, I get to go to ROMA with Kris McGregor from Spirit Mornings at KVSS wiht Scott and Kimberly Hahn and Mike Aquilina! 10 days with Scott! This is so amazing to me. Plus, I first get to meet him at our parish where he'll be for the entire day, April 14!
We met Dr. Ray at KVSS in 05, then a year later, Jeff, now Scott. But what's different meeting these folks is that they're NOT CELEBS to me. They don't have that pull, for they are only our brothers / sisters in Christ. They're soooo humble, and so it's not like the former "fan/celeb" thing. It's just such a honor to meet them, and know we're ALL in this BIG CHURCH together and we're all FAMILY. THAT is such a difference between the CC and other fellowships we were part of for 16 years. They may be in the "Lime light so to speak, but they're not in it for themselves! The other places we were in, we were there because we all had the same "mindset" the same "think." Now, because we're a true Family, we can all think a little differently and the relief is...it's OKAY! One heart and one mind and one faith, but yet, diverse in the purest most "Catholic" way! I LOVE IT!
Off to work.
Blessings on your day my bros and sistas!
PAX,
pp
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