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przip
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Posted: Sat May 12th, 2007 05:00 am |
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A blessed Easter-tide to you all. The main Forum Page says this is the place for introductions, and so I thought I'd do that. I've joined the forum in the past, but I've never posted -- which probably explains why I needed to re-register.
I have been a Pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for nearly 15 years, and was one of the early subscribers to the Rule of the Society of the Holy Trinity, which is an international oratory of over 200 Lutheran pastors who are often described as "Evangelical Catholics." One of the provisions of the Rule declares that we believe that our ecumenical destiny (as Lutherans) is with the Catholic Church, and many of us seek ways to encourage that happening sooner than later. In the last couple of years, a few of our numbers had reached the point of not being able to wait any longer, and have been received into the Church.
My faith links to the Catholic Church began circa 1980 with the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogues in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Pacific Southwest Synod LCA, which were at the parish level. Catholic television was a key to my sanity when it was over-the-air in Los Angeles about 5 years later (Santa Fe Communications and the program "Heart of the Nation"), and later while at the Lutheran Seminary in Berkeley, I worked for the Franciscans and took a couple of classes from them and the Dominicans. I have throughout my ministry sought to have as good a relationship as possible with local Catholics, and am pleased that the Peoria Diocese encourages that in various ways. And in the meantime, I've been able to listen to EWTN often via shortwave radio.
Like many of my colleagues, I struggle between the sense of being faithful to the call to be shepherd for my parishioners and the unsettledness within the Lutheran Churches of things that ought not be unsettled. Don't know how often I'll post here, and as I look around this Forum I find that many of the things folks question aren't significant stumbling blocks for me as a Lutheran. But here I am, saying hello. Thanks for being here!
Pax et bonum, Steven
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Posted: Sat May 12th, 2007 10:06 am |
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przip wrote: Don't know how often I'll post here, and as I look around this Forum I find that many of the things folks question aren't significant stumbling blocks for me as a Lutheran. But here I am, saying hello. Thanks for being here!
Thank you for joining. Welcome to the Coming Home Network. Unfortunately, because of the number of automated spam registrations, we are forced from time to time to purge the user list of those who have not posted, but this way we get to know a little bit about you.
We're glad to have you here with us, and I hope you'll become an active poster. I can think of many questions I'd like to ask you, but I'll wait for another time.
Hopefully some day we'll be able to welcome you home to the Catholic faith. Meanwhile, welcome once again to the Coming Home Network.
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Darlene
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Posted: Sat May 12th, 2007 01:27 pm |
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Welcom Pastor,
God bless you in your search and love of the truth. I have warm memories of the Lutheran pastor who pastored the church near my home while growing up in the Cleveland area. My father was a Boy Scouts/Explorers leader and they met in the Lutheran church. I was a Girl Scout and my troop met in the same Lutheran church. The pastor was friendly and kind, and would drop in on the scout meetings occasionally. He also presided over the many funerals in my family, though my family was atheist/agnostic. When it came to death though, they seemed to think it was ok to have the Lutheran pastor officiate.
God Bless You,
Darlene
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SBC2RCC
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Posted: Sat May 12th, 2007 02:49 pm |
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przip wrote: Like many of my colleagues, I struggle between the sense of being faithful to the call to be shepherd for my parishioners and...
Thanks Steven,
And welcome! Great that you have decided to share an introduction.
I made a partial quote from you above, with the ellipsis added, for I was not dealing with the unsettledness in the Baptist church, but within me. I can certainly relate to your feelings as a shepherd with a flock that you feel a repsonsibility toward. Too bad the sheep so seldom realized this. The last several years that I was a pastor, I knew that I was going to be entering the Catholic Church someday. Still, the need to continue the work that I was entrusted with was so strong and compelling. When an issue arose that released me from this, I was personally shaken by it, but not as much, for I saw how God was now guiding me.
May the light of Christ be ever upon you,
Monte
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(Formerly on CHN Forum as "Pilgrim Paul"
Minima Maxima Sunt
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przip
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Posted: Wed May 16th, 2007 11:23 pm |
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Thanks, Rick, Darlene, and Monte, for your welcomes.
Pax, Steven
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RonRule
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Posted: Thu May 17th, 2007 04:13 pm |
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Pastor Steven,
Welcome to the forum! I don't post here much, but I do check in once every couple weeks or so.
I'm originally from Carbondale, IL...not too far from you! My dad is a pastor there of a Bible Church with Plymouth Brethren influences.
I've heard the name of your Society before. Was Fr. Neuhaus in it? Or I seem to be thinking a recent president of the group became Catholic. Bah...I read too much online and the details seem to get all muddled!
I hope you will keep praying about becoming fully Catholic. Can't imagine the struggle it would be for a pastor from another denomination. I was lucky -- besides family issues, it was no trouble for me.
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StephenC
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Posted: Thu May 17th, 2007 04:31 pm |
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Welcome Steven...Glad you are here!
Ronrule, you are from Carbondale?....Murphysboro native here...and SIU-C alum. My avatar is St. Andrew Catholic Church in Murphysboro. It is a small world after all. 
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RonRule
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Posted: Thu May 17th, 2007 07:21 pm |
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StephenC wrote: Welcome Steven...Glad you are here!
Ronrule, you are from Carbondale?....Murphysboro native here...and SIU-C alum. My avatar is St. Andrew Catholic Church in Murphysboro. It is a small world after all.
Stephen! I'm also SIUC alumn (BA in 01, MBA in 06). I lived in Murphy for a year while in grad school. I didn't become Catholic until after moving to Kansas City 2 years ago, so I haven't been to St. Andrews, but I do know a family that goes there. Small world, indeed! Sorry mods...will take it to PM's. =)
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przip
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Posted: Thu May 17th, 2007 07:32 pm |
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RonRule wrote:
I've heard the name of your Society before. Was Fr. Neuhaus in it? Or I seem to be thinking a recent president of the group became Catholic.
No, Fr. Neuhaus "pulled a Newman" (as we described it then) several years before the formation of the Society of the Holy Trinity. I was in seminary at the time and, given that we was the most prominent of "Evangelical Catholic" Lutherans, it was quite a crisis in faith for many of us (much like John Henry Newman's leaving the Anglo-Catholics for the Roman Church).
Our first Senior, Phillip Max Johnson (1997-2003), was received into the Catholic Church last Summer. Especially since it came of the heels of several others making the same move that year, it had a rather profound effect on the Society. And it doesn't help to keep us in the Lutheran Church that Fr. Jay Scott Newman, in Greenville, SC, who received Phillip and his family (and others), continues to be a friend to so many of us in the Society.
Pax, StevenLast edited on Thu May 17th, 2007 07:34 pm by przip
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Posted: Thu May 17th, 2007 07:41 pm |
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przip wrote: RonRule wrote:
I've heard the name of your Society before. Was Fr. Neuhaus in it? Or I seem to be thinking a recent president of the group became Catholic.
No, Fr. Neuhaus "pulled a Newman".
Sounds painful!
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Truthseeker
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 10:43 pm |
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Welcome,
I'm not from a Lutheran background but consider myself an Evangelical Catholic too! Sometimes, the ladies at my work talk about how annoying the "out of control, praise Jesus" Christians are, not realizing that I was one of them. I'm a little quieter now, but still praisin' His blessed Name!
I ask forgiveness for things we might say that may offend you, as we work out the Catholic beliefs we are learning to believe. Sometimes, we sound more negative toward other Christian beliefs than we mean too, in an effort to stress our own beliefs. You have been very gracious about that.
God bless!
Laura
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