Comments for Outreach to the Homeless at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 18 out of 18 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3412 "Love the poor, and your life will be filled with sunlight, and you will not be frightened at the hour of death." -St Vincent de Paul - MONGO Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:52:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3377 Ms. Hays has that gift of good writers -- somehow reading the minds of her readers. I keep my father's old Book of Common Prayer at my bedside, along with a Catholic Prayer Book. Perhaps it's age, but I miss terribly the beautiful solemnity of Midnight Mass at St. John\'s Episcopal Church and kneeling at the Communion rail and recall fondly my years as an altar boy. As an uprooted Southerner, I also appreciate the special place of the Episcopal Church in US history and civic life. Thanks. - Graham Combs Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:36:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3375 What a wonderful reverie. I was thinking about what southern Episcopalians would do. So much of their social life revolves around not being Baptist but also not being Catholic. Maybe there's hope for more like you to come in. I applaud you for your bravery. I can imagine your reluctance to leave the lovely shore. I'm hoping your influence will result in a rejection of at least some of the Catholic tacky which we all are so tired of. - Catherine Lamey Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:17:33 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3367 not to keep this going... your response reads as something only a cradle Catholic would write. i mean no disrespect to you at all. i have been a guest, a bridesmaid & a bride at a wedding. THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE. i have been a devout in love with Jesus Christ Protestant. i AM a devout in love with Jesus Christ Catholic. THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE. the difference in the level of intimacy cannot be explained. the difference doesnt exclude others from the banquet. - debby Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:18:15 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3362 "An Anglican priest once began a sermon, "St. Paul said – and I partly agree with him. . ." Here, as elsewhere, the author scores a merely rhetorical point. As someone who attended a Catholic University and taught at a Catholic high school, among other things, I can assure you such opinions are rampant in the Roman Church as well. There is more amiss with Roman Catholicism today than bad taste. - Tantamount to Heresy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:33:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3361 Debby, I rejoice in your witness. You were indeed the bride at baptism. That's when we die with Christ, with the promise of new life. The grace you received there made your growth possible. It is a mystery than we cannot fathom. A priest once said that a Protestant who becomes a Catholic might better described as completing his\her Christian faith, not converting. That certainly seems more consistent with our Catechism . - Bradley Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:33:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3360 Thank you for putting into words how I have felt when I had to make the decison to cross the Tiber. There was nowhere else to go. I still use my St.Augustin Prayerbook because it is so beautifully written and at the church we now attend (St.Thomas Aquinas, Dallas, Tx) comes so close to what I was used to in the Angelican Church. One of my first thoughts after we first started to attend the RC church was...this is it...all races, all colors, all nations..universal..wonderful. God bless you. - rose lewis Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3359 Baptism is Birth. you want to grow don't you? are you a convert or cradle Catholic? because as a convert i can witness with Charlotte and Brad and others that life lived as a devout Catholic is radically different than as a devout Protestant. it's kind of like the difference between being Invited to a wedding verses Being the BRIDE. - debby Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:48:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3358 Great article, glad your here now! Its really sad whats happened to the Anglican/Episcopal churches. Next (about the comments), being a convert myself (I was born a Protestant), I have found the catholic faith to be easy, not hard, maybe the morality is tough (but thats human nature), but the philosophy and metaphysical side is not 'hard" to deal with, lol. Also i have always admired the eastern churches, but to say they have not changed is silly, they have splintered into many different groups. - Aeneas Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:47:39 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3357 I feel the same way, coming from Rome to Constantinople, I crossed the Bosphorus and found my way home in the New Rome, HOLY ORTHODOXY. I became tired of all the changes made in Rome, the Holy Mass CHANGED, incense NO MORE, it was all too much for me, so I turned to the Holy Orthodox Church where nothing has changed in 1,000 years. - Robert Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:46:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3356 Charlotte, you brought an unusual literary device across the Tiber. Tommy Cranmer? I'm sure Pope Benny or my archbishop, Timmy Dolan, won't mind if you use the same nickname for Tommy Aquinas. - Todd Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:46:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3355 Welcome home, Charlotte! - Mary Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3354 Theologically speaking, Charlotte was "welcomed aboard," "arrived home," and "was gotten" by God when she was baptized. That is what the Catechism teaches about our baptism and our permanent bonds with non-Catholic Christians. - Bradley Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:56:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3353 love your story, charlotte. as a sister convert i love to hear these stories! the living faith, the incorruptible GOD Who comes to each one of us and loves us so individually, so personally, so intimately, and yet In Communion, in Family, In Him....He went out and GOT YOU! thank you for sharing with all of us... and WELCOME HOME. - debby Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:49:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3352 I always heard it was chic to be Episcopalian. Maybe it was those purple vestments and secular ease. Catholicism is hard, as I'm finding out as I return to the religion of my roots, many times abandoned for philosophical and metaphysical excursions that dead-ended. I'm still trying to run the good race and keep the faith, but doubts creep in daily and I pray for faith and understanding. Charlotte's journey to her new home is encouraging. Thanks for sharing. - Joseph Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3351 Beautiful piece! Really lovely. - Austin Ruse Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3349 Beautiful and appropriate to recent historical events. Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell must be turning in their graves. - Willie Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/outreach-to-the-homeless.html#comment-3348 May those beloved cadences now be integrated into rites within the One Body. How good it is that the beauty and solemnity of meaningful ritual will now again, for however many so choose, be celebrated within the Catholic Church. Such blessings! - Ars Artium Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:16 +0100