The long journey of faith and conversion

Thoughts while preparing for the Rite of Acceptance

MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"

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Rite of Acceptance

This coming Sunday, I will go through the Rite of Acceptance. This is the second step in the RCIA process, and lasts until Lent. The way that it was presented to us last Sunday, the Rite itself is a pretty serious step in the process, which makes me a little nervous. I'm not really sure why... I'm looking forward to the Rite itself, as it brings me into fuller communion with the community of the Catholic Church. And the doubts that I did have about becoming Catholic are becoming fewer and fewer and lighter and lighter. So...we shall see.

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Ambrosius Benson's Magdalene

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