Comments for Irish, Catholic, And Dangerous (Appendix)

Comment on My Conversion Story by Danny Garland Jr.

Danny Garland Jr. — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:04:16 +0000

Victor,
I’m sorry to hear about your mother. I am happy, though, that you have renewed your faith and have decided to come back to the Catholic Church. God Bless you! I am also pleased that, in some small way, my own conversion story has helped you.

Comment on My Conversion Story by Victor Pickard

Victor Pickard — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:35:51 +0000

Your story was inspiring I was baptized Catholic in Detroit, MI where I was born and I have never been back to a Catholic church since. The past five weeks however I have been having these strong feelings about my faith and about why I had given up hope in my faith when I was baptized it was because my mother was catholic but she had passed maybe a year or two before at first as a child I accepted my faith I prayed every night before bed and I believed fully in it. Well as I grew my step father never took us back to my church and I began to drift away from my faith and more so when I was told that my mother was murdered. I had lost all faith in God I had fallen into a very dark place where I have resided for the past fifteen years, well as I said I have had some strong feelings toward my faith and I have come to the realization that what had happened to me was a terrible thing but my faith is something I should have held on to during that time now I reside in Virginia and have since I was seven. I have wanted so badly to believe in something and I have been to other churches but none have made me feel as if I was well with lack of a better term whole. However reading your passage has encouraged me to go to my local Catholic church and renew my faith and well thank you for that. God Bless

Comment on My Conversion Story by Roselle

Roselle — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:36:57 +0000

Great Post, Thank you for the info, it was much needed.

Comment on My Conversion Story by Compton

Compton — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:34:00 +0000

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Comment on My Conversion Story by Milocerdie

Milocerdie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:50:48 +0000

Beautiful
God bless you
Now after this most wonderful story, the only thing I can do is to recommend you to read Maria Valtortas writings. Specially the POEM OF THE MAN GOD, which I and many other people have read many many times over, (notwithstanding its 5.000 pages). God bless you and your family all the days of your lives!

Comment on Christ, Our Great High Priest by Danny Garland Jr.

Danny Garland Jr. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:28:41 +0000

Michael,
I haven’t read Fletcher-Louis on this yet, but I definitely will!

Comment on Christ, Our Great High Priest by Michael Barber

Michael Barber — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:32:10 +0000

Great paper! Hebrews certainly did not invent the idea that Jesus was a priest. Have you read Fletcher-Louis on this? He is great on this stuff.

Comment on My Conversion Story by david ritchie

david ritchie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:05:54 +0000

Danny, When I hit my enter button to go down a line, my last post ended. Anyway: Welcome to the Sweet Bride of Christ!! I am a life-long (61 year old) Catholic, who has had the benefit of 19 years of Catholic education (high school, college and law school with the Jesuits). In the end, though, the truth of the Catholic Church (East and West) rests on its Founder. End of Story. All the rest of the christian churches were founded by men and are false.
The break away Anglican Church was founded by a man in 1534 or so, brought into communion with the Roman Church by his daughter in 1554 and then irrevocably torn away from that Church again by a second daughter in 1559. There were seven successors to Henry VIII as head or governor of the Church of England who had a choice of remaining Anglican or going back to the Catholic Church. That choice was taken away from English Monarchs as a result of the 1688 Bill of Rights and the 1701 Act of Settlement which forbade–and to this day forbids–the Supreme Governor of the Church of England from becoming Catholic or marrying a Catholic. One of the seven who had a choice, Charles I, got terminated prematurely by the executioner’s ax, in part because of his temerity in marrying a Catholic woman.
Of the six remaining monarchs, three opted to remain Anglican (Edward VI, Elizabeth I and James VI/I) and three opted for Catholicism (Mary I, Charles II and James II). And don’t believe what you may have learned about James II’s supposed attempt at reimposing Catholicism on England. That never happened. James was thrown off the throne of England for the unpardonable sin of promulgating his Declaration of Indulgence which instituted Religious Toleration, not just for Catholics, but for non-Conformists too.
In all events, I am glad to see your love for Marian Practices. While the Catholic Religion is about Christ first, last and always, we have the wonderful opportunity as Catholics to share in the Communion of Saints, including the Sweet Mother of God, Mary, most holy. One of my favorite things about Mary is all the great art she and Her Son have engendered. Three of my favorite Madonnas are: Rafaello’s La Belle Jardiniere, Rafaello’s Madonna del Grand Duca and Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat. All of those are available on the Internet for download.
And if you are Irish, here’s one of my favorite songs (or at least as much as I remember of it–we used to sing it on 3-17 when I was a boy): All Hail to Saint Patrick:
All Hail to Saint Patrick, who brought to our island the gift of God’s Faith, the true light of His love. For hundreds of years, in smiles and in tears, our Saint has been with us our shield and our stay. All else may have gone, Saint Patrick alone. Oh, he drives the false faiths from Erin’s fine shores, like the reptiles which fled from his dismay. All else may have gone, etc.

Comment on My Conversion Story by david ritchie

david ritchie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:31:33 +0000

Danny,