March 23, 2006> 9:46 PM
roundtable this weekend This weekend I've invited a few friends to my house for a little roundtable/retreat around the subject of Catholic spirituality - the Catholic Roundtable. It's something I've been thinking about for a while and finally decided to do it. There are a few people I've been talking to about such things, who share the draw in me to the deep and wide Christian spirituality found in the Catholic Church. That's what this is about - for a few people to get together to share our stories, pray together and talk about what all this means in our lives and in our experience of church.
A couple of us have been inside the Roman borders before and aren't now, but still have a deep love and respect for what was built into us there. A couple more are in various stages of entry into the Roman Catholic Church, officially speaking. Their stories are similar, protestant backgrounds that were fairly anti-Catholic, but have been slowly drawn toward liturgy and the truth carried in the ancient faith of the Church. Another was in, out for a while, then back in, and finally one was a lifelong protestant and now finds himself possibly quite the "heretic" to some of his former colleagues.
It's not fully a weekend about Roman Catholicism necessarily. It's more about catholic spirituality, that which has and does flow from the Catholic Church, how it has all captured us in some way, fed and nurtured us, taught and strengthened us along our journeys. So, this weekend should be a good one - a time to share something in common, to encourage each other, to hopefully help make more sense of where we are now and where we're headed. Looking forward to it. Pax vobiscum.
March 23, 2006
> 9:46 PM
This weekend I've invited a few friends to my house for a little roundtable/retreat around the subject of Catholic spirituality - the Catholic Roundtable. It's something I've been thinking about for a while and finally decided to do it. There are a few people I've been talking to about such things, who share the draw in me to the deep and wide Christian spirituality found in the Catholic Church. That's what this is about - for a few people to get together to share our stories, pray together and talk about what all this means in our lives and in our experience of church.
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