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June 29, 2007
> 4:27 PM
reconciliation > catholic church > peter & paul Aahem, well, that was interesting. Not exactly what I expected but whatever. I stand a bit humbled and move forward. Moving forward, yes, tomorrow I'll be taking a little trip to Cincinnati to have some hang out time with an old Priest I had known waaay back in the earlier Catholic days. He's a Jesuit named Fr. Lou Lipps (yes, that's his name). I always had very fond memories of Fr. Lou spending time, here and there, at my old home parish of Holy Trinity in Harlan. Anyway, a while back, maybe a year ago or more, I looked him up on, what else, the internet, and found that, sure enough, he's still kicking, lives in Cincinnati at a Jesuit house community called the Claver Jesuit Community. Fr. Lou has long white hair and a long white beard - I figure that's gotta count for something. Got that mini Gandalf thing goin' on - not a tall man. I'm looking forward to it. I contacted him a while back, as I said, and got an e-mail for him and he e-mailed me back like 8 months later, ha! He had taken a computer class for seniors and finally learned how to use the e-mail. Funny. That e-mail was very general, letting him know I remembered him and it was a positive thing, etc. Later, when this reversion thing came down the pike a little closer, I thought I might e-mail and see if, by chance, he would be willing to talk with me about some of this. I sent him an abbreviated version of my faith story and he was very nice to respond, sounding very interested to talk in person at length. And not even from the beginning was he trying to give me a hard-line "you'd better get back in the Church boy!" kind of deal. That's a good thing. So, it ends up here, with him having time and me too and driving to Cincinnati in the morning to sit down and talk with him about what's happening, etc. I plan, while I'm there, to ask him to hear my confession. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is my tangible, official way "back in" to the Catholic Church. No time like the present and with a Priest like this, with whom I share a bit of history. So, when I come back across the river tomorrow, I come back a Catholic again. And then, and then, more life... Today, by the way, is the Solemnity of St. Peter and Paul - both of 'em. These two are the great Apostolic Fathers of the Church, both martyred in Rome. We owe much to their faithfulness, to what they seeded into us via their disciples and on down the line. And of course, we must remember, they were men, they even fought with one another, they were not perfect, right away. They should act, then, as giant examples of what is possible of each of us, people trying to be faithful to God, not yet perfect but on the way. Pray for us O Fathers! technorati tags > roman catholic church, catholic church, catholic reversion, catholic conversion, catholicism, emerging church, alan creech, vine & branches christian community, swimming the tiber, crossing the tiber, fr. louis lipps, claver jesuit community Labels: catholic, church, personal, reversion, spiritual formation 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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