I disse dager er jeg ferdig med \u00e5rets kurs i katolsk tro her i St Hallvard kirke, og flere mennesker skal de neste ukene opptas i Kirken, enten gjennom d\u00e5p eller p\u00e5 grunnlag av sin tidligere d\u00e5p. Og det er allerede noen mennesker som har vist interesse for neste \u00e5rs kurs, og kommende uke skal jeg m\u00f8te to av disse – bl.a. for \u00e5 svare p\u00e5 sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l de har n\u00e5 f\u00f8r kurset begynner.<\/p>\n
I mange \u00e5r har jeg hatt kontakt med The Coming Home Network<\/a> i USA og i deres siste nyhetsbrev<\/a>, som jeg fikk (pr e-post) i g\u00e5r kveld, skriver dr. Kenneth J. Howell:<\/p>\n The Coming Home Network International is twenty years old this year. Who would ever have dreamed when Marcus Grodi began it as a small newsletter in 1993 that it would grow into a major Catholic apostolate? As one bishop told Marcus, \u201cWe are glad you\u2019re here. There\u2019s no one doing what you do in the Church today.\u201d The CHNetwork has been a privileged vantage point from which to view God\u2019s children finding their way home to the Catholic Church. <\/p>\n In Catholic circles you often hear the question, \u201cAre you a convert?\u201d addressed to those who did not grow up in the Church. A new term has gained currency in the last twenty years: revert. Reverts are those who have \u201cturned back\u201d (from the Latin revertere) to the Church, often after being involved in Protestant churches for some years. It seems that their Baptism never ceases to draw these cradle Catholics back to Holy Mother Church. And the Trinitarian Baptisms of non-Catholics operate the same way. They too are being pulled in, as by a tractor beam, into the fullness of the Faith. <\/p>\n As I have been writing my own conversion story over the last months, two things have struck me between the eyes: 1) my joy and gratitude to God for allowing me to see and to embrace the Church in all her fullness, and 2) my realization that membership in the Catholic Church is not a destination but a definitive beginning of lifelong conversion. <\/p>\n Whether we were brought up in the Church or outside it, one thing is certain. Conversion is an ongoing process extending over our whole lifetime. The Church\u2019s official teaching, as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, makes this clear, \u201cChrist\u2019s call to conversion continues to resound in the lives of Christians. This second conversion is an uninterrupted task for the whole Church who, \u2018clasping sinners to her bosom, (is) at once holy and always in need of purification, (and) follows constantly the path of penance and renewal\u2019\u201d (CCC 1428). … ….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I disse dager er jeg ferdig med \u00e5rets kurs i katolsk tro her i St Hallvard kirke, og flere mennesker skal de neste ukene opptas i Kirken, enten gjennom d\u00e5p eller p\u00e5 grunnlag av sin tidligere d\u00e5p. 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