Religion

As I get closer to the day where I'm received into the Episcopal Church, I have been reflecting on the journey I'm on and where it is taking me.  This post might come off a little emo and will definitely sound different than people are used to hearing from me.  It is where I am today and I think it will be good to let it out.  Oh, and before we begin, a lot of what I learned in the Catholic Church is what I learned from a Catholic Grammar School.  I know folks who didn't have 5 days a week of Religious Ed in the early days have a different opinion.  I've had problems over the separating the two.

When the Yankees are down in the 9th I don't pray to Babe Ruth for intervention.

OK... after a conversation with a friend I found this article about the Catholic Church retroactively invaliding Baptisms.

Another post that I don't know where it belongs ... if this keeps up I'm going to merge the blogs and go with filters. When I started this journey I was trying to keep potential clients from finding the religious blog and religious folks from finding my geeky side and run the religious blog anonymously. Well I have given up on that... my geeky side shows though and I seem to be commenting on things that in both camps....

Back on Wednesday,  Fr. Tom Synan and I officially had the "I'd like to convert" that he knew was coming.  It looks like there will be some classes which I'm looking forward to.  He says there are 3 other candidates so the classes will be in a group and the classes will be one on one.

We also discussed more of my background, the good and the bad.  When I tell him some of the not so nice things from my past, he's more then understanding and compassionate.

I have no idea which blog this goes in (It it baseball or Religion) so I'm posting everywhere... if you're seeing it more then once, I'm sorry.

No Pictures (sorry, too cold, this was a last minute thingy). The game went well... good to see a number of the folks I know from past years. The Yankees won and a good time was had by all (or most... I guess the Toronto fans didn't have a good time).

Surfing the media tonight I came across lines about faith and figured I'd post them.

Dawson's Creek (yes, that Dawson's Creek... shush I like the quote) episode "A Winter's Tale"

Mr Brook's Friend (played by Andy Griffith) : "In a situation like this Son, all that's required is a little faith.  Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to like Miracle on 34th Street.  Arthur always believed that the best answers for life's questions could be found in the movies.  Crazy Idea, huh?"

Babylon 5 episode "The Deconstruction of the Falling Stars"

Ever since my Musing on Conversion post the other day I have received a number of emails from well meaning friends concerned that my decision would lead me to lose my soul when final judgment came. I just wanted to outline why I don't feel this is not the case. Some of this might be distasteful to some Catholics, if you are easily offended by discussions of conversion

This was just tweeted by @trivabot on twitter:

Of 200 Anglican priests polled only 68, or 34% could name all Ten Commandments. Half, however, said they believed in space aliens.

This is unusually funny for me because of a story from my youth and my interpretation of Ezekiel Chapter 1 (which involves space aliens). Someday I'll document it but for now I'm laughing on the inside.

* For the record, all the Episcopalian Priests I've met can name all 10 commandments.

I do find the Episcopalian way of referring to this Sunday as "Easter II" instead of "The Second Sunday of Easter" sorta funny (I've had this feeling before but haven't gotten around to writing about it).  As a geek, it sounds like a sequel all it needs is a subtitle.  This week it would be "Easter II:  Turning Doubters into Believers".