In our path to Rome, we went through a period of studying the Jewish faith, attending synagogue, Torah & Talmud Study, and during that exploration I also learned that I had a Jewish grandmother.
Our path also led through a few variations of Protestantism, some New Age dabbling, existentialism, and much else that was common among our generation of the Sixties.
Through all of this we never explored Catholicism until the very end, after we had virtually given up on finding a faith that met our criteria of being clearly true.
I was reminded of this when reading an article in a noted Protestant theological magazine that was bemoaning the lack of a clear connection between the Word and the Eucharist—from a Reformed perspective—and I was struck that the writer, though appreciating the early church’s connecting them in their service, failed to note that Catholic’s (which is the early Church) still do so in each and every mass.
What did matter in our search through the religious chaos of the world is that when we came upon the truth, we did recognize it; having seen so much that proclaimed incarnate truth which, upon investigation, always proved not to be.
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.