[Faith-talk] catholicism question

[semisweetdebby at gmail.com]

Hi Jenny, I've done this so that hopefully it just comes to you. I love music, and love to sing, too. But there is so much more to being Catholic than the music. The biggest thing for me is that it is the only Church I can go to and receive the Eucharist in the fullest sense. This is Jesus, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. When I go up to receive —munion, I am so filled with wonder, and know that Jesus loves me. Certainly there are other ways to experience His love, but after returning !the Church, I realized how much I missed being away. So although I feel your sadness about not being able to sing all the songs, being Catholic is so much more. I get frustrated when I visit Mount Angel and can't participate fully in the prayers of the monks. I chsed to have the translation of the Psalms that they use, and the ORDO, the Order of prayer. But in my moves, I've lost the ORDO and part of the Psalms translation, so last time I was there, I couldn't fully participate. It made me sad, yes. But getting to visit with some of my old professors, and other friends from the monastery made it totally worth it, even with the missing parts of the Psalms. I'm no martyr, but I do think it's important to figure out what you believe, and then figure out a way to stay there. I'm speaking from experience. My time as a non-practicing Catholic was difficult, and even though there may be times when it is difficult, I think, for me anyway, that it is important to stay.

There are some resources from Xavier Society for the Blind, like the Mass Propers that I get each month. They also have a great Library of both Braille and books on CD. I den't know why they aren't using the cartridges that NLS is using, but they're not. Well, I'd best close this before it becomes more of a novel.    Blessings,    Debby

On May 22, 2017 7:41 AM, Jenny Keller via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi those who are catholics on this list, 
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> Do any of you who are not in a situation where you can get music like Debbie feel left out when hymns are sung during mass? 
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> I ask because that is how I feel only because music is my worship in any church.  I have friends who say that wanting and being upset at the church as a whole is selfish. 
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> When I went to mass I often cried from my soul over it. 
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> Here in town there is a totally latin church. 
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> The only people who sang or said a word was the priest and choir. 
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> The latin mass is the only one that I  OK, I've been doing this for 10 minutes. So dictation is what's going to happen. 
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> The Latin mass is the only mass that I can get the full music for in braille. So, my problem there, is not being able to go to choir practice. 
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> I could get paratransit has no one else to pick me up, but, the terrain in the church to get to the cellar door to get to the choir practice is treacherous at best. Paratransit will not even take me near where the door is, because that's not a place where the van to get to. So, I'm stuck again. 
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> Anyhow, does any Catholic feel this way. Does any Catholic just cry in their soul because they can't worship the way that they feel the Lord wants us to worship. For up for me it's music. 
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> Just a question no offense or disrespect needed. Anyhow, if the Catholic people in the list want to email me outside of this list that's cool too. If they want to email me publicly on the list. That's fine too. 
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> Just wanted to know if I'm the only one and that's why left. 
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> Jenny 
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