Since my announcement on Sunday that we were becoming Roman Catholics the blog visit count went over 7,000 in two and half days! I simply cannot believe that. Thank you to all of you who visited, wrote emails and gave wonderful welcoming comments in the comment section. We are joining a big family and sense your warm welcome. The reception process is under way and when we are received I will put some family photos on the blog.There is a way that the Catholic bloggers can help me do some blog adjustments. What I mean is that if all of the readers here will leave links to excellent Catholic sites that you find helpful and particularly theologically helpful I would appreciate it. I am working on the blog so that it maintains a high theological standard along with some helpful pastoral links in order that this blog may be a useful Catholic blog as it has been useful during my Anglo-Catholic days. If you would leave the links in the comment I will work on the blog during my evening hours. For my UK readers, would you please link up parish websites so that area of the blog can be to a higher standard?
Again, thank you for your prayers and good wishes. We need them at this time. I should also mention that next Monday night at 22:00 BST I am giving a radio interview on Radio Maria, Madrid, Spain that will be translated into Spanish. It should be able to be picked up on line at their web site. The interview has to do with my conversion story that was posted on Sunday. They were very gracious and I am looking forward to being with them. Radio Maria is here and here.
49 comments:
EWTN "Journey Home" needs to catch up!
may god bless you and keep you Fr
Hey Jeff. Since you asked for links, how about one to the Coning Home Network International: www.chnetwork.org.
Parishes:
http://www.rc.net/standed/stmichael/
http://www.stpaulsandstmarys.co.uk/falkland/
http://www.stjosephs-burntisland.org.uk/
http://www.rc.net/standed/sacredheart/
http://www.ourholyredeemer.btinternet.co.uk/
http://www.barracatholic.co.uk/
http://www.broxburncatholicchurch.co.uk/
http://www.lochgilpheadcatholic.com/
http://www.saint.margarets.org.uk/
http://www.catholicchurchmull.co.uk/
http://www.rcroybridge.co.uk/
and see here:
http://scottishchristian.com/churches/roman-catholic-church/
(I had that list ready for something else :-)
From Spain, congratulations very much Father for the crossing of the Tiber.
With great joy I will dare to say "welcome". I say dare because many time converts are far more loving children of our mother Church than we craddle catholics are, and it should be you who really say that.
I pray for you and your family. God bless you.
P.S. I came from WDTPRS.com
I came from wdtprs.com as well - one of the best Catholic blogs out there, in my opinion.
A great blog for spiritual reading is Vultus Christi - http://vultus.stblogs.org/
Welcome home!
God bless you, Father, on your journey home.
As a cradle Catholic, I can't even begin to imagine what you're facing, both internally and externally.
But our Lord Himself did not shrink from doing the will of the Father. He embraced it. Though He did ask the cup pass Him by if it was the Father's will, He willingly obeyed.
You have been touched by His hand in a special way. Many prayers and rosaries will be said for you, your family, and for your union with Peter, who, as you say on your blog, where Peter is, there is the Church He founded.
Yes, your story would make a very special episode of the Journey Home with you and your family, if possible. The expression "leap of faith" never had so much validity. Welcome!
(via wdtprs)
Wonderful news!!
I am a convert too! My family was anti-Catholic making the journey a bit rough at first. Now my mother attends mass with me. May God bless you on your journey.
P.S. I too came from WDTPRS.com
May God bless you and your family!
Pes
Teary eyed - and welcoming you all home! God's blessings!
elizabethk
Dear Father, I made the same journey that you are undertaking some years ago, albeit alone and without a family. I loved the tasteful beauty of famous Anglo-Catholic churches, the perfectly executed liturgies, the high quality of the music, etc but something was missing. Something was not quite real.
I learned that there can be no true Catholicism without unity with the successor of Peter. The CofE will sadly never make that journey to Rome so we have to obey our consciences as individuals. I have never looked back and I am sure you will not either. I will remember you and your family in my prayers. Tim
Welcome home. May God bless you and your family.
Welcome home.
I came via NewAdvent.org and wdtprs. wdtprs has an excleent selction of blogs..
May god bless you and keep you ..
http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/
http://www.rosary.freeuk.com/
http://catholicblogs.blogspot.com/
http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/?eng=y
Here are a few I follow. May God Bless yours and your family's journey.
Brian
Welcome home! I was hoping that you would convert, back when I first visited this blog to comment on writings by the Pontificator.
Hmmm... you ask for Catholic links...
I rather suspect that you know of Catholic.com and NewAdvent.org and such things, so I'll throw in some other stuff, some of which you may well be familiar with, and some of which you may be entirely uninterested in.
Blog: adorotedevote.blogspot.com
Many, many resources (including searchable online CCC): scborromeo.org
Daily Catholic Quotes: catholic-truths.com/alone/?cat=5&paged=11
Resources provided by FSSP priest with Psychology PhD: sensustraditionis.org/
Eucharistic Reources, and related, including the Modern Catholic Dictionary: therealpresence.org
LegaL Catholic stuff (including handy statistics on clerical sexual abuse): catholicleague.org
Catholic chastity site: chastity.com [secular version: pureloveclub.net]
Pro-Life stuff: hli.org
Papal website: pope2you.net
Official social networking site for World Youth Day 08: xt3.com
Pro-life news (North American focus): lifesitenews.com
Resources: davidmacd.com
Resources on St. Joseph: stjosephsite.com
I hope that at least some of this is useful.
pax Christi tecum!
I don't have any links for you. I just wanted to say welcome home. May God bless you and your family.
Thanks God
Also here from Fr. Z's website.
Praised be Jesus Christ!
I cannot recommend with enough enthusiasm www.audiosancto.com. It is a site dedicated to sermons from a particular parish in the US. You'll not find much better Catholic teaching anywhere on the web. They also have a podcast with all of the sermons - over 300 of them to date. It'll cost you 3 Hail Mary's to listen offered for the Priests whom you will be listening to.
In Christ,
Nathan
God bless you and your family in your journey. We are praying for you
Welcome home! Many prayers will be offered for you and your family. Here are some helpful blogs for you:
WDTPRS.com (Fr. Z's blog)
For all things Catholic - a blog I visit daily
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/
For all things liturgical
http://vultus.stblogs.org/
A spritual blog by Fr. Mark Kirby
http://blackbiretta.blogspot.com/
Fr. John Trigilio's blog - author of Catholicism for Dummies
http://eveningdevotions.blogspot.com/
Spiritual blog by Fr Scott Bailey, C.Ss.R.
And blogs on your side of the pond:
http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/
Fr Tim Finigan's blog
http://papastronsay.blogspot.com/
Bi-ritual Catholic community of priests, nuns and monks whose vocation is to live the traditional monastic rule and vocation of the Redemptorists
You might also be interested in reading about the Roman Catholic - Anglican Use parishes here in the states. These former Episcopal parishes were given a Pastoral Provision allowing them to be Catholic while holding on to some Anglican liturgical traditions. http://www.atonementonline.com/
The Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship authorized the Book of Divine Worship (BDW) for interim usage in 1984, with final approval on 20 February 1987. This document allowed elements of the older Prayer Book of 1928, but the Eucharistic liturgy was taken only from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer with the use of the Roman Eucharistic Canons and the ancient Sarum Canon (with the modern English "Words of Institution" from the Novus Ordo Missae inserted).
With promise of prayer... Welcome aboard!
Vivificat! in both English and Spanish: http://vivificat1.blogspot.com/
National Black Catholic Congress
http://www.nbccongress.org/
Courage - ministry to those with same sex attraction
http://couragerc.net/
Thousands of others.
Peace,
Penny
Fr. Steel,
I wish you well crossing the Tiber. Rome is a wonderful place and don't make the same mistake I made, that is, stay away from the chanceries and seminaries. Anyway, you will love the Church and you and your family are blessed.
I am, however, crossing the Thames. I was a Roman priest and I am becoming an Anglican. Not the best choice but I feel the Holy Spirit calling me there. Hopefully I will have as many children as you do.
Fr. Steel:
Your news absolutely made my day. Welcome, to both you and your family.
little gal
Bene! Bravo! I'll pray for you all!
Ciao!!
Samuel autem ministrabat ante faciem Domini puer accinctus ephod lineo
Welcome home! While you learn, be a prophet.
Welcome home, Jeffrey, to the Church of Shakespeare and Newman!
Here is the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM
The mysteries of the rosary, and how to pray it:
http://www.vatican.va/special/rosary/documents/misteri_en.html
I blogged on your conversion:
http://romereturn.blogspot.com/2009/06/fr-jeffrey-steel-journey-home-to.html
Here's one more person saying: Welcome!
Although I check some of the meatier blogs once in a while, my favorite blog for Catholic family life is faithandfamilylive.com
Some of the best woman bloggers write there about family life, natural family planning, homemaking etc. Your wife might want to check it out.
God Bless You!!
Welcome!
As for sites, I have a free Catholic mp3 blog -- I just link to free Catholic talks online. I try to keep all the audio orthodox, or at least warn folks if there's questionable stuff.
The site is Sonitus Sanctus, and can be found at http://catholicaudio.blogspot.com.
God Bless,
Ryan
God reward you and yours for your couragous cooperation with his grace, and bless and keep you always!
Good to use for the 'easy buttons' by subject:
http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/
No more treading water !! Swim ! Go man, go ! We'll see you when you get here ! No charge for the towel. :>
Welcome home! I will keep you in my prayers tonight.
I am the Anonymous who accused you of exploitation. I wrote in bitterness and envy, because I have not the courage to follow your example. I apologise, and beg your prayers.
anonymous. No problem. I accept your courageous humility in admitting this. Much love and prayers. May God lead you into his grace.
May God bless and keep you and your family. I will pray for you.
Welcome home! I swam the Tiber ten years ago from the Traditional Anglo-Catholic tradition in the US at age sixty. It was the best decision I ever made; just wish I had done it sooner. May God bless you and your family with many graces.
Laus Deo! For one man to convert is always a miracle, but that you are bringing your wife and all your children (was it six?) as well - that is truly remarkable. May God bless all of you abundantly through the intercession of Our Lady of Walsingham, St. Alban, and St. Augustine of Canterbury.
www.newliturgicalmovement.org is a must on your links page.
You may also wish to link to the Divine Office (Old Rite): www.officiumdivinum.org
This is great news, and I assure you that we (my wife and I) will be praying for you from Nashville, Tennessee. I swam the Tiber a little over a year ago and it has changed my life. I am excited for you. I would give you a link or two but it looks like you already have an abundance.
By the way, my wife and I studied abroad in Scotland last fall and we visited St. Andrews -- it certainly is beautiful.
Some of the sites I really like have already been mentioned in previous comments.
http://bustedhalo.com/ is another good site.
Congratulations Father! My son and I are members of the "2009 Tiber River Swim Team." My Brother is a former US Episcopal priest who swam the Tiber with his family this year too. It was and continues to be the greatest journey of my life.
I was one of the thousands who visited for the first time just to read your announcement. God be with all of you and welcome to the family!
Of all the Catholic blogs I've read, I recommend this one. (The depth of insight is amazing.) http://www.conversiondiary.com/
looking at the list of other recomendations. I'll add:
http://www.zenit.org/index.php?l=english
and here in the states, we find some of the best teachers of our faith are converts, so...
http://www.salvationhistory.com/
Scot Hahn
http://www.catholic-convert.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36
also know as "defender of the faith" Steve Ray
http://www.calledtocommunion.com/
http://www.catholic.com/
(Catholic Answers)
These will lead to anothers. And as many say, in the Catholic house there is always more neat things to discover.
God Bless, MaryLouise
"I am, however, crossing the Thames"
No-one can do better. May the Holy Spirit continue to guide you into all truth, as a Priest of the Church of God.
"The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant"
Welcome home!!!
William @
In Defense of the Children of Light...
Humanae Vitae promotional website:
www.omsoul.com
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
Aaron
Mr. Steel,
If you visit: http://custosfidei.blogspot.com/
I have categorized some of the most proficient and best Catholic blogs and websites in the Catholic blogosphere. Just examine the lefthand column (to many to post here). The righthand column is for Houston area blogs and websites.
Enjoy!
The king of online libraries?
Documenta Catholic Omnia
Migne, Mansi, the Bollandists, ...
Corpus Thomisticum self-explanatory, I think :-)
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