Going Quiet from Blogging for a Time
 I must say that blogging has been a great platform for me to write and explore many of my own thoughts as I journeyed in faith with all the readers. There is very much a part of me that is sad about taking a blogging break because it is a place where friends and fellow Christians gather to discuss theology and living the Christian faith. This blog has been a wonderful resource for making new friends around the world and I have been greatly encouraged by so many of you who read it and express gratitude for it. But I have come to think that the blog needs a retreat for a while as I complete one journey and begin another. There will probably be a day when I appear again but for a while I believe sitting back quietly, reflecting, praying and contemplating being a Catholic is necessary as I come into full communion with the Catholic Church.I will keep the blog up for the links I have on here but I will not be posting anything for the near future. If you have a facebook account you will be able to keep up with parts of my life there as that is how many family members across the pond keep in touch and share photos. Search for me on facebook and I will happily add any readers as a friend. Thank you for being a faithful reader of de cura animarum and continue to remember us in your prayers as we settle into our new Catholic life. I will be spending all my time that I used on blogging to study, pray, write and spiritual growth. All of you will remain in my prayers and we thank you for remembering us. |
posted by Jeffrey Steel at 11:19 PM
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post a commentA Spiritual retreat? I'm going to miss your blog. God bless you and your family.
Will miss your thinking and writing very much.
God bless you and your beautiful family.
That´s a good choice. That way you could get real intimacy with Church and all the treasures you can find in it. Maybe, by being silent in words God can help you be loud in love and giving.
All of your new brothers and sisters are praying for you and your family and thanking God for your conversion and fully understanding of what being in the Church of Christ is about.
We´ll be here waiting for new, or at least i´ll be... July 18th will be a day of joy here and in heaven!
Our Holy Mother Mary is praying with you...
God be with you!
Well done, Jeff. Well done.
I very much look forward to just knowing we dine at the same Table. Same Table, Same Church, Same Lord. One bread, one body.
Pax
Many congratulations for the forthcoming reception into the church. I will be praying for you and your family. I hope you will be back to blogging when you are ready. Your writing is inspiring and of high quality and I see it as a part of your ministry as a Catholic.
Will look you up on facebook.
God bless you.
I am going to miss your blog but your decision is right. Writing as a lay convert myself, I don't think it's a good idea to be received in a blaze of publicity. The act itself is too sacred and you need time to get used to standing on new soil and breathing new air. I am sure the Lord has great plans for all of you.
One last thing. Chesterton said that it took twenty years to make a Catholic of a convert. He only achieved fourteen before he died but he was right. I was received in 1992, seventeen years ago, and have a fuller, deeper, more natural, less self-conscious place in the Church than I did at first, even though I was overjoyed to be part of the Church Christ founded.
In some ways it's a hard path but suddenly the penny drops and you start thinking as a Catholic, praying and worshiping as a Catholic, and come to realize that you are a Catholic rather than a convert. As for the last, part of the cross we converts have to bear is that we will always be seen as converts by cradle Catholics, but that is a small price to pay.
Walk with God, Jeff, and thanks for all you have given in your blog. It made excellent reading. As I wrote before, I am going to miss it and that applies to the rest of your readers. The suspension will leave a palpable gap.
What I forgot to say, and should have said, at the end of my comment is 'Come back when you are ready'.
P Porter: 'tis true, 'tis true. Two decades 'in' and am only getting my sea legs. GKC had it right......again.
Jeffery, I, too, am a convert from Anglicanism to the Roman Catholic Church. I sincerely hope you will resume your blog following your period of conversion. Perhaps the blog can serve as a place of refection for those of us who have made the decision to come home to God's Holy Catholic Church following our years as Anglicans. I have so often wanted to share my thoughts and feelings with others in similar situations as ours. I will now say that my reception and confirmation which took place at Easter Vigil 2008 has been the most wonderful experience of my life. I live in San Diego, California, and I am fortunate to attend mass at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, California's first mission established by Blessed Junipero Serra 240 years ago. I attend mass every day at 7:00 a.m. before heading to work. I continue to be amazed at the graces I have received since becoming a Roman Catholic. God bless you and your family, and may your decision bless you with the spiritual riches the Church provides.
God bless you, father.
As a convert from Anglicanism to Eastern Orthodoxy, I find the same can be said. The Great Mercy is simply too much to reflect on and absorb quickly. No instant gratification here!
May your time away from blogging be fruitful, Father.