Answered Prayers

I've finally gotten over my shock and am now able to fill you in on what's been going on. Instead of the reaction I feared from dh (WHAT!?!? No way am I going to be Catholic and neither are YOU!) he is actually very open to learning about it. He's reading The Rapture Trap right now, which not only debunks the Rapture theory we held near and dear to our hearts for years, but also has quite a bit of Catholic apologetics on other topics woven into it. He's not typically a reader - a few paragraphs and he's nodding off to sleep - so this is a BIG deal. Also at his bedside he has My Struggle With Faith and The Lamb's Supper. He listened to Scott Hahn's testimony CD and has a great deal of respect for him, so I'm hoping and praying that The Lamb's Supper is his burning bush.

He attended Mass with me a couple of weeks ago and, being his first time in a liturgical church, was more worried about not knowing what to do next. I told him that the only reason the kids and I knew what to do when was because we'd been there for a few weeks and there is a definite learning curve! CS Lewis says something in Letters To Malcolm that really speaks to this:

Every service is a structure of acts through which we receive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do things best -- if you like it, "works" best -- when, through long familiarity, we don't have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

He's at a point now where he doesn't think the Pope is the Anti-christ but is still not entirely convinced that Rome is the only way to go. For me, I cannot in good conscience go to any church with the intention of becoming a member unless it's a Catholic Church. He said, "Well, that narrows down the choices for us, doesn't it?" Yup, sure does, and isn't that much better than trying 100 Protestant churches first and finding one that "fits" us? I sure think so.