Archive for April 2026

Question: How would you say the Lord led you to Him?

Answer: The answer has varied in my lifetime considerably. I was raised Catholic. And not marginally so, but total immersion in the context of 12 years of Catholic school. Of course, part of our instruction was the constant reminders that there is only one true church, and it’s Roman Catholicism.

Armed with that at a young age, I presumed I was in the right room, and those who were not Catholic were hopelessly lost, or at least unaware of their lack. I lived the life of Holy Obligation – good works, Mary worship, sacraments, and good attendance at all the right times. But was I told to turn to the Bible, with its power, to show me where I went wrong? No. We were told not to read it because we wouldn’t “understand it”. While the understanding part was not necessarily wrong, being told not to read it was certainly the most memorable part.