Catholic and Enjoying It!
A reader writes:
I have been studying Catholicism for four years and almost was confirmed on Pentecost but got cold feet, because I am unbelievably terrified. I was raised Baptist, converted to Anglicanism, and received a Bachelors in Theology last year from a Protestant college. Since work as a theologian with just a Bachelors degree is pretty much nonexistent, I now work as a florist. I’m terrified of telling my boss to change my hours on Sundays so that I can attend Confirmation classes, I’m terrified of telling my Anglican friends, I’m terrified I might be wrong, and I’m terrified of going through with it and having my Anglican husband feel like there’s a great divide between us. I know that part of this sounds silly (“Um, why can’t you tell your boss?”), but it’s a crippling fear that constricts my throat, makes my heart race and makes my palms sweaty. Spiritual warfare? Possibly. As the quintessential coward, I’ve gone to St. Perpetua repeatedly asking for a dose of saintlike bravery. I’m slated to begin Confirmation classes on September 4th and be confirmed on Christ the King Sunday. Please pray I don’t get cold feet….again.
Father, we ask that you would give your servant supernatural peace, light, guidance and courage–the actual graces necessary, both internal and external, to follow where Jesus Christ leads her, confident that you who began a good work in her will carry it through to completion in Christ Jesus. Mother Mary and St. Perpetua, hear our prayers for this woman that her needs will be miraculously supplied as she seeks to obey Jesus Christ. We ask all this through Christ our Lord. Amen!
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