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He has many heartfelt reflections to share. I respect his desire for discretion as well as his courage. He's willing to follow the Lord's call home, and that can't be an easy thing. Of course, what would I know? I'm just another cradle Catholic, womb-to-tomb Roman, right?

Well, that depends.

Baptized baby? Sure. Raised in the Faith? Twelve years of school, first sacraments, grace before dinner, and all that, sure. A life predicated on Jesus Christ and lived through the People of God, the Church? YEAH RIGHT! Try mechanical mike on serious post-modern steroids! I lived the serious neo-pagan style of life. I hadn't met a pleasure I didn't like and try to satisfy. For me then, God was like a cumrudgeonesque santa clause: All I wanted to know was what was he gonna give me, and could he stop with the attitude?

It wasn't easy to turn back to the Faith of my fathers. It was humbling in every sense of the word. And people still don't entirely understand. I mean, I didn't just give myself the nomine dei Espiritu Holy Fool, after all.

It can't be easy for Saintos, either. Still, he struggles to embrace the relationship that he believes God calls him to. He wants to live as a Catholic even before he swims the Tiber. Consider this reflection on praying the Rosary:

Stopping on the Our Fathers we not only name the Mystery but contemplate it by reading a related Scripture, and or view a work of art depicting that scene from the life of Christ, the Holy Mother and the Church. Holding that mental word picture in our minds we move on to say the Hail Marys. The beads in the hand and the words on the lips combined with allowing myself to relax and not punish myself if I flubbed a word or two meant I really was able to think on the elements of the Mystery. Just as that meditation followed the words in time, so to, only recently is a real prayer and devotion forming on the heals of the meditation. It's a process.

How many of us would honestly have attempted to pray the Rosary before becoming Catholic, if we weren't Catholic yet. I'm a cradle and a revert and I hardly pray it!

Pay Saintos a visit. Let's all pray for him, too!