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I was thinking about this thread a lot on my drive home from work and realized something...
While I enjoy these discussions because I think it's important for each of us to reflect on our belief systems anyway, I think we're trying to debate logically something that isn't based in logic at all. Faith is not logical. Faith is emotive, intuitive, individual and personal. When I think about why I chose the Catholic church over other denominations (because I did a lot of research and visiting of other denominations), I realized that it was mainly because of how I felt in the Catholic church.
It was sort of like we tell women who are going through recruitment that you get a feeling that it's right. Or when you buy a house and you walk into the right one and it just feels like home. That's how the Catholic church is for me. I can probably come up with a lot of logical reasons on why I felt that way, but the reality is, it felt right. The Sacrament of Eucharist is so special to me and makes me feel so close to the Lord that I have never found anything else that makes me feel the same way. That said, if I really analyzed it, maybe it makes me feel that way because I grew up with a big Italian extended family all of whom were Catholic (except me) and went to church often for mass, weddings, funerals, etc. I was always envious that they got to go up for Communion. We used to play "church" and smash pieces of bread and take Communion when we were kids. All my friends were Catholic because I lived in a large Italian/Polish community. There was a Catholic church every square mile. I always felt left out because my friends went to Catechism and had First Communion parties. Is my special feeling that I get when I take the Eucharist all due to those circumstances? It might be, from a logical view point, but from a view point of FAITH, those aren't the reasons. The reason is that I feel the Holy Spirit at that time. I am deeply emotionally moved by the act of taking Communion.
The bottom line is, it's about Faith, which isn't logical.
Dee
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