The greatest obstacle is denominational pride. You have catholics claiming that only they can be the one true church, and protestants who say that the catholic church is corrupt and degenerated.
It's ugly actually. You can find really reasoned and otherwise humble catholics who suddenly claim that any unity in the Body of Christ can only come with catholic lead. And you have sincere, faithful lutherans who claim that catholics don't know a thing about the bible.
I don't envy Jesus. He comes to us and gives us love, but it is as if we loathe Him by our actions.
Co-signed. I'm currently in a long term relationship with a Coptic Orthodox guy (I'm Catholic) and we've discussed this subject at length and on numerous occasions. While we're not married nor have any children, both of us know that if it does happen, we want to raise any family we might have in the church - which specific church will be decided when the time comes. We're also pretty pleased that if we do happen to get married, we won't have to worry about splitting holidays between families, except for every 4 years or so when Orthodox Pascha and Easter fall on the same day ;)
Funny, how things shake out. I also have a Catholic mother and had a nominally Lutheran father. But mine made a different choice-- mine chose to pick neither (although she at least had me baptized Catholic), not attend church of any kind, and give me the choice between them when I became an adult. I shocked them, I think, when I chose Paganism instead. I shocked my mother even more when in the last two years I've told her that I truly, deeply wish she'd taken me to church and given me a Catholic upbringing. Religion of any kind sits kind of weirdly on me because I wasn't trained to it, but more than that, I don't know my own culture. I'm Irish and Polish on her side-- it's not a trivial thing, Northeastern working-class Irish- and Polish-American Catholicism. And yet I'm a stranger to it. Not completely, there are echoes that were preserved, but since they are only echoes I don't know what they *mean*. I can't tell you how many times I've seen Irish-American Catholics on TV and ended up with this incredible *yearning*. This.... "this
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I think it partially depends on how you both perceive the denominational divide, you know? And it depends on where you place importance in your faith and how divergent your theologies are. As a Catholic, the Church marries and blesses people of different denominations so the concept isn't problematic provided a few things
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My mom is Protestant and my dad is Catholic, and they have been married for 32 years. They made it work because they are both pretty open minded and don't see their particular type of Christianity as being the only way. Me and my brother went to activities/worship services at both churches, and it seemed to work out okay. We often didn't all go to the same church on Sunday, but no one was really bothered by it.
My story is very similar to this. I wouldn't worry about it too much; the question is whether you are both dedicated to following Christ actively, not so much which denomination you identify with. xo
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The greatest obstacle is denominational pride. You have catholics claiming that only they can be the one true church, and protestants who say that the catholic church is corrupt and degenerated.
It's ugly actually. You can find really reasoned and otherwise humble catholics who suddenly claim that any unity in the Body of Christ can only come with catholic lead. And you have sincere, faithful lutherans who claim that catholics don't know a thing about the bible.
I don't envy Jesus. He comes to us and gives us love, but it is as if we loathe Him by our actions.
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