Introducing...

Greetings. This is the first post of what I intend to be a chronicle of a project which I'm calling My Catholic Year. Ideally feedback from you will help me along the way but what I plan to do during 2014 is to live as a Catholic. The intention is to live as one of them. Specifically I will:

• Fully submit to their authority
• Join their RCIA
• Pray their prayers
• Attend their Mass
• Study their Missal
• Learn their liturgies (Latin, Novus Ordo and whatever else is available in my area)
• Read and understand their catechism
• Converse with their priests
• Partake of their sacraments (those I'm eligible for anyway)

What caused this? That's a bit of a long story (which is a polite way of saying I'll deal with the full story some other time) but the short version is that after about a year in the Anglican Church of North America, I have become intrigued by the Catholic Church to the extent that I am quite convinced by many of their doctrines.

However, this is not a decision to be made lightly so I intend to spend the upcoming year living the faith as the Church intends it to be lived. No shortcuts, no excuses, no apologies, no regrets.

If you have any thoughts you wish to share, feel free. But understand that ultimately your opinion is worth less than nothing to me. If one person telling me I'm wrong was enough to change my mind about anything, it would've happened long ago. If I am defying friends and family with My Catholic Year (and I assure you I am), what chance do you think you have of changing my mind because you disapprove?

Otherwise, feel free to join in.