-- LYNN NORDHAGEN former ex-Catholic Presbyterian LEAVING THE CHURCH THE FIRST TIME LEAVING THE SECOND TIME SURPRISED BY TRUTH HOME AGAIN On January 24, 1997, the feast of St. Francis de Sales, I was received back into the arms of the Holy Catholic Church. Since I had made a profession of faith in the Presbyterian Church, I now made a renewed profession of faith in all that the Catholic Church teaches. For this I chose to read the profession of the Council of Trent, because it spoke the truth concerning specific errors I had embraced. Then I received the sacraments of Penance, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist. I wrote to my friends in the Coming Home Network International: "What can I say? It's all beyond words somehow. I feel plunged anew into sacramental graces. Drenched! "Penance, Confirmation, and Holy Communion -- all within the hour, and then a peaceful prayer time alone with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Visible, audible, touchable! "'That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of life' (1 Jn 1:1).
