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I am one of those rare persons on this planet to hail from the village of Moonbeam, Ontario. I was 6 years old when my family moved to Welland, which is mostly where I was raised. My passion for music made itself known when I was quite young. My first instrument was accordeon, but what I really wanted to play was the organ. When I was 8, my parents bought me a Wurlitzer organ. Oh joy! When I was tall enough to reach the pedals, I had my first lessons on the Casavant organ at "Sacré-Coeur" Church in Welland with Fr. Roger Rouleau. |
I then opted to pursue music studies at university. This has brought me to Ottawa, where I lived for four years, then Montreal (8 years), back to Welland, Huntsville (Ontario) and now Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa.
I am a cradle catholic, but strayed from the faith in my early twenties. After a car accident in 1993, I thoroughly examined my life. Not finding the meaning of life within myself, I set out to search it. I even said to my mother "If God exists, I'll find him, but I have to look at all the possibilities". Above all, I was seeking the truth. I found the Truth, the Way and the Life in Jesus-Christ, and in 1996, was converted.
For a number of years, I lived out my faith in total ecclesiological relativism. That is, I believed that all christian denominations were equivalent, and that I could change back and forth from one to another without a problem. I mostly stuck to the Anglican and the Catholic churches. As my faith deepened, and my knowledge of church history grew, I was confronted to an inescapable problem: was Jesus parying in vain, when at the Last Supper, He prayed for the unity of His disciples, and of His Church? During that time, Pope John-Paul II passed away and Benedict XVI succeeded him. When I heard the words "Habemus Papam", I understood these words of Jesus to Peter:
"And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Mt. 16.18) I couldn't run back to the Catholic Church fast enough...
You'll find some of my ramblings about things catholic on my blog. Check it out!
Here is my profession of faith.
