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I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

There's good things about going to church.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.