A bit of a rant. My apologies.
I started the RCIA process in September 2008. This Easter, I will be confirmed and receive first communion. I always believed in God, but it wasn't until a rough patch of life that I decided I wanted to deepen my faith. I went to several different churches, and decided I loved the Catholic church the most. I felt at home and at peace. So I signed up and started going through the process.
It will be 1.5 years when I am finally finished. I love the faith, and certainly would not want to be anywhere else, but it's SO LONG! At this point, the process is causing me more stress than good. The Sister that does the process is adament that we never miss a class or a Sunday mass. I have a hard time with this, not because I'm lazy on the weekends, far from it. My FI and I are the only ones in both our families that live in Calgary. Everyone else lives 3 hours away in Edmonton, his parents live another 3 hours north of that.
I feel like she doesn't quite understand how important our famlies are to us and that we make every effort to be with them during important events. I always get the "you really should be coming every week" or "oh that's really too bad you have to miss another Sunday"
I'm so frustrated and want the whole thing to just be done. Not only am I stressed about the whole thing because it limits my life drastically, but because I feel like I'm not doing good enough for her and she might say I haven't fully committed myself and therefore shouldn't be confirmed. I know for a fact that my attendance is up there with the rest of them, and certainly not the worst in our group.
I'm tired, stressed and want it all to be done. Only 17 more weeks....