Welcome home.
Comedian Rob Schneider converted to Catholicism and posted this yesterday on twitter or X or whatever. God is moving in the world. If people just listen and open their heart, God is speaking.
Schneider wrote:
I want thank ALL of the lovely people for their kind birthday wishes for me today on my 60th birthday.
I am the luckiest man in the world.
I have a wonderful partner in life, my beautiful wife Patricia and three lovely daughters; Elle, Miranda and Madeline.
Today, I am reminded of what Dr. M Scott Peck told me over 30 years ago: At 40, you feel like you can conquer the world and there’s a sense that nothing can stop you.
But at 60 you realize the very real fragility of life and temporariness of it all. A humbling knowledge that there is indeed a time limit for all things and that God’s design though perfect, is precious far beyond its brevity.
Today, I am also reminded of the Hindu story that my friend Bill from Lowell Arkansas told me about a man at his funeral. Looking at the man, “Would this man lying here ask for more riches and Gold from the world? Would this man ask to be more famous and well regarded by others? Would he ask to be taller or look more handsome? No. The only thing this man lying here today would ask for was much simpler…more time.”
If you are reading this now, then you too have time! Use it wisely, use it unwisely too! But USE it. Be IN it. Be aware that you are part of ALL of it and that the separateness you sometimes feel is an illusion. Just as your heart beats without being told, you are as integral to the Sun that fires and the planets that circle it as your heart is a part of you.
For the atheists, God loves you too. The mistake you make is to think the universe is a stupid thing that just bumps into things and expands ignorantly and without reason or intelligence.
And that somehow we human beings, with our intelligence is just some kind of ‘freak’ universal accident.
To you I say this, if there is such a thing as kindness, empathy, compassion and love…it is because you found it in other people. And as my dear friend Norm Macdonald once said, “We are part of this universe, indeed a mere fraction of it, so if we have kindness and love, how much more the universe itself.”
For if we are capable of love, it is because it is endemic to the universe itself.
To quote Alan Watts, “For we didn’t come ‘in’ to the world, we came ‘out’ of it. We are the universe evolving to the point of consciousness, so that the universe, us, can experience existence and life in all it’s wonder and beauty and glorious exuberance.”
Lastly, as I am a new convert to Catholicism, I offer my apology for my lack of Christ’s forgiveness to my fellow man.
I was so angry at the people who shut down schools and indeed the world and who coerced others to do things against their will which hurt many people deeply.
I offer my unconditional forgiveness and amnesty.
For how can I stay mad at the famous singer who would not let others in to his Broadway show unless they had an experiential jab. I will never forget how kind he was to me and my friends when he was the musical guest on SNL.
How can I continue to hold a grudge against the actor who shamed people like me but has been such a great example for other actors to never give up and keep fighting for their dreams.
How can I still be mad at the lovely actress that said she could no longer be friends with people like me who didn’t ‘get’ it, knowing how incredibly kind she is with every child she meets.
I am humbled by the example of my mother Pilar and how she was able to forgive the WW2 occupiers of her Philippines who killed both her brothers.
At last it is forgiveness itself that is the gift that we give ourselves because it frees us as The Christ intends for all of us to be free.
For His gift of ultimate and unlimited forgiveness is indeed the gift for all humanity.
May God bless you and your families now and forever.
With all my “You can do it” love,
Robbie Schneider
November 2, 2023 at 11:32 am
Welcome Home!!
November 2, 2023 at 1:24 pm
God Bless him! I also heard this week that Jordan Peterson’s wife is also entering the Catholic Church. I expect that Jordan himself will follow her footsteps soon. I do consider him a modern day GK Chesterton.
November 2, 2023 at 3:05 pm
Congratulations Robbie Schneider!
Welcome to “The Varsity!”
Our Lady Queen of Victory
pray for us!🙏📿✝️
😎
November 2, 2023 at 4:23 pm
So grateful to our Heavenly Father, beautiful Jesus and Holy Spirit who is spouse to our Momma Mary! Welcome Rob to our fold… it will be a great journey and your guardian angel, assigned to you at your conception is your right hand spirit at ALL times. Come take a retreat at St. Michael’s Abbey and discover the beauty of the Norbertines. Read the Mystical City of God by Sr. Mary Agreda or Servant if Gid Luisa Picaretta’s 38 volumes on Livung the Divine Will or at least the Drop Book on Living the Divine Will (kind of like Cliff Notes). So many treasures to be found in our Hiky Carholic Church. I’m excited for you!!!!
Grace and Peace!🙏🏽✝️😇
November 3, 2023 at 1:20 am
I’m so happy for you, welcome to the church!
November 3, 2023 at 1:22 am
Beautiful! God bless you and thank you! Be well
November 3, 2023 at 8:17 am
Bravissimo Mr. S!