A catholic who's grateful for protestant parents

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I was just thinking today about my family situation and how it was so nerve wrecking for me to tell my parents (mostly my mom) I was joining the Catholic church. I would overall say my mom has been supportive but had and still has questions, concerns, and anger at the Catholic faith for things that happened years ago.

Anyways I remember when I was in RCIA and talked about how it was tough for me to be the only person in my immediate family who will be Catholic and how I would get angry. One of the volunteers made a great point of saying that I should thank them for raising me in the Christian faith and acknowledge and appreciate them for doing that. I thought that was such a beautiful way of looking at the situation. Every time differences come up I try to remember how grateful I am to my parents for raising me to know and love Jesus so that I could have some foundation when it was time for me to explore on my own.

I know other posters out there are dealing with family members who are frustrating due to their unhappiness because you converted to Catholicism. Hopefully this is something that may help you too.

God Bless!
 
I am grateful that I had good role models in the faith as I was growing up. If it wasn’t for them then I don’t know if I would’ve been open to the Catholic faith, even as it was it took me several years to overcome many of the barriers I had erected in my own mind between the Catholic faith and myself.

How much harder would it have been if I’d come from an unbelieving background.

Like you I am the only Catholic member of my family.

ChadS
 
Chiming in with a “me too!” My parents were great examples of living the Christian faith, from 2 different angles. My mother was a life-long Christian who constantly studied & grew in her faith, my father was an agnostic until his (apparently) sudden conversion when I was a teenager. He completely turned his life around.

We’ve often said that had my parents lived longer, they might have become Catholic. Husband & mom loved to talk theology & she was creeping closer to Catholicism all the time. In his last years my dad - who had been raised anti-Catholic - had a small crucifix pinned to his desk. I have no idea where that came from - it looked like it was from a rosary.
 
I was raised Protestant, too, although one of my parents is Roman Catholic.

They helped give me a good foundation with going to church every Sunday, Sunday school, etc.
 
I had great “Scripture lessons” at non-Catholic schools up to age 13, to keep my imagination fired.
 
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