A woman who was without God tells how her grandmother's prayers and Our Lady of Guadalupe saved her

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I believe in the power of prayer.
And I believe in praying the Rosary as often as possible.
 
Just because your spouse won’t go to church is no reason for you yourself not to go.

If spouse has a problem with that, then it’s a red flag because s/he will probably have a problem with you going other places you want to go as well.
 
My spouse is non catholic Christian. He sometimes comes to mass with me and very occasionally goes without me. I am worried that he won’t want to do RCIA though as he knows how tedious I found it even though I wanted it. Plus, he works nights when the course is on. Fair to say God is working in him
 
I am afraid RCIA is the cross one must bear nowadays if one wants to convert. There was no such thing when my father converted. He just went and had talks with the priest and was done in a couple months.
 
Oh if only eh. Ah wow so you came from a Protestant family background ? Even one of the priests involved in RCIA told me that he feels for us all. All of it is grandmas ‘fault’ for marrying a Protestant pre Vatican 2 ! I feel like I’ve got back with the programme 🙂 I was even received in her old church. That was good.
 
In all seriousness though there must be a loophole as what if you get people who like my other half, works nights ?
 
Ask your priest. It would be just like them to have a special class for night workers that takes place at some time when they can come.

I understand wanting to have some uniform catechesis for converts but if my husband had lived, I don’t know how I would have gotten him to sit through that either. He was the type who if he finally decided to go be Catholic would have wanted the priest to just declare him a Catholic on the spot and then I would have told him whatever he still needed to know. He wouldn’t have wanted to sit through weeks of Building a Relationship with Jesus. To be honest, I wouldn’t want to sit through that either.
 
It took me seven months of weekly commitments. PowerPoints. Being talked at whilst sitting in a hard chair. I started to think look I’m offering this up as I was doing a lot of research. We have a very up front priest who said privately I admire you all, I couldn’t do that. My other half is the same. He said to me ‘ I need to do this my way’ and he does profess himself as a Christian but I just wish it was easier: I tell him about the Eucharist and the Real presence and he says yes but Jesus is everywhere. That’s a hard one. He doesn’t receive tho as he knows that’s not allowed. He honestly has so many less hang ups about all of it than me
 
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…He was the type who if he finally decided to go be Catholic would have wanted the priest to just declare him a Catholic on the spot and then I would have told him whatever he still needed to know.
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That is almost what happened with my husband. We tried various rcia classes. They were all different and a waste of time. My husband found a priest that examined him, asking and answering questions and baptized and comfirmed him in a month’s time. Telling him he should teach Sunday School for all the knowledge he had about the church. My husband’s ministry is restoring fallen away Catholics. He converted via the Eastern Catholic Maronite church.
 
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