Are you a cradle catholic, convert, or revert?

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I’m presently mired in a similar matter; engaging in a number of discussions about a few lingering (re: troubling) queries pertaining to authority and doctrinal development East v. West.

And yes, you cannot underestimate domestic tranquility!
 
I’m a cradle catholic, although with different forms of observance through different stages of my life.
 
Catholic convert from “secular Buddhism”. Lutheran father, non baptized mother, who’s father came from a mixed Presbyterian/Catholic family, and a Baptist mother. Thanks for asking!
 
I was baptized 28 days after I was born so I’ve been a Catholic practically my whole life.
 
Convert. Got the call out of the blue in 2002 and got confirmed at the Easter Vigil in 2003.
 
I am a cradle Catholic. I tell people that I was born to be a Catholic. My Dad tells me that when I was a newborn, I cried a lot (I was born two months early). My Dad would take me to Mass with him. I would cry in the car on the way there, but he said that the very second we would enter the Church, I would stop crying. He said that once the priest came out for Mass, I would watch him intently and I would be as quiet as a little mouse. He says that it is as though I understood that I was in God’s presence and that I completely knew what was going on. He said that it freaked him out for years, and when we would leave at the end of Mass, the second we were out the door, I would cry once again. Never in Church. So, I was definitely born to be a Catholic!
 
I am sorry you are so angry, but why be angry with God? God doesn’t change, WE DO. God is LOVE. We are human, with human frailties. God doesn’t make bad things happen, we do. We have to do the changing, never God. To God, we are perfectly imperfect! God loves us as we are, broken, mad, sad, happy, peaceful…You name it! Please, go to God in prayer, pour your heart out, get mad if you have to. We are faulty but God is always there, always waiting for us to come to Him. Please look at and ponder the picture of Jesus standing outside a door. Notice there is no handle! God is there, waiting for us to open that door to our hearts with open arms. We are the ones who control it. Man is flawed, God, God is the Holy and Omnipotent Trinity! (Sorry, I am a religious education teacher, I don’t mean to preach, but I feel God is asking me to try and help you!) God’s Peace to YOU!
 
Convert
Was raised a Southern Baptist, converted in 2018 to Catholic and received all the sacraments…couldn’t be happier.
 
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Then you disagree with Jesus. Here is the verse I was speaking of.

Matthew 18:21-22 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?”

22 Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times."
 
Cradle, stopped attending in graduate school. Went Episcopal because they were like Catholic but a bit more reverent as I recollected from my childhood and was formally received into church. Left after they decided actively gay bishop rather than chaste was ok and the Bible says nope to those acts. Tried protestant husband’s church, see Epis then back to Catholic and then…
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REVERT 🎆🎇🎊 ten years ago.
with the kids in tow (and protestant church-less husband, on Christmas and Easter)
 
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I’m a convert and a bit of a revert as well. I came into the Church during the Easter Vigil in 2017. I had a falling out with some higher ups in the parish and felt very rejected by the Church. I stopped going to Mass in November 2017, for quite a while I didn’t have any relationship with God. I dabbled a bit in wicca/paganism for a few months before I had a powerful reversion experience. That was just in December of 2018. I have been back at Mass and praying regularly for just a bit of time and I have never felt so at peace. My faith is so much stronger now than when I first converted.
 
Reader’s Digest condensed edition. No religious upbringing at all. Met and married Catholic woman, who then mercilessly and incessantly lamented my lack of baptism. Was a sort of vague believer. 1985, went to Lourdes, as DW wanted to visit. At her insistence, crossed myself with water from the grotto and began crying. One week later, “accidentally” received Pope Saint John Paul II’s apostolic blessing in a crowd at Genoa. In RCIA the following year. Triple crown (immersion baptism, confirmation, Eucharist) in April, '87. Lukewarm until I submitted to the baptism in the Holy Spirit (NOT s Sacrament). Faith was lit on fire. Minor miracles before the Blessed Sacrament. Fast forward to 2008. Cancer. Lots of cancer. Stage IV, 50+ tumors. Poor prognosis. Remission, immediate relapse took me to “extremely poor.” Lots of prayers here at CAF. Remission again, but second relapse. Mutation into two aggressive non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas (PTCL-NOS, AITL). Stage IV again - two dozen tumors plus marrow cancer/leukemia precursor (MDS) simultaneously. Stem cell transplant. Given 99.5% chance of expiring along the way. Now cancer free.

Lourdes. Saint Bernadette - the patroness of bodily illness. What did she know in 1985?
 
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Cradle, lapsed somewhere in the 90’s, started reverting around 2012 or so and completely in the fall of 2014.
 
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