Converts, where do you come from?

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I’m curious to see where converts to the Catholic faith come from spiritually. I converted just over two years ago, and was a Methodist.
 
I wasn’t raised particularly religious. Dad was a non-practicing Lutheran, but we oddly went to Mass when I was little. My mom said that was because her paternal grandmother was Catholic (adult convert) and she went to church with her. I was what I would call a “secular Buddhist”, I wasn’t really practicing, I just tried to put those beliefs in my lifestyle. I became a Catholic Christian, officially, on 31 May 2009.
 
I was raised Lutheran. Wandered for a long time, and converted to Catholicism after reading the Catechism. I was confirmed at the 2013 Easter Vigil.
 
Lutheran, Methodist, unchurched heathen during college, got married, Lutheran, Episcopal, then 12 years ago, home to Rome.
 
EricF said:
Lutheran, Methodist, unchurched heathen during college, got married, Lutheran, Episcopal, then 12 years ago, home to Rome.
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It was 12 years for me also as of July 15th, 2020.
 
The Holy Spirit thumped me on the head one Sunday. Someday I will relate the story again.
 
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@StudentMI, @EricF, @humbleseeker, those all sound good to me.
 
I came from nowhere.

Seriously, when I converted at age 40, I had no concrete belief system.
 
I was baptised Catholic as an infant but raised raised atheist. I dabbled in a little bit of new age/pseudo buddhist stuff in my teens before con/re-verting to Catholicism.
 
Nothing but the Holy Spirit convinced me that Christianity was true. I don’t think anything in this world except God Himself would have convinced me. However once I believed in Christianity it was history and logic that led me to the Catholic Church. And I’ll admit beauty. Beauty (in music, art, doctrine, liturgy, everything) is a very effective tool for evangelisation haha.
 
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I would like to hear your conversion Story one day
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Here’s a little bit of it.
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The day I knew I had to be Catholic Spirituality
The Great Feast of Pentecost I figure today, being Pentecost would be a good day to tell you all about my ‘aha’ moment, or the day I knew I had to be Catholic. I was at a bird festival in Bisbee, a small artsy, mining community in southern Arizona, attempting to sell my art. During the field trips and presentations things would get kind of quiet so I had an opportunity to read a book on Catholicism that a friend had loaned me. Although this book has subsequently been criticized as not being…
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