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CountryMom27
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Oops - I guess I shouldn’t have voted then. I’m the one who converted - DH was raised Catholic.
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lotusblossom
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Both cradle Catholics whose fathers coverted. 
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Ailina
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He was a cradle Catholic, went to Catholic schools, but none of the morals or teachings made any impression, unfortunately.
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Teakafrog
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Well there’s the problem!
I was the (quite unexpected) convert, he was the revert.
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wanner47
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My spouse and I were both baptized and raised Lutheran, and we were married in a Lutheran church. He started RCIA a few years after our marriage after having long theological conversations with his best friend, and I (reluctantly) went with him. We were both received into the Church in May 2003.
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rpp
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My former spouse is an agnostic/atheist. When we got married, I too was an atheist.
After my conversion, she divorced me saying she could not “share the air with a Christian.” She was the classic, pro-diversity liberal, as her reaction demonstrated.
I was granted an annulment earlier this year.
In the (unlikely?) event that I were to ever get married, I would only marry a faithful catholic. Convert, revert, never fell away I do not care. The only things that are an absolute must is that she be a woman (I am a man), be faithful to all the Church teaches and be free to marry.
Oh, she should also be old enough to marry as well.
After my conversion, she divorced me saying she could not “share the air with a Christian.” She was the classic, pro-diversity liberal, as her reaction demonstrated.
I was granted an annulment earlier this year.
In the (unlikely?) event that I were to ever get married, I would only marry a faithful catholic. Convert, revert, never fell away I do not care. The only things that are an absolute must is that she be a woman (I am a man), be faithful to all the Church teaches and be free to marry.
Oh, she should also be old enough to marry as well.
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Erich
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I’m a cradle Catholic. My wife is a cradle Lutheran who became a member of the Tiber Swim Team Class of 2007 after over 20 years of marriage (and 11+ years of singing in the choir).
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armywife
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My dh isn’t Catholic yet, but is going to RCIA this fall so I checked the converted after marriage.
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jwashu
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My wife and I both became Catholic together this Easter. While her GF is a Baptist minister she was never Baptized and even myself nor our former Presbyterian minister for 20 years realized it.
Thus she was Baptized at the Easter Vigil and I Professed and we were both Confirmed. It was one of the greatest nights of our life… her description was “perfect”
I posted all that because I didn’t see an option for “we converted together”
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Thus she was Baptized at the Easter Vigil and I Professed and we were both Confirmed. It was one of the greatest nights of our life… her description was “perfect”
I posted all that because I didn’t see an option for “we converted together”
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Anne1964
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I’m a revert. My husband is Jewish.
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BlestOne
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My dear husband started attending mass with us very soon after we started dating. I never told him that in my heart I knew I could never marry a non-Catholic after what I went through with my ex. I didn’t want him to think he HAD to convert for us to get married. But anyway… about 2 months after he started going to mass with us I found him reading an Idiot’s guide to Catholicism and also reading Aquinas…
About a year later he signed up for RCIA and went to classes. Later I asked him when he made the decision to become Catholic. It was at a healing mass that we went to. He saw how many were truly moved by the prayers and the mass. He saw people with hope in their eyes and hearts go up for the blessing. I guess that convinced him… anyway… about 6 months after he was received into the church he proposed.
About a year later he signed up for RCIA and went to classes. Later I asked him when he made the decision to become Catholic. It was at a healing mass that we went to. He saw how many were truly moved by the prayers and the mass. He saw people with hope in their eyes and hearts go up for the blessing. I guess that convinced him… anyway… about 6 months after he was received into the church he proposed.
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jwashu
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What a beautiful story! Amen!
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Beautiful
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I’m a cradle.
I’m praying my spouse will convert someday.
I’m praying my spouse will convert someday.
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BlestOne
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Thank you… he is a wonderful husband… I am truly Blest!
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Cattitude
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Same here.
I was away from the Church at the time we married, and reverted about 2 years ago. DH is really having a tough time with it, as he is not religious at all. So, I pray and leave it up to God.
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PatienceAndLove
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We should start a club or something…
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monicatholic
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i’m, a revert married to a convert. he converted about 6 years into our marriage. (i was already home.) i didn’t argue or cajole. it was very much between God and him.
how cool is that?
how cool is that?
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BamaRider
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My wife converted after we started dating. Her deceison did influence my asking her to marry me.
I was 20, she was 19, when we met, she was a devout Southern Baptist. We both knew the relationship was turning serious when I took her to Midnight Mass after dating a few months. It moved her so much, she began attending Mass with me every weekend. I also accompanied her and her family to 1st Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir. I only did it to be nice, I *knew *I could never be anything but Catholic.
In a couple of months we stopped attending the Baptist Service altogether and just went to Mass. It was then she told me she wanted to convert,and she was quick to add only a portion was due to her love for me. She wanted to be Catholic, and if I left the next day, wasn’t going to make a difference. She knew where she wanted to be.
And the rest ya know.
I was 20, she was 19, when we met, she was a devout Southern Baptist. We both knew the relationship was turning serious when I took her to Midnight Mass after dating a few months. It moved her so much, she began attending Mass with me every weekend. I also accompanied her and her family to 1st Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir. I only did it to be nice, I *knew *I could never be anything but Catholic.
In a couple of months we stopped attending the Baptist Service altogether and just went to Mass. It was then she told me she wanted to convert,and she was quick to add only a portion was due to her love for me. She wanted to be Catholic, and if I left the next day, wasn’t going to make a difference. She knew where she wanted to be.
And the rest ya know.
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thenewmrssears
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I’m a cradle Catholic. Nathan is ECLA Lutheran.
Honestly, I don’t care if he converts
He is a good Christian man who has always been supportive of my faith and has promised to raise children in a Catholic home.
I don’t think he’ll ever convert. He takes issue to the “whole Pope thing” and the “Mary obsession” as he refers to them.
Despite how ignorant those things sound (luckily he’s being slightly funny when he says it), he does attend Why Catholic? in the ATL Archdiocese and really likes a lot about the Catholic Church.
He is also really religious, and I believe he has so much love for his faith that he’ll never leave…as much as he says he prefers the “formality” of the Catholic Mass to the “crazy” Lutheran service.
I love him just the way he is…Catholic or not. We see eye to eye on most things, because he is a pretty conservative Lutheran.
Honestly, I don’t care if he converts
He is a good Christian man who has always been supportive of my faith and has promised to raise children in a Catholic home.I don’t think he’ll ever convert. He takes issue to the “whole Pope thing” and the “Mary obsession” as he refers to them.
Despite how ignorant those things sound (luckily he’s being slightly funny when he says it), he does attend Why Catholic? in the ATL Archdiocese and really likes a lot about the Catholic Church.He is also really religious, and I believe he has so much love for his faith that he’ll never leave…as much as he says he prefers the “formality” of the Catholic Mass to the “crazy” Lutheran service.
I love him just the way he is…Catholic or not. We see eye to eye on most things, because he is a pretty conservative Lutheran.
My husband wasn’t Catholic (he was baptized Lutheran but his family did not consider themselves tied to a particular denomination) when we got married and he really didn’t have any intention of converting.
But it bothered him quite a lot that he couldn’t receive communion. Then he started talking to the Lutheran minister who was the previous owner of our house and he learned that Lutherans believe in "the Real Presence (even if Catholics know they don’t actually have it). He decided if Lutherans could believe in the Real Presence then why not join a Church that believed in transubstantiation. So he joined RCIA and was received into the Church.
But it bothered him quite a lot that he couldn’t receive communion. Then he started talking to the Lutheran minister who was the previous owner of our house and he learned that Lutherans believe in "the Real Presence (even if Catholics know they don’t actually have it). He decided if Lutherans could believe in the Real Presence then why not join a Church that believed in transubstantiation. So he joined RCIA and was received into the Church.
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