I'm a convert from Protestantism and

[Dtmccameron]

… tell me how sick Martin Luther was (thank you, I know, and growing up I wanted to be catholic but I did not have that option in my home)

and that I’ll never really know how to be catholic like them or a real catholic.

Huh. How very…Un-Christian of them.

I am just paranoid now that my upbringing leaves me too rebellious or Protestant to know how to be a good community member.

Protestants have much better community life, from what I’ve seen. A large part of their appeal.

Then cradle Catholics tell me they don’t like converts because they are too intense.

“Geeze, Paul! Would you just chillax?!?”

I guess I’m also nervous because there aren’t nearly as many Protestant convert saints as cradle saints.

Hmm…maybe not. But quite a few hardened-sinners to Catholic, and some pagan-to-Catholic saints, and they’re all quite vigorous and faithful and true (as befits saints.)

I feel like they think God prefers them and they were born into the church because God thinks they are specialer than me.

I can’t speak to their thinking.

I’m confused.

It happens. Just pray, and, “Don’t say, ‘This person annoys me.’ Say, ‘This person sanctifies me.’” - St. Josemaria Escriva