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30 years 6 months 10 days.

I have now been Catholic for half my life. Every day that passes, I have been Catholic for longer than I was Protestant.
 
Marsha_Adams said:
30 years 6 months 10 days.

I have now been Catholic for half my life. Every day that passes, I have been Catholic for longer than I was Protestant.
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God Bless you! Hey quick question? As a former SDA would you say they convey a strong anti-Catholic sentiment?
 
Nicea325 said:
God Bless you! Hey quick question? As a former SDA would you say they convey a strong anti-Catholic sentiment?
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Is it also welcomed to say when I “left” the CC?

Inofficially I “left” the RCC when I was 16 years old. There my searching started.
8 years later (since Summer 2009) I have become a Baptist. (But only “inofficially”, as the RCC is state controlled in Austria which means that you formally have to defile at the local [county] governement so that you are truly a non-Catholic. Which I haven’t done yet.)
 
I converted in my heart long, long ago…officially the year was 2006.
 
Nicea325 said:
God Bless you! Hey quick question? As a former SDA would you say they convey a strong anti-Catholic sentiment?
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Just because they teach that the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon, the Pope is the anti-Christ (or will be), and Sunday keeping is the mark of the beast, and the Pope change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?

Well, yes, but it’s nothing personal.
 
I still haven’t “officially” converted, but I am fully Catholic in my heart, mind and soul. I will be Catholic in name this Easter Vigil, God willing.

In Christ,
Nevermore
 
I was 13. I would have converted when I was 12, but my dad wouldn’t let me then, so I had to wait a year.
 
I was 52 when I began the search for God in earnest and 55 when I was Confirmed into The One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church.
Before 52 I was a lutheran, a methodist, a jw and, after the jw experience, a complete heathen for 17 years.
I think God took pity on me. :yup:
 
I will be 32 by the time I’ve finished RCIA. However I’ve been attending Mass regularly since Christmas last year 🙂
 
On thursday, it`s three months ago, at the of 38, 11 months and 24 days. In my heart i have been catholic since 12-19-2009 and spent an entire year with RCIA like classes, daily prayers, reading, mass (1-3 times a week) and went through Lent as well (failed parts of it because i was ill).
 
March 28 will be 3 years for me. I was almost 37 when I took the swim.
 
I was 24 when I started RCIA (fall 2006). I turned 25 the week I was confirmed. Th
 
I_Thirst said:
I was 35.
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The short story is that I was a Southern Baptist that converted over twenty-six years ago; I basically had no real spiritual upbringing and was only baptized at the insistence of my parents. I joined the navy at 17 and what I really did was live in a spiritual wasteland of debauchery and carousing until I was 22, that was when I met my wife. Three years later I married that beautiful Catholic lady.

Being a faithful Catholic, she insisted that as a couple and someday as a family, we WILL be going to Church every Sunday and Holy day of obligation. She did not insist that I become a Catholic, but we would be united as a family in the sight of God. She never pressured or prodded me to convert; she just exemplified her faith. And because of her exemplifications I changed my ways and actions in life. Lord knows what she saw in me at the time, I will never know.

While stationed in Sicily, the housing area that we lived in, we would have mass in a grotto during the summers. It was simple, with a stone alter and a few stone benches. It was 20 to 30 degrees cooler than the outside area. A vineyard was a backdrop with the Mediterranean Sea framing it all in. It was in that grotto, much like what the early Christians gathered in, that I decided to convert after. This was about two years after we were married.

As mentioned before, that life in a spiritual wasteland was leading me down the path of damnation and without the intervention of a great and faithful soul, who knows whre I would be now. What greater or nobler way can a woman serve God and let God work through her than to lead a lost soul back to Him and the His Church. We are not perfect, we are sinners as we all are, and we have had our share of problems. However, our desire for God and family unity, always leads us to Him and His Beautiful Catholic faith that we live. Peace of Christ
 
39, but I had converted in my heart before this. It was very strange, Id have to say Catholic Doctrine was infused by the Holy Spirit before I stepped foot into a Church. The Catholic Church confirmed what I knew to be true. And the Catholic Church is True. Peace 🙂
 
I’m now over 60, but I wanted to be a Catholic as a 10-11 year-old (or even younger) back in the late 1950s, after I happened to browse Bishop Fulton Sheen’s wonderful book “This the Mass” in a library and then furtively (as you might imagine as a young protestant boy in those days might have done) visited any Catholic Church I could find, which again overwhelmed me with their beautiful altars, statues and the quiet piety of the many people kneeling (I didn’t realize properly at that point they were often praying on the presence the Blessed Sacrament exposed). I was so overawed by the beauty of the traditional mass and the certainty of Catholics about their faith, but of course in those days as the son of a strong mainstream protestant family it was just a taboo subject even to broach the possibility of converting. To my eternal regret I didn’t follow through with what I knew must be the right path that my heart and mind were telling me, when I was living away from home as a college student. And then, while I continued to be interested in the Catholic Church, one thing and another, not least of which were the radical changes after 1969, I lapsed into nothingness in a religious sense. Only when I rediscovered the traditional mass in the late 1990s (which I invariably only attend) did I take that plunge into the Tiber, converting in 1998. All I can say is don’t let sloth or any other reason delay you one minute in embracing the True Faith - it will be the source of wonderful graces in your life.
 
I was 17, almost a year later, im now discerning the Priesthood

God works in mysterious ways to bring us home (:

Deo Gratias!
 
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