When did you decide to be a Catholic?

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Shortly after Easter 2016, after being a life-long Baptist, at the age of 61.
 
During Lent this year is when it really hit me that this is the true Church and true faith. I had been atheist for almost a decade prior to that.
 
It was more of a rollercoaster experiance to become Catholic… It took JESUS, The Holy Spirit, Mother Mary, my Guardian Angel, Mary Magdalene, and who knows who else to get through to me!
 
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Anyway, I was a cradle Catholic. Mothers family was Catholic. Husband is Irish Catholic. He’s taking a sabbatical w the scandals.

I was a very Holy child. I’ll spare you my innocent stories. I researched religion, faith as I got older. KNOW THERE IS A GOD. Agree Catholicism is first church. There is a beauty in the dogmas of our faith. The Eucharist is true! No other denomination has it, as we do.
I am a Catholic.
It’s a wonderful journey.
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I decided to become Catholic when I found out about the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
 
I came into communion with the Catholic Church, though imperfectly, at my baptism in December of 1961. I didn’t realize this until began n my official inquiry in the Catholic Church. It was then I had to ask my mum if I had been baptized. “Of course!”, she said. She couldn’t remember the name of the Methodist church where it occurred, but she could remember the name of the Catholic church up the street. 🙂

I still wonder what it was like, me looking up into that minister’s face. I’m grateful for what he or she did for me. Even though my parents had me baptized, I wasn’t raised in the Christian faith, thus I suffered most of my life with what I call a ‘holy longing’. I wanted to belong to Christianity, but from the outside looking in, it’s just a mess.

At any rate, I decided to become Catholic about 16 years ago to the day, but as you realize, my OP is more about the Benedictine vow of continued daily conversion than it is about that day 16 years ago.

I’ve ;been muddling along with my faith for the last couple of years. I suppose it was due to the transition going on at my parish with Father F becoming ill and my disconnect with the liturgies of our guest pastor. My new pastor has me fired up again, and as I left mass this morning I had a fond remembrance of the first years as a Catholic at this parish.

Our new pastor really puts that emphasis on who are going to be… today. Once again, this morning I decided to be a Catholic.

Thanks for your post, I wish I could have given it extra likes!😀
 
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Thanks for your post, I wish I could have given it extra likes!😀
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That’s no problem @tad . I’ll put up with the solitary one . 😃

So have I read it correctly ? 30th August is a special anniversary .

Congratulations !!! 👏👏👏
 
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I don’t know the exact date, but sometime in July I gave it all up for Jesus and sometime in August I was at that bird festival and met that evangelist who lived in the red bus that I’ve talked about. That day is when I decided for the first time to be Catholic. I could probably find the exact date if I wanted to. This is just a giddy time of year for me with memories of my conversion and RCIA starting up in parish’s all over the world.
 
Easter Sunday 2017, during the worship service at my old E.V. Free Church, with the strobe lights and the ear-splitting music, I made the decision to become a Catholic. 😆

I was determined that I would never again suffer through their Easter worship service when the Catholic Church was where I really wanted to be on Easter Sunday and every Sunday.

I couldn’t hide how I felt any longer and continue attending that church…I had to be honest that my feelings about Catholicism had turned 180° around.

So that was my last service with them…it’s been Mass ever since for me. Hallelujah!
 
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