Converted Catholics?

Question

I am going to do the RCIA course soon and then study to become a Priest, I have just found out I was adopted but before the adoption I was baptised a Catholic, I received all the information and because I live over 100 kms away from the nearest Catholic Church I will drive there once a month and the Priest will visit me the other fortnight, I feel this is what God wants me to do and He is preparing me for the Priesthood

When and why did you convert to Catholicism, and how long did it take you?

Worshipping God is more important than sex

Answer 1

Ken, congratulations on beginning your journey! How lovely that the priest is working things out for you.

My husband and I started RCIA in Sept. 2002 and were received into the Church at Easter in April 2003.

We converted to the Catholic faith primarily because of the Sacraments, which we believe Jesus established and which were not available to us as protestants. Also, we grew to understand and believe in apostolic succession and the communion of saints. We've been very happy to be Catholic, and I find that my spiritual formation has improved immensely -- sins I couldn't beat when I was protestant, I now have victory over.

May God bless you & thank you for your willingness to discern a potential calling to the priesthood.

Answer 2

I went through RCIA in 94.

But I knew much earlier that I wanted to become Catholic, I just didnt know how to go about it.

I started the RCIA program in August, and the Easter of 95 I was accepted into the church as a member.

Why did I convert? For alot of different reasons, the main one would be Mary. And the second one would be, I liked the fact that you could walk into any Catholic church in the world, and the mass would be the same. The language might be different, but the heart of the mass would be the same. And I also loved the idea, that the Catholic church has a rule system and an order, that other churches don't have. In the Catholic church, there is always somone higher up the chain of command.

hope this helps you, and good luck with RCIA. I hope you find what you are looking for.

Answer 3

Welcome home Ken :-)

I'm not actually a convert, but someone who grew up Catholic as a youth, then fell away from the Church and didn't practice the faith throughout most of my 20's & 30's. After looking around and seeking, I ended up coming back to where I started, and in the process have a much greater knowledge and appreciation of my faith than I ever had when I was younger.....

Answer 4

I reverted, and was able to skip the RCIA. I had taken a 'Catholics Returning Home' 6 week series, but I think that during my discussion with my pastoral associate, it was obvious I was enmeshed in Catholicism already. (I had stopped attending before getting confirmed in my youth.)

I did have to wait to be confirmed. Although most RCIA people came in at Easter, I was confirmed in late May by the Bishop at our Cathredal. There were a handful of people from many parishes there, so it is possible this is a certain practice in my diocese.

Since you have a completely different scenario, it would be up to your Priest, probably in consultation with your Bishop.

Best of luck to you, and WELCOME HOME!

Answer 5

while i never really converted, i do say (living in the south) i was "born again". while thats not a term we Catholic generally use.... it does fit. I was raised and taught in the manners of the Rcc. I turned away and slammed the door and became a hypocrite in my faith. It's a true blessing that God never left my side. when i moved to the south/bible blet, i was constantly asked - why do you catholic believe this or you don't believe in that.... i started learning. then, one evening, a friend who was about 4 years younger and a baptist asked me to pray for her -- eewwww, that's what "old people did". well i went inside (we'd been out in the yard) and immediately felt draw to pray - it was wonderful. i then started studying mroe and more and learning scriptures. the curches down here are filled with amazing people AND priests. i truly enjoy going to mass. I will pray that you continue to grow in your love of the Lord and share it with people.
you're right on the sex issue. while i'm not a priest, i'm a single female who CHOOSES not to have sex until marriage..... if it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't. my faith has grown since making that decision!

stay strong!
YSIC (your sister in Christ)

Answer 6

I admire your desire to convert to the true Church, and also your call to the priesthood. I have several good firends who are priests.

I should tell you up front, though that neophytes ( new converts) are not allowed to immediately pursue the ordained or religious life.

You ned to wait for the 'honeymoon' to be over- the initial high- before you can make such a commitment.

Having said that, I hope you will be at the altar one day- but not for at least 10 years....I'd want you to be there for life!

Answer 7

Hi Ken, I grew up protestant, my grandfather was a united methodist minister. In high school I stayed in with whatever church had the most happening youth group. My first taste of Catholicism was negative as one of my pastors was formerly Roman Catholic. The holy spirit put that upon me as I made up my mind on Catholics based on his experience, the bashing that went on inside the protestant churches ( via the term Protest) and books I read. I converted nearly 10 yrs later and it took me 2 yrs to join. It was an amazing experience. People leave their faith because they did'nt know it to begin with and that is with any faith, but especially ours because of poor catechesis and parents aren't doing their job at home teaching their children about their faith. Our catechism teaches clearly that "ignorance in scripture is ignorance in Christ". My most important reason is the Eucharist. The literal body blood soul and divinity that Christ gave us to partake in and not as a symbolic gesture. The Holy Spirit blesses us each time we partake of it. Catholicism is common sense. The bible didn't come around till 400 yrs later but the apostles still remained and taught by oral tradition and Jesus was a jewish man who taught from then the Jewish bible or Torah. Catholicism is Judao Christianity and it is amazing to fit old testament into new and vice versa. REad John chapter 4, when he speaks about having food to eat (symbolically) then go to John 6 especially John 6:66 (literally speaking) when the people couldn't take the reality of Christs teaching on the Eucharist and they left him. HE didn't say " wait guys this isn't what I meant, he maintained the truth of his teaching. Our church is good about closing the doors and limiting people coming in as the prostestant churches are so eager to love people. But we can change it little by little and especially those who convert. God chose this as my journey of faith and hopefully yours too so go out there and make a difference! San Juan Catholic Seminars .com in Farmington NM is an excellent place for the truth of the faith. I am now the religious education director of our parish.

Answer 8

i grew to become into baptized Church of england... raised Lutheran.. and someway consistently theory that each and everyone Christians have been Catholic. i grew to become into in no way raised with any hatred or ill will for the different Christian denominations. i presumed the variations have been straightforward aesthetics. notwithstanding my faith grew to become into in no way that solid. I consistently believed that there grew to become right into a God... tried to do what grew to become into suitable... yet different than that, for the 1st 30 years of my existence I often embraced the international and went alongside with the pass. basically interior the previous 12 months have I come to the be attentive to-how of ways horribly incorrect issues have long gone. How diverse the instructions have been, How divided we've become, no longer basically as Christians, yet as fellow human beings. I even have researched fervently with regard to the roots of my faith and have come to the tip that the Roman Catholic Church is what she claims to be. The Fullness of fact in regard to the Christian faith. it particularly is the Church that Christ outfitted... the bride that he died for. Saint Paul himself writes in a million Cor a million; 10 "i urge you brothers and sisters, interior the call of our Lord Jesus Christ, that each and everyone of you compromise in what you assert and that there be no divisions between you." If Christians are the physique of Christ, then tell me... how can that physique help Heal the international if that individual same physique is pulling in diverse instructions... combating against itself. i think of somebody theory they have been doing some thing quite smart in splitting up the Church... yet I see a greater physically powerful sturdy popping out of all of this... Christians everywhere, coming lower back domicile to the Catholic Church and coaching themselves and others interior the religion interior the approach and bringing new existence into the Catholic Church. i discover that there is little else greater important that protecting the Catholic Church and what she teaches... it particularly is the protection of love and fact itself. I enter into the Roman Catholic Church this Easter. God Bless!!

Answer 9

My RCIA classes start October 11th, Im excited!!!

best of luck!

Answer 10

Many of my friends have converted,but not to catholism but from it. @ turned Jewish and 1 turned to muslem.