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Belloc · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2010, 07:05:45 AM »

Cradle Catholic, attend in youth NO, then a few TLM, then Byzantine for many yrs, then for several sat on the couch and practiced not at all, then TLM for last several in a Trad Church in a Diocese

spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2010, 09:03:31 AM »

Mine: old story. repeatedly mentioned in this forum :turban:

CathMomof7 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 24, 2010, 09:06:04 AM »

Me. My path was a long and arduous one. My father had been raised Catholic, (something I NEVER knew) but left the Church when he married my mother in 1959. My mother was a Southern Baptist and apparently my father's priest refused to marry them in Church or even offer blessings. They married instead at the home of my mother's parents.

I never really went to Church as a child, until my parents divorced. My father began attending a United Methodist Church where his brother was a member. That lasted about 3 years, until my father found a new wife.

I grew up pretty much agnostic and experimented with different religious practices. I have attended Holiness Pentecostal, Baptist, Methodist, Unitarian, etc.

Eventually, after I married and began having children, my husband and I began attending a fairly liberal NO parish. He had been baptized Catholic but had fallen away long before.

We both went through RCIA. We left the NO and then returned. Over the course of many years we have grown to where we are now.

We left the NO Church last March. We now attend an SSPX chapel about an hour from our home.

Dawn · « **Reply #8 on:** November 24, 2010, 10:11:06 AM »

My step-fathers family is heavy with Pentecostal's. That is a real experience. They sent some preacher man to our house when I was about 19. It was a group of same age persons really. And, as soon as we were away from my house he launched this attack on me. I was scared to death as they are very dramatic. I was a basket case when I got home. My father went to their meeting the next day, walked to the front of their little meeting house and told them all that if any of them bothered us again they would deal with him. His cousin Lynn was the head preacher there.

Only one other time did they come. This time it was his wife and Church ladies to visit my mother. They suggested we all pray whatever comes to mind. My mother and I naturally began, " Hail Mary..." Cleared the house in record time we did.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #9 on:** November 24, 2010, 11:41:40 AM »

I've been practicing Catholic all my life. I was raised in the novus ordo, but all of my teenage years have been spent in Tradition. I did, however, willingly jumped into heresies and modernism at age 11-12. The guidance of Tradition pulled me out.