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I never did one of these, so here goes:

I converted about four years ago from a wicked life of Protestantism after many years of reading history. I never desired the Catholic faith, and I thought it was evil and impossible for it to be true. I wanted to learn what the true faith is, because none of the Protestantism I had come in contact with could be it. The Protestants I were with wanted to play rock music and have a good time, but I wanted something more.

Year after year I made concessions, but I stopped attending any nominally "Christian", Protestant, whatever kind of service. I remember most vividly accepting that Purgatory must be true during one restless night. The most difficult truths for me to accept were those of Our Lady. It was possible for me to accept her as Mother of God, or Theotokos, but it took me many, many years to accept her as Queen of Heaven and Our Lady. If I hadn't been so blinded by pride and Protestantism to reject her, it would have saved me a lot of trouble to convert sooner than I did. Perhaps it was necessary, but God knows.

I assist at a Mass in the DC-Baltimore area and have a background in the armed forces. I've learned a great deal from CathInfo as a lurker, and I hope I can learn a lot more even while posting.

Thank you, Anne, Nadir and Stubborn. I have the Sacramentals, Douay-Rheims, etc. I've met a lot of great priests and even married a woman who's been a Traditional Catholic for over a decade. I am read on a fair amount of history but not so read on topics such as the liturgy and lives of the Saints, especially due to the volume of the latter. I do have a copy of Butler's Lives of the Saints and there's this interesting twitter feed: https://twitter.com/RMartyrology

For Our Lady, I was trying to describe how difficult it is for a former Protestant to convert after the brainwashing against her. If you can imagine being told for decades the usual lies, it might take an extraordinary grace to overcome it in a short time. For me, it took a long time.

That is a wonderful encouraging welcome, ANNE, TO DX.

A warm welcome, dxcat
How blessed you are.
Just a minor correction

The St John you are referring to here is John, the Beloved, aka John the Evangelist.


St John of the Cross was a Spanish Carmelite priest who was St Teresa of Avila’s great guide in feforming the Carmelite order. A great Mystic.
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-john-of-the-cross