After many months of contemplation, I have decided to officially become a catholic. I was married in the catholic church to a catholic man, his family is very devout, my mom was born and raised catholic (even attending catholic school), and most of the adults I know identify the catholic religion as their “religion of choice”. I don’t want anyone to get the impression that there is some sort of peer pressure here, or that I’m doing it because everyone else is…quite the opposite. If I had felt any pressure, it would’ve come when I was getting married and we didn’t do communion during the ceremony because the bride was still a heathen awash in original sin.
Ultimately, I decided I need God in my life. If my fertility journey has taught me nothing else, it is that there is something bigger than all of us pulling the strings. I have thought about becoming a catholic for quite a while, but the timing was always off or I knew I could not commit to weekly meetings because I had these two grad classes I was taking on top of my regular full-time job…it never worked out or felt right. After I made it a resolution in January to begin attending church on a weekly basis, I began seeing that this is something I value and want in my life on a more permanent basis. I met with the head of Adult Faith Formation at our church over a week ago and committed to this beginning in the fall. She gave me a couple books to look over and I must say that they have been helpful thus far. I am coming from ZERO understanding of Catholicism short of what I learned from attending church and The Passion of the Christ movie that came out several years ago. I’ve even managed to teach my husband something new about his faith, which is awesome since he will undoubtedly be helping me as I navigate these waters for the first time.