Welcome to my blog of my journey home to the Catholic faith. I was born to a Wisconsin Synod Lutheran mother and a Southern Baptist father. I was baptized Lutheran but basically raised Baptist and Assembly of God. I became disillusioned with both and when my children were older I became United Methodist. The death of my son caused an explosion of my faith and it failed me utterly and totally. I later became Catholic as I explain in my story. After leaving the Catholic faith I practiced paganism and then Judaism so I can pretty much say I covered all the bases. I finally came home to the Catholic faith and this blog is my story of how I finally came home to stay and what happened once I did.
I hope you marvel with me at the way God works in our lives to bring about miracles. Now I know that many people will say the age of miracles is long over but I see them everyday, in the determined faith of someone suffering, and in those who choose to believe in an age when it's considered silly and/or foolish. My prayer is that you will refer this blog to someone who may be away from the Church in the hope and prayer that they will see themselves in my story, identify with it, and return to the Church and our Precious Savior and Blessed Mother. They care for us, they long for us, and they call to us to "come home".
I know the beginning stories are painful to read, filled with darkness, doubt, fear, and suffering. But like the Bible, I know the ending and it's filled with a massive miracle, hope, deliverance from sin, addiction, and redemption. So wade through it with me, enter into my suffering and celebrate my deliverance through the power of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus who sits at the Father's right hand, one God now and forever! All glory, honor, and credit go only to God who has freed me from certain death and horrendous suffering. It is only by seeing how bad it was that you can appreciate why my soul sings and rejoices.
Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth. May God richly bless you as you enter into my life, death, and resurrection...with Christ leading me all the way and His Blessed Mother cradling me in her loving arms. Many thanks also to St Therese, St Michael the Archangel, St Faustina, and St Philomena who came through in a POWERFUL way. Pray for us!
Pax,
Rosary Girl
