u/magicxxmoon

I was so afraid to go! My family is UPCI Apostolic Pentecostal the kind that jumps over pews wears the skirts doesn’t cut their hair and speaks shamalamadingdong tongues and they raised me to think Catholics were satanic idolatrous mary worshippers. I left Pentecost about 7 or 8 years ago. Married a non practicing Catholic man. Became atheist. Had a traumatic experience with my youngest child landing in the NICU after respiratory failure, and told God if He would save her life - I’d follow His word again, wherever it led me. My daughter is now 6 months old and here I am.

I was absolutely terrified to attend a mass. In fact I’ve been wanting to since early May. My family would genuinely react better to me being atheist than they will me becoming catholic. I am so beyond scared of how they will react, I left my phone at home so they wouldn’t see my location pop up at my local parish.

The fights to come when they do find out will be worth it, I have never been more sure of my faith than I am now!!!

I am looking forward to OCIA this fall!!! I was a bit confused this morning and did my best to follow along with everyone else. My husband says I’ll learn more after attending OCIA and I’ll learn more the more services I attend.

Sorry for the long post!!! I just have no one else in my life to share this news with and I am so beyond happy I finally went despite being so afraid of what it means for my relationship with my family. I feel at peace in His hands!!! He will carry me. ✝️

I’m not currently pregnant, but husband and I do want more kids down the line, our next delivery we are hoping so bad for a homebirth as our previous 3 deliveries in the hospital have been awful, ill informed, neglectful, and outright traumatic.

I’ve been induced all 3 times due to gestational hypertension. I’ve been on a medication known to trigger high bp all 3 times and was never told it was a cause. I had pretty good readings at home when I took it. Nothing above 140 like I would in the doctors office.

I’m wondering if the history of recurrent gestational hypertension absolutely excludes me from having a homebirth ever???

Is this accepted? Every so often I visit my old Protestant church to meet with friends and family (only on Wednesday Bible studies occasionally) and they have the you know concert like worship music and everyone raises their hands in praise. I don’t do this anymore because it feels like one big kind of show, but I was wondering if some of you participated in it or like I guess if it is common for Catholics to join in in this outside of mass? I’m new and joining OCIA this fall, and am from very Pentecostal background

I’m joining OCIA this fall and am pretty new to all of this. I have 3 young children, have a history of postpartum preclampsia & gestational hypertension. I am hoping to space between pregnancies as my youngest is currently 5 months old, middle child is 2, oldest is 4. I am nursing. I have heard nursing naturally spaces out pregnancies?? I don’t have money for Marquette method but am wanting to learn it, was just wondering if while I am nursing does that help naturally space pregnancies I heard it did but can’t seem to find much on it, most google searches said it’s mostly a myth, yet I see tons of catholic women online teaching it does work. Could someone explain how it does if so?

I’m planning on attending OCIA this fall at my local parish. I haven’t attended a mass yet but have been in contact with the parish about mass times, and OCIA and all of the fun things.

As someone who cares way too much what others think or will do, I haven’t told ANYONE but my husband my intentions to become Catholic. My family is extremely evangelical tongue talking Pentecostals. I’m no longer Pentecostal but have been going to church with my mother because I needed a church to attend and just went to the one I grew up in despite not aligning with the church at all whatsoever anymore. She likes that I bring my children, and loves that they love Sunday school. I’ve told her my husband and I are very comfortable there because it’s all people we grew up with (husband is non practicing Catholic who got sent to my churches private Christian school which is how we met) and the community is nice they do know us well. There was a brief pause where we weren’t going anymore, but my husband asked if we could go again, and so we have been and my mother is so so happy about it bc during the pause she cried constantly.

Anyway. I JUST told her we’d be going there again. Then I felt really dealt with to keep pursuing the Catholic faith, it just won’t leave me alone. I know this is what I want to do with my life now. I feel really led down this path. I want to go to mass but I don’t want to disappoint my mom again. What can I do? How would you go about this? I’m looking for insight.