I am Catholic

How do you sum up the most amazing experience of your life?

It's still hard for me to believe that it's over. Each week I go to church and take part in Eucharist, but I still feel like a visitor. For so long I've been attending mass, but not partaking in the most important part. The ability to receive the body and blood of Christ is the amazing reward of this whole experience, but I've realized more than anything that I still have a ways to go before I will truly be Catholic, in my mind.

You would think that after ten years of attending Catholic masses I would know the rituals and practices like the back of my hand, but studying them and practicing them are two different things.


It's time for me to become Catholic, not by studying Catholics but by being a practicing Catholic.

This has been an amazing journey, but I'm most excited about the journey that is just beginning.