09-03-2007, 05:26 PM
Hello,
I've been a lurker and am now taking the plunge and saying hello![[Image: hellosmiley.gif]](http://www.fisheaters.com/forumpix/hellosmiley.gif)
. I am a 32 yr old mother of three children (who are baptised Catholic) and also a community/home birth midwife from New Zealand. I was baptised Anglican (my mum was Anglican, my Dad- Catholic) but I attended Catholic schools until I was 17. I have been going down the conversion path on and off since I was 15 but now feel the pull to convert so strongly I can't deny it. My partner is Catholic and comes from a Traditional Catholic family (who are the most wonderful people I have ever known and who have been an inspiration to me). I have never known Catholicism like this and it feels so right and reverent.
I am waiting on an annulment of my first marriage before I begin RCIA (annulment for defect of form as I was married to a Catholic in a civil ceremony and the marriage was not con validated before we divorced). It is my dream to marry my man next year following my conversion. I feel like I am on my way to putting my life right with the Lord. I can't wait until I am received into the Church and I look forward to knowing her loving embrace, until that time I offer up my yearning for this reconciliation and pray for patience and grace.
I hope to gain lots of insight and learn a lot from your forum. I apologise in advance if I ask any silly questions.
Verity
I've been a lurker and am now taking the plunge and saying hello
. I am a 32 yr old mother of three children (who are baptised Catholic) and also a community/home birth midwife from New Zealand. I was baptised Anglican (my mum was Anglican, my Dad- Catholic) but I attended Catholic schools until I was 17. I have been going down the conversion path on and off since I was 15 but now feel the pull to convert so strongly I can't deny it. My partner is Catholic and comes from a Traditional Catholic family (who are the most wonderful people I have ever known and who have been an inspiration to me). I have never known Catholicism like this and it feels so right and reverent. I am waiting on an annulment of my first marriage before I begin RCIA (annulment for defect of form as I was married to a Catholic in a civil ceremony and the marriage was not con validated before we divorced). It is my dream to marry my man next year following my conversion. I feel like I am on my way to putting my life right with the Lord. I can't wait until I am received into the Church and I look forward to knowing her loving embrace, until that time I offer up my yearning for this reconciliation and pray for patience and grace.
I hope to gain lots of insight and learn a lot from your forum. I apologise in advance if I ask any silly questions.
Verity
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