Hi! It is me again, I just found your post and had been thinking the same things! It can be hard posting when the issue of bcp, etc. come up. Sometimes it is really nice to just chat with people who share your same views on things - it is hard enough to live day to day as a Catholic at times.
My story...I am a convert to the Traditional faith. I have been Catholic for 7 years now and am raising my children Catholic. My DH is not baptized, but he is supportive - I married him a year before I was baptized. I wasn't raised with any particular religion, we attended a baptist church because that was where one of my grandmothers had gone. My parents were married by a Methodist minister (as were DH and I), but my parents never went to church. Throughout school I attended LDS church with friends, also a Nazarene church. I studied with Jehovah Witnesses for a year and attended a non-denominational church as well. It was when my younger sister (who converted a few years before I did) showed me a picture of St. Bernadette of Lourdes that I knew where I belonged. I had been interested in the church in Jr. High, but was told I had to be born Catholic to be one.
Of course I didn't know any better so it took me 10 years to get here.
I attend the Latin Masses and the closest churches are about 2 hrs away from me. I am also the only Traditional Catholic I know in this area, so makes it hard to connect with people of the same faith.
I would have to say that my favorite thing about the church is Confession. I know, probably not on anyone else's top 10, but there is just something about pouring it out and hearing you are forgiven that really just overwhelms me. I have been crying in confession lately - crazy! The priest's advice is always so right on and there is just such relief in it. The hardest part for me is being so far away and not having the support network of friends who share my faith. It is very easy to not say my rosary or other prayers, my mind can just be so full of c*%@ that I forget about it or put it off. Sometimes it is hard to be a roll model for my DDs (and DH). I keep praying for a conversion for him, and my eldest does too.
He says maybe on his deathbed.
Here is another topic - who is your patron saint? Mine is St. Irene of Portugal. My other saint - the one I took at my confirmation - is St. Gertrude the Great. I chose her because of her attachment to the Sacred Heart. My DH and I were married in an old mission that is the Mission of the Sacred Heart.
I am not sure of what else to write for now, I look forward to meeting more Catholics!