Were you a saved, born again Christian before you converted to Catholicism???
Have you ever been baptized?
Yes!
Catholics and Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again. Jesus said so: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). n the water-and-Spirit rebirth that takes place at baptism, the repentant sinner is transformed from a state of sin to the state of grace. Peter mentioned this transformation from sin to grace when he exhorted people to "be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:38).
Paul reminds us in Titus 3:5 that God "saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit." Paul also said, "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life" (Rom. 6:3–4). This teaching—that baptism unites us with Christ’s death and resurrection so that we might die to sin and receive new life—is a key part of Paul’s theology. In Colossians 2:11–13, he tells us, "In [Christ] you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision [of] Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ" (NIV).
Since all Catholics have been baptized, all Catholics have been born again. Are you born again—the way the Bible understands that concept? Unless you have been baptized with water, then you have not been "born again" as described in the Bible, regardless of what you believe in your heart.
Nope. I was a depraved person. Full of evil and darkness before I attended my 1st Mass. I am thankful the Lord used that Mass to bring me back again & again.
By the Grace of Our Heavenly Father, through the Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ I HAVE been “born again”. This rebirth is repeated every time I receive the Sacraments for which I am so blessed & thankful to receive.