[SuziQ]

It is a lovely conversion story, especially the part about her husband surprising her by entering the Church. My Daddy was Baptist, and when he and Mama first married, he offered to become Catholic so that if anything happened to her, he could raise the kids Catholic. Mama said, "No, we have enough Catholics who aren't really that interested in the Faith, we don't need any more." But he did go to Church with the family, and helped us in our Catholic upbringing.

The year I was born, my older sister was being Confirmed. Unbeknownst to Mama, Daddy had been going through 'Instructions' with the Associate Pastor, and he surprised her by being Confirmed on the same day as my sister. Mama always said he was an even better Catholic than she was, because he studied, and made the choice as a adult, having grown up in a different faith tradition.

[NYer]

Thank you for the post and ping. My step-father was born into a Lutheran family but his family did not attend church or raise him in the faith. When he married my catholic mother, he promised to raise me in the catholic faith. He would occasionally attend mass with us and drove me to activities at my catholic schools. He was always supportive. Both my parents are now in their late 70s. My father, despite all the exposure, remains an agnostic. My daily prayer is that he will be baptized before he leaves this life.