You say "lapsed". I say "former."
I would only be guilty if I DIDNT include my experience with the Carholic Church as part of my life story- my "testimony" of what God offered and what I received by faith.
One (of the many ) error of the Catholic Church is the guilt that is placed on the minds of their adherents for not following all of their sundry rules ("don't touch, don't eat, make a "good" act of contrition)
I was set free from those chains and I want "unlapsed" Catholics to know that THEY can be set free also.
My "old faith" (as you call it) was not faith at all! It was dependency on a system that has nothing to do with faith in God and what God says. Instead, it was dependency on traditions that man created- for whatever reason...
My faith is in Christ alone. He is my High Priest. He is my Lord.
A good act of contrition is fundamental, so to speak. It seems to me one flavor of the daily bread offered up on the Religion Forum is a persisent antiCatholicism baked by lapsed Catholics trying to scratch off their baptism by any means necessary. The witness is presents is negative and typical of a latter claimant to the throne whose legitimacy rests on destroying its predecessor. It cannot rest until the former is destroyed because the former is a living testimony that the new religion is illegitimate. Thus it has no message in and of itself; it is always defined by its opposition to its predecessor.