Don't start your victory lap too soon. Your salvation is not assured until the moment of your death. You still have plenty of opportunities to blow it through, among other things, bearing false witness against your Catholic brothers and sisters, and an overall lack of beatitude in you "deeds".
It wasn't a victory lap, trust me. And your post shows it clearly. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a person cannot bear false witness against someone who is bearing false witness. Your witness of salvation not being assured until the moment of your death is a great example.
And you can "love" all you want. your love gets you nowhere, except praise in the eyes of men. It's Christ's love FOR YOU and your accepting what He did FOR YOU, and realizing there is nothing you can add to HIS FINISHED WORK that gives you the only opportunity you have in your life to be saved. It either saves you or condemns you. I know that doesn't sound very "beatitude" driven, but sometimes the truth hurts. Before it saves.
What Catholics fail to grasp is that we are damned by our sin, but we are saved by Christ.. not our sinlessness