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As a former weekly mass-going RC, raised in devout family, being an altar boy, with my 3 brothers

Dan, you must have the patience of Job, staying with the Catholic Church for as long as you did. I think I went to mass maybe 3 more times after I got saved, but I think, deep inside, I had given up on the RCC, long before that, as I didn't think there was any way I could be saved anyway, and I just didn't think there was anything else out there, worth looking into. Then, God put some real Christians in my life, as opposed to false Christians, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Where I live, most of the people are Catholic, although beneath the surface, they are animists. At any rate, it is a mission field for us. We try to rescue as many as possible from darkness, into the glorious light. 😀

Dan, you must have the patience of Job, staying with the Catholic Church for as long as you did. I think I went to mass maybe 3 more times after I got saved, but I think, deep inside, I had given up on the RCC, long before that, as I didn't think there was any way I could be saved anyway, and I just didn't think there was anything else out there, worth looking into. Then, God put some real Christians in my life, as opposed to false Christians, and the rest, as they say, is history. Where I live, most of the people are Catholic, although beneath the surface, they are animists. At any rate, it is a mission field for us. We try to rescue as many as possible from darkness, into the glorious light. I knew of no evangelical churches except an Assembly of God, which i then though was too much for me (i was too insecure), but i listened to evangelical radio day and night, and being a truck driver gave me plenty of tome to do so, thank God.

MaCArthur, J. Vernon Mcgee, Church Smith, Swindoll, and others fed me newly hungry soul desirous to know how to please God from the Bible. And i went to RC charismatic meetings. Thus when after i finally sincerely prayed to God that if it was His will for me to go to a different church circa 1983, and He quickly showed me, then it was not that much of a break in formally leading me into evangelical fellowship. Bless the Lord despite me failings.

We try to rescue as many as possible from darkness, into the glorious light. 😀

Indeed that must be our goal, and walk therein, to overall glorify God, to be like Christ and make a positive difference in people's lives for time and for eternity, by His grace.

You know speaking of being a "cradle" Catholic, I remember even at a very young age sitting through Catechism classes for First Holy Communion and then Confirmation plus religion classes in Catholic school, thinking that there was something more, something not quite the whole truth in what I was being taught. It was when I was walking home from Mass one Sunday at 15 years old that I prayed and said, "God, if you are out there and if there is any such thing as truth, I want to know it.". Within a few months (maybe three or four) I was sitting in a Southern Baptist Sunday school class (my grandparents' church) and the teacher handed me a Bible turned to John 10:27-30 and, when I read it, a light turned on in my soul and I KNEW God had answered my prayer.