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Why I became and remain Catholic.

Easter 2010 was a particularly momentous occasion in my life, I was formally received into the Catholic Church; receiving the Grace of Love, that is the Holy Spirit, through my first Sacramental Reconciliation; was sealed by the infusion of grace through Confirmation; and finally made communion with the Universal Church in my first reception of Our Lord in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. I have noticed a growing trend on Catholic Social Media and Blogosphere in response to the purported loss of Catholics to the ‘unaffiliated’—I shall endeavour to say more about this notion of an unaffiliated religious belief in another post—group in the USA in which practicing Catholics give reasons for why they are Catholic.                 Firstly, a little about myself. I am a 22 year old practicing Catholic, who has recently graduated University with a BA (Hons) Philosophy and Theology with the ultimate aim of bei...