Erin Saueressig

This is the definition of the word convert. I am a convert to the Catholic faith, and I find that all true Catholics are converts. Now before you grab your catechism and your righteous indignation off of the shelf allow me explain why. We as humans are fallen. Since the Eve ate the forbidden fruit and brought sin into the world the human race has been drawn to sin.

In 2012, during my sophomore year of high school I fully entered the Catholic Church. My conversion to Catholicism was a process, and an emotional one at that. Even though I’m now a full Catholic, I have found that even for cradle Catholics, conversion is a lifelong process, and one that is a daily battle to convert ourselves from seeking sin, to chasing Christ.

"And in the end, we were all just humans...drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal or brokenness" This is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's quotes that really highlights the lasting influence that his Catholic upbringing, and education had on his writing..