Hammer Dulcimers and a Catholic Convert

A young man recently found one of my hammer dulcimer tunes on U Tube and decided to write me to tell me he learned it and posted his version on U Tube.
He saw the www.crossedthetiber.com on my signature in my e mail and wrote back to tell me "BTW, I am becoming Catholic soon."
Every story of conversion is interesting to me and this one illustrates our idea that "everyone has a Catholic Church-shaped hole in their heart waiting to be filled." Also, it's interesting to me that a young previously un-churched individual is drawn in by the Latin Mass. You are in our prayers, Ian. (And, that's pretty good hammer dulcimer playing too for a person whose only played for 6 weeks!)

"My parents decided to wait until I was old enough to decide what religion I wanted to join so they never had me baptised. When I was alot younger my grandma asked me if I wanted to go to sunday school so I decided to try it out. I only went 2 times and something scared me away from it (I believe there was a kid that had some mental issues in the class that did alot of screaming and throwing things and thats what scared me away) so a few years past and I decided that I needed some form of religion in my life. I became very interested in the jewish religion but I wanted to try other religions too so I went to my current church with my grandparents back in may and I loved it. Since then I have been taking RCIA classes to learn more about the catholic religion and I will be baptised and confirmed on easter saturday (if thats what you call it) Now the church I go to is the only church in this area (Columbus Ohio) that has the Latin mass and I love the latin mass. Right now some members from my church are helping me learn the latin responces so I can become a server for the latin mass right after I am baptised. The link to my church (which was built in 1877) is http://www.holyfamilycolumbus.org/ "