“The idea that I would go ever back to Catholicism is foreign to me. I can’t imagine any reason why I would ever want to.”
You didn’t just leave a church or change religions.
You left the Eucharist. You left Jesus.
For what? grape juice and crackers, or grape juice and white bread?
Or did you become Mormon and leave the Eucharist for water and Wonder bread?
It amazes me that any Catholic could leave Jesus for any reason. And when you left the Eucharist you left Jesus.
You and God will be having quite the conversation.
I didn't leave Jesus, I found Jesus! He's NOT in the elements of the Eucharist that have to be received every time one goes to Mass in order to remain in a state of grace, He is always within every believer and will never leave nor forsake us. The Jesus I know is the one who saves me to the uttermost, who gave me eternal life through faith and I rejoice to know the God of my salvation whom I will praise and honor all the days of my life even to eternity.
Nobody leaves Jesus by leaving a church or denomination. Jesus dwells in the heart of every believer by faith.
He isn't found in a church or a wafer and you don't have to eat Him to have Him be in you.
Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.