With God, Nothing is Impossible: Taylor and Logan's Journey from Marriage to the Catholic Church
- Guest Contributor
- Aug 17
- 8 min read
Updated: Aug 18
Former "nones," Taylor and Logan found their way to the Catholic Church through restlessness and love.
By Matt Walker
Two years ago, Logan Fossen and his wife, Taylor, were both “nones,” or religiously unaffiliated — like 29% of Americans, and a much larger 40% of Coloradans, according to the Pew Research Group.
“Sundays used to be our least favorite day. You couldn't rest on it because you're focusing on Monday, the start of a stressful week,” recalled Logan. “But now, our running joke is: ‘Gosh, I can't wait for Sunday. Can it be Sunday already?’”
Today, Sunday Mass marks Taylor and Logan’s transformation.
“They even have a regular pew they sit in!” said Deacon Paul Louderman, who helped the couple along the way.
But the journey from nothing to robust faith wasn’t easy. It took two full years and tested the couple’s relationship, especially for Taylor, who had never been a member of any religion and had to travel a longer road.
“It was all very new to me, and nothing we had really ever delved into in our relationship,” Taylor recalled. “What this was going to look like for us was a little contentious.”
“When she says it was a little contentious, I may push back, and I say there was a lot of contention there at first,” admitted Logan.
The couple needed the Holy Spirit to guide them and help resolve their disagreements, even if they didn’t know it yet.
Catholic, Again
Born in South Dakota and raised primarily in Wyoming, Logan was baptized Catholic and received his First Communion. He credits his early faith to his grandfather.
“Our grandpa was such a strong figure in our lives. He was a hardcore practicing Catholic. My brother even has a rosary tattoo because of him,” he remembered.
But in 2002, when Logan was 7, his grandfather passed away, and things changed.
“Everybody in my family kind of fell away from the faith,” he explained.
Twenty years later, not long after he and Taylor were married, Logan began to feel spiritually unsettled.
“I had a thirst,” he recalled. “Taylor and I work different hours, so I was home alone for a lot of the day. I was drawn more introspectively than I was used to, just kind of thinking what everything was all about. What life truly meant.
“I remembered everything I would pray for, as a kid, like a wife who loved me and to have my own house. And everything I prayed for then, I now had,” Logan continued. “But I didn’t really have a way, or somebody, to thank for all that. So, I started thinking about Christ more.”
As he reflected, Logan was guided by his childhood faith. He even started praying the Rosary again, following his grandfather’s example.
Everywhere he looked, Logan saw signs telling him to return to the Catholic Church. One day, after praying the Rosary, he found a movie about Our Lady of Fatima on Netflix. He watched it and, intrigued, began a search to determine if the apparition was true. Since the Immaculate Heart of Mary was often mentioned, he Googled that too.
Logan expected to find information, but vividly remembers finding a place instead.
“It just popped up; Immaculate Heart of Mary in Northglenn. That was the closest parish. And that's how I ended up at Immaculate Heart. That was my first time going back to Mass,” he shared.
“Why does he want to be Catholic?”
The Holy Spirit, with the help of the Blessed Mother, was moving quickly in Logan’s life, but Taylor would prove harder to reach.
Unlike her husband, Taylor’s early exposures to God were much less significant. Her parents were nonreligious, and her grandmother and some friends were nondenominational Christians, but Taylor never quite bought in.
So, in 2023, when Logan began attending Mass again, Taylor was standoffish. She wanted to understand what he was doing and why, but their discussions often devolved into emotional disagreements around politics and the Church. Taylor didn’t understand the Church’s teachings, and Logan’s attempts to explain came off as rejections of her questions.
Logan would eventually realize a better way, but not until much later.
“Fulton Sheen said, ‘You can win the argument, but you can lose the soul.’ There's so much truth to that. If you're out to be the party that's right, or the one who wins the argument, then you truly aren't understanding God's plan,” he said. “Don't try to impose the truth or make them feel like they are wrong. Let them come to it themselves. If they’re willing to find the truth, the Holy Spirit will help them find the truth.”
In this case, the Holy Spirit was already working. Because Taylor knew, somehow, to keep trying. Just like a person can’t run before they can walk, she wondered if what they argued about was just the wrong place for her to start.
“I needed something more from the beginning and maybe even surface level, if you will,” Taylor recalled. “Those political views can take a while to come around to when you haven't thought that way before. I needed the holy, spiritual side of it, to start off with.”
Initial Steps
By this point, Logan had begun classes at Immaculate Heart of Mary to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. He enrolled in the Order of Christian Initiation for Adults (OCIA), which prepares older children and adults to receive the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist, or just those they have missed, as was the case for Logan.
While in those classes, Logan learned that a convalidation was needed for his and Taylor's marriage due to the specifics of their first exchange of vows. In the eyes of the Church, this ceremony would become the true beginning of their marriage. So, to be in a state of grace as he fully entered the Catholic Church, Logan decided he wanted the convalidation before receiving Confirmation. He also chose not to receive the Eucharist until then. Taylor needed to participate in both the ceremony and the preparation classes with Logan. She was not, however, required to convert.
“I saw how hard Logan was working and how much this meant to him, so we started marriage prep classes in the beginning of 2024,” Taylor shared. “I was curious and wanted to know more about what the Church was teaching and why this was so important.”
It would be Taylor’s first time taking her journey of understanding into the Church itself. With the help of Bill and Cindy, a mentor couple from the parish, Logan and Taylor delved into Catholic teaching and really began to learn.
“They broached the topics and then let us talk about them,” Logan recalled. “I think their being a third party helped Taylor feel comfortable. Bill and Cindy would help her come to her own conclusions, whereas when it was just us, I feel like I was a little overpowering. They really helped us have deeper conversations.”
“We had the discussion of wanting kids, which, at first in our marriage, wasn't necessarily a big topic of conversation,” Taylor added. “With his growing faith, that was something that Logan wanted, and I could see myself wanting it, too. He said, ‘I would want my kids to go to Mass.’ And so I was like, ‘Okay, I can see that it would be good for their Mom to be there, too.’ So, I actually started going to Mass with him.”
Critical Mass
Clearly, the Holy Spirit was at work, not just in Taylor’s decision but when she decided it, as Taylor’s first time attending Mass coincided with the height of the Church’s liturgical year.
“The first Mass she actually went to was the Easter Vigil,” Logan recalled. “At the procession with the one candle and then everything being lit. She said to me, ‘This just feels old. How old do you think this is?’”
“The Easter Vigil kind of opened my eyes. It was a lot different than the expectations that I had about what being a Catholic was like,” Taylor remembered.
For the first time, Taylor was seeing what Catholicism was instead of wrestling with caricatures and preconceived notions.
“Logan’s [OCIA] teacher, Kathy, was a huge help. We actually sat with her at that Easter Vigil. I really enjoyed the structure of it all, and the history and reasons that these things are done at Mass,” she continued.
“It kind of clicked in my head. I've always been a big person on whys, and it was like ‘Okay, I can see why they do that, and where this comes from and why this is now taught,’ Taylor added. “That definitely perked up my curiosity of what this is all about.”
A Holy Order
Taylor had reached a key juncture. After attending marriage prep and Mass, she decided to join OCIA, too.
It was a huge moment for Taylor, and for Logan, too.
“I just cried all night after I heard that,” Logan recalled. “I chose not to receive Confirmation until she did, and that I would continue to abstain from receiving the Eucharist until we were both fully incorporated into everything.”
So, when classes started the following fall, Logan faithfully accompanied Taylor to OCIA, his second time through the program.
“I really look up to him for it because I was there for his whole journey, and I know how hard it was to go every Sunday waiting for these sacraments. Everyone in our class could see that, too. Because it was difficult; it wasn't easy,” Taylor recalled.
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The Two Shall Become One
At this point, their convalidation was already planned for the first Saturday in February of 2025. And Taylor would become a Catholic at the Easter Vigil, a few months later. The couple saw a way to make all this even more special, but they would need permission in order to make it happen.
“That's when we went to the priest about receiving her sacraments early and having a Catholic wedding instead of just a convalidation,” Logan recalled.
“We thought it would be a beautiful moment if we were able to receive the Eucharist together on our wedding day,” he continued. “In order to do that, Taylor would have to receive her sacraments of initiation beforehand. One of the deacons at our parish reached out to the bishops of our diocese so that we could get a dispensation for Taylor to receive her sacraments before completing [OCIA].”
“I was thrilled with Taylor and Logan's desire to receive their sacraments at the same time and then be married in the Catholic Church,” Deacon Paul recalled proudly.
Taylor would receive all her sacraments and Logan would be Confirmed on Friday. And then, on the next day, which was the already-scheduled Saturday, they would be married as Catholics.
They invited their families to both ceremonies. In fact, part of the reason to schedule them so closely was so their guests could attend both, especially those from out of town. Logan and Taylor wanted to evangelize their loved ones over these two days, and they already knew the best way to do it.
“We didn’t necessarily have to say anything,” Taylor recalled. “They could just see it in us and in how happy we were. My dad is the furthest away you could possibly be from any kind of organized religion. But even he said on that day, ‘There is something here. You can feel it.’ And that was just an incredible thing to hear.”
“We are Catholics, together.”
After they received their sacraments, Logan and Taylor continued with OCIA, in solidarity with their class and to continue learning about their newfound faith.
“Everyone in the community at Immaculate Heart of Mary has just been so welcoming. Those people really helped guide our journey, which I'm just so thankful for,” Taylor said.
Looking back, the last two years' events are almost unbelievable for Logan and Taylor.
“After we got our sacraments, I showed Taylor my Bible journal and the countless times I had prayed for her, that Jesus would enter her heart, that the Holy Spirit would come upon her and that she knows she's a beloved daughter of the Father,” Logan said.
“I’ve definitely learned that prayer is powerful. And the Catholic Church is home,” he added.
“In my short journey so far, it just, it feels like the Truth,” Taylor reflected. “It has helped bring purpose to life. And not only purpose, but joy.
“2025 has been a beautiful year with many blessings,” Taylor continued, with more than a hint of anticipation. “We recently found out that we are pregnant. And actually due at the end of December.”
“It’s an even bigger gift from God. The blessings in 2025 keep coming,” she concluded.
