My mother did not practice any organized religion.  
For me, it was Christ who enticed me to Him.  When I was a young girl staying at home alone; I heard man’s voice tells me that “you were never alone but I was always with you.” He said this a few times. 
    
After I became a Catholic and in prayer Christ showed me how he was sitting on a big rock and watched me, a toddler, sitting in the middle of farm field playing with dirt.
    
My two kids do not go to church any more, however one tells me that she go to empty church and talk to Christ now and then.  The other one who is so independent yet when she was having a crying fit for few weeks, her most worry was she may have offended Christ.  She told me when she was alone crying, she heard a men’s voice calling her name although she was alone.  

Christ was always around me whether I was aware of his presence or not.   I think Christ follows everyone and He will call everyone to himself sooner or later.
    
Blessings