Past Life

I have been thinking about past lives lately. For some reason I am beginning to believe that maybe our souls are older than our bodies are, and that we have lived even before. I know this goes way beyond Catholic teachings (please don't excommunicate me!), but I don't know. Is it possible we are indeed infinite beings in a finite body?

This goes to relationships with people. If this is true, past life I mean, then souls must have been connecting with each other. And if so, does one have a memory of these connections, like they feel that somehow they have interacted with one another, even when in the present there is no way that you had, has, and will interact or even meet.

I'm just babbling here I know. But like I said, I have been thinking about this lately.