Posted on 10/27/2013 11:33:04 AM PDT by Heart-Rest
If you watch all of these conversion video clips, you will quickly begin to see the great variety of ways the Holy Spirit works to bring folks into the fullness of the Catholic faith and all the Sacraments. Even if you initially do not fully agree with some of the beliefs expressed in the conversion stories told at these links, I think you will find all of them fascinating, thought-provoking, and well worth watching.
My goal is simply to share the blessings God has bestowed on unworthy me in my own path of conversion to the fullness of the faith in the Church that Jesus Christ Himself built, and the glorious generosity of His own personal gifts to His Church of all seven Sacraments as special, specific channels for bestowing His Divine Grace.
My prayer is that God will extend His solemn blessing to all who watch, listen to, and read about these humble conversion testimonies, and gently guide all of us into the fullness of His Holy Truth.
(NOTE: For your enhanced spiritual enrichment and enjoyment, please click on the three pictures in the post to play some beautiful, uplifting music.)
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This is beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing!
So glad you like it!
Agreed, sadly those that it would benefit the most will not read it. But thank you for taking the time to do this, I know that a number of these helped me with my reversion to the Catholic Church.
I’ve spent almost an hour reading your links; thank you!
Thanks for posting..
I’ve heard some before but will go over them again..
God Bless
Wow! This is like Jeopardy except everyone wins. Thank you for posting!!! Bookmarking.
Thank you for an outstanding post and a lot of work to put it together.
“Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum
Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?
What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.
And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”
As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him
Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?”
He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve.” [John 6: 49-71]
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“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
Yes, please.
am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
How amazing that you should post this. Our communion hymn today (in the Maronite Church) was "Bread of Life". The refrain is: "O Lord, give us, from your everlasting Bread of Life". The first stanza begins with: For you are the Bread of Life, our fathers ate manna in the wilderness and died. You are the Bread that came from Heaven and those who eat it will never die". Sorry, I just had to post this. It's a truly beautiful and most significant hymn that stirs the heart.
This is the heart of our faith, no?
My hope is that someone might just take a glance at one or two of them, and "bump into" something that will help them.
I know that some of these converts were themselves rabidly anti-Catholic at one time in the past, but eventually came to see the light (one way or another), and I've found many of them so helpful for myself.
I hope all the links still work -- sometimes they change them around on you, and forget to tell you! :-)
Thanks.
Sometimes I listen to the EWTN Radio show reruns called "The Best of Journey Home" with Marcus Grodi, and I hear a re-run from years ago, occasionally one I've heard already. I always seem to get something else out of those shows, even though I've heard them before.
God Bless.
"Alex, what is 'The Right Church, founded by Jesus'?"
And thank you for all your great posts, Salvation, and please make sure that my name is on/stays on your "ping list" too.
I really missed your "Daily Mass Bible Readings" posts, and your other posts!
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