Catholic Conversion Stories [vanity]

Various videos, audios, and printed sources

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Catholic Conversion Stories
Dr. Scott Hahn's Conversion Story	Alex Jones Conversion Story (Powerful!!!)	Steve Ray's Conversion Story	Jimmy Akin's Conversion Story
Leah Darrow's Conversion Story	Elizabeth Ficocelli's Conversion Story	Jennifer Fulwiler's Conversion Story	Kimberly Hahn's Conversion Story
Fr. Donald Calloway's Conversion Story	Dr. Peter Kreeft's Conversion Story	Kevin Vost's Conversion Story	Fr. John Markham's Conversion Story
Tim Staples Conversion Story	Jeff Cavins Conversion Story	David Currie's Conversion Story	Dan Burke's Conversion Story
Michael Coren's Conversion Story	1 - Dr. Ray Guarendi's Conversion Story 2 - Dr. Ray GuarendiEvangelical vs Catholic	Teresa Tomeo's Conversion Story	Tom Peterson's Conversion Story
Drake and Crystal McCalister's Conversion Story	Michael Matthews Conversion Story	Fr. Jay Newman's Conversion Story	Catholic Converts
Index on "youtube" of many other "Journey Home" Catholic Conversion Stories	Index on "EWTN" of many other "Journey Home" Catholic Conversion Stories on MP3 Audio Files (Page 1 of 25)	Catholics Come Home	Coming Home Network
Book - "Surprised by Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic" by Patrick Madrid	Book - "Surprised By Truth 2: 15 Men and Women Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons For Becoming Catholic. (v. 2)" by Patrick Madrid	Book - "Surprised by Truth 3: 10 More Converts Explain the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic (v. 3)" by Patrick Madrid	Book - "Journeys Home" by Marcus Grodi
Book - "Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism" by Scott Hahn, Kimberly Hahn	Book - "Chosen: How Christ Sent Twenty-Three Surprised Converts to Replant His Vineyard" by Donna Steichen	Book - "Crossing the Tiber" by Steve Ray	Book - "Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church" by Donna Steichen
Book - "Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic" by David Currie	Book - "No Price too High: A Pentecostal Preacher Becomes Catholic" by Alex Jones	Book - "Lead, Kindly Light: My Journey to Rome" by Thomas Howard	Book - "The Catholic Mystique: Fourteen Women Find Fulfillment in the Catholic Church" by Jennifer Ferrara, Patricia Sodano Ireland
Catholic Answers Link
The Last Supper   --   (Song -- "Panis Angelicus" -- Luciano Pavarotti)     Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." (Matthew 26:26)
Mary and Jesus   --   (Song -- "Ave Maria" -- Mirusia Louwerse) "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts, he has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away. He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity for ever." (Luke 1:46-55)
Jesus Praying To The Father   --   (Song -- "Faith Of Our Fathers" -- Armed Forces Radio Network) "I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." (John 17:20-21)

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Some time ago, in an earlier thread posted by another FReeper, I posted a smaller subset of these video links here which point to various "Catholic Conversion Stories".    These conversion stories sort of got lost very quickly in that other very long thread, which ended up discussing a whole bunch of other religious issues as well.    I thought these conversion stories would be very interesting and important and helpful to other people (like they were to me), so I decided it might be a good idea to make this into a separate thread, in order to provide a sharper focus and brighter spotlight on these Catholic conversion video clips for anyone who might be interested in seeing them, and to significantly expand the list to include a good number of additional conversion story links, which weren't there the first time.

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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"Catholic Conversion Stories" ping!!!

Please consider sharing this thread with your "ping" lists, if interested.    That would be wonderful.   Thanks!

[PatriotGirl827]

This is beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing!

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So glad you like it!

[verga]

This is beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing!

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.

[mlizzy]

I’ve spent almost an hour reading your links; thank you!

[aimee5291]

Thanks for posting..
I’ve heard some before but will go over them again..

God Bless

[NYer]

Wow! This is like Jeopardy except everyone wins. Thank you for posting!!! Bookmarking.

[Salvation]

Thank you for an outstanding post and a lot of work to put it together.

[narses]

“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]

[Salvation]

I lost my entire ping list — so must rebuild it.

Would you like to be on the Catholic Ping List?

I do the Daily Readings, prayer requests, some pro life and series at Advent and Lent. (Other miscellaneous posts too.)

NYer does the news articles so you may want to get on her Ping List also.

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”

[narses]

Yes, please.

[NYer]

“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."

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.

[narses]

This is the heart of our faith, no?

[NYer]

Absolutely!!! I did not know that would be this Sunday's communion hymn. Providentially, on the way to church this morning, it was precisely that hymn that I was singing in the car. "Oh Lord, give us, from your everlasting Bread of Life". Sometimes at mass, I find myself choking up; the presence of our Lord is so palpable.

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"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."

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.

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"I’ve spent almost an hour reading your links; thank you!"

I hope all the links still work -- sometimes they change them around on you, and forget to tell you!    :-)

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"Thanks for posting.. I’ve heard some before but will go over them again.. God Bless "

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.

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"Wow! This is like Jeopardy except everyone wins. Thank you for posting!!! Bookmarking"

"Alex, what is 'The Right Church, founded by Jesus'?"

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"Thank you for an outstanding post and a lot of work to put it together."

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!