Conversion Stories

[FaithT]

Amen! Praying for many more vocations to the priesthood! We need many more young priests!

Yes we do.

 

[FaithT]

Private confession is offered in my Anglican church but it’s optional and I think most people don’t do it. Do you think priests ever get judgmental about hearing some confessions? I bet they’ve heard all sorts!

i like you’re user name.

 

[FromWesternCanada]

I start the OCIA within 4 months. But my 'conversion' to understanding Catholicism, it was really just grasping Apostolic Succession, the Traditions that pre-dated the laymen building by many, many years. I just first thought, well, Apostolic Succession, that sounds like a God plan. It really is CRUCIAL to trusting the Bible. Then I got into the whole 'Schism' thing, and tried to understand how one would take sides. Then I understood that the Roman Catholic Church, God would have to have 'started poorly' for it to have taken off to the East. I'm not trying to be lazy in my words with 'started poorly', I just think it sums up the insanity of anything but Roman Catholicism. I've also got a Rosary, and it feels like there is some kind of change 'in the air' after Praying it. I always knew Christ was KING... and the 'evangelicals' I knew, weren't Christians I wanted to be. So, it really came down to the broadness of Evangelicism, or the 'umbrella' of Roman Catholicism. I think that makes sense. But yea, the Church is TRUE. I feel that just by showing admiration for Mother Mary in Prayer, and other ways I try to understand God. I started off on the right foot, knowing it was Jesus Christ of the Trinity. Another reason for the East to be questionable. I just think, God shows me things now, that He didn't before.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I've said this before and it is private revelation, but I used to be Presbyterian.

Sometime after I'd become Catholic, my Presbyterian pastor (who had died several years before) turned up one night in a vision and said "The Catholic Church is CLOSEST to the truth", with a distinct emphasis on the word "closest". He didn't say it had all the truth or was necessarily correct in everything, but was CLOSEST to the truth.

That was all he said, and then he just disappeared again.

We had discussed Catholicism and Protestant divisions while he was still alive, and he was getting cynical about Protestant division, saying at one time "When it comes to theology, Protestants couldn't agree how far to spit!"

But that was my experience.

You need to work through your decision for yourself and RCIA is the way to start. It's the only way actually as it is a necesary step in the journey.

 

[RileyG]

I've said this before and it is private revelation, but I used to be Presbyterian.

Sometime after I'd become Catholic, my Presbyterian pastor (who had died several years before) turned up one night in a vision and said "The Catholic Church is CLOSEST to the truth", with a distinct emphasis on the word "closest". He didn't say it had all the truth or was necessarily correct in everything, but was CLOSEST to the truth.

We had discussed Catholicism and Protestant divisions while he was still alive, and he was getting cynical about all the Protestant divisions, saying at one time "When it comes to theology, Protestants couldn't agree how far to spit!"

But that was my experience.

You need to work through your decision for yourself and RCIA is the way to start. It's the only way actually as it is a necesary step in the journey.

Perhaps he’s still in purgatory.

Praying now for him!

God bless!