This really really hit me. I wasn't raised with any particular faith, only having gone to Church once as a child when I was invited by my next door neighbor, who happened to be the daughter of a Baptist preacher. I had always considered myself a Christian but realized later on it was only in a lukewarm sense. Years later, in 2010, I lost my father to a heart attack and then only 3 months later I lost my older brother. I fell into a pit of despair and anxiety. It was as if I was wondering through a black cloud. I began to ask myself what I really believed and started reading books about intelligent design, religion and philosophy. I started attending an Evangelical church for a couple years but something was missing. My research eventually lead me to the history of the true Universal Church, where I entered into RCIA. Not only this, but my Baptist since birth fiance joined me. A year later we were married in our hometown Catholic Church. I've been Catholic 6 years now and it's the best decision I've ever made.
7 years ago, I was 17 years old and always got migraine attacks every time I consumed coffee. And so, I had completely given up coffee for at least a year. Then one day, I was at a retreat and we were having silent adoration for one hour. I was in the first bench. The Eucharist was right in front of me. All of a sudden, I felt this cooling, strong, minty, balmy sensation right in the center of my forehead. After a while this sensation began to branch out into the inner parts of my head. And the paths they took, were exactly along the spots where I had the migraine attacks. The sensation would move deeper,stay there for a while and then proceed deeper inside. This happened until it reached the back of my ears. Then it stopped. I just knew God had healed my migraine. The first thing I did after that session was to ask my father to buy me some coffee. I drink coffee everyday now. Seven years later, I have not had a migraine attack. Sometimes when I feel a small sensation coming on, I say, "Dear headache, the Lord Jesus has healed me completely and for life. You have no place here." And then I move on with my day. A while later I realize the pain left me then and there.
I'm currently at the office surrounded by Atheist, anti-Catholics, and Skeptics and needed to hear something positive. Your video made me smile and brought a calm over me, welcome home brother.
Hold on to your faith. Jesus says the world will hate us because of him: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." John 15:18-19
Pray for them. You don’t even have to evangelize them or mention religion. Constant prayer always brings results. You may even begin to notice a change at work
Truth Seeker you are merely a troll. You show up all over You Tube leaving the same troll comments. I pity you. How lonely you must be, leaving negative comments filled with bile for strangers. You have all the time in the world to troll around like this, all the time in the world to hate. How empty and angry you must be on the inside. I will pray for you, troll, especially as you don’t have the courage to pray on your own.
I was raised in a protestant church. I hated going to church and avoided it whenever I could. It always seemed to me that the people in my church were hypocrites--say one thing on Sunday and live another way the rest of the week. As a young teenager, I too, considered the idea of Atheism. In high school, I was a member of a concert choir. During one Christmas season, we were invited to perform several times during the Masses at a local Catholic Church. At the first Mass, my heart swelled and I thought, My God, I know you are here. This is your Church. The sterility I felt in a protestant church was replaced with an overwhelming feeling of love and community in the RC church. When I was 18, I converted to Catholicism. I didn't care what anyone in my family thought about it (and they did have some opinions) and I have never second guessed that decision. The family eventually got over it.
Thanks for sharing. When I first was welcomed into the Church as a convert, I went and stayed in a room above where the monks lived at St. Bernard monestary in Cullman, Al. One night around 2am, I couldn't sleep, so I decided to study some literature on the Church and read some scripture. All of a sudden, I sensed a presence in the room, like nothing I'd ever felt before. It was like the air was electric and the hair on my arms seemed to stand up. I felt this feeling of overwhelming unconditional love wash over me and all I could do was weep... uncontrollably. I felt unworthy to be in this presence. I saw no one, but the presence there was more real than anything I'd ever experienced. I picked up a pen and tried to write in a journal the words that we're racing through my head, all the while crying like a child. The words coming to me were about the Savior's love for me and if I loved Him and trusted Him , I should love and trust His Church. I will never be able to forget that beautiful experience. Thanks be to God for His love for us!
I experienced something unusual when I went to visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament to offer a Holy Hour. I was alone in the church in the evening. I sat down in the pew closest to the Tabernacle where I like to go for my time of prayer. Immediately I sensed multiple presences with long gowns swishing and moving about. I didn't hear them or see them, but I sensed them. What came to mind was multiple angels adoring Jesus. I remained very still while I went through this experience. It was beautiful, but lasted only a few moments. I have been able to offer many Holy Hours over the years, thanks be to God. I think our kind and gracious Lord was giving me a little gift. On another occasion after about 2 hours in prayer alone before The Tabernacle, I saw the baby's breath in a vase of roses beneath the Tabernacle moving. I smiled when this happened. Another little gift I think. On many occasions when I'm praying before the Tabernacle I sense many spirits nearby. I even hear the pews creaking as if someone just sat down behind me or to the side of me. Perhaps these are souls needing our prayers. I know what you mean about the tears. I close my eyes during the Holy hour and at times the tears flow. This is when I know Jesus is cleansing my heart. I always leave the church with such peace in my heart. Jesus is so good as well as His most Holy Mother. May God bless you.
@@SheltonDCruz I do *not* want to start a fight but Christ was talking about Himself; the Son of the Living GOD that Saint Peter just mentioned as a revelation from GOD. There were multiple simultaneous Bishops of Rome until the late 2nd century; when the controversy started. The Eastern Orthodox Church (officially Orthodox Catholic Church) is correct.
@@tinkerbell4329 I'm Orthodox. I have never been Catholic. I became Orthodox after visiting an Orthodox parish and- one Sunday- came so late that communion was already going on. I experienced the unmistakable presence of God- and I also experience this since I converted when I commune. Imagine my surprise when, back in February, I gave into curiosity and went into a local Catholic adoration chapel. I was not expecting to also feel the presence of God there too- but I did. I have since come to the conclusion that Catholics and Orthodox all have real sacraments.
The Holy Eucharist is what changed my life and LOVED hearing this amazing testimony. What a gracious Father we have who always is there no matter what.
I I am a Catholic christian myself, and similarly, I did not have good examples when young, and was a depressed/anxious child, but at 15 I had an experience after watching Jesus of Nazareth that had just come on TV.. I then began reading the bible from start to finish.. It is up to us to pick up the bible and be receptive to the world, I pray a lot now, about 2.5 hours per day, go to Mass, etc and try to live the Gospel.. God bless
Stay with it, Scott. Even when praying becomes difficult and seems pointless- it quite possibly will at some point - don't stop. This is a relationship that's worth working for. It's obvious that you feel the same way. Be blessed, my brother!
"I knew I was in technically, but I had a long way to go". I returned to the faith at age 39...weeping. Similar story. That first confession is wonderful. But then the work begins. Welcome back Brother.
Catechisis (sp?) was the WORST in the late 1960s and 1970s. I am a child of that lack of education. Thankfully God has been soooooo good to me and taken me by the hand to make sure I learned about our beautiful faith! 🙏✝️❤️ I love your amaaaaazing story.
@Cassie Miller I would recommend the Baltimore Catechism. That's what I used! 😊 I went to public school until 5th grade then I started homeschooling with a Catholic curriculum and I learned SOOOOO much from that book alone!
I've never "felt" anything during Adoration or when receiving Our Lord ... However, one night during the Adoration/Exposition I was in the pew repeating the Sanctus over and over. I gradually became aware (intellectually) that I was repeating the Sanctus with all the heavenly hosts and that we were adoring Jesus as He is in the tabernacle, as He is at the crucifixion, as He is at the creation of the universe and as He is sitting on His throne at the right hand of the Father. Being outside of time He is in all those places, from my perspective, at once. *I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE "REAL" IN MY LIFE!* That sense of being truly real lasted during the Mass following the Benediction. What a blessing.
Truth Seeker . If you keep thinking like that ...you will NEVER find the truth. Because JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. God bless you.
EWTN brought me back home: Mother Angelica. I learned so much about our faith from The Coming Home program on EWTN, Journey Home. It also teaches you about other religions and helps us to understand what other religions are missing compared to Catholicism. It also helps us relate to those telling their stories and I find myself saying, 'me too'. Marcus Grodi has to be one of the nicest people. God bless and thank you Coming Home Network for your work.
Sleeping Lioness weak Catholics become protestants and strong Protestants become Catholics such as Tim Staples, Jimmy Aiken, Steve Ray I learnt a lot about my own faith watching these guys on catholic answers and UA-cam in general.
Greg Wilson I’m not sure if you meant it this way, but that sounds like the unconditional election ( predetermined choice by God if a soul is saved or damned and there’s nothing the soul can do about it) part of the heretical Calvinism…and that would be horrible! Maybe you did or didn’t mean it how you said but I’m guessing you probably just meant that God keeps pursuing us no matter how far gone we are and keeps giving us chances when he knows there’s still hope....***hope I don’t seem nit picky I just wanted to clarify mostly for anyone scrolling the comments who isn’t Catholic and might get the wrong idea about what we believe.*** God bless!
Yes, God wills that all men be saved. He is always the first to initiate. But do we respond? That is the question. Christ redeemed us, but our salvation is up to our choice. He objectively paid for every sin, past, present, and future, but we have to subjectively apply to our lives.
@@teresita7297 God does choose who he gives grace to, and, gives us the grace to respond as well. 1Peter 1, and also through most every letter in the new testament. I'm a Catholic, and many, if not most Catholics I have found are Pelagian, or semi-Pelagian in their belief system, which is contrary to the faith as tought in the new testament, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, both Doctors of the Church. Pelagianism, also called Pelagian heresy, a 5th-century Christian heresy taught by Pelagius and his followers that stressed the essential goodness of human nature and the freedom of the human will. Pelagius was concerned about the slack moral standards among Christians, and he hoped to improve their conduct by his teachings. Rejecting the arguments of those who claimed that they sinned because of human weakness, he insisted that God made human beings free to choose between good and evil and that sin is a voluntary act committed by a person against God’s law. Celestius, a disciple of Pelagius, denied the church’s doctrine of original sin and the necessity of infant baptism. Pelagianism was opposed by St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, who asserted that human beings cannot attain righteousness by their own efforts and are totally dependent upon the grace of God. Condemned by two councils of African bishops in 416 and again at Carthage in 418, Pelagius and Celestius were finally excommunicated in 418; Pelagius’s later fate is unknown. The controversy, however, was not over. Julian of Eclanum continued to assert the Pelagian view and engaged Augustine in literary polemic until the latter’s death in 430. Julian himself was finally condemned, with the rest of the Pelagian party, at the Second Council of Ephesus in 431. Another heresy, known as semi-Pelagianism, flourished in southern Gaul until it was finally condemned at the Second Council of Orange in 529. If the idea of God's sovereign election terrifies you, it might be an indicator that you lack trust in God's saving grace and love in your own life. Many Catholics love having a false sense of control, but it's an illusion. The proper response to this is to seek God earnestly, and ask him to provide the grace and come into your heart. He will, and that, ironically, is also baked into his eternal plan. Romans chapter 9 focuses on this exact topic.
Amen! I love the testimonies. I was baptized Easter 2021, and have been learning about the faith through YT channels like Explaining the Father, with Fr Chris Alar, The Catholic Talk Show, and RCIA prior ro being baptized. I love this church. Before I even knew what the Eucharist was, I had went to our Cathedral to see what it was like, and ended up staying for my first mass, months before becoming Catholic. The first holy Sacrament I knew God or my Guardian had told me to 'pat attention', and I did. For months I'd sobbed during mass. Still do most times. The more I learned the more I knew Christ was working on my heart. My first night signing up for adoration, I remember just looking at Him, with a smile, and would do Hail Marys or talk to Him. I've never doubted Christ is present and recently there was a image of a dog sitting before the tabernacle, knowing Christ was there. Its a beautiful picture. But every time I sit with the Eucharist, I can smile.. for my Lord and God is there before me. When I have to leave, I bow to Him deeply, and feel no shame for doing it. He is our God, and we owe Him every breath we take.
This story is very similar to mine. Catholic education and school in the 80's kept God a million miles away from me. I longed for God though. We NEVER talked about Jesus at home but always went to Mass. It was all so stoic. We also had a scary Monsignor. I am 100% at God's mercy on me to bring my young children and myself back to Church and we ALL have a personal relationship with Jesus. It's so beautiful and we are so blessed by His Mercy and Grace. Adoration is always a very holy experience for me in His presence. Great testimonial - thank you, Brother 😊
@@Charity-vm4bt Oh no! That is terrifying. I can understand it to some degree, but the idea of leaving The Truth behind because of evil men in power, well just doesn't make any sense to me. I pray that they will some day be open to God and see that they really NEED the sacraments. Dominus tecum, Reg
Thanks so much for sharing your story. I've had panic/anxiety attacks in the past that started with taking gingko biloba but my muscle memory kicks in sometimes and minor attacks happen. I'll have to try to go to church next time it happens. Right now, I'm feeling a bit depressed and watching these types of videos is helping immensely. Thanks again and God bless.
when the power supply suddenly stops we curse. When the light returns we start watching around more carefully....and we bless this moment. God is light,!!!
@@billy1132 Protestant Bibles are incomplete Luther's German Bible did not have the Epistle of St James because he judged it was not inspired by the Holy Spirit, because James explicitly denies Luther's made-up doctrine of salvation by faith alone. Protestantism started over 1500 years after Jesus ascended into Heaven and sent the Holy Spirit to His One True Church. Jesus has only 1 Body, 1 bride. He prayed the night before He died that His folliwers would be One, as He and the Father are One. Devil, Diablos, means Divider. The hellish spirit divided the Church, which Jesus said would be visible like a city set on a hill. U have left Jesus's True Church for an heretical, diabolic facsimile.
From One, Holy, Catholic & Apostolic Church instituted by God Most you now have 40,000 & still counting manmade groups, poor bleating sheep, all chasing after wind. good for you.
It is the first week of Lent. I find myself here, watching testimony that the Holy Spirit dwells within us at our baptism and is living within us. Even though our families seem as though they have left the faith, God calls us back. We are His creation whether we believe it or not. God wants us to live in His Truth. God bless those who feel as though their family, friends and those we live and work around are incapable of finding God in their lives. It's simply not up to us but a much more capable God, who is always using every opportunity, EVEN atheism to bring us back. Pray tonight for those who do not believe, do not hope and do not love God. Let God work in their life and remain always willing to love and show your faith in God by praying for them. God bless
Wow! Glory and Honor to God in the Highest!!! Thank you for sharing your testimony. Powerful testimony! Amazing! I love you my brother in Christ Jesus. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Blessings!
There is Power in the Adoration chapel' because it is the dwelling place of the Most Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit. Thank God I am catholic! welcome back home brother.
John's experiences are very similar to mine. Sounds like we grew up in a similar time period. The CCD program was honestly boring and I don't remember a thing from it. But now that I am also back "in the fold", I have learned SO much from people in church, from the Priests, from my sister-in-law (who teaches RCIA) and from YT!
I also experienced that the Catholic Church did not know how to share the Gospel with me. So many years everybody had been a Christian, that the knowledge of how to become a Christian has vanished. So it’s nice to hear that you are a evangelist for the Catholic Church!
I am a Catholic christian myself, and similarly, I did not have good examples when young, and was a depressed/anxious child, but at 15 I had an experience after watching Jesus of Nazareth that had just come on TV.. I then began reading the bible from start to finish.. It is up to us to pick up the bible and be receptive to the world, I pray a lot now, about 2.5 hours per day, go to Mass, etc and try to live the Gospel.. God bless
Tearing out pages of the Bible and discarding them is in the tradition of Martin Luther who discarded 1 and 2 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach, and Wisdom, and additions to the books of Esther and Daniel.
@@SuperIliad Ha ha Listen.. even the Jews wrote in there books that after Maleachi there was not PROPHET anymore in Israel. So what are you talking about?
A good friend of mine now deceased told me this story of the Atheist he met in London. The Atheist told the story my son went to hospital he was very sick. " He asked if there is a God give me a sign that my son will recover. He was proceeding through London a office block was lit up the way the offices were lit it made the shape of the cross." His son recovered I passed on the story to a friend of mine. The answer was the Atheist is doing more for God in telling the story. Even the Atheist can be called to serve God in his works.
I was a fallen away Catholic too. I' m glad to be back. I believe Our Lady had a role in my conversion. I'm glad to be a member of the One Holy, Apostolic, Catholic Church
Thank God that this young man did return to God and is now a Catholic ,and by coincidence the parish in which I was raised in Ireland was an Oblate parish though now I live in Canada for many years and the parish I came to was also an Oblate Parish.
I wish the same. It is a sad thing to bear but we must continuously pray for their conversion. Ask St. Monica to pray for our spouses. I’ll pray for your spouse, mine & all atheists. Stay strong, dear child of God❤️
God is real because I have felt His Holy and loving presence in this world, He is truly merciful and is aware of all evildoers, may He punish the wicked Amen
Yup, the 70s era of free range kids when many of our parents just expected we would obsorb the faith by osmosis. To say catechesis "was at a low point" is putting it mildly. I actually learned more about the Real Presence of the Eucharist from Heinlein's _Stranger in a Strange Land_ than I did from CDC. 26 years away, 16 as an agnostic, but I reconciled February 2002.
Going from denying that God exists to adoring the false teachings of an organization ≠ salvation. So, perhaps the most fundamental question that any of us could ask is: What is the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to the Roman Catholic Church? "...what must I do, that I may be saved?" (Acts 16:30)
Instead of glorifying God for the conversion of a sinner, (Lk.15:7) you've decided to just attack. What d'you say of the palpable presence he felt in the adoration chapel?
“IF” you have not already, please consider going to Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament (also known as “Holy Hour”). Call your local Catholic parish and find out when they offer it. Then, just go and sit in silence in Christ’s Presence. TAKE YOUR BIBLE. Read scripture, pray, contemplate. Tell the Lord of your search for truth, of your doubts, worries, even fears. Then, be as patient with Him as He has been with you. When you receive the grace to know that HE IS THERE, you will be forever changed. Miracles occur in Christ’s presence - of that I can personally attest.
This really really hit me. I wasn't raised with any particular faith, only having gone to Church once as a child when I was invited by my next door neighbor, who happened to be the daughter of a Baptist preacher. I had always considered myself a Christian but realized later on it was only in a lukewarm sense. Years later, in 2010, I lost my father to a heart attack and then only 3 months later I lost my older brother. I fell into a pit of despair and anxiety. It was as if I was wondering through a black cloud. I began to ask myself what I really believed and started reading books about intelligent design, religion and philosophy. I started attending an Evangelical church for a couple years but something was missing. My research eventually lead me to the history of the true Universal Church, where I entered into RCIA. Not only this, but my Baptist since birth fiance joined me. A year later we were married in our hometown Catholic Church. I've been Catholic 6 years now and it's the best decision I've ever made.
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You sound little a very steady person.
Nice
Beautiful story.
Welcome home
7 years ago, I was 17 years old and always got migraine attacks every time I consumed coffee. And so, I had completely given up coffee for at least a year. Then one day, I was at a retreat and we were having silent adoration for one hour. I was in the first bench. The Eucharist was right in front of me. All of a sudden, I felt this cooling, strong, minty, balmy sensation right in the center of my forehead. After a while this sensation began to branch out into the inner parts of my head. And the paths they took, were exactly along the spots where I had the migraine attacks. The sensation would move deeper,stay there for a while and then proceed deeper inside. This happened until it reached the back of my ears. Then it stopped. I just knew God had healed my migraine. The first thing I did after that session was to ask my father to buy me some coffee. I drink coffee everyday now. Seven years later, I have not had a migraine attack. Sometimes when I feel a small sensation coming on, I say, "Dear headache, the Lord Jesus has healed me completely and for life. You have no place here." And then I move on with my day. A while later I realize the pain left me then and there.
Wow! Beautiful testimony! 🥹
Marvelous! Our God is a great and glorious God, is He not?
I'm currently at the office surrounded by Atheist, anti-Catholics, and Skeptics and needed to hear something positive. Your video made me smile and
brought a calm over me, welcome home brother.
Hold on to your faith. Jesus says the world will hate us because of him:
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." John 15:18-19
@@Chris-yr8wb Thank you. Luckily my faith is strong even in this place where most have given themselves to the world and to false teachers.
You would be better off an atheist, at least they aren't hypocrites that follow pagan rituals.
Pray for them. You don’t even have to evangelize them or mention religion. Constant prayer always brings results. You may even begin to notice a change at work
Truth Seeker you are merely a troll. You show up all over You Tube leaving the same troll comments. I pity you. How lonely you must be, leaving negative comments filled with bile for strangers. You have all the time in the world to troll around like this, all the time in the world to hate. How empty and angry you must be on the inside. I will pray for you, troll, especially as you don’t have the courage to pray on your own.
I was raised in a protestant church. I hated going to church and avoided it whenever I could. It always seemed to me that the people in my church were hypocrites--say one thing on Sunday and live another way the rest of the week. As a young teenager, I too, considered the idea of Atheism. In high school, I was a member of a concert choir. During one Christmas season, we were invited to perform several times during the Masses at a local Catholic Church. At the first Mass, my heart swelled and I thought, My God, I know you are here. This is your Church. The sterility I felt in a protestant church was replaced with an overwhelming feeling of love and community in the RC church. When I was 18, I converted to Catholicism. I didn't care what anyone in my family thought about it (and they did have some opinions) and I have never second guessed that decision. The family eventually got over it.
Praise God! Welcome home🤗
You are blessed to have found your way home so young.
God bless you more finding HIM again
Thanks for sharing. When I first was welcomed into the Church as a convert, I went and stayed in a room above where the monks lived at St. Bernard monestary in Cullman, Al. One night around 2am, I couldn't sleep, so I decided to study some literature on the Church and read some scripture. All of a sudden, I sensed a presence in the room, like nothing I'd ever felt before. It was like the air was electric and the hair on my arms seemed to stand up. I felt this feeling of overwhelming unconditional love wash over me and all I could do was weep... uncontrollably. I felt unworthy to be in this presence. I saw no one, but the presence there was more real than anything I'd ever experienced. I picked up a pen and tried to write in a journal the words that we're racing through my head, all the while crying like a child. The words coming to me were about the Savior's love for me and if I loved Him and trusted Him , I should love and trust His Church. I will never be able to forget that beautiful experience. Thanks be to God for His love for us!
Thank you for sharing
"And you are Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church"
I experienced something unusual when I went to visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament to offer a Holy Hour. I was alone in the church in the evening. I sat down in the pew closest to the Tabernacle where I like to go for my time of prayer. Immediately I sensed multiple presences with long gowns swishing and moving about. I didn't hear them or see them, but I sensed them. What came to mind was multiple angels adoring Jesus. I remained very still while I went through this experience. It was beautiful, but lasted only a few moments. I have been able to offer many Holy Hours over the years, thanks be to God. I think our kind and gracious Lord was giving me a little gift. On another occasion after about 2 hours in prayer alone before The Tabernacle, I saw the baby's breath in a vase of roses beneath the Tabernacle moving. I smiled when this happened. Another little gift I think. On many occasions when I'm praying before the Tabernacle I sense many spirits nearby. I even hear the pews creaking as if someone just sat down behind me or to the side of me. Perhaps these are souls needing our prayers. I know what you mean about the tears. I close my eyes during the Holy hour and at times the tears flow. This is when I know Jesus is cleansing my heart. I always leave the church with such peace in my heart. Jesus is so good as well as His most Holy Mother. May God bless you.
@@SheltonDCruz I do *not* want to start a fight but Christ was talking about Himself; the Son of the Living GOD that Saint Peter just mentioned as a revelation from GOD. There were multiple simultaneous Bishops of Rome until the late 2nd century; when the controversy started. The Eastern Orthodox Church (officially Orthodox Catholic Church) is correct.
@@tinkerbell4329 I'm Orthodox. I have never been Catholic. I became Orthodox after visiting an Orthodox parish and- one Sunday- came so late that communion was already going on. I experienced the unmistakable presence of God- and I also experience this since I converted when I commune. Imagine my surprise when, back in February, I gave into curiosity and went into a local Catholic adoration chapel. I was not expecting to also feel the presence of God there too- but I did. I have since come to the conclusion that Catholics and Orthodox all have real sacraments.
The Holy Eucharist is what changed my life and LOVED hearing this amazing testimony. What a gracious Father we have who always is there no matter what.
I I am a Catholic christian myself, and similarly, I did not have good examples when young, and was a depressed/anxious child, but at 15 I had an experience after watching Jesus of Nazareth that had just come on TV.. I then began reading the bible from start to finish.. It is up to us to pick up the bible and be receptive to the world, I pray a lot now, about 2.5 hours per day, go to Mass, etc and try to live the Gospel.. God bless
I had a similar experience with the film, 'Jesus Christ Superstar'.
Stay with it, Scott. Even when praying becomes difficult and seems pointless- it quite possibly will at some point - don't stop. This is a relationship that's worth working for. It's obvious that you feel the same way. Be blessed, my brother!
"I knew I was in technically, but I had a long way to go". I returned to the faith at age 39...weeping. Similar story. That first confession is wonderful. But then the work begins. Welcome back Brother.
Catechisis (sp?) was the WORST in the late 1960s and 1970s. I am a child of that lack of education. Thankfully God has been soooooo good to me and taken me by the hand to make sure I learned about our beautiful faith! 🙏✝️❤️ I love your amaaaaazing story.
@Cassie Miller I would recommend the Baltimore Catechism. That's what I used! 😊 I went to public school until 5th grade then I started homeschooling with a Catholic curriculum and I learned SOOOOO much from that book alone!
it was bad, wasn't it?
I've never "felt" anything during Adoration or when receiving Our Lord ...
However,
one night during the Adoration/Exposition I was in the pew repeating the Sanctus over and over. I gradually became aware (intellectually) that I was repeating the Sanctus with all the heavenly hosts and that we were adoring Jesus as He is in the tabernacle, as He is at the crucifixion, as He is at the creation of the universe and as He is sitting on His throne at the right hand of the Father.
Being outside of time He is in all those places, from my perspective, at once.
*I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE "REAL" IN MY LIFE!*
That sense of being truly real lasted during the Mass following the Benediction.
What a blessing.
You are adoring the pagan sun God in the sunburst monstrance.
Ya sometimes you never feel anything...but after adoration time i know my problems had way out with God ways not mine.....
Truth Seeker . If you keep thinking like that ...you will NEVER find the truth.
Because JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. God bless you.
EWTN brought me back home: Mother Angelica. I learned so much about our faith from The Coming Home program on EWTN, Journey Home. It also teaches you about other religions and helps us to understand what other religions are missing compared to Catholicism. It also helps us relate to those telling their stories and I find myself saying, 'me too'. Marcus Grodi has to be one of the nicest people. God bless and thank you Coming Home Network for your work.
Sleeping Lioness weak Catholics become protestants and strong Protestants become Catholics such as Tim Staples, Jimmy Aiken, Steve Ray I learnt a lot about my own faith watching these guys on catholic answers and UA-cam in general.
Geroge: Isn't that true. A good way to explain conversions. I'll remember that and use that too if you don't mind. Scott Hahn as well!
Isn’t it amazing? God chooses those who he wishes to save, no matter where they are in their understanding of truth.
Greg Wilson I’m not sure if you meant it this way, but that sounds like the unconditional election ( predetermined choice by God if a soul is saved or damned and there’s nothing the soul can do about it) part of the heretical Calvinism…and that would be horrible! Maybe you did or didn’t mean it how you said but I’m guessing you probably just meant that God keeps pursuing us no matter how far gone we are and keeps giving us chances when he knows there’s still hope....***hope I don’t seem nit picky I just wanted to clarify mostly for anyone scrolling the comments who isn’t Catholic and might get the wrong idea about what we believe.*** God bless!
Yes, God wills that all men be saved. He is always the first to initiate. But do we respond? That is the question. Christ redeemed us, but our salvation is up to our choice. He objectively paid for every sin, past, present, and future, but we have to subjectively apply to our lives.
Chooses lol
@@teresita7297 God does choose who he gives grace to, and, gives us the grace to respond as well. 1Peter 1, and also through most every letter in the new testament. I'm a Catholic, and many, if not most Catholics I have found are Pelagian, or semi-Pelagian in their belief system, which is contrary to the faith as tought in the new testament, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, both Doctors of the Church. Pelagianism, also called Pelagian heresy, a 5th-century Christian heresy taught by Pelagius and his followers that stressed the essential goodness of human nature and the freedom of the human will. Pelagius was concerned about the slack moral standards among Christians, and he hoped to improve their conduct by his teachings. Rejecting the arguments of those who claimed that they sinned because of human weakness, he insisted that God made human beings free to choose between good and evil and that sin is a voluntary act committed by a person against God’s law. Celestius, a disciple of Pelagius, denied the church’s doctrine of original sin and the necessity of infant baptism.
Pelagianism was opposed by St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, who asserted that human beings cannot attain righteousness by their own efforts and are totally dependent upon the grace of God. Condemned by two councils of African bishops in 416 and again at Carthage in 418, Pelagius and Celestius were finally excommunicated in 418; Pelagius’s later fate is unknown.
The controversy, however, was not over. Julian of Eclanum continued to assert the Pelagian view and engaged Augustine in literary polemic until the latter’s death in 430. Julian himself was finally condemned, with the rest of the Pelagian party, at the Second Council of Ephesus in 431. Another heresy, known as semi-Pelagianism, flourished in southern Gaul until it was finally condemned at the Second Council of Orange in 529.
If the idea of God's sovereign election terrifies you, it might be an indicator that you lack trust in God's saving grace and love in your own life. Many Catholics love having a false sense of control, but it's an illusion. The proper response to this is to seek God earnestly, and ask him to provide the grace and come into your heart. He will, and that, ironically, is also baked into his eternal plan. Romans chapter 9 focuses on this exact topic.
Beautiful story! God has amazing ways of touching our lives.....
Amen! I love the testimonies. I was baptized Easter 2021, and have been learning about the faith through YT channels like Explaining the Father, with Fr Chris Alar, The Catholic Talk Show, and RCIA prior ro being baptized. I love this church. Before I even knew what the Eucharist was, I had went to our Cathedral to see what it was like, and ended up staying for my first mass, months before becoming Catholic. The first holy Sacrament I knew God or my Guardian had told me to 'pat attention', and I did. For months I'd sobbed during mass. Still do most times. The more I learned the more I knew Christ was working on my heart. My first night signing up for adoration, I remember just looking at Him, with a smile, and would do Hail Marys or talk to Him. I've never doubted Christ is present and recently there was a image of a dog sitting before the tabernacle, knowing Christ was there. Its a beautiful picture. But every time I sit with the Eucharist, I can smile.. for my Lord and God is there before me. When I have to leave, I bow to Him deeply, and feel no shame for doing it. He is our God, and we owe Him every breath we take.
God works in mysterious ways. Praise be to Him.
What an amazing story - so moving! There is such a calming effect at adoration you don’t really want to leave even if you have to 🙏🏻
Touching! Moving! Powerful!. God bless. Thank you brother!
This story is very similar to mine. Catholic education and school in the 80's kept God a million miles away from me. I longed for God though. We NEVER talked about Jesus at home but always went to Mass. It was all so stoic. We also had a scary Monsignor. I am 100% at God's mercy on me to bring my young children and myself back to Church and we ALL have a personal relationship with Jesus. It's so beautiful and we are so blessed by His Mercy and Grace. Adoration is always a very holy experience for me in His presence. Great testimonial - thank you, Brother 😊
Many Catholics do not live the faith at home. God help us all get closer to his Son.
God bless you John
Amen . Praise The Lord. India.
how wonderful a story that was and how humble John was to say all of that...
Wow, God is amazing, He waits for us!😍👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
Beautiful testimony, welcome Home.
@@Charity-vm4bt Oh no! That is terrifying.
I can understand it to some degree, but the idea of leaving The Truth behind because of evil men in power, well just doesn't make any sense to me.
I pray that they will some day be open to God and see that they really NEED the sacraments.
Dominus tecum,
Reg
Thank God I came across this testimony today. Thank God for your life. I pray that the Lord will do something profound in my life today.
Thanks so much for sharing your story. I've had panic/anxiety attacks in the past that started with taking gingko biloba but my muscle memory kicks in sometimes and minor attacks happen. I'll have to try to go to church next time it happens. Right now, I'm feeling a bit depressed and watching these types of videos is helping immensely. Thanks again and God bless.
Beautiful! bought a tear to my eyes!
when the power supply suddenly stops we curse. When the light returns we start watching around more carefully....and we bless this moment.
God is light,!!!
Beautiful testimony. God never gave up on you.
Once catholic always catholic love jesus😇
Once Roman Catholic. Now Catholic! Once in the church of rome. Now Came to JESUS in Protestant Bible based churches I came Home!!!
@@billy1132 Protestant Bibles are incomplete Luther's German Bible did not have the Epistle of St James because he judged it was not inspired by the Holy Spirit, because James explicitly denies Luther's made-up doctrine of salvation by faith alone. Protestantism started over 1500 years after Jesus ascended into Heaven and sent the Holy Spirit to His One True Church. Jesus has only 1 Body, 1 bride. He prayed the night before He died that His folliwers would be One, as He and the Father are One. Devil, Diablos, means Divider. The hellish spirit divided the Church, which Jesus said would be visible like a city set on a hill. U have left Jesus's True Church for an heretical, diabolic facsimile.
@@billy1132 Protestant Bible based Churches are not based on the Bible because the Bible tells us to stay true to the Traditions of the Apostles.
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From One, Holy, Catholic & Apostolic Church instituted by God Most you now have 40,000 & still counting manmade groups, poor bleating sheep, all chasing after wind. good for you.
It is the first week of Lent. I find myself here, watching testimony that the Holy Spirit dwells within us at our baptism and is living within us. Even though our families seem as though they have left the faith, God calls us back. We are His creation whether we believe it or not. God wants us to live in His Truth. God bless those who feel as though their family, friends and those we live and work around are incapable of finding God in their lives. It's simply not up to us but a much more capable God, who is always using every opportunity, EVEN atheism to bring us back. Pray tonight for those who do not believe, do not hope and do not love God. Let God work in their life and remain always willing to love and show your faith in God by praying for them. God bless
Wow! Glory and Honor to God in the Highest!!!
Thank you for sharing your testimony. Powerful testimony! Amazing! I love you my brother in Christ Jesus. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Blessings!
Wow you make my crying 😢😢I love so much JESUS CRIST ON ADORATION!!!your testimony is so short but soo beautiful.GOD BLESS YOU 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
a beautiful story of how much God loves us. Thank you for sharing this very personal, but wonderful & inspirational encounter with the Lord.
Thank you for your testimony.
Welcome home! God bless 🙏🏼
There is Power in the Adoration chapel' because it is the dwelling place of the Most Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit. Thank God I am catholic! welcome back home brother.
John's experiences are very similar to mine. Sounds like we grew up in a similar time period. The CCD program was honestly boring and I don't remember a thing from it. But now that I am also back "in the fold", I have learned SO much from people in church, from the Priests, from my sister-in-law (who teaches RCIA) and from YT!
Thank you for this wonderful testimony.
Loved this, God bless you!
Testimonials like these help strengthen me to keep walking m. I'm a cradle Catholic.
Thank you.
Very powerful, your story made me weep. Thank you
I also experienced that the Catholic Church did not know how to share the Gospel with me. So many years everybody had been a Christian, that the knowledge of how to become a Christian has vanished. So it’s nice to hear that you are a evangelist for the Catholic Church!
I am a Catholic christian myself, and similarly, I did not have good examples when young, and was a depressed/anxious child, but at 15 I had an experience after watching Jesus of Nazareth that had just come on TV.. I then began reading the bible from start to finish.. It is up to us to pick up the bible and be receptive to the world, I pray a lot now, about 2.5 hours per day, go to Mass, etc and try to live the Gospel.. God bless
Wow, that's amazing! Thanks be to God 🙏🏾 welcome back home
Thank you for HUMILITY in CHRIST for the rest of the world. Certainly THROUGH FAITH, GOD is REAL. We NEED your amazing TESTIMONY.
AWESOME TESTIMONY!
Thank you 🌷
Welcome back to our church, may God keep and protect you always
Thank you, so beautiful 🙏❤️
Tearing out pages of the Bible and discarding them is in the tradition of Martin Luther who discarded 1 and 2 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach, and Wisdom, and additions to the books of Esther and Daniel.
1. 2. Maccabees is a historybook and not prophetic
@@unam9931 Thank you for the non sequitur.
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Ha ha
Listen.. even the Jews wrote in there books that after Maleachi there was not PROPHET anymore in Israel.
So what are you talking about?
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the term "non sequitur."
@@SuperIliad posibel because english is not my first language
A good friend of mine now deceased told me this story of the Atheist he met in London.
The Atheist told the story my son went to hospital he was very sick. " He asked if there is a God give me a sign that my son will recover. He was proceeding through London a office block was lit up the way the offices were lit it made the shape of the cross." His son recovered I passed on the story to a friend of mine. The answer was the Atheist is doing more for God in telling the story. Even the Atheist can be called to serve God in his works.
Thanks
When The Holy Spirit calls, there is no turning back!
Thanks a lot dude, you just made get a tissue...lol...Short and very powerful share...PEACE...
Welcome home! 🙏
He was a fallen away Catholic , not an Atheist. He had the Faith ( didn’t know it ) lost it and then regained it strongly.
I was a fallen away Catholic too. I' m glad to be back. I believe Our Lady had a role in my conversion. I'm glad to be a member of the One Holy, Apostolic, Catholic Church
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Lawrence Keenan well said!
Atheism is simply declaring no faith in any God. So yes. He was.
@Lawrence Keenan He said, 'I chose atheism and decided that there couldn't possibly be a God.' That sounds pretty atheist to me.
Praise God. Our God has not forgotten u He loves n he cares to the one who seek Him.
Beautiful story. God bless you all.
what a beautiful testimony! thank you for sharing it
Thank God that this young man did return to God and is now a Catholic ,and by coincidence the parish in which I was raised in Ireland was an Oblate parish though now I live in Canada for many years and the parish I came to was also an Oblate Parish.
Dear Lord please bring my family back into your heart. Ray. Jason. And. Ruth.
Amen
Thank you "JESUS" !
Amazing story loved it !Glory be to God !
I wish I could bring my atheist spouse with me to adoration :(
SovngardeBeckoned I’ll pray with you
Pray for her conversion. She will be touch sooner or later.
I wish the same. It is a sad thing to bear but we must continuously pray for their conversion. Ask St. Monica to pray for our spouses. I’ll pray for your spouse, mine & all atheists. Stay strong, dear child of God❤️
Yay, Angels and Saints please pray for John Knusten and his family.
Marvelous is our God who waits patiently for us to return home to him.
Inspiring!!!❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇 Thank-you!!!
God is always patient !! His time is the Best time, he is waiting for you , Come Child Come to Me, said Jesus,
Beautiful story
Yes God…we need You! All fears are cast aside by His Mighty Name.
God is real because I have felt His Holy and loving presence in this world, He is truly merciful and is aware of all evildoers, may He punish the wicked Amen
Leave me alone,
May Jesus Christ create a new heart within the wicked & allow them to be reborn. Let us pray for these souls & offer reparations.
We really should pray for conversion of evildoers...it's called MERCY.
Lord Jesus is our Almighty God and our Creator. We are Catholics whose faith came from the Lord through the Lord's Apostles
Great story. I can definitely relate
welcome home....Jesus loves you
Welcome back
Absolutely beautiful testimony
John, God loves you! How could that happen?
Welcome home
Hermoso!! Saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴🇨🇴😀🌺
God bless you, brother.
most awesome video title ever...
Wow! Good for you to have really encountered the Lord, to have felt His real presence!
Great story! 😊😊👍
Praise the Lord! Welcome home brother Ni Christ
Dear Lord please touch my husband Ray son jason and my sister Ruth bring them to your heart amen
Yup, the 70s era of free range kids when many of our parents just expected we would obsorb the faith by osmosis. To say catechesis "was at a low point" is putting it mildly. I actually learned more about the Real Presence of the Eucharist from Heinlein's _Stranger in a Strange Land_ than I did from CDC. 26 years away, 16 as an agnostic, but I reconciled February 2002.
Love this! Our God is a Person. You can ignor him, but he thas not ignor us!
My Jesus thankyou for your patience
What a wonderful story!
Love this
Wow! 😢🙏❤️
God bless you
Terrific story
What’s. Beautiful testimony
One faith one church one God. Holy apostolic Roman Catholic Church. Amen
Amazing story,
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ and mother Mary
Going from denying that God exists to adoring the false teachings of an organization ≠ salvation. So, perhaps the most fundamental question that any of us could ask is: What is the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to the Roman Catholic Church? "...what must I do, that I may be saved?" (Acts 16:30)
Instead of glorifying God for the conversion of a sinner, (Lk.15:7) you've decided to just attack. What d'you say of the palpable presence he felt in the adoration chapel?
Wow. That was powerful.
“IF” you have not already, please consider going to Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament (also known as “Holy Hour”). Call your local Catholic parish and find out when they offer it. Then, just go and sit in silence in Christ’s Presence. TAKE YOUR BIBLE. Read scripture, pray, contemplate. Tell the Lord of your search for truth, of your doubts, worries, even fears. Then, be as patient with Him as He has been with you. When you receive the grace to know that HE IS THERE, you will be forever changed. Miracles occur in Christ’s presence - of that I can personally attest.
excellente
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