My husband and I converted from being life long Protestants last Easter and all I can say is Glory to Jesus Christ for inviting us home to a larger story of faith! The Sacraments, Adoration, Mass, the Church Fathers, The Saints! And so much more! I am so grateful. ❤
@chaplainmattsanders4884 HI! I got it from watching Matt Fradd interview James McCann on Matt's excellent podcast Pints With Aquinas...his direct quote was , "we want to be called to Repentance, we want to be invited to a Larger Story." It explains it perfectly:) Check out the podcast but don't start with that interview as it's a little salty😂
Welcome home! My wife converted 5 years ago! She's thankful for her protestant upbringing, but now feels fully complete with all the treasures of the Catholic church.
I was an Anglican, and after going to Mass since Christmas Eve of 2022, God willing, I will be confirmed on Easter Vigil. This has been quite a journey. I will feel so blessed when I get to receive my first Eucharist.
Unfortunate for U to be among those who have fallen away from Christ... For NOT KEEPING URSELF FAITHFUL to the Gospel that was once n for all delivered to the saints...u hv fallen away...fallen for ANOTHER GOSPEL where its catechism is merely a god-man literature bk!
It’s not easy to believe in the Eucharist that it is the Body and Blood of Jesus,but I have to say this that since you are led to it you are definitely being helped by the Son Of God To Believe in his Power And Truth Amen 🙏 May True Faith Be In You More And More Each Time You Receive Your Lord God And Savior Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 🐑🕊️✨🌈
@@christlyn1830 all the saints are men, all the disciples were men, and guess what? Jesus was a man, the difference is that the Gospel was inspired by God Himself and the Holy Catholic Church is the right place to be.
My non catholic husband (baptised an Anglican) regularly attended Mass as a family, with me & our 5 children. After 11 years he told me one afternoon that he MUST become a catholic. I told him "I hope you're not doing this for me"... he said no... on his way to work that morning, driving into the lovely sunrise, God told him he needed to take that step. He couldn't wait for the following Easter in 6 months, so had a number of sessions with our Priest, & was confirmed a Catholic 4 months later. He has been a loyal 'mick' ever since, & a Minister of the Eucharist for many years. Married 46 years, 10 beautiful grandchildren. Father God is GOOD. Jesus Christ is our Lord & Saviour and Great Physician in many of life's circumstances; & His Mother Mary is also our gentle & loving Mother. What a church to grow up in😊. Even with the attacks by satan within our church at high levels, we know it will survive and come out washed white as snow because 'the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.'
You have the Anglican CULT and the Anglican so called baptism IS INVALID. ONLY Jesus can found a Church NOT man. The Bible a Catholic book condemns protestantism and orthodoxy. Protestant so called baptism IS INVALID.
Welcome to the Church. As a cradle Catholic my understanding and appreciation of the Church is greatly enriched by our Converts. There are so many treasures in the Church that we either take for granted or don't really look at in depth because we have always had them. As these people come into the faith they help us by seeing these things with fresh eyes and lead us to examine our own faith and understanding in a deeper way.
As a cradle Catholic myself and now in my 50's ... our convert brothers and sisters have helped me appreciate my Catholic faith more..thanks be to God.
As a Protestant, the more I investigate and research the claims of Catholicism the more I consider converting. To anyone holding to an anti-Catholic sentiment, take another look into everything with an open heart. Leave your tribalism at the door. It's such a rewarding journey. Praise the Lord! 🙌
St. Anne filled me. It wasn’t until a month prior to Easter 2009 that I realized it was she. Ask who is guiding your heart and man, you’ll be grateful to them for ever!
Great video. I’m doing Rcia now and getting baptised in Catholic Church this Easter. It’s taken years of research and reading on my part to get here. I’ve taken in Jesus Christ grace. It’s amazing. I’m home
I remember as a kid the Churches were full to the brim, and then it started to dwindle in the 70’s, today I saw our little Church almost filled to capacity Thank you Lord for bring your flock back to the true Church.
I remember that, too. There were 5 Mass times to choose from at every parish, and you had to go to the parish you lived in, couldn't go to Grandma and Grandpa's parish for Mass if they lived in a different parish, even if the priests knew you, because every Mass was packed. I was a skinny little kid, and the thing I hated most about going to Mass was that I was squeezed into the pew 😂 I was scrunched right up! Another thing I remember is that people would step into the aisle for Communion at different times, whenever they believed they were prepared to receive worthily, and sometimes it meant they stayed in the pew the whole time. People going up to receive Communion didn't know who stayed in the pew because nobody went at the same time. Not like today where there are ushers instructing the whole row of pews to line up all at the same time. One time, I had been traveling, and hadn't had a chance to go to Confession. I discerned that I had to go to Confession before I could receive, so I remained in my pew and bowed my head in prayer. In the church I was in, there were short pews off to the side, and I had purposely chosen one of those because if there was even one person sitting there, nobody else would. That was I wouldn't have to stand up to let someone through either going or coming. I was praying in remorse, when suddenly I was rudely and firmly tapped on the shoulder. I looked up to see the usher emphatically indicating that I should get in line. What a difference from the old days!
I’m a cradle Catholic,who got sucked into American pop culture religion,had a metanoia in 2009 which lasted for about 2 years maybe, then went back to pop culture religion in 2013 then repented again in March 2019 and decided to go into Protestantism which lasted about 2 yrs and came back home in October of 2021. In the 2 yrs of Protestantism I churched hopped the entire time and everything seemed way out of what Jesus Christ taught. But God was showing me how he works even in Protestantism to bring his back home and how the Catholic Church is where he truly is,in the Eucharist. Protestantism for me was an emotional rollercoaster,always wanting Gods presence to be felt which is a good thing but I never knew how the demons manipulate our emotions as well. There wasn’t any confessionals or Eucharist and the welsh grape fruit cups with a cracker wasn’t cutting it for me. Things are in order now for me and my spiritual life has grown so much since that there is no way I’m ever looking back despite the scandals and drama unfolding. There has always been scandals in Gods church,Judas caused the biggest scandal in church history. Jesus Christ showed us that there will always be scandals in the church but the gates of hell shall never prevail against her. Amen
Wow your testimony is very similar to mine. I know how hard it cam be to come back around, i too chirch hopped as God asked me to do so. I believe it was so I could know Catholicism was true, on my own since I too was born I to Catholicism. May God continue to bless you. Welcome home!!!
Relate to this completely. Same issues. The night I made my decision to enter the Church, the song came to me “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.”
My husband converted the same year my middle daughter was confirmed. He willingly raised them Catholic because as he saw it we had basic rules that don't change.
It was mentioned part of the reason for rejecting the deuterocanonical books was the language they were in - that they were only in Greek. That was a reason given by the 4 centuries post Christ Masoteric Jews, and the Reformers. But then along comes the Dead Sea scrolls, and parts of those books were found in Hebrew and Aramaic dating back to the time of Jesus. Turns out the Catholic Church was right all along.
I was in the Holy Land at the caves in the Dead Sea area on a pilgrimage and our tour guide said a Protestant pastor heard this and said he was going home and getting all new Catholic Bibles for his church.
They were in the Septuagint, the OT translated to Greek from Hebrew, from the 3rd century BC. It was there in the time of Jesus. Unless you were in Jerusalem, Greek was prevailing influence.
Read St John 5:39-40 then read St. John 6 1-66. You search* the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf.c 40 But you do not want to come to me to have life.
Great interview. I just happened upon it and gave a listen. The last 10 minutes guy me, though, as this is where I am. Worked at my “culturally relevant”non-denom church for 21 years and left last October, and have been going through RCIA since September. The friends and family that don’t understand and disagree (when they find out, I’ve been ‘undercover’). Living in a small town seriously affects big changes like this. But I can’t unsee, unknow what I’ve learned. So, Easter Vigil is just 4.5 weeks away and I can’t wait. Thank you for this show!
I was raised Baptist in have been searching for the truth every conversion I listen to helps. This one truly showed the love of Jesus, which he calls us to love one another.
Talking about his first Mass makes me have to share about our first Mass. Our oldest was 3 at the time, when we got to the car after Mass she proclaimed "that felt familiar". Praise God!
Thank you for your story and welcome home. Please pray for my son, Joshua, to come back to our Catholic faith. I will never be the same or will ever stop praying for him to come home. It has been a wound that continues to bleed.
Please consider making a novena to St Monica. Her prayer turned her pagan son Augustine into one of the greatest doctors of the church. My prayers are with you.
Yep, the Vatican observatory has a facility on Mt. Lemmon in Tucson, but that made me laugh when he said Protestants said it was called Satan. The brilliant, humble, lovely physicist/priest who oversees that facility is such an amazing man, completely in love with God and the unfolding miraculous majesty of the universe.
@@rexweller3759Silly rabbit. There is the VATT, or Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. Certainly doesn’t spell Lucifer. It was put there over 50 years ago. Since it’s a great place for telescopes, in 2002 a consortium of scientific institutes, which does not include the Vatican, installed the LBT. Full name? Large Binocular Telescope Near Infra Res Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extra Galactic Research . If you leave out a whole bunch of words in the name you COULD use Lucifer, but that’s only funny because it would be sitting right next to the Vatican VATT E for effort though.
@@rexweller3759 you’re funny. A little research would have been helpful before you made such a silly and absolutely incorrect comment. But since facts and research don’t seem to be a very common practice anymore, I’ll help you. The Vatican telescope in Tucson is called VATT, or Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. It was installed there about 40 years ago. Native born Arizonan here, we took field trips in grade school to see it. In 2012, a consortium of scientific institutions from around the world, NOT including the Vatican, installed a facility on the same mountain called the LBT, or Large Binocular Telescope. Its full name is “Large Binocular near-infrared Spectroscopic Utility With Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extra-Galactic Research”. Which would be abbreviated LBTNISUWCIFUER. You have to drop a LOT of words out of that secular scientific consortium’s facility name to make it to LUCIFER, but even if it actually worked out to make that acronym, that facility still does not belong to the Catholic Church.
My father was of Scottish protestant heritage living in NZ with an older and younger sister. They moved for a time to Sydney and in 1929 as an 11 yr old, he got polio and could not move his legs and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Back in Auckland, he worked for a radio station 1ZB, where he met my mother of strong Irish catholic heritage. They fell in love but she insisted he become catholic to marry her. He did so, I don’t know how long it took, but God rewarded him with a girl, 2 boys, 3 girls & 2 boys, so even though I would think it quite unfair for a child to become a paraplegic at 11, that was God’s plan for him, and without that plan, I and my 7 siblings would not exist. Thank you God.
I pray your family watches this video. You brought me to tears when I heard you say how you looked forward to receiving the Eucharist for the first time. This is truly what it comes down to. Loving Him. Thank you for your witness and Thank God for you
I cant get enough of these stories. I have immense respect for those who did the work to search for the fullness of Truth. God love them for speaking up about the Treasure Christ left us in our beautiful Catholic Faith. 🙏🙌🙏💕💞💖
Many if not most Protestants are what I call ABC Christians. ABC as in “Anything But Catholic “. One can be Baptist and then become Methodist, or you can be Lutheran and become Episcopalian, or Presbyterian and become nondenominational, and there is little or no backlash. It’s fine so long as you do not become Catholic. Anything but Catholic!
I thank our protestant brothers and sisters for their mad passion for the Word of God. As Catbolic I have developed this love for the Word and make me a better follower of Christ.
I enjoy reading and hearing about Protestant's journeys into the RCC. My niece is one such person. I'm 66, and I was born into evangelical Protestantism. Late in life I had my fill of it, not just the obligatory "DIY church of me", but the drift towards feminized Christology and posturing clergy, and progressivism, especially amongst the leadership (case in point, the Southern Baptist Convention). I walked away, was received into the Eastern Orthodox Church ☦️ (Antiochian parish), and never looked back.
I see the on social media other faiths demonize the Catholic faith without experiencing it. Not done with love but judgement. They all point to Mary and the saints without understanding. Makes me so sad. We love the same God and want to live a good life.
I also love to listen to conversion stories because I learn so much from it as a cradle Catholic who fell away from the church. I was poorly catechised and mainly told to attend church every Sunday. I now think my faith however rudimentary is the greatest gift they gave me.
You searched so thoroughly to get to the truth of the Catholic faith. I enjoyed listening to your journey…so calm, factual, honest. Thank you! God bless.
I converted to Catholicism April 1972, two weeks before I got married. I was an Anglican, but didn't want any tension over religion if we had children. There wasn't much difference to me. Kneeling for communion, same creed, believed in Holy Trinity, only difference was confession & it also made me realize that communion was his body & blood. Such a rich religion, my family didn't give me any tension for my converion. I was very fortunate for having a very open minded family, no prejudices against religion or races.
New subscriber, this is a great channel, thank you for all of your videos!!! I love listening to conversion/reversion stories!!! I was baptized Catholic as a baby but never had any type of religious education growing up, but whenever I was asked what my religion was, I would always say, "I'm Catholic" not knowing anything about my faith. I had a reversion/conversion experience back in 2005 and have been on fire for the faith ever since. God bless you!!!
Me to , I love their conversión story. I'm a cradle Catholic and they (converts) strength me in my faith. God bless Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, save us and the whole world
Excellent resplendent video,I’m overwhelmed by testimonies of people converting to the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church Of Traditional Teachings and Worship.Because I for one never new or learned anything thing about the Catholic Church for over 30yrs,but after that period of time I was helped by a Powerful Powerful conversion back to the Catholic Church by I can’t really say if it was the Father Son or Holy Spirit to lead me back to his Church.Now everyday I’m encouraged inspired and motivated to make endeavor’s to learn as much as I can learn of the traditional Catholic Church teachings to Save My Spirit and Body,May The All Glorious Exalted And Praise Worthy Holy Trinity help us Achieve Salvation Alleluia Hosanna In Excelsis Deo Amen 🙏 🐑🕊️✨🌈
Amen! Praying for our Protestant brothers & sisters is vitally important. Those of us who have come from strong, devout Protestant backgrounds have many devout friends and family who love Jesus and sincerely want to glorify and honor him. We yearn for them to know the fullness of their Christian faith in Christ's one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church!
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Thank you gentlemen for this interview. Bryan, as a practicing Catholic I've learned a few pieces of information I did not know before, about the apocrypha books and when they were taken out of the bible. Thanks so much!
I just found this channel today and subscribed. I don't get it either. I've been watching and subscribing to every Catholic channel I can find over the past 6-7 years and it never came up in my suggestions before. Maybe divide them up into shorter videos with specific topics within the conversations like Pints with Aquinas does? Even Catholic attention spans are short these days :) In any case, keep up the great work!
Thanking God for you all sharing your journey. I'm a cradle Catholic that finds it hard to help others understand about our Catholic faith. Your videos are so important to help everyone with so much of the truth in and history of the Gospels and Fathers of the church. God bless you always. Will share with family and friends🙏🙏🙏😊
Awesome interview ❤ @Bryan I have definitely listened to your story, but I had forgotten some of the details… AMEN to once you see, you can’t un-see and truly pray that others will be open to discover the fullness of the faith that is really so clear ✝️ thank you both for all you do to help others on their journey home 😇 🙏
Thank you brothers for sharing your faith. It has been a blessing to see the Holy Spirit at work in both of you. God's timing and ways of working for His glory never ceases to amaze me. God bless you both and your families ✝️
It does my heart good to hear this. Thank you for your honesty and diligence in researching your entire faith journey home so thoroughly. What a blessing you and your wife openly took this journey together!
Dear Converts, while "cradle Catholics" may never fully understand the sacrifice Protestants make due to conversion, especially those whose livelhood is based on ministry, I think virtually all of us find your story HEROIC in the sacrifice and effort your make to come into the Church. So, GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR JOURNEY AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS! The story of your journey is always inspiring. And to my fellow cradle-ers, GOD BLESS YOU FOR REMAINING IN THE ARK AND SUSTAINING HOLY MOTHER CHURCH!
Eddie, thank you so much for this work. Even as a cradle Catholic, that exact video of the Bread of Life Discourse by fr. Mike Schmitz that Bryan shared changed my life. I highly encourage everyone to check it out
The whole "I am the Light of the World" thing takes place during the feast of Dedication also known as Hanukkah which appears in Maccabees. So, arguably Jesus celebrated Hanukkah and used the symbolism to refer to what He was doing. Ergo, Jesus and first century Judaism at the least believed in the events in Maccabees.
It seems to me in John 6:68 when Peter says "Lord, to whom shall we go?", that perhaps if there had been another option (if John the Baptist were still alive for example), that perhaps Jesus might have lost the Apostles. I'd never noticed that in John 7:1, which immediately follows this incident, that Jesus was in danger of being killed. Thanks to Bryan for pointing this out.
But Peter also said, immediately following, "THOU hast the words of eternal life." Jesus would not have lost His Apostles, fir they already knew St. John the Baptist was *not* the Messiah, the "One who was to come."
@@fairyspunfibers9098 Jesus lost nearly everyone. It's true that Peter said Jesus had the words of eternal life. He also denied Jesus three times. The Apostles didn't understand everything Jesus said, not even parables that seem pretty clear to us. They didn't understand what Jesus meant by eating his flesh and drinking his blood, they may not have even understood them at the Last Supper. The resurrection clarified a lot of things for them, things made more sense in hindsight. As john says, "he saw, and believed." (John 20:8). The Apostles were so invested in Jesus' ministry that they couldn't break free. But that doesn't mean they had a clue about what was really going on.
@@Davcramer They received the gifts of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and thus they then understood what was going on and had the courage to preach the Good News across much of the known world.
Thank you gentlemen for this interview. Bryan...as a practicing cradle Catholic I learned a few great pieces of information I did not know before, about the apocrypha and when they were taken out of the bible. Thanks so much!
I have totally loved listening to you and your walk to understand & believe in the one true Body & Blood of Jesus Christ..the Holy Spirit truly led you through your walk...please pray for my siblings and my husband, daughter & grandson who no longer go to church..it's so very sad and I pray for them at Mass every single day..they really need your prayers...I'm sorry to think that the words " If you receive ..you never leave" would be true with all my family...because myself, I cannot imagine not believing that the Eucharist is the Body & Blood Of Jesus Christ..Thank You Again🙏
The greatest trick Satan has played wasn't just to make people believe he wasn't real, it was to make people leave the church Jesus founded, leave the Sacrament of reconciliation, leave our blessed mother, and leave Him in the Blessed Host away from communion and salvation.
Even worse, I've heard that more than making us believe he doesn't exist, he makes us believe the he is us - that his ideas (like leaving Jesus' Church) are our ideas.
That Father Mike talk changed my life as well! I was already Catholic but my eyes were opened like never before and my faith just continues to deepen all because of the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist. I am so excited for the Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Conference happening this summer. The talk is called "The Hour that will Change Your Life" with Fr. Mike Schmitz.
@@tony1685 Well, the Catholic Church created the canon of all 73 books of the Bible in the 4th Century. Martin Luther removed 7 books because they didn't fit with HIS idea of "faith alone" that he came up with in the 1500s. If you are truly interested in the TRUTH of Christianity - not just hearsay from other Protestants, or what you've learned from poorly taught Catholics who don't practice their faith, you need to go back and look at how the very first Christians lived the ones who were taught by the apostles. Like St. Irenaeus, St. Ignatius, St. Justin Martyr - to name just a few. The church of the early Christians was the Catholic Church. They all believed in the Eucharist as the Body and Blood of Christ, Apostolic succession, celebrating the Mass as a REpresented sacrifice of Jesus death on Calvary - AND they used both the Old Testament and New Testament to show where God was pointing to His creation of the Church from the beginning of existence. The same Catholic Church that existed back then is the same one that is today. "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." - John Henry Cardinal Newman. I highly suggest listening to Day 100 of the Bible in a Year podcast, if you are serious about your love for Jesus. You can choose from there where to go
I left my faith for a very long time and since I’ve come back my life is clear and the desire to be thankful has intensified. My friends are Christian evangelicals. They are out of their minds over me going back to my catholic faith. They truly believe my faith is a cult which is absurd and the way they disrespect Mary the mother of Christ is pretty much unacceptable.
I reverted years ago, had been a Protestant as a young man, heard many false claims over the years about what Catholic believes supposedly that I knew were not true. Eventually this turned me towards the Church until I had no choice other to revert.
I absolutely love listening to these conversion stories. Thank you for this channel and for all those who have been so courageous to follow the Truth, regardless of the difficult consequences. May you be blessed 🙏
I also was in the United Methodist church and saw where they were headed. The doctrinal divide was getting wider and I hated being part of a church that couldn’t decide on what they believed. That began my move to the Catholic Church. Btw the parts of the UMC that were against same sex marriages were the African bishops. Good on them for standing up.
My husband and I are attending our first mass this weekend. I'm beyond excited. I was saved a year ago and have been exploring (heavily researching, lets be real) my faith and its all lead me to the Catholic Church. My husband isn't a believer, yet, but he was the one who suggested we attend mass.
When he found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it. He made me think of this scripture when he said it dosen't matter what his family stays even though it hurts. But he has found the pearl of great price. God Bless and prayers that your whole family will soon find that pearl
Twenty years for our family of 11, this Easter (we now numbers 33 and even Religious!!) and the fact that the early churches went to Rome instead of St. John was very instrumental in my accepting the Papacy. Welcome to the war! ( quote from a congrats when we converted!).
This is the 2nd time I've listened to this amazing testimony... EXCELLENT job! TY so much for this wonderful interview... so many profound points made in a simple manner, so that it would be hard for one to deny the logic! I had been deeply in love with my Catholic Faith as a child & young adult, but fell away from any feeling of connection with God during college. Many years later, I was still attending Mass, but only b/c I was afraid if I stopped going, I would stop trying. After spending way too many years taking my Catholic Faith for granted, simply going through the motions & just feeling dead inside, I sometimes wondered if it might be possible that I was actually dead & in purgatory, & just didn't know it. 😢 For a long time, I prayed & begged to FEEL HIM again, & then FINALLY, in one small thing that occurred, I suddenly felt something, & it was glorious! From there, over & over again, opportunities were placed before me, & various experiences began happening, & I could feel that He was there & drawing me back in. I know now that HE never left me, but that I had left Him. Once He knew I was open & seeking Him sincerely, He began to place experiences before me that I just needed to accept & go with each time. One thing built on another, & I began to realize that He had just been waiting for me to exercise my free will & INVITE HIM back in. The emptiness & distance from Him had been horrible, & I am so grateful for His relentless pursuit of me! Grateful for His patience. Grateful that He didn't give up on me. Grateful for every day He allowed me to wake up, so that I could get another chance to get it right. SO VERY GRATEFUL! I am now more deeply in love with my Catholic Faith than I ever was. ✝🔥😇🥰 It is finally truly MINE & I look for & welcome opportunities to grow in it. But there are many dear ones in my life who have either fallen away, or who have never even given Catholicism a fair look to begin with. They are one of my huge motivations for learning all I can. I never want to miss an opportunity to be an instrument of His guiding them to, or back to this incredibly glorious Faith we share. The more we understand our beautiful Catholic Faith, the more likely we can be an instrument of entry for others, into the fullness of Faith, through The Catholic Church. Videos like this, that make points so simple & logical, are a tremendous resource for the salvation of souls. Thank you again & May God bless you abundantly!😇 ["How an Anti-Catholic Remark Played a Role in Christian Conversion" via Catholic ReCon] [9.1.2024]
I converted from Anglicanism two years ago. Great interview! Thanks especially for airing the fascinating topic of the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books. I didn't know they continued to be printed in Protestant Bibles until the 1700 or 1800s, but it makes sense because they were in both the Lutheran and Anglican lectionaries for centuries. In fact, if you get the traditional Anglican Book of Common Prayer from the ACNA (Anglican Church in North America), which they use for their worship, you can see the dates in the church year that parts of the so-called apocryphal books are to be read. You would not know this history from modern Protestant Bibles. Even the ESV, far superior to the blatantly anti-Catholic NIV, fails to acknowledge in its huge Study Bible that in the very famous Romans 1:19-23 passage (about how God's eternal power and deity have always been made known to man in the things that have been made), Paul is unmistakeably summarising the first half of Wisdom 13 (especially verses 13:1 and 13:5-9). If he was quoting an ancient Greek philosopher, you could be sure the ESV would cite it, but it's pretends the book of Wisdom does not even exist. A notable Protestant exception to this is Michael Heiser, who specialises in Second Temple literature and is very familiar with the deuterocanonicals as well as books that never quite made it into any canon, such as the Book of Enoch.
Also, Jesus attended the Feast of Dedication (John 10:22-23), now known as Hanukkah, which originated from the Macabean Revolt. 1 Maccabees 4:36-59. Vs. 59, Then Judas, his brothers, and the entire congregation of Israel decreed that the days marking the rededication of the altar should be observed with joy and gladness for eight days every year on the anniversary, beginning on the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev.
My husband and I converted from being life long Protestants last Easter and all I can say is Glory to Jesus Christ for inviting us home to a larger story of faith! The Sacraments, Adoration, Mass, the Church Fathers, The Saints! And so much more! I am so grateful. ❤
“…larger story of faith” Nicely put!
@chaplainmattsanders4884 HI! I got it from watching Matt Fradd interview James McCann on Matt's excellent podcast Pints With Aquinas...his direct quote was , "we want to be called to Repentance, we want to be invited to a Larger Story." It explains it perfectly:) Check out the podcast but don't start with that interview as it's a little salty😂
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing that! God bless you and your family!⛪✝🙏📿❤
Welcome home! My wife converted 5 years ago! She's thankful for her protestant upbringing, but now feels fully complete with all the treasures of the Catholic church.
Welcome home! May the Holy Spirit continue to guide and bless you and your family.
As a cradle Catholic I am blown away by the courage it takes for religious Protestants to enter the Catholic Church. Laudate Dominus!
We hear scripture at every Mass
(It's Laudate Dominum)
I was an Anglican, and after going to Mass since Christmas Eve of 2022, God willing, I will be confirmed on Easter Vigil. This has been quite a journey. I will feel so blessed when I get to receive my first Eucharist.
Methodist joining this Easter as well. ❤
Unfortunate for U to be among those who have fallen away from Christ...
For NOT KEEPING URSELF FAITHFUL to the Gospel that was once n for all delivered to the saints...u hv fallen away...fallen for ANOTHER GOSPEL where its catechism is merely a god-man literature bk!
It’s not easy to believe in the Eucharist that it is the Body and Blood of Jesus,but I have to say this that since you are led to it you are definitely being helped by the Son Of God To Believe in his Power And Truth Amen 🙏 May True Faith Be In You More And More Each Time You Receive Your Lord God And Savior Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 🐑🕊️✨🌈
Welcome home!
@@christlyn1830 all the saints are men, all the disciples were men, and guess what? Jesus was a man, the difference is that the Gospel was inspired by God Himself and the Holy Catholic Church is the right place to be.
Me: Never wanted to be Catholic.
Me: Leaning toward Catholicism
Praying for you.
Try going into an adoration chapel for an hour of prayer. 😏 the interior peace is noticeable. It might convince you to leave in more.
Come on home!
its the treasure in the field, sell all you have for it
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My non catholic husband (baptised an Anglican) regularly attended Mass as a family, with me & our 5 children. After 11 years he told me one afternoon that he MUST become a catholic. I told him "I hope you're not doing this for me"... he said no... on his way to work that morning, driving into the lovely sunrise, God told him he needed to take that step. He couldn't wait for the following Easter in 6 months, so had a number of sessions with our Priest, & was confirmed a Catholic 4 months later. He has been a loyal 'mick' ever since, & a Minister of the Eucharist for many years. Married 46 years, 10 beautiful grandchildren. Father God is GOOD. Jesus Christ is our Lord & Saviour and Great Physician in many of life's circumstances; & His Mother Mary is also our gentle & loving Mother. What a church to grow up in😊. Even with the attacks by satan within our church at high levels, we know it will survive and come out washed white as snow because 'the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.'
You have the Anglican CULT and the Anglican so called baptism IS INVALID. ONLY Jesus can found a Church NOT man. The Bible a Catholic book condemns protestantism and orthodoxy. Protestant so called baptism IS INVALID.
Awesome!! So happy for you all! Glory!!!
Praise Jesus and thank you Blessed Mother Mary🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Amen! Happy for you and your husband. ❤
Welcome to the Church. As a cradle Catholic my understanding and appreciation of the Church is greatly enriched by our Converts. There are so many treasures in the Church that we either take for granted or don't really look at in depth because we have always had them. As these people come into the faith they help us by seeing these things with fresh eyes and lead us to examine our own faith and understanding in a deeper way.
I couldn't have stated my opinion any better! My faith keeps being rejuvenated hearing so many great conversion testimonies.
I agree 100%. Conversion stories bring me so much joy and gratitude 🙏💛
It's like living in the Louvre or Sistine Chapel and just not appreciating the beauty.
As a cradle Catholic myself and now in my 50's ... our convert brothers and sisters have helped me appreciate my Catholic faith more..thanks be to God.
Well said.
As a Protestant, the more I investigate and research the claims of Catholicism the more I consider converting.
To anyone holding to an anti-Catholic sentiment, take another look into everything with an open heart. Leave your tribalism at the door.
It's such a rewarding journey. Praise the Lord! 🙌
God bless your journey for truth Steve
Keep praying 🙏
St. Anne filled me. It wasn’t until a month prior to Easter 2009 that I realized it was she.
Ask who is guiding your heart and man, you’ll be grateful to them for ever!
Waiting for you, brother.
If you want a religion, sure. If you want to know God and please him, run.
Great video. I’m doing Rcia now and getting baptised in Catholic Church this Easter. It’s taken years of research and reading on my part to get here. I’ve taken in Jesus Christ grace. It’s amazing. I’m home
God bless you!
Welcome home ❤
Welcome home!💖🙏
Tears, here, in Mpls area. How BLESSED are you! How blessed are WE!! Glory to GOD!!!
I remember as a kid the Churches were full to the brim, and then it started to dwindle in the 70’s, today I saw our little Church almost filled to capacity Thank you Lord for bring your flock back to the true Church.
I remember that, too. There were 5 Mass times to choose from at every parish, and you had to go to the parish you lived in, couldn't go to Grandma and Grandpa's parish for Mass if they lived in a different parish, even if the priests knew you, because every Mass was packed. I was a skinny little kid, and the thing I hated most about going to Mass was that I was squeezed into the pew 😂 I was scrunched right up! Another thing I remember is that people would step into the aisle for Communion at different times, whenever they believed they were prepared to receive worthily, and sometimes it meant they stayed in the pew the whole time. People going up to receive Communion didn't know who stayed in the pew because nobody went at the same time. Not like today where there are ushers instructing the whole row of pews to line up all at the same time. One time, I had been traveling, and hadn't had a chance to go to Confession. I discerned that I had to go to Confession before I could receive, so I remained in my pew and bowed my head in prayer. In the church I was in, there were short pews off to the side, and I had purposely chosen one of those because if there was even one person sitting there, nobody else would. That was I wouldn't have to stand up to let someone through either going or coming. I was praying in remorse, when suddenly I was rudely and firmly tapped on the shoulder. I looked up to see the usher emphatically indicating that I should get in line. What a difference from the old days!
I’m a cradle Catholic,who got sucked into American pop culture religion,had a metanoia in 2009 which lasted for about 2 years maybe, then went back to pop culture religion in 2013 then repented again in March 2019 and decided to go into Protestantism which lasted about 2 yrs and came back home in October of 2021.
In the 2 yrs of Protestantism I churched hopped the entire time and everything seemed way out of what Jesus Christ taught. But God was showing me how he works even in Protestantism to bring his back home and how the Catholic Church is where he truly is,in the Eucharist.
Protestantism for me was an emotional rollercoaster,always wanting Gods presence to be felt which is a good thing but I never knew how the demons manipulate our emotions as well.
There wasn’t any confessionals or Eucharist and the welsh grape fruit cups with a cracker wasn’t cutting it for me.
Things are in order now for me and my spiritual life has grown so much since that there is no way I’m ever looking back despite the scandals and drama unfolding.
There has always been scandals in Gods church,Judas caused the biggest scandal in church history. Jesus Christ showed us that there will always be scandals in the church but the gates of hell shall never prevail against her. Amen
Wow your testimony is very similar to mine. I know how hard it cam be to come back around, i too chirch hopped as God asked me to do so. I believe it was so I could know Catholicism was true, on my own since I too was born I to Catholicism. May God continue to bless you. Welcome home!!!
I feel a deep joy when Protestants come to the Catholic Church because they learned the truth of our faith, not what they been told.
Welcome Home.
@tony1685 okay what flavor of protestant are you drinking?
sure you work on the sabbath?
@tony1685 which one ?
@@tony1685 Hello Tony pls answer this question what church do you go to?
@@tony1685 okay I see 👀
Relate to this completely. Same issues. The night I made my decision to enter the Church, the song came to me “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.”
Welcome home, we sang that hymn today with our Children’s choir
My husband converted the same year my middle daughter was confirmed. He willingly raised them Catholic because as he saw it we had basic rules that don't change.
It was mentioned part of the reason for rejecting the deuterocanonical books was the language they were in - that they were only in Greek. That was a reason given by the 4 centuries post Christ Masoteric Jews, and the Reformers.
But then along comes the Dead Sea scrolls, and parts of those books were found in Hebrew and Aramaic dating back to the time of Jesus. Turns out the Catholic Church was right all along.
I was in the Holy Land at the caves in the Dead Sea area on a pilgrimage and our tour guide said a Protestant pastor heard this and said he was going home and getting all new Catholic Bibles for his church.
Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls showed that the books Luther excluded for being in Greek had been translated from Hebrew.
They were in the Septuagint, the OT translated to Greek from Hebrew, from the 3rd century BC. It was there in the time of Jesus. Unless you were in Jerusalem, Greek was prevailing influence.
@jbloe555 So yes, Martin Luther was wrong and the Holy Spirit was right.
@@fantasia55 Agree. Holy Spirit 1, Luther 0.
Thanks for having me on Eddie I enjoyed the conversation!
Thanks, Bryan! Same here.
Welcome home. Now, the journey is to become a saint. Congratulations! I came home in the spring of 2019 also.
Read St John 5:39-40 then read St. John 6 1-66.
You search* the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf.c
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But you do not want to come to me to have life.
And no coincidence that they leave on verse 66. St John 6:66.
Great interview. I just happened upon it and gave a listen. The last 10 minutes guy me, though, as this is where I am. Worked at my “culturally relevant”non-denom church for 21 years and left last October, and have been going through RCIA since September. The friends and family that don’t understand and disagree (when they find out, I’ve been ‘undercover’). Living in a small town seriously affects big changes like this. But I can’t unsee, unknow what I’ve learned. So, Easter Vigil is just 4.5 weeks away and I can’t wait. Thank you for this show!
I was raised Baptist in have been searching for the truth every conversion I listen to helps. This one truly showed the love of Jesus, which he calls us to love one another.
Read the Catholic Catechism to learn exactly what Catholics believe and why.
1. Thank you for your amazing testimony.
2. Welcome home, brother.
3. God is good!
Talking about his first Mass makes me have to share about our first Mass. Our oldest was 3 at the time, when we got to the car after Mass she proclaimed "that felt familiar". Praise God!
Thank you for your story and welcome home. Please pray for my son, Joshua, to come back to our Catholic faith. I will never be the same or will ever stop praying for him to come home. It has been a wound that continues to bleed.
Same here. There are so many of us parents with children who are wandering in the wilderness.
Please consider making a novena to St Monica. Her prayer turned her pagan son Augustine into one of the greatest doctors of the church. My prayers are with you.
Pray to Saint Monica to intercede for your son's conversion of heart.
Thanks for such a beautiful story. Many of us cradle Catholics take our faith for granted.
Yep, the Vatican observatory has a facility on Mt. Lemmon in Tucson, but that made me laugh when he said Protestants said it was called Satan. The brilliant, humble, lovely physicist/priest who oversees that facility is such an amazing man, completely in love with God and the unfolding miraculous majesty of the universe.
It's called L.U.C.I.F.E.R. strange name for a Catholic entity.
@@rexweller3759Silly rabbit. There is the VATT, or Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. Certainly doesn’t spell Lucifer. It was put there over 50 years ago.
Since it’s a great place for telescopes, in 2002 a consortium of scientific institutes, which does not include the Vatican, installed the LBT. Full name? Large Binocular Telescope Near Infra Res Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extra Galactic Research .
If you leave out a whole bunch of words in the name you COULD use Lucifer, but that’s only funny because it would be sitting right next to the Vatican VATT
E for effort though.
yes they named the telescope Lucifer...
@@rexweller3759 you’re funny. A little research would have been helpful before you made such a silly and absolutely incorrect comment. But since facts and research don’t seem to be a very common practice anymore, I’ll help you.
The Vatican telescope in Tucson is called VATT, or Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. It was installed there about 40 years ago. Native born Arizonan here, we took field trips in grade school to see it.
In 2012, a consortium of scientific institutions from around the world, NOT including the Vatican, installed a facility on the same mountain called the LBT, or Large Binocular Telescope. Its full name is “Large Binocular near-infrared Spectroscopic Utility With Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extra-Galactic Research”. Which would be abbreviated LBTNISUWCIFUER. You have to drop a LOT of words out of that secular scientific consortium’s facility name to make it to LUCIFER, but even if it actually worked out to make that acronym, that facility still does not belong to the Catholic Church.
The telescope is NOT owned by the Vatican 😂
I am praying 🙏 for my sons and their families. My sons to return to the church and their families to embrace it as well. ❤
I too pray for my son to return, and bring his family too into the faith, and find the love of God.
My father was of Scottish protestant heritage living in NZ with an older and younger sister. They moved for a time to Sydney and in 1929 as an 11 yr old, he got polio and could not move his legs and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Back in Auckland, he worked for a radio station 1ZB, where he met my mother of strong Irish catholic heritage. They fell in love but she insisted he become catholic to marry her. He did so, I don’t know how long it took, but God rewarded him with a girl, 2 boys, 3 girls & 2 boys, so even though I would think it quite unfair for a child to become a paraplegic at 11, that was God’s plan for him, and without that plan, I and my 7 siblings would not exist. Thank you God.
I pray your family watches this video. You brought me to tears when I heard you say how you looked forward to receiving the Eucharist for the first time. This is truly what it comes down to. Loving Him.
Thank you for your witness and Thank God for you
I cant get enough of these stories. I have immense respect for those who did the work to search for the fullness of Truth. God love them for speaking up about the Treasure Christ left us in our beautiful Catholic Faith. 🙏🙌🙏💕💞💖
Great video I became catholic after being married to my cradle catholic wife and very happy with my choice
Many if not most Protestants are what I call ABC Christians. ABC as in “Anything But Catholic “. One can be Baptist and then become Methodist, or you can be Lutheran and become Episcopalian, or Presbyterian and become nondenominational, and there is little or no backlash. It’s fine so long as you do not become Catholic. Anything but Catholic!
100% Truth. We have been living in Lies.
I love the acronym ABC. I am going to steal this and add it to my vocabulary ❤ 😂😂
The enemy of my enemy is my friend,, they hate catholics so much they are able to tolerate each other 😂
Yes, because it is full of additions. Deletions and twisting of the original good news. Catholicism is 2000 years of changing things.
We have a priest in our diocese whose mother told him, as he was searching for faith, "Son, you can belong to any faith, just don't be Catholic!"
I thank our protestant brothers and sisters for their mad passion for the Word of God. As Catbolic I have developed this love for the Word and make me a better follower of Christ.
@@tony1685 No. I see the church teachings aligned with Holy Scriptures.
I enjoy reading and hearing about Protestant's journeys into the RCC. My niece is one such person.
I'm 66, and I was born into evangelical Protestantism.
Late in life I had my fill of it, not just the obligatory "DIY church of me", but the drift towards feminized Christology and posturing clergy, and progressivism, especially amongst the leadership (case in point, the Southern Baptist Convention). I walked away, was received into the Eastern Orthodox Church ☦️ (Antiochian parish), and never looked back.
I see the on social media other faiths demonize the Catholic faith without experiencing it. Not done with love but judgement. They all point to Mary and the saints without understanding. Makes me so sad. We love the same God and want to live a good life.
I also love to listen to conversion stories because I learn so much from it as a cradle Catholic who fell away from the church. I was poorly catechised and mainly told to attend church every Sunday. I now think my faith however rudimentary is the greatest gift they gave me.
Thank you for sharing. I love hearing conversion stories. God bless.
You searched so thoroughly to get to the truth of the Catholic faith. I enjoyed listening to your journey…so calm, factual, honest. Thank you! God bless.
Bryan is great, thanks for sharing his testimony.
I converted to Catholicism April 1972, two weeks before I got married. I was an Anglican, but didn't want any tension over religion if we had children. There wasn't much difference to me. Kneeling for communion, same creed, believed in Holy Trinity, only difference was confession & it also made me realize that communion was his body & blood. Such a rich religion, my family didn't give me any tension for my converion. I was very fortunate for having a very open minded family, no prejudices against religion or races.
New subscriber, this is a great channel, thank you for all of your videos!!! I love listening to conversion/reversion stories!!! I was baptized Catholic as a baby but never had any type of religious education growing up, but whenever I was asked what my religion was, I would always say, "I'm Catholic" not knowing anything about my faith. I had a reversion/conversion experience back in 2005 and have been on fire for the faith ever since. God bless you!!!
Me to , I love their conversión story. I'm a cradle Catholic and they (converts) strength me in my faith. God bless
Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, save us and the whole world
Welcome home brother
Excellent resplendent video,I’m overwhelmed by testimonies of people converting to the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church Of Traditional Teachings and Worship.Because I for one never new or learned anything thing about the Catholic Church for over 30yrs,but after that period of time I was helped by a Powerful Powerful conversion back to the Catholic Church by I can’t really say if it was the Father Son or Holy Spirit to lead me back to his Church.Now everyday I’m encouraged inspired and motivated to make endeavor’s to learn as much as I can learn of the traditional Catholic Church teachings to Save My Spirit and Body,May The All Glorious Exalted And Praise Worthy Holy Trinity help us Achieve Salvation Alleluia Hosanna In Excelsis Deo Amen 🙏 🐑🕊️✨🌈
Amen! Praying for our Protestant brothers & sisters is vitally important. Those of us who have come from strong, devout Protestant backgrounds have many devout friends and family who love Jesus and sincerely want to glorify and honor him. We yearn for them to know the fullness of their Christian faith in Christ's one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church!
Please read my comment. God bless.
One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church. Established by Jesus Christ. No Salvation Outside Of Her.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
This should be on Spotify
open.spotify.com/show/5JBWnxqeuZkLgYYULvWx3a
Thank you gentlemen for this interview. Bryan, as a practicing Catholic I've learned a few pieces of information I did not know before, about the apocrypha books and when they were taken out of the bible. Thanks so much!
I don’t know how you don’t have more subscribers. Sheer volume of content is amazing AND it’s good stuff too. Pax Christi tecum Eddie
Thanks! Peace, brother.
I just found this channel today and subscribed. I don't get it either. I've been watching and subscribing to every Catholic channel I can find over the past 6-7 years and it never came up in my suggestions before. Maybe divide them up into shorter videos with specific topics within the conversations like Pints with Aquinas does? Even Catholic attention spans are short these days :) In any case, keep up the great work!
Thanks,@@julieelizabeth4856 ! If I had the time, I would definitely do that. Maybe in the near future. Again, thanks for sharing.
Thanking God for you all sharing your journey. I'm a cradle Catholic that finds it hard to help others understand about our Catholic faith. Your videos are so important to help everyone with so much of the truth in and history of the Gospels and Fathers of the church. God bless you always. Will share with family and friends🙏🙏🙏😊
I am a cradle catholic and listening to catholic converts is my absolute favorite, I learn so much! Godbless you !❤
Awesome interview ❤ @Bryan I have definitely listened to your story, but I had forgotten some of the details… AMEN to once you see, you can’t un-see and truly pray that others will be open to discover the fullness of the faith that is really so clear ✝️ thank you both for all you do to help others on their journey home 😇 🙏
Thanks for listening!
Thank you brothers for sharing your faith. It has been a blessing to see the Holy Spirit at work in both of you. God's timing and ways of working for His glory never ceases to amaze me. God bless you both and your families ✝️
Enjoyed hearing this story as a fellow convert from Abilene, TX.
It does my heart good to hear this. Thank you for your honesty and diligence in researching your entire faith journey home so thoroughly. What a blessing you and your wife openly took this journey together!
Welcome back home my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Dear Converts, while "cradle Catholics" may never fully understand the sacrifice Protestants make due to conversion, especially those whose livelhood is based on ministry, I think virtually all of us find your story HEROIC in the sacrifice and effort your make to come into the Church. So, GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR JOURNEY AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS! The story of your journey is always inspiring. And to my fellow cradle-ers, GOD BLESS YOU FOR REMAINING IN THE ARK AND SUSTAINING HOLY MOTHER CHURCH!
Intelligent well supported statement. Thanks for your contributions.@@tony1685
I appreciate the conversation. God bless!
Thank you! God bless you!
Welcome home PRODICAL SON!!!
We LOVE you!!!!
Eddie, thank you so much for this work. Even as a cradle Catholic, that exact video of the Bread of Life Discourse by fr. Mike Schmitz that Bryan shared changed my life. I highly encourage everyone to check it out
Thanks for coming home. God bless you Brian and your family.
A simple yet profound ststement "the New Testament is the fulfilment of the Old Testament". Wonderful witness.
The Old Testament is revealed in the New and the New Testament is hidden in the Old.
The whole "I am the Light of the World" thing takes place during the feast of Dedication also known as Hanukkah which appears in Maccabees. So, arguably Jesus celebrated Hanukkah and used the symbolism to refer to what He was doing. Ergo, Jesus and first century Judaism at the least believed in the events in Maccabees.
God bless you brother and welcome! ❤❤❤❤
Thank you! And thank all of the commenters for there testimonys too❤
Thank you for this extremely enlightening and vibrant discussion. So inspiring. God bless you both!
What Christ said first is "This is my body"
It seems to me in John 6:68 when Peter says "Lord, to whom shall we go?", that perhaps if there had been another option (if John the Baptist were still alive for example), that perhaps Jesus might have lost the Apostles. I'd never noticed that in John 7:1, which immediately follows this incident, that Jesus was in danger of being killed. Thanks to Bryan for pointing this out.
But Peter also said, immediately following, "THOU hast the words of eternal life."
Jesus would not have lost His Apostles, fir they already knew St. John the Baptist was *not* the Messiah, the "One who was to come."
@@fairyspunfibers9098 Jesus lost nearly everyone. It's true that Peter said Jesus had the words of eternal life. He also denied Jesus three times. The Apostles didn't understand everything Jesus said, not even parables that seem pretty clear to us. They didn't understand what Jesus meant by eating his flesh and drinking his blood, they may not have even understood them at the Last Supper. The resurrection clarified a lot of things for them, things made more sense in hindsight. As john says, "he saw, and believed." (John 20:8). The Apostles were so invested in Jesus' ministry that they couldn't break free. But that doesn't mean they had a clue about what was really going on.
@@Davcramer They received the gifts of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and thus they then understood what was going on and had the courage to preach the Good News across much of the known world.
Thank you gentlemen for this interview. Bryan...as a practicing cradle Catholic I learned a few great pieces of information I did not know before, about the apocrypha and when they were taken out of the bible. Thanks so much!
Amazing testimony and interview! God bless you Brian. Praying for conversion of your family 🙏
We will keep praying for your family and the reunion of all christians like we do in every mass.
Please read my comment. God bless.
I LOVE how you wanted the Truth wherever it led you!
Conversion is the works of the Holy Ghost..the least we can do as Catholics is pray.
I have totally loved listening to you and your walk to understand & believe in the one true Body & Blood of Jesus Christ..the Holy Spirit truly led you through your walk...please pray for my siblings and my husband, daughter & grandson who no longer go to church..it's so very sad and I pray for them at Mass every single day..they really need your prayers...I'm sorry to think that the words " If you receive ..you never leave" would be true with all my family...because myself, I cannot imagine not believing that the Eucharist is the Body & Blood Of Jesus Christ..Thank You Again🙏
Such a powerful testament 🙏🙏 I admire your research and bible study! Tom from Canada
Thank you so much for sharing your story and welcome, brother!!
This is one of the best testimony to share with our Protestants friends and family . How can you not question protestantism after listening to this.
The greatest trick Satan has played wasn't just to make people believe he wasn't real, it was to make people leave the church Jesus founded, leave the Sacrament of reconciliation, leave our blessed mother, and leave Him in the Blessed Host away from communion and salvation.
Sadly a lot of people won’t understand the serious depth of your comment.
Even worse, I've heard that more than making us believe he doesn't exist, he makes us believe the he is us - that his ideas (like leaving Jesus' Church) are our ideas.
Thank you for your sharing bro. God bless both of you. Amen
Welcome home!
What a great interview! Loved it.
That Father Mike talk changed my life as well! I was already Catholic but my eyes were opened like never before and my faith just continues to deepen all because of the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist. I am so excited for the Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Conference happening this summer. The talk is called "The Hour that will Change Your Life" with Fr. Mike Schmitz.
@@tony1685 Well, the Catholic Church created the canon of all 73 books of the Bible in the 4th Century. Martin Luther removed 7 books because they didn't fit with HIS idea of "faith alone" that he came up with in the 1500s.
If you are truly interested in the TRUTH of Christianity - not just hearsay from other Protestants, or what you've learned from poorly taught Catholics who don't practice their faith, you need to go back and look at how the very first Christians lived the ones who were taught by the apostles. Like St. Irenaeus, St. Ignatius, St. Justin Martyr - to name just a few. The church of the early Christians was the Catholic Church. They all believed in the Eucharist as the Body and Blood of Christ, Apostolic succession, celebrating the Mass as a REpresented sacrifice of Jesus death on Calvary - AND they used both the Old Testament and New Testament to show where God was pointing to His creation of the Church from the beginning of existence. The same Catholic Church that existed back then is the same one that is today. "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." - John Henry Cardinal Newman.
I highly suggest listening to Day 100 of the Bible in a Year podcast, if you are serious about your love for Jesus. You can choose from there where to go
Thank you for this beautiful testimony on your conversion. God bless you. ♥️🎚♥️
I left my faith for a very long time and since I’ve come back my life is clear and the desire to be thankful has intensified. My friends are Christian evangelicals. They are out of their minds over me going back to my catholic faith. They truly believe my faith is a cult which is absurd and the way they disrespect Mary the mother of Christ is pretty much unacceptable.
Amazing testimony, thanks for sharing!
I reverted years ago, had been a Protestant as a young man, heard many false claims over the years about what Catholic believes supposedly that I knew were not true. Eventually this turned me towards the Church until I had no choice other to revert.
When in doubt, go back to the basics. Welcome home Bryan!
Just excellent!
Happy to be back and listening. And so many stories to listen to :)
Welcome back!
I absolutely love listening to these conversion stories. Thank you for this channel and for all those who have been so courageous to follow the Truth, regardless of the difficult consequences. May you be blessed 🙏
I also was in the United Methodist church and saw where they were headed. The doctrinal divide was getting wider and I hated being part of a church that couldn’t decide on what they believed. That began my move to the Catholic Church. Btw the parts of the UMC that were against same sex marriages were the African bishops. Good on them for standing up.
My husband and I are attending our first mass this weekend. I'm beyond excited. I was saved a year ago and have been exploring (heavily researching, lets be real) my faith and its all lead me to the Catholic Church. My husband isn't a believer, yet, but he was the one who suggested we attend mass.
I'll pray for you both, Priscilla. God bless!
Bryan, God bless you. I am a Catholic, and i love that you are my brother in the Lord Jesus.
Thank you!
Praise God for your conversion to Catholic faith 🙏🙏🙏
When he found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it. He made me think of this scripture when he said it dosen't matter what his family stays even though it hurts. But he has found the pearl of great price. God Bless and prayers that your whole family will soon find that pearl
Cool testimony! Thank you 😊
Thankyou to both of you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ha,ha I love how you say “going through the motions”
Converted Easter of 2009
Glory to God!!! 🥰
Twenty years for our family of 11, this Easter (we now numbers 33 and even Religious!!) and the fact that the early churches went to Rome instead of St. John was very instrumental in my accepting the Papacy.
Welcome to the war! ( quote from a congrats when we converted!).
St. Ignatius an apostle of St. John (107 A.D.) (Letter to the Smyrnaeans 8:2):
“Where there is Jesus Christ there is the CATHOLIC church.”
Yo it’s Bryan! Love that guy!
This is the 2nd time I've listened to this amazing testimony... EXCELLENT job! TY so much for this wonderful interview... so many profound points made in a simple manner, so that it would be hard for one to deny the logic!
I had been deeply in love with my Catholic Faith as a child & young adult, but fell away from any feeling of connection with God during college. Many years later, I was still attending Mass, but only b/c I was afraid if I stopped going, I would stop trying. After spending way too many years taking my Catholic Faith for granted, simply going through the motions & just feeling dead inside, I sometimes wondered if it might be possible that I was actually dead & in purgatory, & just didn't know it. 😢 For a long time, I prayed & begged to FEEL HIM again, & then FINALLY, in one small thing that occurred, I suddenly felt something, & it was glorious! From there, over & over again, opportunities were placed before me, & various experiences began happening, & I could feel that He was there & drawing me back in. I know now that HE never left me, but that I had left Him. Once He knew I was open & seeking Him sincerely, He began to place experiences before me that I just needed to accept & go with each time. One thing built on another, & I began to realize that He had just been waiting for me to exercise my free will & INVITE HIM back in. The emptiness & distance from Him had been horrible, & I am so grateful for His relentless pursuit of me! Grateful for His patience. Grateful that He didn't give up on me. Grateful for every day He allowed me to wake up, so that I could get another chance to get it right. SO VERY GRATEFUL!
I am now more deeply in love with my Catholic Faith than I ever was. ✝🔥😇🥰 It is finally truly MINE & I look for & welcome opportunities to grow in it. But there are many dear ones in my life who have either fallen away, or who have never even given Catholicism a fair look to begin with. They are one of my huge motivations for learning all I can. I never want to miss an opportunity to be an instrument of His guiding them to, or back to this incredibly glorious Faith we share. The more we understand our beautiful Catholic Faith, the more likely we can be an instrument of entry for others, into the fullness of Faith, through The Catholic Church. Videos like this, that make points so simple & logical, are a tremendous resource for the salvation of souls. Thank you again & May God bless you abundantly!😇
["How an Anti-Catholic Remark Played a Role in Christian Conversion" via Catholic ReCon]
[9.1.2024]
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I converted from Anglicanism two years ago. Great interview! Thanks especially for airing the fascinating topic of the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books. I didn't know they continued to be printed in Protestant Bibles until the 1700 or 1800s, but it makes sense because they were in both the Lutheran and Anglican lectionaries for centuries. In fact, if you get the traditional Anglican Book of Common Prayer from the ACNA (Anglican Church in North America), which they use for their worship, you can see the dates in the church year that parts of the so-called apocryphal books are to be read.
You would not know this history from modern Protestant Bibles. Even the ESV, far superior to the blatantly anti-Catholic NIV, fails to acknowledge in its huge Study Bible that in the very famous Romans 1:19-23 passage (about how God's eternal power and deity have always been made known to man in the things that have been made), Paul is unmistakeably summarising the first half of Wisdom 13 (especially verses 13:1 and 13:5-9). If he was quoting an ancient Greek philosopher, you could be sure the ESV would cite it, but it's pretends the book of Wisdom does not even exist.
A notable Protestant exception to this is Michael Heiser, who specialises in Second Temple literature and is very familiar with the deuterocanonicals as well as books that never quite made it into any canon, such as the Book of Enoch.
Also, Jesus attended the Feast of Dedication (John 10:22-23), now known as Hanukkah, which originated from the Macabean Revolt.
1 Maccabees 4:36-59.
Vs. 59, Then Judas, his brothers, and the entire congregation of Israel decreed that the days marking the rededication of the altar should be observed with joy and gladness for eight days every year on the anniversary, beginning on the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev.