http://home2rome.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/how-the-saints-helped-lead-me-home/ News, Commentary, Exploration of the Catholic Church Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://home2rome.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/how-the-saints-helped-lead-me-home/#comment-157 sarah sawyer Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:53:50 +0000 http://home2rome.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/how-the-saints-helped-lead-me-home/#comment-157 I am also on the narrow road leading to Catholic conversion. For the first time in my Protestant-based religious life, I am beginning to understand what it means to work out one's salvation "with fear and trembling." Slowly, through studying the early church fathers, including Thomas and Augustine, as well as watching EWTN and hearing Father Corapi and others, especially Rosalind Moss, I am beginning to understand, albeit with much trepidation, the deeper Truths of which I have been denied in my spiritual growth. Til now, being Baptist, Evangelical, and Charismatic, I thought that I had it all. But Jesus Christ Himself drew me aside and said He was sending me to my own Isle of Patmos where He was going to remove the chaff from my understanding, "especially doctinal error," He said. I was at a loss. Doctrinal error? What doctrinal error? Gradually, the Holy Spirit began opening my eyes to see and my ears to hear, filling me with a genuine desire to experience the Fullness of the Faith, starting with the Virgin Mary. From there, I began swimming in this vast ocean of Truth, venturing farther out than I have ever been, wondering if I have reached that place of no return where one has gone too far to turn back. Those of you who have traveled this path, please remember me in your prayers. Sarah I am also on the narrow road leading to Catholic conversion.
For the first time in my Protestant-based religious
life, I am beginning to understand what it means
to work out one’s salvation “with fear and trembling.”
Slowly, through studying the early church fathers,
including Thomas and Augustine, as well as
watching EWTN and hearing Father Corapi and others, especially Rosalind Moss, I am beginning to understand, albeit with much trepidation, the deeper
Truths of which I have been denied in my spiritual
growth. Til now, being Baptist, Evangelical, and Charismatic,
I thought that I had it all. But Jesus Christ Himself
drew me aside and said He was sending me to
my own Isle of Patmos where He was going to
remove the chaff from my understanding,
“especially doctinal error,” He said.
I was at a loss. Doctrinal error? What doctrinal
error? Gradually, the Holy Spirit began opening my
eyes to see and my ears to hear, filling me with a
genuine desire to experience the Fullness of the Faith,
starting with the Virgin Mary. From there, I began swimming in this vast ocean of Truth, venturing farther out than I have ever been, wondering if I have reached
that place of no return where one has gone too far
to turn back. Those of you who have traveled this
path, please remember me in your prayers.
Sarah

]]> http://home2rome.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/how-the-saints-helped-lead-me-home/#comment-13 Leonard Panjaitan Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:54:47 +0000 http://home2rome.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/how-the-saints-helped-lead-me-home/#comment-13 What an inspring blog, bro. Let's continue to evangelize this dechristianized society. Leo. Jakarta What an inspring blog, bro. Let’s continue to evangelize this dechristianized society. Leo. Jakarta

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