The history of our Church is filled with great stories of those who finally found their way to the One and only true faith. While St. Paul is one of the most notable early Church conversion, history up to today is filled with these great stories. Saints and lay people alike from all over the world found peace, joy and serenity in our Lord Jesus Christ’s One Church.
Recommended Books:
The Confessions of St. Augustine, St Augustine Autobiography
Considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim God's goodness. Just as his first hearers were captivated by his powerful conversion story, so also have many millions been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions.
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Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton Autobiography
Tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. At the abbey, he wrote this extraordinary testament, a unique spiritual autobiography that has been recognized as one of the most influential religious works of our time. Translated into more than twenty languages, it has touched millions of lives.
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Evangelical Exodus: Evangelical Seminarians and their Paths to Rome, Douglas Beaumont, Ignatius Press, 2016
Over the course a single decade, dozens of students, alumni, and professors from a conservative, Evangelical seminary in North Carolina (Southern Evangelical Seminary) converted to Catholicism… What could have led these seminary students, and even some of their professors, to walk away from their Evangelical education and risk losing their jobs, ministries, and even family and friends, to embrace the teachings they once rejected as false or even heretical?
"This is a true 'Book of Exodus' — riveting like the original, inspired, and inspiring. The contributors have taken a long journey to the banks of the Tiber, and it is every step an adventure." — Scott Hahn, President, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
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Crossing the Tiber: Evangelical Protestants Discover the Historical Church, Stephen Ray, Ignatius Press, 1997
An exhilarating conversion story of a devout Baptist who relates how he overcame his hostility to the Catholic Church by a combination of serious Bible study and vast research of the writings of the early Church Fathers. In addition to a moving account of their conversion that caused Ray and his wife to "cross the Tiber" to Rome, he offers an in-depth treatment of Baptism and the Eucharist in Scripture and the ancient Church.
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My Life on the Rock, Jeff Cavins, Ascension Press, 2002
Over and over, readers have told us they couldn't put this book down. My Life on the Rock, Jeff Cavins' modern-day prodigal son story, is one of the most intriguing and dramatic conversion stories in the Church today, a bittersweet story of an emotional and spiritual search for peace in a chaotic world. The founding host of EWTN s popular Life on the Rock program and creator of The Great Adventure Catholic Bible Study Program, Jeff spent twelve years as a Protestant pastor before returning to the Catholic Faith.
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Surprised by Truth, Patrick Madrid, 1995
Powerful testimonies of eleven Evangelicals who became Catholic. Becoming a Catholic is not a decision one makes lightly - it is a dramatic life change that for many is a long, arduous journey. In these stories, converts share their journeys and answer the most common objections to the Faith.
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