No more reason to protest: my journey home to the Catholic Church
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- When Pastor Daniel Tews' "temptations" to break his Lenten resolution and go back to pray the Rosary daily got almost unbearable, it was obvious where God was leading him. From Lutheran Pastor to Catholic Missionary of the Immaculate Mediatrix. Here's Daniel Tews' story...
00:00 - Becoming a Lutheran pastor
02:33 - Denominational disagreements
04:01 - Looking for Lutheranism in the Fathers
05:14 - Reading the Catholic Catechism
07:27 - Luther against the Fathers
08:43 - Luther a super-Pope?
10:56 - Discovering the Rosary
14:13 - My Lutheran Lent: fasting from Catholicism
15:32 - My Wife’s Story
20:06 - A period of suffering
21:26 - “I didn’t want to be right…”
22:53 - The Papacy
25:08 - No reason to protest
26:09 - Finally home
For more information about the Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix (MIM): marymediatrix.com/mim/
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I was raised Lutheran as well and was lied to about what the Catholic Church truly was. I’m glad to have done my own research to find the truth within Catholicism. I’m currently in RCIA and will be confirmed Easter Vigil 2024. I would greatly appreciate if you all keep me in your prayers. God bless 🙏🏽 😇.
God bless you. Welcome home.
Welcome home! I could imagine the beautiful service that will happen on easter vigil as you receive the sacrament of confirmation. Prayers for you indeed! 🥹🥹🥹❤
God Bless You 🙏
Sending prayer up🙏welcome home
Welcome Matt. Thank you for sharing you journey home to the one true Holy catholic apostolic Church. You are in indeed my prayers. May the Holy Spirit continue to draw you closer to the Fullness of revelation so that you may become wise, knowledgeable and strong in your Christian vocation to love and serve the Lord joyfully with a peace the world cannot give. God willing we may meet one day in Heaven at the end of our earthly journey.
I, too, was a Lutheran. I joined the Catholic Church this year. I, too, was misinformed about what the Catholic church believed. My only regret is it took me so long.
God got you where he wanted you in his own time lol
God's timing is perfect - don't have regrets.
A priest put it perfectly one time when he said, people don't like the Catholic Church for what it teaches, they don't like the Catholic Church for what they think it teaches
Similar story. Crossed the river in 2019.
Welcome!
As a son, grandson, nephew and cousin of sincere and faithful Baptist Pastors, I joined the Catholic Church at the age of 59, along with my wife. My youngest son is preparing to join the Catholic Church next Easter, God willing. It all started with my reading of the Church Fathers. Understanding the Eucharist was my first base. All this was a big surprise to me. I used to be a staunch anti-catholic and I became a staunch Catholic. I was a Baptist, now I go to Mass in a Parish called Saint John the Baptist.
What does your family think of this ?
I’m 62 cradle Catholic
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64 cradle Catholic
Amazing and God is so good.
welcome home
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As a previous Catholic basher I am now considering converting to Catholicism. Raised Assembly of God, I find I agree with the bulk of their teachings but still have significant hang-ups (some of which you mentioned). Bottom line is I love Jesus and want to serve Him to the fullest and if I have to be Catholic to do that then so be it. Please pray for me.
Find help on your journey also at The Journey Home Network. EWTN. God bless!
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I wish I could help you in some way. I shall pray for you.
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You should also consider researching as much as you can and go to RCIA as well. That way, your remaining questions can be answered.
Beautiful! I became catholic 3 years ago and I'm so happy to be home. In January I will join a monastery to become a Benedictine novice and finally to become a nun.
Every time I hear a person's conversion story it immediately brings tears to my eyes. Love from Germany!
Thanks for sharing!
Congratulations.
Congratulations!!!
Your comment made me teary eyed. God be with you to your journey of your full religious vocation.
True life...
At age 63 I became a Catholic. The top 3 reasons I LOVE being a Catholic: 1. I now belong to a huge FAMILY and will never be alone again, 2. I actually FEEL, in my body and soul, God’s presence in me, 3. I am no longer afraid of death because a more wonderful existence awaits me ❤️
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Wonderful, you make 25 yo men cry in happiness
Our blessed Mother will hold your hand ALL the way to Christ our Saviour. You are NEVER alone sister ✝️❤️🔥
❤❤❤ Love Jesus and Mama Mary and you are set all the way!!!
Amen! Welcome to the family. 🙏😇🙏
"To be deep in history is to cease being a protestant"
Saint John Henry Newman
So beautiful. One can't read the history of the church and the fathers and still be a protestant
Thank you. At 71 years old. I’m beginning to wonder if all I’ve been told is the truth. Please pray for me.
I'll be praying for you Shelley. We await all our prodigal brothers and sisters to come home. May the Holy Spirit lead you home.
We patiently await your return. Peace be with you.
@shelley...
Here's my response to another comment that I am sharing with you...
You bet the Catholic Church has the answers you seek after 2,000yrs of prayer, contemplation, meditation, debates and addressing heretics not to mention the ever present "progressives" within the clergy who want to throw out tradition and doctrinal certainty.
By contrast what Luther created and which has ballooned over a mere 500 yrs is sheer doctrinal confusion and chaos arising from the dismantling of the truth of Christ as long as it is "inspired by the Holy Spirit.". Protestantism has loads more questions than answers, against Mother Church and within and between the different denominations. Thus, you get perpetual chaos.
At 71, go talk to a Catholic priest. Run! Before it is too late.
Listen to Fr. John Riccardo podcasts. He is truly gifted in teaching about the Catholic faith. He was the Priest at my church for years. I could not have converted without his wisdom.
Shelley, our prayers are definitely with you. They are Lord and Lady bring you to truth and peace and love.
I was born catholic but there came a time i contemplated being a protestant but what held me back was mama Mary and the rosary and the eucharist. Thank you mama Mary for not letting me go and all the ❤️🙏🙏🙏Glory to the most Holy most Divine HOLY TRINITY one true GOD Amen🙏🙏🙏❤️
Amen 🙏
That’s me, too. Born Catholic, a decision that was made for me by my maternal grandmother as her family was growing in WWII Germany. She married a Lutheran, they agreed that their daughters would be Catholic, any son a Lutheran. I was baptized, did reconciliation and first communion. Never lost sight of God and His Son.
I even volunteered my time during St. Pope John Paul II’s visit to Monterey County, California-he is truly a saint, I could see and feel it.
But I was angry at the Church for 20-plus years due to the failure of a priest to come to the hospital where I worked as an RN, at the request of a young couple one Christmas Eve, whose baby girl died in utero, the family wished her baptized. The priest refused to come, saying “I’m preparing for midnight mass,” and that was that.
I was angry at the wrong entity.
I explored Krishna Consciousness, the Lutheran church, and even LDS.
Mother Mary was nothing more than the mother of Jesus. The saints were regular people, no one more special than me. “There’s no one in Heaven running interference between your prayers and God.” I had a hard time with that.
Just before COVID hit, I returned to the Catholic Church, just to sing in the choir. I was confirmed in 2023, losing my beloved catechism teacher, Ruben, a month before my ceremony. He was grooming me to become a catechism teacher, which I have done with humility and my love for the Holy Trinity.
The two priests in my parish are good men that I consider among best friends.
Praying the rosary gives me much comfort.
Former lutheran here. You simply cannot remain a protestant once you start reading the history of the Church and reading what the Church fathers taught. Once you go to the source you start to see all the problems with protestantism. I was raised "catholic" but fell away, and became a lutheran but thank God the Lord brought me back to the Church. Like this former lutheran pastor I started asking questions and the answers either made no sense or they simply could not answer, but the Catholic Church had the answers.
@frankhfz...
After 2,000 yrs of prayer, contemplation, meditation, debates and addressing heresies, you bet the Catholic Church has answers.
By contrast, what Luther created was the constant dismantling of the truth of Christ because everyone is right as long as each is "inspired by the holy spirit." So, fundamentally there are loads more questions in Protestantism than answers. And perpetual chaos.
If you would read the Bible instead of the church fathers you would leave the catholic church right away
@@rainerkroeger4710 John 6:53-59, Matthew 26:26
@@rainerkroeger4710 Only if you have an idea who actually was inspired to put the word of God into writing
Exactly! History and tradition on the church is its integral part!
As a cradle Catholic, I have immense admiration for those who have the courage to honestly seek the Truth and let that search lead them to the Catholic Faith. Some converts have to pay a high price for the decision to follow Christ in the Catholic Church, but the price is worth it. In the confusion of today's world, both outside of and inside of the Church, converts like you strengthen the faith of all of us and help lead us to Christ. God bless you and your family always.
agree 💯💯 it takes courage and honesty
There is no such thing as a cradle Catholic, there are only Catholics.
A question: What is the CATHOLIC faith? I only know christian faith. Does CATHOLIC faith is not about Jesus or more than Jesus? And why it takes courage? Will there consequences for me i do not know to be catholic? And how i change from christian to catholic faith?
@@SharamNat1 God Bless You. Jesus founded the Catholic Church. I recommend you read Surprised by Truth by Patrick Madrid. It is a fascinating book that teaches much about Catholicism. I would follow that up with a reading of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Also pray God leads you to the full truth of Christianity and that you will follow Him there. Mary chosen by Jesus to be His mother is the greatest advocate you can have before God. Ask for her intercession and she will definitely do so.
@@SharamNat1 Catholics are not only christian they are the original christians.
Fellow Hoosier here. I became Catholic this year at the age of 52. Lately I have been reflecting on how well Catholicism bridges the gap between the Old and New Testament. Your words on Martin Luther really stood out to me. Thank you for this video.
Spot on. There are no other Christian traditions apart from Catholicism that is able to bridge the OT and NT so well as you have mentioned. I feel very strongly about this too!
Welcome home brother 🙏
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In 3 weeks im becoming a catholic, and yes there is no more reason to protest
I’m 77 and have been a Catholic all my life. I love reading how God draws different people to the Church. So many people misunderstand what Catholics believe because of erroneous things they have heard. That’s difficult to overcome.
Yes, you are quite correct in saying that. Everywhere protestants misuderstand Catholic teachings. They usually accuse us based on false interpretations of Scripture and also on lies spread by protestant denominations. This shows ignorance of Scripture and ignorance of what we, Catholics really believe and do. However, it seems that worldwide honest protestants who study deeply the Early Church and the Fathers of the Church are becoming Catholic. It is happening here in my country, Brazil, in the US and all around the world.
I am 25, catholic, and I am crying reading some of those testimonies. It's so great that God brings lost sheep home!
My dad was born very strong Lutheran. But the blessed mother appeared to him so he converted to catholicism...in the same year I received my first communion ❤ now he's elderly and I take care of him
Wowww could you share
God bless you for caring for your father. You are living the 4th Commandment of God.
God Bless YOU and your father
Power of Mary leading to her Son Jesus Christ as your our Saviour
I'm realising more and more the importance of this. Mark my words Daniel, this following will lead you directly to our blessed Lord@@pathue1196
I love to hear Conversion testimonials I'm a revert I left to be nondenominational, Baptist, and once i started learning about the church Fathers and what the Catholic church really believes and teaches truly asked GOD and Mama Maria to lead me, teach me and to guide me to the true Church. And I'm back home with our Catholic church.
Amen, I actually had a pretty similar experience
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Glory to God, May the Holy Ghost lead you 🙏❤️🔥
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Wonderful testimony… I, too, was in Protestant ministry, and converted to Catholicism. A couple of things you said really rang true with me; firstly, everybody being an authority unto themselves… This is so true, and I would even go so far is to argue that it is the spirit of the antichrist in that People claiming to be Christians are subordinating Christ to what they want Christ to mean or be
Also, no longer being in protest… What I first converted my protestant friends would ask me why I became Catholic and I would tell them that I no longer was in protest. They would look at me with glazed over eyes of misunderstanding… After a little conversation, I have come to understand that most protestants do not know that the root word for protestant is, indeed, protest. When Christ was talking to the Samaritan woman, he said that Samaritans did not know who they worship… I fear the same is true for most protestants. Thank you for having the guts to come to the Catholic Church.
@Hazmatt...
Share your conversion story...you will be a companion to others on their road to Emmaus.
Love to hear it.
Your first paragraph sums up most of the individual denominations very well!
Indeed, a Protestant is a person who protests 😊
Your comment reminded me of Trump's religious advisor, wife of Journey's guitarist (don't remember her name), when, furious at a Trump event, she started shouting that the ground she was walking on was sacred because she had touched it... this made me think 2 things: 1 ) that many Protestant ministers tend to shout a lot (a characteristic of fanatics is that they shout at the masses, like the Austrian gentleman with the mustache) 2) how some Protestant denominations have distorted Christianity to such a point that they really believe that they are the ones who sanctify the things by just touching them, instead of god, literally them believing themselves to be gods. That's creepy.
I was Lutheran as well. I was accepted into the Catholic Church this year. I’m so glad I did. Wish I would have converted 15 years ago.
Its never late.
Welcome home.
Hail Mary full of grace..
Welcome to the home the first Christian.
I was raised Missouri Lutheran and converted to Catholicism many years ago. The comment Daniel Tews made that was most striking to me was when he said that the Lutheran catechism didn't really teach what it meant to be Lutheran but rather what was wrong with Catholicism. That is exactly true. The most annoying thing about this is that their arguments aren't even accurate. They parrot things they've been told that are absolutely false! There are 3 books that are eye-opening regarding the Catholic faith. 1. Ugly As Sin by Michael S. Rose. He discusses how our churches, since the 1960s, have been secularized to the point where they are no longer Houses of G_d but sterile assembly halls and entertainment centers. A true Catholic church teaches the Sacraments through its art and architecture. It evangelizes. We need to return to that. 2. How Catholic Art Saved The Faith: The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art by Elizabeth Lev, an art historian at the Vatican. She discusses how Luther destroyed the faith for many Catholics and how the Church employed the most well-known artists of that time to depict the Sacraments and re-establish the teachings of the Church. 3. The Limits of Papal Authority Over The Liturgy by Fr. Chad Ripperger. This book reads like a law book on papal authority and discusses every minute detail of the Mass and the reasoning behind why Catholics do what they do. Papal authority is NOT what Protestants claim! I am SO happy I became Catholic! I continue to learn about all the beauty and deep meaning of Catholicism as taught by our Church Fathers and instituted by Christ. I pray that others will discover this path.
My edition of the small Catechism doesn't mention any particular Christian group.
Where is it written against the Roman Catholic church?
@@j.g.4942 It's not the "Roman Catholic Church". It has been historically and is simply "Catholic"
As a former Baptist, now Catholic, I couldn't agree more with the very relevant points you make. Art has been an important part of Christian churches, solemn celebrations, witness, devotion and liturgy since the beginning. It conveys the Christian gospel message along with a sense of awe and veneration for all the characters of salvation history. Protestant and evangelical churches trivialized the Christian experience and destroyed the original idea of the church as a single body with one spirit, one Lord, one baptism, one soul, one mouth and one teaching. They despised the Mother of God incarnate and abandoned the Eucharist because they do not believe that, after the prayer of consecration, it feeds the Church with the body and blood of Jesus Christ. It is sad to see all the division.
@@jonatasmachado7217, I’m happy that you are Catholic now, and I couldn’t agree more.
@@voxangeli9205I pray God for u becoming a Catholic. 🙏 🙏 🙏
Im a former protestant since I was young but if you will study everything 100% you will be a Catholic ❤
I am so blessed bec I found the true church of God Jesus Christ
I'm a 53-year-old cradle Catholic. Stories of Protestants who converted to Catholicism deepened my faith. Hearing your stories and your objections about Catholics when you were still protestants made me realize I also need to check on them because those misrepresentations and misconceptions were never taught to us since I was a kid. I researched and got a clearer picture of the Catholic faith. Thank you to all of you.
This is so true, thank you.
I love your story, I am married to a non-denominational Christian husband who has sacrificed a lot for my Catholic lifestyle with our two Catholic kids. I am so proud and undeserving of him, I pray that one day, he too will join the Catholic faith.
God bless you and your love and concern for your husband. May he join the church soon.
whatever you do, please do it together. A family raised pulled in two different directions can rarely stand (seen it happen all too often).
Ask him to wear the green scapular of the Blessed Virgin Mary. That practice will convert him. It worked on my friend's husband.
Just don't nag or badger him into it, or tell him comfortable lies. It needs to be a free, informed choice by him.
Greetings from India, just pray for him, I will do it too,. May the Blessed Virgin Mary bring your whole family to the most beautiful Catholic Faith
Welcome! I too am a convert to the Catholic church from being a Protestant.
Best thing I ever did! 🙏❤️🙏
My story is very similar. Grew up in a very strong Lutheran Christian home. Became Catholic right before getting married in 1974, never regretted it, welcome home brother!
Wow, Thank you for listening to the gentle call of our blessed Lord in your Heart. ✝️
Thank you so much! My family was totally Lutheran even a brother a pastor. I have been alone on this journey, yet, so richly blessed with Mary and Jesus in the Eucharist. Praise be to God!
Read Fr. Chad Ripperger's explanation of the Eucharist and what constitutes a sacrifice. Other than the Catholic Church, no other communion is valid, it's just a snack. It's in his book, Th Limits of Papal Authority over the Liturgy.
@tina...
You were and are not alone in your journey.
We are never alone on our road to Emmaus.
Christ walked with you. Our Blessed Mother walked with you. The entire community of saints as well. And the Bride of Christ here on earth walked with you in our rosary prayers for all on their road to Emmaus.
Though a cradle Catholic, I walked that same road to Emmaus. Our Blessed Mother led me to her son. And they walked with me till my eyes were opened at the breaking of the bread. Today, I am totally in love with Christ, my faith and my Church, the one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
I'm a former Confessional Lutheran who is now in OCIA to become Catholic. too experienced an epistemic conflict between what Luther did and taught, and what had been universally believed until he came along. But for me, the first scale that fell was Sola Scriptura. After that, I looked at Orthodoxy...but after awhile I realized that they were the splinter group (not Catholicism). Welcome home! I
Welcome home
Luther wasn't as bad, he was pointing at genuine corruption that was happening at that time, he just pushed the bounds of reform too far and his movement led to a great unfortunate shattering of Christendom and from there, his moral failures just became greater and greater however even from all of that, I don't think Luther, if no one developed his theology further, wouldn't have done as much lasting damage to the church as we have seen today. .
Calvin is the real mind of the lasting protestant movement and for that, I dislike Calvin more
anyways, I'm glad that lutherans are finally coming back to the Church. We miss the germans and we are reminded of their humble genius in the likes of Pope Benedict XVI.
AWESOME!
Converts during these end of times do not understand how extraordinarily special you are, really, how important you all are, you are the light and fire of The Church in this literally troubling and apocalyptic times, that new young flesh and blood and spirit full of live and love if our faith, our Church, and to Jesus in our most sacred Holly Eucharist. The essence of our everything.
God bless you. And thank you.
Thank you for your testimony. I'm a catholic from Argentina. I'm so grateful for the universlity of catholicism. Feel "at home" in every church in the world, knowing we are one family. Thank you for your journey seeking the Truth.
I am a Catholic. I live in Goa (India). I comment here with much hesitation because of a strange experience I had maybe 5 or 6 months ago. One night, right in the midst of my sleep I heard the word 'Lutheran'. I woke up much later and wondered about this word because there was absolutely no reason for it to occur. I put down this word in my list of Intercessions which I go through before Mass daily. I listened to your sharing very closely. I'm wondering if I was called to pray for you. Changing from one set of beliefs to another is not easy and to have the family involved too. I praise and thank God for grace not to ignore that subtle call to pray for someone unknown. God's ways are strange. Thank you for your conversion story. God bless you and your family.
Keep the Fire burning for Jesus christ and the catholic church
Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦 and God bless you and your family. Wonderful and encouraging testimony. I am 72 and still learning about our beautiful Catholic Faith. Immaculate heart of Mary, pray for us; Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us and the whole world 🌎
I grew up there! Catholicism is such a small church there, mostly Irish and Portuguese surnames.
Blessed Benedict Daswa, pray for us.
pray for us sinners amen!
Am providing off to be a Catholic may lord Jesus Christ guad me to remain Catholic believer Amen
A priest said it perfectly when he said, people don't like the Catholic Church for what it teaches, they don't like the Catholic Church because of what they think it teaches
So true...
Yes. I think it was Bishop Fulton Sheen who said that. A holy priest. I recommend his talks and sermons and TV show.
I salute converts to my faith and love to hear their stories..it makes me want to know more about the faith I was born in and then understand it from their conversion stories. To God be all the glory. Mama Mary always gets her way.
Amen
God bless you. May you grow ever closer to Jesus through Mary
i converted in 2015 at age 52, it is awesome, isn't it?
Confirmed April 4, Easter Vigil 2015 on my 72 birthday.
Welcome home.
Sure, I am glad God brought you home, to the church!
I born in Catholic family. I used to re-checked my believed, was confused and drop in a crisis of spiritual time. Jesus helped me to know how he loves me, Holy Spirit leads me and teach me to love Jesus, to love The Church, and virgin Mary.
I was raised Catholic and when I was in my 20s I fell away from the Church into Protestantism. So many problems with people picking out what flavor of Christianity they want to be. It drove me away. God has brought me back home to Catholicism! Welcome home brother!
I was a protestant too but after studying I am now a Catholic ❤
Dear Daniel,
I watched your video with great joy and gratitude. Your faith-enriching witness and the journey of your family into the Catholic Church are truly beautiful. May God continue to guide and bless you on this profound spiritual path.
Many prayers and blessings.
Wonderful testimony Daniel, I'm a born Catholic, 77. It's truly great to hear your story of 'Coming Home', and I pray it will motivate many, many more like you, to come to the one True Catholic Apostolic Church, the one formed by Jesus Christ Himself.
Praised be God! Stay Blest. 🙏 From India.
God bless you. I was raised Catholic, left as a teen for a 'Bible believing church'. Went to a very fine Bible college. It was my last year of school, that I realized the Truth I left behind. I think the turning event was the realization about salvation. We were told you must accept Jesus as your personal Savior to be saved, its great, and every Christian must have a Personal relationship with Christ, but that's not what the Bible says about salvation. Acts 2 says, Repent and be baptized, so that your sins may be forgiven.. today I'm back in the ancient Faith
Wonderful testimony about becoming a Catholic. I pray that Catholics who have left the true church will hear your testimony! Prayers for all of us!!
Many of those who left the RCC, have not done because of theological reasons, but rather because of the wanton abuses perpetrated by clergy over the many decades, and the cover ups that ensued…… sad to say!
I’m sure that is true to a small degree but many many more have left long before the abuse was in the media. Far more leave because they don’t know their faith and it is much easier to be a Protestant. Catholics NEED to realize that the Church teaches that if you leave the church knowing that it is the One True Apostolic Church that Christ started, then that is the same as denying CHRIST and if one denies CHRIST then without asking for forgiveness and returning to the church then one can’t be saved. There is no reason to justify leaving the One True Faith. Satan delights every time a Catholic turns their back on the church because Satan has gotten that person to deny Christ. Peter denied CHRIST three times as did Judas but thankfully Peter did not despair and asked for forgiveness. Judas despaired and didn’t ask forgiveness and the church teaches he went to hell.
To attempt to prove the Catholic Faith is wrong is the *SUREST* path to Catholicism! 😊🙏🙏🙏
WELCOME *HOME,* TEW Family!
my mother was a catholic covert and realized that it wasn't what the catholic church believed, but what she was mistakenly as a protestant was led to believe that convinced her to covert to the catholic church
I was also Lutheran leaning very long. Born Catholic, believed in the real presence, but I refused to go to confession (original also a part of Lutheranism, but with no obligation to make us of it) and thus wouldn't receive the Eucharist for a decade after my first communion, because somewhere I knew I deep inside I shouldn't do it without confession.
Eventually I was at a point, where yI didn't felt good eith my life and a very charismatic Catholic persuade me to go to confession. What happened was that I cried during my confession and that my Tinnitus, I had for a very long time, disappeared completely for almost and hour, while I felt really "light".
My problem from then on was that I didn't believed in Mary or that I should pray the rosary. It wasn't until I witnessed something special in Mali Lošinj, a island in Croatia that is infamous for having Marian apparitions. So I attended one of those apparitions and smelled the smell of roses, while physically feeling a "Holy presence" (words csnt really describe). I was sure something supernatural was happening there, but my skepticism I've got from Protestantism made me consider to maybe it being a deception of Satan. However, the special thing about this place was, that they pray a Golden Rosary, which is directed to Jesus heart, which made me exclude any possibility that Satan could be the culprit of deception here. Also, the apparitions don't happen on the Lord's day, because the blessed mother doesn't put herself above her son. She leads to Jesus.
Instead of viewing Marian devotion as idolatry I began to understand that Jesus gave His mother to us to be our mother and that prayer to her is not worship, just like asking someone on earth to pray for you is not worship. The reason Mary can hear our prayers is because she has zhe beatific vision. She is in heaven and united with God through her son and so are all other saints. That's how they can hear us. The plan of salvation is to make a huge family in God and we are never alone in faith. The whole body of Christ is united.
Welcome home brother to the holy Catholic church that Jesus Christ started. Praise be Jesus Christ. Amen.❤❤❤
The catechism of the Catholic Church is so so rich.
And the tradition of the holy church - also crucial to the faith
Such a beautiful conversion story. It almost brought tears to my eyes just thinking about so many children of God lead astray not by their fault but those who started these offshoot from mother church. I pray everyday for their conversion. Welcome home brothers and sisters in Christ 🙏🏻
Thank you for this beautiful testimony and welcome to the catholic church! Greetings from Switzerland
a Swiss Catholic! I thought you were a vanishing breed?. Glad to know the beautiful country of Switzerland has a measurable Catholic presence.
I have been protestant my whole life but recently have felt a disconnect, getting nothing from sermons. I feel very drawn to the Catholic church, and after watching this I will be visiting one very soon. Thank you.
History, Faith and Works of Love, and the reason to be catholic is the Holy Eucharist is the most important sacrament… Welcome brother’s and sisters to the only Holy Catholic Church 🙏
God bless you as u do
Go for it! You’re in my prayers!!
Welcome to the Catholic community. Please continue to spread Catholicism. God bless your calling.
Cradle Catholic here. Welcome home all you wonderful converts ❤️
It never ceases to amaze me how all anti-Catholics before and anti -BVM have embraced Catholicism and now also a diehard lover of our Lady❤️
May you all be blessed more🙏💗🥰❤️
Yes!
I was raised Lutheran. The Rosary brought me to Catholicism as well and I’ve never regretted it. Thank you for this video!
Do you have a testimony video already? :)
Could you share more?
Was born and raised Lutheran but just got my first Rosary in the mail!
Love the rosary. Reciting scripture whilst contemplating scripture.
@ally...
If possible, start a rosary group. Or join one. I joined a rosary group 3 yrs ago praying the rosary every evening at 8pm. There are between 6 and 10 of us, each taking turns to lead by week. After 3 yrs of this devotion, I am so into time with our Lord, prayer and the rosary. Mornings and before bed. The rosary just transports one into the life of Christ. Truly, to Christ through Mary. She points us to her Son always, every time.
I have been a Catholic all my life. However, I wanted to believe intelligently not blindly, Studying apologetics just like you did fortified my faith in the Church and its teachings.
Welcome to the Church, Mr. Tews!
Much respect for the integrity and courage of this fine man. I am a protestant and have been confronted with the reality of the physical presence Lord Jesus in the Eucharist by reading especially John 6. I am still on this journey but unable to find a vibrant Parish.
This year it will happen to you, Marcia and John! God bless you as Catholics!
I will pray for you to find a good Parish, you are right go to church without Eucharist is missing so much. My mom was Buddhist and she found Catholic when she was 17 and I was so lucky that I’m grown up in a Catholic family even our family not perfect but God fixing our steps each time we did anything wrong and we feel God is with us every day. Back home we were so poor, people go church every day to pray, to worship God sincerely sincerely you cannot imagine. I feel sorry for the rich country like Canada state, fading out the faith to God so much, and it’s been along time God has been very sad. He has is waiting for His children to come back in one church what he made up over 2000 years ago, the original one, not the one man-made. Amen 🙏
Very interesting story in this video. I'm Catholic too. Indeed, the theological arms of the Catholic Church are wide. The philosophical development over 2,000 years is unparalleled.
Bringing up the idea that Protestant denominations continue to "protest" is an observant take. It is as much political as it is theological. In politics, any "radical" line of thinking cannot continue to exist without an adversarial incumbent. If it succeeds in eliminating the incumbent, a radical movement destabilizes since its views are usually fixated on criticizing established, outside authority. When the radical succeeds and becomes the established authority, then its internal incoherence emerges. The man's mentioning of Martin Luther as a "superpope" is the case in point.
The Catholic Church is unique in that its existence isn't reactionary, thus doesn't rely on a continued worldly adversary. Its focus appears to me to aim higher, remaining steady on the theological/philosophical.
My husband was Lutheran. He's in RCIA now!
Protestant converts make the best Catholics. They bring strong biblical background and discipline and combine it with the truth and beauty of the Catholic Church. I’m a Cradle Catholic revert who has attended Protestant Church as well. We are brothers and sisters and have great respect for our Protestant neighbors.
A wonderful testimony! As a lifelong Catholic, it heartens me to hear the love of the Holy Spirit active in the lives of those open to God’s invitation to come home to the fullness of the church that He established!
I was Lutheran, then the world went nuts and my church told me that I should be ashamed I am a straight white man! I left immediately and told them why, I said I believe in the family unit I believe that a family should have a mother(a female)and a father (a male) and I believe the America I grew up in is how it should be today
What a beautiful, articulate, and reasoned story of conversion.
The Rosary is the weapon we're given to fight evil and brings us closer to The Mother of God, who leads us to her Son, Jesus..
I read this before, and based in your experience, this has been very true: “Ignorant Catholics becomes protestants, and the well-learned Protestants becomes Catholic.”
Brilliant
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Very true
Pastor Daniel welcome home!
What a journey I pray all our protestant brothers and sisters join us and come back to our Mothers arms.
I too am a Lutheran converted to Catholic. 🤍🙏✝️ Praise God!
Truth doesn't need defending. Truth is the great I Am, which stands the test of time and trial. Welcome Home Brother.
Beautiful conversion story! Thank you for sharing. And Welcome Home! May God bless you and your family, always. I hope you have access to a really good Catholic Bible study group led by a priest who is VERY well versed in theology. I live in a very small rural community; our priest is from Nigeria and he is so strong in his theology. Our Bible study group and our entire Parish and community is so blessed to have him as a teacher, priest, and shepherd. The Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons all need our prayers right now so they will be open to receiving God’s will and carrying out God’s will in His Church, dying to their personal wills and living in God’s will alone! Bless them all!
Was he sent to the US as a priest, or went there as a migrant and was ordinated there? Just out of curiosity.
May God bless you, keep you, and lead you and all your loved ones to His Eternal Kingdom in Heaven. Amen!
I also was Lutheran and was taken into full unity with the Catholic church in 2007 ❤
And now I work as a "catholic evangelist". It is now so much easier to guide people into closer relationship with God since having the Catholic understanding of the Christianity ❤
Blessed... As a cradle Catholic I am in tears with this story. I think as Catholics we take our religion for granted. We don't take the time to truly learn, and we are allowing others to sway us because we do not know the teachers or how to defend our belief. Thank you and welcome home.
💯 true.
Welcome home! It's so nice to hear your story of the search for Truth. As always, Church Fathers = Game Over! May God continue to bless you and yours.
I was LCMS before my conversion last Easter 🙏. Mother Mary brought me home through the Rosary
Same! God bless.
Hi, Lutheran here. How do you know Mary brought you to Roman Catholicism? Blessings
@@Solideogloria00I'm Catholic because God and scripture lead me to the Catholic church
@@andreeattieh2963could you share?
@@peaceandlove544 my mum had lukemia and Doctors said she had minutes to live
Then they were at a loss to explain how the Eucharist and the rosary were able to cure her despite the hospital record
I then decided to look into what the Catholic church taught and as a Protestant myself I soon came to realise that everything my baptist church taught me about the Catholic church wasn't true
I read the writing of the early Christians and church fathers and compared them to scripture and soon heard God calling to me after I prayed for him to show me the truth
I am a Episcopalian and my mom and I would pray with the rosary growing up.
The grace of God is endless...welcome home!
So happy for you and thanks for this!! God is clearly leading many people to the Catholic Church at this time.
I love how open minded, receptive and humble this gentleman is. Welcome home.
Glory be to God!!! ❤🙏😇🤗
Amen 🙏 😊
Thank u for ur testimony. Really healing for me as an Irish catholic because living in England I still get anti-catholic comments.
For my marriage I left the catholic church, but I missed all of the catholic church and I got back now for years, very grateful!
What I truly admire about your conversion is the thought through process. It was extensive and you made the most important call and that was to God for Him to show you the truth. That is always key. May God bless you and may the HOLY SPIRIT, our Comforter, always remain with you, especially when you encounter struggles in your faith. Amen
Thank you all for your stories of faith. I am a Catholic, too. God is patient no matter where we are. He awaits us all.
I pray God bless us all.
I'm a "Cradle Catholic" and, at 88 (going on 60); recently been interested in the study of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther was formerly a Catholic monk, so this solved the case for me.
With a solid background in the Catholic faith, it deepened it even more and today, I am a Third Degree Knight of Columbus (on the way to Fourth Degree) and an Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister in our parish; which this gentleman should both contemplate.
His talk was absolutely superb, without being preachy and I highly admire him for his courage in changing, from one lifelong belief, to another.
I have noted over the years, that former Protestants, make the very best Catholics.
Thanks a lit for this very inspiring talk; it strengthened my (very strong) faith, even more!
Beautiful testimony. I really appreciated your heart and your search for The Truth. Blessings from Portugal
My wife was also a former Lutheran. She is still the love of my life after 33 years and devout Catholic. I love you, Katie
Glory be to God 🙏🏻
Welcome. Troubling times for Christians.
Welcome home brother I’m so excited and happy for you and your family….. God will always be with you the body of the church ⛪️🙏
Daniel Tews: Thank you so much for making this video and sharing so beautifully your conversion experience. And congratulations! I am so happy that you found your place in Catholicism. I was born Catholic, left the Church for 20+ years, but came back "with a vengeance" (i.e., extremely committed).
Your story confirms and reinforces my faith, and I thank you for that. Please let us know where your journey takes you. Very best wishes, Linda J.
Praise God for his ingenuity, wisdom and mercy for all his children. I keep running across these type of testimonies. Brothers and sisters joining the church. I rejoice to learn that they are from other denominations. God is working convention miracles in his church. Welcome home brothers and sisters.
Grew up penticostal😢 looked toward the roots fell into baptist and began thinking of Mother Mary. I felt an urge to mutter the Hail Mary and looked up the words… I did it, no lightening struck so I began the rosary. Then continued my search on Church fathers and the beginning. Found an OrthoOrthodox Church and got baptized. Learned that Martin Luther was confused….. so now I follow Orthodox/Catholic teachings. It was a year to remember…. 2022-23. I feel so blessed to know the truth!
There is no need to be sad about being raised Pentecostal. I am too. I'm studying the church fathers at a Catholic University. I had the most amazing born-again experience that changed my life forever in the Pentecostal church. If God hadn't saved me, I would have ended up in Thailand doing martial arts. You are wrong about the roots. They are very Wesleyan and subsequently, very catholic. Pentecostals are not linked with the Reformed/Calvinism at all. Why not the Catholic Church? Why Orthodox?
Woww Our Mother chose you. She is literaly the Noah's arc of these ends of times. 😢😢😢😢😢 Look it up.
My husband and I were Lutheran for 20 years and became Catholic just 3 years ago. I too, find comfort in having the Pope and magisterium to keep the church grounded on the teachings of Jesus.
Requesting your prayers for our family.
I am going pray for you right after my message. Hod bless you and your family ❤ I did 😊and will do more and more brother.
"Show me the truth." When Martin Luther *added* "alone" to "The just live by faith" truly helped me make my decision.
Interesting how you started reading the church fathers. I’m starting to read them and I keep going towards the ancient church understanding and leaning toward Catholic faith. I’m actually Lutheran and I’m going to start advent in a couple days. Blessings to you and your family
Welcome home
.Great to hear/read all your testimonies.
You new converts are defining what REAL REVIVAL means ( Yes, KKrick, REAl REVIVAL )
@kerri...
There are 1.4bil Catholics in 28 diff rites but ALL Catholics believe in the same core dogmas and doctrines of the faith under the leadership of one Vicar of Christ...for 2,000yrs and going into the future until our Lord comes again. That is the certainty of the Catholic faith, the fullness of the truth of Christ.
As Daniel says, there are 6,000 Lutheran denominations (and a global population of a mere 80mil Lutherans.) And as every Lutheran is an authority unto him/herself as long as "inspired by the Holy Spirit" how do you know yr strain of Lutheranism is the right one? Have you given any thought to the doctrinal confusion within Lutheranism?
@@pathue1196She's leaning towards the Catholic faith, which is another addition to the REAL REVIVAL list ( yes, KKrick, REAL Revival and not merely boasting that word like you, Saldivar and other " Demon Slayer "loves to tell the world )
Anyone who used-to-be a Protestant and now, considering to get converted to Catholicism, it shows that the FATHER has
finally GIVEN that person to his Son....
JOHN 6:44-51 and all the praise belongs to the REAL HOLY SPIRIT, for he is the one who led and navigated that person to the right path/right and real church.
What a beautiful story! I cried watching this! I wonder if he has ever considered ordination to the catholic priesthood? I had a spiritual director who was a Lutheran pastor, converted to Catholicism and then received permission from the pope to be ordained in the Catholic Church. It seems as though this man has a true calling to be a pastor.
This is what keeps us cradle Catholics on fire! Thanks for your beautiful story and continue your calling and mission as a witness to our faith…. You are home!
God bless you Pastor. Welcome to the only Chrsitian Church foudned by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Please please please write a book on your story and findings! We are converts and the only in our family! We😢 would love to convert the hearts of our families ❤️thank you for your story!
Scott Hahn and Keith Nester have similar stores and have both written great books!
The program called The Journey Home is filled with stories too.
@living...
Check out the "Coming Home Network." Tons of conversion stories.
I was born and raised Catholic missed my confirmation and took RCIA before I got married. My mother in law was a Eucharistic minister and a lector. I have always felt God pulling me back home when I walked away or couldn’t go to church. We moved to Florida in 1999. And went to a Catholic Church here and it just wasn’t the same. So we went to a baptist church and was baptized again. Left there after a few years to a non denomination church and served in a few different positions. But I keep feeling God calling me back to Catholicism. The Piety and reverence and seeing the chosen. Wanting to find the true church and I come to this. I have been saying the rosary every day for quite a while. I helped my mother in law as she passed from this life to the next. Her 94 year old boyfriend took care of her as long as he could and I went up to Pa. To take care of her until she passed. He would come and start the rosary she liked on CZcams and they would watch daily mass. Ever since then I have been praying and studying the Bible almost all the time. I start my Day with Jesus and Mary. And end my day with them. After work I spend time in His word. I think this is a sign. I have recently been following and watching Gabbi. Thank you for doing the work. And sharing.
I love listening to your conversion stories and being faithful to the Rosary. Certainly the Rosary enhances my faith, spirituality to quietly live holy life for JESUS CHRIST the TRUTH. Thank you for returning to Catholicism regardless of challenges within. God bless you always. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I was in the Orthodox Church myself. I entered the Catholic Church 19 years ago, when i was 19 years old. Never regretted it. Welcome home.
Very powerful testimony. Let’s pray for each other brothers and sisters in Christ.
God bless you and your family 🙏
God bless you sir! Welcome home!
May God bless you and your family
Wonderful testimony, Daniel. I grew up as an Evangelical Lutheran. Eventually I came across the early Church Fathers, the ones before St. Augustin. It was especially the writings of Ignatius of Antioch that kindled a fire and a curiosity within me. Eventually I contacted the local Catholic priest (only one Catholic Church here in the Faroe Islands) and talking to him really touched my heart. Eventually I entered the Church at Easter in 2017.
I could say a lot more, but I am so grateful that Jesus opened my heart to His Church.