From Baptist to Catholic | Joel McMichael
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2022
- Joel McMichael is a seminarian for the Diocese of Tyler, currently studying at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. In this video he shares how his love for Christ led him on a long spiritual & intellectual journey to the Catholic Church and the pursuit of Christ's Priesthood!
This video is part of the Catholics of East Texas video series: • Catholics of East Texas
I'm Gabby's Dad you mentioned in this video. I remember you and Steven having debates and meeting at the coffee shop. I also remember Gabby telling me you begged her not to become Catholic when she did. I just found out yesterday that you were not just Catholic but a seminarian....I was blown away. May God bless you on your journey, Joel. You'll be in my prayers.
Wow!!! Full circle…maybe Gabby was an instrument somehow.❤
Wow incredible story!!❤️🙏🏼❤️
Wow♥️🙏🙏🙏
Respect from France and welcome home. Lived in DFW in 1991, so TX is in my heart.
Amazing
I was a Baptist for 66 years. My father was a southern Baptist minister. He went to seminary school in New Orleans. I knew I was missing something.. My grandmother was Catholic. My mother was Catholic. The Lord spoke to me, I know in my heart of heart!! the Catholic Church is a true church of Christ is all about the Eucharist.I celebrate my third year being Catholic. Thank you for this video
I’m a convert too! I found God in his holy Catholic Church after 34 years of being an anti Catholic Protestant
Welcome home to both of you! Pray for me
Beautiful testimony. The Holy Eucharist brought me home to the Church as well. I was a 30 years Charismatic Protestant before being received into the church Easter 2021.
@@eireannemerald1382 You are a humble truth seeker. Some who see the truth, their ego stops them from leaving Protestantism.
Welcome home!
Selamat kembali kerumah ❤❤
Welcome home 🙏
Welcome home.🙏❤️
I have three siblings who don't go to church although we are cradle Catholics and of course my mama converted from Baptist....I pray for them everyday..❤🎉
I'm originally from South Louisiana and now I live in Tyler, TX! Thank you for sharing your testimony!! I grew up a Baptist preacher's kid and I converted to Catholicism in 2014. My parents responded better than I thought they would and 1 year later my older brother converted to Catholicism. God is so good and I love my Faith!!
Welcome home to you and your brother. God is Great!
Awesome testimony. Thanks for sharing.
that's so sad! you'd think that Texas would have people who could read and comprehend Scripture.
will keep you in prayer, friend.
Hey Joel, your story is so beautiful and powerful. As a convert myself from a Baptist background with a brother who is a Baptist preacher and parents who are Sunday school teachers this resonates with me personally. I can recall the pain of my family when they learned of my conversion. This was 2016. But oh the joy of coming into the Catholic Church. I love my faith journey and so humbled that God graced me to see truth. My prayers like you, are to see family and friends make the journey as well. I want to share with them the beauty and fullness of our faith. God bless you Joel. And thank you for sharing your journey.
what brought you to the catholic church dear friend? as far as I know, baptists are hard to convert into catholicism because of their strong faith. But what made you want to convert to catholicism?
Nice story how is relationship with parents now?
@@user-lx2wh8qv3b I began reading historical Christianity and the early church fathers. One rabbit trail after the next and I began to see the coherence of Catholic claims. There were many obstacles to overcome but slowly I was convinced. Life within Christianity is Catholic through and through.
@@cantrait7311 they have softened some. We ripped the theological band aid off last time they came to visit and talked in depth about different topics which hopefully dispelled many misunderstandings. I hope if nothing else show them Catholics know and love Christ!
how about following God's Word and becoming Christian??
catholicism is not Christianity.
Just recieved my first Eucharist last night. It was beautiful!
That's awesome
Lovely and relieved ❤❤❤❤
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one Holy Communion, received with love and devotion, is worth more than the whole world, just like every Holy Mass is 💖💖💖
Congratulations. God bless
Thank you!! The Eucharist is what drew me to Christ's Church. I would consider myself to have been somewhat anti Catholic at one time. I didn't view any individual Catholics as bad. I thought what I was told (and blindly believed) about the Church was true. I humbly stand corrected. My husband and I came in to the Church this past Easter. Thanks be to God!!!
Praise God for drawing His people close to Him!
Me too. Eucharist was and is the reason why soon I'll join the church. Everything started in November 2021. Glory be to God
Welcome home! ❤
Welcome home. So happy for you both. May our dear Lord bless and keep you all the days of your lives.❤
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I was raised a Baptist and converted to Christ's Catholic Church in 1987. PRAISE GOD!
Thank you so very much for sharing your journey! May God bless you and our Blessed Mother cover you with her Blue Mantle ❤️🔥🙏✝️✝️✝️
What a beautiful conversion story. I’m the only Catholic in my family and pray daily for their conversion to the faith. Praise Glory to God. Thank you for responding to God’s call. You and all the seminarians are in my prayers. 🙏❤️
Beautiful testimony! I've always thought the people who convert to Catholicism sometimes make much better Catholics of those of us that are cradle Catholics.
Most definitely...they have so much goodness in them which they bring along with them and each testimony I hear brings me a step closer to becoming a better Catholic.
I agree with you 💯. I enjoy listening to conversion stories. Those that converted to me have a profound appreciation of the church, honestly they do.
Absolutely!!!
Very true. Strong Protestants become Catholic. Weak Catholics become Protestants. Let’s pray for them. 🙏✝️❤️
How does a lying religious heretic make a better Catholic than a life long Catholic who knows the Bible and has Crusader hard faith in the Catholic faith.
Wow. Not just converting but becoming a priest! God bless
When God does something he does it ALL THE WAY
very sad, indeed.
A wafer?
@@mikepennn absolutely! it smells like a wafer. it looks and tastes like a wafer. it's clearly a wafer.
our Creator desires we use sense, Scripture and integrity -- this wafer is simply symbolic.
Kinda like taking the mark of the beast
As a cradle Catholic
I couldn’t imagine the pain
Your parents must feel.
I hope u all still get along.
God bless and welcome home
My hat's off to all Catholic converts. I am a cradle Catholic, but it takes special people to take action and convert, especially with family opposition. I am not nearly as strong as all of you. God Bless every one of you!
get out there to help convert them....
May God lead you & be your stronghold in this.
it's sad. why would you be happy when this 'church' clearly isn't Christianity?
@@chevyvantravel9735 to what? catholicism isn't Christianity.
so you didn't read Scripture, or just didn't understand It?
because friend, Bible is crystal clear that catholicism isn't Christianity.
When he prayed and heard a voice. Yes, I too experienced this 2x times in my life when I needed direction and spiritual guidance.
OMG! I guess there is hope for me yet! I'm so hoping and praying that my step son and grandchildren will become Catholic someday. You have made that hope peak. Thanks so much for this video.
I was a backsliding Baptist for many years, I truly believe it was my mother in-laws rosaries that finally brought me home. Thanks be To God
I have been praying the Rosary for some months and want to convert to RC as well. Just not sure how to do it. Also watching the Gospels many times as I love the actual words of Christ. Perhaps I need to pray on my next step as well. I long for communion and have never attended confession. Thank you for sharing your journey. God's blessing upon you!
Call the church closest to you...they'll help bring you into the Church. I pray for your discernment. I converted in 2010 and it was one of the greatest moments in my life.
@@karynsweet3138 thank you Karyn. It's been a long journey and I am praying in earnest for the "home" Church I seek. I am in a small town in Canada and just one RC Church here but it is a big one! I will go to them.
@@gwenechotaylor96 I am in a similar situation....we live in the Appalachian mountains with only one Catholic Church. I went through all types of religions and eventually visited many Christian Churches but eventually made my way home. May the Lord bring you to himself and his Church :)
@@karynsweet3138 well you might be a bit of a fish out of water as a Catholic there! I am in a town too with one Catholic Church in town. Took me a bit of "fishing" to finally realize that RC was home for me. Blessings for us both :)
Go to that church. They will be able to guide you on your journey.God bless you.
Congratulations ! You belong to the Church that Jesus started. Where else would anyone want to be? God Bless
Actually a description of the Church that Christ started can be found in the Book of Acts - great reading - even better STUDY!
@@BrianK49 I agree, I like the part where Acts 1 covers Apostolic Succession
Your conversion story is beautiful! Prayers for you and your family! I converted over 38 years ago and I am the only one in my family that did so. God was calling me!
Our Lady spoke to your heart because you asked.
God bless brother. Beautiful testimony.
Beautiful story! I love hearing from a fellow convert since I converted in 2021 at Saint Edwards!
I was born Catholic and i will die someday ,head towards heaven in Jesus Christ . Praise the lord ❤️🩹🛐✝️
why not become Christian and show you love Jesus -- John 14:15
@@tony1685oh-oh the most toxic anti-catholic SDA in the house.
GOD BLESS HIS ONE AND ONLY CATHOLIC CHURCH
“Have you considered my son’s church” 🥹 beautiful!!! This conversion story is so beautiful.
Thank you Blessed Virgin Mary 🙏❤️📿”Do what Jesus tells you “
Welcome home to the one true holy apostolic catholic church founded by Jesus Christ
sorry Sir, Jesus didn't found this pagan system. Bible is clear on this.
Beautiful Testimony....Hail Christ Brother
This is happening to me now. The intellectual conversion. It’s impossible to unsee.
I am baptized (protestant) and in 2020, remarried to a Protestant who is baptized and very nervous about the process of annulment for my previous marriage to receive official RCIA conversion, but I have my husband’s blessing so it’s a start!
Please pray for me, my husband, and my adult son who is witnessing Jesus working in me, also.
Thank you!
congratulations and may you always be a great priest for Jesus
Welcome home brother.
🙏❤️🙏
Indeed, your testimony is very amazing.
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The Catholic faith is the most beautiful experience anyone who does it will after find.
Amen 🙏🏼
purely nonsense -- it hates our loving Creator and makes Him look like a demon, with their teachings on 'hell'.
@@tony1685
And what explicit Scriptural & historical support do you have for your claims?
@@kainosktisis777 well, catholicism teaches that those who aren't saved go to Hell -- to live forever in torture, being alive and feeling all pain for billions and trillions of endless years, isn't this so?
@@tony1685
Yes - by their own choosing.
If someone chooses to be separated from God, He won’t deny them that choice.
God is love, & to reject love is to be apart from Him. They consciously choose to reject love.
People want to believe in the truth of Eucharist. He found his mission, he will be a missionary for the Eucharist. That's amazing, I'd love that also for me. Best regards & blessings from Michoacán México.
From a Canadian Catholic, we as a Church, are truly Blessed to have you in the Church.
Blessings to you!!!
My South Baptis neighbor stopped talking to me because of the love I have for my Catholic faith, but she is good friends with ex Catholic and none Believers
Truth hurts sometimes! You have a better companion that can never leave you, hold on Him🙏
sadly they both pretend sunday is the Lord's day, while Scripture proves that if we love Jesus, we keep the 7th, Sabbath.
Welcome to the Body of Christ The True Holy Apostlic Catholic Church.
What an amazing testimony! It’s true that void just doesn’t get filled until we truly give ourselves to the Lord and he shows us the way and the truth! Tonight I get baptized at the Easter Vigil. I’m so happy and excited and fulfilled and joyful. The Lord is good. I’m so glad to be a Catholic 🙏 I’m so fulfilled.
Blessed to have been born catholic,but only last 2 years have I really started practicing thanks to the Blessed Virgin calling me to pray the Rosary. Thank yoh Holy Mother for bringing me to the sacred heart of your Beloved Son,my Lord Jesus Christ
why? it's not Biblical, therefore not of a Christian theme.
Mary is dead and knows nothing -- why try to Deify her?
@@tony1685 did Jesus give us the Bible? Where in scripture does it state or command us from Christ to use the Bible alone as authority?
@@mattcaruso2520 seriously??
all of Scripture echos the importance of His Word -- start with Matt 4:4 and Luke 4:4
I’m literally in tears listening to you. Thank you for sharing your testimony but most of all THANKS BE TO GOD! May God continue to bless you on your journey 🙏
Baptists can be ignorant about the Catholic faith but the minds of the ignorant can be changed and may they come to God, and the true Catholic Church. Long live Christ the King. ✝️🇻🇦
May God continue to guide your footsteps.
Such a heartwarming story. I’ve been praying for more converts to our Catholic Church. The Blessed Virgin Mary has touched many people and I’m grateful to her for touching and enlightening you.
May you be blessed more on your journey.🙏💗
Most beautiful. I feel that same call. I wanted to be a missionary in my teens as well.
I wanted to be a nun. But I was Southern Baptist, and Baptist couldn't be nuns. Many years later, I have come home. I have not gotten overseas yet, but I am a missionary in the United States.
Oh, goodness! My heart is so full of joy! Yay East Texas!
Mass is so beautiful. I'm happy that you're home.
God bless you! I, too, am a convert. From Jehovah's Witness to Southern Baptist ultimately to Roman Catholic.
reviewing the earliest texts and prayer reaffirmed my Catholic faith Blessed Mother always leads to her Son. the Marian apparitions push us to pray more and to get closer to Jesus Now i pray rosary daily using an app scriptural rosary helps me focus on each mystery in terms of scripture i also found a liturgy of the hours podcast so i do that as well.
Welcome home brother & God bless 🙏🙏🙏💯 Catholic 🗝️🗝️ May Jesus Christ saves us & May Jesus Holy Mother pray for us & Saint Joseph 🙏🙏
A lovely testimony from this young man🙏
God bless him and those whose lives he touches🙏
Welcome home brother in Christ.
Respect to you sir.
Must have been very difficult to tell your parents, but you did it , and it will all work out in the end
You’ll be an exceptional priest
Good luck for the future my friend in Jesus Mighty Name Amen..
What a beautiful, lovable guy Joel McMichael is! What a beautiful soul he has that was born and raised in the soil of evangelism and grew and ripened into the sweet fruit of full Catholic Christianity.
God bless you and your ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! What a journey!
Praise Our Lord Jesus Christ!
Welcome Home 🏠🙏✝️🙏
Beautiful. Welcome home
Beautiful! God Bless You
beautiful!
What a wonderful journey. ..
I feel right now that making a sect of protestant Christian was to God's work to prepare for solid Catholic through upto date in scripture. Because lukewarm Catholics doesn't seems to read the scripture at all but God has managed to prepare protestant with solid foundation in scripture for Catholic.
Beautiful! Well done faithful servant!💛😇💛
Send forth your spirit and they will be created and you will renew the face of the earth ! 🙏
Thank You Lord Jesus
The ways of the Lord are surprisingly misterious and wonderful! Congratulations!, and thank you for answering the Lord's call.
John Calvin doesn’t believe you can be saved if you aren’t the right person. He believes everyone is predetermined to go to heaven or hell when they’re born. That doesn’t sound very logical to me.
There's nothing but the Catholic church , founded by Our Lord. His church. Glad this young man converted. I thank God daily my ancestors converted and passed down the faith to me. I 'd rather die a million times than not to have my faith. Deo Gratias.
it's heartbreaking that you're in defiance of Truth, regardless of what the Word shows us.
Oh what a great story!!! He became a priest hallelujah 😊!!!
So inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
God bless u. ❤
Thank you for sharing, that was really beautiful. As a mom, I always wonder how we proudly raise our kids to be individuals with a free spirit, but when they choose something we would not choose, dismiss them... Makes no sense to me. What a better thing could happen to a parent than having a child following his/her calling and being happy??? All the best to you ☘️
I believe god loves us all no matter the human rituals, all churches should be united under god.
There is no salvation outside the Catholic church! Repent, and become Catholic before it’s too late!
The Catholic church is Noahs' Ark. if not on /in the boat they won't make it. continue praying for their conversion.
-'There is no salvation outside the Catholic church!'- -- 'Repent...' -- can't be catholic and repent.
your first statement was nonsense. the 2nd didn't make sense since catholicism mandates sin.
Welcome Home and thank you for answering God's call to the priesthood.
Thank you very inspirational!
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Awesome, blessed story!!
i love jesus christ with all my heart and his one true church, the catholic church.
If anyone happens to read this, please continue. I am thirteen years old and I love in a very Baptist part of Tennessee. I recently did a study on Catholicism in school and I fell in love with the beliefs that Catholics have. My dad and many other generations of my family are preachers or elders in th church. Since I did that study in school, I have been researching and talking to my Catholic friends about Catholicism. I want to become a Catholic very badlry, I feel that God is calling me to become one. The only problem is that my family would not accept me as a Catholic if I told them. I want to tell them, and I want them to help me get more involved in the Catholic church, but I know that they would never. I know that they would look down on me and say that I'm polytheistic. I don't know what to do. If anyone has any advice, please comment. Also, I want to learn more about Catholicism, so if you are a Catholic, could you please help me learn everything that I need to know? God bless you!
Read the catechism of the Catholic Church
Thank you sister. I do have one question though, where do I find it?
Thank you sister. I do have one question though, where do I find it?
Pray to Blessed Virgin Mary, help of christians.
Find out where the nearest Catholic Church is and see if you can go on a Sunday morning and speak to the priest after Mass. Tell him what you would like to do. Pray to Jesus and Mary, Mother of God to help you to get a blessed rosary. Look up how to pray it and print out the instructions if you can. You can also find out where the nearest catechism classes are for those who want to become Catholic are held. Ask Jesus and Mary to send you good people to help you become Catholic and ask them if that is their will for you. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Where humans shut the door on you, somewhere God opens a window. Wishing you the best of Irish Catholic luck.
Basically, the rosary can overcome ANY OBSTACLE, even opposition that you may face in your faith journey or any crisis. It may take some time, but the experience and the suffering along the way will build up your confidence and your character. If you’re able to go to Mass, pray during the consecration of the Host and the Blood to God to help you achieve your dream.
I am also a former Protestant who converted as an adult. I have never regretted becoming a Catholic. It felt like coming home.
Love it, thank you for your heart-felt testimony, so inspiring
What a testimony!!!! Very poignant! My brother I will continue to pray for you and your fellow seminarians as you prepare for that work in that corner of the Lord's vineyard. My heart is moved by your journey. Cradle Catholic and still growing and learning. Shalom
Mary...even mentioning her name tears me up. All the time.
I realized yesterday at Mass, I have been upset, even mad at certain people in the pews, certain priest, Bishops, even certain Popes and yes, even God, but I have never been mad at mama. I guess I'm a mama's boy. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God
she didn't die for your sins -- Jesus Christ did.
@@tony1685 Amen. And she too brought Him to life among us. Not Himself. 🤷🏾♂️
@@darrellperez1029 sorry friend, but He has always been -- she was created.
you have this backwards.
she was mother to His humanity, not His Divinity.
like us now, she too was a sinner. she is now dead and needs Christ as Saviour.
@@tony1685 Friend? We are not friends. We are brothers. And sorry brother but no one in Christ dies as it is written in the gospels. She WAS the mother of His humanity as she was also "the woman" who God told Satan would put enmity between them. That enmity was Christ. And to say God did not make her sinless is limiting His power. "Blessed are you among women" tell me what the greeting Gabriel gave her meant? Moresno. Tell me where that greeting is found in history? Backwards? No brother. I understand. As for all Catholics I know too. Everything you say is true about God. However! Without her "Fiat" we would not be here and known about Christ.
I will pray for you Joel.
Big testimony!
Missionary spirit - Wallis and Futuna Islands are 95%
Catholic because of a now, canonised saint missionary.
God bless.
No need for music with this video, thanks.
Th@nk you for your witness to Jesus!
Nice story very uplifting
God bless you🙏🙌😇🔥
Wonderful 💙
Converts make excellent Catholics. I think of Saint Paul as the proto convert. The zeal is there, that doesn't change. God just redirects it for Truth.
God bless you 🙏 😊
Brethren, let's pray the Holy Spirit guides us to be one as Jesus wanted us.
Great testing ❤thank you for sharing 🎉
Beautiful testimony 🙏🏼
Love it!!
Good
Great
Let Jesus be glorified
Let's pray for one another
Awesome testimony. Thanks for sharing.
Made me cry.❤️
Welcome home!
God bless you Joel.
Salvation is not works it is a gift of God.Salvation comes through faith in JESUS CHRIST Just shall live by faith not works 🙏 no man can justify before God. Allow will God don't help God.
God Bless you and Mother Mary cover you under her motherly mantel...praying for your family to soon come home.
Bien venido a casa ❤️🙏
I believe that is why the saying, "Never say never."