Answered Prayers for Conversion

[palomnik82]

Hello Brothers and Sisters!

I’m making my way through a 54 day rosary for the conversion of sinners. I was wondering if anyone could share their experiences of God answering their prayers for the conversion of their loved ones. How long did you pray before the prayer was answered? I know this depends on the person being prayed for but I wonder if there is a typical amount of time that is common. Also what prayers and devotions did you use, etc.

Looking for encouragement and would love to hear about what the Lord is doing for his people.

Thanks

I am doing a 54 day novena to Our Lady of the Rosary as well as Novenas to The Blessed Souls in Purgatory and Novenas to St. Michael.

 

[Bonocorium]

This is a bit off topic, but how would you respond if a schismatic or a heretic came up to you and said that they prayed for conversion of souls from Catholicism and it worked.

How can we respond and on what basis can we say to those heretics/schismatics that it was our prayers that were answered by God and not theirs? How would we explain their “answered prayers”?

This is bugging me.

Thanks!!

 

[Samson01]

This is a bit off topic, but how would you respond if a schismatic or a heretic came up to you and said that they prayed for conversion of souls from Catholicism and it worked.

How can we respond and on what basis can we say to those heretics/schismatics that it was our prayers that were answered by God and not theirs? How would we explain their “answered prayers”?

This is bugging me.

Thanks!!

i would say that it is the conversion of heart that is important. What that person does with it is The Lord leaving room for faith as He tends to do.

 

[Samson01]

This is a bit off topic, but how would you respond if a schismatic or a heretic came up to you and said that they prayed for conversion of souls from Catholicism and it worked.

How can we respond and on what basis can we say to those heretics/schismatics that it was our prayers that were answered by God and not theirs? How would we explain their “answered prayers”?

This is bugging me.

Thanks!!

Hello Brothers and Sisters!

I’m making my way through a 54 day rosary for the conversion of sinners. I was wondering if anyone could share their experiences of God answering their prayers for the conversion of their loved ones. How long did you pray before the prayer was answered? I know this depends on the person being prayed for but I wonder if there is a typical amount of time that is common. Also what prayers and devotions did you use, etc.

Looking for encouragement and would love to hear about what the Lord is doing for his people.

Thanks

I am doing a 54 day novena to Our Lady of the Rosary as well as Novenas to The Blessed Souls in Purgatory and Novenas to St. Michael.

I’ve been praying three plus years for someone to have a similar conversion experience that I had in 2005. The Lord responded recently by lettinge know this person would have to suffer as I did first. I’m a stage III cancer survivor and can’t shine what is in store for this person in the future for this conversion to happen, but I’ll still pray. I don’t think I’ll see it in my lifetime.

 

[mountee]

No testimonials from me but I would like to encourage you and thank you for these prayers.

 

[Used2beSherryG]

Pray without ceasing for your loved one’s converstion. There is no timeline. there is no benchmark for intercessory prayer. I have heard stories about conversion where someone said they had been praying for many years, but of course we will not know in our lifetime the answer to your question. I fell away from my faith for forty years and experienced a powerful conversion. How many people prayed for me and for how long? The easy answer is that Jesus told us to pray and fast for the conversion of sinners or relief from demonic possession in some cases. In the end, each person has to make a choice, but the avenues are made straighter and wider through the prayers of those who are cheering for us. Ask the saints to join you, ask our blessed Mother for her help. Offer up every sacrifice for the conversion of sinners… St Monica prayed for her son, St Augustine for many, many years before his conversion.

 

[the_phoenix]

Heidi / spiritualunity was a CAF member whom I was proud to know, who died in January 2012. She would visit the forums both to ask for the help of prayers and to witness about her conversion / reversion. She also told me that as her best friend, I was allowed to tell her story if it seemed like the Holy Spirit would use that to help someone else.

When Heidi was 37, she was just about to graduate college and was looking forward to starting a dream job in the art world in Germany … she was talented and gifted and everyone knew it. She had also fallen quite far from God. And that’s when she had what she described as a “St. Paul conversion experience.”

While driving her car one day with her daughters, she was suddenly struck with a severely disabling heart disease. Her first words when it happened were, "I believe in God. Get me to a hospital … "

Instead of flying off to Germany for her dream job, fortune, and fame … she ended up bedbound, on the verge of homelessness, unable to afford food, having her belongings stolen, in pain (and I do mean pain), abandoned by people close to her, having trouble as a shut-in getting a priest or Eucharistic minister to visit her to administer the Sacraments, and at the end of her life bouncing between hospitals, nursing homes (one in which she suffered abuse), and her apartment. Her suffering lasted for about 18 years. The way she handled this, she became a hero to me and I feel blessed to know her as a best friend.

Talking on the phone with Heidi, she would tell me, “It must have been someone praying for me that converted me, probably my mother and grandmother saying the Rosary.”

While you are praying for the poor souls in purgatory, please include Heidi. Here is the official prayer thread to do so here on CAF:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=633291

 

[palomnik82]

While you are praying for the poor souls in purgatory, please include Heidi. Here is the official prayer thread to do so here on CAF:

Thank you very much for your reply. It was very encouraging to read. I will remember your friend by name during my novena to the blessed souls today.

I should add as someone who has suffered with a life changing illness of my own these last 5 years I can relate in a small way to picking up our crosses in such a way.

 

[palomnik82]

This is a bit off topic, but how would you respond if a schismatic or a heretic came up to you and said that they prayed for conversion of souls from Catholicism and it worked.

How can we respond and on what basis can we say to those heretics/schismatics that it was our prayers that were answered by God and not theirs? How would we explain their “answered prayers”?

This is bugging me.

Thanks!!

Hi in response to your post I had a couple of thoughts. I came from a non-denominational background before my conversion so I took the longer road to the fullness of the faith. We know that God desires that all men have life and have it to the full, Jesus said so himself. But we also know that all things work to the good of them that love God. My Dad himself spent 30 years in the protestant church before he turned back to the Universal Church. I would say that God is working in some mysterious way in the lives of everyone and allows some people to journey out of the faith so that they can come to a deeper understanding of his love and the church He founded. God knows what he is doing. Continue in Prayer.

 

[CatholicCajun]

Prayer for A loved one’s return to the Faith

Dear Lord,
You became man, suffered and died to win salvation for all souls.
Look graciously on the soul of my loved one who has drifted away from You and the Faith.
Grant (Name) your grace to see the error of his/her ways and return to the fold in your care.
Teach me to stay close to (Name) during this trying time and strive to convert him/her by
action and prayers more than by words that may antagonize.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust you to do everyghin to bring my loved one back to You. Amen.

 

[Bonocorium]

Hi in response to your post I had a couple of thoughts. I came from a non-denominational background before my conversion so I took the longer road to the fullness of the faith. We know that God desires that all men have life and have it to the full, Jesus said so himself. But we also know that all things work to the good of them that love God. My Dad himself spent 30 years in the protestant church before he turned back to the Universal Church. I would say that God is working in some mysterious way in the lives of everyone and allows some people to journey out of the faith so that they can come to a deeper understanding of his love and the church He founded. God knows what he is doing. Continue in Prayer.

Well someone from one of those “churches” could say the same thing back to us.
Would you say to them that conversions to their “churches” are demonic?
How can we justify that sort of label? Thanks.

 

[palomnik82]

Well someone from one of those “churches” could say the same thing back to us.
Would you say to them that conversions to their “churches” are demonic?
How can we justify that sort of label? Thanks.

They can say whatever they like and they will, that has no bearing on whether they have the fullness of truth or not. Many protestant communities have a valid sacrament of baptism and are acknowledged to have salvific aspects operating within them. I wouldn’t say that a catholic joining a protestant church should be labeled “demonic.” I’ve known many protestants who lived more closely to the teachings of Christ than many of the Catholics that I know.