Converting a Mormon to Catholicism

[taylorf]

I second po18guy’s advice. It is the Holy Spirit who converts. My son married a Mormon girl. Seeing as he was not even attending Mass at the time I figured all was lost. I prayed that the Holy Spirit would enlighten her heart and lead her to the Catholic Church and basically handed the whole mess over to God. Last Lent his wife called to inform me that she had been attending RCIA classes and would be baptized and enter the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil. That was a joyous occasion. What is particularly wonderful is that she has now brought my son back to the Church, something I could not do. God works in strange and wonderful ways. Trust in Him completely. I will now pray for your daughter.

God bless.

I love hearing these kinds of stories. Thanks for sharing! Fascinating how the Holy Spirit works individually with each one of us. I’m happy for you and your family. God bless!

 

[jesuspsr]

I second po18guy’s advice. It is the Holy Spirit who converts. My son married a Mormon girl. Seeing as he was not even attending Mass at the time I figured all was lost. I prayed that the Holy Spirit would enlighten her heart and lead her to the Catholic Church and basically handed the whole mess over to God. Last Lent his wife called to inform me that she had been attending RCIA classes and would be baptized and enter the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil. That was a joyous occasion. What is particularly wonderful is that she has now brought my son back to the Church, something I could not do. God works in strange and wonderful ways. Trust in Him completely. I will now pray for your daughter.

God bless.

Awesome:thumbsup:

I too will be praying for you daughter packerMom

 

[lynnettejane]

To me that sounds like he is a TBM who thinks he has the truth and sees this as an opening to preach Mormonism.

I agree, you cannot take this at face value. Mormons do not give up easily on their faith, and it is quite likely that he thinks he will convert your daughter and possibly yourself.I think your daughter needs to educate herself about Mormonism and how un Christian it’s theology is. She also needs to be well catechised, so that she is sure of her own beliefs. Never underestimate the power of this heresy, nor the way that Mormons twist and turn the truth to suit themseves.

 

[adawgj]

The South Park Mormon episode might help.

Note
Sarcastic

 

[Tarquin]

This is great advice. Be ready to help through the upsetting part because that is a really big blow. Aquinas can help. So many of us end up atheist or agnostic after the betrayal of trust. It is easy to turn away from God in anger at the deceit. I find comfort in attending Mass and being surrounded by people who believe even when I don’t have strength, or to know how to define the Holy Spirit. I will be going through RCIA a second year & continue with Bible study.

Also, you got to make sure your child is strong in the Catholic beliefs. It is possible that it is all a ruse.

And may God bless you and help you. Let my people go!

Good goin’, KendraM!!

And what you said about going atheist or or agnostic. I have met many ex-Mormons and talked to ex-other-untraditional-(“cult”)-group-members who are now atheists. I think you got it right. The feeling of being betrayed extends, unreasonably, to mistrust of God. I rejoice when I find someone who has felt that ultimate betrayal, betrayal by God, yet still keeps faith in God. Like Job? Or Moses, driven into the desert? Or Paul, shipwrecked? Or Jesus, crucified? We’ve all been betrayed at some point, in however small a degree, by someone. The measure of our heart, and maybe our mind, and certainly our spirit, is how we respond - with brusque rejection, closing the doors of our mind, and coldly condemning all religion; or with patience, compassion, and continuing to trust even though we know that trust will not always bear fruit? It’s not easy sometimes.

“Everything that I see
Tells me not to believe
But I’ll trust you lord
You have never failed me
My past still controls me
Will this hurt ever leave?
I can only trust you
No one else like you do”

(“I Trust You,” James Fortune)

 

[rcianon]

Definitely agree with po18guy. The Holy Spirit needs to do the difficult work. So pray!

It can be very difficult to leave the LDS church, especially if his family are faithful LDS. I have had problems with my family because I left and I am now becoming Catholic. There is a lot of pressure in the LDS church to marry in the temple. Good for your daughter for being strong in her faith.

Mormonthink is a great website. I also found the tracts on Mormonism on this site to accurately portray LDS teachings. It is probably not best to directly go after Joseph Smith and Mormonism as he may become defensive and not be open to hearing anything. So focus primarily on the arguments FOR the Catholic Church which are many. The main things I had to understand and accept during my conversion process were the Trinity, the Eucharist and Mary.

For me, it was quite upsetting to learn the truth about Joseph Smith and the history of the early LDS church. So much had been whitewashed, it was really quite devastating to my faith. I almost lost faith in God entirely. Classical philosophy (Aristotle, Aquinas) were key for my belief in God. The LDS beliefs on who God is are very, very different from Christian beliefs.

Remember to pray often! Feel free to PM me. I am more than happy to help you and your daughter understand Mormonism, the struggles of leaving the faith and converting to Catholicism.

I just wanted to re-emphasise the above. I was in the LDS church as well, sadly my wife still is, and so I know that leaving the LDS church can be very hard.

I’ve read statistics elsewhere that when Protestants leave their denomination they typically join another or become Catholic, when Catholics leave the Church they become Protestants or Orthodox, etc. Yet when Mormons leave their religion they often become atheist. The ex-Mormon reddit is awash in atheists, as are many ex-Mormon forums. Maybe this is because on some level they have made an idol of their church, it is their church that they worship and not Christ. So then when they become aware of, and accept, any of the numerous problems with their faith they feel a great sense of betrayal and loss of trust towards religion in general.

Because of this I would suggest that while Mormonthink and other sites are really good to learn the differences between the LDS religion and Christianity, maybe even providing lots of ‘ammunition’ for dispelling Mormon myths, depending on the Mormon its not always the best approach. It depends on the Mormon though, and I don’t want to bash those ministries, they do great work and a lot of Mormon’s meet Jesus through them. But but others don’t need their faith destroyed, they need their faith directed to the only source of truth, Christ Himself.

So my advice, prayer. Along side of that, don’t seek to destroy his faith in the LDS church, but rather introduce him to true faith in Jesus Christ. Let the Holy Spirit do His work, He’ll draw your daughters boyfriend to His Church more masterfully than you ever could.

 

[kimg901]

If you can disregard the profanity and occasional blasphemy on South Park, their episode on Mormons gives the clearest and most understandable explanation of the LDS faith that I have ever seen.

“All about Mormons” is funny.