Please Pray For Tim's Conversion - Advice Needed

[Holly3278]

Hello everyone! I have a neighbor whose name is Tim. I brought up sin earlier while talking to him and we got into a very interesting and about an hour long discussion about Catholicism and religion in general. I got him interested enough in Catholicism to read the tract “Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth” and I just left. He said he was going to read it for a while! I must, however, not attribute the glory to myself. All of the glory goes to God and the Holy Spirit. I silently shot off a prayer to the Holy Spirit while I was talking to him asking Him (the Holy Spirit) to be with us during and after the conversation.

I also got him to consider taking RCIA classes with me as his sponsor. I believe he is seriously considering taking the classes but he is kind of confused right now.

Tim is an intelligent person but most people have a hard time understanding what he says as he frequently uses analogies that even I don’t understand sometimes. Thankfully, I do understand him better than most people I think.

Please pray for him as this is a delicate situation. If you can, pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for him or even start a novena for him.

I would greatly appreciate any prayers that you can offer for him. I would also greatly appreciate any advice that you can offer me.

The above (except for the last sentence) was also posted in the Prayer Intentions forum. I copied and pasted it here because it was the easiest way to tell you the situation.

 

[mom2three]

Hello everyone! I have a neighbor whose name is Tim. I brought up sin earlier while talking to him and we got into a very interesting and about an hour long discussion about Catholicism and religion in general. I got him interested enough in Catholicism to read the tract “Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth” and I just left. He said he was going to read it for a while! I must, however, not attribute the glory to myself. All of the glory goes to God and the Holy Spirit. I silently shot off a prayer to the Holy Spirit while I was talking to him asking Him (the Holy Spirit) to be with us during and after the conversation.

I also got him to consider taking RCIA classes with me as his sponsor. I believe he is seriously considering taking the classes but he is kind of confused right now.

Tim is an intelligent person but most people have a hard time understanding what he says as he frequently uses analogies that even I don’t understand sometimes. Thankfully, I do understand him better than most people I think.

Please pray for him as this is a delicate situation. If you can, pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for him or even start a novena for him.

I would greatly appreciate any prayers that you can offer for him. I would also greatly appreciate any advice that you can offer me.

The above (except for the last sentence) was also posted in the Prayer Intentions forum. I copied and pasted it here because it was the easiest way to tell you the situation.

It sounds like you’re doing the right thing. Keep praying, be patient, and if he asks you a question you don’t know the answer to, tell him you’ll get back to him instead of trying to pull an answer off the top of your head, so you give him accurate information. You may want to give him a book of conversion stories, like Surprised By Truth…

I just said a Hail Mary for Tim! And another for you!

Blessings!

 

[Holly3278]

It sounds like you’re doing the right thing. Keep praying, be patient, and if he asks you a question you don’t know the answer to, tell him you’ll get back to him instead of trying to pull an answer off the top of your head, so you give him accurate information. You may want to give him a book of conversion stories, like Surprised By Truth…

I just said a Hail Mary for Tim! And another for you!

Blessings!

Thank you very much. I will remember to tell him that I’ll get back to him instead of getting an answer off the top of my head!