Question from a Seeking Jew

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Jew_Man_73:
Thank you. I just want them to see the truth.
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Jew_Man_73:
My immediate plans are to go through RCIA. I also plant o reach out to my Jewish friends, even though two of them now refuse to associate with me. I’m praying for them.
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I like your new tag line! And it’s true we all now know you as Jew Man (JM)! Doesn’t antiaphrodite do great stuff with color and celebration?!!! It’s THE BEST!

Veronica is in the 6th Station of the Cross - should you check it out at church today. I don’t know anything else about her history than what is known of her in the 6th station. I thought, at one point, that I’d heard that the face cloth was still in existance. It certainly is featured in some authentic works of art.

I also like the fact that Our Lady of Guadalupe (Maria) was part of your journey to Catholic Christianity. She did a good job with the Indians in Mexico too! Just as you smelled the roses and felt the hug, some are blessed with seeing the Mother of G-d like St. Juan Diego.

I’m so excited about your newfound faith! I’m sure I can’t be the only one who imagines your Baptism, especially with the all the discussion of the mikveh! I once read about people with cell phones all gathering someplace at a specific time, just to do it. But when they all got there, nothing happened and they would just leave. Afterall, what did they have in common except cell phones!? Anyway. I’m praying for you and glad you’ve been blessed with some PEACE!!! And thanks for your prayers for us too!
 
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:amen: :bowdown2: :bowdown2: (<–worshipping:D )
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LOL, thanks, antiaphrodite. By the way, check out the new thread! You’ll get a laugh off this one too!
 
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Walburga:
I like your new tag line! And it’s true we all now know you as Jew Man (JM)! Doesn’t antiaphrodite do great stuff with color and celebration?!!! It’s THE BEST!

Veronica is in the 6th Station of the Cross - should you check it out at church today. I don’t know anything else about her history than what is known of her in the 6th station. I thought, at one point, that I’d heard that the face cloth was still in existance. It certainly is featured in some authentic works of art.

I also like the fact that Our Lady of Guadalupe (Maria) was part of your journey to Catholic Christianity. She did a good job with the Indians in Mexico too! Just as you smelled the roses and felt the hug, some are blessed with seeing the Mother of G-d like St. Juan Diego.

I’m so excited about your newfound faith! I’m sure I can’t be the only one who imagines your Baptism, especially with the all the discussion of the mikveh! I once read about people with cell phones all gathering someplace at a specific time, just to do it. But when they all got there, nothing happened and they would just leave. Afterall, what did they have in common except cell phones!? Anyway. I’m praying for you and glad you’ve been blessed with some PEACE!!! And thanks for your prayers for us too!
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Thank you! Yes, antiaphrodite has great animations. I enjoy them. By the way, my parish has a statue in the sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It’s really beautiful. (I pray there alot.)
 
This might be a stupid question, but considering my newfound beliefs, should I change my screen name? I really don’t want to, because I’m proud to be a Jew. I’m also proud to be a Jewish believer in Yeshua Ha Moshiach and to honor His mother the Virgin Miriam. (I’m not going to call myself Catholic just yet. I know I really can’t do that until I’m confirmed.) What do you all think?
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Do you feel any less a Jew? I doubt you’ll catch any flak from fellow Catholics in keeping that title, so it’s really a matter of what you feel comfortable. Remember, though, that Yeshua didn’t come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. My personal recommendation is to keep your title as long as it still feels right; you are still a Jew, IMO, you’re just a Jew who recognizes that the universalizing of the Covenant has already occured. 😃

Heck, I WISH I could call myself a Jew, and share blood-ties with Yeshua, Miriam, Joseph and the Apostles. You are twice-blessed, and I think you should thank God and give Him due respect for that. It doesn’t make you better than others, but it is something special that demonstrates your personally unique relationship with God.

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Ghosty:
Do you feel any less a Jew? I doubt you’ll catch any flak from fellow Catholics in keeping that title, so it’s really a matter of what you feel comfortable. Remember, though, that Yeshua didn’t come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. My personal recommendation is to keep your title as long as it still feels right; you are still a Jew, IMO, you’re just a Jew who recognizes that the universalizing of the Covenant has already occured. 😃

Heck, I WISH I could call myself a Jew, and share blood-ties with Yeshua, Miriam, Joseph and the Apostles. You are twice-blessed, and I think you should thank God and give Him due respect for that. It doesn’t make you better than others, but it is something special that demonstrates your personally unique relationship with God.

:blessyou:
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Ghosty:
Do you feel any less a Jew? I doubt you’ll catch any flak from fellow Catholics in keeping that title, so it’s really a matter of what you feel comfortable. Remember, though, that Yeshua didn’t come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. My personal recommendation is to keep your title as long as it still feels right; you are still a Jew, IMO, you’re just a Jew who recognizes that the universalizing of the Covenant has already occured. 😃

Heck, I WISH I could call myself a Jew, and share blood-ties with Yeshua, Miriam, Joseph and the Apostles. You are twice-blessed, and I think you should thank God and give Him due respect for that. It doesn’t make you better than others, but it is something special that demonstrates your personally unique relationship with God.

:blessyou:
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Thank you. No, I don’t feel any less Jewish at all. If anything, I feel more Jewish. I can’t descriobe what an honor it is for Yeshua to have been born a Jew! I’m going to keep my current screen name, with the improvement of the new tagline! 😃
 
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Jew_Man_73:
Thank you. No, I don’t feel any less Jewish at all. If anything, I feel more Jewish. I can’t descriobe what an honor it is for Yeshua to have been born a Jew! I’m going to keep my current screen name, with the improvement of the new tagline! 😃
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yup, sounds like a good idea!!!:yup: :yup: http://bestsmileys.com/bouncing/9.gif
 
Jew_Man_73: I thought you might find this story interesting, given your own experience. It’s from the Salvation Is From The Jews website, and it regards the experience of a Jewish man named Alphonse Ratisbonne who found the Catholic Church after years of outright hostility towards it:
After Naples Ratisbonne went on to Rome. While there he called on the Baron de Bussieres, who was the brother of one of his best friends. The Baron was a devout Catholic and dared Ratisbonne to wear a Miraculous Medal and to recite a short daily prayer to Mary as a way of proving that there was nothing to such ‘detestable superstitions.’ (The Miraculous Medal is a medal of Mary which was widely propagated following her apparition to a young nun, later St. Catherine Laboure, in her convent chapel in Paris). On January 20, the last day of his planned stay in Rome, Ratisbonne bumped into the Baron riding in his carriage, who invited him to join him for a ride. When the Baron stopped at a nearby church to conduct some business with the priest, Ratisbonne went into the empty church to wait. Let us continue with the Baron’s account of what he found when he went into the church to get his friend:

I caught sight of him on his knees, in the chapel of St. Michael the Archangel . I went up to him and touched him. I had to do this three or four times before he became aware of my presence. Finally he turned towards me, face bathed in tears…with an expression no words can describe…he took hold of his Miraculous Medal and kissed it with passionate emotion. He broke into tears at the thought of all the heretics and unbelievers…Gradually this delirious emotion subsided and he grew calmer, and now his face was radiant, almost transfigured. He begged me to take him to a priest and asked when he could receive holy Baptism, for now he was sure he could not live without it. I took him at once to the Gesu to see Father de Villefort, who invited him to explain what had happened. Ratisbonne drew out his medal, kissed it, and showed it me, saying, ‘I saw her! I saw her!’ and again emotion choked his words, but soon he grew calmer and spoke. I shall give his [Ratisbonne’s] own words:* 'I had only been in the church a moment when I was suddenly seized with an indescribable agitation of mind. I looked up and found that the rest of the building had disappeared. One single chapel seemed to have gathered all the light and concentrated it in itself. In the midst of this radiance I saw someone standing on the altar, a lofty shining figure, all majesty and sweetness, the Virgin Mary just as she looks on this medal. Some irresistible force drew me towards her. She motioned to me to kneel down and when I did so, she seemed to approve. Though she never said a word, I understood her perfectly.*

…At first he [Ratisbonne] had been able to see the Queen of Heaven clearly, appearing in all the splendor of her immaculate beauty; but he had not been able to bear the radiance of that divine light for long. Three times he had tried to look up to her, and three times he had found himself unable to raise his eyes higher than her hands, from which blessings and graces seemed to be falling like so many shining rays.* ‘Oh God,’* he cried, ‘only half an hour before I was blaspheming, and felt a deadly hatred for the Catholic religion! All my acquaintances know that humanly speaking I had the strongest reasons for remaining a Jew. My family is Jewish, my bride to be is a Jewess, my uncle is a Jew. By becoming Catholic I am sacrificing all my earthly hopes and interests; and yet I am not mad.’
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This was a man who was not even doing the kind of searching that you’ve been doing, and Miriam reached out directly to him. In fact, he lost most of what he had in the experience, so he had absolutely no reason to have made it all up. Your experience reminded me of his, so I thought I’d post it here. There are other experiences on that website, including the author’s visitation by Mary, I believe. Might be worth checking out. God bless! 😃
 
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Jew_Man_73:
…But I do have one question though: Why doesn’t the bread and wine look or taste different? This is confusing to me.
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It’s called the difference between the substance and the accidence. The accidence is what it looks and tastes like and when it changes substantially to the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the accidence (the appearance) remains as bread and wine.

As I said to a friend of mine, what a kind and gentle God we have who feeds us this sacred meal without doing so in a way that allows us to truly see that which we imbibe. Can you image being able to accept a hunk of flesh? It would repulse us to the point of rejection. At the same time, if it were readily apparent to the senses that we were partaking of divinity, who would step forward to partake? We slowly become aware of the awesome gift we have been given, as we also learn that God desires that we accept such an incredible sacrifice given on our behalf so that we can join him in his eternal life.

If the host did not remain in the appearance of bread and wine, we mere humans would have a hard time bringing ourselves to accept this gift God humbled himself to give.

In the form of bread, God’s humility is complete, for what meal is more humble than that of bread?

There are recorded miracles where the Host did not remain in the form of Bread and Wine, but actually visually transformed at the consecration. One of the most famous of these was the Eucharistic Miracle at Lanciano. I had the opportunity, during my 2003 pilgrimage to Rome, to visit Lanciano and see this host, which has been available for perpetual adoration in a chapel in Lanciano Italy for hundreds of years. They did tissue testing and confirmed that it was Human Myocardial Tissue of the AB+ Blood type (I think the blood type is correct), which was the same blood type as the image found on the Shroud of Turin.

The Miracle of Lanciano is said to have occurred when a priest was having difficulty believing in the Eucharist. One day, as he said the consecration, the Host transformed and the wine turned to blood. Because the miracle occurred as a result of his doubt, his name has not been passed on with the story, but the miraculous Host and Wine remain as a gift for all others, who like him, have difficulty believing that which they cannot see.

On another note, how was your conversation with the priest, and did you get information regarding the stations of the Cross?

Oh yeah, did you say you had originally converted to Judaism? If so, how long ago was that? I think you said you’d had a history of Protestantism.

Anyways, God Bless you JM. Your new tagline sent shivers up my spine. It’s a great way of acknowledging who you are. When you first took the tag of Jew_Man_73, I was a bit concerned, as I don’t typically refer to someone as “Jew Man”, but I’ve become accustomed to it, and would miss it if you changed.

I look forward to continuing to watch you grow in your faith.

CARose
 
Well, since you have no suggestions for reading this summer, I thought I’d pass this on. I found it on another thread:
The joy found from a Jew discovering the Messiah is
ever new - no matter how recently it occured.
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At the conclusion of WWII, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli,
converted to Catholicism. His story is wonderfully told in the book
he wrote, Before the Dawn.
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CARose
 
JM, RE: the book, the Real Messiah, I got a response from Assoc. of Heberw Catholics, and put it in a PM to you. Basically, they were unaware of it, but will be checking it out.

Though it may be a moot point judging from your new signature… :rolleyes:

:blessyou:

Jim

(I’ll bet you got to Senior Member on this thread alone.)
 
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