Why did you come home?

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For those who at some point in your life left the Catholic church, What made you come home?
 
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For those who at some point in your life left the Catholic church, What made you come home?
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I can’t say I actually left,I just stopped participating for many years,if you get my drift?What actually sprung me back to life amongst other things was a traditional St Ignatius Retreat;finished the retreat[in the country],came back to the city,not only with guns blazing,but feeling like the Guns of Navarone!
 
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For those who at some point in your life left the Catholic church, What made you come home?
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After experiencing the chaos outside of the Church both in the secular and christian worlds, i run back home and actually embraced the truth.
 
I was against the Church as a fundamentalist for a long time, never a part of it.

The reason I came home is almost single handed belongs to Tim Staples and his audio series “Catholic Answers to Common Objections”.
 
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For those who at some point in your life left the Catholic church, What made you come home?
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After my divorce I struggled with the annulment process and had a very difficult time obtaining one because I was not one to talk about my failed marriage to many so it made my life
difficult procuring witnesses.

So I thought to myself “forget it.” Back in the day it seemed like a living hell nightmare that cost me money no less. So I ran down to the First Church I saw which was a LCMS Church.
I decided it looked "Catholic " in liturgical form for the most part and maybe I would join.

What ensued was a 2 year journey into learning my own faith better as I was taught
thte Pope or his Office with the "Anti Christ’ Catholics have adulterated justification,
take a look at the Book of Concord some day. Popes are Papist asses etc.
I was horrified.

During that time I devoured every Catholic book I could find, read the CCC and after two years of uncertainty, I was certain
I had “ran away from home” for all the wrong reasons. I never ; joined the LCMS; even after taking their new members classr about 3 times. I ran home and was welcomed with
open arms.
I was going to both Churches at the time.

Now I’m a revert maybe 🙂
Peace in Christ for everyone back on their journey home.
It’s nice to be home in the true Church.
Mary.
 
Pray fervently for those who have belived they were with The Body, through participation, through exercise, only to later find that they are without, and did not even notice the subtle movement of their own feet.

It is a Strange, Foreign and Sickening feeling to finally become aware of that distance, that I cannot share with you, unless you too have “loosely followed.”

I recommend RCIA to everyone. I believe that you should indeed call EVERYONE home. It is, as I have said, much safer than calling them over to where you (figuratively you) are standing.
 
I hit rock bottom: then I saw the rock. Thank you Jesus!
 
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For those who at some point in your life left the Catholic church, What made you come home?
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Arguing scripture with those from other denominations got to be an endless cycle of piting one plausible interpretation against another, equally plausible interpretation, both disagreeing with each other- as well as disagreeing with someone else’s equally plausible interpretation! There had to be a place where the buck stopped. Now I can echo Peter’s words, using them for the Church Jesus established to proclaim His message:
"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
 
fhansen said:
Arguing scripture with those from other denominations got to be an endless cycle of piting one plausible interpretation against another, equally plausible interpretation, both disagreeing with each other- as well as disagreeing with someone else’s equally plausible interpretation! There had to be a place where the buck stopped. Now I can echo Peter’s words, using them for the Church Jesus established to proclaim His message:
"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
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exactly.👍
 
God told me to. Literally. I trained to be a pastor and had recently moved. I would sit every day with the phone book on my lap turned to the non-denom/pentecostal churches and pray about where to go where I could find work. Every day God spoke to me the same words: “Go be Catholic.”

I was never going to be Catholic. I had told my parents that often enough when they became Catholic. I was going to be a pastor. I couldn’t be a pastor and be Catholic. It’s a dogmatic impossibility. I’m a woman. Eventually, I listened to God and am now Catholic. And not a pastor. And okay with that. Imagine my surprise when I discovered within the Catholic Church the one thing I had never found in any denomination, including my own: The Truth.
Kris
 
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God told me to. … I would sit every day with the phone book on my lap turned to the non-denom/pentecostal churches and pray about where to go where I could find work. Every day God spoke to me the same words: “Go be Catholic.”
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I was in the middle of a full Gospel worship service when I felt the first (and second) tug.
 
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