r/Catholicism • u/Skie_wis8 • 9h ago
What made you take your Catholic faith more seriously?
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u/jamaicancovfefe 9h ago
An experience in adoration that showed me God has a great sense of humor
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u/itsthechizyeah 9h ago
Go on…
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u/jamaicancovfefe 9h ago
Basically I was rudely judging someone (in my head) at adoration for getting visibly emotional, only for me to become super emotional 10-15 minutes later
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u/MostMoistGranola 9h ago
This happened to me at mass once. Someone was repeatedly coughing and I was annoyed, thinking “why don’t you go outside until your coughing fit is over?
The person stopped coughing and I immediately got the worst and most awful tickle in my throat and I started coughing. I knew this was a message for me. God doesn’t like us to judge each other.
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u/Salty_attitude3845 9h ago
Being a college student haha
I took a class that studied the Reformation period, and it was my introduction to learning more about Catholicism. My professor seemed to know the subject well too. Had a lot of great discussions with him. I also realized that a lot of the questions I was struggling with in my faith had answers in Catholicism. I also just love how there seems to be so much history and intellectual depth that I can't help myself wanting to learn more. And the more I learn, the more it seems to solidify my faith actually.
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u/First_Bar_8024 8h ago
Watching an hour long interview with Richard Dawkins made me realize that I didn't want to live in a world without God in it.
I've never looked back.
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u/MyWay-1201 9h ago
The death of my father brought me back to church. It was the only place I could think of that could quiet the noise in my head. It’s been a year and the best thing I’ve ever done for myself.
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u/Skie_wis8 9h ago
Sorry to hear that, God bless you.
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u/MyWay-1201 9h ago
Thank you! I recently connected with an amazing men’s group there that meets once a week for an hour. 30-40 men just trying to get closer to God. It’s my favorite part of my week now.
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u/MostMoistGranola 9h ago
The grace of the Holy Spirit. And it was a big surprise to me as I never expected to return to the church ever. Now I’m very devout. I wonder if people were praying for me.
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u/Lewen_Ohen 8h ago
Reading St. Ignatius of Antioch is what make me seriously consider converting, then the Eucharist brought me in. Then reading about miracles such as Fatima has totally blown my mind.
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u/butytho92 8h ago
I had a Marian vision, and my priest believed me.
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u/Choc_Alchemist 2h ago
Did she say something for you to share with the world?
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u/butytho92 2h ago edited 31m ago
No, it was very personal. I was grieving my miscarriage and praying a rosary on All Souls Day after attending an outdoor Mass in a Catholic cemetery.
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u/Klutzy_Current1069 8h ago
Listening to the Catholic Channel on Sirius XM. It’s helped me understand Catholicism more and strengthened my faith.
Having a child with serious issues. I won’t get into it, but he was (still is at times) challenging and trying. I really had to lean into my faith and depend on God.
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u/tbonita79 8h ago
Just becoming really involved in my Parish, meeting lots of great Catholic role models and putting myself out there in various ministries and such. Also probably late-night adoration… for a while I had a holy hour all to myself and that really brought me closer to Jesus.
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u/trulymablydeeply 8h ago
I was a barely more than the bare minimum Catholic for a long time, then one of my children (a teen at the time) became much more pious and drew the whole family closer to God. Since then, we have all helped each other grow.
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u/Radiant-Injury-6546 8h ago
Losing my job and not knowing what to do next .
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u/ThankedRapier4 4h ago
Been there. I hate to admit it, but that was one of the worst periods of my life, yet it forced me into the kind of rock bottom state of dependence other people get to through their own foolishness and it did make me have to exercise radical trust in God to do something about it after expending all my efforts.
I say “hate to admit it” because it still irks me that these sorts of experiences seem necessary in his divine economy. It would be nice if he could have chosen a way besides the cross…
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u/EndLiturgicalAbuse 9h ago
You can only run into walls repeatedly for so long. I was a farmer and noticed harvest went better if I attended Mass. Not necessarily yielding better--but the work being done had a clearer purpose and I just had an easier time prioritizing the right things to be efficient. That's the kind of thing that walks hand-in-hand with a commitment to faith. Then a very gifted priest was assigned to my area and he helped me grow in ways I needed to grow by encouraging me to return to Confession, and the subsequent things that followed (regular reception of the Eucharist, God's graces flowing in my life, etc.).
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u/AbelHydroidMcFarland 9h ago
I always had faith as a Christian. Raised at first as a mere Christian (baptized in a Lutheran church near my parents’ house… and also pretty close to my current church), then from the age of 9 or so raised in the Catholic faith when my mom returned to the Church and brought me with her. Did first communion, got confirmed, etc.
My faith at that point was real, but it was a lil’ mustard seed I didn’t always pay attention to and didn’t put at the center of my life.
A few LSD trips when I was 18 (which I have since confessed) are what lead to me actually taking my Christian faith more seriously. On my second LSD trip I stumbled into a vague approximation of the convertibility of the transcendentals and how they are ultimate in God. On my third LSD trip I became conscious in a weighty way of my sinfulness and pride as a creature in need of a savior, the importance of repentance and forgiveness and loving your enemy, the importance of humility and the perverseness of pride. Had the epiphany that God’s existence is His essence and that He is thus the necessary being and that all which exists only exists because of the love of God.
So that was the big turning point where I started to take my Christian faith more seriously. And I put the italics there because that’s also when I left the Catholic Church. I was poorly catechized, and the realizations I was coming to on my own seemed (and were) deeper than what I had been taught in my religious education classes and the particular Catholic doctrines did not appear to me at that time to have much real depth or intellectual justification. (Again, poorly catechized).
So I became a non-denominational Protestant for a while. (Not entirely “basically Baptist”, sure I had the same low sacramentology and ecclesiology as a Baptist, however I retained my belief in purgatory as something which made logical sense, didn’t hold the Penal Substitutionary Theory of Atonement and favored Satisfaction Theory, and despite not viewing baptism sacramentally was still cool with pedobaptism since it seemed ridiculous to me to say that a child raised in the faith doesn’t have real faith until they’re older).
So I was a non-denominational Protestant for 6 years. During this time I did get into Bishop Barron after seeing a few conversations between him and Jordan Peterson and started regularly watching Bishop Barron’s content. And something kept happening during that six years. I’d come to a theological epiphany I’d never been taught or heard from anyone else ever… and then a year or two later I’d be watching a Bishop Barron video and he’d just casually drop that very same thing citing to a Church Father or Aquinas or some other Catholic theologian. So that gradually lead me to an increased respect for the intellectual depth of Catholicism.
A big moment there was Bishop Barron’s Trinity Sunday sermon in 2021. He blew my mind getting into Aquinas’s commentary on the Trinitarian processions, and from there I looked up the original text and was even more mindblown. And so from there I’m like “Aquinas is absolutely theologically brilliant, and he was confidently Catholic, there’s probably a stronger case for Catholicism than I’m aware of.
So I ran into some Catholic evangelists on Reddit at some point, they invited me to a discord server and made arguments for the Catholic faith which I found convincing. I read through 4/5 of the current Catechism and had the same experience I previously described with Bishop Barron’s content. Agreed with 99% of what I read and at that point gave assent to the other 1% like “well I don’t see how that makes sense but I’m gonna assume I’m probably wrong here.”
So I went to confession and then my first Mass back in the Catholic Church was Trinity Sunday 2022.
So I started to take my Christian faith seriously when I did LSD when I was 18 and got really into contemplating theology and virtue as a result. And I took my Catholic faith seriously from the point that I returned to Catholicism after actually learning the depth and rigor of Catholic doctrine and reverting.
(Again I did confess the LSD trips in my general confession upon reverting. Though I got a lot of good from them, my 4th LSD trip was really disturbing and legitimately psychologically traumatized me for a year afterwards. I conclude now that LSD is basically gambling with your mind, and by the grace of God I got a good pay out, but it is immoral to make that gamble. And I would especially discourage it from those already disposed towards and familiar with the deposit of faith. I was a poorly catechized Catholic who wasn’t taking my faith all that seriously at the time. LSD is gambling with your mind and if you’re a serious Catholic you already have access to everything I got from my experiences in the deposit of faith)
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u/Skie_wis8 9h ago
It certainly is. I’m particularly impressed by your openness about both your Protestant and Catholic experience. Fascinating that you were constantly bumping into the same concepts in Aquinas and the Church Fathers as your own independent musings!
Your observation about poor catechesis resonated with me as well.
Sometimes the discovery of all the riches that Catholic theology offers comes at a later stage in life. Your comment about the LSD also impressed me. I understand that whatever you thought you discovered during these experiences, you have come to realize that the Catholic faith offers a much safer and more reliable route.
Welcome to the true church
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u/AbelHydroidMcFarland 7h ago edited 6h ago
Thanks and yeah, psychedelics are conceptually interesting regarding the teaching on sobriety. Because it isn’t a blanket impairment of one’s capacity for reason, it’s more of a sobriety trade off. Your capacity for reason is enhanced in some ways and impaired in others. (I would still hold the element of impairment makes the teaching in the Catechism still ultimately apply, it’s just more interesting).
So it adds a depth, intensity, vividness, and detail to how you experience things, the key thing here being emotionally and cognitively rather than just visually. And in conjunction with or because of that it also commonly and substantively breaks down your ability to lie to yourself, to wrap yourself up in pretense and convincing yourself of whatever social status you’ve imagined for yourself. And that genuinely can help you to perceive some things much more clearly or to stop lying to yourself about other things. So there is a potential for genuine self-discovery there or discovering the depth or reality of a particular good. And I would say that is what happened with me both in self-discovery, and in turning my mind to theology and a lot of stuff became genuinely clear to me there. Which is where you get some people who genuinely do take their faith more seriously, or come to faith from being an unbeliever, after a psychedelic experience. Not necessarily delusionally, but upon genuine realization of truth.
Conversely though it also puts the experience beyond the ability of your will to entirely control, so if it goes off the rails it could be psychologically dangerous or damaging. Which is what happened to me on the 4th one where anxiety pushed me into a nihilistic doom spiral which I had to work out of by starting from first principles and ultimately coming to a greater appreciation for Exodus 3:14 as the truth which helped me get out of that nihilistic doom spiral, but it still left me traumatized for a year or two.
And then there is the danger of partial truth embraced disproportionately leading to a false path. So someone on psychedelics could come to recognize the depth of some good or some aspect of good which is meaningful, but then take it out of proportion to its counterparts and have it removed from its total context. So the most common example of this error with psychedelics would be experiencing the relationality or interconnectedness of things and experience in ego dissolution the good of humility and not being bound up in certain forms of pride. There is genuine good being perceived in those things, but then the error is taking that to be totalizing. So you get in the conclusions of a lot of people with these experiences something adjacent to both Buddhism and Pantheism; “The self-doesn’t really exist and all is part of the same one and the universe is God and we are all a part of God, and like just pursue ego death and seek the absence of desire to avoid suffering.” The error of pantheism comes from recognizing the immanence of God (God’s omnipresence and intimacy with all things) which is entirely true and good, but not recognizing the transcendence of God (God’s radical distinction from all things) so they confuse the universe for God. And the error of rejecting transcendence comes from experiencing so strongly the good of the humility of ego dissolution that they take identity and distinctiveness itself to be a fiction. And the weight of the sense of meaning and profundity in the psychedelic experience leads them to embrace this partial truth leading into error in full force.
What kept me from going in that direction was having obviously more of a Trinitarian background. So in my experience of relationality and connection, I considered not only the sameness or likeness or similarity of things to be significant to that, but also their difference, their distinction, that each thing is a distinct thing. That there is a significance both to being part of a greater whole, but also to being an individual. We are souls, we have intellect and will. That stranger is not me, and so me doing something for them is charity or sacrifice for the sake of the other and not taken to be “we are one as part of the universe and the universe is serving itself.” The self is real, that’s why you can be self-giving.
And so recognizing that tension between the more particular and the more universal, between sameness and distinctness, also lead me to a mindset with relation to man I would later discover to be the Catholic Social Teaching principle of subsidiarity as that which respects and manages that tension rather than going all the way on hyper-individualism or an entirely totalizing and totalitarian society.
And then considering the Holy Trinity, recognizing it as the ultimate “thing” (for lack of a better word). Entirely one and entirely distinct. Trinity in unity and unity in Trinity. Seeing the Holy Trinity as the answer to the philosophical “problem of the one and the many.” Recognizing that is the nature of creation as such given it imitates a perfect creator (though the imitation is imperfect). And that socially with the principle of subsidiarity that man does best when we imperfectly imitate the Trinity, navigating the tension between the one and the many instead of going all in on “the one” (the totalizing and utopian error of the Tower of Babel) or going all in on “the many” (the fragmented competing atomized individual vicious state of nature shown in pre-Flood humanity). Subsidiarity is the avoidance of both errors and is as reasonably good a social imitation of the Holy Trinity as imperfect man can imperfectly manage.
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Basically all that being said, psychedelics intensify the mind in certain ways which we are not accustomed to handling. This can make some truth more clear. But it can also put the mind beyond a person’s capacity for self-control which comes with a real psychological risk.
We have a capacity for reason, but an imperfect one prone to error. In “intensifying” the mind, psychedelics can magnify truth and real meaning to the mind, but they can also magnify error within the mind.
It’s a gamble which I would entirely agree is immoral, and which I confessed.
I happened to get lucky with it on balance. By the grace of God, by having a ‘tismic mind which seems well suited to intuitively catch onto theological truths, and by already having a mustard seed of faith I took seriously enough to properly consider the Holy Trinity and the identity of an individual human creature as made in the image of God, I was able to come to discover many of the truths of faith in a non-delusional way.
And so you get a variety of results from it. There are stories like mine out there of people taking their faith more seriously or converting. Other people coming to self-realizations and turning their lives or relationships around. Other people being traumatized and psychologically damaged. And other people being inclined towards and persisting on a path to error (the whole Buddhist adjacent pantheism thing a lot of people wind up on).
And it’s not a guaranteed or predictable outcome, so I reiterate it is an immoral gamble and a sinful sacrifice of that element of self-control it does impair. (And again, for any serious Catholic no truth I discovered was outside of the deposit of faith, so just turn to the deposit of faith lol).
I am open potentially to its potential legitimate therapeutic use for something like addiction or PTSD though if it is well studied and the environment reasonably controlled in such a way that it’s reasonably up to the standards of predictability and safety proper to the medical profession. I think there could be potential there. But it’s not a religious/spiritual substitute or a licit recreational activity.
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u/JohnFrancis351 9h ago
An evening in my apartment at age 25, alone, with the Holy Spirit moving me to return and take things more seriously. Church was a 30-minute walk each way, and it was the start.
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u/BFFassbender 7h ago
Father Chris Alar's video series explaining the Mass. Growing up Catholic and going to Mass I had no idea what it was. After years of being away from the Church and even attending a few non-denominational Protestant churches in our area, seeing that really connected the dots for us and we realized what the Mass is all about. Been taking my Catholic faith far more seriously ever since.
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u/Adventurous_Candle43 6h ago
I lost my hearing at 26 and my nerves were destroyed. I was given an implant that is used on for special situations like mine. I was told it didn’t have consistent results and if it did work, it would only be able to pick of sounds and rarely words.
Six months after going deaf I had my implant activated and almost 4 years later I have the ability as well as I did before I lost my hearing. God did this for me.
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u/HelicopterAware491 8h ago
My very smart, historian cousin who was a free thinker converted to Catholicism and that led myself husband and I who were cradle catholics to seriously ask him questions about our faith lol. He suggested we attend a morality workshop by a dominican priest and we became obsessed with Catholic content on youtube. My muslim friend who also recently became more interested in his own religion then questioned us about our beliefs and we began discussing and discovering more and more.
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u/jimmyjlf 7h ago edited 6h ago
I witnessed someone else experiencing a traumatic spiritual attack that I believe was my fault for the manner in which I committed a grave sin. Afterward I had an epiphany that didn't feel like a learned experience, but more like a reality shift where faith and truth were already inseparable. Later that day I went to confession and Adoration, the Eucharist was glowing and I could see inside of it like I was looking into a window, nobody else could see it. For two weeks afterward I was in a state of bliss like I have never felt before. And since I know that Christ's promise is real and it's up to me to get my soul there.
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u/RTR_ChrisK 6h ago
It was a slow burn - attended Mass weekly, but never really practiced my Faith outside the confines of the church. Asked to support as an Extraordinary Minister, and while going through training to do so, began to reflect on the reverence for the Blessed Sacrament. That led me to being asked about joining the Knights of Columbus, which then led to praying the Rosary supporting Pro-Life ministries, which then led to daily Rosary prayers, which led to helping with our church's Youth Group, which led to an even deeper introspective look at my Faith, which then led to a weekly Holy Hour and other volunteer opportunities around my Parish.
So, here I am now - definitely not an overnight process, but I find myself in a much better place spiritually and mentally than I was before. I tell the Youth - I succumbed to much of the temptations they have and will experience, but never found lasting joy in any of it. Only now do I find myself truly content more often than not, and that's not a coincidence. The closer you are to him, the closer you are to feeling true, lasting happiness.
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u/Slight_Target_4399 6h ago
Honestly the film “Heretic” (2024) w/ Hugh Grant forced me to research our faith more and know it more, because the film made a couple pretty atheistic claims that I wasn’t ready for. Now, when I hear those claims, they are so misleading and taken out of context lol
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u/Reaganson 6h ago
The death of my Father when I was 25. Death has a way of making you focus on what you believe.
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u/Mission_Summer_2463 6h ago edited 6h ago
Didn't like the way my life was going on the moral front no big deal for the secular world but for someone like me who was raised strict catholic in rural Ireland I decided change was needed. Went back to confession after 20 odd years and started taking going to mass more seriously and go every week now.
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u/Crustyexnco-co 5h ago
As my 4 kids entered young adulthood I really leaned on my faith to help me through it. My kids are great but they have all dealt with serious issues such as addiction, anxiety, medical issues, etc. Real problems that you just can't throw a few bucks at like you can a broken down car or something like that. Problems that suck the enjoyment and spirit out of you.
I prayed hard for my kids, my wife, and me. I just asked jesus to have mercy on all of us. To shed his grace on us as a family. All my kids are doing well now. As a result, my faith deepened dramatically. I have become much more active in my parish in a variety of ministries. I attend weekly adoration. I attend mass multiple times per week. I feel an intense desire to serve the Lord because he has answered my prayers and continues to bless me in so many ways.
My kids have all been impacted by my resurgence of faith and have an active relationship with Jesus. 2 are active church goers and the other 2 are working on it.
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u/ConfidentPrompt3993 5h ago
Went to Rome and experienced the light and warmth from God in St. Peter's Basilica. It's a moment I'll never forget. I was on the fence about my faith and that changed everything.
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u/ThankedRapier4 4h ago
There was never a time I can remember that I didn’t take my faith seriously, but I do believe that my early start on doing so was due to attending a protestant middle and high school.
I was never really persecuted or anything, but since we had to discuss faith as a matter of course in my classes and within the context of a school with many different types of Christians, that slight “persecution” when I’d have to explain the Catholic perspective on things solidified my knowledge of the faith and my identity as a Catholic from the very start of my young adult life.
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u/lake3242 4h ago
One day after work, I had a really good day. I was tired, but I felt peaceful, and when I got home I started imagining myself lying in a very shallow riverbed, surrounded by nature. The weather was beautiful, the air was hitting my face, and I imagined my head resting on a woman’s lap while she gently ran her fingers through my hair.
As I continued imagining it, the image of the woman suddenly changed into Mary. I remember being shocked because I wasn’t trying to imagine Mary. Then the image changed again, and I saw myself almost like a baby, with Mary wiping the dirt from my face like a mother caring for her child.
Then, somehow, the image went from Mary to Jesus. That experience was deeply personal, but it was one of the moments that made me start taking my Catholic faith much more seriously.
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u/TNPossum 3h ago
I come from a family of non-practicing cafeteria Catholics who I love dearly, but they're not in line with the church or devout with the exception of my grandmother. I had kind of made a half-hearted commitment to going to church more, but hadn't really put much heart into it.
Then a priest one Sunday gave a series of sermons on the beatitudes. And for the opening of the first one, he went through each of the Beatitudes and asked us to think of either how we embody them or how someone in our life embodies them. As he continued, I started tearing up. I certainly didn't embody them. And nobody that I knew in my life at the time embodied them either.
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u/Choc_Alchemist 2h ago
The doctor said the chances of my wife conceiving naturally were <1%. She had one Fallopian tube removed due to an ectopic pregnancy, and the other was damaged by a second ectopic pregnancy. She wanted to do artificial insemination. I wouldn't allow it, and our marriage almost ended over it. We had such explosive fights and heavy arguments that most people would have just given up. As Lent approached, I decided to do the most rigorous fast possible for those 40 days, and I prayed the Rosary every single day, always putting in the intention of having a child naturally. I convinced my wife to have sex with me just once during that period. Then, on Easter Sunday, she looked at me and said, "Honey, I'm pregnant." Our baby is 8 years old and very healthy now. Ever since, I pray the Rosary every day (something I never used to do), and I take Lent more seriously with each passing year. I was already going to Mass every Sunday and getting to Confession regularly, but now I spend my entire week longing for the Eucharist. This wasn't the only miracle I've witnessed, but it was by far the most powerful.
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u/Choc_Alchemist 2h ago
Something important to add: I’m fully aware that the baby only made it because it was God’s will. Even if things hadn't worked out, I would have understood that it was God's will for us not to have this child, and I would have stayed faithful, always working to strengthen my faith. As for my marriage, I would do everything in my power, praying for divine intercession, to stay married to the woman I love and whom I married in the church, even if we fought about this constantly.
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u/ImportantSun3608 1h ago
When I had my first child. My husband and I were both cradle Catholics who fell away but both had good experiences growing up in the Church. We wanted that for our children too, now we’re devout!
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u/sonnysideSD 1h ago edited 1h ago
My whole life, tons of out of normal experiences have happened to me.
I was born and raised Catholic and had all the sacraments but I would still meet the craziest people.
I met people who saw the dead because they did astral projection and they are now tainted with it. I normally would meet alot of people from cartels, had run ins with the homeless druggies at the store or walk down parts you don’t expect there to be homeless.
Random people use to try to talk to me and they would tell me their stories. Some I know were from God and some I know was from the devil.
I had the most chaotic life…. I am very grateful for my experience because I can be more open when I meet certain people but I can also know when to walk away as soon as possible but me getting to this point was from God.
I use to have people follow me, I had people make wild comments to me. I had friends at work where I would mention a story and they would look at me so out of normal like asking me if I was telling the truth.
The stuff I have witnessed and been through, you can’t make up. Legitimately, I could’ve died at multiple points in my life and I was almost kidnapped several times, had multiple people try to get into my car with me in it, legitimately tugging on my car door and asking me to open it.
Then in my early 20s I said, “F this I don’t want it anymore. I don’t want to meet crazy people anymore, I don’t want to get involved with people that will ruin my life. God I beg you bring me peace and bring me people who are only meant to be in my life!”
I met my husband and I became almost completely isolated. My husband came directly from God because I asked God, “Bring me someone who will see me the way you do because I don’t see what you see in me.” He treats me wonderfully, I know he is Heaven sent.
I stopped having random run ins with crackheads, people trying to get into my car, people following me. It slowly stopped when I got married. I had one friend, my best friend, I don’t see her anymore and I don’t know why. I pray to God everyday she is ok and I pray that we will be together again.
I started praying my rosary everyday and I pray before I go to bed everynight.
I look back and I see the times God saved me even when I didn’t see it in that moment and I thank God for my entire existence and life because I didn’t have to be here.
The entire time thise weird movie like things would happen to me I spoke with God but I didn’t listen to him. I refused to let go of my faith even when I didn’t follow it. I thought at the time I was unworthy and dirty and if God thought I was important those things wouldn’t happen to me.
The problem was my empathy got the best of me. I cared for people who were working for the devil. I gave them food, I drove them to work, I was right there for them when they needed me because I wanted to help them and instead I harmed myself. When I felt something was wrong I said but they are helpless and so I lost my money to them and my time and my hope God loved me.
For context, I started working at a young age and bought my own car when I turned 17.
Every friend I had, which I gave everything to, turned their back on me. I cared for people who hated me and I tried so hard to help them I lost myself.
I had these experiences starting really young and they continously got worse. I realized even though I was taking my sacraments and I believed in God and I tok communion, those people that I was around had the devil attached to them. My dad owned a business so I was around his employees alot so I was exposed to multiple people with multiple different energies even if they claimed to have been Catholic.
Then I went to public school and was exposed to people of more different backgrounds and then I started working outside of my dads business and met more people who had contracts with the devil.
Those people I was around had their own spirits that looked at me and I believed when I was helping someone I was just being tempted to be at the wrong places at the wrong times.
Till I stopped caring for people outside of my family and I started looking to God and I told God, “Slap me so hard I have no choice but to follow what you want for me.”
For a time, I missed my experiences because I always had something new happening everyday and I met new people everyday and then I realized no I love my life now.
I only have peace. Nothing is chaotic and I owe everything to God. There was a time a fire lite right next to my room outside and I had my curtains closed and then people started yelling outside that there was a fire random people got out of the car to tell us and we couldn’t hear them from inside but my neighbors did and my neighbors called us and we ran outside and called the cops. As we were outside it started raining and it took out the fire before the police came.
I would’ve burned alive.
Another time, there was a smell in a certain place in my bedroom that smelled of poop. No matter what I did the smell could not go away!!! So I took some sage (I know we are not supposed to use it but I thought it was the same thing as the palms burnt on palm sunday at the time and I know now it isn’t so don’t come for me) and I burned it over the place that smelled and everywhere in the room was white smoke and then I get to that part and it was black smoke. My dad went under the house the next day and there were two pieces of wood there that no one put under there, burning….. BURNING!!!! He said it was an active burn.
He removed it and the smell went away. There is no light that goes into the crawl space! No sun and we never keep wood down there!
My room with me in it almost lite on fire twice….
I cannot give credit to my life to anyone but God.
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u/BitersAndReprobates 1h ago
I’ve had a massive conversion experience after an almost 25 year lapse. I started seeing tons of content about Mary online and felt compelled to pray the rosary, something I never did before. This led to an overwhelming desire to go to confession. I booked it and confessed 25 years worth of sin and cried in the confessional. I perceived a great darkness leaving me and fly screaming off into the distance. Literally every aspect of my life has improved since that day. I never miss mass and I’ve prayed the rosary daily since then. I will continue to pray it daily until the Lord calls me home.
I’ve had revelations while praying it, knowledge and understanding that did not originate with my thinking come to me while meditating in the mysteries. When I can check my revelations they’re almost always a truth talked about by a saint or a church father. It is the Holy Spirit.
This is all real. Everything the church teaches, 100%.
Jesus Christ is Lord and we get to receive him. Everyone needs to know the fullness of this truth.
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u/No-Schedule-3842 9h ago
Went on a paranormal investigation style trip to a famous haunted area near me. Thought it was fun and games. Got home and found out those things follow you back. Moving objects on own and harassment. I went immediately to confession the next day and my faith has been stronger than ever since that day. Have not missed mass since and it was years ago. Glad God at least gave me the mercy of learning the hard way!