How a Miraculous Virgin Mary Image Led a Presbyterian and New Ager to the Catholic Church
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- In this week's episode of Catholic ReCon, testimonies from reverts and converts, guest Eileen Bates discusses a journey that is very much ongoing in 2024! Witness an unbelievable series of events in Eileen's life. From death to life, she details the lows and the highs with equal attention and, through painstaking experiences, now knows what it means to say "What He wills, not what I will."
Please pray for her as she soon begins OCIA!
Watch as Eileen mentions many key moments in her journey:
""Keep the Passover"
"This feels like real worship"
"Something just clicked"
"I didn't realize I could become Catholic"
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That was one of my favorites!! God bless you, Eileen! Your testament is so needed today. Keep being God’s amazing witness (and Mary’s, too)! 🤗❤️
That's so cool! An image of the sacred heart of Jesus brought me out of the new age movement! Then I saw the Blessed Mother when I was questioning my Catholic faith. God is so good!
Start "RCIA" on the 11th here. :) Super pumped!
I'm so happy for you. God bless you.
Good afternoon,
Im a convert to catholicism and South African, married woman with 2 daughters.
These stories are such a blessing and we don't have place where we can hear conversion stories ❤
Thank you, Eddie for your important work, and thank you Eileen for your witness. All are in my prayers.
Fellow New Jerseyan here, former new ager, and currently a Presbyterian who is increasingly drawn to Catholicism with growing desire for the sacraments. This was such an encouraging, comforting testimony. The way the Lord leads His faithful is so gracious, loving, & miraculous. Glory be to Jesus Christ! Thankful to this sister for sharing her story with such honesty and humility.❤
God bless you! Thanks for sharing. Praying for a lot of peace on your journey.
@@CatholicReCon Thank you! 😊 I appreciate your prayers.
So excited to listen! Welcome home Eileen God bless you 💕🙏
Wow! I was glued to the entire story/interview! TY for being so genuine! Powerful! ❤
Literally my favorite RUclips channel. Thank you, Eddie. 😊 Eileen’s story is similar to mine, in a way. Been waiting since February to start RCIA, and I think it’s finally about to start in the next few weeks!
What an amazing story of Gods faithfulness! I had two children around that same time using IUI and a sperm donor while in a same sex marriage with another woman. My children are now 17 and 20 and have two moms. I reverted to Catholicism with my now husband this past Pentecost! God is very good indeed! ❤I am so sorry about Aaron and Ian I will be praying for them ❤. It’s been a hard road the children I conceived in this way survived and have two moms but I am so thankful to God for giving me these two precious children ❤
This story really touches me. THank you for sharing.
@@davidcole333I am glad!! God bless you!
Thank you for your testimonial, welcome home! God Bless ✝️
Such a wonderful conversion story which is still in process. The fact that the Holy Spirit told Eileen to "keep the Passover" and it was years until the fullness of that was revealed when she understood the Eucharist. Just amazing! Can't wait to hear more in the future from this beautiful and humble sister in Christ. May Our Lord richly bless you both. ❤
The waiting can be a gift in itself, although I didn't understand at first how that could be. You'll be fine.
Not until Doreen Virtue, the ex-angel therapy teacher, shared her conversion story in 2018 did I listen, and had my own conversion at 58 from "new ager" to Christian. A year later I discovered the Catholic Church thanks to a FB group for ex-new agers, many critical of the Church. I researched it and found it to be the only real Church. (Basically, God used Social Media to reach out to me).
After lockdowns and moving three times, I finally found a kind priest (some priests were not so understanding) in the Personal Ordinariate here in England, UK, who was happy to support me in the process of becoming Catholic.
Had to apply for a "Petrine Privilege", waited two years, and at 63 received into the Church 2023.
Thank you Eileen for sharing your testimony. Praying for you and your family. God bless you!🙏❤
I found this one unexpectedly touching. Thank you both for sharing. May the Lord be blessed 🙏
Thank you Eddie! Praying your family is blessed 😇
Same to you!
I pray may the hunger for the Lord supper continues in your heart and may the Lord keep you safe from all the evil around you and one day you become united in Lord in communion with Lord ❤
What a lively & inspiring conversation. I understand the hunger for the Eucharistic. Seeing the signs & hearing Gods voice, beautiful. Lol. 🙏
Ahhhh a full hour I can't wait!! ⚔️⚔️
I'd like to share my Presbyterian mother's experience. She had an NDE in May 1976 while in the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Australia) due to kidney failure and during her NDE, she saw a beautiful park with grass & trees inside a doorway... but a large hand gently pushed her away from the door and told her it wasn't her time yet & she still had more to do. After she came back, she felt someone tapping her shoulder so she turned over in her hospital bed thinking it was a nurse and that's when she saw Jesus standing in the corner of her hospital room. Behind him was a roughly-hewn wooden cross with rays of light shining from the 4 sides of the Cross ( the 3 places where He was nailed & the place where the sign was nailed above His Head). The 4 rays were all shining onto my mother's forehead, and He spoke directly into her mind. She said it seemed like He spoke for about ten minutes but the clock on the hospital room wall was on 12 midnight the whole time.... it was only after He disappeared that the hands on the clock started moving again (I still don't understand that). Her experience happened at midnight on a Friday night, between Fri 21st & Sat 22nd May. I notice the 22nd May is the feast of St Rita, and I've seen pictures of St Rita with a Crucifix shining rays of light upon her forehead, similar to what my mother experienced.
There was a report on the radio news the next morning that astronomers in Canberra had seen a beam of light shining towards the north of Melbourne (where that hospital is located) around midnight the night before but even using telescopes they couldn't find its source. Jesus told my mother He was coming soon and He asked her to speak to others about His Mercy. I don't know who she was supposed to talk to about it... other Protestants, I guess. My mother had taught me about God & Jesus from when I was very little, and she'd even take me into our local Catholic church at Christmas time to show me their nativity scene. She was always a believer in Jesus, as I've always been. She was a Protestant but considered Catholics to be "fellow Christians", and never considered them to be "Mary Worshippers" like a many of ththem do 😢 Also, just before my mother's NDE, a Catholic priest stopped to speak with her in her hospital room. He spoke her with her about the Book of Revelation. I wonder why that priest stopped to speak with her when she wasn't even Catholic? Did he have some idea of the spiritual experience she was about to have? I wished she had've been able to speak with him afterwards.
I was only a child at the time of my mother's NDE/vision, and my mother explained to me that "God's soon is different to ours. His soon could be 50 years".... well, it's 48 now LOL. But because of that I've always thought I'd be here for the End Times. He also told her that her husband (my dad) was in danger of going to Hell & she had to help save him. The morning after her experience, her nephrologist (Professor Priscilla Kincaid-Smith) walked into her hospital room & declared "A miracle happened during the night" and my mother replied "I know" but she never told the doctor about her NDE & vision (she said they might think she was nuts lol). When the doctor said about a miracle, she was talking about the fact one of my mother's failing kidneys had started working again.
Sadly it failed again about 15 months later & my mother had to do haemodialysis for the rest of her life (d.1988)... but I guess that was the cross she had to bear. In the last months of her life, Mum was in a lot of pain & when she couldn't sleep due to pain, she say the Rosary. Because of my mother's NDE & vision, in the 1980s I started researching other people's NDEs & apparitions because I figured "if it happened to my Mum, it must've happened to other people too", and eventually I came across the Divine Mercy devotion, which sounded similar to what my mother was told. Also Fatima, Lourdes, Garabandal, the Sacred Heart, and we just knew they were true.
We both started saying the Rosary & the Chaplet, and I found a Miraculous Medal in a kitchen junk drawer. I asked my Mum where it came from, and she said a Catholic must've dropped it & one of my sisters had found it in the street so I began wearing it. Although my mother never became Catholic... her husband (my dad) wouldn't allow it... she appeared to my eldest sister after she died with rosary beads in her hands. If my mother wasn't able to become Catholic through no fault of her own, I hope she was still saved... even if she has to spend longer in purgatory. Please pray for her, her name was Bonie Morrison (pronounced Bonnie but the Robert Burns' spelling with one "n"). GBY 🙏
Spiritual experiences have always run in my family. When my Mum was young, her brother Rob was killed in WW2 and she had a dream of his plane crashing, then woke up to find his spirit standing by her bed, and he said "Don't worry, sis, I'm alright". It wasn't until after this, her family received the telegram about his death. Also, my eldest sister (also a Presbyterian) had a cancer scare in the 1980's and an image of the Blessed Mother appeared in her kitchen. It appeared on a tea towel which was hanging on the back of a door. My sister said Our Lady had her head bowed as if in prayer, and there were rays all around her head. She said the image gave her a calm feeling & she knew everything was going to be alright. The doctor rang to inform my sister that her lump was benign & when she went back to the kitchen the image of Our Lady had disappeared (I guess she had done her job). My sister had asked me "Why would Mary appear to a Protestant?" and I remember reading that Our Lady had said at Garabandal about a Protestant "They are all my children".
Years later, I came across the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and when I showed it to my sister, she said that was the image she saw in her kitchen... but only the head, not the whole body. We'd never heard of Guadalupe before because we're Australian Protestants. Another time I was telling my sister about Sister Faustina, and my sister had a vision of purgatory... she said it was grey & misty, and the souls were shuffling around together with eyes downcast while praying. My sister still isn't Catholic but she always says "I know purgatory is real because I've seen it myself". I know many former Protestants say that when they join the Catholic Church, devotion to Mary & the saints is the main thing that takes a bit of getting used to. Well, none of my family have ever had a problem with devotion to Mary... we took to it like a duck to water lol. I've been saying the Rosary on & off for over 40 years. The one Catholic thing I do have a real problem with, however, is the idea that animals don't go to heaven as I grew up believing they do. So when I did Catholic lessons by mail & read that thing about animals, I was devastated & angry. I've always been extremely close with animals & have devoted my life to them (which is why St Francis is my favourite saint). I have 2 cats born on Easter Sunday 2011, and their names are Anastasia & Magdalen. Please pray for us. Thanks, Donna.
That’s an amazing encounter Your mother experienced!! 🙏 God is so Good!
Thank you for sharing...both of you. I am also in Australia (Caulfield, Melbourne). You are both in my prayers and I will add Bonie to my November mass offerings. God bless you all
God Bless you, pray the rosary Mama Mary will guide you through your journey as she did with mines. And welcome to the family.
Welcome home Sister in Christ . God bless you and your husband. 🙏❤️
I'm starting OCIA this fall too! It's been a long, convoluted journey to this point but headcovering was a key part of my story, which caused me to look for authority in the Church. I could identify other authorities in my life to submit myself to - my husband, my boss, my government, but I couldn't find an authority within Christianity until I finally was able to recognize the authority of the Catholic Church. Now, I recognize the passage in 1 Cor 11 which led me to headcovering is right in the middle of Paul Eucharistic teaching, and I think it is a truly beautiful symbol of ultimate submission to Jesus!
Another interesting intersection, was being convinced about taking my birth control and realizing that it was very likely that I was culpable for loss of precious lives. Obedience to this convicted, opened wide a door for the Holy Spirit to really move in my life.
Welcome home
GLORY TO OUR ALMIGHTY GOD IN THE HIGHEST AND ON EARTH PEACE AMONG MEN WITH WHOM OUR FATHER IS PLEASED.
Wow, incredible story, will be praying for you and your family from my part of the USA. God Bless you Eileen and thanks for the great episode Catholic ReCon.
That was an amazing testimonial, so heartfelt and beautiful. I wish you all the best in your journey!
Welcome home! Very interesting testimony!
Reading Catehism of Catholic Church will help on her.Hoping she has time to read it as a preparation for her RCIA
Don't miss the actual image in the video! God bless!
My goodness! What an incredible story! Thank you for sharing ❤
It makes me think of these words of Our Lord:
John 15:16
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit-fruit that will last-and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
Omg woman, we don't drink vodka for breakfast in Eastern Europe 😂
Love this testimony 🙏
She talks as if she is already Catholic! What a beautiful testimony.
I worked in the IVF industry for 7 years and it just breaks my heart remembering all those men and women who came through abd us thinking we were doing good. What a messive deception! Hence why I came back to the Catholic church absolutely on FIRE. The devil used me to hurt my Lord and my God.
I remember craving the Eucharist and being absolutely shattered that I would have to do RCIA. I was SO RELIEVED when my brother told me I did not have to because I was already Catholic! That is how clueless I was about the faith. Three years in and I am still learning.
I pray you may be able to receive our Lord sooner than expected. May you be blessed abundantly 🌹🌹🌹
Starvationing for the Eucharist. Love it!!!
That was certainly very heartfelt and touching.
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Eileen, I hate to give a book recommendation, but I just have to...read anything by Scott Hahn but especially read Jesus and Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Dr. Brandt Pitre. Dr. Pitre's book will really help you to understand the Eucharist. I think this book should be mandatory reading for every RCIA program. Stay the course, the time will go by. I absolutely loved my RCIA experience. You will get out of it what you put into it. Do your work outside of class and come prepared. It won't' be awesome every week, but some weeks it will be. But I promise you that as you go through the process and the date of receiving the sacraments gets closer, you will get more and more excited. I hope you get to have the experience of receiving the Sacraments on the Easter vigil mass 2025. God bless and my prayers are with you and your husband!
I ordered the book and thank you for the recommendation!!
@@BatesPhotography Thank you for sharing your story! I second the book referral Jesus and Jewish Roots of the Eucharist. So good! And when I paired that with The Fourth Cup by Scott Hahn, my jaw was on the floor. Dr Pitre has another similar book called Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary that is also fantastic. Recommend them all! I teach RCIA in MN and would've started working with you and your husband with some individualized lessons outside of the regular RCIA classes. I'm excited for you to start soon and it really is a JOURNEY, not a destination. This is only the beginning and there is so much to learn that you will never learn it all. Keep going to Jesus in adoration, in His word, in the Mass. He will continue to work in and through you and will continue to purify you both in this time of waiting and pruning. God bless you both. I'll be praying for you! And, if you ever have any questions, feel free to reach out. I'd be happy to help!
@BatesPhotography Oh, and I forgot to mention you should ask your priest to do a house blessing.
wow eddie you're a great interviewer.
A layman cannot "make" holy water. Also, one doesn't require holy water for baptism.
Why not?
@@cindiloowhoo1166a layman is not a member of ordained minister.
@@khagenghis658 I know that.
@@khagenghis658 Are you Catholic? There seems to be a variety of opinions. Obviously, a "layman" would engage in such an activity out of a special need. There are specified modes for doing so. I believe that God will guide His children in how to do whatever is necessary in a given situation.
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This is why they get offended when we venerate saints, because they have no Eucharist they ONLY venerate Jesus in their service. They do NOT Latria Jesus!
So the question is for Protestants... Would you tell an atheist they would be in Heaven if they just thought Jesus was "a really cool dude worthy of respect but not worship."
Those Protestants would say those atheists would NOT be in Heaven.
Those who go to their death rejecting latria of Jesus - Lord have Mercy.
That was one of my favorites!! God bless you, Eileen! Your testament is so needed today. Keep being God’s amazing witness (and Mary’s, too)! 🤗❤️