2031 Isaiah Tate
Tropics Baseball
Strong athletic frame; quick hands; gets his hands out and finds a barrel as he smokes a line drive into LCF for a single.
@prospectwire#PWBaseball🌼⚾️
2031 Isaiah Tate
Tropics Baseball
Strong athletic frame; quick hands; gets his hands out and finds a barrel as he smokes a line drive into LCF for a single.
@prospectwire#PWBaseball🌼⚾️
Just be prepared, Catholics… God will bring more people like me into the church. Not for them to change the church, but for them to repent and be transformed by Gods grace, love, and goodness. I’m living a life today beyond my wildest dreams. All because of Christ and Him bringing me home 🙏🏻❤️
I had a lady come up to me after Mass yesterday. She said, she deeply owed me an apology….
I had never met this woman before, so I wasn’t quite sure what she could have ever intended to apologize to me for….
She continued by saying, that she had seen my transformation over the past two years (Before and After pics below), and she said that she had also finally heard my conversion story recently, and that when she did, she had felt so sad when she finally realized how I ended up at the parish that very first day on March 19, 2023 when she saw me for the first time. She said, she was there that day, and she remembers it vividly. For those who don’t know, this was the day of my miraculous conversion to Christ.
She said that she felt sad, because when she first saw me at the Mass that day, that I had horrified her… she had just came from a previous parish that was deeply liberal and her and her husband had just found a home at the TLM… she said that when she saw me for the first time, she thought that the liberalism was going to ruin the TLM parish too, and she was deeply afraid that me being there was evidence of the evil that was spreading.
She even told me how she made a big scene of it to her husband afterwards and just couldn’t let it go. She said that she recalls me just sitting and staring deeply into the red candle, and she said my stare was so intense that she was convinced that I was stoned on drugs or something (that part made me chuckle a bit…)
She said that when she had finally heard my testimony, and my explanation for why I was staring so deeply into the flame of this candle, that she felt deeply ashamed for how she reacted towards me.
For those who don’t know, I was deeply afraid to be at the parish that day. But I felt an insatiable call, through praying the rosary, to attend a Mass… I wanted to run out the door the second I got there, because I felt so out of place…. But then my eyes caught the gaze of this red candle, and it captivated me. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. All I could hear internally was, “Keep looking at Me,” and that was the candle. I couldn’t take my gaze off of it. It’s the only thing that kept me there. A few moments later, Christ would reveal Himself to me for the first time, and this encounter with Christ at the Mass would change the course of my life forever.
She said that when she heard my story, she felt horrible for judging me so incorrectly. She had accused me of being on drugs, when really she had no clue that I was actually having the most intensely profound experience of my life, with Our Lord. So intense that it would change me forever.
She asked for my forgiveness, and told me that she only now realizes that she was not being a very good Catholic, and that her reaction to my presence there was not ok. She said, that had she been more gracious towards me, she would have seen much sooner that I was there, because I was looking for God. I was not there with the desire to change God, but rather I was there with the desire for God to change ME.
To be honest though, I completely understood her fear. I don’t feel offended for her going through this experience at all…. Honestly, I think it’s quite beautiful that I got to share this full circle experience with her. Once again, the evidence of the Glory of God and how He continues to work in and through all of us, is deeply humbling.
Thank you Jesus, Mary, and Joseph for bringing me home. My only regret in life is that I didn’t know Christ sooner.
+JMJ+