As I renew my faith and devotion to the Catholic Church, I'm trying to immerse myself in its teachings. One way of doing this is obviously by reading the Bible as much as possible which I believe I've done every day for the last couple of weeks (I started at the New Testament Gospels and have now made it all the way through Matthew and am on Mark). Another way of enhancing my understanding is by reading other spiritual books/papers. I just finished a great book titled Surprised by Truth by Patrick Madrid, a renowned Catholic Apologist.
This book was just outstanding. It contains several stories of people who either were Protestant and converted to Catholicism, Catholics who left the Church and came back, and even a story of someone practicing Judaism that converted to Catholicism. In all cases, these people did a tremendous amount of personal research into the Church's teachings and deep discernment to come to the same conclusion -- to experience Catholicism is to experience the fullness of the Church's teachings. These readings helped me to understand more deeply some of the Catholic Church's teachings including papal infallibility, Communion of Saints, purgatory, the value of Sacred Tradition, and the importance of Mary. These are often subjects misunderstood by others outside, and even inside, of the Catholic Faith for all of the wrong reasons. Once understood, it is tough to deny that Catholicism is the truest and fullest form of Christianity. It's not that other forms of Christianity are bad -- they are just incomplete.
If you are Catholic, I recommend this book to help better understand why we believe what we believe. If you aren't Catholic, I recommend this book to help you understand what Catholics believe and why we believe, and, just perhaps, you'll start asking yourself some of the same questions that others in this book asked of themselves at one time.
God Bless you all.
This book was just outstanding. It contains several stories of people who either were Protestant and converted to Catholicism, Catholics who left the Church and came back, and even a story of someone practicing Judaism that converted to Catholicism. In all cases, these people did a tremendous amount of personal research into the Church's teachings and deep discernment to come to the same conclusion -- to experience Catholicism is to experience the fullness of the Church's teachings. These readings helped me to understand more deeply some of the Catholic Church's teachings including papal infallibility, Communion of Saints, purgatory, the value of Sacred Tradition, and the importance of Mary. These are often subjects misunderstood by others outside, and even inside, of the Catholic Faith for all of the wrong reasons. Once understood, it is tough to deny that Catholicism is the truest and fullest form of Christianity. It's not that other forms of Christianity are bad -- they are just incomplete.
If you are Catholic, I recommend this book to help better understand why we believe what we believe. If you aren't Catholic, I recommend this book to help you understand what Catholics believe and why we believe, and, just perhaps, you'll start asking yourself some of the same questions that others in this book asked of themselves at one time.
God Bless you all.
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