As an ex-atheist and ex-hater of catholicism I can affirm: It is beautiful to be catholic! Ave Maria! Ave Christus Rex ✝️👑🇻🇦
@AshKetchumAllNowАй бұрын
Do you mean ex-hater?
@shatter_pointАй бұрын
Alleluia
@HulkRampageАй бұрын
@@AshKetchumAllNow Of course haha
@HulkRampageАй бұрын
@@shatter_point Ámen!
@gades_gabrielАй бұрын
Mano, até aqui? Tá me seguindo 😂
@mrman5066Ай бұрын
My RCIA director is astounded at RCIA attendance this year. In a liberal college town too. Ave Christus Rex! I'm so proud of this great country America! America has the potential to become the greatest Catholic country ever!
@mrman5066Ай бұрын
(Attendance is 20-30 people at a small Catholic center library. Our little Parish is also always PACKED for Sunday evening mass.
@PoppinPsinceAD33Ай бұрын
I’m becoming Catholic
@PoppinPsinceAD33Ай бұрын
@ yes I like praying it and each decade I like to think about mass conversions, straight leadership from the Vatican, the maintaining of sound doctrine, and then personal grievances or praises
@jesusmartell6990Ай бұрын
I went to the eucharistic congress and it was amazing! I was able to go to my first traditional mass and experience Gregorian chant. I am not a traditional or a modernist, I am a lover of Jesus Christ! Viva Cristo Rey!!
@Athanasius-crusadeАй бұрын
Maybe the title should be is catholism in the west making a comeback ... Am African from the Catholic diocese of Banjul ... took me 20+ years before i knew there was something call protestantism even tho i knew people who where possible protestant but the word itself was alien to me till i started my studies ... The church keeps on growing even tho there has been an influx of other small churches and preachers... I have also noticed how big its getting in asia
@masterchief8179Ай бұрын
🎯
@ozbunreportАй бұрын
As a protestant bible teacher and podcaster living in Indiana, about an hour from Indianapolis, I felt compelled by the Holy Spirit to attend the National Eucharistic Congress. I didn't understand quite what it was, but I knew I had to be there. I went for one of the morning sessions which started with the Rosary, with I would guess 20-30 thousand other people followed by a Mass. It was one of the most powerful and shocking events I've ever witnessed. There isn't enough space in this comment section to properly articulate how incredible this event was.
@amggomezАй бұрын
You should try. Would love to hear your experience 😊
@opyre1174Ай бұрын
I had the opportunity to meet Fr. Boniface a few months ago. He’s one of those people that has such an absolute peace to him. What a rock and a blessing Fr. Boniface is for the Church in the West.
@michaelman95715 күн бұрын
Thanks for the hopeful messages. Cheers!
@ParadoxPNC-fm4dbАй бұрын
RCIA attendance has been doubling in our diocese every year. We have about 50 candidates this year.
@ConvincedofChristianityАй бұрын
This was an excellent interview!
@Pdaw-g9bАй бұрын
I still waiting for jim caviezel, in your podcast sir , after your great conversation video with Jonathan roumie ❤.
@carlamsmiley1238Ай бұрын
Thanks for starting with the GOOD news! Encounter Ministries, another Catholic ministry Fr. Boniface supports, offers a school of supernatural ministry grew from 1-40 campuses in 5 years-part of the revival in the church. Glory to God!
@nancywisdom8684Ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your podcast. Thank you for what you present from the Catholic Church and all spiritually inspiring post.
@julieelizabeth4856Ай бұрын
My parish priest (a very good, traditional one) doesn't do RCIA. He works with people individually and has helped several come into the Church. He said too many programs don't have very good retention rate. Within five years, many "converts" are gone again.
@DomN5TCBАй бұрын
@@julieelizabeth4856 The idea of the rituals during Lent and the Easter Vigil are great. But running a class? I agree. Having a priest, deacon, and maybe a lay convert working one on one, or a few on one is important. Each person may have difficulty with one or another parts of the Faith, and that personal encounter to explain the difficulty is the best medicine.
@katydidd6321Ай бұрын
Yup, my priest catechized me himself. It really set me up for success since my learning style is a bit unusual, and it established a relationship with him that fosters trust (no small feat after the scandals of the the aughts) and loyalty. Despite the threats facing the traditional Church I'm still there, even while being pursued heavily by the EOC.
@DorsetGirlАй бұрын
Matt, just a heads-up that you have some bot on your comments banging on about some book or another.
@limoncellosmith7594Ай бұрын
I believe it is making a comeback--at least growing in popularity--here in the US as people watch other institutions fail one by one and seek the truth. However, I'm also old enough to have seen this before. For example, the much-touted "Catholic moment" and surge of enthusiasm during JPII's pontificate eventually went flat again. I think these things go in waves, but I also believe each "wave" leads many people with genuine faith to God. Although the "Catholic moment' didn't really materialize, we DO, for example, now have a big group of devout young Catholic priests that found their faith during the reign of JPII.
@alisterrebelo9013Ай бұрын
One major difference is in this Internet age, those who are returning are better educated about WHY the Catholic Church is true. It's less susceptible to being simply a trendy move as it might have been in the past. People are losing friends and family by conversions and reversions at the moment. And in having large families, there is a stronger hope that they can similarly teach their why about the WHY as much as the other bits.
@kyleenzler9411 күн бұрын
that small male chant group: Floriani. Mr. Fradd should have them on next!
@xelan8549Ай бұрын
Our american brothers and sisters need to spread that spirit! Set the world ablaze O Lord! Come O Spirit of Creation, O Spirit of Peace, O Spirit of Holiness and makes us burn with the unconsuming fire!
@michaelman95715 күн бұрын
My protestant doctor watches EWTN for the news because he trusts them to be honest journalists. He also watches Fr. Spitzer's universe. Catholics have some good stuff.
@eamonnmcmanus4785Ай бұрын
Good video
@DomN5TCBАй бұрын
I think the EC forgot something. Not everyone could go. But maybe have some special Masses/Divine Liturgies, Holy Hours, Eucharist processions at the parish level in Union with this.
@TheocracyEnjoyerАй бұрын
The Eucharistic Congress should be judged by the fruit it bears How will this massive conference benefit the Church at large? The 60k in attendance aren't the ones who need evangelizing - will the Congress benefit the millions of lukewarm in the pews or in front of the TV on Sundays?
@alisterrebelo9013Ай бұрын
Have you considered the possibility that those who attended needed the push to enter areas of the Church that achieve evangelisation? Areas like RCIA teachers, Catholic school teaching positions, youth ministries, online content creation, seminaries etc. The decline took decades, the re-evangelisation works on similar time frames unless God decides to impart an unusual amount of grace or human nature becomes more susceptible to the Gospel.
@casanova07scrrАй бұрын
@@TheocracyEnjoyer good point.
@DomN5TCBАй бұрын
Ok, define Catholicism. Are we just talking about the OF of the Latin Rite, or all Rites and Forms? From what I am seeing in Spring Branch and the Northside of Houston between the Loop 610 and BW8, the Ordinariate Form and the three Byzantine Rite parishesvare are booming.
@swht281Ай бұрын
Catholicism includes all rites in communion with Rome. This includes the Byzantine rite as that was one the masses or divine liturgy that took place in the Congress as well.
@ParadoxPNC-fm4dbАй бұрын
Our Ordinariate parish in Canada is doing really well.
@DomN5TCBАй бұрын
@@swht281 I agree. But many times on various vids and podcasts, many are just taking about being Catholic just as Latin Rite. That is fine if they define the discussion as LR. In fact, in the parishes I mentioned, many are converts, others are coming in from OF LR parishes.
@swht281Ай бұрын
@@DomN5TCB I think the two reasons why many people sometimes just focus on the LR is because it's the most known in the West and secondly because they simply might just not know that Catholicism consists of 24 churches within 6 different rites.
@DomN5TCBАй бұрын
@@swht281 On people going to a local LR parish, I can give a pass. But the big YT presenters I think can do a better job stating if this is a LR, or larger issue. Then again, there are some YT sites which push the idea that the LR is the only game in town.. In this particular vid, increases in all Rites and Forms are game.
@emmanuelsimon8607Ай бұрын
Missing 15 seconds.
@anng.4542Ай бұрын
Between Jorge Bergoglio and all the Catholic pundits, you'd never guess we were "making a comeback".
@gion3250Ай бұрын
The small schola leading sacred music for the Eucharistic Congress @ 9:40 was @florianisacredmusic
@NIGELAckermanАй бұрын
this is good, but if you haven’t read Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, you’re only seeing part of the picture
@BrianneBeyerАй бұрын
it’s wild how no one talks about Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki even though it completely shifts how you see things, but I guess not everyone is ready
@KelleeWaiteАй бұрын
can’t believe this is what people focus on instead of reading something like Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, maybe that’s why so little ever changes
@KaCoffmanАй бұрын
crazy how much people rely on surface-level ideas when Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki exists, but I guess not everyone is ready for deeper truths
@DERICKKuhnsАй бұрын
funny how people spend so much time on this stuff but ignore books like Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki that actually explain what’s going on
@MeghannSamaniegoАй бұрын
if this resonates with you, you owe it to yourself to read Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, but maybe it’s not for everyone
@LAMONTDalton-k4xАй бұрын
most people stay stuck because they avoid books like Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, which actually show you how to break through
@PollyCarpenter-g3dАй бұрын
this is good, but if you haven’t read Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, you’re only seeing part of the picture
@MellisaMeehanАй бұрын
if this resonates with you, you owe it to yourself to read Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, but maybe it’s not for everyone
@NICOLASSommersАй бұрын
this is good, but if you haven’t read Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, you’re only seeing part of the picture