The heartache of Conversion: When Catholicism Challenges Your Marriage

[@MrsYasha1984]

I concerted from atheism, and my atheist husband of 17years was weirded out at first. Thre was a time when it was hard on our marriage, because our Lord changed me... and he did not know if he loved the new me. Praise be to God, it only lasted about three weeks. Then we talked... a LOT! After a while he agreed to get the children baptised. After their baptism, he got a lot softer towards the Church. Some time later he agreed to get sacramentally married. It was really wonderful and made our marriage even better. About a year later he reentered the Church (this june), and next year he will get his confirmation that he did not get when he was young because he could not say yes to the faith back them. All of this took about 3years.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

What an amazing story! Thank you so much for sharing! I love hearing such positive journeys! 😊

[@lacadapanina]

What a beautiful testimony! Thank you for sharing. This gives me so much hope for my husband. He has all his sacraments and was raised Catholic but is atheist. I pray for him all the time. I go to adoration and pray. I really believe one day he will come back to Christ. Jesus comes for his lost sheep. He came back for me and I believe He will come back for my husband. I'm already seeing the good work of the Lord in him. May God Bless you and your family always.

[@MrsYasha1984]

@lacadapanina Oh thank you! I will pray for you and your husband. I know the time of waiting is so hard... Just keep close to our Lord and our Lady, they will help you through. Keep loving your husband. And one day, the walls around his heart will crumble like the walls of jericho, and Jesus can enter. I prayed a lot to St Joseph too (next to out Lord and Lady of course), to help my husband. May God bless you and your family, protect you from harm and guide all of you to his loving heart!

[@Jerome616]

Amen❤❤❤

[@carakerr4081]

Thank you for sharing. My husband and I converted/reverted to Catholicism this year from Protestantism and my In Laws Pastor a small Pentecostal country church and it’s been a strain on our relationship. It saddens me but I have many graces from the reception of the Sacraments. Most of my side of the family is either Catholic or Agnostic so there isn’t as much tension on my side. Good news my brother in law is now wanting to become Catholic and one of my Protestant friends is now going through OCIA because of my reversion and is going to be confirmed on Easter - so I can see God working in our lives and believe many families will be converted through our conversion. We have 7 children and 9 grandchildren between us (2nd marriage) and I pray daily for their conversions to the Catholic Church. Padre Pio predicted that Catholicism would spread in the USA and it is happening!!! 💕🙏💕

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much for sharing your journey! It’s beautiful! I pray God will bring all of us home to the church in His time!

[@theoldguy1956]

God bless you I converted in 2018 from a Baptist background my wife still hasnt and its been a struggle but I been going to Mass all this time alone I cant imagine you not being able to go to mass all that time.WE are both in our late 60s so I been just giving it to God in Prayer.Thank you for your testimony.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

God bless you! I will pray for your wife! 🙏

[@ritav89]

I enjoy listening to you! Revert here. I too have sought God from childhood and boy does He deliver when we open ourselves in earnest and humility or out of desperation. We, who have found His True Presence plan to never leave His Church!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you for such an encouraging comment! ❤️

[@fredicksyenito]

Sam Shamoun is one of the great minds who came home to the Catholic faith after years of defending protestant. Also Bishop Barron and Father Mike are both great teachers. And I like to watch conversion stories from the Journey Home program especially from a jewish converts. I like to read books by Dr. Scott Hahn, Dr. John Bergsma, Dr. Brant Pitre and many others. I also have five children and I want to consume as much as possible the teachings of our Catholic faith so I can prepare my children before they journey into the wilderness of life.

[@ThanksStJoseph]

Thanks for sharing. I recently listened to a fantastic two part talk on Fatima, the Rosary, and The Little Way. In there sister talked about God not answering prayers right away. That in those cases He wants something better and more fulfilling for us than we want for ourselves. She used the example of St. Monica and all she wanted was a believing Catholic son. But God wanted to give her a great Saint and doctor of the Church who through his writings and testimony would convert and edify Christians until Our Lord comes again in His Glory!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much for sharing! Merry Christmas and God bless you!

[@aprill9958]

Our stories are just a little bit different, but I did mention some of mine under your last video. Continue to do God works in releasing these videos because you are right, God is bringing people home to His church and it can be extremely lonely. Although we don't wish for others to feel pain and suffer, it is nice to know others are going through similar things. God is slowly softening my husband's heart and I look forward to the day when my whole family will be united in His church. May God bless you and your family.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

I will continue praying for your husband and for you too! Thank you for your comment. ❤️ Don’t lose hope! God has you in His hand!

[@aprill9958]

Thank you♥️

[@johnmahaffey9578]

Thank you for sharing this. I'm also struggling with this. My Catholic Christianity and my wife's Southern Baptist Christianity put us at odds too often. It is very difficult. I know we love each other, and we're trying to make things work. May God help us and everyone else going through the same struggle.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

I will pray for you! ☺️

[@corynelson1087]

Welcome home sister! Christ’s church is such a beautiful gift to us. So glad that you sought the truth. Let’s continue to pray for all of our brothers and sisters to follow the truth.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you! 🙏

[@sjosleyn08]

Oh man, I feel like you’re describing my husband and I. He is vehemently against and we have had several arguments. Your story is so comforting right now. I’m praying hard for him ❤

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Praying for you and for him! 🙏❤️

[@DarlowMaxwell]

God bless you. My late wife and I converted to Catholicism. We had no other relatives that were Catholic. There are many strains that will occur.

[@Justyouraverageguy172]

Jesus even says that division would happen in families to those who follow Him and his teachings, especially as Catholics. My aunts and uncles and grandmother started our Catholic but their love of money, fame, power, and wealth consumed and destroyed them from my grandfather’s family business he built from nothing in the Great Depression. He remained Catholic but my grandmother didn’t leaving my Catholic mother with nothing after she received Confirmation and me to learn on my own and seek out parish priests over the years to teach me as well even though I was Confirmed too.

[@JPGoertz]

Merry Christmas from Berlin / Germany. Your story is so impressive and so authentic, it made me cry while driving in city traffic during advent (and that as a 55-year old former Lufthansa executive and soldier). We cradle Catholics have no idea how difficult it is for most people to become Catholics, what hurdles and what hostility are in the way. Your way to the Church is real martyrdom, especially since you put your trust in God, not your own convictions, and made the decision to not convert without your husband. That is the stuff of sanctity. And we need it so badly. Sainthood. Not just: What do I think is right and what does me well. No - bring ALL to Christ, be His Church, not an institution that only serves our own individual salvation... More than that... God bless you and your family. I sincerely pray for you to become saints!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much for your very kind words and encouragement! You’ve got me crying! I’m so glad my video was able to be encouraging for you. Merry Christmas and God bless you! ☺️

[@JPGoertz]

@@EmbracingTradition100 We are truly one family, whose head is Christ. And this family stays together only because we have a temporary head in the Holy Father, the teaching authority (by whom we received the Bible canon) and the Holy Eucharist. Without these there are only small groups of people trying their best without the aids... I am really so happy and joyful for every single Protestant who enters the unity of the Church... God be praised! Merry Christmas!

[@deusvulture5183]

I resonate with this story greatly - I am still in the difficult part. I admire your courage; this would be much harder as the woman in the marriage.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

I’ll pray for you! May God bless you and bring you to a place of peace! Thank you for your kind words.

[@Justyouraverageguy172]

But take heart and know that St. Paul recognizes women such as yourself even 2,000 year ago when he talks about you the believing spouse being yoked to the unbelieving spouse that they may be won over by your faithful witness and gentleness. It’s not easy but take heart and know that you are doing the right thing seeking Jesus in the Eucharist and the Sacraments as powerful manifestations of God’s Love and Mercy, especially Confession.

[@cheryl0327]

My husband was raised Catholic but never really practiced the faith. When we met, he began attending the Pentecostal church I was part of, and he was told that he needed to be re-baptized because he had been baptized as a baby in the Catholic Church. We got married, and everything was fine, but about a year later, he decided to return to the Catholic Church - this time, properly. I was upset. Over the years, we had many arguments. Despite joining a Catholic Charismatic community for 10 years, attending Mass with him occasionally, and having our two children baptized in the Catholic Church, I still held on to the Pentecostal way of believing. My family, especially my parents, made it even more challenging for me, as they truly lived out the teachings of Jesus. Twenty-four years into our marriage, I enrolled in Bible College for a year. My husband wasn’t too happy about it, thinking it would make me even less likely to consider the Catholic Church. But, ironically, the experience had the opposite effect. By the time I completed my Diploma in Ministry, I found myself seriously considering the Catholic faith. I started the RCIA process, and late last year, after 25 years of marriage, I was baptized into the Catholic Church - long after my husband had returned to the faith. It was certainly a long wait for him!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you for sharing your story! God is good! What an incredible journey! ❤️

[@borgtoronto7782]

Me and my wife were born catholic. We have been married for 32 years, after wedding when we started living together i found out how far away she is from the religion. It took me 25 years of struggle to get her to daily prayers and Sunday Mass. Now she loves church can’t live without Sunday Mass and frequently goes to confession. Its a good habit to at least celebrate First Friday and First Saturday of each month with going to the confession

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much for sharing! What a beautiful testimony about your wife! 😌

[@petertherock7340]

I was a Reformed Christian for fifteen years before I converted to the Catholic Church, and raised as an Evangelical Christian. At the time of my conversion I was a broken man involved in deep sin. After my second divorce happened, I was excommunicated from the Reformed church upon my declaration that I was investigating Catholicism (instead of returning to Calvinism). That was ten years ago. I was confirmed in the Catholic Church and later went through the annulment process (which turned out to be the greatest “healing” experience of my life). I was married sacramentally six years ago in the Catholic Church. You are very correct that the worlds of Catholicism and Protestantism are very far apart. There really is no comparison in many ways. Your journey was much softer and more sanctified than mine was. I ended up losing all the former friends I once knew as a Protestant. Reformed Christians generally do not engage with Catholics in any meaningful way. Whether they say so or not, the Catholic Church is a false religion to them. But I am open to dialogue with any faction outside of Christ’s Church. At present I am engaged in Catholic Apologetics with Mormons. Welcome to the family, sister! Your story is much needed in Holy Mother Church! 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you for sharing your story! I’m glad you have found healing and I’m sorry that you had such a difficult journey. My husband and I know the loss of reformed friends very well. We’ve lost many, but the Lord has been faithful. He’s bringing new friends into our lives and it has been a blessing. 😊 God bless you!

[@petertherock7340]

@ Thank you, sister! I ended up marrying a single mother from the Philippines 🇵🇭 whose whole family are life long Catholics. In the place of the loss of reformed friends here in the States, I have Catholic friends here and a large Catholic family overseas. We were married at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in the Philippines. God does not abandon us… ever! Please pray for my Mormon friend, Marty, in Bountiful Utah. He has a Mormon podcast on You Tube, but I have shared much information with him about the Catholic Church. And I have challenged his worldview as a Latter Day Saint. The Catholic faith is the best alternative to the lies of the Mormon religion…. but it is an extremely hard sell! Mormons suspect and reject the Catholic Church more than the reformed do. 🙏

[@EmbracingTradition100]

@ I will pray for him! 🙏 So happy to hear about your marriage! 😊 God is so good!

[@MrsYasha1984]

I really love your testimony! There speaks such faith out of it, faith in God's providence and mercy, but also in your husband. And while the waiting time surely has been a very hard cross to bear, i'm sure the Lord used to let both your souls shine even brighter. Thank you for sharing your journey!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you for your encouraging words! ❤️

[@spectabiles_viri]

I'm so happy that finally your family was united in the Catholic faith, ... in unam Sanctam, Catholicam et Apostolicam Ecclesiam. Deo gratias!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you! 😊

[@jbloe555]

Thank you for sharing such a difficult conversion story. By doing God's will above all else will certainly bring many blessings. I can imagine the Eternal Father saying, "Well done my good and faithful servant." May God abundantly bless you and your family...and your channel. You seem like a sweet and genuine lady, so good things will come. I don't fully understand why Protestants abandon those who leave for the Catholic Church. How it that charitable? It shows there never was a true friendship, and dare I say, no true faith. I suspect it is based on all the lies they have been told about the Catholic Church and the resulting fear. When someone leaves the Catholic Church for Protestantism, we don't disown them. We know they didn't know their faith and they are on a journey like all of us. We love them and offer the truth that were lacking. More times than not, that indelible mark of infant Baptism and many prayers will lead them home. St. Monica is the example and look how St. Augustine turned out.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you for your encouraging words!

[@MrDoyle07]

Similar issues in my home. I was bothered by the pastoral teaching at my wife’s Baptist Church. He kept calling everything “symbolic”. I know Jesus’s words are not symbolic in these regards as related to those things. I had to take issue with it and found myself pulled by a team of work horses back to the Catholic Church. My wife thinks i have been lured into the land of Satan… …she can’t understand. It’s pretty bad. Yet, it is not going to be undone. I am Catholic. She is vehemently opposed to it. It’s going to have to continue in God’s hands. I trust God, alone or together, he has this. God bless you and your husband. ❤🙏🏼

[@EmbracingTradition100]

I will pray for your wife! 🙏

[@MrDoyle07]

@@EmbracingTradition100Thank You and I will fold you into my prayers as well 🙏

[@Jerome616]

Thank you for sharing your story😁

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thanks for listening! 😊

[@alyssastorey3844]

Thank you

[@hiltonchapman4844]

May God bless you and your family! You and your husband have truly walked the Way of the Cross with God Jesus Christ! Please enjoy the love of the Lord in the Church that He established especially for you and your family! Viva Cristo Rey! HC-JAIPUR (21/12/2024) .

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much for your kind comment! God bless you! ☺️

[@chadnelson33]

You have a BEAUTIFUL testimony! Thank you for sharing it.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much!😊

[@chosenstella7937]

Congratulations ❤❤ You made a good decision. I am a proof of that 😊!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you! 😊

[@MW-eg4gu]

I GREW UP IN MISSISSIPPI - VERY PROTESTANT - AND I CONVERTED TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH in 1970. Regarding my relatives, on my father's side are mostly Pentecostals, again, very anti-Catholic, but, of course any non-Catholic/Protestant denomination is anti-Catholic. So, I've heard it all. I'm going to hell if I don't get out of the Catholic Church, etc. The Catholic faith itself says if our theology is wrong it will not send us to hell. What can jeopardize a soul is dying with an unrepentant mortal (serious) sin. And yet, which can be forgiven by praying for forgiveness, even if the dying cannot get to a priest. Even a short plea with seconds to live, God forgives. So, as far as dealing with conflicts about our Catholic faith, these can be tough, but Jesus Himself says members of one's own family may divide because of Him. But, hanging in there, prayer, and, though it may take years, eventually, miracles happen and things work out.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you for sharing your experience! 😊

[@theien5929]

Blessed be God in His saints

[@rickdockery9620]

Please don’t label all Protestants this way. It’s very disingenuous. My kids go to Catholic school and were told by their theology teacher that as a Lutheran they would have a hard time getting to heaven. I understand that the RCC considers me anathema for leaving, but leave my kids out of it. Fortunately, our church does not teach treating others this way. We have differences but we do not believe we are the only way to salvation. That comes from Christ. Many Protestants are not anti Catholic. Many of us have moved on. God bless

[@southpawhammer8644]

I reverted to Catholicism my wife is still evangelical, it's rough.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

I will pray for you! It’s the hardest thing I’ve gone through!

[@johnnyg3]

Welcome fam🙏🏻💗 Glad you guys are Catholic now😊

[@maxwellr2533]

Amazing video thank you for sharing your story! You are helping so many people with your channel!

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much for your kind words of encouragement! 😊

[@MHall-qd4dn]

My husband was raised Catholic, I was raised Protestant. We both met and got married during periods of not going to church/believing. I started going back to (Protestant) church and he was weirded out at first. He’s supportive and attends occasionally now but still doesn’t believe. However I’m making my way into Catholicism now. Anyone reading this, please pray for us.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Praying for you both! 🙏

[@DanielRongli]

Please keep uploading.

[@garyr.8116]

You can host 'Family Apostolate' meetings in your home - a great way to scratch that pastoral/leadership itch whilst simultaneously make great family friends growing ya'lls faith.

[@BensWorkshop]

I am pleased it all worked out for you.

[@luisquezada2385]

It’s an amazing journey I heard from you. Welcome home sister. We as Catholics are not the perfect and you will find a lots of disappointment but guess what. The only perfect person is Jesus and we support our selves to continue our journey to heaven in the only one true church founded by Jesus . God bless you and your family 🙏

[@EmbracingTradition100]

God bless you too! 😊

[@geraldfitzpatrick5294]

Cradle Catholic here. I left the Catholic Church Years ago. Re verted 7 years later. LOTS of disappointment. It is like Noah's ark. Don't leave, deal with the poop or drown!

[@johncollorafi257]

As a cradle traditional Catholic I appreciate what you went through... but now you can receive the true Body of Christ, and be in the same church as that of the Fathers and Ecumenical Councils. Prayers and best wishes.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@robertotapia8086]

My situation is that i was a fallen away Catholic and my wife never strayed now that I've returned back home I just want to do the Father's will and learn and participate and share my faith with everyone. But my wife says and thinks now that I'm to Catholic that I'm overdoing it with me trying to go to daily mass, daily Rosary, Holy Hour, participating in men's group at another church since we don't have 1 at our Parish. She sees me as a fanatic.🙏🏼 My mother in-law is the only Catholic left in both our families every one else is now protestante or fallen away Catholics that don't attend Mass and show up on ash wednesday or Easter 😔

[@EmbracingTradition100]

I’m sorry that you’re facing this. That’s a difficult path. Stay strong and faithful! The Lord sees you. Be patient with your wife and just seek to love her. 🙂

[@robertotapia8086]

@EmbracingTradition100 thank you for your encouraging words, God Bless your family and this YT channel for his Glory. Your Catholic brother Robert from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

[@rickdockery9620]

I’m so sorry you went through this. This is common with some whose denominations promote division. Fortunately, our church does not and we see all believers in Christ as Christians. I couldn’t fathom treating someone poorly over their theology. It is getting rough out there though.

[@henrysylvester]

Indeed the best advice is to not speak about your intentions to convert. Conversely the better option is to charitable support our loved ones whilst persuing and living the true gospel as taught by CATHOLISM... Patience with dollops of love is the antidote to satans attempt to destroy family or marriage relationships! Welcome home

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Thank you! ☺️

[@odonohoe7654]

What convinced you for trinitarian baptism? This is the hurdle I can't get over. I've been in your shoes for 4 years, still praying.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

I’m not sure what you mean by your question….

[@odonohoe7654]

I've been in oneness Jesus ne baptism church.

[@EmbracingTradition100]

Awe. I see. I grew up a Trinitarian Christian my whole life so that wasn’t difficult for me. I’ll be praying for you. I don’t have any recommendations but I’m sure there are some good resources out there.

[@MrsYasha1984]

What do you think about Mt 28:19? 'Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost' In my understanding, Jesus tells us directly to baptise all to the trinity. But i don't know how your tradition interprets that.

[@odonohoe7654]

@MrsYasha1984 Our tradition interprets it through the book of acts " baptizing in the name of Jesus", as it continuously uses this throughout the book.

[@MW-eg4gu]

To - rickdocery. I did not say anything about anyone's kids. I am a Catholic and I can assure you the teacher at the Catholic school is wrong. That teacher does not know the Catholic teaching about non-Catholic salvation.