Saying yes to Jesus

These are the stories that create Yes Catholic.

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Elliott Moore

I did not expect to become Catholic and only by the Grace of God have I experienced His perfect plan working itself out in my life.


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Father S. Brice Higginbotham, S.S.L.

I was always a “good kid” growing up. I tried to do the right thing because it was the right thing, but I can’t say that I had met Jesus “one-to-one” as Mother Teresa said until an experience in Confession during High School.

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Ian Mahood

My parents raised me, along with my three siblings, in the Protestant Evangelical tradition. After graduating high school, I attended university and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.

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Sr. Katie Flanagan, FMA

It still took me two more years before I entered the convent, but saying yes to God's call has been the greatest gift of my life.

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Jonathan Charters

During that Mass, I truly felt the presence of Christ in the Church. Unlike anywhere else I had been. Seeing the Eucharist for the first time, the tradition, the veneration, everything about it felt right.

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Doyle Baxter

That Good Friday, I wandered back into a church for the first time. In the dark by candlelight the choir sang: O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam: attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus.

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Frankie D’Astoli

I went from a “frat star” at the University of Delaware to a husband and father of two in the Catholic Church. For years I was a cultural Catholic chasing the dream—money, status, luxury, the finance-mogul lifestyle I thought would make me happy.

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