How the Eucharist Changed My Life – Ascension Press Media
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Note: Video from Fr. Mike Schmitz on Ascension Press Media is available on this page.
How Did the Eucharist Change My Life Too
In 2009 and before really, I began a reversion of my Catholic faith and faith in God period. I learned the Our Father prayer in the Baptist church and was baptized in the Catholic Church in the early 1970’s. I remember praying the day before my first Holy Communion saying, “Lord don’t I believe?” My head and my heart were at war. I just could not get past that. It took a very long time, years 42 total to be exact to finally publicly say, “I believe!” That is a very long time to pray one prayer.
Scripture tells us to keep praying and to not give up, even when we feel our prayer is not being answered. I just could not understand why God would not answer this kind of prayer. Surely, wouldn’t he want to answer my doubt so I believe in him? It was a life long struggle.
In 2018, even after another four years, so 48 years of my life all together, it took for me to say okay Lord, I will share with others my victorious joy of a little girls prayer answered. That is when I published my first book, that was actually written second. I shared openly about my journey, the struggle, the battle, the fear and why it took so long.
Our humanity can be very impatient. We always want God to be and execute his salvation plan in the way we see things as human creatures. The biggest problem with that is we are the created not the creator. It is a need for more humility or as I said in my last podcast I say it is “false humiliation.” It is funny, when I listened to the podcast again and again after I published it, I turned it off for a couple days because I really would typically say “false humility.” Then as I was sharing with a very devoted faith filled friend, she said to me, “maybe that was the Holy Spirit, because humility and humiliation are the same thing.”
I pondered that for a long time, I tried to re-record just that section of the podcast to change it. Hysterically, every time I tried to record the words “false humility” over the words “false humiliation” I kept having the words “false humiliation” come flying out of my mouth. I finally did get them recorded in a separate audio then had a moment that a little voice in my heart said, “Let it be.” And, so I did!
Faith is a gift, the True Presence of Christ is a Gift of God Himself. Believing comes down to a choice. I shared my disbelief a while back with Sister Mary Catherine of the Passionist Nuns in Erlanger, Kentucky. After hearing my story, she looked at me and said, “Believing is not a feeling it is a choice.” She is right!
What is your choice? Not sure?
Watch Fr. Mike Schmitz’s video below that gives witness to how the Eucharist changed his life.
If you want to know more about how the Eucharist change my life you may read about it in my book, “Walking On Water.”
How Did I Come to Believe?
What is your choice? Do you believe? If you struggle to believe or know someone that struggles, pray God will answer that prayer!
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