Why I chose the Catholic Road to Christ ~ Tina Klein’s Testimony
June 12, 2003 by Melody Laila
Filed under People of God, Testimonies
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” (Mat. 7:7)
My answer to the question, “Why are you Catholic?” is pretty simple - Real Presence.
I chose the quote from the Gospel of Matthew above for my title because that is basically the story of how my spiritual journey began. I was raised as a non practicing Christian. My mom was raised Presbyterian, but is no longer practicing, and my dad is a fallen away cradle Catholic. Basically we celebrated the major Christian holidays, had a Bible available to read if we wanted to, watched religion based movies if we wanted (such as “The Ten Commandments”), occasionally went to church on Christmas Eve, went to Mass with my cousins occasionally when we were over and they had to go, and that was pretty much my religious upbringing. I knew about Jesus, but all He was really to me most of the time growing up was a very nice man who lived a long time ago. I knew He was the Son of God, but I didn’t really understand the concept.
