Journey from Protestantism to Catholicism

I left the Catholic Church in Valley City, North Dakota, and

I ended up becoming ordained a Protestant pastor

of a non-denominational church for seven years in Bloomington,

Minnesota, five years in Dayton, Ohio.

Wonderful friends, wonderful Bible studies, tremendous praise

and worship. A very typical non-denominational church.

It was years later that I started really studying deeper the

theology in the New Testament, and I read these early church fathers.

It was like they were giving me keys to unlock the

mysteries of

the Old Testament. And the more I studied

the disciples of the disciples, the more I started to

realize that what was central to them was not central

to me and the non-denominational church that I was a pastor

of. I realized that the early church did not

see the Eucharist as a

symbol, nor did they see it as Jesus and bread, but

they saw it as literally bread becoming fully the body and blood,

soul, and divinity of Jesus. And when I started to realize that the early

church believed that Jesus was the Passover lamb

and that he died for us and that we consume

him, I thought, "Wow, why don't we do that anymore?" I really came to the

conclusion that if this Catholic Church has the very body and blood, soul, and

divinity of Jesus, if this is the church that gave

us all of this, what am I doing outside of

it? I have to make a decision. What am I gonna do?