Dear Friend of CatholicsComeHome.org,
We pray your Holy Week and Easter celebrations are full of grace and joy! In our deep gratitude for our loving God who gave His life for us and founded His Catholic Church, we are blessed to continue to labor in His vineyard, helping to invite more souls home to experience a renewed relationship with the crucified and risen Christ in His Church.
Catholics Come Home® appears on EWTN Live and Relevant Radio!
It’s a great time to be a Catholic. With the recent election of our new Holy Father, the eyes of the world have been on the Church, and we have had an exciting opportunity to invite people all over the world to learn more about the extraordinary plan God has for their lives in the Catholic Church He founded. Check out some of the latest coverage of Catholics Come Home® in the news on Relevant Radio and on EWTN Live, where I sat down with Fr. Mitch Pacwa, our newest addition to our Catholics Come Home® theological advisory board!
God is working miracles through Catholics Come Home® with your help! Here is Thomas’ powerful story…
I lost my Faith roughly 25 years ago, after losing my high school sweetheart, the girl of my dreams. I was suddenly alone. Father Stan said to me, “It was God’s will.” I couldn’t understand that; I couldn’t accept it. I got mad and said goodbye to God and my family and moved to Vancouver, never to look back.
Five years ago, I was hit by a car as I crossed the street on my way to work. I didn’t know it, but that day, my life changed. I managed to contract an infection in my legs that left me quarantined from almost all of society. My only companions during this time were nurses covered from head to toe in plastic and facemasks. I felt very much alone in this world. I blamed God. My legs healed, finally, and I was able to start looking for work again. I still felt bitter towards God for leaving me all alone in this world. I cursed and swore at God and hated every moment of being alive. I blamed God for not just killing me. Even today I still get teary-eyed thinking that I could have been full of so much hate for God and Jesus.
What changed? In the fall of 2012, I started to see the Catholics Come Home commercials on TV. At 
first I was not interested. Then at Christmas something ‘snapped’ and I knew that I had to come back to God. I saw several of these ads on TV and inside something was stirring in my soul. I prayed for forgiveness at my foolishness for what happened after the car accident. I read the book Catholics Come Home: God’s Extraordinary Plan for Your Life and [Tom’s recommended book] Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence, and that’s when everything lit up. I understood the pain and suffering. I am thankful that I will be in Mass again. It was your ads that made all the difference. I think if they had not been there, I probably would have continued to drift and disappear. –Thomas M., Vancouver, Canada
Watch for the final airing of the Catholics Come Home® “Epic” evangomercial™ in “The Bible” Easter Sunday!
As you may have noticed from our previous e-mail updates, the response to our “Epic” evangomercials™ on the History Channel’s The Bible has been huge! Our inboxes have been full of emails from Catholics reenergized about their faith, fallen-away Catholics inquiring about coming home, and non-Catholics curious to learn more about the Catholic Church. One woman reached out to us on Facebook, sharing, ” I came home last week after seeing the commercial.” Praise God! Be sure to tune in to see the final airing of “Epic” during the miniseries this Easter Sunday at 8 p.m. EST. Thanks to your generous support, we are extending the invitation to come home to millions of viewers tuning in on the glorious day on which we celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection!
Thanks to your generous spiritual and financial support, we have made unprecedented headway this Lent in inviting millions of souls home to the Catholic Church and encouraging them to discover God’s plan for their lives. Please help us keep the momentum going so the Holy Spirit can bring more growth to the work of Catholics Come Home®!
As always, we thank you for your continued support of our mission to invite Catholics and non-Catholics home to the Catholic Church.
Your brother in Christ,
Tom Peterson and your CatholicsComeHome.org team