Check out the CCH store on CatholicsComeHome.org! Today’s featured book: Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith. Get a copy for you or a friend on our site, and support the work of CCH in the process. Thanks for your prayers and support for inviting Catholics home to the Church!
Do you have a martyr’s love for Christ?
Today is the feast of the first martyrs of the Church of Rome.
This made me reflect…Do I have a martyr’s love for Christ? How do I die to
Christ everyday, even in little ways? Is my whole life a profession of my faith? In the face of persecution, do I love and stay true to Him all the more?
Read about the first martyrs of the Church of Rome here.
You Won’t Believe Who Came "Home"
More great news in our effort to bring souls home! Our Lenten 2011, Catholics Come Home® diocesan partner campaigns concluded airing several weeks ago at Easter Sunday, and the fruit has been tremendous. Here’s a sample of what we are hearing from our diocesan partner parishes:
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“A gentleman called me the other day and he said, ‘I’ve been away from the Church a long time; I’m a baptized Catholic. I practice the Muslim faith, and now I am coming back to the Catholic Church.’”
–Archdiocese of Boston, MA
(be sure to watch the video at right)
- “I have someone take head counts and have an 8 year running history in my current parishes. I just wanted to let you know that my Triduum celebrations and Easter weekend Masses this year were all up by +20%. The only other thing I can attribute it to (besides my good preaching), is the Catholics Come Home program.”
–Diocese of Winona, MN
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“A number of people during this Season of Lent who have seen the commercials have come back to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. They have mentioned it and it was a moving moment for them to seek the Catholic Church again.”
–Diocese of Winona, MN - “The St. Agnes Easter Sunday sunrise service attendance had a 20 percent increase in attendance.”
–Diocese of Venice, FL
Please pray for these new Advent 2011 partners:
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
Diocese of St. Petersburg
Do you know that popular Catholic Bible teacher and Catholics Come Home® Theological Advisory Board member, Jeff Cavins, was once a fallen away Catholic (and protestant pastor for 12 years!) before he returned to the Church? Click to watch Cavins’ personal testimony video. Meet Jeff in person July 22-23 in Atlanta at the National Catholic Bible Conference. Our own Katie Peterson, CCH Communications Manager, will be presenting, “Crossroads: Gen Y and God’s Word: How to Proclaim the Word of God to a Generation with a Different Dialect.”
Thank you for your continued prayers and support, which make airing these commercials possible! Please donate today to air ads in your community this December. Help bring “home” a loved one.
Your Brother in Christ,
Tom Peterson and your CatholicsComeHome.org team
CatholicsComeHome.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit media apostolate, dedicated to producing and airing Catholic evangelism television ads on local, national and international television networks. EncouragePriests.org™ is a special communications outreach project of Catholics Come Home, Inc.
CCH Featured Apologetics Question
How should I – a Catholic – respond to someone who asks me if I’ve been saved or born-again?
Find out the answer here.
From the Holy Father: Moses and Intercessory Prayer
“In fasting, Moses shows he is waiting for the gift of God’s law as a source of life: it will reveals God’s will and nourish the human heart, making him enter into a covenant with the Almighty that the source of life: it is Life itself!”
Read more here!
Can you think of more powerful examples of intercessory prayer in Scripture or in the lives of the saints?
Abortion Case Plaintiff Pro-Life TV Commercial Precedes "Big Screen" Debut
Abortion Case Plaintiff Pro-Life TV Commercial
precedes”Big Screen” Debut
Norma McCorvey’s Sanctity of Life Ad Seen By Millions
precedes”Big Screen” Debut
Norma McCorvey’s Sanctity of Life Ad Seen By Millions
May 17, 2011 (Atlanta, GA) The Hollywood Reporter announced that Norma McCorvey, aka “Jane Roe”, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, will play the role of a a pro-life woman in the upcoming abortion themed movie, “Doonby.” Long before her upcoming movie role, McCorvey starred in a pro-life TV commercial seen by millions. The “Norma” commercial was 
created by VirtueMedia.org, a Catholic pro-life apostolate founded by Tom Peterson.
McCorvey states in the television message, “Back in 1973 I was a very confused twenty-one year old with one child and facing an unplanned pregnancy. At the time I fought to obtain a legal abortion, but truth be told, I have three daughters and never had an abortion.” She continues with, “upon knowing God, I realized that my case which legalized abortion on demand was the biggest mistake of my life.” McCorvey is now an active Roman Catholic. McCorvey concludes the PSA style message by compassionately saying, “you read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.”
The “Norma” commercial has been seen by millions of viewers when it debuted nationally in 2009 and 2010, and also continues to air regionally across the U.S. in markets like Colorado Springs, Phoenix, Lexington, Omaha, and others.
Alan E. Sears, CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund responded to the commercial saying, “Norma McCorvey’s testimony is an incredible example of God’s redeeming grace. I commend Norma for her courage to speak out on the evils of abortion and pray that her redemptive story will touch hearts and change minds.”
The “Norma” commercial is available to air locally in partnership with VirtueMedia, and can also be shared by social media via YouTube.
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VirtueMedia, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) national not for profit media organization, founded in 1998 by Tom Peterson, who is also founder and president of Catholics Come Home® media evangelization apostolate. VirtueMedia.org is dedicated to producing and airing powerful and life-saving television ads, radio commercials and educational films that air on national, local and international television networks.
To partner to air “Norma” or other VirtueMedia commercials, contact Susan Gerdvil, Program Director at susan@virtuemedia.org, 678-585-7814 x106.
For more information, or to schedule an interview with Tom Peterson, contact Yvonne Marchese, Executive Director at yvonne@virtuemedia.org, 678-585-7814 x101, or by mail to: VirtueMedia, PO BOX 1802, Roswell, GA 30077.
Feast of Our Lady of Fatima
“The message of Fatima is simple: Pray.”
Read more about this feast day here.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us, and help us to pray!
CCH Featured Apologetics Question
As Catholics, do we have to accept everything that the Church teaches?
A Tribute to JPII!
Check out this great tribute page from the Vatican website in preparation for the beatification of Pope John Paul II!
Pope John Paul II, pray for us!
Touched by CCH Commercials!
“I was at work one day last week, and a colleague who knows that I am Catholic stopped by to talk. He said he had heard the Catholics Come Home commercial on TV. I was so excited to know that someone I knew was touched by those commercials.
“If we can bring one person back to the Church, then it will have been worthwhile. I am very proud to be a Catholic, and to know that my Church is working hard to bring those that have left the Church back home. I will continue to encourage him to seek answers to his questions at his parish through Catholics Come Home.”
-Mary from Georgia
