Matt West
Nov 8, 2026
Trivia Question❓Before his conversion, St. Augustine famously prayed for chastity and self-control, then added two words. What were they? Answer at the bottom of the newsletter |
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Welcome to the very first issue of Catholic Tales! We're so glad you're here. This week is all about people who ran from God, until He caught up with them. You'll meet a brilliant young man who asked God for holiness and then quietly added two words that made him one of history's most honest saints. (Got your guess for the trivia question above? Hold onto it.) Then you'll read about a nurse whose life changed at three in the morning, a worship leader whose reading project cost him his job, and the seven reasons that kept one man coming back to a church parking lot. Read all the way to the bottom for the trivia answer. And if these stories stir something in you, forward this email to a friend who could use a good story this week. That's how this little community grows. |
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This Week's Stories |
Ben sat in a church parking lot with his late grandmother's rosary in the glove box and one question he couldn't shake.
What if the Catholic Church is actually true?
Over the following months, he found seven reasons that kept pulling him closer.
A Church that reaches all the way back to the apostles.
A Jesus who is truly present in the Eucharist.
Forgiveness you can actually hear in Confession.
A crowd of saints who struggled just like him, and a mother who prays for every believer.
Beauty that points beyond itself.
And a home that doesn't shift with the culture.
If you've ever felt the same quiet tug, Ben's story might be yours too. Read More... |
Denise had worked nights on a hospital floor for nineteen years, and she had stopped expecting anything to surprise her.
Then an old man named Walt asked her for two things: his rosary, and a priest.
It was three in the morning, it was raining, and the priest came anyway.
What she saw in that room changed everything.
This is the story of how a tired nurse who believed in God "in a general way" found her way into the Catholic Church, one quiet night at a time. Read More... |
Tom led worship at a big, busy church, and he loved it.
Then he set out to make Sunday mornings more like the very first Christian gatherings.
So he started reading what the earliest Christians actually wrote.
He did not like what he found, at first.
Altars. Bishops. Bread that was more than bread.
This is the story of the reading project that cost him his job, tested his marriage, and led him straight into the Catholic Church. Read More... |
💡 Answer to Trivia Question: "But not yet." In his Confessions, St. Augustine admits that as a young man he asked God for chastity but quietly hoped God wouldn't answer too soon. Years later, he became one of the greatest saints and Doctors of the Church. |