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Honey from the Rock: Sixteen Jews Find the Sweetness of Christ
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Roy Schoeman, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, and best-selling author of Salvation Is From The Jews, once again shows the clear links between Judaism and Catholicism in these inspiring stories of sixteen Jews who became "fulfilled Jews", as Schoeman says, through their spiritual journeys to the Catholic Church.
The sixteen people whose stories are told here are a variety of Jews, including some who came from secularized, liberal or even atheistic backgrounds, while others came from Orthodox Judaism. Some were well trained Jews, others unschooled in Judaism; some rich and wildly successful, others down and out. But their common link was they all had a profound longing for God that gave them no peace until they found God Himself in the Catholic Church.
Some of these converts are famous people like Edith Stein, Alphonse Ratisbonne, Karl Stern, and Rabbi Zolli, while others are less well known, but all have powerful stories of life-changing spiritual transformations.
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Genuine ‘progressivism’!
These wise souls understood they were not betraying their sacred traditions. Rather they courageously and thoughtfully progressed toward knowing that being Catholic is their true destiny. They exemplify diversity in their origins, and embody holy individuality through their growth in Christ. Conversion stories always inspire me, but to hear them from ‘our elder brothers and sisters in faith’ is best of all; it confirms the sanity of our shared convictions about our God.