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"In December 2020, Christ led a raging leftist with horrible misconceptions about how to heal this broken world and an overconfident atheist with a desire to love better together over a backyard fire, and 4.5 years later, on Easter 2025, we were both baptized into the Catholic Church. The miracle He worked for our salvation is only just the start."

"That night...I stood lost in thought, waiting patiently along with my OCIA classmates, resolute and relaxed as we were initiated into the Catholic Church by receiving the Sacraments of Baptism, Communion and Confirmation. It was a solemn occasion of introspection reverence and silent celebration which I had never before experienced in my life."

"As I continued researching, contemplating and wrestling with which church to join, the issue that largely helped lead me toward choosing the Catholic Church was the office of the papacy."

Please pray for these candidates and catechumens by name!

"Coming into the Catholic Church and being able to participate in the sacraments has been such a huge blessing that has transformed my life and relationship with the Lord in such wonderful ways!"

Samantha Kamman tells us about her RCIA experience. Her testimony is striking. Click here to listen! Welcome home, Samantha!

Please pray for these candidates and catechumens by name!

Please pray for these candidates and catechumens by name!

A graduating senior in the St. Ann Youth Program explains what he received from the Program during his years of involvement. His touching testimony is worth a read! Learn more about our Program at stanndc.org/youth

On Saturday, April 16 at the 7:00pm Easter Vigil Mass, we received 14 candidates and catechumens into the Catholic Church — praise God! Please pray for them by name (click to see their names!).

Nelly Crabbe was fully initiated into the Catholic faith at the Easter Vigil, on April 4, 2021. Click to read her testimony.

The Catholic Church welcomed my inquisitive mind and was able to provide me with logical and factually supported answers. It only makes sense considering other churches can be traced back to a man, and the Catholic Church can be traced back to Jesus himself. I am thankful to now be part of such a wonderful Church and look forward to continuing my education in Catholicism.

"...my teenage daughter became seriously ill and was hospitalized. I got myself ready and went to Children's National to visit her. I walked down the hallway and as I approached her room, I saw her lying in bed with what looked like a Catholic priest next to her, ministering. It was the same picture I'd had in mind earlier in the day, only in real life..."

Please pray for these candidates by name!