Conversion, To Convert
See also: Apostolate, Zeal, Pagans, Gentiles (Goyim).
The movement of return to God, Called conversion and repentance, involves a pain and an aversion towards the sins committed, and the firm purpose of no longer sinning in the Future. Conversion therefore touches the past and the Future; it is nourished by hope in the divine mercy (Catechism of the Church Catholic §1490).
In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"
Conversion of the world
- The conversion of the Jews at the end of the times.[1]
- But eight parts of the world out of ten will not want to understand.[2]
- (Mary) What is certain is that the lepers who did not convert beforehand, not even before the miracles of Jesus, will no longer convert, never again. Sign and symbol of all those who, over the centuries, will not convert to the Christ and will be, by their free will, afflicted by the leprosy of sin.[3]
To convert
- (About Jesus): Whoever approached and touched him, unless he was a demon, left him with the anxious desire to be holy.[4]
- The first teachings on the Kingdom and on the Mission of Christ reported by Andrew the Apostle and John.[5]
- It will not be by the way you speak, but by the way you love that you will convert hearts.[6]
- In conversions, one must have steadfastness. What does not succeed in one year, succeeds in two or more. You must persist in speaking to them about God, even if they resemble the rocks sheltering them.[7]
- Could God not convert us without our will? Certainly. But then the will of man would always be required to persist in the conversion obtained miraculously.[8]
Paths of conversion
- Real and superficial conversion.[9]
- The life of the sinner who becomes holy is the longest, the most heroic, the most glorious struggle.[10]
- The three conditions of the conversion process, and the three corresponding attitudes of the apostle. The conversions missed by false zeal. The path of conversion of Mary of Magdala (Magdalene).[11]
- You could not come to the Truth without the goodness of God. The Lord allows he who, still without repentance, seeks Him, to find Him. For repentance generally comes when man, consciously or with a bit of Conscience of what his Soul wants, knows God.[12]
- If it is painful to pass from Good to Evil, it is also disconcerting to pass from Evil to Good. In the first case, one is tortured by the Conscience that reproaches you. In the second, one is torn as one must be who finds themselves brought into a completely unknown foreign country. (John of Endor)[13]
- The paths of faith: Simon of Jonas said that faith and humility are needed to recognize Him. Simon the Zealot (Apostle) said that Faith and Hope are the means to have the Son of God. James, the Lord's brother, speaks of the power of Strength to keep what one has found. Andrew the Apostle shows all the necessity of uniting to Faith a holy Thirst for Justice. Matthew, formerly a sinner, indicates to you another path to reach God: to mortify the senses by a spirit of imitation. I, (James of Zebedee the Apostle) as for me, tell you this: "Be chaste so you can recognize Him".[14]
- The goodness of the Eternal, the True Lord God, is such that He certainly does not make you retrace the path already made backwards, to bring you back to the crossroads where you, wandering, left the good path for the bad one. It is so great that from the moment you say: "I want to Belong to the Truth," that is to God because God is Truth, God, by a wholly spiritual miracle, pours into you the Wisdom by which you go from ignorant to possessor of supernatural Knowledge, like those who have had it for years.[15]
- The greatest sinners when they convert surpass us in justice. Why is that? Because, in them, contrition is proportional to their sin. Immense. That is why it breaks them under the weight of suffering and humility.[16]
- When a sinner converts, why persist in judging him, in seeming to regret that he has regained spiritual health?[17]
- You have not been able to uproot from your Heart the old trees to replace them with young trees; and the old ones, developed by the Light, from which you have approached, have become even stronger. Your error is that of many people, present and to come, those who, despite God's help, do not transform because they do not respond with a heroic will to God's help.[18]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- The movement of return to God, Called conversion and repentance, involves a pain and an aversion towards the sins committed, and the firm purpose of no longer sinning in the Future. Conversion therefore touches the past and the Future; it is nourished by hope in the divine mercy. (CCC 1490)