Surprised by Truth by Patrick Madrid

[Guido]

Has anyone out htere read any of his Surprised by Truth series?

If you haven't they are books with a dozen or so stories written by poeple who converted to Catholicsm, they are very interesting.

If you're a convert they help to show you that you aren't crazy and if your a "cradle" Catholic it will probably point out things you have never thought of.

[RadicallyTransformedMom]

Yes i read the first one 4 yrs ago. My hubby and i are actually re-reading it together we just started last week. The first one has stories of 11 converts including Marcus Grodi and Tim Staples. It is one of the books that brought me BACK to the Catholic church after 13 yrs as a Protestant. Excellent book. Excellent conversion stories. I highly recommend it!

[poppinskw]

I have just finished reading Surprised By Truth 2 and my husband is now reading it... great reading.

[enelya_taralom]

I'll have to check these out!! Would you recommend these or Home Sweet Rome? Or both :D

[Lel]

I just finished the first one about a month ago. It's a good book, although I still need to get into meatier tomes, of course.

[poppinskw]

I'll have to check these out!! Would you recommend these or Home Sweet Rome? Or both :D

I read the second one, and I enjoyed that as well as Rome Sweet Home, they are slightly different in that in the SBT books each chapter is a different story from a different person. Rome Sweet Home is the story of Scott and Kimberly Hahn with their journey and struggles coming into the Catholic church.

If I had to chose only one of these two books Rome Sweet Home would be my choice each time....it is easy to understand...has examples of teachings and one chapter is by Scott and the next chapter is by Kimberly with her side of the same story Scott just wrote.... so touching and yet powerful. :)

[RadicallyTransformedMom]

i have to dig up my copy of Rome Sweet Home and read it again.