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Pray Without Ceasing, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Fr. Ray Ryland |
September 17, 2008 Deep in Scripture 2008, Guests, Need Notes/Description, Saint Paul

Marcus Grodi, Jim Anderson, and other Catholic convert guests continue to study their favorite verses from Saint Paul.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18


Fr. Ray Ryland

Father Ray Ryland, Ph.D., J.D., was a former minister of the Episcopal Church. In 1963 he was received with his wife, Ruth, and their five children into the Catholic Church. Twenty years later, he was ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic Church, with a dispensation from the rule of celibacy. He served as chaplain and board member for Catholics United for the Faith and the Coming Home Network. He was also a regular columnist for The Catholic Answer Magazine, and he served as an assistant at St. Peter’s Church in Steubenville, Ohio. Fr. Ryland passed away in March 2014. This story was originally published in This Rock magazine, January 1995.

Click Here to Read Fr. Ryland’s Conversion Story


6 Comments

  • Tim says:

    What an awesome journey! Thanks for sharing that Michael. You’re in my prayers.

  • Christen says:

    Thank you for sharing your story, Michael. May God bless you as you commit to the priesthood. I am sure I would learn a lot from your homilies.

  • Mike Lawson says:

    Beautiful. God is always calling. Can we take time to listen to Him?

  • Jim Daly says:

    Michael,
    Clearly you have intellectual gifts. While others were deciding who to go to the next social event with, you were asking yourself questions about God and Church. God bless you for taking your gifts and using them to deepen your relationship with Christ. Next you made the difficult choice to leave behind what you were taught to join the Church you had learned about. Clearly the gifts you have are guided by the Holy Spirit and your future is in good hands. I wish I could be in your future parish. Maybe you will be assigned to my church as a seminarian to learn about parish life. If so, you would find yourself at St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Old Mill Creek, IL which is very near the town of Antioch and close to the Wisconsin border. Visit our website, our church (the building) is unique.
    In closing, God bless you on your journey and finding yourself at home in the Catholic Church.
    A.M.D.G.

  • squiggher says:

    It is such a shame that most Cradle Catholics have nowhere near the grasp of those who have converted from paganism or have come into the fullness of the Faith from Protestantism! Augustine should be required reading for all Catholics over the age of 16! Thanks for sharing your story!

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