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Melissa Zelniker-Presser – Convert from Judaism and Evangelicalism

August 23, 2017 3 Comments

Growing up in a tight-knit Jewish community, Melissa Zelniker-Presser knew almost nothing about Jesus or Christianity.  In college, she was befriended by enthusiastic evangelicals, and was excited to begin a relationship with Christ.  However, she still hungered for more, and when a friend gave her a biography of St. Edith Stein, Melissa knew she’d found a spiritual friend she could truly relate to.  That, and the similarities between the liturgy of the Mass and Jewish Passover services were enough to convince her to find a new home in the Catholic Church.