The evangelization group Catholics Come Home has released an advertisement to encourage Catholics to find God’s peace and love in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

“Our message is simple yet clear,” said Tom Peterson, founder and president of Catholics Come Home. “Jesus is really here, and he wants to help you, now. Come home!”

Peterson told CNA April 28 that the 30-second ad aims to help people understand “that their true hope rests in Christ, and he can be found in the Eucharist at every Catholic Church.”

The ad shows a man in an ornate Catholic Church walking to an altar upon which is a monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament.

“It is here where you will find the best marriage counselor, the greatest healer, wisest teacher and closest friend,” the ad says. “It is a place where you will escape the chaos of the world, and find the lasting peace that only comes from God.”

“Jesus is personally waiting to embrace you now, with his divine mercy and healing love,” continues the ad. “Jesus is calling you home to his Sacred Heart today.”

The ad was released on Holy Thursday, April 16.

Peterson said that faithful Catholics know the Eucharist as “the source and summit of our faith.”

“Yet so many others don’t understand the sacramental graces present in worthy reception of the Eucharist!”

Catholics Come Home cited statistics from Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate which indicate that about 40 percent of Catholics do not believe in the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament.

“Catholics Come Home wants to celebrate and announce this incredible gift from our Lord, who is truly present in every Catholic Church across the globe,” Peterson said.

Peterson said Catholics Come Home plans to air the ad during upcoming diocesan campaigns in 2015 and in future national TV campaigns if donor support can be secured.

The Georgia-based organization in March launched the website GoodConfession.com to encourage Catholics to go to the Confession more often, or to return to the sacrament if they have not been in some time.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/ad-aims-to-renew-catholic-devotion-to-eucharist/

Right you are, parentsfortruth.  The poor former Catholics wouldn't be coming home, they'd be roped into a new religion.  Very sad.

Please pray for the enemies within the Church so they can see the errors and covert back to Christianity.

stillearning, I am very, very happy that you found your way to true Catholicism, but there are many people who never get that far.  Many just stick with the new religion because it's so much easier to sing kum-by-yah, not worry so much about sin, go to Mass on Sat. if you want to watch a ball game on Sun.,  etc., etc.
You were given a great grace.    

The evangelization group Catholics Come Home is set to premiere a 13-episode television series that fosters engagement in the “New Evangelization” and interviews people who have recently returned to the Catholic faith.

“I believe God’s mercy is reaching the hearts of returnees, converts, agnostics and atheists through creative media, helping to bring them home,” Tom Peterson, founder president of Catholics Come Home, said in a video announcement for the series.

“Join us as we travel across North America with incredible stories of redemption, as the Holy Spirit transforms souls.”

Dr. Gloria Sampson, a former atheist and linguistics professor who is now an active Catholic, will be featured in the first episode, which will air on EWTN Sept. 4.

She will discuss her recent return to the Catholic Church after 52 years away from God. She credits seeing a Catholics Come Home commercial broadcast in Vancouver, Canada with helping to inspire her return.

“(A)ll I want to do now, is evangelize!” she said.

Each of the series’ half-hour episodes will also discuss evangelization.

The “Catholics Come Home” series will air on EWTN television every Thursday at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Episodes will be rebroadcast at 6 p.m. on Sundays and can also be watched live online.

Guests include former fallen-away Catholics, atheists, agnostics, and Protestants who have turned or returned to the Catholic Church.

Episodes have been filmed in more than a dozen archdioceses and dioceses in the U.S. and Canada.

Catholics Come Home, which is based in Georgia, has broadcast many short segments on television that encourage inactive and former Catholics to return to the Church. They also reach out to those who have never been Catholic. The organization has produced segments in several different languages that have reached an audience of millions.

The apostolate says that since 1998 it has helped over 500,000 people “come home” to the Catholic Church.

http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=10632

To everybody, your true home is the Catholic Church.

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stillearning, I am very, very happy that you found your way to true Catholicism, but there are many people who never get that far.  Many just stick with the new religion because it's so much easier to sing kum-by-yah, not worry so much about sin, go to Mass on Sat. if you want to watch a ball game on Sun.,  etc., etc.
You were given a great grace.    

True, that. And I am constantly reminded I still have a looong way to go..don't we all?

Yes, you are right.   We all have a long way to go.