If there is a word that defines the following protagonists that is “evangelize“. She, former Mormon and he, very soon deacon They met in a religious forum, got married, and now dedicate their lives to transmitting the Gospel together.
“We seek that the people who are already in the Church we can convert, because holiness requires continuous conversion. We want to give some spiritual capsules to help people on the path to sainthood. Evangelizing is making Jesus Christ known to the whole world, including Catholics,” Yasmin told Religion in Freedom.
Announce the “Great Forgotten”
Yasmin Oreof Peruvian origin, and Jesús Urones, Spanish, have since 2015 a blog in Religion in Freedom, entitled, precisely, “Catholic converts“. From that window to the world, this marriage of evangelizers does interviews and shares entertaining and very useful articles on different topics, such as the Catholic faith, sects, apologetics, spirituality, etc His Facebook page, which is currently suffering from some kind of blockage, has accumulated more than 50,000 followers. Now they use another temporarily.
Acknowledging devotees of the example of Aquila and Priscillathe holy marriage that helped Saint Paul to evangelize, the couple believes that their main mission is to announce Someone who seems out of fashion today. “Our job is to make known to the ‘Great Forgotten‘ of these times, a man named Jesus of Nazareth. With our publications and testimonies we want people to be able to say that these people know about Him and are trying to live according to what He has taught them”, explains Jesus.
From their blog and social networks, the couple dedicates time to announcing the Gospel, also motivated by other current figures such as Scott and Kimberly Hahn. “We like and help a lot the story of their conversion, the theological training they have, and their ability to explain faith“, comments Jesús. For Yasmin, the way they use to speak to Protestants, to people of other beliefs, inspires them too.
Fill the spiritual part
The zeal to announce the Gospel for this couple is the most important thing in their lives. Jesus and Yasmin don’t mind having to organize well; divide the tasks, and that one looks for the information, and the other writes. For them, the first thing is the mission to which they have been called, although sometimes they have to deal with comments opponents who want to discourage them.
“What people are looking for today is what they have always been looking for: happiness. What happens is that they don’t look for it well, they don’t know that happiness is Christ”, Jesús explains. The couple receives many testimonials of people who have been led by sects or by other types of groups far from the Church.
Jesús Urones is currently preparing to become a permanent deacon.
In this sense, Yasmin comments that the desire to believe is always in man. “The human being will always want fill that spiritual partwhat happens is that he does it in a deviant way, through the world, through pleasures… and he doesn’t realize that he must be filled by God“, Explain.
Got out of Mormonism
Many of the people who contact you, for example, have often fallen into New Age fads. “Is a a la carte religion. The European is always very busy with work and has no time for anything. He wants a menu of spiritualities. today i do mindfulness, tomorrow I do yoga, and the day after transcendental meditation. But, this philosophy, too, sells you that you are your own godthat there is no other God besides you, that you are self-sufficient, that you don’t need anyone else”, says Jesus.
In Yasmin’s case, it was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) that managed to recruit her when she was in college. She delved so deeply into that belief that she volunteered as missionary. It was, precisely, that work that would make him return to the Catholic Church. “Doing a mission, God showed me the way, and he told me to get out of there, that the truth was not there. I realized his contradictions. At that moment, when I had to convert Catholics, I turned to the Church”, he relates.
For the woman of Jesus it was very important to discover good Catholics. “I met Catholic people who were religiosity, conviction, which was consistent. But I also had a more mystical issue. The Lord made me see, through the images what was there in the houses of the Catholics, and by the sound of some bells, that the Holy Spirit was acting, and that he had to return to the Church”, he comments.
Here you can see one of Yasmin’s interventions on television.
When Yasmin saw “the true light” no one managed to take it away from him. “They spent a few days trying to convert me, but they couldn’t do it anymore. When God gives you the light they can’t, no matter how hard they try, put a doctrine. When I was going to leave, for some unknown reason, I had the courage to tell them that he was returning to Catholicism and that the Pope was a good person,” he explains.
With this impressive testimony and being a fervent evangelizer on the Internet, Yasmin currently works as a Religion teacher. Soon, if the steps are followed, she will be the wife of a permanent deacon. “During the pandemic I realized that the Church needed a lot of help at the liturgy level, that there was a lot of shortage of vocations. Since we don’t have children, I saw that God was asking me to have ‘spiritual children,'” says Jesús, who along with Yasmin, have undoubtedly already had thousands of these “virtual” children.