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Finding God in Silence: How an Engaged Couple Came Into the Church Just Months Before Their Wedding, by Grace Porto – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Grace Porto, Catholic Vote, August 15, 2025

A fallen-away Catholic and a non-practicing Christian had been together for years when in 2023, they decided to fully join the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Denver, just five months before they were married. Anna Nelson told Denver Catholic that she encountered God in the quiet stillness of Catholicism. Her husband, Taylor, said he found the peace he had been seeking for years in therapy in the Church of his youth.

Anna referenced 1 Kings 19:12-13, where Elijah encounters God in silence.

“That verse, since I can remember, has been a verse that has come up for me – the still small voice challenging me to quiet my heart, quiet my mind, to listen for God,” she said. “If your life is too noisy, you can’t hear God.”

Anna grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, who practiced Unitarianism when Anna was a teenager. While she loved the tradition of her Jewish faith, she was drawn to Christianity in college at the University of Greeley and joined a nondenominational church. She was disillusioned after attending and stopped practicing the faith in 2020. …

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