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The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

137 From Megachurch to MegaCatholic & the Beautiful Power of Retreat

The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

Matthew Leonard

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 β€’ 831 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Leonard is joined by Betsy Orr, Founder and President of The Retreat at Heritage, who shares her incredible conversion story and tells us all about how God led her to create this truly unique new retreat center focused on beauty and silence.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Art of Catholic.

0:13.9

Welcome to The Art of Catholic, I'm Matthew Leonard and today I've got a great story

0:17.5

for you, a powerful story of conversion, supernatural life, natural death and big dreams to

0:23.9

help Catholics experience God.

0:25.5

It's a story of my very dear friend and spiritual big sister Betsy or NS1 you're going to

0:30.5

want it here.

0:31.6

So here's a skinny on Betsy.

0:33.5

She's a native of a Lantan Georgia which you'd never get listening to or say hi Betsy.

0:38.5

Hey Matt.

0:42.0

Like I said, she's got two adult kids.

0:44.4

She converted into Catholicism back in 2000,

0:46.6

and that's a big part of the story.

0:49.0

Only a few months after her conversion,

0:51.6

tragedy struck her family.

0:52.9

We're going to hear more about that shortly.

0:55.0

And before she became Catholic,

0:56.6

she was one of those kind of Bible study dynamos

0:59.4

who leads very large groups, like hundreds of people.

1:02.2

And she was extremely active in her church.

1:04.0

And she's continued that in her Catholicism.

1:06.7

I once spoke a year ago to a group of ladies in her home.

1:10.4

And by a group, I mean, it was like 75 women

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