I want to tell you a few stories of accompaniment and discernment about
real people. The first is about a man who once made a great sacrifice
for the sake of living the Christian faith. When he was 17 years old he
had a son with a woman whom he could not or would not marry. They spent
15 years together raising this son. He had been interested in the
Catholic Church from his childhood, but it took him many years to come
to believe in all of the Church’s truths. His mother who was Catholic
prayed and sacrificed for him everyday, and devoted her life to helping
him know and accept the truths revealed by God to the Church. During
these long years he learned the teachings of the Church, was drawn to
the beauty of truth, grew a real love for God in his heart. He learned
much from a bishop, whom this young man described as one of those “who
speak the truth, and speak it well, judiciously, pointedly, and with
beauty and power of expression” (Christian Doctrine IV.21). It was the truth that compelled this young man to desire to be Catholic.
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NCRegister Blog: A Simple Way to Give to the Church in India
David and Kathy Rennie of Bloomington, Minnesota had an experience of
being rich with poor outside their gate when traveling to India in 1985
to adopt their sixth child (their fifth adoption). Kathy had long
desired to adopt a little girl from India, and had been inspired to do
so by the life and work of St. Teresa of Calcutta. Kathy’s mother, Rose
Mayer, had sponsored a poor seminarian more than a decade before, and
the Rennies contacted him during their visit to India. This seminarian
was now a priest working as a secretary to the bishop of his diocese,
and after they made contact he helped them overcome the difficulties
they were having in adopting their daughter. It was through knowing Fr.
Sebastian Thekethecheril, who was consecrated as Bishop of the Diocese
of Vijayapuram in Kottayam, Kerala, India, in 2006, that the Rennies saw
firsthand the great poverty of the Christian people of Kerala.
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