Blog
Our staff, and some of our “super volunteers”, share reflections and testimonies on how they have encountered Jesus in their ministries and work, and what they are doing to share The Lord with others.
A Lesson of Hope
I wondered about this man, was it the first time that he was listening to Catholic Radio? What made him call? It was no coincidence that I heard that particular call. I wrote his name in my book of Prayer Intentions in red; and feel that God asked me to place him in my heart. It was particularly interesting to me since our granddaughter lives, and teaches in Boise, and our son and his wife just moved there last month.
Beauty won me over!
My first job at a Catholic parish was in the Bronx, NY. I went to the first interview reluctantly, thinking “Lord I’m here out of obedience, but I’m busy enough” (back then I was teaching, going to grad school and my wife was pregnant)! But the Lord had other plans. At the interview, the pastor -a Capuchin Friar- shared how every Christmas he would spend more than the Cathedral hiring an orchestra, because he believed his parishioners had to experience the same beauty available to those in richer suburban churches. (How very Franciscan). The argument of beauty won me over!