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To: Salvation
The best thing about being on the RCIA team, is meeting and interacting with these new converts. They are such a huge reviving injection of grace in the Church.

I've got one student who, as a child, witnessed his father murder his mother. He has had to testify against him, not just at the trial, but every 6 years for the past 30 years, at the parole hearings. He is being received into the Church on the exact anniversary of the murder.

And here's the heart-grabbing part: he told me that he is beginning to grasp that his conversion to Catholicism is empowering him to pray for his father, to be an instrument of his father's repentance, well-being and redemption.

It goes beyond what a human could do unaided, or even want to do. May Jesus be glorified forever!

7 posted on 04/17/2011 7:58:23 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

**And here’s the heart-grabbing part: he told me that he is beginning to grasp that his conversion to Catholicism is empowering him to pray for his father, to be an instrument of his father’s repentance, well-being and redemption**

That is true conversion! Wow!


8 posted on 04/17/2011 8:03:53 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Thank you so much for sharing that inspiring story. God bless.


9 posted on 04/18/2011 5:21:18 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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