![]() So when you find your own life of faith diminished, you might want to read of our first journey with these good men who guided us through “ 33 Days to Morning Glory.” The Marians at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy published our journey as “ Behold Your Son! Behold Your Mother!”Their invitation challenged us to participate in the promise and practice of Divine Mercy. I know many priests whose faith has become reduced to barely glowing embers. Pornchai-Max and I were dragged kicking and screaming in the clutches of these Catholic evangelists who invaded our lethargic Catholicism.Don’t be shocked by that. ![]() Wilfred Deschamps, Jean Fafard, David Kemmis, and Jim Preisendorfer all showed up here with an invitation that my friend, Pornchai Moontri, and I first scoffed at to our peril.Or at least it was to the peril of our grayest days in the living of our faith, the days when hopelessness caused faith to bend under the weight of a daily and sometimes dismal grind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilfred Deschamps, Jean Fafard, David Kemmis and Jim Preisendorfer set the Word on Fire with “Catholicism.”There they go again, shaking up our complacency and challenging the state of our faith among this captive audience. As Advent dawned at These Stone Walls, Nate Chapman, Fr. ![]()
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