When my marriage was on the brink of destruction due to my own fault this woman prayed for me. I was at Mass one Sunday 9 years ago. During the Mass I could not hold back my tears. It was my moment of complete vulnerability. I was broken, lost, drained, angry but most of all ⬇️ in sin. She was watching me from afar. She never spoke a word to me but just sat and watched me. I would see her often and she would just look at me and smile. One day several years later her son Patrick came up to me and said something that I will never forget. He told me, ⬇️

In 44 years, I have experienced many things that most will never experience. I should have died 3 times, I did just about every drug out there, I’ve been in jail 7 times, I’ve hurt my parents and my loved ones, I’ve stolen, I’ve cheated, I’ve been in fights, I’ve cursed God and⬇️ blamed Him for the consequences of my actions, the list goes on. It wasn’t until I was at my lowest point that God finally decided to snatch me from the depths of my darkness and make me His completely. The feeling of knowing that your life will never be the same because of ⬇️

A woman I've never seen at our parish walked into Adoration last night with a beautiful baby. I was the only one there. She sat and was instantly emotional in front of the Blessed Sacrament. I normally don’t speak to anyone in Adoration but I was moved to speak to her. She told⤵️ me her baby was just diagnosed with cancer and she was petrified. I asked her if she wanted me to pray with her, she said yes. We prayed for an hour and left together. I found out she was not Catholic. I asked her how she ended up in Adoration and she said she googled ⤵️

True Story. My bride grew up in the TLM Mass in her country from birth until she was 21 when we met. One of our first dates we went to a NO Mass at St. Monica. She had only been in the states for a little less than 2 months. At the NO Mass she froze and asked me: ⬇️ Are you sure we are at a Catholic Mass? Why is there music? Is that the Altar? Why is the Priest facing us? Who are those people giving us the Eucharist? Why do they touch it with their hands? Why is no one kneeling to receive? So on and so forth. All I had known at that time ⬇️

The reason for my 45-day exodus was this: First my brides cousin was senselessly murdered in Miami (He was 28 and a father of 4) so please pray for Osbaldo. Second a family member was caught molesting a child, his grandchild to be exact. Then my sister-in-law went to the ⬇️ “stress center” for the 6th time and abandoned my brother and their 3 kids. My mother-in-law had someone break into her home, she is a widow and now she is having mental issues from the trauma. My brother will not speak to me because I called him out on how bad of a dad he ⬇️