Boise, ID

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The following comes to us from team leader Lucy with our team in Boise, ID:

Several people approached the table before we spoke to them. Two groups of non-Catholic people, all male, showed real interest in the Catholic Church. (Thank you, God, for Corpus Christi Sunday!)

A woman walked up to the table as we were setting up, saying she’d been thinking she needed a Rosary and here we were! After she chose one, I asked if she wanted us to pray for her. A look of emotional pain crossed her face, and she stated that she desired peace from her ex-husband’s family, although the divorce had been a decade or more ago. So, we prayed for her. Then she spoke with greater length to Chuck about the situation. At first, she talked about an ex-husband then later about her siblings. Plus, she was now homeless. As she was leaving, though she continued to lament her troubles, she kept holding the Rosary up and saying, “I really needed this.” Lord, grant her peace, the ability to forgive, security, and true healing!

“Aaron” stopped for a Rosary. When I mentioned that with Christianity is forgiveness, it triggered him. He was carrying a load of guilt, including the firing and subsequent wrongful death (not his doing) of the teacher who’d had an unlawful relationship with him when he was a teen. He also had unforgiveness toward his father. I asked if he’d ever been baptized Christian (and so would be eligible to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation). He explained that he was Jewish (culturally). We explained the Jewish roots of Christianity and how we, too, are waiting for the (second) coming of the Messiah. He ended up accepting a copy of the Good News/kerygma pamphlet and a copy of our Confession/examination-of-conscience pamphlet. I think he also took a Rosary. May God lead him to peace and give him a home, as a “completed Jew”, within the Catholic Church.

Praised be Jesus Christ!