KnightofChrist Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 [url="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13650"]Young African woman crawls 2.5 miles to attend Sunday Mass[/url] [img]http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/ppnegrita260808.jpg[/img] Olivia (Photo courtesy of AVAN) Valencia, Aug 28, 2008 / 01:42 am (CNA).- The Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly in Chissano (Mozambique) took into their home this week a 25 year-old African young girl named Olivia, who despite not being baptized at the time and not having any legs, crawled 2.5 miles every Sunday to attend Mass. According to the AVAN news agency, the nuns said that one day, they saw “something moving on the ground far away,” and when they drew near they saw, “to our surprise, that it was a young woman.” “We were able to talk to her through a lady who was walking by and who translated into Portuguese what she was saying to us” in her dialect, they said. The sisters said that although “the sand from the road burned the palms of her hands during the hottest times of the year,” the young woman crawled to Mass, “giving witness of perseverance and heroic faith.” The young woman received baptismal preparation from a catechist, who periodically visited her at home. After she was recently baptized, one of the benefactors of the sisters donated a wheel chair for Olivia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selah Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doe-jo Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 [quote name='Selah' post='1642515' date='Aug 30 2008, 02:00 PM']wow[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 There is something about approaching the Lord on our knees. The first time I went to Guadalupe, I saw older women "walking" to the shrine on their knees. It was the most incredible thing. I'm glad that they sent a catechist to her. She probably got a better instruction than our RCIA students here do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domine ut Videam Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 If only cradle catholics could have as much conviction and certainty, not to mention respect for the Mass and the Eucharist, the world would be set on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionarybelle Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 i pray that we'd all find the courage and strength to do that if we'd be confronted with the necessity of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldbug16 Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Wow! That's an amazing woman right there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 That's beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 [quote name='Domine ut Videam' post='1642622' date='Aug 30 2008, 06:51 PM']If only cradle catholics could have as much conviction and certainty, not to mention respect for the Mass and the Eucharist, the world would be set on fire.[/quote] [b]Some[/b] cradle Catholics are like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissyP89 Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Awesome testimony... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizz_loves_jesus Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 [quote name='Domine ut Videam' post='1642622' date='Aug 30 2008, 06:51 PM']If only cradle catholics could have as much conviction and certainty, not to mention respect for the Mass and the Eucharist, the world would be set on fire.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princessgianna Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 wow ! God bless that woman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 [quote name='Domine ut Videam' post='1642622' date='Aug 30 2008, 05:51 PM']If only cradle catholics could have as much conviction and certainty, not to mention respect for the Mass and the Eucharist, the world would be set on fire.[/quote] This is my life's prayer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domine ut Videam Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 [quote name='HisChildForever' post='1642716' date='Aug 30 2008, 08:59 PM'][b]Some[/b] cradle Catholics are like this. [/quote] I am a cradle Catholic, but unless I was in that situation I don't know how i would respond. I was simply commenting on the fact that converts tend to posess more of a "fire" than cradle catholics do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fides quarens intellectum Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 just... whoah. all glory to God!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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