tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post6620038139363711932..comments2024-02-02T19:30:12.868-06:00Comments on Fear Not Little Flock: Meet Miro: computer geek, papa, Catholicpriest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd http://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-22254399304138469832013-01-08T15:07:24.617-06:002013-01-08T15:07:24.617-06:00Thanks for reading--and for commenting on my blog ...Thanks for reading--and for commenting on my blog as well!Kerry Wolfhttp://brandnewcatholic.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-10489807847207322912013-01-08T12:46:19.324-06:002013-01-08T12:46:19.324-06:00Kerry- thanks for sharing! What a storyKerry- thanks for sharing! What a storypriest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-39866067584631626222013-01-08T11:00:18.183-06:002013-01-08T11:00:18.183-06:00How long have you been a practicing Catholic?:
St...How long have you been a practicing Catholic?:<br /><br />Started RCIA exactly 2 years ago, was confirmed on June 24th 2012.<br /><br />Care to share your conversion story?: <br /><br />I was raised nominally protestant by parents who did not really practice their faith but did believe in God. My sister, 17 years my senior, married a Catholic gentleman when I was about 2, and I went to church with her a few times as a child, being deeply impressed by the pageantry and Holiness therein--something even a child--or perhaps especially a child--can pick up on. Over the intervening years, I flitted in and out of various protestant churches, never feeling quite at home. I tried to join the Catholic church in my young twenties but I already had a divorce and remarriage behind me by that time and when I saw what I would have to do to procure an anullment, I was so overwhelmed I abandoned the idea. The idea refused to abandon me, however, and in my mid forties, with several divorces behind me, and a current, wonderful husband and 3 kiddos, I decided that whatever it took I would see it through this time. Best decision I ever made! God is good, all the time, as our priest says. <br /><br />How does your faith inform your day to day life?:<br /><br />I try to find time each day to retire to my prayer corner and pray. I also try to pray right away for each person I meet that requests prayer, so I don't forget. I wear a brown scapular and miraculous medal to remind me of my faith and my dedication to Our Lady. <br /><br />What is your greatest challenge practicing your faith?:<br /><br />Trusting God totally, without taking back the many anxieties I lay at His feet--trusting that He has it all under control and all I have to do is "just keep swimming" as Dory the fish said in Finding Nemo. <br /><br />Favorite Bible Verse: <br /><br />Don't have a Bible handy at the moment but it's in Jeremiah and it says "They shall seek Me, and they shall find Me, because they seek Me with all their heart,".<br /><br />Favorite Spiritual Writing Quotation:<br /><br />"Faith renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so that the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child hand in hand with his mother."---Ven. Charles de Foucauld<br /><br /><br />Favorite Saint and why?:<br /><br />St Dymphna--an Irish princess whose mother died while she was still a young teen. Her father the King went mad over his wife's death, and began looking at Dymphna, who resembled her mother closely, with lust in his heart due to his maddened state. He insisted Dymphna marry him. Dymphna refused and fled to her parish priest, who bravely climbed into a boat with her and set said for the dutch coast of Gheel. Not long after their arrival, the King arrived in hot pursuit. He promptly had the priest beheaded, and told Dymphna the same fate awaited her if she would not return and marry him. She again refused, and was beheaded. <br /><br />This saint is patron of incest victims, those with anxiety and depression, other mental disorders, and many other things. I chose her because I am Irish, am a victim of childhood incestual abuse by my father, and suffer from severe anxiety disorder. <br /><br />Do you have a spiritual mentor?<br /><br />Yes, my associate priest/parochial vicar at my church took me under his wing after I made my first confession to him. I meet with him monthly. <br /><br />Education and Job:<br /><br />I have an associate degree in professional nursing and a certificate in substance abuse counseling. AT present I am a homemaker and caretaker to my ill husband .<br /><br />Fave book, movie, music:<br /><br />Book would have to be "Aquainted With the Night", a non fiction book about each hour of dusk til dawn and historical facts about life at night over the years, lyrically written. <br /><br />Movie would be Prince of Tides for secular, and The Nun's Story for religious. <br /><br />Music would be Litany of the Saints.<br /><br /><br />What is cool/interesting about you?: <br /><br />I have a good sense of humor, <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Kerry Wolfhttp://brandnewcatholic.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com