Mary Finds Her Soul

Dear Steve,

You asked me to send you a summary of what I discussed yesterday with the young man I was speaking with for so long.  

He was from a secular family and is left-wing. 

Almost right away I said that there is nothing God can't forgive, and that He never stops loving us.  I let him do a lot of talking about what he didn't like about the Christian churches and the guntoting Catholics he meets upstate. I told him how Nicholas Kristof, a NYT’s columnist, said that wherever there is terrible suffering in the world, you will find Catholic nuns and priests and evangelicals, as in the Sudan.  

I told him about Mother Teresa’s mystical experience on the train, and that she experienced His intense thirst for each of us.  Later I talked about miracles and how the saints have direct experience of God. I told him how Jesus spoke to Mother Teresa, asking her to go into the slums of Calcutta.  I told him about the Nobel Prize winning scientist who witnessed a miracle at Lourdes; about Edith Stein and the circle of young philosphers around Husserl who converted to Christianity; and about one of the miracles for Edith Stein's canonization and the doctors who testified that there was no natural explanation for a cure, one of whom was the former chairman of the New England Journal of Medicine.

He did not want to exchange contact information, and said he wanted the conversation to just be a special stand alone event and hugged me goodbye.

"Steve, as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'Wow, I found my soul.'"

Yours,

Mary