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There had been some threads recently regarding the Church in Asia etc & I wanted to share a wonderful story I was told this morning.
I live in Seoul, South Korea with my family, we are all recent converts to the Church (2006). I was at a Dr appt today on the army base & had a nice Korea nurse.She was putting my info into the computer while I was reading. She looked at me several times & said “Are you Roman Catholic?” I said I was. She said “You very religious I think”. I smiled because I was wearing my crucifix with miraculous medal & my Jesus tattoo. She said “I am Catholic too, Roman Catholic.” She held out her arm and showed me her rosary. She told me that her daughter was going to have her, she didnt know the word in English, but meant 1st communion. She was very proud. She told me then that her husband became Catholic & he was more religious than her, her mother recently became Catholic too. As we talked she told me that her father was very ill & in hospital. While he was there, he asked to be Baptized & said that when he became a Catholic, he wanted to bring his whole family with him. As it turned out, within 3 years of his passing away, the entire family converted, she believes, due to his intersession. They were not anywhere close to Catholic before he went to hospital, they were not Christian at all.
We talked for quite awhile because of her story & my story were similar, minus the death. My whole family came to the Church & my mother did a year later, my father returned to the sacraments after many years away. God has blessed us in many ways, our daughters were even the same age of 9 at our conversions.
The holy spirit is strongly, if sometimes not overtly, at work here in asia. It is a beautiful thing to see!
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I live in Seoul, South Korea with my family, we are all recent converts to the Church (2006). I was at a Dr appt today on the army base & had a nice Korea nurse.She was putting my info into the computer while I was reading. She looked at me several times & said “Are you Roman Catholic?” I said I was. She said “You very religious I think”. I smiled because I was wearing my crucifix with miraculous medal & my Jesus tattoo. She said “I am Catholic too, Roman Catholic.” She held out her arm and showed me her rosary. She told me that her daughter was going to have her, she didnt know the word in English, but meant 1st communion. She was very proud. She told me then that her husband became Catholic & he was more religious than her, her mother recently became Catholic too. As we talked she told me that her father was very ill & in hospital. While he was there, he asked to be Baptized & said that when he became a Catholic, he wanted to bring his whole family with him. As it turned out, within 3 years of his passing away, the entire family converted, she believes, due to his intersession. They were not anywhere close to Catholic before he went to hospital, they were not Christian at all.
We talked for quite awhile because of her story & my story were similar, minus the death. My whole family came to the Church & my mother did a year later, my father returned to the sacraments after many years away. God has blessed us in many ways, our daughters were even the same age of 9 at our conversions.
The holy spirit is strongly, if sometimes not overtly, at work here in asia. It is a beautiful thing to see!
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A very nice story!