A lay missionary discovers his call to the priesthood

Submitted by FatherSean on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 09:19.

Vocations week: A seminarian's story
By Ed Langlois

Hundreds of weathered and pained faces appealed to him from the pews of Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro Church.

It was the year 2000, on a warm afternoon in the oceanside fishing town of Chimbote, Peru. David Jaspers, an American lay missionary fresh out of college, stood next to a white coffin. The agonizingly small box held the remains of an 8-year-old boy who had been run over by a truck.

Read the full story from the Catholic Sentinel, the newspaper of the Church in Oregon, USA, at http://sentinel.org/node/9742

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