Adriana's Story - Catholic Convert

I was born in Colombia and I come from a family that didn't practice the faith very much I don't remember ever reading the Bible with my family or praying the rosary and going to mass was was more of a social thing and then when I was a teenager I went through a hard time my parents got divorced and it was very tough for me it was thanks to a friend of mine who took me to a prayer group and that's where I first learned to pray the rosary and and God has you know great plans because he knew that I was going to need that down the road so I'm later when I was 19 I became pregnant it was a very tough time in my life it's not easy to be a teenage mom however my husband and I we decided that we wanted to find happiness we wanted to to be independent our family has been at the same time they were having financial issues my mom was a single mom at that time divorced and my father-in-law he has lost his job so it was like the worst time to come with this news of a new baby at home however I have found out we decided that we wanted to be rich we wanted my name we wanted power we wanted to be independent and happy so we decided you know so we decided to come to the US looking for the American Dream and and we came to Boston first and we lived there for several years and it was wonderful we enjoy those first five years in the u.s. then we moved here and he got a new job and about five years ago our marriage we thought of having problems and problems in our marriage I was not happy with my life in general I was going to depressed that led me to anxiety I was not a happy woman I didn't want to be a mother I didn't want to live here it was tough and it was not the weather believe me it was not because of the weather it was it was a personal crisis where I had no meaning I didn't find any meaning in my life so I even thought because my faith was so weak of oil I even thought that maybe it could start finding joy or happiness in other churches and it was very attractive to me you know those churches were people sing and dance and have fun so it's kind of my personality as well as the media to find happiness there and and before I started shopping because I thank God I never got to do that one day I came to Mass with the kids and my husband and I just started weeping sounds so like sick and my soul I it was the first time that I actually surrendered I surrendered and I remember that I think it was during the prayer of the faithful when when I just felt the need of just placing my name there just saying my name out loud and say every Anna Alvarez is sick as well and I started asking Jesus Jesus who are you because remember I've never touched a Bible before and we brought the kids to church because we knew that was like the right thing to do and that was what everybody else did for their kids so so we did that with our children both at the same in our own home we didn't even practice the faith so I remember that day I was crying and asking Jesus who are you Jesus everybody says that he healed people that you you were so merciful that who are you how did you look how was your personality who were your friends I want to know you if you are the Prince of Peace revealed to me and heal me so four years ago something beautiful happened I received a big gift from God an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in the mirror of my bathroom it is a very small image and it's a beautiful image it's you can see her profile and it's the Blessed Mother holding her son Jesus like did you see like an expression of maybe she's playing maybe she's interceding and she's looking at a big cross so this happens while I'm there brushing my teeth and I didn't know what what was happening so after a couple days of just looking at this image and he never went away and asking my family my children my husband who did this and nobody knew about this like we were all surprised I decided to come to father Kevin and and I said to father came in father kidding well this is what was happening before this is where it comes from emotionally and everything and I started asking God for help and fine from this sign happen at home and other little manifestations as well happened to in that week and I said father oh this is true this is happening and I'm not hip NOT here to ask you this true or not I'm here because I need you to help me to be a good and a real Catholic he said okay well let's start with baby steps because for me it was very hard actually so they say well let's try to start with confession and after that try to come to mass more often hopefully to daily Mass and start praying the rosary every day we can and we're going to help people as well we're gonna be more generous with our time with those needs we're going to start reading the scripture hopefully every day when when I started having to starting having this conversion while my family thought I was crazy especially my husband because I turn into another woman and it was not easy on our relationship it was it was very tense because I became a different woman all of a sudden I I felt all this interest in those sacred things I started reading the lives of the Saints I wanted to come to daily Mass I started coming to adoration which I didn't know what that was before I couldn't come into adoration I started feeling this huge peace this desire of playing at home this desire this hunger and thirst for Christ so of course every time that I that I talked about God or I invited the children of the family to pray the rosary who everybody was just kind of hiding away from me every time so like okay guys let's pray together as a family let's pray the rosary like no mom I had too much homework though I have to go to my friend's house I have a lot of work so at the beginning was a little hard for me because I'm so very lonely and I thought they're actually thinking that I am crazy it was not my job to convert my family as you know it's it's like upgrades that conversion happens it it is a great and I understood that God will have a time for each of them but I have to say that I feel very very blessed and very thankful to God because in these past four years my family has become so close to God today we we read scripture together we play the rosary we come to mass my favorite bible verse is a Luke 15 the lost sheep when I read that verse for the first time I totally identified with it because I felt I was that lost sheep um you know when on the shepherd is taking care of he's one hundred sheep and and he loses one that was me I just lost it and and and the Shepherd leaves all the ninety-nine sheep just for one and he did that for me and that's what God does with us and and I have to say that feel like a very very blessed today because I when my conversion started it was I felt this huge mercy he poured his mercy he poured his love for me and I'm very grateful for that we you

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Length: 9min 11sec (551 seconds)

Published: Thu May 11 2017