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Rosary Rally and Main Street – July 6, 2024 and Movie Night – July 11, 2024

Created: Jul 14, 2024

Our Somerville evangelization team increases its outings in the summer, and we were blessed to have had three such outings this past week.

One of our evangelists, Mary Ann, was given the grace to see the results of her street evangelization: one man Shawn, that she had spoken with last month on the street, happened upon our team again and told her that he is going Holy Mass and confession now! 

Albert and I spoke to a couple who accepted a rosary and miraculous medal. She lives in Somerville, but he was from out of town and both were fallen away Catholics. We spoke about our Catholic faith and the importance of a relationship with Jesus. She felt that she was being called to pray or to seek more and we affirmed that this was a calling from the Lord, who never forces himself but continually calls us to him. They both smiled at us and were open to receiving information about Confession and returning to the faith.  

We spoke to another young man who recently was discharged from the military. He had started attending Holy Mass and confession while in boot camp, but stopped once he was released. We spoke to him for an extended period and were thankful to the Lord for his willingness to talk with us about his faith. We learned that his grandfather is a driving force of faith in his life. We prayed with him to help him discern where the Lord is calling him at this juncture. He also gave us his phone number and we texted him information about a very active young adult group in the area. We talked to him about our local parish and he gratefully accepted both a bulletin and the confession pamphlet. We asked him to contact us should he want any assistance with anything or if he'd like us to go to mass with him. 

From Ingrid (who is bilingual and spoke to the following people in Spanish):

On Saturday I met Veronica. She was catholic, goes to mass but doesn’t frequent the sacraments as she is in a relationship. She has the sacrament of marriage but her husband left her many years ago and after many years alone raising her 3 daughters she met someone. She spoke with a priest who suggested an annulment but she believes that marriage is for life. I told her to keep going to confession and to meditate on the priest's advice, but at the end she will need to take a decision. I told her about my life experience on that aspect as a single mom and the decision I took. She also asked me where she can find a book to read during adoration.  I sent her a link of a catholic store that sells books in Spanish for adoration.
Wilbert met Estrella and her husband, they are evangelicals. After coming to this country they couldn’t find a church so they were asking about a church in Spanish that they can join. I offered to look for Catholic Churches close where they live in Plainfield and they accepted. I sent them info of 3 churches with the mass, adoration, and holy hour times.
Today I met Luis, he comes from a catholic family but married to a Pentecostal woman. He was active in the Pentecostal church during his marriage but after his divorce he no longer attended that church. He talked about his father who keeps asking him to return to the Catholic Church. His mom unfortunately passed away. He said he visited St Joseph church in Bound Brook and St Patrick church in NY. He was touched went saw St Martin and St Rosa de Lima images in that church. He considers himself catholic but doesn’t attend mass nor believe in images. I recalled to him the experience he had when saw the image of the Peruvian saints in St. Patrick church. I told him that he didn’t adore those image but they were a vivid remainder of his Peruvian and catholic roots. He took the rosary and the pamphlet “how to pray the rosary” as well as the Miraculous medal.

Lord, we pray that these people find their way back to You. Help them to recognize You in the movements of their hearts and in their lives and give them the grace to act upon Your call.