Does God really speak to anyone anymore? He did to this guy. Look deeper to see that God is communicating to you too! Trust and allow yourself to be docile to His mysterious inspirations. You’ll realize that those ‘coincidences’ often aren’t coincidence. Click over to the full Family Conquest. The “To Do” activity in the Wrapping It Up section asks families to “take 5 minutes tonight or tomorrow morning and just be silent. Tell Our Lord that you are present for Him. Try to listen to God in your heart. Tell Him that you love Him, and then just wait.”
Spiritual Nuggets for Family Discussion
Open with a prayer.
(i.e. a Glory Be, or Our Father, or Hail Mary, or ‘Jesus, Mary, Joseph, we love You! Save souls!’)
- His family was committed to the Catholic Faith.
- His parents were beautiful examples of what it meant to love God.
- They were faithful in their practice of the Faith.
- He was walking in the backyard silently reflecting on the daily mass readings.
- He was surrounding on 3 sides by sugar cane.
- He was quiet and therefore able to hear better.
- First, Fr. Toups probably liked to fish.
- More importantly, Jesus calls all priests saying, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” -Matt 4:19
- When the guy showed up on the train a couple of weeks later, sat next to him, and looked him dead in the eye, Fr. Toups was more open to what he was about to say.
- Those words brought an “utter silence in every aspect of my heart.”
- It became clear that God was calling Fr. Toups to the seminary.
- As we hear in the other video in this Family Conquest, God calls through silence.
- Silence is a stillness that both attracts us and convicts us with a clarity about God’s Will.
Close with a prayer.
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