Our Steve is finally content!

 

Chief guest for our Furtavaddo Christmas event.

Why do we over think a child's request if it does not fit in with our idea of how his life should be? As parents when our youngest Steven wanted to join the priest hood we just brushed his request aside saying,"Finish your studies, then we can see!" My Uncle priest was ecstatic about his decision, but we were not thinking he could have been just impulsively wanting to join drawing his inspiration from Uncle Simon. Uncle Simon was my Dads older brother and a Jesuit.

 So over Christmas when he got 10 days off from the seminary, he asked us to go to Goa. Steve loves the vaddo and is happier now as we have become one with the village. Everyone remembers Dad coming fondly and now us over the decades to look after the house. The Parish priest took him usder his wing and gave him a week packed with so many programmes, it was a whirlwind Christmas for us.

We have not had a vocation in our village for over 20 years and so this is such an auspicious moment in our village history, said Fr Derrick our Parish priest. From exploiting his talent on the guitar to being the chief guest for so many events. Steve just blended in and the whole village loved him going Brither Steve, Brother Steve. 

He was an obedient son listening to what we as parents expected him to do, finishing his Post Grad and then even getting jobs which he enjoyed. But he was restless and wanted to leave. So one day he just decided to apply and after looking at the Jesuits and Redemptorists, he has joined the Diocese much to the joy of the  Arch Bishop. I'm so glad a nasty relative ( sisters husband) who called him names has had to swallow his nastiness. Like I said Karma comes back to bite those who bad mouth others!

I'm just happy as a mother that he has found what he is content being a part of and I leave him in God's hands to guide forward.