“What does it cost us to say: “My God help me! Have mercy on me!” Is there anything easier than this?” – Alphonsus Liguori
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, cemeteries are really quiet! Last week I was looking for a silent place to pray while I was out and about in Cheshire and I found this old cemetery. There were tombstones from 1799. The grey and dirtied stones made reading the inscriptions difficult. They also got me thinking about time and eternity. How long will I remain on earth before Our Lord calls me home? I don’t know. Am I ready? No way! I feel like I have so much work yet to do to be prepared, that it’s overwhelming. “God have mercy on me!”
About Fr Simon Devereux LC
FR SIMON was born on February 4, 1979, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the seventh son of Marie and Michael Devereux. He entered the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, on September 15, 1997. After his novitiate and year of humanities in Cheshire, he studied a bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome from 2000 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2007, a licentiate in Philosophy. In between, he worked as a youth minister in Quebec, Canada, and he made his perpetual profession in Rome on October 4, 2005. In 2010 he completed a three-year bachelor’s degree in Theology and was ordained on Christmas Eve of the same year with 60 of his brother Legionaries by Card. Velasio di Paolis. Two of his brothers are also Legionary priests. Fr Simon is now based at the Legion of Christ seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut.
“What does it cost us to say: “My God help me! Have mercy on me!” Is there anything easier than this?” – Alphonsus Liguori