“Marriage is a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.” – Saint John Paul II
This jacket shows the names of Jess Stone’s 23 grandchildren. One of them, Andrew Lane, is studying here at the seminary.
Br. Andrew’s mother shared the following about her dad: “When my mom got sick with an Alzheimer’s like disease he kept her home and took care of her for 13 years. The last three years she was bed bound and had a feeding tube. Many people told him to put her in a nursing home while she could still walk and talk. They had 51 married years together and we celebrated the 50th in their home with Mass and the family. At that point mom could only lay down and could not speak.”
Let’s ourselves try to emulate that selfless love today!
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.
“Marriage is a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.” – Saint John Paul II