Catching Souls

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Fr Simon Devereux LC

Lily Margaret from Houston painted this for her grandmother, Peggy. It reminded me of a story my mother shared with me about a man back home who was intrigued by a family he would see every Sunday morning at the coffee shop. Why were they always so joyful, he wondered. Then he noticed that they we’re coming into the shop from the Catholic Church on the opposite side of the road. Finally he himself went to knock on the rectory door and said to the priest, “I want the joy that that family has!”

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.
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