“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”– Abraham Lincoln
On Mother’s Day I celebrated a parish Mass and offered a blessing to all the women even those without physical children. Yesterday I received this note in reply: “I was not looking forward to Mother’s Day blessing since my husband and I have been awaiting the Lord’s blessing of a child for many months. [It] made me think of my own physical emptiness, and the pain was deep and real. Thank you for shaking me out of my pity party and reminding me of my current maternal mission, to encourage the faith in my godson, my brother and sister for whom I sponsored in Confirmation, and friends and strangers alike.”
Have you ever stopped to think how many people you are a spiritual mother to?
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.
