Angelus News | June 3, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 11

Still, something told him to stick with
it. “I knew not to receive Communion,
so I was just sitting in the back.”
A few friends from high school got
him involved in youth ministry, and
eventually he joined the adult RCIA.
It all brought him such joy and fulfillment,
but still he felt like something
was missing.
So, while sitting in church one day,
he asked God, What do you want me
to do?
“I closed my eyes and saw myself
celebrating Mass. And I said, ‘No
way, this can’t be.’ I said, ‘God, if this
is what you want, show me again. I
closed my eyes and saw myself listening
to someone’s confession. And I
opened my eyes and said ‘No, I know
you can’t want that for me.’ ”
Still resistant,
he asked God
to work through
other people. In
short order, he
was approached
by a woman at
a midday Mass
who told him
blankly, “You’re
going to be a
priest,” followed
by a priest who
asked if he ever
considered a vocation,
followed
by a RCIA counselor
who told
him he’d always
assumed Daniel
would become a priest.
Finally, finally, he relented.
“This was like the cock crowing
three times,” he said with a laugh.
“This was the truth, this was substance.”
He is the first to admit that as a
Christian, he is a work in progress,
and that he aspires to “continue to
love as God loves” and “to wrestle
with that, as well.”
As a priest, he looks forward to helping
people share the same “intimacy
with the Lord” that he has experienced
since his conversion.
“God has called you to be a saint,
and he really means it. He wants you
to reach sanctity, and it begins in the
now.”
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