Simply getting to Mass

This great grandson's testimony is short and powerful, revealing one Filipina's tremendous dedication to her faith. Her prospective groom was firmly outside the Church, having joined the Masons.

He married my [great] grandmother sometime in the 1920s. Where they were married no one remembers now, but cases of Masons being married in the Church were supposedly not that rare. Of course, once they married, they never went there again. When Angel finally had his own family, Mass was not an option at all. He forbade my great grandmother Felina from going to church, and would chastise her if he caught her doing so. For Felina and their young daughters, among them my grandmother, that meant sneaking out of the house at the crack of dawn to catch the first Mass of the day. They would cut little pieces of cloth from old blankets, and even the mesh from the window screens, to serve as veils.

Of course all of this ends with Angel's return to the Church and generations of faith bequeathed to this young man. Please pray for his perseverance and docility to God's will in all things.