Evangelisation stories
A series of experience centred stories connected with evangelisation:
June 2008
"My friend, Martin, is very careful about his grooming, regularly visiting his hair stylist and emerging with highlights and the latest style.So when he walked into our meeting with his head shaved, I was deeply moved, because I knew what it meant.
His daughter, Andrea, had just started an aggressive course of chemotherapy. She had been advised that it would be better to shave her hair off than to have it falling out in handfuls. So, that weekend, they had taken out the shears and cut their hair.
Of course, at one level, Martin accomplished nothing by shaving his head. That was not the point. It was simply that his fatherly love could not bear not to. He had to unite himself to her as fully as possible on her painful journey.
Solidarity is one of the key principles of the Church’s social teaching. We proclaim the gospel by being one with those who suffer, by taking upon ourselves their painful condition, just as Jesus took our human nature. ‘By the mystery of this water and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity. "