A candlelight conclusion to Resilent Life Mission

Parishioers with lighted candles form a circle in closing ceremony

Don Smith was a baptized cradle Catholic, but as a teenager in high school he did not attend Mass. Teenagers were like that back then, he said. Then, he said, someone gave him a Bible. He took it but was going to just toss it. Then he read a couple of chapters and then a

Keri and Don Smith with pastor

couple more. Then he started going to Mass.

“Never stop growing in your faith,” he told the congregation attending the final night of the Resilent Life Mission presented by the Rev. Norm Douglas and attorney Larry Vuillemin.

Smith’s wife, Keri, sat behind him as he spoke. Their children, Sam in Grade 7 and Mary Claire in Grade 2, attend St Paul School.

Smith’s witness was a highlight of the final evening at which Fr. Douglas and Vullemin stressed the need to maintain faith values–in a resilent life.

Those attending ringed the church with lighted candles in an impressive closing ceremony.

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