I’ve been cleaning and tidying and listening to Al Kresta’s interview with Fr. Francis Ted Pfiefer OM whose memoir When the Wolves Came is to be made into a DVD.
He faced the powerful and violent drug cartels of Mexico and tried to continue to serve the people he had been sent to shepherd. He admits he was very much afraid and having been shot at went to kneel before Our Blessed Mother in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Crying with fear he said he needed an immediate answer. Could he leave? Instead of God giving him permission to get away and find somewhere safer to live, Our Blessed Mother asked him to stay and trust her Son.
In his interview with Al Kresta he mentions in passing that as he was also a trained paramedic he had delivered most of the children of his parish.
It is good to see the stories of some of our brave priests being told. I can’t get the book just yet, but if any of you read it let me know what you think.
Thinking Love, No Twaddle 