& my husband, Bob
BETSY BASA-TENCHAVEZ
I met Fr. Evans Wakhongola when he was a newly ordained priest. The diocese assigned him to a poor, dilapidated parish church in the Mountain Province where weekly Sunday collection averages a dollar. I asked him, “Do you have a Mass Kit?” He replied, “No, but I would like to have one.” I told him I was going to give him one and requested from the Mother Butler Guilds.
By the time I received the Mass Kit to send Fr. Evans, he was already up in the mountain. I gave the kit through his nephew, Bro, Emmanuel Mutambo, who met me at the Ateneo University campus in Quezon City.
Fr. Evans was so happy when he received the Mass Kit. Eventually, we became friends and exchanged texts regularly through our mobile phones. Fr. Evans sent daily messages and prayed for my concerns. He came to say Mass with Bro. Mutambo for my daughter, Berry, in her condo before her surgery. He also visited her in the hospital with Bro. Mutambo.
In the second week of October, I received a message from Bro. Mutambo requesting my husband, Bob, and me to be his guardians in “vesting” him in his ordination. He said that Bob and I would sit in place of his parents when “vesting” or putting a dalmatic and a stole on him.
When Bro. Mutambo’s ordination finally came; I was seated in the front row beside a nun from Indonesia. We conversed with each other, and I shared that I had always wanted to have a priest-son. I said that I prayed for my three sons to become priests, but they all chose marriage.
At the end of the Mass, each of the candidates had the opportunity for a picture-taking with their family. When it was Bro. Mutambo’s turn to pose for the camera, the nun, said to me, “THERE IS YOUR SON!” I felt so elated.
God granted my heart’s desire most unexpectedly and wonderfully!
Thanks for sharing, Betsy. You just confirmed that when you do good to others, God gives you blessings a hundredfold.
Wonderful sharing, Betsy, with a surprise ending. Thank you!
Misty-eyed, Betsy, while reading this first on fb and now on Celia’s heart-warming WB blog. This is one of the most memorable testimonies I’ve heard of a truly unique spiritual experience of faith coming full circle.
wow! such a lovely and touching message.thank you so much for playing such abig role to our priests, in a very special way .may aour God Lord bless you always.
This sms is one of the not common duty of a Christian many look for that opportunity but never get be grateful to God
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