And Jesus looked at Peter.....a story from East Germany

After the fall of the Berlin wall a group of nuns went to east Germany to help the local church which had been persecuted for 40 years or so.

One day a sister was visiting the hospital to give communion to the sick. She entered the ward to visit one Catholic patient who had requested her to come and as she was giving him communion the man in the next bed began to weep.

She went over to talk with him and through his sobs his story unfolded. He was born a Catholic and practised his faith into adulthood. After Mass one Sunday he was met by the secret police (the Stasi) who told him that if he was seen in the church again, he would lose his job.

With a wife and 2 children to support he left his faith behind and had lived most of his life away from the church. Only now as an old man on his sickbed did he have the opportunity to come back to God..

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Luke 24, 30-31 And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.