Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Fujairah
I preached a Lenten mission in Fujairah from February 25-27, making it possibly the first mission being preached in a church in the UAE by a lay person. Hopefully this will create a precedent because there are a lot of lay preachers who can conduct missions just as well as priests can, and with the shortage of mission preachers among the clergy this might help to fill in a vast gap.
Fr. Michael, the parish priest of the Church in Fujairah, was present on all the days, and like others who have attended in the past, had only good things to say about the Program. So did the others who came for it, though as usual, it was word of mouth about the preacher that brought them in.
I got a fascinating insight into how people choose to attend retreats during one of the counseling sessions I had in the morning. A gentleman who came on the second day told me that he hadn't come on the first day because he thought I belonged to another nationality!!!
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