Monica Martínez was born into a family that did not practice any religion. Her parents divorced when she was ten years old, and Monica sought refuge in the Baptist Church, invited by a friend. Growing up, she discovered other Protestant denominations, but did not experience that they had the whole truth. All she knew was that she was never going to become Catholic. She even broke up with her boyfriend because he was Catholic. Little by little the Lord opened her heart and won her over, especially through His teaching on the Eucharist in John 6. Then Monica's life took a 180˚ turn.

How can someone go from a life of superficial happiness, drink, impurity and drugs to responding to God's voice saying: “I want you to be a priest”? Here, Fr. Christopher Jarvis tells us the story of how, by just opening his heart a crack, God took over his life and called him to what he could never have imagined. He shows how it’s not easy to just leave everything and respond, it takes God's grace—and being in the state of grace. The Lord won his heart over and made him discover that the freedom he was always looking for can only be found in fulfilling God's will.

No matter how low you've fallen, there is always hope, because God is real and He seeks you out. This is what Damien Richardson experienced. At the age of 14, he began attending rave parties and consuming ecstasy. A little later, he became a heroin addict. He went through four different prisons, lost all sense of morality and hit rock bottom with a depression. An unexpected trip to Medjugorje-thinking that he was going to the beaches of Croatia-was the first step of his return to God. But it wasn’t easy to get off the drugs… Light began to shine on his path through the Cenaculo community, which had just opened a house in Ireland. Damien's story is a reminder that we should never lose hope.

Sr. Agnes Holtz, C.F.R. made tennis the center of her life. During her time at college everything revolved around sports and parties until a knee injury forced her to return home, making her feel like everything was being taken away from her. This situation however, allowed her to come closer to God, but she still rejected the Catholic Church because of a lot of confusing Protestant ideas. But her parents’ prayers and a documentary about Eucharistic miracles made her begin her journey back to the Catholic Church and discover that God was calling her to a special mission.

Philomena O’Brien came to the United States when she was just 5 years old. In her new homeland, her family frequented “Irish” get togethers where alcohol, food and singing abounded to the point that the situation often got out of control. Following her difficult childhood, she came up against a marriage even more difficult where alcohol continued to abound. The party environment she frequented led her far from God. It wasn’t until a good friend of hers brought her back to the Church that she experienced the need to go to confession and renew her relationship with the Lord.

Fr. Francis Ferry was born into an ordinary, Irish, Catholic family where he learned how to pray. However, seduced by the false promises of happiness that the world offered him through drinking, drugs, and money, he ended up experiencing a great emptiness and having a serious identity problem... until he met the Lord “by accident”—literally. Living an uncontrolled lifestyle, he got into a car accident at high speed. From then on, with the help of Our Lady of Medjugorje, he was able to remain sober “from Eucharist to Eucharist,” until God triumphed in his life.